CANNABIS INDICA.
HEAD.
► Confusion and Vertigo.
► Forehead confused, heavy (after one hour), [4]. ►► Vertigo,
[1], [22], [23]. ► Vertigo (after
one hour and three-quarters), [19]. ► Vertigo on rising, [1].
► Vertigo on rising, with a stunning pain in the back part of
the head, and he falls, [1]. [280.] ► Vertigo, with
backward inclination of the head (first day), [7]. ► On walking, slight inclination to vertigo (after five hours),
[4]. ► Head dizzy
(second day), [3]. ►
Dizziness in head (after two hours), [14]. ► Dizziness as in intoxication (second day), [7]. ► Dizziness on bending
forward, or walking (first day), [7]. ► Strong coffee relieved the dizziness (second day), [3]. ► Giddiness (after
one hour), [33]. ►
Giddiness; the everything seemed turning round, for some time (after one hour), [12]. ► Transient feeling
in head as if something were going round in it, from before backwards, on right side (after
one hour and one-sixth), [14]. [290.] ► Peculiar feeling of
moving, or what is called swimming in head, with transient feeling of constriction round
head (after one hour and two-thirds), [14]. ► Scarcely any effect while sitting quiet, but on beginning to
walk, perhaps three hours afterwards, staggered, and was quite drunk. These symptoms would
abate on sitting down, but would be again reproduced on rising, [32]. ► General Head. ►► Frequent involuntary shaking of his head, [1]. ► Dulness of head
(after forty-five minutes), [19]. ► Felt an opium-like dulness in the head (after one hour), [5]. ► Seething or
crisping of blood through the brain, quick, like a flash of sheet lightning, [44]. ► For several months, in
fact for nearly a year afterwards, I was troubled with a crisping sensation in the brain,
just as I fell asleep or awoke from sleep; not every night, but probably once a week, [2]. ► The head felt
light, mind remarkably active, and yet apparently sluggish, [3].
► Head heavy, confused, with vertigo (after one hour and
a half), [4]. ► His
head feels very heavy; he loses consciousness and falls, [1]. [300.] ► Heaviness of the head, wandering of the mind, and
apprehension that he was going to faint, [26]. ► Pain from bottom of orbit, through brain and in the ear, [44]. ► Fulness of the
head, with a sharp intermittent pain in the right side, under the parietal bone, [1]. ► Gradual expansive
feeling of the brain, as if myself were apart from myself and dwelling in a new world,
within the cavity of the skull, [6]. ► Fulness in the head, with drowsiness and flushes in the face,
[1]. ► Curious
constrictive feeling in head, with inability to think (after two hours), [9]. ► Great constriction in head,
as from an iron skull-cap, [8]. ►
Head feels achy and confused (second day), [5]. ► On awaking, headache, [21].
► Severe headache, especially at the vertex, with beating
(second day), [7]. [310.]
► Intermittent headache, in a spot on left side of head,
near the anterior-inferior angle of parietal bone (after one hour and two-thirds), [13]. ► Dull, heavy,
throbbing pain through the head, with a sensation like a heavy blow on the back
of the head and neck, [1]. ►
Heavy insurmountable pressure on the brain, forcing him to stoop, [1]. ► In warm room again
compression of brain, with paralytic feelings, [19]. ► The head feels bruised, with a pressive pain, [1]. ►► On regaining
consciousness, violent shocks pass through his brain, [1]. ► Headache while in the sun, [1]. ► Coffee almost
instantly relieved the headache following, [3]. ► Forehead. ► Pains in
forehead for some time (after one hour and a half), [12].
► Heavy frontal headache (in about thirty provers), [3]. [320.] ► Heavy frontal headache in the brain, more to left side, [44]. ► Heaviness and
heat in the forehead very slight, and short-lasting (after three hours), [4]. ► Heat in the forehead, [1]. ► Fulness in the
forehead, as if it would burst, [1]. ► Fulness and heaviness in forehead, with pressure at root of
nose and over the eyes; headache over left eye; dull hard pain in top of head; pain in back
of head, left side, [44]. ►
Dull drawing pain in the forehead, especially over the eyes, [1]. ► Pressure on his forehead
and top of his head, which seemed to cause his slowness of speech and action, [1]. ► All the afternoon had
headache, pressing outwards over the eye, [44]. ► Throbbing, aching pain in the forehead, [1]. ► Jerking in the right side of
the forehead, towards the interior and back part of the head, [1]. ► Temples. [330.] ► Burning pain in both
temples, [1]. ► Aching
in both temples, most severe in the right, [1].
► Dull sticking pain in the right temple, [1]. ► Darting, throbbing
pain in the right temple, and from the back of the head to the forehead, [1]. ► Severe stitch in the right
temple, gradually changing to a pressive pain, [1].
► Parietals. ► Pain
in the whole right side of the head, [1]. ► Sharp pain in right side of head, running from inner canthus
of eye up, back, and out (after eleven hours), [44]. ► 11 A.M., boring pain in right parietal protuberance (third
day), [44]. ► Occiput.
► Headache in occiput and temples (first day), [7]. ► Fulness in the
right side of the cerebellum, with a dull pain, worse on shaking the head, [1]. [340.] ►
Sensation of pressure at the back of the head, before the occurrence of convulsive
movements, which changed into an unpleasant feeling of heat, then of cold, in consequence of
which his hands were carried automatically to that spot, and held there, as though there
were a difficulty in detaching them, [39]. ► Feeling of something surging up from posterior part of head
toward forehead (after two hours), [14]. ► Feeling, for a few seconds, of something surging like waves
up the neck into the head, seeming to press it forwards (after one hour and one-sixth), [14]. ► External Head.
► Scalp and skin of forehead felt as though tightly
stretched over skull, as a bladder is stretched over a jar (after one hour and two-thirds), [13]. ► Soreness of the
scalp to touch, [1]. ►
Crawling in the scalp on the top of the head, [1]. ► Pressing pain on different spots of the cranial bones, in the
left wrist and ankle, and violent pain in the muscles below the left shoulder-blade (after
three and a half hours), [4].
EYE.
► Objective. ► Wild-looking eyes (first day), [7].
► Seemed to have awakened suddenly, and stared wildly
about him (after one hour), [37]. ►► Fixed gaze, [1].
[350.] ► Eye has an
expression of cunning and merriment, [29]. ► On looking at himself in the mirror was struck with the small
drunken appearance of the eyes (after eight hours), [5].
► Languid eyes; heaviness of the head (second day), [1]. ► Eyes swollen and
inflamed (second day), [3]. ►
Eyes dull and swollen (in about thirty provers), [3]. ► Subjective. ► Weakness
of the eyes, [1]. ►
Heaviness in the eyes, [1]. ►
Heaviness and pressure over the eyes, with nausea, [1].
► Heat in the eyes, [1].
► Feeling of burning heat, more marked in the eyes than
in the lids, and severe (after three hours), [13]. [360.] ► Burning and smarting
in the eyes, [1]. ►
Great pressure in the right eye, [1]. ► Orbit. ► Pain as from
a blow over the orbit of the right eye, [1]. ► Lids. ► Bloodvessels
of upper eyelids become very full and distended, with feeling of heat (after one hour and
one-sixth), [13]. ►
Contraction of the eyelids (second day), [7]. ► Drooping appearance of the eyelids, followed at last by a
comatose state, lasting for hours, out of which it was almost impossible fully to arouse the
energies, [17]. ►
Twinkling of the eyes (first day), [7]. ► His eyelids feel very heavy, and he can only partially open
them, [1]. ►
Burning and itching of the edges of the eyelids, [1]. ► Slight soreness of upper eyelids (after one hour and
two-thirds), [13]. [370.]
► A cool burning-stinging in inner corner and canthus of
left eye and adjacent side of nose, [44]. ► Jerking in the external corner of the eye and eyelid, [1]. ► Jerking from the
head to the outer canthus of the left eye, from above downwards, [1]. ► Lachrymal Apparatus.
► Inflammation and swelling of the caruncula lachrymalis
of both eyes, [1]. ►
Conjunctiva. ► Conjunctiva congested, without
any abnormal sensation there, [12]. ► Conjunctiva of eyes covered with distended vessels (after
three hours), [13]. ►►
Injection of the vessels of the conjunctiva of both eyes, [1]. ► The vessels of the conjunctiva
of both eyes are injected in a triangular patch extending from the internal canthus to the
cornea; worse in the night, [1]. ► Ball. ► Slight pain at
back of eyeball, [44]. ►
Feeling of distension of eyeballs, as if starting out of head; they ached when he tried to
read (after one hour and a half), [10]. ► Pupil. [380.] ► Dilatation of the pupil, [17].
► Pupils moderately dilated, iris somewhat sensitive to
the light, conjunctiva somewhat injected, [20]. ► Pupils widely dilated, [15].
► Pupils contracted (second day), [3]. ► Clairvoyance (in about
thirty provers), [3]. ►
Apparent clairvoyance, that is, I saw or fancied I saw, articles in another room, but the
sensation was of short duration (after four hours), [3].
► At midnight precisely, awoke suddenly and fully; the
room was dark, still the location of every article about him seemed perfectly plain; he
could read the titles of books upon a table twelve or fifteen feet off (after four hours), [3]. ► As soon as he had
urinated, the clairvoyant-like vision left him, [3]. ► Weakness of sight, [21].
► Slight rather hazy, [8].
[390.] ► He cannot
see, with the exception of a small spot where he looks, [1].
► Sensitiveness of the right eye to the light, with
lachrymation, [1]. ►
Ugly faces assume a pleasing expression, [1]. ► Faces assume such ridiculous appearances that he bursts into
fits of laughter, [1]. ►
The room seemed larger (after one hour), [11]. ► The globe of the lamp appeared of an enormous size, [8]. ► Whatever he looked
at became lost, as it were, in a maze; the lamp appeared to be slowly turning round, and
when he lost sight of this, the red lines in the paper of the room appeared to intertwine in
a most beautiful manner, [33]. ►
Photopsia, [21]. ►►
While reading, the letters run together, [1].
► Twinkling, trembling, and glimmering before the eyes,
[1]. [400.]
► A large spot hovers a little above the vision of the
left eye, sinking when he looks down, rising when he looks up, [1]. ► Violent spots on the paper,
while reading, [1]. ►
The flame of a candle seems surrounded by a pea green circle, [1].
EAR.
► Pain and singing in
left ear, [44]. ►
Burning in the ears, [1]. ►
Stuffed feeling of the right ear (after forty-five minutes), [19].
► Aching in both ears, [1]. ► Boring pain immediately
above and back of right ear (after three hours), [44].
► Boring pain in right ear, [44]. ► Tearing pain in the right
ear, ameliorated by pressure, [1]. [410.] ►► Throbbing and
fulness in both ears, [1]. ► Jerking or electric shocks in the ears, [1]. ► Hearing. ► Great acuteness of hearing, [17].
► Sensitiveness to noise, [1].
► Increase in power of hearing, whereby slight noises
became as loud as thunder, [28]. ►
Sounds seem unusually loud, [1]. ►
His own voice seems intensely loud. Believes he has been talking indecently loud, when he
has not spoken at all, [17]. ►
Music of any kind is intensely agreeable to him, [1]. ► Difficult hearing, [21].
► His own voice sounded to him a long way off (after one
hour), [11]. [420.]
► Noise in the ears like boiling water, [1]. ► Buzzing in ears,
lasting some time (after one hour), [12]. ► Buzzing in right ear, [8].
► Buzzing in ears, with slight giddiness (after two hours
and a quarter), [35]. ►
Singing in ears (after one hour), [11]. ► Singing in ears, while lying down, dozing, which went off
when he got up (after one hour and two-thirds), [14]. ► Periodical singing in the ears, that always ceased as soon as he
came to himself, and renewed itself when a dreamy spell came on, [1]. ► Singing in left ear, [44]. ►► Ringing and
buzzing in the ears, [1].
NOSE.
► Sneezing (after one
hour and three-quarters), [19]. [430.] ► He blew coagulated
blood from his right nostril, [1]. ► Dry, feverish feeling of left nostril (after three hours), [44]. ► Pain at the root
of the nose, [1]. ►
Fulness and aching at the root of the nose, [1].
FACE.
► Objective. ► Thinks his expression must be altered, as people look at him
more than usual (after three hours), [5]. ► Wearied, exhausted appearance, [1]. ►► He looks drowsy and
stupid, [1]. ►
He looks as if thoroughly intoxicated, [1]. ► Pale face (first day), [7].
► Face a little pale (second day), [5]. [440.] ►
Face pale and anxious (after one hour), [37]. ► Paleness of face, as in fainting, ameliorated by fresh air, [19]. ► Face flushed,
from mounting the stairs, [41]. ►
Redness of the face, as during intoxication, [1]. ► The face and eyes became very red, [20]. ► By a great exertion moved
his hand and felt his face, and it felt hard; there was no sensation in the face, but to the
hand it felt stony, [3]. ►
The skin of his face, especially of his forehead and chin, feels as if it were drawn tight, [1]. ► Feeling of
pressure on both cheeks, in corresponding spots, about posterior border of malar bone. This
did not last long (after one hour and one-sixth), [14].
► Stinging in right side of face as though stuck with
pains; leaves on scratching, but comes again immediately on another part of body, [44]. ► Drawings in the
muscles of mastication, [44]. [450.]
► Sensation as though the muscles of the face were drawn
tightly around the jaw, [44]. ►
Pain in right upper jaw, at root of first molar tooth (after four hours), [44]. ►► His lips are glued
together, [1]. ►
Jerking of the lower lip, [1]. ►
A well-marked burning line from lip to chin, straight down left side, as though it were a
cicatrix (after nine hours), [44]. ► Cold burning (like turpentine) in vermilion border of lip and
point of nose, left side, [44]. ►
Before falling to sleep, the lower jaw was very stiff and immovable, [5]. ► Some had tetanus at the
moment water was taken; others had some froth at the mouth, [3].
MOUTH.
► Teeth. ► Gritting and grinding of the teeth while sleeping, [1]. ► The teeth of right
side of mouth seem to him to be clenched. (This condition was not noticed by his friend, and
was probably subjective), [8]. [460.] ► Aching in all the
teeth of the upper jaw, which felt as if they were loose, [1].
► Pain in lower molar teeth, right side, [44]. ► Boring pain in right lower
molar teeth, better from pressure, worse from grinding them together, [44]. ► Dull pain in right molar
teeth (after three hours), [44]. ►
Heavy throbbing at the roots of the teeth, [1]. ► Soreness at the union of the front teeth and gums, especially
on the inside, with sensitiveness to the touch of the tongue, [1].
► Cessation of toothache (after one hour), [33]. ► Felt no pain, while quite
conscious that the toothache was present (after one hour), [33].
► Tongue. ►
White-coated tongue (second day), [7]. ► Tongue white and sickly-looking (second day), [5]. [470.] ►
In morning, tongue white and foul, with a bad taste, as if he had been intoxicated over
night (second day), [5]. ►
6 A.M. Before rising, a considerable collection of thick mucus on tongue (second day), [44]. ► Tongue feels dry,
as if scalded (second day), [44]. ► Tongue and throat have a dry feeling, but no particular
desire for water, [44]. ►
Peculiar, somewhat metallic sensation on right half of tongue, [8]. ► Tongue as if covered with
pepper (after forty-five minutes), [19]. ► Stinging-burning, as of a blister, on back part of tongue,
right side, at anterior pillar of fauces (after three hours), [44].
► General Mouth. ►
Some dryness of mouth, without thirst (after one hour and a half), [10]. ►► Dryness of the mouth
and lips, [1]. ►
Dryness of the mouth, which was not thirst. The dryness radiated from the back of
the throat, opposite the nape of the neck, [26]. [480.] ► Dryness of mouth,
with thirst, for some time (after half an hour), [12].
► Dryness of mouth, with thirst, all day (second day), [8]. ► When in bed, had
dryness of mouth lasting until next morning, with thirst (after one hour), [11]. ► Very dry mouth and fauces,
so that he could hardly speak or swallow (after half an hour), [27]. ► Mouth dry and frothy
(after four hours), [3]. ►
Saliva. ► Foaming at the mouth, [1]. ► Increased flow of thick,
tasteless saliva, [44]. ►
Slight exudation of resinous saliva, or rather mucus, from tongue, [43]. ► Viscid mucus from tongue,
over its whole upper surface, [44]. ►► White, thick, frothy, and sticky saliva, [1]. ► Taste. [490.] ► Every article of food is
extremely palatable, [1]. ► Bitter mouth (second day), [7].
► Taste of copper in the mouth, [17]. ► Metallic taste on tongue, [43]. ► Metallic taste on
tongue, with dry sensation and exudation of gummy mucus, [45].
► Speech. ►
Stammering and stuttering, [1]. ► His lips failed of utterance as if paralyzed, [17].
THROAT.
► The carotid and
temporal arteries beat slower and weaker than usual, [20].
► Hawks up in the morning glairy lumps with a spot of
blood in each, [1]. ►
Dryness and roughness in the throat, [1]. [500.] ► A
dryness in the throat led to a request for water, [41].
► Feeling of uneasiness, as though from dryness of the
throat, or rather a sensation that the tongue and throat were covered with a dry, soft body,
[39]. ► The attempt
to smoke a cigar in the open air had to be abandoned on account of the dryness and rawness
of the throat, [20]. ►►
The throat is parched, accompanied by intense thirst for cold water, [1]. ► Sensation as of a
fleshy body at the pit of the throat, impeding deglutition, [1].
► Sensation of a plug rising in his throat, causing him
to choke, [1]. ►
Burning sensation in throat, [27]. ► Pressure in tonsils (after one hour and three-quarters), [19]. ► Scraping of the
pharynx, eructations, and slight nausea (soon), [20].
STOMACH.
► Appetite.
► Appetite increased, [21].
[510.] ►► Increased
appetite, [1]. ►
Enormously increased the appetite, [26]. ► Increased appetite at dinner (second day), [8]. ► 1.30 P.M., increased
appetite; had a good lunch (had had no breakfast), (second day), [8]. ► One effect to which all
patients testified, and without being interrogated, was that it improved their appetite and
general health, and seemed to improve all their secretions, [31].
► Appetite strong (second day), [31]. ► Great appetite, [12]. ► Excellent
appetite for supper at 6, but mouth still very dry, [27].
► Great hunger for several days (second day), [7]. ►► Ravenous hunger,
[1]. [520.] ► Ravenous hunger, which is not decreased by eating enormously; he
ceases eating only from fear of injuring himself, [1].
► Bulimia, [29]. ► At tea, ate voraciously, [35].
► At tea, ate ravenously, without feeling satisfied, [33]. ► Pastry and fat
food, which previously he never ate without suffering from rancid risings and headache, are
now digested easily, [1]. ►
He eats large quantities of bread, declaring it to be delicious, [1]. ► Little appetite (first
day), [7]. ► Loss
of appetite (in about thirty provers), [3]. ► Loss of appetite (second day), [7].
► He has intense thirst, and yet he fears to drink, for
he will be suffocated by the magnitude of the stream as it passes down his throat; and again
it is not water, but the most delicious metheglin that he swallows with superhuman delight, [17]. [530.] ► Desire for and dread of water (in about thirty provers), [3]. ► Had a great
craving for water, but a single swallow passing down the throat gave the sensation as of
holding his mouth under a cataract; a spasm came upon him, with a sensation of fear or
dread, but this was only for an instant (after four hours), [3].
► Eructations. ►
Eructations reminding him of the extract (after forty-five minutes), [19]. ► Eructations when moving
(after one hour and three-quarters), [19]. ► Eructations of tasteless wind, which relieve a dull pain in
the epigastric region, [1]. ►
Slight but continual eructations of wind, tasteless, [44].
► For one hour, frequent empty eructations of wind,
flavored with Cannabis (after two hours), [44]. ► Nausea. ► Nausea, [1]. ► Slight nausea
(after four hours), [5]. ►
Stomach. ► Sinking at the stomach, [1]. [540.] ► Cold feeling in stomach, very disagreeable, as though he had
drunk cold water (soon after), [44]. ► Sensation of warmth in the stomach, changing to an aching
pain, accompanied by oppression of the chest, [1]. ► Burning sensation in stomach, for some time (within one
hour), [12]. ► While
eating, his stomach felt so swelled and his chest so oppressed, as if he would suffocate,
that he was forced to loosen his clothes, [1].
► Crampy pain in the stomach, [1]. ► Agonizing clutching in the
stomach, [1]. ►
Sensation of weight at stomach, [40]. ► Cutting-griping pain in the stomach, [1]. ► Pain in pit of stomach;
nervous grumbling sensation in stomach, coming on every few moments, and extending up into
the thorax, [44]. ►
Slight pain at pit of stomach, followed by a very marked pricking sensation; these pains
cease after a meal (first day), [7]. [550.] ►► Pain in the
cardiac orifice, relieved by pressure, [1].® 2000
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