Coffea

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.

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

Chamom., “ spiteful and uncivil.

Coffea, wakeful, on the constant move.

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

Mental

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

Generalities p. 104

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

Worse p. 104

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

Remedies following p. 104

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

Antidote p. 104

Nux vomica.