CANNABIS SATIVA. 141 
A native of the East Indies. Its hard stem and thin bark 
render it incapable of being wrought into filaments, and spun 
like common hemp; it has a strong smell, like that of tobacco. 
The Indians make of its bark and the expressed juice of its 
leaves and seeds a liquor, which has an intoxicating quality; 
and if they wish to produce a stronger effect, they either chew 
or smoke its dried leaves, mingled with tobacco. A little nut- 
meg, cloves, camphor, and opium, mixed with its juice, form 
the composition which the Indians call. Maek, and which, 
according to Clusius, is the same as the Malack of the Turks. 
Parts usED in Mepicing, AND Mopr oF PREPARATION.— 
The Flowers. ‘To make the homeopathic preparation, the 
flowering tops of both male and female plants are gathered, and 
the juice expressed from them, and which is mixed with equal 
parts of alcohol. Some recommend the female flowers only, 
because these exhale, during their flowering, a strong and 
intoxicating odour, whilst the male plants are completely in- 
odorous. 
Mevicat Uses (Homaoprarntic).— Hahnemann’s observa- 
tions : “ Up to the present time, the seeds of the Cannabis have 
been employed generally only in the form of emulsions and 
decoctions. Formerly some physicians, viz., Dodoens, Sylvius, 
and Herliz, found it useful in some kinds of jaundice. The 
beneficial effects of Cannabis in inflammations of the urinary 
organs is entirely owing to its homeopathic action, from its 
having the power to produce an analogous morbid condition 
in those organs of healthy persons, an effect which has never 
been doubted by any who have experimented with this medi- 
cine. As to the herb itself, it is only employed asa popular 
remedy. It has been also used by the Persians and others to 
soothe the fatigue arising from over-walking, as Char: din informs 
us ; this effect is equally homeopathic. We can also employ 
the Cannabis with great success, in more attenuated doses, in 
different diseases of the chest, and organs of sense, etc. I 
usually employ the juice of this plant, mixed with equal parts — 
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