138 FLORA HOMM@OPATHICA. 
Persians take this seed, as also the leaves, under the name 
of Bengi, to arouse the venerem thereby.” Zorn also 
combines both controversies, and confirms the former assertion 
by several citations, and the latter by the energetic rendering 
into German of the unbecoming name of Bengi and Kidibengi, 
by which term also those were designated who made use of 
Hemp for the purpose of arousing sexual desire. In the same 
way, Zorn mentions that Hemp possesses the property of fatten- 
ing, and that it therefore makes the hens who eat of it prolific, 
so that they lay the more eggs. Geoffroy, however, expresses 
himself on the same matter thus: “ Matthiolus writes, he has 
found out that Hemp-seeds render hens prolific in eggs. But, 
then, as Lobel observes, it afterwards makes them unfruitful by 
reason of the frequent nourishment it affords them” (Dessert. 
Mat. Med., trans. from the Latin, Leipsic, 1761, vol. iii. 
p- 389). Hemp is everywhere considered a specific against 
gonorrhea; but it is also certain that Hemp produces gonorrhea, 
as is proved by the results of experiments put together by Hah- 
nemann. 
Here and there one finds the assurance given, that the Hemp- 
seed emulsion deserves the preference in the irritated state of 
the urinary organs, only because it does not constipate so easily 
as other emulsions. If it really has this effect, it would then 
appear that there are specific relations lying at the foundation 
of this, which may be reduced to the fundamental law of 
homeopathy. For was not Hemp formerly employed in diar- 
rheas, and up to the present day in India for the cholera, 
precisely on account of its constipating properties. And Wibmer 
observed on himself so obstinate a constipation and total 
atony of the intestinal canal, after taking the alcoholic 
tincture of this herb, that even strong purgatives in large doses 
were ineffectual for clearing out the existing impurities and 
flatulencies. In Zorn we read: “Quidam ex hoc semine 
emulsiones parant et in febribus commendant, vimque alexi- 
pharmacum ei tribuunt.” Wibmer, again, was thrown into 
