Cannabis sativa
von H. A. Roberts — The Rheumatic Remedies
Historical reference for practitioners and students. The statements below reflect the named author’s homeopathic teaching and do not establish treatment effectiveness. This text is not medical advice and must not replace appropriate diagnosis or care.
Cannabis sativa finds a field of usefulness in those cases of gonorrhœal rheumatism presenting the picture given below.
NECK AND BACK
Drawing in neck.
Pain in small of back.
Pain in middle of back as if someone were pinching with pincers.
Pressure as if with a sharp point in coccyx.
PAIN IN BACK < BY SLIGHTEST EXERTION.
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES
Rending pressure on shoulder.
Coldness of hands.
Formication and numb feeling in arms and hands to finger tips.
Sudden lameness of hands; trembling of hand when grasping things.
Contraction of fingers after a sprain.
Cramp-like contractions of metacarpal bones.
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES
CRAMP-LIKE JERKING DIGGING PAIN IN RIGHT HIP.
Drawing pain in feet.
Violent pain with contractions of tendo achillis.
WHEN GOING UPSTAIRS THE PATELLA SNAPS SIDEWAYS.
Heaviness of feet.
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL
WEARINESS OF LIMBS.
Rheumatic drawing in periosteum of long bones as if they had been bruised from a blow, DURING MOTION.
Arthritic rheumatism with dyspnœa.
CONCOMITANTS
VERTIGO WHEN WALKING IN OPEN AIR; TENDENCY TO FALL SIDEWISE.
PAIN EXTENDING FROM ORIFICE OF URETHRA BACKWARD, BURNING, BITING POSTERIORLY, MORE STICKING WHILE URINATING. ACUTE INFLAMMATORY STAGE OF URETHRITIS.
URGING TO URINATE WITH PRESSING STICKING PAINS.
FAINTNESS, SOMETIMES BECOMES UNCONSCIOUS.
WEARINESS.
AGGRAVATIONS
BEFORE EATING.
WALKING.