Coffea Cruda coff.

NERVES; cardiac. CIRCULATION. Sex organs. Women.

NOISE. Touch. Odors. Air (Open. Cold. Windy). Mental: Emotions. Exertion. Overeating. Alcohol. Night.

Lying. Sleep. Warmth.

Emotions cause severe symptoms. EXITABLE AND OVERACTIVE. OVERSENSITIVE; to noise, it may even be painful (Ther.); to pain, pleasure, etc.

Irritable and wakeful. Resents sympathy. Rushing ideas. Weeps, laments and tosses about. Now joyous, now gloomy. Faints easily. Brain seems torn, shattered or crushed. Clavus. Bright eyes. Acute hearing; overhears distant sounds. Faceache (r). Toothache; > ice water, < as it warms; pains into finger-tips; during menses. Stomach feels overloaded. Hot, itching genitals. After-pains. Cough incessant; of measles. Nervous palpitation; < sun heat. Trembling hands. Painfully sensitive skin. Itching scratches until it bleeds. NERVOUS SLEEPLESSNESS; from rush of ideas; awakes at or hears every sound; after pleasurable excitement.

Complementary: Aco. Related: Coca. Ign. Antidotes: Cham. Ign. Nux-v.

Tall, lean, stooping persons, dark complexion, sanguine choleric temperament. Oversensitiveness; all the senses more acute, sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch (Bell., Cham., Opium). Unusual activity of mind and body. Full of ideas; quick to act, no sleep on this account. Ailments: the bad effects of sudden emotions or pleasurable surprises (Caust. - exciting or bad news, Gels.); weeping from delight; alternate laughing and weeping. Pains are felt intensely; seem almost insupportable, driving patient to despair (Acon., Cham.); tossing about in anguish. Sleepless, wide-awake condition; impossible to close the eyes; physical excitement through mental exaltation. (Compare, Senecio, for sleeplessness form prolapsus, uterine irritation, during climacteric.). Headache: from over-mental exertion, thinking, talking; one-sided, as from a nail driven into the brain (Ign., Nux); as if brain were torn or dashed to pieces; worse in open air. Hasty eating and drinking (Bell., Hep.). Toothache: intermittent, jerking, relieved by holding ice-water in the mouth, but returns when water becomes warm (Bis., Bry., Puls., Caust., Sep., Nat. s.).

Compare: Acon., Cham., Ign., Sulph. Incompatible: Canth., Caust., Coc., Ign.

Sudden mental emotion; excessive joy; cold, open air; narcotic medicines.

This is one of the best remedies for mental irritability. Five remedies have mental irritability in a marked degree.

Acon., irritability, fearful and anxious; dreads things.

Aurum, irritability, suicidal, will thrash around in bed (as females in confinement) as if wishing to injure or kill themselves.

Chamom, irritability, spiteful and uncivil.

Coffea, irritability, wakeful, on the constant move.

Nux vom., irritability, sullen, keeps the eyes shut, doesn't wish to speak or have anything to do with any one.

Great gaiety; mental irritability; easy comprehension; excitement of the intellect; nervous excitement; excessive irritability of the body.

Hearing sensitive; acute hearing. Delicate taste. Aversion to the open air. Pain as if from rending; tight pain. Sensation of warmth. Very severe after-pains, or labor pains.

Sleeplessness in general: after midnight; complaints causing sleeplessness; sleepless after labor. Remarkable wakefulness under any circumstances; from drinking coffee.

From excessive joy; from narcotic medicines; from noise; from strong smells.

Aurum, Bellad., Opium, Nux vom., Lycop.

Nux vom.

Great mental activity, full of ideas, quick to act, no sleep on this account. Pains seem insupportable, driving to despair. All senses more acute, read fine print easier, bearing, smell, taste, and touch acute, particularly increased perception of slight passive motions. One-sided headache as from a nail driven into the parietal bone, worse in the open air. Ice, or ice-cold water is the only thing lessening his violent toothache, so long as touching it. Would like to scratch or rub the part, but it is too sensitive. In nervous persons, chill worse on movement, external dry beat, internal chilliness. Sleepless from excessive mental and physical excitement. Measly spots on the skin, with dry heat, over excitability and. weeping. Affections after sudden emotions, particularly sudden pleasurable surprises.

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.

Gaiety, easy comprehension, irritability, excited; senses acute. Impressionable, especially to pleasurable impressions. Full of ideas, quick to act. Tossing about in anguish (Acon).

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.

Dry heat, with red cheeks. Prosopalgia extending to molar teeth, ears, forehead, and scalp.

Toothache; temporarily relieved by holding ice-water in the mouth (Mangan opposite). Hasty eating and drinking. Delicate taste.

Excessive hunger. Intolerance of tight clothing. After wine and liquor.

Menses too early and long lasting. Dysmenorrhœa, large clots of black blood. Hypersensitive vulva and vagina. Voluptuous itching.

Wakeful; on a constant move. Sleeps till 3 am, 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.

Short, dry cough of measles in nervous, delicate children.

Violent irregular palpitation especially after excessive joy or surprise. Rapid high tension pulse and urinary suppression.

Crural neuralgia; worse, motion, afternoon and night; better, by pressure.

Worse, excessive emotions (joy), narcotics, strong odors, noise, open air, cold, night. Better, warmth, from lying down; holding ice in mouth.

Incompatible: Camph; Coccul. Complementary: Acon.

Compare: Coffea tosta (Roasting develops certain vitamin-like substances (P. T. Mattei). Pigeons which have developed "deficiency" neuritis and paralysis on diet of polished rice lost their disabilities on the addition of 8 cc to a 5 % infusion of coffee to their food. Unroasted coffee was useless). Caffeine.--(A crystalline alkaloid-is a direct heart stimulant and diuretic. Dropsy depending on cardiac insufficiency. Myocardial degeneration. Cardiac insufficiency in pneumonia and other infectious diseases. Raises the blood pressure, increases pulse rate and stimulates the heart muscle; hence, a support in extreme feebleness or threatened failure. Stimulates the respiratory center, nerve centers and increases diuresis. One of the best stimulants of the vaso-motor centers. Acute pulmonary œdema. Brachialgia and other neuralgias characterized by nocturnal exacerbations. Jousset uses equal parts of caffeine and sachar lac. 3 grains taken in divided doses every other day. Hypodermically, 1/4 grain. Excruciating facial neuralgia from decayed teeth); Acon; Cham; Nux; Cyp; Caffeine and plants containing it, as Kola, Thea, etc.

Strong black coffee, drunk as hot as possible, is indispensable as an antidote in a large number of poisons, especially narcotics. Hot coffee by rectum in cases of extreme collapse.

Antidotes: Nux; Tabac.

Third to two hundredth potency.

All senses more acute; reads fine print easier; smell, taste and touch acute; unusual activity of mind and body; full of ideas, quick to act, no sleep on this account etc.

Affections from sudden surprises, especially joyful surprises; very emotional.

Pains insupportable, drive to despair; exasperation, tears, tossing about in agony; great sleeplessness.

Headache, from over-mental exertion, thinking, talking; one-sided, as from a nail driven into the brain (Ign., Nux); as if the brain were torn or dashed to pieces; < in open air.

Jerking toothache; relieved by holding ice water in the mouth; returns when water becomes warm.

Coffea cruda, like Chamomilla, acts strongly upon the nervous system. Indeed in nervous troubles, where the patient has not been addicted to the coffee habit, it often takes precedence.

If on the other hand he is a coffee drinker, Chamomilla is the remedy. Doctor Teste, of Paris, used to say that coffee was responsible for a large proportion of the neuralgias of France. The Coffea patient is a subject of very great general exalted sensibility. See Hering's characteristic cards. "All the senses more acute, reads fine print easier, smell, taste and touch acute, particularly also in increased perception of slight passive motions." "Unusual activity of mind and body." "Full of ideas, quick to act, no sleep on this account." "Lively fancies, full of plans for the future." These symptoms portray, as plainly as words can, the nervous conditions calling for this remedy.

It makes one think of Chamomilla, but the mind of Chamomilla is not there. On the other hand, it makes one think of Aconite, but the fear of death is not there. Hering used to recommend Aconite and Coffea in alternation in painful inflammatory affections, where the fever symptoms of the former and also the nervous sensibility of the latter were present, and I know of no two remedies that alternate better, though I never do it, since I learned to closely individualize. Coffea is especially adapted to mental shocks, such as sudden surprises, especially joyful surprises, excessive laughter and playing, disappointed love, noises, strong smells, etc. It is also adapted to variable moods; first crying then laughing, then crying again.

Coffea also vies with Chamomilla and Aconite as a pain remedy. "Pains. insupportable, drive to despair." "Exasperation, tears, tossing about in great anguish." Here again we would not give Coffea in an habitual coffee drinker, but Chamomilla rather.

The particular localities where these pains mostly occur are in the head, where the pain is generally one-sided, feeling "as though a nail were driven into the head." Ignatia has a similar headache, and it generally occurs in hysterical subjects. Then choice may have to be made between these two remedies.

Prosopalgia, which is often traceable to bad teeth, and Coffea has a very peculiar toothache, in the fact that the tooth is easy as long as he holds cold water upon it. Remember Chamomilla toothache is often caused by taking, warm things into the mouth, but is not relieved by taking cold things like Coffea.

Dysmenorrhœa, with excessively painful colic. If there are large black clots and Coffea does not relieve, follow with Chamomilla. Pains threatening abortion, or after-pains, or very severe unbearable labor pains are often relieved by this remedy. In short, for pains anywhere, which seem intolerable, and there are no other especially leading symptoms, Coffea is to be remembered.

The same over-excitability, so characteristic of this drug, causes great sleeplessness, and Coffea has won to itself great credit as a sleep remedy. In my experience and observation, it works best here in the 200th potency. And there is no more beautiful verification of the truth of Similia than just here, for it causes great sleeplessness in many people when taken in large quantities. Cough and sleeplessness after measles (a very common occurrence) is wonderfully relieved by it, and it is sleep, not narcosis, and never injures or sickens the patient like the stupor of the opium preparations.

Over-sensitiveness ; weeping mood. Great anguish ; cannot be composed ; is not able to hold the pen ; trembles. Sentimental ecstasy ; excited imagination ; increased power to think. Excessive weeping and lamentations over trifles. The pains seem insupportable, driving to despair. Fright from sudden pleasant surprises.

Congestion of blood to the bead, especially after a pleasant surprise. Headache, as if the brain were torn or dashed to pieces. In the vertex he feels and hears a cracking, when sitting quietly. One-sided headache, as from a nail driven into the head ; worse when walking in the open air.

Eyes look reddish ; the power of vision is increased ; can read small writing more distinctly.

Music has a shrill sound to the ears. Sense of hearing more acute.

The sense of smell is more acute. Bleeding from the nose.

Dry heat in the face, with red cheeks.

Toothache, with restlessness, anguish and weeping mood, especially at night and after a meal. Toothache, relieved by cold water. Swelling and painfulness of the throat ; worse when swallowing.

Increased hunger, with rapid, hurried eating. Nightly thirst, which wakens him. Taste more acute. Sweetish taste in the mouth.

Colic, as if the stomach had been overloaded, as if the abdomen would burst ; cannot suffer the clothes to be tight on the abdomen. Pressure in the abdomen as from incarcerated flatulence.

Diarrhœa, during dentition.

Emission of large quantity of urine (midnight).

Men. The sexual organs are very much excited without emission of semen, and with dry heat of the body. Women. Labor and after-pains insupportably painful.

Oppression of the chest, obliged to take short inspirations ; the breathing heaves the chest visibly. Short, dry cough, as from constriction of the larynx. Night cough (cough with measles).

The pains are felt intensely, driving to despair, and inclination to weep. He feels unusually well. Twitching of the limbs. Great movability of all the muscles.

Sleeplessness, from over-excitability of mind and body (sleeplessness of lying-in women).

Chilliness, increased by every movement. Internal chilliness, with external heat of the bee and body. Chills running down the back. Dry heat in the evening after going to bed, with chilliness in the back. Nightly, dry heat, with delirium. Perspiration on the face, with internal chilliness.

Eruptions (measles), with over-excitability and weeping.

Bad effects from sudden, pleasurable surprise. Aversion to the open air, which aggravates the symptoms. Bad effects from wine-drinking, taking cold, and excessive exaltation. Amelioration by cold water (odontalgia).

Coffee. N. O. Rubiaciæ. Tincture of raw berries.

Apoplexy. Asthma. Aural neuralgia. Colic. Convulsions. Diarrhœa. Ecstasy. Excitement . Headache. Heart, hyperæsthesia of. Hernia. Hyperæsthesia. Hysteria. Intermittents. Joy, ill-effects of . Labour pains. Metrorrhagia. Neuralgia. Over-sensitiveness. Sciatica. Shock. Sleeplessness. Toothache.

The effects of Coffea cruda have to be considered separately from those of Coffea tosta , since the roasting converts much of the Coffeine into Coffeone or Methylamine, which gives to coffee its aroma. But the effects are scarcely distinguishable, and I have not attempted to keep them strictly apart. The provings of Coff. c . were made with the raw berries. Coffea belongs to the same family as China, Ipecacuanha , and like these remedies has many symptoms of intermittent fever. It has been noticed that coffee-drinkers who do get ague are more difficult to cure than those who do not drink coffee. The great characteristic of Coffea is exaltation of the senses and sensibility in general. Sight is improved, fine print can be read easily; hearing is more acute, and noises are intolerable. The sense of smell is heightened. All kinds of pains are intolerable; and are accompanied with fear of death. The mental activities are exalted. Sudden emotions, especially joy, produce dangerous symptoms. Great sensitiveness to touch or contact. These symptoms will recall Acon . Guernsey places it in the front rank of remedies for irritability. He compares four others with it, all of which have irritability in high degree, but have different concomitants: Acon ., "fearful and anxious; dreads things"; Aur ., "suicidal, will thrash around in bed (as females in confinement) as if wishing to injure or kill themselves"; Cham ., "spiteful, uncivil"; Coff ., "wakeful, on the constant move"; Nux v ., "sullen, keeps the eyes shut; doesn't wish to speak or have anything to do with any one." Staph . and Coloc . deserve mention also. Teste groups Coff . with Causticum . He remarks that dynamised Coff. crud . prevents or neutralises, in many persons, the effects of roasted coffee. This quasi-isopathic action, as Teste truly remarks, is by no means confined to Coffea ; dynamisations of many other drugs being antidotal to secondary effects of the crude substances. Hahnemann describes the migraine of coffee-drinkers thus: "It comes in the morning after waking, increasing little by little. The pain becomes intolerable, and sometimes burning, integument of head very sensitive and painful on slightest touch. Body and mind excessively sensitive. Patients look exhausted, retire to dark places, close their eyes to avoid light of day; remain seated in an armchair or stretched on a bed. The least noise or motion excites the pain. They avoid talking, being talked to, or hearing others talk. The body is colder than usual though no chills are experienced; the hands and feet are especially cold. They loathe everything, especially food and drink, on account of a continual sickness at the stomach. If the attack is very violent a vomiting of mucus takes place, which, however, does not relieve the headache. There are no alvine discharges. This kind of megrim scarcely ever leaves before evening. If the paroxysm is less violent, a little strong coffee which was the first cause of such a headache will produce a temporary palliation of the pain, but the disposition to relapse becomes so much greater. The attacks come irregularly, every fortnight, or every few weeks, without any apparent cause, and quite suddenly, so much so that the patient often does not feel a single unpleasant symptom the evening preceding the attack. Such a headache has never been seen by me except in real coffee-drinkers." It is well to inquire carefully into the dietary of patients who come complaining of headaches of this kind. More recently Dr. Gilles de la Tourette ( Lancet , July 20, 1895) has described the effects of coffee. In his opinion they are very frequently mistaken for the effects of alcohol: "morning vomiting of glairy mucus, pain in the pit of the stomach, thickly-coated tongue, loss of appetite. The disgust excited by even the idea of solid food is such that these patients eat nothing else but bread soaked in their poison-coffee. There supervene then nausea, vomiting, and painful acid eructations." The pulse is slowed. Insomnia is common, and if there is sleep it is disturbed by dreams of a terrifying nature, like those met with in alcoholism. The effects of coffee are less deep than those of alcohol, and quickly disappear when the habit is discontinued. Peculiar symptoms are: as if head too small; as if something hard pressing on surface of brain; as if head would burst and fly to pieces if she moved; as if intestines were being cut; as if body would burst; "tight" pain; sensation of warmth. Coffea is suited to tall, lean, stooping persons, with dark complexions. Sanguine choleric temperament, complaints during infancy and dentition. Diarrhœa in housewives who have much care and trouble in managing their households. The symptoms are > by warmth, and < in open air (though in toothache warm drinks < , cold drinks > ). Touch < ; would like to rub the part but it is too sensitive. Slight passive movements are perceived as enormous; children at times cannot bear to be carried about. Most symptoms are < at night, sleeps till 3 a.m., after which he only dozes.

Antidoted by: Acon., Cham., Ignat., Nux, Merc., Puls., Sulph., and especially Tabac. (Teste). Antidote to: Bell., Cham., Cicut., Coloc., Lyc., Nux v., Strych., Valer. It is incompatible with: Canth., Caust., Coccul., Ignat. Followed well by: Aur., Bell., Op., Nux v., Lyc. Compare: Cypr. (ecstasy); Bry. and Cham. (toothache > by cold); Aco. (predicts hour of death); Coca, Codein, Coff. tost.

Effects of sudden emotion, especially pleasurable ones. Fear or fright. Wine (wine-drinkers should take coffee; beer-drinkers should take tea). Over-fatigue and long journeys.

Over-sensitiveness; weeping mood. — Great anguish; cannot be composed; is not able to hold the pen; trembles. — Sentimental ecstasy; excited imagination; increased power to think. — Excessive weeping and lamentations over trifles. — The pains seem insupportable, driving to despair. — Fright from sudden pleasant surprises.

Pains in the head, as if the brain were bruised (as if the brain were torn or dashed to pieces). — Semi-lateral cephalalgia, as if a nail were driven into the parietal bone. — In the vertex he feels and hears a cracking, when sitting quietly. — Heaviness of the head. — Congestion in the head, esp. when speaking (or after a pleasant surprise).

Eyes lively and red, with unusually clear sight; can read small writing more distinctly.

Excessive sensibility of hearing. — Musical sounds seem to be too loud, and too sharp. — Hardness of hearing, with buzzing in the ears.

Epistaxis, with heaviness of the head. — The sense of smell is more acute.

Heat of the face, with redness of the cheeks.

Successive pullings, and sharp pains in the teeth, with inquietude, anxiety and tears, esp. at night and after a meal. — Toothache, > by cold water.

Sore throat; with great and painful sensibility, and swelling of the velum palati; < when swallowing.

Taste of hazel nuts, or sweet almonds, in the mouth. — Tobacco-smoke appears particularly agreeable. — Sensation of immoderate hunger, with rapid, hurried eating. — Thirst increased, esp. at night, it wakens him. — Bilious vomiting. — Cramps in the stomach, with pressive, shooting pains.

Anxiety and oppression in the region of the epigastrium. — The clothes are oppressive. — Colic, as if the stomach had been overloaded, as if the abdomen would burst; cannot suffer the clothes to be tight on the abdomen. — Pressure in the abdomen as from incarcerated flatulence. — Abdominal pains which induce despair, esp. in women.

Fæces soft, with frequent evacuation. — Diarrhœa, also during dentition.

Abundant emission of urine, esp. towards midnight.

Great excitement of sexual desire, with flaccidity or strong irritation of the genital parts; without emission of semen, and with dry heat of the body.

Immoderate irritation of the sexual parts of females, with voluptuous itching, great secretion of mucus, and frequent flow of blood. — Metrorrhagia. — Labour and after-pains insupportably painful.

17, 18. Respiratory Organs and Chest. — Short, jerking, dry cough, with great irritation in the larynx, and anxious tossings. — Oppression of the chest; obliged to take short inspirations; the breathing heaves the chest visibly. — Night cough (cough with measles). — Fits of suffocation.

Palpitation of heart; violent, irregular, with trembling of limbs. — Nervous palpitation. — Palpitation after excessive joy, surprise.

Trembling of the hands, while grasping anything. — Cramp-like contractions of the fingers.

Cramps in the calf of the leg, on bending the knee. — Cramps in the soles of the feet on bending the instep. — Trembling of the feet.

Painful sensitiveness of the parts affected. — Great flexibility of the muscles, and activity of the whole body. — Mental and physical excitability. — Aversion to the open air, with uneasiness and aggravation of the symptoms during a walk in the open air. — Twitching of the limbs. — Convulsions, with grinding of the teeth, and coldness in the limbs. — Violent shivering, with feverish increase of bodily heat. — Fever with inconsolable anguish. — Shuddering with colic and violent agitation. — The pains are felt intensely, driving to despair, and inclination to weep. — Tears, howls, cries, tossing and discouragement, esp. during the paroxysm of pain. — Cries of children. — Anxiety of heart and of conscience, with apprehensions. — He feels unusually well. — Vivacity and excessive loquacity. — Vivacity and elevation of the imagination, with acuteness of the intellectual faculties.

Eruptions (measles), with over excitability and weeping.

Sleeplessness, from over-excitability of mind and body (sleeplessness of lying-in women). — Sleeplessness from excitement of the imagination, flow of ideas, and fantastic visions. — Inclination to lie down and to shut the eyes, without being able to sleep.

Chilliness increased by every movement. — Internal chilliness, with external heat of the face and body. — Chills running down the back. — Dry heat in the evening after going to bed, with chilliness in the back. — Nightly, dry heat, with delirium. — Perspiration on the face, with internal chilliness.

Memory active, easy comprehension ; increased power to think.
Unusual activity of mind and body.
Sentimental ecstasy ; excited imagination.
Full of ideas ; quick to act, no sleep on this account.
Lively fancies : full of plans for the future.
Delirium at night, with dry heat.
Delirium tremens : unsteady running about ; imagines he is not at home, with trembling of hands ; small, frequent pulse.
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.
Answers short, not disposed to talk, or endless volubility when describing his ailments.
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.
Weeping mood.
Weeping and complaining, with fear of death ; thinks that she will die. θ Metrorrhagia.
Excessive weeping and lamentations over trifles.
Whining and moaning ; much crying.
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.
Throws things about, away, down, etc.
Cheerfulness ; lively temper ; mirthful.
Depression of spirits.
Weeping, complaining, disheartened mood, anxiety of mind and conscience filled with many fears. θ Hysteria.
Fear of death. θ Asthma.
Metrorrhagia, large black lumps, < from every motion, violent pain in groins, fever, bright red face ; in greatest despair, believes herself dying.
Fright from sudden pleasant surprises.
Pains unbearable, feels discouraged, cries and throws himself about ; fear of fresh air and of least noise ; excessive weeping and lamentations over trifles.
Great anguish ; cannot be composed ; is not able to hold the pen ; trembles.
Exasperation, tears ; tossing about in great anguish.
Pains seem insupportable, driving to despair.
Irritability ; oversensitive disposition.
Fretful mood, alternately merry or whining.
Child frets and worries in an innocent manner ; is not cross, but sleepless ; it laughs one moment and cries the next.
Mental excitability.
Feels < when hurried.
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.
Weeping from uncontrollable delight. θ After parturition.
Affections after sudden emotions, particularly pleasant surprises.

Cerebral erethism, with nervousness and palpitation of heart. θ Cardiac hyperesthesia.
Sensorium more vivid, hence increased susceptibility to pain.
All the senses more acute, reads fine print easier, hearing, smell, taste and touch acute, particularly also an increased perception of slight passive motions.
Vertigo : with whirling sensation in head, occasionally a general faint feeling, < by thinking ; with burning in stomach ; with sick headache, > by a change of position or from moderate outdoor exercise ; she cannot stand ; with blackness before
eyes ; when stooping.
Dizzy confusion of head.
Confusion of senses.
Threatening of apoplexy ; overexcited, talkative, full of fear, pangs of conscience, aversion to open air, sleepless, convulsive grinding of teeth.

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This drug is characterized by a general sensitivity. Sensitiveness of vision, of hearing, of smell, of touch; sensitiveness to pain. it is most astonishing sometimes about this great sensitiveness. Pains are increased by noise.

Sensitiveness of hearing is so great that sounds are painful. Pains in the face, toothache, headache; pains in the lower limbs; everywhere aggravated by noise.

All the nervous disturbances possible are found in this medicine, and they are all aggravated by noise. Even the opening of the door and the ringing of the door-bell produces great suffering. Such patients are so sensitive that they hear sounds which those in a state of health cannot hear.

Perhaps no medicine in the Materia Medica approximates this sensitiveness of hearing where it is accompanied with pain, unless it be Nux vom. Those practitioners who do not know this generally resort to Nux vom. for pains aggravated from voices in another room, or from noise or the sound of children.

Many remedies have increase of nervousness from noise; noise aggravates headache, and aggravates suffering about the head, and makes some persons nervous, But pain in the extremities aggravated by noise is peculiar. It seems that the noise disturbs him so that he cannot bear pain.

The Coffea state is brought on by emotions or violent excitement of the mind, but especially by joy or

"pleasant surprise."

The result is sleeplessness, nervous excitement, neuralgia, twitching of muscles, toothache, face ache, red face and hot head.

You may be called to the bedside of a woman who has been laboring for some great cause. She works persistently, is successful, but goes to bed with weeping, delirium, neuralgia, sleeplessness.

Her heart palpitates, her pulse flickers, she has fainting spells, and without Coffea she may die. Coffee drinkers who keep up through some ordeal and then break down are similarly affected.

The Coffea patient is sensitive to wine. A small amount of wine intensifies the nervousness, produces sleeplessness, flushed face, feverishness, great excitement. Not necessarily intoxication, but nervous excitement.

Coffea has a painful sensitiveness of the skin beyond comprehension. I remember one particular case. A woman bad her lower limb out of bed and it was as red as fire down one side. I walked toward it to put my hand on it.

But she said,

"Oh, don't touch it, I can't bear to have it touched; I can't touch it myself."

I asked how long this had been coming on.

She said,

"Ob, it all came on within an hour."

Such a symptom is common in coffee drinkers. There was no fever. Intense stinging, burning pains in the skin with the redness and heat with coarse rash coming on suddenly, leaving just as suddenly. The sensitive part is aggravated by cold air, aggravated by any wind or from fanning, from motion, yet aggravated by warmth. Aggravated from anyone walking across the floor. The woman I referred to scowled when I was walking toward the bed. A number of times I have seen such things relieved within a few minutes by Coffea.

Fainting from sudden emotions. Hysteria, nervousness, weeping. Pitiful weeping from pain trembling and weeping from hurt feelings; the slightest neglect. The greatest mental and physical exhaustion; great restlessness lying awake most of the night.

The wakefulness produced by Coffea is well known, even to the laity. It is taken by nurses to keep them awake nights with their patients. The Coffea patient is quick to act and to think. So full of ideas that she lies awake nights making plans, thinking of a thousand things; utterly unable to banish the thoughts that flood the mind; hears the clocks on the distant steeples, as do Opium, China and Nux vom.

Hears the dogs barking. So great is the brain activity, the mental excitement, that she hears noises that are purely imaginary. Memory active, easy comprehension full of ideas; increased power to think and to debate. Coffea increases the mental capacity. But after a while reaction follows; she becomes stupid and sleepy.

There is no end to the fancies, to the visions. Fanciful visions come before the mind. Recalls things not thought of for years; recalls poetry that was recited in childhood. Eyes brilliant; pupils dilated; face flushed head hot.

With all these nervous states the patient dreads the fresh air. He is extremely sensitive to cold, sensitive to the wind and cold weather. Complaints come on in the cold weather, from the cold air. Pain in the mouth and jaws, better from holding ice-cold water in the mouth.

This applies to toothache and faceache where it is deep in the jaws. Hot head; inflamed condition of the gums. Pain in the teeth; rending, tearing pain in the teeth, brought on from exposure to cold, from emotions, from excitement, from joy; aggravated from motion; ameliorated by ice or ice-cold things; aggravated by warm food.

Cannot drink warm tea, it so intensifies the pain. That is a particular. The particulars contrast with the generals. In one place you may see "better from cold" in black-faced type, but it relates to the face and jaws. Worse from cold is a general. Aversion to cold air, aversion to the open air unless it is very warm and still. Aversion to wind.

"Neuralgic toothache entirely relieved by holding cold water in the mouth, returning as it becomes warm.

Toothache during the menstrual period.

Complaints of anemic children during dentition."

Those nervous, excitable children that talk to the nurse and the mother very rapidly with brilliant eyes, red face, cannot go to sleep. It will quiet the patient and actually favor the growth of the tooth in a painless manner.

That is the description of a nervous child with many nervous brain and mental troubles. This child is extremely sensitive; it takes cold. The routine prescriber gives Belladonna to a child who has hot head, hot face and throbbing carotids, and when it does not help he gives more Belladonna, and increases the size of his dose until the child has a proving.

He makes a Belladonna child, out of it when Coffea would have cured it. In most instances where Belladonna is indicated the child is sluggish and stupid, and would like to sleep. With Coffea there is excitement. The child hears things its mother cannot hear; sees things; imagines things.

Wakes up in fright. Sees this, that and the other thing in the room. Wakes up excited as if it had visions. Looks for things, and finally sees they are not there. Such things are strong features of Coffea.

At times the head is hot, the face is flushed and, the eyes so brilliant that one fears apoplexy. Patients will often tell you that they hear a "noise" in the head, a ringing and roaring in the occiput.

The ear is the one organ capable of registering sounds. But strange to say, the ears are sometimes very deceiving. Roaring in the ears sometimes seems as if it were in the occiput. Sometimes it is accompanied with a sensation of tingling or bubbling in the head.

When patients say,

"I have a roaring in the head,"

you know that means in the car; many times accompanying roaring, ringing in the ears, buzzing in the ears, is a peculiar sensation of vibration in the head that is mistaken by the patient for a sound.

I mention that because the Coffea patient feels a crackling or a bubbling in the occiput. The head feels badly; it feels too small. Headache, as of something pressing hard upon the surface of the brain.

You would naturally suppose there was a pressing because of the congestive state heretofore described.

"Headache as if the whole brain were torn and bruised, or dashed to pieces.

Worse from motion, noise or light."

The eye and the head symptoms are worse from noise and light.

"Headache intolerable.

Head feels small, and as if filled with fluid.

Nervous hysterical headache.

One-sided headache."

There is another head symptom which is quite common. A feeling as if a nail were driven into the head. Coffea headaches are worse from walking, from motion; from the mere moving across the floor, he says he feels a draft of air on his head. And that is true of the pain in any part of the body.

If a Coffea patient should have a pain in the hand, swinging of the hand through the air will aggravate. It is worse both from the motion and from the air. I want to illustrate that in this way in order to show how sensitive he is to air, and especially the painful part to cold air; when he moves against the air, against even still air he feels it. But the amelioration of the toothache from cold is an exception, is a particular.

The neuralgia of the face is a common feature of old coffee drinkers.

Sensitive persons take coffee and finally become habituated to it. They say they cannot get along without it. They must have coffee. Such individuals should stop coffee. When coffee furnishes a crutch it is a sure indication that drinking it must be stopped.

So it is with tea or any beverage. Such persons sometimes become sensitive to coffee, and they drink it in great quantities; the face becomes red; headaches come on, and other symptoms of Coffea. Stopping coffee brings out quite a proving, and you have to study Cham. and Nux for an antidote.

In all these remedies you get opposite effects. Now Opium will illustrate that. The first effect of Opium is to constipate. Let several doses be given, and as the effects of the Opium wear off he may have diarrhea. Opium eaters can seldom stop because a diarrhea comes on. If you should ever have an Opium case and diarrhea comes on Puls. will nearly always control it. But there are individuals who reverse that. Often small doses of Opium will bring on dysentery, and if it is increased, bloody dysentery and inflammation of the bowels come on. Of course, one is action and the other the reaction.

A woman who is a confirmed coffee drinker will have menses too soon and lasting too long.

Uterine hemorrhage is not uncommon. Another feature of Coffea is that the woman can scarcely wear the napkin during menstruation (Platinum).

The parts are in a state of hyperesthesia. The vagina is hot and sensitive, often preventing coition. In the text it reads

"Great sensitiveness of female genital organs, with general excitability.

She is in a state of ecstacy.

Uterine hemorrhage with excessive sensitiveness of organs and voluptuous itching.

Metrorrhagia; large black lumps."

Sometimes large bright red lumps.

"Worse from every motion, with violent pain in the groins, and fear of death."

Excessive sensitiveness about the vulva with voluptuous itching, is a strong feature of Coffea, and you will often find such symptoms in coffee drinkers.

During and after labor we also see this great excitement, all these nervous manifestations. The nervous system is in a fret, and such a mental state as described comes on with after-pains; extremely sensitive to pain, cries out; sees visions; hears all sorts of noises.

Pains aggravated from motion; aggravated from noise. Wants everybody to keep still in the house.

Convulsions of children.

"Puerperal convulsions.

Extreme excitability."

"Palpitation of the heart, pulse fluttering."

"Strong, quick palpitation of the heart with extreme nervousness, sleeplessness and cerebral erethism caused by unexpected news of great good fortune."

Let a woman about to go into confinement hear suddenly some unusually good news and the becomes almost ecstatic; carries the symptom all through confinement. The child is affected, the milk is affected. The milk flows away.

Hemorrhage is likely to come on. Great nervousness, excitability, fear.

Over-sensitiveness; all the senses more acute, sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch (Bell., Cham.,

Opium).

Ailments: the bad effects of sudden emotions or pleasurable surprises (Caust.—exciting or bad news, Gels.); weeping from delight; alternate laughing and weeping.

Pains are felt intensely; seem almost insupportable; driv- ing to despair (Acon., Cham.).

Sleepless, wide-awake condition; ecstacy, full of ideas, no sleep in consequence; physical excitement through mental exaltation.

Headache: from over-mental exertion, thinking, talking; one-sided, as from a nail driven into the brain (Ign., Nux, Ver.); as if the brain were torn or dashed to pieces, < in open air.

Unusual activity of mind and body.

Intermittent, jerking toothache; relieved by holding ice water in the mouth, but returns when water becomes warm (Bry., Caust., Puls., Sep.).

Excessive joy; cold open air; narcotics.

Warmth; during rest; evening until midnight.

Simple; quartan (?).

3 and 8 P. M.; fever usually without chill.

Without thirst. Coldness and chilliness running all through the limbs. Chills running down the back. Chilly feeling, with external and internal warmth (Cinch.). Internal shivering, with external heat of face or whole body. Chills ascend from the fingers and toes to nape of neck, thence to vertex; increased by exercise (relieved by exercise, Caps.). Great sensitiveness to cold (Bar.). Cold hands and feet. Flushes of heat, or currents of cold air down the back. Ecstacy.

With thirst. External, dry heat of the skin. External heat, with thirst, and shivering in the back after lying down at night. Dry heat at night, with hot flushes to the face, hot cheeks, and delirium. Dry warmth of the face. Feeling of heat when in bed, yet avoids being uncovered (Acon.—must uncover, Bell.). One cheek hot and red, with constant shuddering (Cham.). Ecstacy.

With thirst. Morning sweat. General over whole body, most on palms of hands, and in the face, with internal shivering. Extremely sensitive and nervous.

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.

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.

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.

Reddish; increased visual power.
Pupils dilated.

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.

Acute, sensitive smell.
Nosebleed; with heaviness of head and ill humor; during straining at stool.

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.

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.

Taste: more acute; sweetish.

Steady pain from side of palate into œsophagus; constant desire to swallow, from sensation as of plug in throat.
Uvula too long, swollen.
Sore throat, worse from cool air.

Increased hunger, with hurried eating.
Thirst at night wakens him; thirst during the sweat.
Aversion to coffee.

Eats and drinks hastily.
Bad effects from wine or liquor drinking.
After eating: 10. Hot or warm drink: 10. Ice or ice-cold water: 10.

Hiccough, eructations.
Constant inclination to vomit, felt in the throat.

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.

Diarrhœa: watery, painless, all day, from too much care about domestic affairs; during dentition.
Fetid flatus.

Frequent and copious.

Sexual organs much excited without emission of semen, and with dry heat of the body.
Scrotum relaxed.

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.
Leucorrhœa: like mucus, or milky; more while urinating.
Voluptuous itching in the vulva, but parts too sensitive to rub or scratch.

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.

Spasmus glottidis, starts 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.

Oppression of chest; short inspiration; chest heaves visibly.
Asthmatic attacks in morning, wants to move continually.

Short; dry; hacking; spasmodic and dry; at night; during measles.

Palpitation of heart, violent, irregular, with trembling of limbs.
Pulse more frequent, but less vigorous, even small and weak.

Laming pain in small of back, while sitting or standing.

Pains extend from the face down the arms, even to finger ends.

Sciatic or crural neuralgia, in attacks; rending, shooting, increased by walking; relieved by pressure, worse afternoon and night; restless and sleepless at night.

Twitching of the limbs.

Motion: 23. Wants to move: 26. Exercise: 40. Walking: 33. Sitting: 3, 31. Standing: 31.

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.

Sleeplessness: from overexcitement of body or mind.
Quick to act; no sleep on this account.

Morning: 6, 25, 26, 40. Afternoon: 33. Evening: 23, 40. Night: 10, 14, 27, 33, 40. All day: 20.

Hot or warm drink: 10. Ice or ice-cold water: 10. Cold air: 13. Cold: 40. Open air: 2, 3, 6, 27. In-doors: 6. Bath: 25.

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.

Without inwards: 2. Above downward: 32, 40.

Rubbing or scratching: 23. Pressure: 33; of clothes: 19. Chewing: 10. Passive motion: 2.

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.

Antidotes to Coffea: Acon., Chamom., Nux vom., Pulsat.
Coffea antidotes: Chamom., Coloc., Nux vom., Psorin.
Chronic affections from abuse of coffee require; Chamom., Ignat., Mercur., Nux vom., Sulphur.
Inimicals: Canthar., Caustic., Coccul., Ignat.

A tincture is prepared (in a special manner) from the unroasted beans of Coffea Arabica, L.

A general stimulant of cerebral activity.

Nux v., Hyosc., Plat., Zinc.

Excitement, with lightness of all movements. ▶ Lightness of head and of all movements, increased sense of health and vigor. ▶ Pain in whole body so that he had little rest. ▶ Affected by walking in open air, it forces water from his eyes and he becomes weary. ▶ Aversion to open air. ▶ Disinclination for business (Nux v.). ▶ Inclination to lie down and close the eyes without ability or desire to sleep. ▶ Mental and physical exhaustion (Op.). ▶ Weariness on ascending steps. ▶ Dullness of internal sensibility on account of supernatural speculations. ▶ Aggravation when walking in open air.

Neuralgias of various parts of the body, face, abdomen, extremities, etc, always with great nervous excitability, intolerance of pain. ▶ Bad effects of stimulants, alcohol, tea, etc.

Delirium tremens, with trembling of hands, fears, thinks that he is not at home, restlessness, etc. ▶ Extreme activity of mind, the patient is sleepless, great flow of thought, with great acuteness of all senses. ▶ Mental excitability resulting from pleasurable emotions. ▶ Recurring attacks of weeping, with hysterical excitability, tremulousness, etc.

Extremely violent neuralgic headaches, it seems as if the brain were being torn to pieces, the patient is unable to bear the pain; it seems as if a nail were being driven into the head, etc.

Neuralgic toothache with intolerance of the pain, amel. only by holding ice-water in the mouth (Puls.).

Uterine hæmorrhage, extreme sensitiveness of genitals, flow dark, clotted (Plat.). ▶ Useful in after-pains, which are extremely difficulty to tolerate.

Nervous cough, with anxiety, sleeplessness.

Palpitation caused by excitement, surprise, etc.

A most valuable remedy for sleeplessness with nervous excitability, extreme sensitiveness to external impressions and flow of ideas, the patient cannot sleep on account of mental activity.

Irrational talking during the heat, with open eyes, wishing this or that brought to her. ▶ Lively; in evening; lively fancies, full of plans for the future, charmed with the beauties of nature of which he reads. ▶ Ill humor; amel. open air, with sadness and crying aloud; and disinclination to speak; he could throw everything away from him; full of care, lachrymose mood. ▶ Sad on walking in open air, lachrymose, disinclined to all business. ▶ Anxiety and unsteadiness; A., with trembling and inability to hold the pen still. ▶ Vivid flow of ideas. ▶ Unusual activity of mind and body till midnight (Op. in part), then sleep. ▶ Disappearance of thoughts for a moment. ▶ Inattention and loss of memory. ▶ Inability to think clearly. ▶ Does not know what he is reading or has read, without being conscious of foreign thoughts, when he does not read he is beset by a thousand thoughts and remembers the most remote events.

Feeling as if the brain were torn or crushed when walking in open air, amel. in room. ▶ Aching, agg. eating, amel. open air, soon returning in the room; A. as if brain were too full not crushed, after midday nap, agg. occiput; drawing, caused by reflections, with pressure in upper part of forehead. ▶ Tension in brain in morning on waking he avoided opening eyes, it seems on stooping as if the brain fell forward and pressed against temples and forehead. ▶ Confusion; dizzy. ▶ Heaviness, with heat in face; H. and dizziness, with general anxiety, she believes she sill fall. ▶ Rush of blood, agg. talking; rush of blood, with anxious heat and redness of face. ▶ Vertigo on stooping, with blackness before eyes.

On reading, brain feels torn and crushed at frontal eminence, then behind frontal bone. ▶ Compressive pain in forehead in evening. ▶ Confusion of forehead, agg. walking in open air, changing in right temple into sticking-drawing pain. ▶ Pain in temples when walking in cold air, extending to occiput, amel. sitting in the house, again first agg., then amel. going into open air. ▶ Pain in upper part of vertex. ▶ Crackling heard and felt in vertex when sitting still. ▶ Crackling in region of ear, rhythmical with pulse. ▶ Pain as if a nail were driven into one of the parietal bones (Ign. nearly). ▶ Rheumatic drawing in left side of occiput. ▶ Itching of scalp.

Boring in right eye, with dim vision. ▶ Hardened mucus in canthi in forenoon. ▶ In the open air he sees more clearly than before. ▶ Music sounds too loud and shrill, he can bear only the lowest tones of the instrument.

Pain in anterior angle of left nostril; almost burning sore P. in left nostril. ▶ Warmth in left nostril like a coryza, agg. hawking. ▶ Sneezing; in evening in bed and on waking. ▶ Stoppage of nose. ▶ Stopped coryza, with scanty discharge. ▶ Fluent coryza evenings, with sneezing. ▶ Frequent, sudden, watery discharge from nose. ▶ Nosebleed; in morning on rising and at 6 P.M., with heaviness of head and ill humor. ▶ Cheeks red and hot (in an infant), with uneasy sleep. ▶ Drawing in left malar-bone, alternating with tearing in a tooth.

Sticking jerking from above downward into nerves of roots of teeth. ▶ Pain in a back tooth when biting on it; in front teeth on touch and on chewing, as if loose. ▶ Drawing in a hollow left upper back tooth as after taking cold; (D. pain across left upper back teeth, amel. biting jaws together). ▶ Tongue dry in forepart and burning, without thirst, mouth dry in morning in bed, without thirst. ▶ Pain at margin of arches of palate, agg. by swallowing salivation. ▶ Taste bitter; to water; excessively B. to bitter things. ▶ T. as after hazel-nuts. ▶ T. as after sweet almonds. ▶ T. especially pleasant to tobacco, so that he cannot eat much or smoke much.

Soreness swelling of arches of palate, which seems like an accumulation of touch mucus. ▶ Sensation of catarrh in back part in morning after rising, flow of mucus from nose without sensation of catarrh in nose al sinuses. ▶ Heat rises into throat.

▶ Great hunger before dinner and hasty eating. ▶ Appetite diminished, the supper tasted good, but he was not hungry. ▶ Aversion to food, drink and tobacco, with nausea and salt taste in mouth, although food has no unusual taste. ▶ Aversion to coffee. ▶ Thirst, without dryness of tongue or heat; T. at night, frequent waking to drink. ▶ Short eructations of air; E. tasting of food from noon till evening. ▶ Hiccough. ▶ Nausea; in morning; at 5 P.M., with weakness; from 8 to 9 P.M., like a faintness and vertigo, with necessity to sit and lie down, weariness of limbs and chilliness; while eating palatable food; in upper part of throat. ▶ Vomiting. ▶ Easy contraction of gastric and abdominal muscles. ▶ Sticking in pit, with pressure, then painless distention of pit. ▶ Pressure in pit, she was obliged to loosen the clothes; P. in epigastric region when eating bread after a moderate meal, and afterwards. ▶ Tension, and in hypochondria. ▶ Unpleasant sensation beneath stomach, then distention and pain.

Fulness after supper, with griping; F. after walking in open air. ▶ Fermentation and passage of much flatus; fermentation, then repeated vomiting, then waterbrash. ▶ Moving, as if necessitating a stool. ▶ Frequent and easy passage of flatus, then difficult, scanty, short, incarcerated flatus; (cramplike pain, and in abdomen, with outward manifestation of labor pains, complaints as if intestines would be cut to pieces, with convulsions, body bent up, feet drawn up towards her head, frightful cries, holding her breath). ▶ Sticking extending out at ring, as in inguinal hernia; jerking S. in sides with every expiration. ▶ Painful pressure in sides in morning temporarily amel. emission of flatus, extending into rings, as if a hernia would protrude.

Urging to stool, stool soft, but difficult. ▶ Two the first consistent, the second liquid. ▶ Frequent, hard.

Pressure upon bladder, obliging him to urinate. ▶ Frequent urging in morning, but micturition scanty and in drops. ▶ Frequent micturition. ▶ Burning tearing in forepart of urethra. ▶ Urine copious; about midnight, with relaxation of genitals. ▶ Urine scanty. ▶ Urine blood-red.

Relaxed, and desire diminished. ▶ Erections and emission. ▶ Itching in forepart of penis; voluptuous left on tip of penis in morning; I. on right side of scrotum. ▶ Sore pain on scrotum on slightest rubbing of clothes. ▶ Relaxation of scrotum, on slightest excitement of inner genitals, yet with cold fantasies. ▶ Digging-smarting in one testicle. ▶ Nightly emissions. ▶ Desire, then general dry heat without emission. ▶ Impotency and sluggish desire.

▶ Roughness in larynx in morning on waking, with hoarseness (Nux v.). ▶ Irritation to cough about midnight. ▶ He must restrain the cough, eyes obscured, faint and feeling as if he were whirling around. ▶ Cough in evening in bed and on waking; short, frequent, scraping C. ▶ Dry cough (in a child) in evening after falling asleep. ▶ Hacking cough frequently, as from irritation of throat; H. cough in sudden paroxysms, as from spasmodic constriction in larynx, which seemed covered with dry mucus.

Pain in side on coughing, almost like sticking. ▶ Oppression; (after disappearance of heat of face), with necessity to take short breaths, the chest raised visibly by respiration. ▶ Warmth, and in abdomen.

Trembling, with warmth in back and between shoulders. ▶ Pain in small of; when walking; paralytic, in small of, when sitting and standing.

Lightness. ▶ Sticking-jerking though one or another. ▶ Bruised pain in all joints in morning in bed, amel. rising, agg. those that had been bent. ▶ Weakness after 4 P.M., the knees knock together, warmth internally and externally, with chilliness. ▶ Tearing in holding them bent, almost twitches. ▶ Weakness of arms and of whole body. ▶ Rheumatic bruised pain in left upper arm. ▶ Trembling of hands if he tries to hold anything (Zinc.). ▶ Cramplike contraction of one or another finger, in the morning he cannot straighten the little finger. ▶ Drawing in soft parts of fingers of tearing downward. ▶ Pain in a burnt finger that had been painless before the drug was taken. ▶ Numbness of fingers.

Bruised pain in nates, from ischium to thigh, when sitting and walking, obliging him to limp. ▶ Sore feeling on inner side of thigh from slightest rubbing of woolen clothes. ▶ Knee tremble when descending steps. ▶ Cramp of calf on drawing up knee. ▶ Jerking on right tibia, with corroding and smarting and with bruised sensation and heat of femur. ▶ Pain in legs after every walk, obliging her to lie down. ▶ Drawing pain beneath right knee. ▶ Jerking-sticking beneath right inner malleolus on stepping upon heel or bending foot backward or touching part. ▶ Feet tremble. ▶ Cramp of sole on putting out the foot. ▶ Weariness of feet after walking in open air, extending half way up thighs. ▶ Sticking in balls of great toes at 4 P.M.

Eruption and itching over the whole body. ▶ The itching of the eruption changed into burning.

Yawning. ▶ Weary with sleep. ▶ Overpowered with sleep, he dreaded apoplexy. ▶ Sound sleep. ▶ Sleepless on account of mental and physical excitement (Hyosc.). ▶ Sleep till 3 A.M., then only dozing and on walking he did not come to his senses (Nux v.). ▶ Sleepless from 2 to 7 A.M., with colic-like incarceration of flatus under ribs, which causes anxiety and heat over whole body and sweat under nose. ▶ Little sleep. ▶ Uneasy; so that he was lying turned about in bed. ▶ Talking immediately on falling asleep. ▶ Uneasy; so that he was lying turned about in bed. ▶ Talking immediately on falling asleep. ▶ Waking with a start. ▶ Frequent waking towards morning; frequent W. as from fright. ▶ Dreams long, vivid. ▶ Light D. ▶ His fancy is occupied with one thought when slumbering from which he cannot free himself and which prevents sound sleep.

Chilliness; in bed at 5 A.M. and at 1 P.M.; agg. motion; agg. moving body with warm skin, and on rising from the chair creeping chill with pale face; over whole body, cold creepings down back, then redness and heat of face, with cold hands, which are hot on inner surface while externally they are cold; then heat. ▶ Shivering, with redness and heat of one cheek; internal S., even in chest, with chilliness and with heat in head and sweat in face, without thirst. ▶ Chill, with heat, on both cheeks. ▶ C. in back, with shivering but usual warmth of rest of body; C. in back with sensation of heat, especially warmth in middle of back and across lower abdomen, as if sweat would break out. ▶ Cold hands, then C. feet; after 4 P.M., with headache and rush of blood to head, amel. in open air.

Heat in morning in bed, but dislike to being uncovered; general H. at 3 P.M., with redness of face and thirst, then general sweat, thirst during the first hours of the sweat; general at 8 P.M., externally perceptible, with dryness of mouth, shivering in back and down posterior part of body, then hands and feet cold, then in bed at one time heat, then coldness till after midnight, in morning headache as if beaten, so that every step is painful; H. in evening after lying down, everything seems too close, and at night sweat, agg. back; H. with red face. ▶ General dry heat waking at night and obliging her to turn around, with hot breath, but without thirst or dryness of mouth in face, with red cheeks; after eating; dry H. of face. ▶ Hot feet.

Sweat towards morning; S. of hands when writing; of feet, with soreness of toes.

Great mental excitement.
Over-sensibility.
Unusual activity of mind and body.
Excessive haste.
Immoderate weeping and crying about trifles.
Full of fancies and active flow of ideas.
Memory becomes very acute.
All the muscles seem very mobile.
Twitching in the limbs.
Increased sensitiveness to pain, driving one to despair.
Immoderate activity and vigor; an unusually increased feeling of health.
General aversion to open air, which seems to aggravate the symptoms.
Mental and physical exhaustion.

Clinical:
Delirium tremens, with trembling of hands; fears; thinks that he is not at home, restlessness, etc.
Extreme activity of mind; the patient is sleepless; great flow of thought, with great acuteness of all senses.
Mental excitability resulting from pleasurable emotions.
Recurring attacks of weeping, with hysterical excitability, tremulousness, etc.

Headache, < eating, > open air, returning in the house.
Rush of blood to the head, particularly after exhausting joy.
Pain in one side of the head as if a nail were driven into it.
A feeling of tearing in the brain.

Hearing very acute; sensitive, especially to music.
Sounds seem shrill.

Nose-bleed in the morning, with heaviness of the head.
Smell very sensitive.

General dry heat of the face, with red cheeks.

Clinical:
Prosopalgia, extending to molar teeth of right side; she is very irritable, sensitive and moaning from distressing pain; painful teeth, ameliorated by contact with ice.

Jerking and tearing toothache, with restlessness, anxiety and weeping; intolerant of the pain; > only by holding ice water in the mouth.

Excessive hunger; eats hastily and greedily.
Thirst increased, especially at night.
Cramp in the stomach as from overloading it, with intolerance of tight clothing.

Clinical:
Sometimes required after the bad effects of wine and liquor.
Neuralgic headache, with nausea and vomiting.

Colic, which seems to be unendurable; intestines feel cut to pieces; abdomen painful; cannot tolerate the clothes.

Urine usually greatly increased, especially at night.

Greatly excited sexual desire, with dry heat of the body.

Clinical:
Uterine hæmorrhage; extreme sensitiveness of genitals, flow dark, clotted (Plat.).
Useful in after-pains, which are extremely difficult to tolerate.

Roughness in the larynx in the morning on waking, with hoarseness.
Larynx seems covered with dry mucus.
Short, dry, hacking cough, as from constriction of the larynx.
An irritable, nervous cough at night, with anxiety and sleeplessness.
Oppressed breathing, short, with great motion of the chest.

Palpitation, violent, irregular.

Pain, like a lameness in the back.

Pains extend through the arms to the ends of the fingers.
Trembling of the hands on trying to hold anything.
Neuralgic-like pains in the lower extremities, > pressure on the nerve, < motion and at night.

Skin very sensitive; eruptions become extremely irritable.

Sleeplessness from over-excitement of mind and body, during which all the senses are extremely acute.

Internal chilliness with external heat.
In the evening after lying down, general sensation of heat, without sweat, with shivering in the back.
Internal shivering and heat of the head and sweat of the face.

Coff. / (Cafe.) / The Caffre.

Coffee,-Stands for nervous ills-
Holds the place of soothing pills.
When a colic is our plight,
Or a wakefulness at night,
Or attending any ill
Pains are insupportable.

The Caffre,-Has Insomnia.

The Caffre, Avena has a stick of amber, from the coast of Cypress, for the pastor's child, Jesse Cim.

This Caffre,-Who is subject to pains insupportable,-Is at the jubilee of St. Opi, as a spy on the coachman, Cim Viscum.

Insomnia: Cof., Aven., Stict., Amb., Caust., Cy. p., Pass. tinc, Cham, Gel., Cimi. (From nervousness, Coff., Amb., Apis, Cy. p.-From numbness, Cimi.)

Pains Furious-Insupportable: Cof., Aco., Bell., Ig., Op., Spig., Colch., Cimi., Vis. a. (Cutting as with knives, Bell., Ig., Mag. p., Spig.-Tearing, Colch., Vis. a.)

Indicated in states of great mental and bodily excitement, sleeplessness, neuralgia, characterized by nervous irritability and great intolerance of pain; delirium tremens; hysteria; neuralgic headache and toothache; palpitation of the heart from excitement; sleeplessness.

Intolerance of pain.

Face hot, with red cheeks.

Headache as if a nail were driven into the brain; as if the brain were torn or dashed to pieces.

Headache with mental excitement; he is full of ideas and schemes which do not allow him to get to sleep; he cannot close his eyes; wide awake.

Toothache, better from holding cold water in the mouth; it gets worse as soon as the water gets warm.

Sensitiveness of hearing and taste.

Worse from noise; form great emotion (joy); from strong smells.

Better from lying down

Lively fancies and actively changing ideas. Acuteness of intellect. Active memory. Great nervous excitement. Hypererethism. Hurried. Beside himself with anxiety. Excessive howling and screaming over trifles. Hypersensitiveness, with tearful disposition. Great anguish, of conscience, also about heart. Anxious despair, with fever. Restlessness. Fainting.

Violent congestion to, especially after sudden joy. Unilateral headache, as from an inward pressing nail. Unilateral crackling after each impact of the pulse. Feeling as if brain were being torn, or shattered. Worse: Walking in open air, morning, after sleep. Better: In room, sitting quietly.

Sparkling, somewhat reddened, with increased visual power.

Hearing more acute. Music sounds entirely too loud.

Nosebleed. Sensitive small.

Dry heat of, with red cheeks.

Twitching, tearing ache, with restlessness, anxiety and tearfulness.

Swollen, and painful soft palate, worse from swallowing.

Taste: Acute, Proper taste of food is too pronounced. Sweetish, as of nuts or almonds in mouth.

Spasm, as from overloading, can't bear tight clothing about pit

Appetite: Great hunger, with hasty, greedy eating. Thirst increased, especially at night.

Spasmodic bellyache, which seems quite insufferable.

Frequent, soft, during day. Diarrhoea: In children during dentition, tendency to.

Urination increased, especially at night.

Greatly excited sexual impulse, without emission of semen, and with dry heat of body. Insufferably painful labor or after pains.

Menses: Uterine hemorrhage.

Short, dry, hacking, as from constriction of larynx, with restless anxiety. Irritating, at night. During measles.

Neck: Sweat on.

Back: Chilliness along. Paralytic pain in lumbar region.

Twitching limbs. Great mobility of entire muscular system. Trembling. Increased sensitiveness to pain driving to despair, with tearfulness. Excessively active vital forces. Extraordinarily increased sense of well being. Aversion to open air which also intensifies the sufferings. After effects of a wine debauch, taking cold or excessive joy with exaltation. Mental and physical erethism.

Eruptions, with extreme excitability and tearfulness.

Sleeplessness, on account of excessive mental and bodily activity.

Pulse: Almost entirely unaffected, only very slightly accelerated. Chill: Increased by every (beginning) motion. Internal, frequently recurring shivering, with external heat of face or entire body. Sensation of, with internal and external warmth. Runs down back. Great sensitiveness to external cold. Heat: External, dry, in evening after lying down, with shuddering on back Nightly, dry, with delirium. Great, of face. Hot breath. Sweat: Occasionally after the heat. Slight, in early morning. On face, with internal cold shuddering.

Allied Remedies: Aco., Agar., Anac., Ars., Aur., Bell., Bor., Bro., Caps., Cham., COLOC., Con., Ign., Mag-c., Mar., Merc., Mos., Nux-v., Op., Puls. sul., Valer. Verat-a.

Excited and over-sensitive.

Great sensitiveness to pain, driving to despair with weeping.

Great movability of the muscles.

Excessive activity of the vital powers.

Twitching of the limbs.

Sleeplessness on account of excessive excitability of the mind and of the body.

Aversion to the open air and from it aggravation of the symptoms.

Bad effects from over-joy with exaltation, from drinking too much wind and from cold.