CANNABIS INDICA.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
► Objective.
► Determination of blood to surface, [29]. ► Great excitation of the
whole system, as if the blood were circulating very quickly; as if streams of it were poured
from below towards the head, which felt dull, while his eyes were glistening; on walking, he
could scarcely find his way; everything seemed dark and perverted; on reaching home great
cheerfulness and serenity, as though an unseen power lifted him up into other and higher
regions; everything appeared too small and too dark; frequent protestations that he saw
something unearthly, and could accomplish great things; he saw spirits dancing around him as
happy as himself; his hearing was very acute; the slightest noise, as the beating of his own
heart, seemed too loud; violent thirst; cataleptic and epileptic attacks, [22]. ► Strange, balancing gait, [29]. ► From time to time
shaking of the whole body, [1]. ►
Catalepsy, [21]. ►
Sometimes catalepsy, [29]. ►
He did things automatically, [1]. ► Cannot avoid running against people in the street, [1]. ► Unconsciously
walks sidewise in the street, [1]. [770.] ► Creeps on hands or
knees in open air, [23]. ►
During the intoxication, when the spells of laughter came on, he stamped with his feet, and
raised his body up and down on the sofa in a violent manner, [1].
► Closed his eyes and tried to think of something solemn.
Suddenly felt as if he were a marble statue; had no ability to move, and a chill all over
him, [3]. ► Feels
as if under the sedative influence of an opiate (after three hours), [5]. ► Disinclination to physical
labor, [1]. ► Felt
idle in morning (second day), [5]. ► Luxurious indolence and erotic delirium, [22]. ► Great desire to lie down in
the daytime, [1]. ►
Much torpidity (second day), [33]. ► Feels greatly fatigued, [1].
[780.] ► Relaxation
of muscular power (after four and a quarter hours), [13].
► Felt very weak (second day), [20]. ► Felt as if weak, chiefly
about the knees (after two and a quarter hours), [34].
► Great muscular weakness, [21].
► Too weak and nervous to work, [27]. ► He felt so weak that he could
scarcely speak, and soon fell into a deep sleep, [1].
►► Thoroughly exhausted from a short walk, [1]. ► Prostration (soon
after), [36]. ►
State of collapse (nearly ending in death), [38]. ► As soon as he closed his eyes he fell into a state of
syncope, [22]. [790.]
► Sense of vague uneasiness, [41]. ► Felt in the highest degree
nervous, [27]. ►
Nervous, restless feeling over the whole body, [44]. ► Impulse to change about from place to place, [22]. ► After experiencing
peculiar visions and sensations a necessity for exercise came on; he raised himself as if by
some elastic power, struck himself on the breast, and began to sing and dance in the most
extravagant manner, [22]. ►
Feeling of numbness, [28]. ►
Felt a peculiar numbness creeping through body and limbs, [33].
► Skin insensible to irritation, for example, to mustard,
brushes, etc., [20]. ►
Was unconscious that mustard has been placed to his feet, and that they had been rubbed with
brushes; the sensitiveness of the skin seemed to be completely blunted, [20]. ► Gradually total
anæsthesia, [1]. [800.] ► Anæsthesia extended
all over his body. It gradually decreased, but the sensibility did not return universally,
nor steadily, there being frequent relapses, [39]. ► Subjective. ► An
indescribably “queer” pervaded the whole body (after one hour), [41]. ► There was also a curious
sensation connected with the air, but he cannot recollect it, [8].
► Feeling of lightness on motion was very marked, [20]. ► Feeling of
lightness or buoyancy, as though he could fall like a cork, without sustaining harm (after
four and a quarter hours), [13]. ►
Especially characteristic was the sensation as if his body were raised up from the ground,
and as if he could fly away, [20]. ► Felt as if under influence of intoxicating drink (after half
an hour), [27]. ►
Felt drunk (after one hour), [12]. ► Felt drunk (after one hour and a half), [10]. ► Woke in morning not quite
sober (second day), [8]. [810.]
► Felt very badly, [8].
► After going to bed, sensation of heaviness or
drowsiness; could not lift his arms or legs (after one hour), [11].
► Rigidity of the muscular system, [17]. ► Felt the characteristic thrill produced by the drug (after exactly four hours), [3]. ► Agreeable
thrilling through the body and extremities, [1]. ► All agree that the first symptom is experienced after the
lapse of some hours, and is uniformly a thrill through the whole frame to the finger-ends,
and through the brain, followed by great terror, [17].
► Hand a real Hashish thrill, so violent that I took hold
of a counter to prevent myself from reeling, experiencing the same want of confidence in
myself and anxious terror I had felt on taking the larger dose (after one hour), [43]. ► The right side of
the body seemed to him to be greatly enlarged, so that he thought if he thus continued to
grow he must bend over to opposite side, [8]. ► Sensation as if single parts had become larger and thicker, e. g., the lower lip seems swollen to the level of the nose, or
the nose so large as to obstruct vision, [21]. ► Sudden, dull, aching pain and constriction, mixed with
numbness and tingling, as if he had been electrified. It began in right upper arm, extending
down the arm and up to the axilla, gradually passing down to the feet, and then up to the
head. It was chiefly felt in arm and axilla. This feeling came on and off like a wave of
sensation; it was confined entirely to the right side, and seemed to stop at the mesial
line. (The prover’s right side was next the fire), (after forty minutes), [8]. [820.] ►
Suddenly a great degree of oppression; everything seemed too narrow to him; features became
distorted; he became pale; the oppression increased to anxiety, with a feeling as though his
blood mounted to his head in a boiling condition, [20].
► The symptoms develop themselves mostly on the right
side, [1]. ► It
affects persons of the highest nervous and sanguine temperament with the strongest effect;
the bilious nearly as much; the lymphatic but slightly, with such symptoms as vertigo,
nausea, coma, or muscular rigidity, [17].
SKIN.
► Formication, [21]. ► Itching in face,
shoulder, abdomen, and feet, relieved by scratching, [44].
► Itching of nose continually, [44]. ► Itching of the sole of the
foot, [44].
SLEEP AND DREAMS.
► Sleepiness.
► Sleepiness (after one hour), [11]. ► Sleepiness, drowsiness, [44]. ► Day sleepiness,
[1]. [830.] ►► Excessive sleepiness, [1]. ► Great sleepiness in the
afternoon, [1]. ►
Became sleepy without any previous excitement or exhilaration; it is a muddled state (after
four hours), [5]. ►
More than usually sleepy in the evening (after fourteen hours), [5]. ► Felt sleepy, for some time
(after two and a half hours), [12]. ► Drowsiness, with cold feeling of back of head and neck, as
though air blew thereon, [44]. ►
Great drowsiness, even in daytime (second day), [7]. ► Species of interrupted drowsiness, [40]. ► Felt drowsy, and fell
asleep in arm-chair (after two hours), [14]. ► In morning felt drowsy, and still under the influence of the
drug; the drowsiness lasted till 1.30 P.M., with alternate waking and sleeping, but the
waking was a pleasant dreamy state (second day), [8]. [840.] ► On going to bed fell
into a drowsy state, in which he imagined that the finger-nails of both hands were about the
size of plates, very curved, but otherwise of natural shape; on opening and shutting the
fingers (subjective or objective?) they seemed to slide over one another like a fan; and on
tapping them against a hard surface (subjective or objective?) a delicious sensation was
produced, [8]. ►
Feeling of sleep; could easily sleep if he were to lie down and give way to the feeling; but
when necessary he could always rouse himself (after four hours), [13]. ► Strong inclination to
sleep, and therefore hurried to bed, without undressing, [27].
► Stronger disposition to sleep, which continued for half
an hour (after six and two-thirds hours), [13]. ► Was obliged to yield himself to sleep (after four hours), [5]. ► Indisposition to
rise in the morning, [1]. ►
Frequent intervals of sleep (after one hour), [33]. ► Seemed to go to sleep now and then for a few moments, which,
however, appeared very much prolonged, with pleasant dreams; then woke up, and wrote down
these notes, [8]. ►
Gave him a double portion of sleep, [26]. ► After a full nights rest he slept soundly the whole of the
next day, [1]. [850.]
► Prolonged and tranquil sleep, [1]. ► Slept three days and three
nights, with the exception of those times he was awakened to eat his meals, [1]. ►► Sound sleep, [1]. ► Sound sleep with
melancholy dreams, [1]. ► Slept soundly, [35]. ► Slept soundly at night, [33].
► Sleep, like that of one “dead drunk,” [41]. ► At night, slept
profoundly, no dreams, [5]. ►
Slept very quietly, without dreams, [27]. ► When asleep, looked stiff, as if dead, with the lower jaw
down, [5]. [860.] ► Starting of the limbs while sleeping, which awoke him, when he
feared he would have a fit, [1]. ► Screaming while sleeping, [1].
► Talking during sleep, [1]. ► Dozed a little on a sofa,
in a friend’s room; was heard chuckling to himself; woke up every five minutes, when it
seemed to him as if hours had elapsed. After his friend had gone to bed, kept waking up,
thinking he was still in the room, but on rousing himself, recollected all; then relapsed
(after two hours), [9]. ►
All the afternoon, alternate dozing and waking; the same pleasant dreamy state when waking
(second day), [8]. ►
After dinner, dozing and waking as before. Took coffee, which removed it (second day), [8]. ► Sleeplessness.
► Woke once in night, which is unusual, [13]. ► Woke at 4 A.M. and at 7
A.M., which is very unusual, [13]. ► He wakes at 6 o’clock in the morning, with fulness of the
head and heaviness of the body, [1]. ► He wakes soon after midnight, with intense thirst, [1]. [870.] ► He wakes before midnight in a state of semi-consciousness;
with inability to move; palpitation of the heart, slow, deep, labored, and intermittent
breathing, and a feeling as if he were dying, [1]. ► He wakes before midnight, overcome with dreadful sensations;
imagines that he is going to be choked, cries and moans for some time, when all the objects
in the room appear their respective sizes, and he falls asleep again, [1]. ► Wakeful all night; mild,
pleasant dreams; cat-naps (second day), [44]. ► The only effect was to make him lose a night’s rest, [26]. ► When in bed, not
able to go to sleep; mind wandered rapidly from one subject to another; he seemed to be
dreaming with open eyes, for he saw, heard, and noticed everything around him, [27]. ► Dreams. ► She seemed to dream with open eyes, and the time appeared to
her very long, [40]. ►
When he ceases to exercise his will, he falls into a kind of dream; the period of this
dreamy state seems painfully prolonged; he feels as if he never would get through the night,
[8]. ► In the daytime,
dreams, returning periodically, or dreamy attacks, [1].
► The dreams lasted about an hour, and then changed to a
slight headache, with he felt till late at night, [27].
► Vivid dreams, sometimes ecstatic (second day), [7]. [880.] ► A variety of delightful dreams came over him (after two hours
and a quarter), [35]. ►
Very delicious dreams; cannot remember much of them now, [8].
► Voluptuous dreams, with erections and profuse seminal
emissions, [1]. ►
Prophetic dreams, [1]. ► Vexatious dreams, [1].
► Slept well, with the exception of an ugly dream, [5]. ► Woke in the midst
of a wild, shapeless dream, in a state of extraordinary agitation, and bathed in
perspiration, [15]. ►
Dreams of danger, and of perils encountered, [1].
► Dreams of dead bodies, [1]. ► Nightmare every night, as soon
as he falls asleep, [1]. [890.] ► Sleep which before
the habit of taking Hashish, was always with dreams more or less vivid, was during the whole
period of the indulgence entirely dreamless, [17].
FEVER.
► Chilliness.
► Loss of animal heat, [1]. ► Coldness of surface (soon
after), [36]. ►
Shivering (first day), [7]. ►
A pleasant cooling seemed suddenly to affect the whole body, [24].
► Coldness and shivering, with external heat (second
day), [7]. ► General
chilliness, [1]. ►
Hard shaking chill, with the following symptoms: loud chattering of the teeth; coldness of
the body and extremities; profuse cold sweat; tired feeling in the limbs, with aching in the
joints; dry mouth, with thick white sticky saliva; intense thirst; drinking of large
quantities of water; staggering and falling on attempting to walk; thumping in the head and
heart; inability to rise from a stooping position on account of a crushing weight on the
cerebellum, neck, and shoulder; blindness, with the exception of a small point immediately
where he looks; extremely slow and full pulse; seeming descent of the ceiling to crush him;
earnest belief that he is dying, but cannot cry for help; falling to the floor and lying for
some time unconscious; sleeping for three nights and three days afterwards, [1]. ► 9 A.M., and icy coldness
across the root of nose, comes on when leaning forward writing, goes away when moving about
(third day), [44]. ►
Coldness of the face, nose, and hands, after dinner, [1]. [900.] ► Coldness of the right hand, with stiffness and numbness
of the right thumb, [1]. ►
Coldness of the hands, feet, and especially of the nose, after dinner, with shivering,
shaking, and inability to get warm, [1]. ► Extremities, upper and lower, cold, at times trembling, [20]. ► Heat. ► The heat of the body was increased, [20]. ► In the cold, 2° F. below
zero, he does not feel cold, although nearly undressed, [19].
► Did not feel cold, while those who were walking with
him, and wrapped in mantles, were complaining of it, [26].
► Sensation of heat, [21].
► Pleasant sensation of warmth, beginning in the spine
and extending all thought the body (after one hour), [11].
► While lying down, sensation of glow and warmth, [6]. ► Pleasant burning
heat all over body, [8]. [910.]
► Burning in the skin of the body and extremities, [1]. ► Intense fever
boiled in my blood, and every heart-beat was like the stroke of a colossal engine, [17]. ► Forehead and head
only moderately warm, never hot, [20]. ► Warm tingling sensation, over the whole left side of face, [44]. ► Moist warmth of
palms of hands, [44]. ►
Feeling of warmth over front of body and arms, [44]. ► Sweat. ► Slight sweat,
[21]. ► Sweat on
front of limbs, and moist feeling of whole body, especially the front, [44]. ►► Profuse sticky sweat,
standing out in drops on his forehead, [1].
No sweat for several days, [20].
CONDITIONS.
► Aggravation.
► (Morning), Tongue
white, etc.; before rising, mucus on tongue; hawks up lumps. ►
(Afternoon), Easily excited, etc.; sleepiness. ► (Evening), Pains in
urethra. ► (Night), Injection of the conjunctiva; when lying down, rumbling in
bowels; frequent micturition. ► (Ascending
stairs), Oppression of chest. ► (When in bed), Dryness of mouth, etc. ►
(When breathing), Stitches in hypochondrium. ► (Candlelight),
Obliterates consciousness. ► (Coffee),
The symptoms, especially those of the brain. ► (After dinner), Coldness of face,
etc.; coldness of hands, etc. ► (While
eating), Stomach feels swollen, etc. ► (Grinding teeth), Pain in
teeth. ► (When laughing),
Pain in kidneys. ► (When lying down), Singing in ears. ►
(While lying on back), Pain in leg. ► (On motion), Eructations.
► (On rising), Vertigo, etc. ► (Shaking head), Fulness in cerebellum, etc. ►
(When sitting), Small, etc., beats of the heart. ► (On falling asleep),
Sensation in brain. ► (Spirituous
liquors), The symptoms, especially of the brain. ►
(On stooping), Dizziness; small, etc., beats of heart. ► (In the sun), Headache. ► (Swallowing), Pain behind
sternum. ► (Tobacco smoking),
The symptoms especially of the brain. ► (Before during and after urination), Stinging
pain; burning, etc. ► (On waking), Sensation in brain; headache. ►
(On walking), Inclination to vertigo; dizziness;
heaviness of chest. ► (In warm
room), Compression of brain, etc. ► Amelioration.
► (Fresh air),
Paleness of face. ► (Deep
breathing), Stitches in heart, etc. ► (Coffee), Dizziness; headache. ►
(Washing in cold water), The symptoms. ► (Eructation), Pain in
epigastric region; swelling of abdomen. ► (Pressure), Pain in right ear; pain in teeth; pain in cardiac orifice. ► (Rest), The symptoms.® 2000
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