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WARNING: All medicines, drugs, plants, chemicals or medicial precedures below are for historical reference only. Many of these treatments are now known to be harmful and possibly fatal. Do not consume any plant, chemical, drug or otherwise without first consulting a licensed physician that practices medine in the appropriate field.

Felter's Materia Medica on Asian

CANNABIS
   The dried flowering tops of the female plant of Cannabis sativa, LinnĂ©, or the variety indica, Lamarck (Nat. Ord. Cannabinaceae). Asia, East... / ...tite and convulsions, no deaths have been known to occur in man from this drug. The effect upon Caucasians is less pronounced than that described, which is experienced chiefly by Orientals. In the for... / ...of the urino-genital tract and relieves pain. For the first condition it is invaluable in more or less painful conditions in which opium see1


References

1) Felter, Harvey Wickes, 1922, The Eclectic Materia Medica, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Cincinnati, Ohio.