Coffea cruda
Allen, Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 3rd ed., 1910, p. 102
Coffee. Ruhiacece.
Keynotes
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 from 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.).
Relationship
Compare: Acon., Cham., Ign., Sulph. Incompatible: Canth., Caust, Coc., Ign. Aggravation. — Sudden mental emotion; excessive joy; cold, open air; narcotic medicines.