====== COFFEA CRUDA ====== {{anchor:s1}}Coffea Cruda. {{anchor:s2}}Coffee. {{anchor:s3}}Rubiaceae. {{anchor:s4}}Introduced by the Dutch into Java about 1690. {{anchor:s5}}The Coffee plant is a small tree from 15 to 30 feet in height; the branches are opposite, gradually diminishing in length as they ascend, forming a pyramidal summit, which is covered with green foliage throughout the year; the leaves are opposite, smooth, dark green, oblong-ovate and four or five inches long, the flowers are white, with an odor resembling jasmine, the fruit is first green, then red, and ultimately dark purple. {{anchor:s6}}--U. S. D. {{anchor:s7}}For medical use we take that which is imported under the name of Levantic (Mocha beans). {{anchor:s8}}We use the raw, not the roasted bean. {{anchor:s9}}When Coffee is roasted it destroys the caffein and changes it into caffeone-this is stimulating like tobacco. {{anchor:s10}}Hahnemann's caution in this respect is justified. {{anchor:s11}}His treatise on the effects of Coffee was published in Leipzig in 1803. {{anchor:s12}}A full proving of coffee by five persons, one of whom was Hahnemann, is recorded by Stapf in his additions to the Materia Medica, and contains 246 symptoms. {{anchor:s13}}Caffeine, the alkaloid of Coffea, contains the toxic principles of coffee in a very concentrated form. {{anchor:s14}}It was first discovered by Runge, and afterwards by Robiquet. {{anchor:s15}}It occurs in long, snow-white, opaque, odorless crystals, sometimes conjoined into feathery crystals, of a feeble, bitter taste. ====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ====== {{anchor:s17}}- Religious insanity, L. B. Wells, Raue's R., p. 31, 1875; Delirium tremens, Strecker Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 142; Sick headaches, Med. Adv., vol. 8, p. 43; Cephalalgia, Foote, MSS.; Pain in head and throat, Bchn., Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 4, p. 47; Hardness of hearing, Allg. Hom. Ztg., vol. 3, p. 272; Odontalgia (two cases), E. M. Hale, B. J. H., vol. 23, p. 492; Toothache, Boenninghausen, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 460; Colic during paroxysm of intermittent fever, Rck. Hom. Therap., p. 478; Incarcerated hernia, Nagel, Allg. {{anchor:s18}}Wiener Ztg., J. Pr., 1875, p. 123; Raue's R., 1875, p. 158; Diarrhea, Oehme, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 412; Metrorrhagia, Jger, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 623; Ineffectual labor pains, Kallenbach, Allg. Hom. Ztg., vol. 50, p. 186; Parspino, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 655; Spasmus glottidis, Billig, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 779; Cardiac hyperaesthesia, Hale, Raue's R., 1875, p. 132; Crural neuralgia, Pril, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 892; Traumatic shock, J. C. Morgan, Analyt. {{anchor:s19}}Therap., p. 109; Sleeplessness, W. P. Armstrong, U. S. Med. Inv., Oct. 1878, p. 325; Sleeplessness after typhoid, Lw, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 58; Ague, J. D. Craig, Hom. Obs., vol. 4, p. 442; Allen's Intermittent Fever, p. 93; Chamomilla poisoning, Van Cutsem, Rev. Hom., p. 100; Raue's R., 1875, p. 12. ====== MIND. [1] ====== {{anchor:s21}}Memory active, easy comprehension; increased power to think.\\ {{anchor:s22}}Unusual activity of mind and body.\\ {{anchor:s23}}Sentimental ecstasy; excited imagination.\\ {{anchor:s24}}Full of ideas; quick to act, no sleep on this account.\\ {{anchor:s25}}Lively fancies: full of plans for the future.\\ {{anchor:s26}}Delirium at night, with dry heat.\\ {{anchor:s27}}Delirium tremens: unsteady running about; imagines he is not at home, with trembling of hands; small, frequent pulse.\\ {{anchor:s28}}Great loquacity, brain feels clear and is active, he feels strong enough to do anything, feels impelled to push things; veneration for the Supreme Being and love for family; benevolence excited.\\ {{anchor:s29}}Answers short, not disposed to talk, or endless volubility when describing his ailments.\\ {{anchor:s30}}Patients cannot contain themselves, crying out in a most terrible manner; they bend the body double and throw the limbs about, grate the teeth, are covered with a cold sweat, and finally stretch themselves out in a stiff, rigid manner, with groaning and difficult respiration.\\ {{anchor:s31}}Weeping mood.\\ {{anchor:s32}}Weeping and complaining, with fear of death; thinks that she will die. {{anchor:s33}}~ Metrorrhagia.\\ {{anchor:s34}}Excessive weeping and lamentations over trifles.\\ {{anchor:s35}}Whining and moaning; much crying.\\ {{anchor:s36}}Child cries and laughs easily; while crying it suddenly laughs quite heartily and finally cries again.\\ {{anchor:s37}}Cries and trembles, does not know what to do.\\ {{anchor:s38}}Throws things about, away, down, etc.\\ {{anchor:s39}}Cheerfullness; lively temper; mirthful.\\ {{anchor:s40}}Depression of spirits.\\ {{anchor:s41}}Weeping, complaining, disheartened mood, anxiety of mind and conscience filled with many fears. {{anchor:s42}}~ Hysteria.\\ {{anchor:s43}}Fear of death. {{anchor:s44}}~ Asthma.\\ {{anchor:s45}}Metrorrhagia, large black lumps, agg. from every motion, violent pain in groins, fever, bright red face; in greatest despair, believes herself dying.\\ {{anchor:s46}}Fright from sudden pleasant surprises.\\ {{anchor:s47}}Pains unbearable, feels discouraged, cries and throws himself about; fear of fresh air and of least noise; excessive weeping and lamentations over trifles.\\ {{anchor:s48}}Great anguish; cannot be composed; is not able to hold the pen; trembles.\\ {{anchor:s49}}Exasperation, tears; tossing about in great anguish.\\ {{anchor:s50}}Pains seem insupportable, driving to despair.\\ {{anchor:s51}}Irritability; oversensitive disposition.\\ {{anchor:s52}}Fretful mood, alternately merry or whining.\\ {{anchor:s53}}Child frets and worries in an innocent manner; is not cross, but sleepless; it laughs one moment and cries the next.\\ {{anchor:s54}}Mental excitability.\\ {{anchor:s55}}Feels agg. when hurried.\\ {{anchor:s56}}Ailments from excessive joy, excessive laughing and playing; from disappointed love; from anger, or from vexation with vehemence or fright; from narcotic medicines, noises, strong smells.\\ {{anchor:s57}}Weeping from uncontrollable delight. {{anchor:s58}}~ After parturition.\\ {{anchor:s59}}Affections after sudden emotions, particularly pleasant surprises. ====== SENSORIUM. [2] ====== {{anchor:s61}}Cerebral erethism, with nervousness and palpitation of heart. {{anchor:s62}}~ Cardiac hyperesthesia.\\ {{anchor:s63}}Sensorium more vivid, hence increased susceptibility to pain.\\ {{anchor:s64}}All the senses more acute, reads fine print easier, hearing, smell, taste and touch acute, particularly also an increased perception of slight passive motions.\\ {{anchor:s65}}Vertigo: with whirling sensation in head, occasionally a general faint feeling, agg. by thinking; with burning in stomach; with sick headache, amel. by a change of position or from moderate outdoor exercise; she cannot stand; with blackness before eyes; when stooping.\\ {{anchor:s66}}Dizzy confusion of head.\\ {{anchor:s67}}Confusion of senses.\\ {{anchor:s68}}Threatening of apoplexy; overexcited, talkative, full of fear, pangs of conscience, aversion to open air, sleepless, convulsive grinding of teeth. ====== INNER HEAD. [3] ====== {{anchor:s70}}Feels and hears a cracking in vertex when sitting quietly.\\ {{anchor:s71}}Heaviness of head, particularly in forehead over eyes.\\ {{anchor:s72}}Head feels too small.\\ {{anchor:s73}}Congestion of blood to head; especially after pleasant surprise; from talking; while talking.\\ {{anchor:s74}}Headache like pressing with something hard on surface of brain.\\ {{anchor:s75}}Headache with great mental excitement.\\ {{anchor:s76}}Headache from slightest cause, from thinking, excessive joy, contradiction, vexation, catching cold, chill, eating too much, with aversion to the accustomed use of coffee, sensitive to least noise and music; pain seems unbearable, making patient tearful; they lose all self-possession, throw themselves about crying violently, dread cold air, are chilly.\\ {{anchor:s77}}Headache with whining mood.\\ {{anchor:s78}}Headache as if whole brain was torn and bruised, or dashed to pieces; agg. from motion, noise, or light.\\ {{anchor:s79}}Headache intolerable, head feels small and as if filled with a fluid; as if it would burst or fly to pieces if she moved.\\ {{anchor:s80}}Stinging pain in locality of amativeness on left side.\\ {{anchor:s81}}Nervous, hysterical headaches in people of nervous or sanguine temperament.\\ {{anchor:s82}}One-sided headache, as from a nail driven into head; agg. in open air.\\ {{anchor:s83}}Pain drives to despair and patient runs wildly about room.\\ {{anchor:s84}}Sick headache, with vertigo, flushed face, burning in eyes, throbbing in temples.\\ {{anchor:s85}}Megrim from mental exertion, in persons who do not use coffee.\\ {{anchor:s86}}Headache renewed and agg. after eating and sleep; it disappears in open air, but returns in a short time in room.\\ {{anchor:s87}}Headache after intoxication.\\ {{anchor:s88}}Hyperemia of brain after abuse of Bellad.\\ {{anchor:s89}}Threatening of apoplexy, with congestion to head. ====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ====== {{anchor:s91}}Eyes reddish and shining; increased visual power, sees much more clearly in open air; reads fine print easily.\\ {{anchor:s92}}Scintillations before eyes.\\ {{anchor:s93}}Pupils dilated.\\ {{anchor:s94}}Eyes half open during sleep, with convulsive motion of eyes when awake. {{anchor:s95}}~ Summer complaint.\\ {{anchor:s96}}Burning in eyes and throbbing in temples. {{anchor:s97}}~ Sick headache. ====== HEARING AND EARS. [6] ====== {{anchor:s99}}Hearing more acute and sensitive; music has a shrill sound.\\ {{anchor:s100}}Aversion to noise; it hurts him.\\ {{anchor:s101}}Noises and singing in ears, with nervous people.\\ {{anchor:s102}}Cracking noise in head (one side), synchronous with pulse; particularly in morning and in open air; amel. indoors.\\ {{anchor:s103}}Hardness of hearing, with buzzing in left ear as of a swarm of bees. ====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ====== {{anchor:s105}}Acute, sensitive smell.\\ {{anchor:s106}}Nosebleed: with heaviness of head and ill humor; during straining at stool.\\ {{anchor:s107}}Bleeding from air passages. ====== UPPER FACE. [8] ====== {{anchor:s109}}Transitory flushes in face.\\ {{anchor:s110}}Shining red face with much fever. {{anchor:s111}}~ Metrorrhagia.\\ {{anchor:s112}}Dry heat of face, with red cheeks.\\ {{anchor:s113}}Flushed face, burning in eyes and throbbing temples. {{anchor:s114}}~ Sick headache.\\ {{anchor:s115}}Prosopalgia, extending to molar teeth of right side; she is very irritable, sensitive and moaning from distressing pain; painful teeth amel. by contact with ice.\\ {{anchor:s116}}Sweat on face, with internal chilliness. ====== TEETH AND GUMS. [10] ====== {{anchor:s118}}Convulsive grinding of teeth.\\ {{anchor:s119}}Toothache: driving the patient almost frantic; with weeping, trembling, anguish and tossing about; indescribable pains; stinging, jerking, intermittent aching; with restlessness, anguish and weeping mood, especially at night and after a meal; agg. from hot or warm drink, from chewing, at night; amel. when holding ice or ice cold water in mouth.\\ {{anchor:s120}}Violent throbbing toothache; run about crying and complain of insupportable pain, though they confess that sometimes the pain is not so intense, yet they are affected very much; they behave like persons distracted.\\ {{anchor:s121}}Neuralgic toothache, entirely amel. by holding cold water in mouth, returning as this becomes warm.\\ {{anchor:s122}}Toothache during menses.\\ {{anchor:s123}}Complaints of anemic children during dentition. ====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ====== {{anchor:s125}}Taste: more acute; delicate; sweetish.\\ {{anchor:s126}}Loss of taste. ====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ====== {{anchor:s128}}Excessive dryness of mouth at night. ====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ====== {{anchor:s130}}Uvula too long, swollen.\\ {{anchor:s131}}Steady pain from side of palate into esophagus; constant desire to swallow, from sensation as of plug or phlegm in throat.\\ {{anchor:s132}}Constantly increasing pain in throat and head, with weeping mood.\\ {{anchor:s133}}Sore throat, agg. from cool air, affected parts very sensitive.\\ {{anchor:s134}}Swelling and painfullness of the throat; agg. when swallowing.\\ {{anchor:s135}}Influenza. ====== APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] ====== {{anchor:s138}}Morbid sensation of excessive hunger.\\ {{anchor:s139}}Increased hunger, with hurried eating.\\ {{anchor:s140}}With the headache a loathing of food and drink on account of a continuance of sickness at stomach.\\ {{anchor:s141}}Thirst: at night, wakens him; during sweat; rather infrequent during heat, almost constant after heat and during sweat.\\ {{anchor:s142}}Aversion to coffee. ====== EATING AND DRINKING. [15] ====== {{anchor:s144}}Eats and drinks hastily.\\ {{anchor:s145}}Bad effects from wine or liquor drinking.\\ {{anchor:s146}}Headache renewed, agg. after eating. ====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ====== {{anchor:s148}}Hiccough.\\ {{anchor:s149}}Eructations: burning; sour; like rotten eggs; violent, spasmodic, with rising of the ingesta.\\ {{anchor:s150}}Continual sickness at stomach with headache.\\ {{anchor:s151}}Constant inclination to vomit, felt in throat.\\ {{anchor:s152}}Vomiting of mucus with violent attacks of megrim.\\ {{anchor:s153}}Bilious vomiting and restlessness at commencement of variola. ====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ====== {{anchor:s155}}Tension of epigastric region, with sensitiveness to touch.\\ {{anchor:s156}}Anguish and pressure in epigastrium.\\ {{anchor:s157}}Burning in stomach with vertigo.\\ {{anchor:s158}}Cramps in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s159}}Gastric derangements of infants.\\ {{anchor:s160}}Disordered stomach, indigestion. ====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ====== {{anchor:s162}}Flatulency.\\ {{anchor:s163}}Pressure in abdomen, as from incarcerated flatus.\\ {{anchor:s164}}Distended abdomen, extreme emaciation. {{anchor:s165}}~ Summer complaint.\\ {{anchor:s166}}Excessive pains with anguish, great nervousness, loud crying and grating of teeth.\\ {{anchor:s167}}Colic: as if stomach had been overloaded; as if abdomen would burst; cannot suffer clothes to be tight on abdomen; exceedingly painful, driven to desperation; as if intestines were being cut; in paroxysms excessively painful and violent.\\ {{anchor:s168}}Terrible colic, with horripilation, anxiety and violent tossing of limbs, during paroxysm. {{anchor:s169}}~ Intermittent fever.\\ {{anchor:s170}}Continuous pinching pain in iliac region.\\ {{anchor:s171}}Summer complaint of children.\\ {{anchor:s172}}Incarcerated hernia. ====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ====== {{anchor:s174}}Fetid flatus.\\ {{anchor:s175}}Diarrhea: watery, painless, weakening, from domestic cares; during dentition, after the use of chamomile; of liquid, fecal, offensive stools, from sudden joy or taking cold in open air; painless.\\ {{anchor:s176}}Constant alternations of constipation and diarrhea.\\ {{anchor:s177}}Constipation and hemorrhoids. {{anchor:s178}}~ Sick headache.\\ {{anchor:s179}}Hemorrhoidal conditions.\\ {{anchor:s180}}During straining of stool, nosebleed.\\ {{anchor:s181}}Spasmodic contraction of sphincter, with burning and itching in anus. ====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ====== {{anchor:s183}}Pressure on bladder.\\ {{anchor:s184}}Frequent, profuse micturition, urine colorless.\\ {{anchor:s185}}Emission of a large quantity of urine at midnight.\\ {{anchor:s186}}Urine passes off drop by drop. ====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ====== {{anchor:s188}}Excessive excitability of sexual organs.\\ {{anchor:s189}}Sexual organs much excited without emission of semen, and with dry heat of body.\\ {{anchor:s190}}Hypersensitiveness of sexual organs; little suffering seems unbearable; amel. in morning and at night, also in open air; agg. from cold water.\\ {{anchor:s191}}Nocturnal emissions, followed by great languor and irritability of temper.\\ {{anchor:s192}}Scrotum relaxed. ====== FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] ====== {{anchor:s194}}Hysteralgia; metritis; nymphomania.\\ {{anchor:s195}}Great sensitiveness of female genital organs, with general excitability; she is in a state of ecstasy.\\ {{anchor:s196}}Oversensitiveness of vagina.\\ {{anchor:s197}}Aversion to intercourse, on account of pain it produces.\\ {{anchor:s198}}Inflammation induced by excessive joy; she is in a state of ecstasy, and is very sensitive to contact. {{anchor:s199}}~ Metritis.\\ {{anchor:s200}}Bearing down in genitals during and after walking, with frequent urination.\\ {{anchor:s201}}Uterine hemorrhage, with excessive sensitiveness of organs and voluptuous itching.\\ {{anchor:s202}}Metrorrhagia: large black lumps; agg. from every motion, with violent pain in groins and fear of death.\\ {{anchor:s203}}Menses: too profuse and of long duration; profuse, with coldness and stiffness of body; only during evening; profuse with excessive sensitiveness of organs and voluptuous itching; flowing profusely during first part of night.\\ {{anchor:s204}}Dysmenorrhea.\\ {{anchor:s205}}Abdominal cramps during menstrual period, or at the beginning; twitching of limbs, bending the body double, crying, fear, cold perspiration, she throws herself upon the ground.\\ {{anchor:s206}}Excessively painful and violent paroxysms of colic, with profuse bloody discharge, profuse secretion of mucus, voluptuous itching and excessive sexual excitement.\\ {{anchor:s207}}Leucorrhea: like mucus, or milky; more while urinating.\\ {{anchor:s208}}Excessive sensitiveness about vulva, with voluptuous itching, desire to rub or scratch the parts, but they are too sensitive.\\ {{anchor:s209}}Eruptions on female genitals. ====== PREGNANCY. PARTURITION. LACTATION. [24] ====== {{anchor:s213}}Ptyalism of pregnancy.\\ {{anchor:s214}}She is very sleepless, wide awake, and the pains are very distressing; she feels them very acutely.\\ {{anchor:s215}}Continuous and very distressing pains, making her feel as if she would "go distracted."\\ {{anchor:s216}}Abortion; patient querulous and in great fear of death.\\ {{anchor:s217}}Excessive labor pains; too long continuation of after-pains.\\ {{anchor:s218}}Excessively severe pains from threatened abortion, or labor.\\ {{anchor:s219}}During labor or after-pains, extreme fear of death.\\ {{anchor:s220}}Irregular, ineffectual labor pains.\\ {{anchor:s221}}Ineffectual labor pains, contractions of uterus and pressure upon os uteri, causing only pain in small of back.\\ {{anchor:s222}}Labor pains insupportable to her feelings; she feels them intensely, weeps and laments fearfully; although the pains are severe, they are not efficacious; constant whining, crying, lamenting; violent moving of limbs; head hot, red; face puffed, eyes glittering; complete despair, great fear of death.\\ {{anchor:s223}}Labor pains ceasing, with complaining loquacity.\\ {{anchor:s224}}Lochial discharge too profuse, exalted nervous sensibility.\\ {{anchor:s225}}Insupportably intense after-pains, or pains followed by convulsions, coldness and rigidity of body.\\ {{anchor:s226}}Puerperal fever from mental excitement; frequent crawling, with feverish heat, tongue moist, no thirst; delirious talking, eyes open, shining; violent abdominal pains, with oversensitiveness, despair, sleeplessness, trembling of hands.\\ {{anchor:s227}}Puerperal convulsions; extreme excitability.\\ {{anchor:s228}}Agalactia. ====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ====== {{anchor:s231}}Rawness in larynx, with hoarseness and roughness in morning on awaking.\\ {{anchor:s232}}Larynx as if covered with dry mucus.\\ {{anchor:s233}}Spasmodic constriction of larynx.\\ {{anchor:s234}}Spasmus glottidis; starts from sleep with short inhalation or gasping, with wheezing, cold sweat, blue face; agg. when put into bath; mucous vomiting.\\ {{anchor:s235}}Sensation of rawness in trachea. ====== RESPIRATION. [26] ====== {{anchor:s237}}Oppression of chest; short inspiration; chest heaves visibly.\\ {{anchor:s238}}Moaning.\\ {{anchor:s239}}Hot breath.\\ {{anchor:s240}}Child gasps for breath several times during day; then more frequently, and finally three or four times every hour.\\ {{anchor:s241}}Suffocative fits.\\ {{anchor:s242}}Asthmatic attacks in morning, wants to move continually.\\ {{anchor:s243}}Asthma. ====== COUGH. [27] ====== {{anchor:s245}}Irritation to cough, with coryza, agg. in open air.\\ {{anchor:s246}}Irritation to cough, outdoors.\\ {{anchor:s247}}Continual inclination to cough; feels exhausted after coughing.\\ {{anchor:s248}}Cough: short, dry, hacking; spasmodic and dry, moist; single, sudden shocks, quickly following each other; from irritation in throat, phlegm in back part of throat; with dimness before eyes; during evening and midnight; when falling asleep or soon after; during measles.\\ {{anchor:s249}}Short, dry cough, as from constriction of larynx.\\ {{anchor:s250}}Dry, hacking cough, like whooping cough, with this difference, that the spasms are principally experienced during inspirations, not during expirations.\\ {{anchor:s251}}Constant cough, emaciation and cachectic appearance.\\ {{anchor:s252}}During cough: stitches in sides; anxiety; dimness before eyes and vertigo. ====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ====== {{anchor:s254}}Oppression of chest.\\ {{anchor:s255}}Sensation as if body would burst, with feeling of fullness and pressure, severe cramps extending into chest.\\ {{anchor:s256}}Constriction of chest, asthma at night. ====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ====== {{anchor:s258}}Palpitation of heart; violent, irregular, with trembling of limbs.\\ {{anchor:s259}}Nervous palpitation of heart.\\ {{anchor:s260}}Palpitation after excessive exaltation, joy, surprise.\\ {{anchor:s261}}Strong, quick palpitation of heart with extreme nervousness, sleeplessness and cerebral erethism, caused by unexpected news of great good fortune.\\ {{anchor:s262}}Pulse full and frequent.\\ {{anchor:s263}}Pulse: more frequent, but less vigorous, even small and weak; intermitting. ====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ====== {{anchor:s265}}Laming pain in small of back, while sitting or standing. ====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ====== {{anchor:s267}}Pains extend from face down arms, even to finger ends.\\ {{anchor:s268}}Continual jerking and twitching of arms and hands, otherwise well.\\ {{anchor:s269}}The hands tremble if he tries to hold them still.\\ {{anchor:s270}}Great trembling of hands. {{anchor:s271}}~ Delirium tremens.\\ {{anchor:s272}}Trembling of hands, with heat in palms and coldness of backs of hands. ====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ====== {{anchor:s274}}Crural neuralgia of gouty, rheumatic origin, tearing, stitching pain, agg. from motion; attacks irregular in appearance and lasting several hours, mostly at night or in afternoon.\\ {{anchor:s275}}Crural neuralgia of left limb, amel. from pressure, but very much agg. by pressure at point of exit of nerve.\\ {{anchor:s276}}Sciatic or crural neuralgia, in attacks; rending, shooting, agg. by walking; amel. by pressure, agg. afternoon and night; restless and sleepless at night. ====== LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] ====== {{anchor:s278}}Coldness of limbs, hands and feet.\\ {{anchor:s279}}Twitching of limbs.\\ {{anchor:s280}}Pains in limbs. ====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ====== {{anchor:s284}}While sitting: laming pain in small of back; feels and hears crackling in vertex.\\ {{anchor:s285}}Lying down: external heat, with shivering in back in evening after.\\ {{anchor:s286}}While standing: laming pain in small of back.\\ {{anchor:s287}}After walking: bearing down in genitals.\\ {{anchor:s288}}Motion: metrorrhagia agg. from every; headache agg. from; crural neuralgia agg. from; spasms or convulsions renewed after every; chill increased; inclination for.\\ {{anchor:s289}}Change of position: amel. vertigo.\\ {{anchor:s290}}When stooping: blackness before eyes.\\ {{anchor:s291}}Worse when bending diseased part, particularly when bending it backward or forward.\\ {{anchor:s292}}Worse when moving diseased limb.\\ {{anchor:s293}}Worse when sitting down.\\ {{anchor:s294}}While walking: bearing down in genitals; sciatic or crural neuralgia agg.\\ {{anchor:s295}}Exercise: vertigo amel. by moderate outdoor; chill increased by; inclination for.\\ {{anchor:s296}}Worse from bodily exertion.\\ {{anchor:s297}}Wants to be continually moving.\\ {{anchor:s298}}Cries and throws himself about.\\ {{anchor:s299}}Tosses about in great anguish.\\ {{anchor:s300}}Patients cannot contain themselves, they bend the body double and throw the limbs about, grate the teeth, are covered with a cold sweat and finally stretch themselves out in a stiff, rigid manner. ====== NERVES. [36] ====== {{anchor:s302}}Overexcitement of entire nervous system, agg. outdoors.\\ {{anchor:s303}}Physical excitement through mental exaltation.\\ {{anchor:s304}}Great excitement and irritability of sensory organs and of whole nervous system, as in lying-in women, and particularly after abuse of chamomile.\\ {{anchor:s305}}Great sensibility, mental and physical; intolerance of all manipulations, which cause great agitation, interfering with treatment; rather quiet when let alone; afraid of the surgeon; sleepless, so long as any noise or light continues, at night.\\ {{anchor:s306}}Extreme excitability of nervous system when spasms are apprehended, or if spasms have actually been developed, attended with cold extremities and grinding of teeth.\\ {{anchor:s307}}The child is very excitable and weakly, and in consequence frequently suffers with spasms.\\ {{anchor:s308}}Extreme sensitiveness, especially in children.\\ {{anchor:s309}}Fear of fresh air and of least noise.\\ {{anchor:s310}}Slight pain unendurable.\\ {{anchor:s311}}Great agitation and restlessness.\\ {{anchor:s312}}Great restlessness, lying awake most of night and tossing about in bed. {{anchor:s313}}~ Ague.\\ {{anchor:s314}}Extreme nervousness with strong, quick palpitation of heart. {{anchor:s315}}~ Cardiac hyperesthesia.\\ {{anchor:s316}}Hysteria and nervousness; screams, weeping.\\ {{anchor:s317}}Fainting from sudden emotions.\\ {{anchor:s318}}The greatest mental and physical exhaustion, lassitude and general debility.\\ {{anchor:s319}}Headache or other nervous pains, with whining mood.\\ {{anchor:s320}}Muscular jerking.\\ {{anchor:s321}}Spasms brought on by excessive laughing and playing, in weakly, excitable children.\\ {{anchor:s322}}Spasms or convulsions, renewed after every emotion.\\ {{anchor:s323}}Convulsions of teething children, with grinding of teeth and coldness of limbs, after overexcitement.\\ {{anchor:s324}}Paralysis. ====== SLEEP. [37] ====== {{anchor:s326}}Sleeplessness from overexcitement of body or mind.\\ {{anchor:s327}}Cannot get to sleep because some ideas force themselves upon the mind.\\ {{anchor:s328}}Sleeplessness from joy or agreeable surprise, from long watching, from excessive use of coffee.\\ {{anchor:s329}}Nervous, restless agitation, preventing all sleep.\\ {{anchor:s330}}Quick to act; no sleep on this account.\\ {{anchor:s331}}The child is very excitable, playful and sleepless; it seems as if it could not sleep; it frets and worries in an innocent manner; is not cross, but sleepless; it laughs at one moment and cries the next, is feverish for want of sleep, which it cannot obtain.\\ {{anchor:s332}}Wide awake; not the slightest inclination to sleep; after great mental strain, joy, night watching; acute diseases; dental irritation.\\ {{anchor:s333}}Sleeplessness, with palpitation and nervousness. {{anchor:s334}}~ Cardiac hyperesthesia.\\ {{anchor:s335}}Sleeplessness of lying-in women.\\ {{anchor:s336}}Sleeplessness during reconvalescence.\\ {{anchor:s337}}Drowsiness with inability to go to sleep; very weary with sleep; much gaping.\\ {{anchor:s338}}On going to sleep, starts up suddenly in affright, with groans and fear of falling.\\ {{anchor:s339}}Restless sleep; frequent, sudden starting and waking.\\ {{anchor:s340}}Tossing about or turning from side to side in bed.\\ {{anchor:s341}}Imperfect sleep, with eyes half open and convulsive motion of eyes when awake. {{anchor:s342}}~ Summer complaint.\\ {{anchor:s343}}Sleeps until 3 A. M., after which he only dozes, on waking does not come to his senses.\\ {{anchor:s344}}Very long, vivid dreams at night; pleasant dreams, even merry. ====== TIME. [38] ====== {{anchor:s346}}In morning: crackling noise in head; hypersensitiveness of sexual organs agg.; hoarseness and roughness in larynx on awaking; asthmatic attacks; slight sweat.\\ {{anchor:s347}}In afternoon: attack of crural neuralgia; sciatic or crural neuralgia agg.\\ {{anchor:s348}}During evening: menses only; cough; dry heat with chilliness in back after going to bed; external heat with shivering in back, after lying down.\\ {{anchor:s349}}First part of night: profuse flow of menses.\\ {{anchor:s350}}At night: delirium, with dry heat; toothache agg.; excessive dryness of mouth wakens him; hypersensitiveness of sexual organs agg.; emissions; asthma; attack of crural neuralgia; sciatic or crural neuralgia agg.; restless and sleepless; lies awake, tossing about in bed; very long, vivid dreams; pleasant dreams; dry heat, with delirium; dry heat, with measly spots on skin.\\ {{anchor:s351}}At midnight: emission of a large quantity of urine, cough.\\ {{anchor:s352}}Sleeps until 3 A. M., after which he only dozes, on waking does not come to his senses. ====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ====== {{anchor:s354}}In room: headache returns in a short time.\\ {{anchor:s355}}Indoors: crackling in head amel.\\ {{anchor:s356}}Feeling of heat in bed, yet avoids being uncovered.\\ {{anchor:s357}}Better after getting out of bed.\\ {{anchor:s358}}Hot or warm drinks: toothache agg. from.\\ {{anchor:s359}}Worse from cold: amel. from warmth.\\ {{anchor:s360}}Affected parts sensitive to warmth or cold air.\\ {{anchor:s361}}Generally dislikes to be uncovered.\\ {{anchor:s362}}Shunning open air.\\ {{anchor:s363}}Outdoors: irritation to cough; overexcitement of entire nervous system.\\ {{anchor:s364}}In open air: headache agg.; headache disappears; sees more clearly; crackling noise in head; diarrhea from taking cold; hypersensitiveness of sexual organs agg.; irritation to cough, with coryza agg.\\ {{anchor:s365}}Fresh air: fear of.\\ {{anchor:s366}}Cold air: dread of: sore throat agg. from; chilliness and shivering from least exposure to.\\ {{anchor:s367}}Liability to take cold from least change.\\ {{anchor:s368}}Cold: great sensitiveness to; prosopalgia from; pain in limbs from.\\ {{anchor:s369}}From bath: spasmus glottidis agg.\\ {{anchor:s370}}Cold water: toothache amel. from; neuralgic toothache entirely amel. by; hypersensitiveness of sexual organs amel. from.\\ {{anchor:s371}}Ice: painful teeth amel. by contact with. ====== FEVER. [40] ====== {{anchor:s373}}Coldness and chilliness running all through limbs.\\ {{anchor:s374}}Chills running down back.\\ {{anchor:s375}}Chill increased by exercise or motion.\\ {{anchor:s376}}Chilliness and shivering from least exposure to cold air; cannot get warm, hands and feet cold, on account of easy perspiration; chills ascend from fingers and toes to nape of neck and thence to vertex.\\ {{anchor:s377}}Chill without thirst.\\ {{anchor:s378}}Internal shivering, or inward chills, with external heat of face or whole body.\\ {{anchor:s379}}Chilly feelings, with internal and external warmth.\\ {{anchor:s380}}Cold, followed by pain and a desire to weep.\\ {{anchor:s381}}Great sensitiveness to cold.\\ {{anchor:s382}}Flushes of heat or currents of cold air down back.\\ {{anchor:s383}}Flushes of heat and transitory flushes in face.\\ {{anchor:s384}}External heat, with shivering in back, in evening after lying down.\\ {{anchor:s385}}Dry heat in evening after going to bed, with chilliness in back.\\ {{anchor:s386}}Child feverish for want of sleep.\\ {{anchor:s387}}Feeling of heat when in bed, yet avoids being uncovered.\\ {{anchor:s388}}Dry heat at night, with delirium.\\ {{anchor:s389}}Feverish with pain and always ready to weep.\\ {{anchor:s390}}Heat with thirst.\\ {{anchor:s391}}Heat in face, with red cheeks after eating.\\ {{anchor:s392}}One cheek hot and red, with constant shuddering.\\ {{anchor:s393}}External dry heat of skin and dry warmth of face.\\ {{anchor:s394}}Hot flushes to face, hot cheeks and delirium.\\ {{anchor:s395}}Fever is not violent, but nerves are irritated, with sleeplessness.\\ {{anchor:s396}}Even with mild fever patient is very nervous and sensitive.\\ {{anchor:s397}}Much fever, with shining redness of face. {{anchor:s398}}~ Metrorrhagia.\\ {{anchor:s399}}Cold, clammy perspiration over body, but chiefly in palms of hands.\\ {{anchor:s400}}Sweat occasionally follows heat.\\ {{anchor:s401}}Slight morning sweat.\\ {{anchor:s402}}Perspiration of affected parts.\\ {{anchor:s403}}Sweat with thirst.\\ {{anchor:s404}}General sweat over whole body, most on palms of hands and in face, with internal shivering.\\ {{anchor:s405}}Perspiration slight, mostly in face, with internal shivering.\\ {{anchor:s406}}Ague, paroxysms every fourth day, two well days intervening.\\ {{anchor:s407}}Intermittent.\\ {{anchor:s408}}Traumatic fever. ====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ====== {{anchor:s410}}Spasmodic: eructations; contraction of sphincter ani; contraction of larynx; cough.\\ {{anchor:s411}}Occasional: general faint feeling.\\ {{anchor:s412}}Transitory: flushes in face.\\ {{anchor:s413}}Frequent: profuse micturition; short, dry cough.\\ {{anchor:s414}}Constant: desire to swallow; thirst, after heat and during sweat; sickness at stomach with headache; inclination to vomit, felt in throat; pinching pain in iliac region; alternation of constipation and diarrhea; whining, crying, lamenting; desire to move, with asthma; inclination to cough; cough, jerking and twitching of arms and hands; shuddering.\\ {{anchor:s415}}Several times during day, child gasps for breath, then more frequently and finally three or four times every hour.\\ {{anchor:s416}}Lasting several hours: attacks of crural neuralgia.\\ {{anchor:s417}}Intermittent: aching in teeth.\\ {{anchor:s418}}Every fourth day: paroxysms of ague. ====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ====== {{anchor:s420}}Right: prosopalgia extending to molar teeth.\\ {{anchor:s421}}Left: stinging pain in locality of amativeness; buzzing in ear as of a swarm of bees; crural neuralgia of limb.\\ {{anchor:s422}}From without inward: as if a nail was being driven into head.\\ {{anchor:s423}}From above downward: pains extend from face down arms, even to finger ends; chills running down back. ====== SENSATIONS. [43] ====== {{anchor:s425}}As of something hard pressing on surface of brain; as if whole brain was torn and bruised, or dashed to pieces; as if head was small and filled with fluid; as if head would burst, or fly to pieces if she moved; as if a nail was driven into head; as of a swarm of bees in left ear; as of a plug or phlegm in throat; as if stomach had been overloaded, with colic; as if abdomen would burst; as if intestines were being cut; as if larynx was covered with dry mucus; as of constriction of larynx; as if body would burst, with feeling of fullness and pressure.\\ {{anchor:s426}}Pain: in groins; from side of palate into esophagus; in throat and head, constantly increasing; in small of back with ineffectual labor pains; from face down arms, even to finger ends; in limbs.\\ {{anchor:s427}}Stitching pains: with crural neuralgia; in sides.\\ {{anchor:s428}}Stinging: in locality of amativeness on left side; toothache; on skin.\\ {{anchor:s429}}Shooting pains: of sciatic or crural neuralgia.\\ {{anchor:s430}}Jerking: toothache.\\ {{anchor:s431}}Tearing pains: with crural neuralgia; in flesh and cellular tissue, rather than in bones; in parts between articulations themselves.\\ {{anchor:s432}}Rending pain: of sciatic or crural neuralgia.\\ {{anchor:s433}}Burning: in stomach; in eyes; eructations; in anus.\\ {{anchor:s434}}Smarting: on skin.\\ {{anchor:s435}}Soreness: of throat.\\ {{anchor:s436}}Rawness: in larynx; in trachea.\\ {{anchor:s437}}Roughness: in larynx.\\ {{anchor:s438}}Pinching: in iliac region.\\ {{anchor:s439}}Whirling: in head.\\ {{anchor:s440}}Pressure: in epigastrium; in abdomen, as from incarcerated flatulence; on bladder.\\ {{anchor:s441}}Bearing down: in genitals.\\ {{anchor:s442}}Cramps: in stomach; in abdomen during menstrual period, or at the beginning; extending into chest.\\ {{anchor:s443}}Constriction: of chest; of larynx.\\ {{anchor:s444}}Bruised pain: in internal parts.\\ {{anchor:s445}}Anguish: in epigastrium.\\ {{anchor:s446}}Aching: in teeth.\\ {{anchor:s447}}Laming pain: in small of back.\\ {{anchor:s448}}Oppression: of chest.\\ {{anchor:s449}}Tension: of epigastric region.\\ {{anchor:s450}}Crackling: in vertex; in head (one side), synchronous with pulse.\\ {{anchor:s451}}Throbbing: in temples; toothache.\\ {{anchor:s452}}Dizzy confusion: of head.\\ {{anchor:s453}}Confusion: of senses.\\ {{anchor:s454}}Heaviness: of head, particularly in forehead over eyes.\\ {{anchor:s455}}Dryness: of mouth; of skin.\\ {{anchor:s456}}Sensation of warmth.\\ {{anchor:s457}}Coldness: of limbs, hands and feet; of body; running all through limbs.\\ {{anchor:s458}}Itching: in anus; of sexual organs; all over, changing to burning. ====== TISSUES. [44] ====== {{anchor:s460}}Great sensitiveness and pain of affected parts.\\ {{anchor:s461}}Increased mobility of muscles, or muscles rigid.\\ {{anchor:s462}}Tearing pains in flesh and cellular tissue, rather than in bones; in parts between articulations themselves.\\ {{anchor:s463}}Extreme emaciation. {{anchor:s464}}~ Summer complaint of children.\\ {{anchor:s465}}Affections after sudden emotions, particularly pleasant surprises.\\ {{anchor:s466}}Bad effects from wine drinking. ====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ====== {{anchor:s470}}Touch: epigastric region sensitive to; inflammation induced by excessive joy, she is very sensitive to.\\ {{anchor:s471}}Very sensitive to contact.\\ {{anchor:s472}}Cannot suffer clothes to be tight on abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s473}}Intolerance of all manipulations, which cause great agitation, interfering with treatment.\\ {{anchor:s474}}Pressure: crural neuralgia amel. by; at point of exit of nerve agg. crural neuralgia.\\ {{anchor:s475}}Would like to scratch or rub the part, but it is too sensitive.\\ {{anchor:s476}}Slight passive motions (rocking, etc.) startle him; are perceived as enormous.\\ {{anchor:s477}}Children at times cannot bear to be carried about. ====== SKIN. [46] ====== {{anchor:s479}}Dryness of skin, but not in febrile diseases.\\ {{anchor:s480}}Excessive sensitiveness of skin.\\ {{anchor:s481}}Hot skin.\\ {{anchor:s482}}Itching all over changes to burning.\\ {{anchor:s483}}Stinging and smarting on skin.\\ {{anchor:s484}}Eruptions with overexcitability and weeping.\\ {{anchor:s485}}Purple miliary eruptions all over.\\ {{anchor:s486}}Measly spots on skin with dry heat at night; overexcitability and weeping.\\ {{anchor:s487}}Measles: frequent, short and dry cough, hoarse when crying; skin and all senses oversensitive; spasmodic motions, trembling, grinding of teeth; overwakefullness with heat and sweat in face.\\ {{anchor:s488}}Measles, with overexcitability and weeping.\\ {{anchor:s489}}Scarlet rash, with overwhelming pains and lamenting mood.\\ {{anchor:s490}}Scarlet fever; may aid in bringing out the eruption in cases of extreme wakefullness and nervous excitement.\\ {{anchor:s491}}Varicella; smallpox. ====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ====== {{anchor:s493}}Tall, lean, stooping persons, with dark complexions.\\ {{anchor:s494}}Coffee should be used by wine drinkers.\\ {{anchor:s495}}Weakly and excitable children.\\ {{anchor:s496}}Suitable to sensitive persons, and if the symptoms caused by fright do not yield to Acon.\\ {{anchor:s497}}Suitable to children for great restlessness, tossing about, nervousness, screams and weeping.\\ {{anchor:s498}}Sanguine choleric temperament.\\ {{anchor:s499}}Complaints during infancy and dentition.\\ {{anchor:s500}}Coffee drinkers are hard to cure of ague.\\ {{anchor:s501}}MG., aet. 20 weeks, father subject to attacks of hoarseness; spasmus glottidis.\\ {{anchor:s502}}Boy, aet. 5, broken thigh; traumatic shock.\\ {{anchor:s503}}Young girl; convulsions.\\ {{anchor:s504}}Woman, aet. 25, easy labor two years ago; ineffectual labor pains.\\ {{anchor:s505}}Mother of five children, aet. 28, well built, black hair and eyes, red cheeks, menses regular; metrorrhagia.\\ {{anchor:s506}}Mother of five children; ineffectual labor pains.\\ {{anchor:s507}}Lady unaccustomed to the use of coffee; toothache.\\ {{anchor:s508}}ES., aet. 32; ague of eighteen months standing, contracted in army.\\ {{anchor:s509}}Landlady, aet. 45, using coffee two or three times a day; diarrhea.\\ {{anchor:s510}}Married woman, aet. 50; sleeplessness. ====== RELATIONS. [48] ====== {{anchor:s512}}Antidoted by: Acon., Chamom., Ignat., Mercur., Nux vom., Pulsat., Sulphur.\\ {{anchor:s513}}It antidotes: Bellad., Chamom., Cicuta, Coloc., Nux vom., Strychnia, Valer. {{anchor:s514}}(See antidotal relations under Coffea tosta).\\ {{anchor:s515}}Compatible: Acon. (after Coffea in ineffectual labor pains); Ignat. (tenderness after Coffea relieved toothache); after Thea (sleeplessness); after Chamom. (belly-pains and diarrhea in teething children); Sulphur (nervous erethism caused by coffee).\\ {{anchor:s516}}Incompatible: Canthar., Caustic., Coccul., Ignat.\\ {{anchor:s517}}Compare: Acon., Agar., Arsen., Bellad., Canthar., Caustic., Chamom., Coca, Coccul., Ignat, Mercur., Natr. mur., Nux vom., Opium, Pulsat., Sepia, Sulphur, Thea. ---- ====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ====== ^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 04, 1884 | ^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r114|Coffea cruda]] | ^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r114|Coffea cruda]] | ^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. | ^ Year: | 1884 | ^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting | ^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}