Cannabis indica

Latin name: Cannabis indica

Short name: Cann-i

Common name: Indian Hemp | Marijuana | Ganja | Hashish | Bhang

Primary miasm: Psoric Secondary miasm(s): Sycotic

Kingdom: Plants

Family: Cannabaceae

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Symptomatology
Remedy Information
Differentiation & Application

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Mind

The mental landscape of Cannabis indica is expansive, fragmented, and surreal. A key feature is the distortion of time and space—minutes feel like hours, distances become immeasurable, and the self feels disconnected from the body. [Clarke] and [Hering] describe this dissociation as alternating between ecstasy and terror. The patient may feel as though floating, becoming lighter than air, or conversely feel the body is immense and heavy. Thoughts crowd the mind in overwhelming torrents, making speech disjointed or impossible. This hyperactivity of mind is often pleasurable at first, then becomes oppressive, generating confusion, fear of insanity, or sudden anxiety. Memory is lost in the moment—it slips away mid-sentence or thought. The patient may suddenly laugh, then become terrified without reason. There is a mystical or spiritual quality to thoughts—visions, divine messages, or cosmic significance are frequently perceived. They may feel detached from reality or believe they exist in a dream. Delusions of duality—believing the soul and body are separate—are strikingly characteristic. A remedy for introspective ecstasy, depersonalisation, and sudden terror.

Sleep

Profound drowsiness yet difficulty falling asleep due to racing thoughts. Vivid, psychedelic, or mystical dreams. Sleep unrefreshing, punctuated by strange sensations or sudden jerks. Sleep-walking or talking possible.

Dreams

Intensely vivid, coloured, and symbolic dreams. May involve flying, divine insight, sexual encounters, or being lost in unfamiliar places. Dreams often persist into waking state, blurring reality. Nightmares may involve drowning, falling, or suffocation.

Generalities

Excessive nervous sensitivity to internal and external stimuli. Symptoms often sudden, exaggerated, or delusional. Sensation of body enlargement or detachment. Symptoms may mimic intoxication or mysticism. Worse from speaking, noise, music, emotions. Better from solitude, lying still, and quiet breathing.

Fever

Intermittent chills followed by waves of heat. Sensation of internal boiling. Flushed face with cold extremities. Heat rises from chest or spine. No thirst during fever.

Chill Heat Sweat

Intermittent chills followed by waves of heat. Sensation of internal boiling. Flushed face with cold extremities. Heat rises from chest or spine. No thirst during fever.

Head

Heaviness and fullness of the head, especially the vertex, often described as if the skull is being lifted from within. Pressing or constricting pain, as if a band encircled the forehead. Sensation of enlargement of the head or that it is detached. Vertigo is common, especially when walking or after rising. [Hering] notes a wave-like motion within the brain with every heartbeat. The head may feel alternately hot and cold, and symptoms worsen with mental effort or external stimulation.

Eyes

Intensely red, glassy, and dilated pupils. Photophobia with a sense of unreality in visual perception. Vision appears magnified, colours are more vivid, and distance may seem distorted. Halos around lights. The eyes may ache or feel sore. Sudden loss of sight or temporary dimness during mental excitement. [Allen] describes illusions such as lights dancing or objects appearing closer or farther than they are.

Ears

Heightened auditory sensitivity. Sounds are perceived with great intensity or may seem far away or muffled. Ringing, buzzing, or oscillating tones heard within the ears. Music can provoke ecstasy or deep anxiety. Illusions of hearing conversations or distant melodies.

Nose

Nosebleeds from mental excitement. Increased smell sensitivity—odours may seem intense or provoke nausea. Sneezing from smoke or cold air. Nasal dryness or catarrhal symptoms with little discharge.

Face

Pale, anxious, or flushed during excitement. Expression may alternate between blank and wildly animated. Twitching of facial muscles. Lips feel dry or sticky. Trembling of lower jaw during emotional arousal.

Mouth

Mouth dry and sticky, with insatiable thirst—especially for cold drinks. The tongue feels thick, heavy, or enlarged. Speech is difficult—words are forgotten or confused. Metallic or bitter taste. [Boericke] notes stammering and a tendency to forget what one is saying mid-sentence.

Teeth

Toothache with a sensation of elongation. Cold air aggravates. Teeth may feel loose or sensitive to pressure. Clenching during sleep or intense emotion.

Throat

Toothache with a sensation of elongation. Cold air aggravates. Teeth may feel loose or sensitive to pressure. Clenching during sleep or intense emotion.

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Prepared from the flowering tops of the female Cannabis sativa indica plant, rich in psychoactive resin (mainly Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol). Used traditionally in spiritual, recreational, and medicinal contexts.

Widely used as a psychoactive drug for its mind-altering effects, as well as medicinally for pain relief, appetite stimulation, anxiety, seizures, and nausea.

First proved by Dr. A.C. Clifton; clinical experiences extensively documented by Hering, Allen, and Hale; effects also corroborated through observed intoxication cases.

Mind – intense alterations in perception, time distortion, anxiety, mystical or detached states
Nervous system – particularly brain, spinal cord, and sensory nerves
Bladder and urinary tract – incontinence, urgency
Eyes and vision – dilation, photophobia
Sleep and dreams – vivid, colourful, ecstatic or anxious dreams
Muscles – spasms, clumsiness, heaviness
Sexual organs – heightened or distorted sensations
Heart and circulation – palpitations, erratic pulse

Quiet
Lying on the back
Solitude
Deep breathing
Cold air
Avoiding conversation

Mental exertion
Talking
Music
Emotional excitement
Company
Alcohol
After urination
Lying on left side

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Agaricus – Twitching, incoordination, but more spasmodic and cold-sensitive
Lachesis – Loquacious and excitable, but more outwardly aggressive and left-sided
Nux moschata – Dreamy, spacey, with dryness and forgetfulness, but more hysterical
Stramonium – Delirious, fearful, and nightmarish, but with violence and fear of darkness
Opium – Narcosis, ecstasy, and suspended perception, but more in passive stupor

Complementary: Phosphorus, Pulsatilla
Antidotes: Nux vomica, Camphora
Follows well: Belladonna, Hyoscyamus
Precedes well: Sulphur
Inimical: None noted

Cannabis indica embodies the exalted, scattered, and disembodied mind. It traverses ecstasy and fear, creating a dreamlike separation from reality. The keynotes are intense mental stimulation, distortion of time and space, and profound disconnection from the physical. It is a remedy of perception unmoored—where thoughts race, the heart thunders, and the body becomes foreign. Particularly suited to those with creative, nervous, or spiritual tendencies, who become overwhelmed by the very powers of their inner world.

Excellent for anxiety with palpitations, especially after cannabis use
Useful in urinary incontinence or hesitancy with emotional overlay
Consider in insomnia with racing mind and vivid dreams
Applicable to panic attacks with disorientation or depersonalisation
Can assist in neuralgia, spasms, or weakness in limbs from nervous origin

Mind

Delusions, body is expanding
Thoughts vanish while speaking
Ecstasy, alternating with anxiety
Time seems long

Head

Fullness, vertex
Pulsation in brain
Vertigo on movement

Urinary

Involuntary urination when thinking of it
Retention of urine from nervousness
Burning before and after micturition

Extremities

Trembling, hands
Incoordination
Numbness, crawling sensations

Generalities

Worse from music, excitement, company
Better from lying on back, solitude
Sensation of floating or detachment

T.F. Allen – Encyclopaedia of Pure Materia Medica: Complete proving data, mental and urinary symptoms
C. Hering – Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica: Focused on time distortion, detachment, and urinary phenomena
John Henry Clarke – Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica: Provided depth on mental state, dream states, and perception
William Boericke – Pocket Manual: Gave clinical keynote tips and mental/emotional core
E.M. Hale – New Remedies: Supported analysis of cannabis intoxication and therapeutic analogies

Cannabis indica

Mind

Sleep

Dreams

Generalities

Fever

Chill Heat Sweat

Head

Eyes

Ears

Nose

Face

Mouth

Teeth

Throat

Chest

Heart

Respiration

Stomach

Abdomen

Rectum

Urinary

Food

Male

Female

Back

Extremities

Skin

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Mind

Sleep

Dreams

Generalities

Fever

Chill Heat Sweat

Head

Eyes

Ears

Nose

Face

Mouth

Teeth

Throat

Chest

Heart

Respiration

Stomach

Abdomen

Rectum

Urinary

Food

Male

Female

Back

Extremities

Skin

Stay tuned!

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