Coffea Cruda
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General
COFFEA. [Coffea] Coffea. Hahnemann. Rubiaceae.
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 oesophagus ; 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
► Diarrhoea : 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. ► Leucorrhoea : 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.