Condensed Materia Medica

Coffea Cruda coff.

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Mind

Ecstasy, full of ideas; quick to act, no sleep on this account.
Delirium tremens: unsteady running about; imagines he is not at home, with trembling of hands; small, frequent pulse.
Excessive weeping and lamentations over trifles.
Child cries and laughs easily; while crying, it suddenly laughs quite heartily, and finally cries again.
Cries and trembles, does not know what to do.
Cheerfulness.
Fear of death.
Pain seems insupportable, driving to despair.
Bad effects from sudden pleasurable surprise.

Sensorium

All the senses more acute, reads fine print easier; hearing, smell, taste and touch acute, particularly also an increased perception of slight passive motions.
Threatening of apoplexy; overexcited, talkative, full of fear, pangs of conscience, aversion to open air, sleepless, convulsive grinding of teeth.

Inner Head

Congestion of blood to the head, especially after pleasant surprise, from talking.
Headache from thinking.
One-sided headache, as from a nail driven into the head, worse in the open air.
Headache, as if the brain were torn or dashed to pieces.
Feels and hears a cracking, in vertex, when sitting quietly.

Eyes

Reddish; increased visual power.
Pupils dilated.

Ears

Hearing more acute, music has a shrill sound.
Aversion to noise; it hurts him.
Crackling noise in the head (one side), synchronous with the pulse; particularly morning and in the open air; better in-doors.

Nose

Acute, sensitive smell.
Nosebleed; with heaviness of head and ill humor; during straining at stool.

Face

Dry heat of the face, with red cheeks.
Neuralgia of right side of face and head and right eyeball at 1 P.M.
Sweat on the face, with internal chilliness.

Teeth

Toothache: stinging, jerking, intermittent aching; with restlessness, anguish and weeping mood, especially at night and after a meal; aggravated, from hot or warm drink, from chewing, at night; ameliorated when holding ice-cold water in mouth.

Tongue, etc

Taste: more acute; sweetish.

Throat

Steady pain from side of palate into œsophagus; constant desire to swallow, from sensation as of plug in throat.
Uvula too long, swollen.
Sore throat, worse from cool air.

Desires and Aversions

Increased hunger, with hurried eating.
Thirst at night wakens him; thirst during the sweat.
Aversion to coffee.

Eating and Drinking

Eats and drinks hastily.
Bad effects from wine or liquor drinking.
After eating: 10. Hot or warm drink: 10. Ice or ice-cold water: 10.

Nausea and Vomiting

Hiccough, eructations.
Constant inclination to vomit, felt in the throat.

Abdomen

Colic: as if the stomach had been over-loaded; as if the abdomen would burst; cannot bear the clothes to be tight on the abdomen; exceedingly painful, driving to desperation.
Continuous pinching pain in the iliac regions.
Pressure in the abdomen, as from incarcerated flatulence.

Stool, etc

Diarrhœa: watery, painless, all day, from too much care about domestic affairs; during dentition.
Fetid flatus.

Urine

Frequent and copious.

Male Sexual Organs

Sexual organs much excited without emission of semen, and with dry heat of the body.
Scrotum relaxed.

Female Sexual Organs

Menses: too profuse and of long duration; profuse, with coldness and stiffness of body; only during the evening.
Metrorrhagia: large, black lumps, worse from every motion, with violent pain in the groins and fear of death.
Leucorrhœa: like mucus, or milky; more while urinating.
Voluptuous itching in the vulva, but parts too sensitive to rub or scratch.

Pregnancy

Excessively severe pains from threatened abortion, or labor.
Labor-pains ceasing, with complaining loquacity.
During the labor or after-pains, extreme fear of death.
Puerperal fever from mental excitement, frequent crawling, with feverish warmth, tongue moist, no thirst; delirious talking eyes on open, shining; violent abdominal pains, with oversensitiveness, despair, sleeplessness.

Larynx

Spasmus glottidis, starts from sleep with short inhalation or gasping, with wheezing, cold sweat, blue face; worse when put into the bath.
Larynx as if covered with dry mucus.
Rawness in larynx, with hoarseness, in the morning on awaking.

Breathing

Oppression of chest; short inspiration; chest heaves visibly.
Asthmatic attacks in morning, wants to move continually.

Cough

Short; dry; hacking; spasmodic and dry; at night; during measles.

Heart and Pulse

Palpitation of heart, violent, irregular, with trembling of limbs.
Pulse more frequent, but less vigorous, even small and weak.

Neck and Back

Laming pain in small of back, while sitting or standing.

Upper Limbs

Pains extend from the face down the arms, even to finger ends.

Lower limbs

Sciatic or crural neuralgia, in attacks; rending, shooting, increased by walking; relieved by pressure, worse afternoon and night; restless and sleepless at night.

Limbs in General

Twitching of the limbs.

Position, etc

Motion: 23. Wants to move: 26. Exercise: 40. Walking: 33. Sitting: 3, 31. Standing: 31.

Nerves

Physical excitement through mental exhaltation.
Great nervous agitation and restlessness.
Convulsions of teething children, with grinding of teeth and coldness of limbs, after overexcitement.
Fainting from sudden emotions.

Sleep

Sleeplessness: from overexcitement of body or mind.
Quick to act; no sleep on this account.

Time

Morning: 6, 25, 26, 40. Afternoon: 33. Evening: 23, 40. Night: 10, 14, 27, 33, 40. All day: 20.

Temperature and Weather

Hot or warm drink: 10. Ice or ice-cold water: 10. Cold air: 13. Cold: 40. Open air: 2, 3, 6, 27. In-doors: 6. Bath: 25.

Chill, Fever and Sweat

Chills running down the back.
Chill increased by exercise.
Internal shivering, with external heat of face or whole body.
Chilly feelings, with internal and external warmth.
Great sensitiveness to cold.
External heat, with shivering in the back, in the evening after lying down.
Dry heat at night, with delirium.
Sweat in the face, with internal shivering; slight, morning.

Sides

Without inwards: 2. Above downward: 32, 40.

Contact, Injuries, etc

Rubbing or scratching: 23. Pressure: 33; of clothes: 19. Chewing: 10. Passive motion: 2.

Skin

Dryness of the skin, but not in febrile diseases.
Excessive sensitiveness of the skin.
Measles, with overexcitability and weeping.
Scarlet rash, with overwhelming pains and lamenting mood.

Relationship

Antidotes to Coffea: Acon., Chamom., Nux vom., Pulsat.
Coffea antidotes: Chamom., Coloc., Nux vom., Psorin.
Chronic affections from abuse of coffee require; Chamom., Ignat., Mercur., Nux vom., Sulphur.
Inimicals: Canthar., Caustic., Coccul., Ignat.