Homeopathy LibraryCoffea Cruda
Dewey - Essentials of Homoeopathic Materia Medica · Willis Alonzo Dewey · 2,524 chars
General
Where is the pathogenesis of Coffea to be found ?
In Stapf's additions to the Materia Medica .
From what is the tincture prepared, and what is the alkaloid of Coffea.
From the unroasted beans of the Coffea Arabica . Caffeine , and it is similar to Theine or that found in tea.
How is the tincture prepared ?
One part of the best unroasted Mocha beans is coarsely powdered, moderately heated and macerated eight days with six parts of strong alcohol and then filtered. The residuum is then boiled down in a glass retort with 40 parts of distilled water, so far that its filtrate and the alcoholic extract mixed together make 10 parts, by weight. Drug power, 1/10.
What is the general action of Coffea ?
It produces a nervous erethism - over-sensitiveness, all the senses are rendered more acute, pains are felt intensely.
What are grand characteristics of the drug ?
1. Great nervous excitement, excitation of mind and body.
Sleeplessness From Excitement
Name five remedies having irritability ; how may they be distinguished ?
Acon . - Fearful and anxious, dreads things.
Aurum . - Suicidal irritability.
Chamomilla . - Spiteful and uncivil.
Coffea . - Wakeful and on the constant move.
Nux . - Sullen ; wants to be let alone.
What are the head symptoms of Coffea ?
Congestions, with excited state of the mind ; headache, as if a nail had been driven into the parietal bone ; worse in open air ; hemicrania.
What remedies are often required for complaints from the abuse of Coffea ?
Chamomilla, Ignatia, Nux .
When is Coffea applicable in toothache and when Chamomilla ?
The toothache of Coffea is relieved permanently by holding cold water in the mouth ; that of Chamomilla is only temporarily relieved.
What is the sleeplessness calling for Coffea ?
It is where the patient is quiet and sleepless, where the senses are all acute, hears distant noises with great distinctness, the mind is active with plans and fancies, and the next day the patient is tremulous ; also where hyperaesthesia of the skin keeps him awake.
As the symptoms of Piper-methysticum or Kava-Kava are similar to those of Coffea, give them.
There is buoyancy and exaltation of the mind and fullness of the vessels of the brain, followed by brain fag and dull aching in the head ; the mental symptoms are relieved by diverting the mind ; the patient is also very sensitive to external impressions. It is a useful remedy in cystitis and catarrh of the bladder.
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