Plant
Coffea Cruda
Unoasted Coffee
Repertory abbreviation: Coff.
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 actizity' of mind and ·body. Bad effects of sudden eino- tions, surprises, joy, etc. Nervous palpitation. Coffea is specially suited to tall, lean, stooping persons with dark complexions, temperament choleric and sanguine.
Mind
Gayety, easy comprehension, irritability, ex- cited; senses acute. Impressionable, especially to pleas- urable impressions. Full of ideas, quick to act. Oss ing about in anguish. [Acon.]
Head
Tight pain, worse from noise, smell, nar cotics. Seems as if brain were torn to pieces, as if nail were driven in head. Worse in open air. Sensitive hearing. 259
Face
Dry heat, with red cheeks. Prosopalgia ex- tending to molar teeth, cars, forehead, and scalp.
Mouth
Toothache ; temporarily relieved by holding ice-water in the mouth. [Mcngan. opposite.] Hasty eating and drinking. Delicate taste.
Stomach
Excessive hunger. Intolerance of tight clothing. After wine and liquor.
Female
Menses too early and Jong lasting. Dys- menorrhcea, large clots of black blood. Hyperscnsiire zulva and vuginu. Voluptuous itching.
Respiratory
Short, dry cough of measles in nerv- ous, delicate children.
Heart
Violent irregular palpitation especially after excessive joy or surprise. Rapid high tension pulse and urinary suppression.
Extremities
Crural neuralgia; worse, motion, af- tcrnoon and night; better, by pressure.
Sleep
Wakeful: on a constant move. Sleeps till 3 A. M., after which only dozing. Wakes with a start, sleep disturb by dreams. Sleepless, ou aicount men- tal activitv; flow of ideas, with nervous excitability. Disturbed by itching of anus.
Modalities
Worse, excessive emotions (joy), nar- cotics, strong odors, noise, open air, old, nighit. Better, warmth, from lying down; holding ice in mouth.
Relationships
Incompatible: Camph.; Coccul. Com- plementary: Acon. Compare: Coffea tosta (excruciating facial neuralgia from decayed teeth); Acon.;: Cham.: Nux; Cyp.; Caf- fein and plants containing it, as Kola, Thea, etc. Strong black coffee, drunk as hot as possible, is in- dispensable as an antidote in a large number of poisons. especially narcotics. Hot coffee by rectum in cases of extreme collapse. Caffcin is a direct heart stimulant. Raises the blood pressure, increases pulse rate and stimulates the muscles of the heart. It is given to support the heart in extreme feebleness or threatened failure. Stimulates the respiratory centre, nerve cen- tres and increases diuresis. Use the Caffeina Sodio- Salicylas, 1-4 grains, hypodermically. Caffcin, one of the best stimulants to act on the vaso-motor centres. Antidotes: Nux; Tabac.
Dose
Third to two hundredth potency.