Coffea Cruda
Dewey, Essentials of Homœopathic Materia Medica, 1894, p. 81
Questions
How is our tincture prepared, and what is the alkaloid of Coffea ?
From the unroasted beans of the Coffea Arabica. Caffeine, and it is similar to Theine or that found in tea.
What is the general action of Coffea ?
It produces a nervous erethism — over-sensitiveness, all the senses are rendered more acute, pains are felt intensely.
What are grand characteristics of the drug ?
1. Great nervous excitement, excitation of mind and body. 2. Great sensitiveness to pain. 3. Sleeplessness from excitement.
Name five remedies having irritability ; how may they be distinguished ?
Aco?i. — Fearful and anxious, dreads things. Aurum. — Suicidal irritability, Cham. — Spiteful and uncivil. Coffea. — Wakeful and on the constant move. Nux V. — Sullen; wants to be let alone.
What are the head symptoms of Coffea ?
Congestions, with excited state of the mind; headache, as if a nail had been driven into the parietal bone; worse in open air; hemicrania.
What remedies are often required for complaints from the abuse of Coffee?
Chamomilla, Ignatia, Nux.
When is Coffea applicable in toothache and when Chamomilla?
The toothache of Coffea is relieved permanently by holding cold water in the mouth; that of Chamomilla is only temporarily relieved. What is the sleeplessness calling for Coffea?
It is where the patient is quiet and sleepless, where the senses are all acute, hears distant noises with great distinctness, the mind is active with plans and fancies, and the next day the patient is tremulous; also where hyperesthesia of the skin keeps him awake. As the symptoms of Piper methysticum are similar to those of Coffea, give them. There is buoyancy and exaltation of the mind and fullness of the vessels of the brain, followed by brain fag and dull aching in the head; the mental symptoms are relieved by diverting the mind; the patient is also very sensitive to external impressions.
What drugs of the Apocynaceae family do we use in our Materia Medica?
Apocynum can., Apocynum andros., Gelsemium, Oleander, Vinca minor, and of the fyogariacece , which is by some considered a separate family, Alstonia, Igyiatia, Nux vomica, Spigelia and Woorari or 0<rare.