Materia Medica
Cocaina
An Alkaloid from Erythroxylon Coca
Besides the great usefulness of Cocaine as a local anaesthetic, it has specific homceopathic uses, though the symptoms are mainly clinical only. Sensation as if small foreign bodies or worms were under the skin.
Mind
Talkative. Constant desire to do somethiing great, to undcrtakc vas cats of strength. Cerebral activity. Frightful persecutory hallucinations; sees and feels bugs and worns. Moral sense blunted. Personal appearance neglected. Thinks he hears unpleasant re- marks about himself. Hallucinations of hearing.
Head
Throbbing and bursting sensation. Pupils dilated. Hearing greatly increased. Roaring and noises in head.
Eyes
Glaucoma, increased tension, decreased cor- neal sensibility. Eyes staring, expressionless.
Throat
Dry, burning, tickling, constricted, paraly- sis of muscles of deglutition. Speech difficult.
Stomach
Loss of appetite for solid food. Likes sweets. Hemorrhages from bowels, stomach. Nervous System.-- Chorea; paralysis agitans; alc- holic tremors and senile trembling. Local sensory pa- ralysis. Formication and numbness in hands and fore- arms.
Sleep
Restless, cannot sleep for hours after retir- ing.
Fever
Coldness with intense pallor.
Relationships
Compare: Stovain (an analgesic. a vaso-motor dilator).
Dose
Lower potencies. As a local application to mucous membranes, 2-4%.