Coffea. HAHNEMANN. Rubiaceae.
Mind
Ecstasy, full of ideas; quick to act, no sleep on this account.
Delirium tremens: Unsteady, running about; imagines he is not at home, with trembling of hands; small, frequent pulse.
Excessive weeping and lamentations over trifles.
child cries and laughs easily; while crying, it suddenly laughs quite heartily, and finally cries again.
Cries and trembles, does not know what to do.
Cheerfulness.
Fear of death.
Pain seems insupportable, driving to despair.
Bad effects from sudden pleasurable surprise.
Sensorium,
All the senses more acute, reads fine print easier; hearing, smell, taste and touch acute, particularly also an increased perception of slight passive motions.
Threatening of apoplexy; overexcited, talkative, full of fear, pangs of conscience, aversion to open air, sleepless, convulsive grinding of teeth.
Inner Head
Congestion of blood to the head, especially after pleasant surprise, from talking.
Headache from thinking.
One-sided headache, as from a nail driven into the head, worse in the open air.
Headache, as if the brain were torn or dashed to pieces.
Feels and hears a cracking, in vertex, when sitting quietly.
Eyes
Reddish; increased visual power.
Pupils dilated.
Ears
Hearing more acute, music has a shrill sound.
Aversion to noise; it hurts him Crackling noise in the head (one side), synchronous with the pulse; particularly morning and in the open air; better in-doors.
Nose
Acute, sensitive smell.
Nosebleed; with heaviness of head and ill humor; during straining at stool.
Face
Dry heat of the face, with red cheeks.
Neuralgia of right side of face and head and right eyeball at 1 P.M.
Sweat on the face, with internal chilliness.
Teeth
Toothache: stinging, jerking, intermittent aching; with restlessness, anguish and weeping mood, especially at night and after a meal; aggravated, from hot or warm drink, from chewing, at night; ameliorated when holding ice-cold water in mouth.
Tongue etc.
Taste: more acute; sweetish.
Throat
Steady pain from side of palate into oesophagus; constant desire to swallow, from sensation as of plug in throat.
Uvula too long, swollen.
Sore throat, worse from cool air.
Desires Aversions
Increased hunger, with hurried eating.
Thirst at night wakens him: thirst during the sweat.
Aversion to coffee.
Eating and Drinking
Eats and drinks hastily.
Bad effects from wine or liquor drinking.
After eating:. Hot or warm drink:. Ice or ice-cold water:.
Nausea and Vomiting
Hiccough, eructations.
Constant inclination to vomit, felt in the throat.
Abdomen
Colic: as if the stomach had been over-loaded; as if the abdomen would burst; cannot bear the clothes to be tight on the abdomen; exceedingly painful, driving to desperation.
Continuous pinching pain in the iliac regions.
Pressure in the abdomen, as from incarcerated flatulence.
Stool.
etc.
Diarrhoea: watery, painless, all day, from too much care about domestic affairs; during dentition.
Fetid flatus.
Urine
Frequent and copious.
Male Sexual Organs
Sexual organs much excited without emission of semen, and with dry heat of the body.
Scrotum relaxed.
Female Sexual Organs
Menses: Too profuse and of long duration; profuse, with coldness and stiffness of body; only during the evening.
Metrorrhagia: large, black lumps, worse from every motion, with violent pain in the groins and fear of death.
Leucorrhoea: like mucus, or milky; more while urinating.
Voluptuous itching in the vulva, but parts too sensitive to rub or scratch.
Pregnancy
Excessively severe pains from threatened abortion, or labor.
Labor-pains ceasing, with complaining loquacity.
During the labor or after pains, extreme fear of death.
Puerperal fever from mental excitement, frequent crawling, with feverish warmth, tongue moist, no thirst; delirious talking eyes on open, shining; violent abdominal pains, with oversensitiveness, despair, sleeplessness.
Larynx
Spasmus glottis, stars from sleep with short inhalation or gasping, with wheezing, cold sweat, blue face; worse when put into the bath.
Larynx as if covered with dry mucus.
Rawness in larynx, with hoarseness, in the morning on awaking.
Breathing
Oppression of chest; short inspiration; chest heaves visibly.
Asthmatic attacks in morning, wants to move continually.
Cough
Short; dry; hacking; spasmodic and dry; at night; during measles.
Heart Pulse
Palpitation of heart, violent, irregular, with trembling of limbs.
Pulse more frequent, but less vigorous, even small and weak.
Neck Back
Laming pain in small of back, while sitting or standing.
Upper Limbs
Pains extend from the face down the arms, even to finger ends.
Lower Limbs
Sciatic or crural neuralgia, in attacks; rending, shooting, increased by walking; relieved by pressure, worse afternoon and night; restless and sleepless at night.
Limbs in General
Twitching of the limbs.
Position etc.
Motion: Wants to move: Exercise: Walking: Sitting Standing:.
Nerves
Physical excitement through mental exhaltation.
Great nervous agitation and restlessness.
Convulsions of teething children, with grinding of teeth and coldness of limbs, after overexcitement.
Fainting from sudden emotions.
Sleep
Sleeplessness: from overexcitement of body or mind.
Quick to act; no sleep on this account.
Time
Morning: Afternoon: Evening: Night,, All day:.
Temperature and Weather
Hot or warm drink:. Ice or ice-cold water:. Cold air :. Cold air:. Cold: Open air: In-doors Bath:.
Chill Fever Sweat
Chills running down the back.
Chill increased by exercise.
Internal shivering, with external heat of face or whole body.
Chilly feelings, with internal and external warmth.
Great sensitiveness to cold.
External heat, with shivering in the back, in the evening after lying down. Dry heat at night, with delirium.
Sweat in the face, with internal shivering; slight, morning.
Sides
Without inwards: Above downward:.
Contact Injuries etc.
Rubbing or scratching: Pressure: of clothes: Chewing:. Passive motion:.
Skin
Dryness of the skin, but not in febrile diseases.
Excessive sensitiveness of the skin.
Measles, with overexcitability and weeping.
Scarlet rash, with overwhelming pains and lamenting mood.
Relationship
Antidotes to Coffea: Aconite, Chamom., Nux.vom., Pulsat.
Coffea antidotes: Chamom., Coloc., Nux vomica, Psorin.
Chronic affections from abuse of coffee require; Chamom., Ignat., Mercur., Nux vomica, Sulphur.
Inimicals: Canthar., Caustic., Coccul., Ignat.
