(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; temporarily relieved by holding ice water in the mouth. Hasty
eating and drinking. Delicate taste. | ||
| Stomach.
Excessive hunger. Intolerance of tight clothing. After wine and
liquor. | ||
| Female. Menses
too early and long lasting. Dysmenorrhea, large clots of black blood.
Hypersensitive vulva and vagina. Voluptuous itching. | ||
| Sleep. Wakeful;
on a constant move. Sleeps till 3 a.m., 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. | ||
| Relationship.
Incompatible: Cocc. Complementary: Acon. Compare: Acon.; Cham.; Nux-v. Antidote: Nux-v.; Tab. | ||
| Dose. Third to
two hundredth potency. |