Coca

Erythroxylon Coca. Linece.

Keynotes

For persons who are wearing out under the physical and mental strain of a busy life; who suffer from exhausted nerves and brains (compare, Fluor, ac.).

Melancholy, from nervous exhaustion; bashful, timid, ill at ease in society. Sad, irritable; delights in solitude and obscurity.

Longing for alcoholic liquors and tobacco; for the accustomed stimulants.

Want of breath: in those engaged in athletic sports; shortness of breath, in old people; in those who use tobacco and whiskey to excess.

Haemoptysis, with oppression of chest and dyspnoea. Sleepy, but can find no rest anywhere. Violent palpitation: from incarcerated flatus (Arg. n.,Nux) ; from overexertion; from heart strain (Arn., Bor., Caust.).

Bad effects : from mountain climbing or ballooning (Ars.) ; of stimulants, alcohol, tobacco. Prevents caries of teeth.

Relationship p. 100

Compare: patient desires light and company, Stram. ; desires darkness and solitude. Coca.

Was first used as a tobacco antidote.