(Mix the recent juice squeezed out of the tops of the plant, while blossoming, either male or female, with an equal portion of spirits of wine, and, in a few days, pour off the superincumbent liquid.) Heretofore the seed had been successfully used as an emul- sion or decoction in the inflammatory stage of gonorrhoea, and, by older physicians, against some kinds of jaundice. The cu- rative powers of Cannabis in acute gonorrhoea, depend upon the faculty it possesses of producing a similar morbid condition in the urinary organs. In the country inns in Persia, the herb is used in a very successful manner, to relieve the fatigue of CANNABIS SATIVA. 199 travellers on foot (see Chardin, voyage en Perse ;) this result de- pends likewise upon the homoeopathic nature of the drug, as may be seen by symptoms 269 to 275. Cannabis may be used with great success as a curative agent in various diseases of the genital organs, the chest, the organs of sense, etc. ; this is evident from the following series of symptoms. For a long while I have used a small portion of a drop of the undiluted tincture at a dose ; but the medicinal powers of this plant are developed in a much higher degree, by dynam- izing it up to the thirtieth potence, which is the highest potency now in use. FROM NOACK AND TRINKS. Cannabis may be employed in the following affections : Hysterical conditions. — Convulsions ; tetanus. — Acne gutta ro- sacea (also Caust. Sepia. Led. Lach. Coc. Canth.) — Obtusion of the mental faculties. Mania. Melancholia. Gonorrhoea. Scrophulous ophthalmia, with excrescences of the lamellas of the cornea (in conjunction with ac. nitr. and calc. carb.) — Specks upon the cornea, remaining after scrofulous ophthalmia ; old specks and ulcers in the cornea, incipient leucoma. — Pannus. — Cataracta traumatica. — Chronic vomiting. — Gastralgia. — In- duration of the liver. — Colic. — Ascites. — Constipation, with retention of urine, phimosis. — Acute and chronic affections of the urinary organs. Nephritis. Cystitis. Gravel (in alter- nation with rosa canina.) — Dysuria. Heematuria. Impotence. Abortus. Sterility. Leucorrhcea. — Fluor Albus. — Periodical asthma. — Pneumonia, brought on by violent exercise (short, op- pressed breathing, owing rather to aching, than stitching pains, cough, with tough green expectoration, palpitation of the heart, with anguish, sympathetic affection of the large vessels ;) peri- pneumonia. — Carditis. — Cramp in the calf.