Coca coca.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

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Region

NERVES: BRAIN. Respiration. Heart. Muscles.

Worse

Ascending. High altitudes. Cold. Mental exertion.

Better

Rapid motion, in open air. After sunset.

General

Dizzy, dyspnœic and exhausted (Ars.). Muscle exhaustion.

Particulars

Mental prostration; alternating with brightness. Timid, craves solitude. Sense of impending death. Loquacious excitement, with blissful visions. Exhilaration; before menses. Flashes before eyes. Migraine. Carious teeth. Aphonia. Senile asthma. Palpitation; excessively rapid pulse, with violent sweating. Crawling numbness in arms. Like a worm under skin (Calc-c.), moving away when touched. Sleepless; awakes with a shock in brain.

Related

Related: Cann.

Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica

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Keynote

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 tabacco; for the accustomed stimulants. Want of breath: in those engaged in athletic sports; shortness of breath, in old people; in those who use tabacco 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, tabacco. Prevents caries of teeth.

Relations

Compare: patient desires light and company, Stram.; desires darkness and solitude, Coca. Was first used as a tobacco antidote.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

The Divine Plant of the Incas-but the Spanish priests denounced it as "un delusion del demonio"

General

The mountaineer's remedy. Useful in a variety of complaints incidental to mountain climbing, such as palpitation, dyspnœa, anxiety and insomnia. Exhausted nervous system from physical and mental strain. Caries of teeth. Loss of voice.--Give 5-6 drops, every half hour, two hours before expected demand on voice. Nocturnal enuresis. Emphysema (Quebracho).

Mind

Melancholy; bashful, ill at ease in society, irritable, delights in solitude and obscurity. Sense of right and wrong abolished.

Head

Fainting fit from climbing mountains. Shocks coming from occiput with vertigo. Noises in ear. Headache with vertigo, preceded by flashes of light. Like a band across forehead. Diplopia. Tongue furred. Headaches of high altitudes. Tinnitus.

Stomach

Peppery sensation in mouth. Longing for alcoholic liquors and tobacco. Great satiety for a long time. Incarcerated flatus; rises with noise and violence, as if it would split the œsophagus. Tympanitic distention of abdomen. No appetite but for sweets.

Heart

Palpitation, with weak heart and dyspnœa.

Male

Diabetes, with impotency (Phos ac).

Respiratory

Hawking of small, transparent pieces of mucus. Weak vocal cords. Hoarseness; worse after talking. Want of breath, short breath, especially in aged athletes, and alcoholic users. Hæmoptysis. Asthma, spasmodic variety.

Sleep

Can find no rest anywhere, but sleepy. Nervousness and nightly restlessness during teething.

Modalities

Better, from wine; riding, quick motion in open air. Worse, ascending, high altitudes.

Relationship

Compare: Ars; Paulin; Cyp; Chamom.

Antidote: Gels.

Dose

Tincture to third attenuation.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

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General

Erythroxylon coca. N. O. Lineæ (suborder Erythroxyleæ). Tincture of leaves. Solution or trituration of the alkaloid, Cocaine.

Clinical

Angina pectoris. Asthma. Constipation, chronic. Cough. Deafness. Debility. Fever. Heart disease. Hæmorrhoids. Mountain-sickness, or Veta. Rheumatism. Scrofula. Scurvy. Voice, weakness of.

Characteristics

Coca has been used for centuries by natives of West South America as an intoxicant; and also as a remedy for "Veta," the condition induced in persons on coming to live in high tablelands: ─ faintness, throbbing heart and head, dysentery, &c. It is like tea and coffee in arresting tissue-change, and enabling those who take it to undergo unusual fatigues. Like China it produces ringing in the ears and deafness and also fever. The alkaloid Cocaine is the well-known local anæsthetic. A characteristic symptom of Cocaine poisoning is a sensation as if small foreign bodies were under the skin, generally like grains of sand; or else as of a worm under the skin. This is undoubtedly the keynote symptom of Coca . It is known as "Magnan's Symptom," named after the eminent neurologist who first described it. His description is "a sensation as if foreign bodies were under the skin, generally small round substances like grains of sand." Korkasoff reports a case of multiple neuritis in which this symptom was present. The patient was a woman who was being treated for a uterine affection by means of vaginal tampons containing Cocaine . A discontinuance of these caused the disappearance of the symptom. Cooper cured a case of chronic rheumatism in an aged woman who had this symptom, with the fraction of a grain of Cocaine given in single doses at long intervals. Dr. J. W. Springthorpe described ( H. W ., February, 1896) a variety of this symptom experienced by himself, and recorded in a paper entitled "The Confessions of a Cocainist." He called it "Hunting the Cocaine bug." "You imagine," he says, "that in your skin are worms, or similar things, moving along. If you touch them with wool, and especially with absorbent wool, they run away and disappear, only to peep cautiously out of some corner to see if there is any danger. These worms are projected only on the Cocainist's own person or clothing. He sees them on his linen, in his skin, creeping along his penholder, but not on other people or things, and not on clothes brought clean from the laundry." In a case reported in Lancet , June, 1886, a man who had a 4 per cent. solution of Cocaine applied to a tooth, swallowed twenty to thirty drops of the solution. Half an hour after, he was seized with: ( 1 ) Feeling of faintness and giddiness; ( 2 ) next, an attack of palpitation with a sense of flushing, especially up the back. There was marked diminution of smell; great difficulty in producing vomiting; a scarlatina-like rash over the body, especially about the neck; dimness of vision; relaxation of sphincters and weakness of extremities; the mind remained clear, but the pulse was fast, weak and intermittent. A striking case was recorded in the British Medical Journal of December 13, 1890: "At a meeting of the Paris Académie de Médecine on December 2nd, M. Hallopeau presented a communication, in which, after distinguishing two forms of cocaine poisoning-namely, the acute, in which the symptoms are produced immediately after a dose and speedily pass off, and the chronic, in which they are due to the prolonged use of the drug ─ he related a case which in his opinion showed that the poisonous effects, while coming on acutely, might last for a considerable time. On March 7, 1890, a man had about eight milligrammes of hydrochlorate of cocaine injected into his gum as a preliminary to the extraction of a tooth. Toxic symptoms at once supervened. There was intense precordial oppression, with thready pulse, extreme excitement and loquacity; the patient walked about the room, hitting out at random with his fists and crying out that he was dying. In ten minutes he became quiet and the tooth was extracted, after which he was able to walk home, arriving there however, in a state of extreme prostration. Then ensued a train of nervous symptoms, such as continual headache, intractable sleeplessness, bad taste in the mouth, with occasional attacks of excitement accompanied by giddiness, faintness, and a sense of impending death. All brain work was impossible; the patient could not do the simplest sum in arithmetic, and was in a state of profound depression. A sense of formication and numbness in the hands and forearms was almost incessant. This condition lasted four months, and it was two months after the injection before the least improvement was observed, and then progress towards recovery was very slow. M. Hallopeau thinks the symptoms indicate a poisonous action of cocaine on the nervous centres, and especially the brain. As it is impossible to suppose that so small a quantity of the drug should have remained in the circulation, he is driven to conclude either that it was stored up in the cells of certain nervous centres or that it produced in them persistent lesions." Homœopaths have no such difficulty in understanding the prolonged effect of a single dose. Among other effects observed from its use in dentistry are "mental depression and drowsiness," and "intense oppression in chest; dilatation of pupils; acceleration of pulse and breathing, and mental excitement." W. J. Guernsey quotes in H. P ., November, 1888, from Med. Register , August 11, 1888, the experience of J. E. Shadle, who applied pledgets of a 4 per cent. solution of Cocaine to the nasal cavities of a man of 35, preparatory to operation. On each occasion he complained of a "cold, 'gone,' relaxed feeling about the external genitals, and a sensation as if the penis were absent . Towards the end of treatment he noticed a permanent weakness of the sexual organs, and finally seminal losses and impotence set in and continued until the Cocaine was entirely withheld." Compare this with the experiences of R. K. Ghosch ( H. R ., vi. 15, 49) with Coca Ø (which he finds, in drop doses, act better in such cases than in the potencies) in palpitation and dyspnœa on ascending, when arising from nervous causes, especially self-abuse; in complaints from self-abuse generally; excessive secretion of urine with or without sugar; enuresis nocturna; nymphomania after childbirth, during menses, from irritation of eczema or other affections of the vulva; in satyriasis. The homœopathicity of Coca in enuresis is shown by its effect in relaxing the sphincters in one of the cases named above. There are some characteristic headaches of Coca . In general "headaches of high altitudes" may be taken as a strong indication. Coca has also a "tight" headache, as if a rubber band were stretched across the forehead. After the invigorating effects, the sense of lightness and ability to climb a mountain without fatigue, have passed off, or when the intoxication has been carried to a further degree, a sense of heaviness, numbness, and drowsiness succeeds, with a disinclination to move. There is extreme weariness, and especially weakness of the legs. A peculiar symptom is: Sensation as if œsophagus would be rent by force of rising flatus. Coca suits persons who are wearing out under mental and physical strain; bashful, timid people; old people; short-breathed people; effects of dissipation; weakly, nervous, fat or plethoric people; children with marasmus. Effects of cold; cough from cold air; rheumatism from slightest cold. Symptoms < climbing, walking or sitting; < cold air.

Relations

Compare: Arsen. (effects of climbing); Stram. likes company and light; Coca likes solitude and darkness; Paullinia, Scutel., Cypr., Valer., Can. ind., tea, coffee, tobacco. Gundlach discovered the best antidote to be Gels.

Mind

Melancholy. ─ Hypochondriasis. ─ Mental depression with drowsiness. ─ Bashfulness. ─ Prefers solitude and darkness. ─ Muddled feeling in brain. ─ Loss of energy. ─ Great mental excitement.

Head

Vertigo and fainting. ─ Tension over forehead as from a rubber band. ─ Headache just over eyebrows; not constant; < raising head or turning eyes up. ─ Shocks in head; dull, full feeling in occiput with vertigo, < lying down, the only possible position is on the face. ─ Occiput painful, tender to touch; pains < on coughing. ─ Headache with chilliness; with dryness in throat; > after eating; > at sunset.

Eyes

Intolerance of light with dilated pupils. ─ Dark cloud before eyes; eyes deeply reddened until bloody tears gushed out. ─ White, dark, and fiery spots before eyes; flickering or flashing. ─ Indistinct vision soon followed by headache and nausea. ─ Aching pain behind eyes causing feeling as if squinting inwards.

Ears

Ringing, buzzing, and humming in ears; with fever.

Nose

Epistaxis passing from r. to l. ─ Sense of smell greatly diminished.

Mouth

Mouth dry, esp. on waking.

Throat

Uvula feels swollen; swallowing difficult. ─ Dryness early in morning.

Stomach

Retards hunger and thirst. ─ Loss of appetite esp. for solid food. ─ Craves spirits and tobacco. ─ Ailments from salt food. ─ Flatus rises with such force, it seems as if œsophagus would be rent by it. ─ Empty feeling or full feeling in stomach. ─ Confirmed dyspepsia, esp. in hypochondriacs.

Abdomen

Pressure and tension in hypochondria after meals. ─ Flatulence. ─ Violent bellyache, with tympanitic distension.

Stool and Anus

Flatus from bowels, smells like burnt gunpowder. ─ Dysentery. ─ Constipation from inactivity of rectum; stools dry; like walnuts. ─ Piles painful on walking or sitting. ─ Sphincters relaxed.

Urinary Organs

Fine stitches in female urethra before urinating. ─ Frequent desire, with increased flow. ─ Disturbed frequently at night. ─ Nocturnal enuresis. ─ Film on urine. ─ Urine smells like sweat. ─ Yellowish red flocculent deposits; oily scum on surface.

Male Sexual Organs

Sensation as if penis were absent. ─ Coldness, "gone" sensation, relaxation of external parts. ─ Emissions. ─ Nervous prostration from sexual excess. ─ Spermatorrhœa and partial impotence. ─ Satyriasis.

Female Sexual Organs

Menses flow in gushes awakening her from sound sleep. ─ Nymphomania, during menses; and after parturition.

Respiratory Organs

Weak voice. ─ Phthisis laryngea, when from irritability of pharynx stomach will retain no food. ─ Rapid breathings. ─ Painful shortness of breath; at night. ─ Short breath in athletes, or in those taking alcohol or tobacco in excess. ─ Hæmoptysis. ─ On coughing, pain in occiput. ─ Cough from cold air or fast walking. ─ Expectoration of small lumps like boiled starch, immediately after rising in morning.

Chest

Sudden attack of cramp in chest; became cold and unable to continue the ascent. ─ Intense oppression in chest. ─ Rush of blood to chest with slight headache. ─ Emphysema.

Heart

Palpitation with flushing. ─ Violent and audible palpitation; angina pectoris; from climbing or over-exertion. ─ Pulse greatly accelerated, intermittent. ─ Pulse extremely slow and intermittent, loses one beat in four.

Limbs

Feeling of internal cold with numbness of hands and feet. ─ Weakness of extremities.

Skin

Scarlatina-like rash over body, esp. the neck.

Sleep

Inclination to sleep, but can find no rest. ─ Great drowsiness.

Fever

Sense of flushing, esp. up the back (With palpitation). Chilliness and headache in afternoon. ─ At night heat and sleeplessness, with throbbing in arteries. ─ Flushes of heat on the back and burning in abdomen. ─ Extreme weariness accompanies the fever. ─ Night sweats.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

Mind

Melancholy from nervous exhaustion.
Hypochondriasis. θ Amenorrhœa. θ Dysmenorrhœa. θ Veta.
Bashful, timid, ill at ease in society.
Sadness, irritability ; he delights only in solitude and obscurity ; frequently he gives proof of obstinacy.
Remarkable aversion to exertion of any kind in consequence of nervous exhaustion.
Loss of energy.
Slow in finding the words to express himself at times.
Mental depression with beginning of atrophy.
Overpowered by an indescribable anxiety. θ Veta.
Feeling of anguish increased with failure of every effort to strive against the weariness ; torment only diminishes with perfect rest. θ Veta.
Stupidity. θ Veta.
Brain feels so muddled that he cannot read understandingly.
Gentle excitement, followed by wakefulness.
Peevish temper. θ Veta.
Imparts unusual buoyancy ; cheers the heart, brightens the mind and renews bodily strength for the vigorous tasks of life.
Want of will power ; shakiness and mental depression.

Sensorium

Giddiness and dizziness.
Vertigo. θ Veta.
Fear of falling when walking ; vertigo with involuntary quick stepping when walking, head inclined forward, with giddiness and fear of falling ; nausea and dizzy feeling make him unfit for mental work ; giddiness, with pressing on back of head and weariness.
Fainting and violent sickness. θ Veta.
Fainting fits from nervous weakness.

Inner head

Sensation of tension over forehead, as if an india-rubber band was stretched over it.
Fulness in forehead and dull feeling over whole brow.
Violent headache just over eyes, with low ringing in ears.
Headache just above eyebrows, not constant ; < by elevating head or turning eyes up.
Dull frontal headache, which vanishes with the setting of the sun, followed by a state of mental exhilaration.
Slight shooting pains in right temple.
Headache in right temple in morning, sharp on first rising and all day when looking up, pain darts from temple in straight line to top of head, leaving a sore feeling.
Pressing headache on right side of occiput and on right side of forehead, with giddiness and chill after dinner ; > towards evening.
Shocks in the head, dull, full feeling in occiput, with vertigo, < by lying down, often only possible position in bed is on face.
Occiput painful, tender to touch ; pains < on coughing.
Headache in occiput, with chilliness and mild fever.
Occipital headache.
Headache in afternoon, with chilliness.
Headache with sensation of dryness in throat.
Flow of blood to head and lungs.
Headache > after eating, returning in three and a half hours and leaving at sunset.
Nervous sick headache ; megrim.

Outer head

Occiput painful and tender to touch, pain < on coughing. θ Phthisis.

Sight and eyes

Great intolerance of light, with remarkable dilatation of pupils.
Dark cloud before eyes ; eyes deeply reddened until bloody tears gushed out. θ Veta.
White, dark or fiery spots before eyes ; flickering or flashing ; letters seem to run together.
Indistinct vision, soon followed by headache and nausea. θ Veta.
Aching pain behind eyes, making them feel as if they were squinting inward.

Hearing and ears

Ringing in ears with fever.
Loud ringing, buzzing and humming in ears. θ Veta.
Deafness of three months' duration, in an old soldier, æt. 102 ; complained of noise in head and inability to hear himself when he read aloud.

Smell and nose

Epistaxis passing from right to left.

Upper face

Lips blue, swollen, chapped. θ Veta.
Lips and gums pale ; dryness of lips and mouth.
Ulcerations at commissure of lips.

Teeth and gums

Prevents caries of teeth.

Taste, speech, tongue

Taste and Tongue
No taste in morning.
Much furred tongue.

Inner mouth

Dryness of lips and mouth, especially on awaking.
At night and in morning a sensation in mouth and palate as if he had eaten pepper.
Fetid breath.

Palate and throat

A distinct feeling of swelling of uvula, difficulty of swallowing.
Early in morning, sensation of dryness in throat, very disagreeable on swallowing, as if swollen.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Great appetite.
Retards hunger and thirst.
Great satiety, without longing for nourishment, for a long time.
Loss of appetite, especially for solid food.
Great thirst.
Longing for spirituous liquors and tobacco, accustomed stimulants.

Eating and drinking

Can eat but little at a time. θ Chronic constipation.
Ailments from salt food.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Nausea with vertigo.
Hiccough after supper.
Frequent eructations.
Flatus rises with such force that it seems as if œsophagus would be rent by it. θ Chronic constipation.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Feeling of emptiness or fulness in stomach.
Weak and difficult digestion.
Catarrh of stomach ; gastralgia ; dyspepsia.
Confirmed dyspepsia, especially in hypochondriacs.

Hypochondria

Pressure and tension in hypochondria, after meals.

Abdomen and loins

Flatulence.
Violent palpitation from incarcerated flatus, which sometimes rises with such force that it seems as if œsophagus would be rent by it. θ Chronic constipation.
Violent bellyache, with tympanitic distension of abdomen, > by frequent discharges of inodorous flatus.
Puffing up of abdomen.
Spasmodic colic ; enteralgia.
Pituitous diseases of abdominal organs.

Stools and rectum

Flatus from bowels smells like burnt gunpowder.
Constant desire to stool. θ After gonorrhœa.
Dysentery. θ Veta.
Every day bowels moved one hour later.
Constipation from inactivity of rectum.
Piles painful on walking or sitting.

Urinary organs

Rises in night to urinate.
Urine copious, with a dark red sediment adhering to vessel.
Pain in perineum at end of urination ; stream of urine twisted ; dribbling ; orange colored, flocculent sediment collects in one spot "like a sponge ;" ammoniacal odor. θ Following
checked gonorrhœa.
Urine after standing deposits a yellow white gelatinous sediment, adhering to vessel, sometimes an iridescent oily film on surface. θ Phthisis pulmonalis. θ Cough.
Urine becomes turbid after standing and is covered with a light pellicle.
Nocturnal enuresis.

Male sexual organs

Nervous prostration from sexual excesses.
Spermatorrhœa and partial impotence.

Female sexual organs

Menses flow in gushes, awakening from sound sleep.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Weakness of voice.
Phthisis laryngea, when from irritability of pharynx stomach would retain no food.
Feels much stronger in voice ; can sing much louder and clearer.

Respiration

Painful shortness of breathing. θ Veta.
In evening in bed, most severe oppression with great anxiety and prostration.
Painful oppression of chest and continued need of deep respiration.
Oppression of breathing during nocturnal hours.
Obliged to stand still and draw breath, scarcely able to do so. θ Veta.
Heaviness in chest and obstructed breathing obliged him to walk slowly.
Impeded respiration, violent palpitation, with feeling of weariness, making further progress impossible. θ Veta.
Frequent spasmodic dyspnœa. θ Chronic constipation.
Dyspnœa, from emphysema, asthma or disease of heart.
Want of breath in those engaged in athletic sports ; or in those using tobacco or whisky to excess.
Hæmoptysis. θ Veta.

Cough

Trifling cough, causing tingling in hands.
On coughing, pain in occiput.
Cough, in morning, with whitish-yellow expectoration, dense and viscous, at same time dryness of mouth and throat with thirst.
Cough dry in evening, in bed.
Cough from cold air and fast walking.
Sputa scanty, but relieving. θ Cough.
Expectoration of small lumps, like boiled starch, immediately after rising in morning.

Inner chest and lungs

Vainly endeavors to fill lungs with air by full inspirations and utmost enlargement of chest. θ Veta.
Pains under clavicles, more severe under left.
During the whole day, feeling of constriction in upper portion of both lungs.
Transient shooting pains in left lung, between third and sixth ribs, < during a deep inspiration.
Suddenly attacked with cramp in chest ; she became quite cold and could not continue the ascent. θ Overexertion in ascending heights.
Rush of blood to chest with slight headache. θ Veta.
Emphysema. θ Phthisis pulmonalis.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Throbbing of heart against ribs audible. θ Veta.
Palpitation of heart with general weakness. θ Veta.
Violent palpitation from incarcerated flatus. θ Chronic constipation.
Angina pectoris while climbing ; she became quite cold.
Exhaustion of heart with irregular action.
Disease of heart, functional, from overexertion.
Increased frequency of the pulse, in one instance from 70 to 143 beats per minute.
Pulse 108 to 120. θ Veta.
Pulse weak, quickened, small.
Pulse intermitting every fifth beat. θ Heart disease.

Outer chest

Spasm in chest. θ From overfatigue while ascending a mountain.

Upper limbs

Pain in fourth finger of right hand, it was cold and remained so for weeks, also affecting little finger.

Lower limbs

Weakness in walking.
Impaired power of walking. θ Chronic constipation.

Limbs in general

Feeling of internal cold, with numbness of hands and feet. θ Veta.
Rheumatism, coming from slightest cold.

Rest. position. motion

Rest : anguish, weariness and torment only diminish with perfect rest ; after every ten steps obliged to take rest.
Sitting : piles painful.
Lying down : < shocks in head, dull, full feeling in occiput.
Obliged to stand still and draw breath, scarcely able to do so.
He lays himself upon the earth, unable to drag himself any farther.
Impossible to make any exertion, lassitude, desire to remain constantly in bed.
Head inclined forward, with giddiness and fear of falling.
Only possible position in bed is on face.
Awakes at night lying on back.
Elevating head or turning eyes up < headache.
Walking : fear of falling ; involuntary quick stepping ; piles painful ; cough ; weakness.
Heaviness in chest and obstructed breathing, obliging him to walk slowly.

Nerves

Retards hunger and imparts unusual buoyancy, enabling one to ascend great heights, carry burdens, or run rapidly without the sense of fatigue or breathlessness.
Erethism in the sensitive sphere.
Nervousness and nightly restlessness of children during dentition.
Can find red nowhere. θ Veta.
Nervous depression, result of overwork, mental anxiety, sexual excesses or abuse of tobacco.
Trembling ; he lays himself upon the earth, physically and mentally unable to drag himself any farther, half unconscious. θ Veta.
Feeling of weariness amounts to an impossibility of advancing, owing to impeded respiration and violent palpitation of heart. θ Veta.
Impossible to make any exertion, lassitude with desire to remain constantly in bed. θ After operation for cancer.
Debility during convalescence from typhus.
Fainting fits from nervous weakness.
Hysterical complaints.

Sleep

Inclination to sleep and constant weariness, which do not induce refreshing sleep. θ Veta.
Inclination to sleep, but can find no rest.
Awakes at night, lying on back.
Sleeplessness in the night, or sleep too sound and heavy.

Time

Early in morning : sensation of dryness in throat.
In morning : on first rising, sharp headache in right temple ; no taste ; sensation in mouth and palate as if he had eaten pepper ; cough, with whitish-yellow expectoration, dense and viscous ; dryness of mouth and throat with thirst.
In afternoon : headache with chilliness.
After dinner : giddiness and chill.
After supper : hiccough.
In evening : in bed, most severe oppression with great anxiety and prostration ; in bed, dry cough.
At night : sensation in mouth and palate as if he had eaten pepper ; rises to urinate ; enuresis ; oppression of breathing ; awakes lying on back ; sleeplessness, or sleep too sound and heavy, heat and sleeplessness, with throbbing in arteries.

Temperature and weather

Cold air : cough from.
Cold : rheumatism from slightest.
Worse in all stages of weather with a low barometer, also if remissions come during the high tides of barometer.

Fever

Chilliness and headache in afternoon.
At night heat and sleeplessness, with throbbing in arteries.
Flushes of heat on back and burning in abdomen.
The fever distinguished by extreme weariness accompanying it.
Debility during convalescence from low fevers.
Night sweats.

Attacks, periodicity

Spasmodic : colic ; dyspnœa.
Sudden : attack of cramp in chest.
Transient : shooting pain in left lung.
Frequent : eructations ; discharges of inodorous flatus.
Constant : desire to stool ; need of deep respiration ; weariness and inclination to sleep.
For a long time : great satiety.
All day : headache in right temple when looking up ; constriction in upper portion of both lungs.
Every day : bowels moved one hour later.
Dull frontal headache, which vanishes with setting of sun.
Headache > after eating, returning in three and a half hours and leaving at sunset.
Nightly : restlessness of children, during dentition.
Aggravations from midnight to 4 A. M., or from 10 A. M. till 2 P. M.
For weeks : pain and coldness in fourth finger of right hand, also affecting little finger.
Deafness of three months duration.
Chronic : constipation ; dyspepsia.

Locality and direction

Right : slight shooting pains in temple ; headache in temple darting to top of head ; pressing headache on side of occiput and side of forehead ; pain and coldness in fourth finger of hand ; also affected little finger.
Left : severe pain under clavicle ; transient shooting pains in lung, between third and sixth ribs.
From right to left : epistaxis.

Sensations

Feeling of anguish increased with failure of every effort to strive against the weariness.
As if brain was muddled ; as if a rubber band was stretched over forehead ; as if eyes were squinting inward ; as if he had eaten pepper ; as if throat was swollen ; as if œsophagus would be rent by force of rising flatus.
Pain : in perineum at end of urination ; in piles on walking or sitting ; in occiput on coughing ; under clavicles ; in fourth finger of right hand, also affecting little finger.
Violent pain : just over eyes in right temple.
Shooting : in right temple ; in left lung between third and sixth ribs, < during a deep inspiration.
Burning : in abdomen.
Sore feeling : from right temple to top of head.
Tension : over forehead ; in hypochondria, after meals.
Pressing : on back of head and weariness ; on right side of occiput and right side of forehead.
Pressure : in hypochondria, after meals.
Oppression : of respiration ; of chest.
Cramp : in chest.
Constriction : in upper portion of both lungs.
Spasm : in chest.
Shocks : in head.
Aching : behind eyes.
Fulness : in forehead ; in occiput ; in stomach.
Heaviness : in chest.
Tingling : in hands, caused by trifling cough.
Numbness : of hands and feet.
Weakness : general ; in walking.
Weariness : amounting to an impossibility of advancing ; extreme with fever.
Lassitude, impossible to make any exertion.
Dull feeling : over whole brow ; in occiput.
Emptiness : in stomach.
Dryness : in throat ; of lips and mouth.
Heat : on back, flushes of ; of skin.
Coldness : in fourth finger of right hand, also affecting little finger ; feeling of internal.

Tissues

Retards destructive metamorphosis and imparts temporary vigor.
Overexcitement of nervous and muscular systems.
In mental or physical fatigue or exhaustion ; dyspepsia ; hysteria ; nervous erethism ; protracted fevers ; spinal irritation and convulsions ; bad effect of stimulants, alcohol, tobacco, etc.
Diminished secretion of solid ingredients of urine.
Emaciation.
Marasmus of children.
Rheumatism, coming on from slightest cold.
Scurvy from anemic conditions.
Scrofula.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Touch : occiput painful and tender to.
Ill effects from climbing mountains or æronauting.

Skin

Increased heat of skin.
Dry papular eruption on back of hand.
Protection to cutaneous diseases.

Stage of life, constitution

Suits persons who are wearing out under the mental and physical strain of a busy life, suffering from exhausted nerves and brains.
Suits bashful, timid people, ill at ease in society.
Old people, not only when losing their breath, but for other ailments.
Children with marasmus.
Weakly, nervous, fat or plethoric persons and such as have disease of heart and lungs suffer more from veta.
Miss R., æt. 24, tall, slim, black eyes and hair, very pale ; sick three years after removal of mammary cancer.
Man, in consequence of dissipation ; heart disease.
An old soldier, æt. 102 ; deafness.

Relations

Has been used for centuries by the natives of Peru, Chili and Bolivia as a substitute for tobacco, betel, hashish and opium.
Compare : Stramon . patient likes company, Coca patient solitude ; Stramon . light, Coca , darkness ; Arsen .,
injurious effects of climbing heights ; Paullinia, Scutellaria, Cyprip . and Valer ., tea, coffee, Cann. ind ., and tobacco.