Cannabis Indica
Dewey, Essentials of Homœopathic Materia Medica, 1894, p. 144
Questions
What is this drug ?
It is the Hashish or Indian hemp ; a tincture is made from the dried herb tops.
What is its general action ?
Produces the most remarkable hallucinations and imaginations; exaggeration of the duration of time and extent of space being most characteristic. It lessens the sensibility of the pulmonary and urinary tracts.
What are its mental characteristics ?
Illusions as to time and space; a minute seems thousands of 3^ears, and things a short distance off seems yards away.
What is the peculiar head symptom of Cannabis Indica ?
There is a sensation as if the head were opening and shutting along the vertex.