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<br /> used indiscriminately, but its cases should be be specifically selected. The
<br /> great indication for cannabis (the keynote) is marked nervous depression.
<br /> With this.indication present it will fulfil a multitude of uses. Specifically
<br /> selected it has been efficient in delirium tremens, wakefulness in fevers,
<br /> neuralgia, gout, rheumatism, infantile convulsions, low mental conditions,
<br /> insanity, etc., and in inflammatory' conditions in cases where opium
<br /> disagrees, and is often preferable to opium. Acute mania and dementia,
<br /> epilepsy, hysterical catalepsy, cerebral softening (with potassium bromide),
<br /> anemia of the cerebral cortex, paralysis agitans and senile tremors,
<br /> traumatic or idiopathic tetanus, and irritable reflexes, are among the
<br /> nervous disorders in which it exerts a positively beneficial and soothing
<br /> action, when depression is the guide to its selection. In mental disturbances
<br /> the guides to its are mental oppression, a dull, drowsy, or stupid
<br /> countenance (a dreamy condition), with dizziness and violent throbbings in
<br /> the head, and a morbid fear,of becoming insane. The patient sometimes
<br /> has an "exaggerated idea of time and space" (Webster). The drug is a
<br /> useful hypnotic for the insane. As a remedy for pain, it ranks among the
<br /> first; the more spasmodic the pain the better it acts. The neuralgic pains of
<br /> depression are those most quickly relieved. It should be administered in
<br /> painful states of the stomach, as gastric neuralgia, nervous gastralgia, in
<br /> gastric ulcers, where opium is inadmissible, and in pain due to indigestion.
<br /> The pains attending lientery, after - pains, the passage of renal and hepatic
<br /> calculi, gout, neuralgia of the uterus, cancer, locomotor ataxia, are all met
<br /> by it, and, added to purgatives, it mitigates their griping effects. It relieves
<br /> the itching of cutaneous disorders, particularly that of senile pruritis and
<br /> eczematous affections: Migraine, nervous headache, facial, and other
<br /> neuralgias, whether due to catamenial wrongs or attending the menopause,
<br /> as well as those depending upon fatigue, are relieved when nervous
<br /> depression is the most marked symptom. Head - pains, due to tumors, have
<br /> been asserted to yield to cannabis. The pains of chronic rheumatism,
<br /> sciatica, spinal meningitis, dysmenorrhea, endometritis, subinvolution, and
<br /> the vague pains of amenorrhea, with depression, call for cannabis. Owing
<br /> to a special action upon the reproductive apparatus, it is accredited with
<br /> averting threatened abortion. It is a prominent remedy for certain
<br /> spasmodic conditions and especially in the choreic states •of weak women
<br /> and children. It mitigates whooping -cough and other convulsive coughs;
<br /> alleviates palpitation of the heart, with stitching pain in the part; quiets
<br /> hysterical manifestations, and allays.the distressing symptoms of spasmodic
<br /> asthma, and periodic hyperaesthetic rhinitis. It is a valuable remedy in
<br /> senile catarrh, with harrassing cough and profuse mucous'expectoration,
<br /> and, both internally and by inhalation, it has afforded relief in the painful
<br /> cough of consumptives."
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