Coffea Cruda

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.