Coffea Cruda
COFFEA · Guernsey - Key-notes to the Materia Medica · Henry Newell Guernsey · 1,218 chars
General
This is one of the best remedies for mental irritability. Five remedies have mental irritability in a marked degree.
Acon ., irritability, fearful and anxious; dreads things.
Aurum , irritability, suicidal, will thrash around in bed (as females in confinement) as if wishing to injure or kill themselves.
Chamom , irritability, spiteful and uncivil.
Coffea , irritability, wakeful, on the constant move.
Nux vom ., irritability, sullen, keeps the eyes shut, doesn't wish to speak or have anything to do with any one.
Mental.-- Great gaiety; mental irritability; easy comprehension; excitement of the intellect; nervous excitement; excessive irritability of the body.
Generalities
Hearing sensitive; acute hearing. Delicate taste. Aversion to the open air. Pain as if from rending; tight pain. Sensation of warmth. Very severe after-pains, or labor pains.
Sleep
Sleeplessness in general : after midnight; complaints causing sleeplessness; sleepless after labor. Remarkable wakefulness under any circumstances; from drinking coffee.
Worse.-- From excessive joy; from narcotic medicines; from noise; from strong smells.
Remedies following:-- Aurum, Bellad., Opium, Nux vom., Lycop .
Antidote
Nux vom .