HOM=8COPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA
by William BOERICKE, M.D.
Presented by M=E9di-T
COFFEA CRUDA
Unroasted Coffee
Stimulates the functional activity of all organs, increasing the
nervous and vascular activity. The drinking of coffee by the aged is
likely to increase production of uric acid, causing irritation of
kidneys; muscle and joint pains, and with the increased susceptibility
of old people to the stimulating action of coffee and tea, their use
should be curtailed or carefully watched. Great nervous agitation and
restlessness. Extreme sensitiveness characterizes this remedy.
Neuralgia in various parts; always with great nervous excitability and
intolerance of pain, driving to despair. Unusual activity of mind and
body. Bad effects of sudden emotions, surprises, joy, etc. Nervous
palpitation. Coffea is specially suited to tall, lean, stooping
persons with dark complexions, temperament choleric and sanguine. Skin
hypersensitive.
Mind.--Gaiety, easy comprehension, irritability, excited; senses
acute. Impressionable, especially to pleasurable impressions. Full of
ideas, quick to act. Tossing about in anguish (Acon).
Head.--Tight pain, worse from noise, smell, narcotics. Seems as if
brain were torn to pieces, as if nail were driven in head. Worse in
open air. Sensitive hearing.
Face.--Dry heat, with red cheeks. Prosopalgia extending to molar
teeth, ears, forehead, and scalp.
Mouth.--Toothache; tem****arily relieved by holding ice-water in the
mouth (Mangan opposite). Hasty eating and drinking. Delicate taste.
Stomach.--Excessive hunger. Intolerance of tight clothing. After wine
and liquor.
Female.--Menses too early and long lasting. Dysmenorrh=9Ca, large clots
of black blood. Hypersensitive vulva and vagina. Voluptuous itching.
Sleep.--Wakeful; on a constant move. Sleeps till 3 am, after which
only dozing. Wakes with a start, sleep disturbed by dreams. Sleepless,
on account mental activity; flow of ideas, with nervous excitability.
Disturbed by itching of anus.
Respiratory.--Short, dry cough of measles in nervous, delicate
children.
Heart.--Violent irregular palpitation especially after excessive joy
or surprise. Rapid high tension pulse and urinary suppression.
Extremities.--Crural neuralgia; worse, motion, afternoon and night;
better, by pressure.
Modalities.--Worse, excessive emotions (joy), narcotics, strong odors,
noise, open air, cold, night. Better, warmth, from lying down; holding
ice in mouth.
Relation****p.--Incompatible: Camph; Coccul. Complementary: Acon.
Compare: Coffea tosta (Roasting develops certain vitamin-like
substances (P. T. Mattei). Pigeons which have developed "deficiency"
neuritis and paralysis on diet of polished rice lost their
disabilities on the addition of 8 cc to a 5 % infusion of coffee to
their food. Unroasted coffee was useless). Caffeine.--(A crystalline
alkaloid-is a direct heart stimulant and diuretic. Dropsy depending on
cardiac insufficiency. Myocardial degeneration. Cardiac insufficiency
in pneumonia and other infectious diseases. Raises the blood pressure,
increases pulse rate and stimulates the heart muscle; hence, a sup****t
in extreme feebleness or threatened failure. Stimulates the
respiratory center, nerve centers and increases diuresis. One of the
best stimulants of the vaso-motor centers. Acute pulmonary =9Cdema.
Brachialgia and other neuralgias characterized by nocturnal
exacerbations. Jousset uses equal parts of caffeine and sachar lac. 3
grains taken in divided doses every other day. Hypodermically, 1/4
grain. Excruciating facial neuralgia from decayed teeth); Acon; Cham;
Nux; Cyp; Caffeine and plants containing it, as Kola, Thea, etc.
Strong black coffee, drunk as hot as possible, is indispensable as an
antidote in a large number of poisons, especially narcotics. Hot
coffee by rectum in cases of extreme collapse.
Antidotes: Nux; Tabac.
Dose.--Third to two hundredth potency.
Copyright =A9 M=E9di-T 1999
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