Materia Medica

Coca - Erythroxylon Coca

The Divine Plant of the Incas

The mountaineer's remedy. Useful in a variety of complaints incidental to mountain climbing, such as palpitation, dyspnocea, anxiety and insomnia. Exhausted nervous system from physical and mental strain. Caries 01 teeth. Loss of voice.— Give 5-6 drops, every half hour, two hours before expected demand on voice. Nocturnal enuresis.

Mind

Melancholy; lashful. ill at ease in society, irritable, delights in solitude and obscurity. Sense of right and wrong abolished.

Head

Fainting fit from climbing g mountains. Shbcks coming from occiput with vertigo. Noises in 251 car. Headache with vertigo, preceded by flashes of light. Like a band across forehead. Diplopia. Tongue furred. Headaches of high aititudcs. Tinnitus.

Stomach

Peppery sensation in mouth. Longing for alcoholic liquors and tobacco. Great satiety for a long time. Incarcerated flatus; rises with noise and violence, as if it would split the cesophagus. Tympanitic distention of aldomen. No appetite but for sweets.

Male

Diabetes, with impotency. [Phos. ac.]

Respiratory

Hawking of small, transparent pieces of mucus. Weak vocal cords. Hoarseucss; worse after talking. Want of breath, short breath, especially in aged athletes, and alcoholic users. Haemoptysis. Asthma, spasmodic variety.

Heart

Palpitation, with weak heart and dyspncea.

Sleep

Can find no rest anywhere, but sleepy. Nervousness and nightly restlessness during teething.

Modalities

Better, from wine; riding, quick motion in open air. Worse, ascending, high altitudes.

Relationships

Compare: Ars.; Paulin.; : Cyp.; Chamom. Antidote: Gels.

Dose

Tincture to third attenuation.

Source: Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 8th ed. by William Boericke (1922), p. 244. Public domain.

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