Coffea Cruda coff.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

C. M. Boger · Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica · A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1915 — the Materia Medica half

Region

NERVES; cardiac. CIRCULATION. Sex organs. Women.

Worse

NOISE. Touch. Odors. Air (Open. Cold. Windy). Mental: Emotions. Exertion. Overeating. Alcohol. Night.

Better

Lying. Sleep. Warmth.

General

Emotions cause severe symptoms. EXITABLE AND OVERACTIVE. OVERSENSITIVE; to noise, it may even be painful (Ther.); to pain, pleasure, etc.

Particulars

Irritable and wakeful. Resents sympathy. Rushing ideas. Weeps, laments and tosses about. Now joyous, now gloomy. Faints easily. Brain seems torn, shattered or crushed. Clavus. Bright eyes. Acute hearing; overhears distant sounds. Faceache (r). Toothache; > ice water, < as it warms; pains into finger-tips; during menses. Stomach feels overloaded. Hot, itching genitals. After-pains. Cough incessant; of measles. Nervous palpitation; < sun heat. Trembling hands. Painfully sensitive skin. Itching scratches until it bleeds. NERVOUS SLEEPLESSNESS; from rush of ideas; awakes at or hears every sound; after pleasurable excitement.

Related

Complementary: Aco. Related: Coca. Ign. Antidotes: Cham. Ign. Nux-v.

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Keynote

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 form 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.).

Relations

Compare: Acon., Cham., Ign., Sulph. Incompatible: Canth., Caust., Coc., Ign.

Aggravation

Sudden mental emotion; excessive joy; cold, open air; narcotic medicines.

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General

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.

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

Chamom, irritability, spiteful and uncivil.

Coffea, irritability, wakeful, on the constant move.

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

Mental

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

Generalities

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 pains.

Sleep

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

Worse

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

Remedies following

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

Antidote

Nux vom.

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Red line symptom

Great mental activity, full of ideas, quick to act, no sleep on this account. Pains seem insupportable, driving to despair. All senses more acute, read fine print easier, bearing, smell, taste, and touch acute, particularly increased perception of slight passive motions. One-sided headache as from a nail driven into the parietal bone, worse in the open air. Ice, or ice-cold water is the only thing lessening his violent toothache, so long as touching it. Would like to scratch or rub the part, but it is too sensitive. In nervous persons, chill worse on movement, external dry beat, internal chilliness. Sleepless from excessive mental and physical excitement. Measly spots on the skin, with dry heat, over excitability and. weeping. Affections after sudden emotions, particularly sudden pleasurable surprises.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Unroasted Coffee

General

Stimulates the functional activity of all organs, increasing the nervous and vascular activity. The drinking of coffee by the aged is likely to increase production of uric acid, causing irritation of kidneys; muscle and joint pains, and with the increased susceptibility of old people to the stimulating action of coffee and tea, their use should be curtailed or carefully watched. Great nervous agitation and restlessness. Extreme sensitiveness characterizes this remedy. Neuralgia in various parts; always with great nervous excitability and intolerance of pain, driving to despair. Unusual activity of mind and body. Bad effects of sudden emotions, surprises, joy, etc. Nervous palpitation. Coffea is specially suited to tall, lean, stooping persons with dark complexions, temperament choleric and sanguine. Skin hypersensitive.

Mind

Gaiety, easy comprehension, irritability, excited; senses acute. Impressionable, especially to pleasurable impressions. Full of ideas, quick to act. Tossing about in anguish (Acon).

Head

Tight pain, worse from noise, smell, narcotics. Seems as if brain were torn to pieces, as if nail were driven in head. Worse in open air. Sensitive hearing.

Face

Dry heat, with red cheeks. Prosopalgia extending to molar teeth, ears, forehead, and scalp.

Mouth

Toothache; temporarily relieved by holding ice-water in the mouth (Mangan opposite). Hasty eating and drinking. Delicate taste.

Stomach

Excessive hunger. Intolerance of tight clothing. After wine and liquor.

Female

Menses too early and long lasting. Dysmenorrhœa, large clots of black blood. Hypersensitive vulva and vagina. Voluptuous itching.

Sleep

Wakeful; on a constant move. Sleeps till 3 am, after which only dozing. Wakes with a start, sleep disturbed by dreams. Sleepless, on account mental activity; flow of ideas, with nervous excitability. Disturbed by itching of anus.

Respiratory

Short, dry cough of measles in nervous, delicate children.

Heart

Violent irregular palpitation especially after excessive joy or surprise. Rapid high tension pulse and urinary suppression.

Extremities

Crural neuralgia; worse, motion, afternoon and night; better, by pressure.

Modalities

Worse, excessive emotions (joy), narcotics, strong odors, noise, open air, cold, night. Better, warmth, from lying down; holding ice in mouth.

Relationship

Incompatible: Camph; Coccul. Complementary: Acon.

Compare: Coffea tosta (Roasting develops certain vitamin-like substances (P. T. Mattei). Pigeons which have developed "deficiency" neuritis and paralysis on diet of polished rice lost their disabilities on the addition of 8 cc to a 5 % infusion of coffee to their food. Unroasted coffee was useless). Caffeine.--(A crystalline alkaloid-is a direct heart stimulant and diuretic. Dropsy depending on cardiac insufficiency. Myocardial degeneration. Cardiac insufficiency in pneumonia and other infectious diseases. Raises the blood pressure, increases pulse rate and stimulates the heart muscle; hence, a support in extreme feebleness or threatened failure. Stimulates the respiratory center, nerve centers and increases diuresis. One of the best stimulants of the vaso-motor centers. Acute pulmonary œdema. Brachialgia and other neuralgias characterized by nocturnal exacerbations. Jousset uses equal parts of caffeine and sachar lac. 3 grains taken in divided doses every other day. Hypodermically, 1/4 grain. Excruciating facial neuralgia from decayed teeth); Acon; Cham; Nux; Cyp; Caffeine and plants containing it, as Kola, Thea, etc.

Strong black coffee, drunk as hot as possible, is indispensable as an antidote in a large number of poisons, especially narcotics. Hot coffee by rectum in cases of extreme collapse.

Antidotes: Nux; Tabac.

Dose

Third to two hundredth potency.

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Leaders

All senses more acute; reads fine print easier; smell, taste and touch acute; unusual activity of mind and body; full of ideas, quick to act, no sleep on this account etc.

Affections from sudden surprises, especially joyful surprises; very emotional.

Pains insupportable, drive to despair; exasperation, tears, tossing about in agony; great sleeplessness.

Headache, from over-mental exertion, thinking, talking; one-sided, as from a nail driven into the brain (Ign., Nux); as if the brain were torn or dashed to pieces; < in open air.

Jerking toothache; relieved by holding ice water in the mouth; returns when water becomes warm.

Coffea cruda, like Chamomilla, acts strongly upon the nervous system. Indeed in nervous troubles, where the patient has not been addicted to the coffee habit, it often takes precedence.

If on the other hand he is a coffee drinker, Chamomilla is the remedy. Doctor Teste, of Paris, used to say that coffee was responsible for a large proportion of the neuralgias of France. The Coffea patient is a subject of very great general exalted sensibility. See Hering's characteristic cards. "All the senses more acute, reads fine print easier, smell, taste and touch acute, particularly also in increased perception of slight passive motions." "Unusual activity of mind and body." "Full of ideas, quick to act, no sleep on this account." "Lively fancies, full of plans for the future." These symptoms portray, as plainly as words can, the nervous conditions calling for this remedy.

It makes one think of Chamomilla, but the mind of Chamomilla is not there. On the other hand, it makes one think of Aconite, but the fear of death is not there. Hering used to recommend Aconite and Coffea in alternation in painful inflammatory affections, where the fever symptoms of the former and also the nervous sensibility of the latter were present, and I know of no two remedies that alternate better, though I never do it, since I learned to closely individualize. Coffea is especially adapted to mental shocks, such as sudden surprises, especially joyful surprises, excessive laughter and playing, disappointed love, noises, strong smells, etc. It is also adapted to variable moods; first crying then laughing, then crying again.

Coffea also vies with Chamomilla and Aconite as a pain remedy. "Pains. insupportable, drive to despair." "Exasperation, tears, tossing about in great anguish." Here again we would not give Coffea in an habitual coffee drinker, but Chamomilla rather.

The particular localities where these pains mostly occur are in the head, where the pain is generally one-sided, feeling "as though a nail were driven into the head." Ignatia has a similar headache, and it generally occurs in hysterical subjects. Then choice may have to be made between these two remedies.

Prosopalgia, which is often traceable to bad teeth, and Coffea has a very peculiar toothache, in the fact that the tooth is easy as long as he holds cold water upon it. Remember Chamomilla toothache is often caused by taking, warm things into the mouth, but is not relieved by taking cold things like Coffea.

Dysmenorrhœa, with excessively painful colic. If there are large black clots and Coffea does not relieve, follow with Chamomilla. Pains threatening abortion, or after-pains, or very severe unbearable labor pains are often relieved by this remedy. In short, for pains anywhere, which seem intolerable, and there are no other especially leading symptoms, Coffea is to be remembered.

The same over-excitability, so characteristic of this drug, causes great sleeplessness, and Coffea has won to itself great credit as a sleep remedy. In my experience and observation, it works best here in the 200th potency. And there is no more beautiful verification of the truth of Similia than just here, for it causes great sleeplessness in many people when taken in large quantities. Cough and sleeplessness after measles (a very common occurrence) is wonderfully relieved by it, and it is sleep, not narcosis, and never injures or sickens the patient like the stupor of the opium preparations.

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Mind and Disposition

Over-sensitiveness ; weeping mood. Great anguish ; cannot be composed ; is not able to hold the pen ; trembles. Sentimental ecstasy ; excited imagination ; increased power to think. Excessive weeping and lamentations over trifles. The pains seem insupportable, driving to despair. Fright from sudden pleasant surprises.

Head

Congestion of blood to the bead, especially after a pleasant surprise. Headache, as if the brain were torn or dashed to pieces. In the vertex he feels and hears a cracking, when sitting quietly. One-sided headache, as from a nail driven into the head ; worse when walking in the open air.

Eyes

Eyes look reddish ; the power of vision is increased ; can read small writing more distinctly.

Ears

Music has a shrill sound to the ears. Sense of hearing more acute.

Nose

The sense of smell is more acute. Bleeding from the nose.

Face

Dry heat in the face, with red cheeks.

Mouth and Teeth

Toothache, with restlessness, anguish and weeping mood, especially at night and after a meal. Toothache, relieved by cold water. Swelling and painfulness of the throat ; worse when swallowing.

Appetite and Taste

Increased hunger, with rapid, hurried eating. Nightly thirst, which wakens him. Taste more acute. Sweetish taste in the mouth.

Stomach and Abdomen

Colic, as if the stomach had been overloaded, as if the abdomen would burst ; cannot suffer the clothes to be tight on the abdomen. Pressure in the abdomen as from incarcerated flatulence.

Stool and Anus

Diarrhœa, during dentition.

Urinary Organs

Emission of large quantity of urine (midnight).

Sexual Organs

Men. The sexual organs are very much excited without emission of semen, and with dry heat of the body. Women. Labor and after-pains insupportably painful.

Respiratory Organs

Oppression of the chest, obliged to take short inspirations ; the breathing heaves the chest visibly. Short, dry cough, as from constriction of the larynx. Night cough (cough with measles).

Generalities

The pains are felt intensely, driving to despair, and inclination to weep. He feels unusually well. Twitching of the limbs. Great movability of all the muscles.

Sleep

Sleeplessness, from over-excitability of mind and body (sleeplessness of lying-in women).

Fever

Chilliness, increased by every movement. Internal chilliness, with external heat of the bee and body. Chills running down the back. Dry heat in the evening after going to bed, with chilliness in the back. Nightly, dry heat, with delirium. Perspiration on the face, with internal chilliness.

Skin

Eruptions (measles), with over-excitability and weeping.

Conditions

Bad effects from sudden, pleasurable surprise. Aversion to the open air, which aggravates the symptoms. Bad effects from wine-drinking, taking cold, and excessive exaltation. Amelioration by cold water (odontalgia).

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1st edition (1900-02, three volumes); homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML digitization

General

Coffee. N. O. Rubiaciæ. Tincture of raw berries.

Clinical

Apoplexy. Asthma. Aural neuralgia. Colic. Convulsions. Diarrhœa. Ecstasy. Excitement . Headache. Heart, hyperæsthesia of. Hernia. Hyperæsthesia. Hysteria. Intermittents. Joy, ill-effects of . Labour pains. Metrorrhagia. Neuralgia. Over-sensitiveness. Sciatica. Shock. Sleeplessness. Toothache.

Characteristics

The effects of Coffea cruda have to be considered separately from those of Coffea tosta , since the roasting converts much of the Coffeine into Coffeone or Methylamine, which gives to coffee its aroma. But the effects are scarcely distinguishable, and I have not attempted to keep them strictly apart. The provings of Coff. c . were made with the raw berries. Coffea belongs to the same family as China, Ipecacuanha , and like these remedies has many symptoms of intermittent fever. It has been noticed that coffee-drinkers who do get ague are more difficult to cure than those who do not drink coffee. The great characteristic of Coffea is exaltation of the senses and sensibility in general. Sight is improved, fine print can be read easily; hearing is more acute, and noises are intolerable. The sense of smell is heightened. All kinds of pains are intolerable; and are accompanied with fear of death. The mental activities are exalted. Sudden emotions, especially joy, produce dangerous symptoms. Great sensitiveness to touch or contact. These symptoms will recall Acon . Guernsey places it in the front rank of remedies for irritability. He compares four others with it, all of which have irritability in high degree, but have different concomitants: Acon ., "fearful and anxious; dreads things"; Aur ., "suicidal, will thrash around in bed (as females in confinement) as if wishing to injure or kill themselves"; Cham ., "spiteful, uncivil"; Coff ., "wakeful, on the constant move"; Nux v ., "sullen, keeps the eyes shut; doesn't wish to speak or have anything to do with any one." Staph . and Coloc . deserve mention also. Teste groups Coff . with Causticum . He remarks that dynamised Coff. crud . prevents or neutralises, in many persons, the effects of roasted coffee. This quasi-isopathic action, as Teste truly remarks, is by no means confined to Coffea ; dynamisations of many other drugs being antidotal to secondary effects of the crude substances. Hahnemann describes the migraine of coffee-drinkers thus: "It comes in the morning after waking, increasing little by little. The pain becomes intolerable, and sometimes burning, integument of head very sensitive and painful on slightest touch. Body and mind excessively sensitive. Patients look exhausted, retire to dark places, close their eyes to avoid light of day; remain seated in an armchair or stretched on a bed. The least noise or motion excites the pain. They avoid talking, being talked to, or hearing others talk. The body is colder than usual though no chills are experienced; the hands and feet are especially cold. They loathe everything, especially food and drink, on account of a continual sickness at the stomach. If the attack is very violent a vomiting of mucus takes place, which, however, does not relieve the headache. There are no alvine discharges. This kind of megrim scarcely ever leaves before evening. If the paroxysm is less violent, a little strong coffee which was the first cause of such a headache will produce a temporary palliation of the pain, but the disposition to relapse becomes so much greater. The attacks come irregularly, every fortnight, or every few weeks, without any apparent cause, and quite suddenly, so much so that the patient often does not feel a single unpleasant symptom the evening preceding the attack. Such a headache has never been seen by me except in real coffee-drinkers." It is well to inquire carefully into the dietary of patients who come complaining of headaches of this kind. More recently Dr. Gilles de la Tourette ( Lancet , July 20, 1895) has described the effects of coffee. In his opinion they are very frequently mistaken for the effects of alcohol: "morning vomiting of glairy mucus, pain in the pit of the stomach, thickly-coated tongue, loss of appetite. The disgust excited by even the idea of solid food is such that these patients eat nothing else but bread soaked in their poison-coffee. There supervene then nausea, vomiting, and painful acid eructations." The pulse is slowed. Insomnia is common, and if there is sleep it is disturbed by dreams of a terrifying nature, like those met with in alcoholism. The effects of coffee are less deep than those of alcohol, and quickly disappear when the habit is discontinued. Peculiar symptoms are: as if head too small; as if something hard pressing on surface of brain; as if head would burst and fly to pieces if she moved; as if intestines were being cut; as if body would burst; "tight" pain; sensation of warmth. Coffea is suited to tall, lean, stooping persons, with dark complexions. Sanguine choleric temperament, complaints during infancy and dentition. Diarrhœa in housewives who have much care and trouble in managing their households. The symptoms are > by warmth, and < in open air (though in toothache warm drinks < , cold drinks > ). Touch < ; would like to rub the part but it is too sensitive. Slight passive movements are perceived as enormous; children at times cannot bear to be carried about. Most symptoms are < at night, sleeps till 3 a.m., after which he only dozes.

Relations

Antidoted by: Acon., Cham., Ignat., Nux, Merc., Puls., Sulph., and especially Tabac. (Teste). Antidote to: Bell., Cham., Cicut., Coloc., Lyc., Nux v., Strych., Valer. It is incompatible with: Canth., Caust., Coccul., Ignat. Followed well by: Aur., Bell., Op., Nux v., Lyc. Compare: Cypr. (ecstasy); Bry. and Cham. (toothache > by cold); Aco. (predicts hour of death); Coca, Codein, Coff. tost.

Causation

Effects of sudden emotion, especially pleasurable ones. Fear or fright. Wine (wine-drinkers should take coffee; beer-drinkers should take tea). Over-fatigue and long journeys.

Mind

Over-sensitiveness; weeping mood. ─ Great anguish; cannot be composed; is not able to hold the pen; trembles. ─ Sentimental ecstasy; excited imagination; increased power to think. ─ Excessive weeping and lamentations over trifles. ─ The pains seem insupportable, driving to despair. ─ Fright from sudden pleasant surprises.

Head

Pains in the head, as if the brain were bruised (as if the brain were torn or dashed to pieces). ─ Semi-lateral cephalalgia, as if a nail were driven into the parietal bone. ─ In the vertex he feels and hears a cracking, when sitting quietly. ─ Heaviness of the head. ─ Congestion in the head, esp. when speaking (or after a pleasant surprise).

Eyes

Eyes lively and red, with unusually clear sight; can read small writing more distinctly.

Ears

Excessive sensibility of hearing. ─ Musical sounds seem to be too loud, and too sharp. ─ Hardness of hearing, with buzzing in the ears.

Nose

Epistaxis, with heaviness of the head. ─ The sense of smell is more acute.

Face

Heat of the face, with redness of the cheeks.

Teeth

Successive pullings, and sharp pains in the teeth, with inquietude, anxiety and tears, esp. at night and after a meal. ─ Toothache, > by cold water.

Throat

Sore throat; with great and painful sensibility, and swelling of the velum palati; < when swallowing.

Stomach

Taste of hazel nuts, or sweet almonds, in the mouth. ─ Tobacco-smoke appears particularly agreeable. ─ Sensation of immoderate hunger, with rapid, hurried eating. ─ Thirst increased, esp. at night, it wakens him. ─ Bilious vomiting. ─ Cramps in the stomach, with pressive, shooting pains.

Abdomen

Anxiety and oppression in the region of the epigastrium. ─ The clothes are oppressive. ─ Colic, as if the stomach had been overloaded, as if the abdomen would burst; cannot suffer the clothes to be tight on the abdomen. ─ Pressure in the abdomen as from incarcerated flatulence. ─ Abdominal pains which induce despair, esp. in women.

Stool

Fæces soft, with frequent evacuation. ─ Diarrhœa, also during dentition.

Urinary Organs

Abundant emission of urine, esp. towards midnight.

Male Sexual Organs

Great excitement of sexual desire, with flaccidity or strong irritation of the genital parts; without emission of semen, and with dry heat of the body.

Female Sexual Organs

Immoderate irritation of the sexual parts of females, with voluptuous itching, great secretion of mucus, and frequent flow of blood. ─ Metrorrhagia. ─ Labour and after-pains insupportably painful.

17, 18. Respiratory Organs and Chest. ─ Short, jerking, dry cough, with great irritation in the larynx, and anxious tossings. ─ Oppression of the chest; obliged to take short inspirations; the breathing heaves the chest visibly. ─ Night cough (cough with measles). ─ Fits of suffocation.

Heart

Palpitation of heart; violent, irregular, with trembling of limbs. ─ Nervous palpitation. ─ Palpitation after excessive joy, surprise.

Upper Limbs

Trembling of the hands, while grasping anything. ─ Cramp-like contractions of the fingers.

Lower Limbs

Cramps in the calf of the leg, on bending the knee. ─ Cramps in the soles of the feet on bending the instep. ─ Trembling of the feet.

Generalities

Painful sensitiveness of the parts affected. ─ Great flexibility of the muscles, and activity of the whole body. ─ Mental and physical excitability. ─ Aversion to the open air, with uneasiness and aggravation of the symptoms during a walk in the open air. ─ Twitching of the limbs. ─ Convulsions, with grinding of the teeth, and coldness in the limbs. ─ Violent shivering, with feverish increase of bodily heat. ─ Fever with inconsolable anguish. ─ Shuddering with colic and violent agitation. ─ The pains are felt intensely, driving to despair, and inclination to weep. ─ Tears, howls, cries, tossing and discouragement, esp. during the paroxysm of pain. ─ Cries of children. ─ Anxiety of heart and of conscience, with apprehensions. ─ He feels unusually well. ─ Vivacity and excessive loquacity. ─ Vivacity and elevation of the imagination, with acuteness of the intellectual faculties.

Skin

Eruptions (measles), with over excitability and weeping.

Sleep

Sleeplessness, from over-excitability of mind and body (sleeplessness of lying-in women). ─ Sleeplessness from excitement of the imagination, flow of ideas, and fantastic visions. ─ Inclination to lie down and to shut the eyes, without being able to sleep.

Fever

Chilliness increased by every movement. ─ Internal chilliness, with external heat of the face and body. ─ Chills running down the back. ─ Dry heat in the evening after going to bed, with chilliness in the back. ─ Nightly, dry heat, with delirium. ─ Perspiration on the face, with internal chilliness.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

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Mind

Memory active, easy comprehension ; increased power to think.
Unusual activity of mind and body.
Sentimental ecstasy ; excited imagination.
Full of ideas ; quick to act, no sleep on this account.
Lively fancies : full of plans for the future.
Delirium at night, with dry heat.
Delirium tremens : unsteady running about ; imagines he is not at home, with trembling of hands ; small, frequent pulse.
Great loquacity, brain feels clear and is active, he feels strong enough to do anything, feels impelled to push things ; veneration for the Supreme Being and love for family ; benevolence excited.
Answers short, not disposed to talk, or endless volubility when describing his ailments.
Patients cannot contain themselves, crying out in a most terrible manner ; they bend the body double and throw the limbs about, grate the teeth, are covered with a cold sweat, and finally stretch themselves out in a stiff, rigid manner, with groaning and difficult respiration.
Weeping mood.
Weeping and complaining, with fear of death ; thinks that she will die. θ Metrorrhagia.
Excessive weeping and lamentations over trifles.
Whining and moaning ; much crying.
Child cries and laughs easily ; while crying it suddenly laughs quite heartily and finally cries again.
Cries and trembles, does not know what to do.
Throws things about, away, down, etc.
Cheerfulness ; lively temper ; mirthful.
Depression of spirits.
Weeping, complaining, disheartened mood, anxiety of mind and conscience filled with many fears. θ Hysteria.
Fear of death. θ Asthma.
Metrorrhagia, large black lumps, < from every motion, violent pain in groins, fever, bright red face ; in greatest despair, believes herself dying.
Fright from sudden pleasant surprises.
Pains unbearable, feels discouraged, cries and throws himself about ; fear of fresh air and of least noise ; excessive weeping and lamentations over trifles.
Great anguish ; cannot be composed ; is not able to hold the pen ; trembles.
Exasperation, tears ; tossing about in great anguish.
Pains seem insupportable, driving to despair.
Irritability ; oversensitive disposition.
Fretful mood, alternately merry or whining.
Child frets and worries in an innocent manner ; is not cross, but sleepless ; it laughs one moment and cries the next.
Mental excitability.
Feels < when hurried.
Ailments from excessive joy, excessive laughing and playing ; from disappointed love ; from anger, or from vexation with vehemence or fright ; from narcotic medicines, noises, strong smells.
Weeping from uncontrollable delight. θ After parturition.
Affections after sudden emotions, particularly pleasant surprises.

Sensorium

Cerebral erethism, with nervousness and palpitation of heart. θ Cardiac hyperesthesia.
Sensorium more vivid, hence increased susceptibility to pain.
All the senses more acute, reads fine print easier, hearing, smell, taste and touch acute, particularly also an increased perception of slight passive motions.
Vertigo : with whirling sensation in head, occasionally a general faint feeling, < by thinking ; with burning in stomach ; with sick headache, > by a change of position or from moderate outdoor exercise ; she cannot stand ; with blackness before
eyes ; when stooping.
Dizzy confusion of head.
Confusion of senses.
Threatening of apoplexy ; overexcited, talkative, full of fear, pangs of conscience, aversion to open air, sleepless, convulsive grinding of teeth.

Inner head

Feels and hears a cracking in vertex when sitting quietly.
Heaviness of head, particularly in forehead over eyes.
Head feels too small.
Congestion of blood to head ; especially after pleasant surprise ; from talking ; while talking.
Headache like pressing with something hard on surface of brain.
Headache with great mental excitement.
Headache from slightest cause, from thinking, excessive joy, contradiction, vexation, catching cold, chill, eating too much, with aversion to the accustomed use of coffee, sensitive to least noise and music ; pain seems unbearable, making patient
tearful ; they lose all self-possession, throw themselves about crying violently, dread cold air, are chilly.
Headache with whining mood.
Headache as if whole brain was torn and bruised, or dashed to pieces ; < from motion, noise, or light.
Headache intolerable, head feels small and as if filled with a fluid ; as if it would burst or fly to pieces if she moved.
Stinging pain in locality of amativeness on left side.
Nervous, hysterical headaches in people of nervous or sanguine temperament.
One-sided headache, as from a nail driven into head ; < in open air.
Pain drives to despair and patient runs wildly about room.
Sick headache, with vertigo, flushed face, burning in eyes, throbbing in temples.
Megrim from mental exertion, in persons who do not use coffee.
Headache renewed and < after eating and sleep ; it disappears in open air, but returns in a short time in room.
Headache after intoxication.
Hyperemia of brain after abuse of Bellad.
Threatening of apoplexy, with congestion to head.

Sight and eyes

Eyes reddish and shining ; increased visual power, sees much more clearly in open air ; reads fine print easily.
Scintillations before eyes.
Pupils dilated.
Eyes half open during sleep, with convulsive motion of eyes when awake. θ Summer complaint.
Burning in eyes and throbbing in temples. θ Sick headache.

Hearing and ears

Hearing more acute and sensitive ; music has a shrill sound.
Aversion to noise ; it hurts him.
Noises and singing in ears, with nervous people.
Cracking noise in head (one side), synchronous with pulse ; particularly in morning and in open air ; > indoors.
Hardness of hearing, with buzzing in left ear as of a swarm of bees.

Smell and nose

Acute, sensitive smell.
Nosebleed : with heaviness of head and ill humor ; during straining at stool.
Bleeding from air passages.

Upper face

Transitory flushes in face.
Shining red face with much fever. θ Metrorrhagia.
Dry heat of face, with red cheeks.
Flushed face, burning in eyes and throbbing temples. θ Sick headache.
Prosopalgia, extending to molar teeth of right side ; she is very irritable, sensitive and moaning from distressing pain ; painful teeth > by contact with ice.
Sweat on face, with internal chilliness.

Teeth and gums

Convulsive grinding of teeth.
Toothache : driving the patient almost frantic ; with weeping, trembling, anguish and tossing about ; indescribable pains ; stinging, jerking, intermittent aching ; with restlessness, anguish and weeping mood, especially at night and after a meal ; < from
hot or warm drink, from chewing, at night ; > when holding ice or ice cold water in mouth.
Violent throbbing toothache ; run about crying and complain of insupportable pain, though they confess that sometimes the pain is not so intense, yet they are affected very much ; they behave like persons distracted.
Neuralgic toothache, entirely > by holding cold water in mouth, returning as this becomes warm.
Toothache during catamenia.
Complaints of anemic children during dentition.

Taste, speech, tongue

Taste : more acute ; delicate ; sweetish.
Loss of taste.

Inner mouth

Excessive dryness of mouth at night.

Palate and throat

Uvula too long, swollen.
Steady pain from side of palate into œsophagus ; constant desire to swallow, from sensation as of plug or phlegm in throat.
Constantly increasing pain in throat and head, with weeping mood.
Sore throat, < from cool air, affected parts very sensitive.
Swelling and painfulness of the throat ; < when swallowing.
Influenza.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Morbid sensation of excessive hunger.
Increased hunger, with hurried eating.
With the headache a loathing of food and drink on account of a continuance of sickness at stomach.
Thirst : at night, wakens him ; during sweat ; rather infrequent during heat, almost constant after heat and during sweat.
Aversion to coffee.

Eating and drinking

Eats and drinks hastily.
Bad effects from wine or liquor drinking.
Headache renewed, < after eating.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Hiccough.
Eructations : burning ; sour ; like rotten eggs ; violent, spasmodic, with rising of the ingesta.
Continual sickness at stomach with headache.
Constant inclination to vomit, felt in throat.
Vomiting of mucus with violent attacks of megrim.
Bilious vomiting and restlessness at commencement of variola.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Tension of epigastric region, with sensitiveness to touch.
Anguish and pressure in epigastrium.
Burning in stomach with vertigo.
Cramps in stomach.
Gastric derangements of infants.
Disordered stomach, indigestion.

Abdomen and loins

Flatulency.
Pressure in abdomen, as from incarcerated flatus.
Distended abdomen, extreme emaciation. θ Summer complaint.
Excessive pains with anguish, great nervousness, loud crying and grating of teeth.
Colic : as if stomach had been overloaded ; as if abdomen would burst ; cannot suffer clothes to be tight on abdomen ; exceedingly painful, driven to desperation ; as if intestines were being cut ; in paroxysms excessively painful
and violent.
Terrible colic, with horripilation, anxiety and violent tossing of limbs, during paroxysm. θ Intermittent fever.
Continuous pinching pain in iliac region.
Summer complaint of children.
Incarcerated hernia.

Stools and rectum

Fetid flatus.
Diarrhœa : watery, painless, weakening, from domestic cares ; during dentition, after the use of chamomile ; of liquid, fecal, offensive stools, from sudden joy or taking cold in open air ; painless.
Constant alternations of constipation and diarrhœa.
Constipation and hemorrhoids. θ Sick headache.
Hemorrhoidal conditions.
During straining of stool, nosebleed.
Spasmodic contraction of sphincter, with burning and itching in anus.

Urinary organs

Pressure on bladder.
Frequent, profuse micturition, urine colorless.
Emission of a large quantity of urine at midnight.
Urine passes off drop by drop.

Male sexual organs

Excessive excitability of sexual organs.
Sexual organs much excited without emission of semen, and with dry heat of body.
Hypersensitiveness of sexual organs ; little suffering seems unbearable ; > in morning and at night, also in open air ; < from cold water.
Nocturnal emissions, followed by great languor and irritability of temper.
Scrotum relaxed.

Female sexual organs

Hysteralgia ; metritis ; nymphomania.
Great sensitiveness of female genital organs, with general excitability ; she is in a state of ecstasy.
Oversensitiveness of vagina.
Aversion to intercourse, on account of pain it produces.
Inflammation induced by excessive joy ; she is in a state of ecstasy, and is very sensitive to contact. θ Metritis.
Bearing down in genitals during and after walking, with frequent urination.
Uterine hemorrhage, with excessive sensitiveness of organs and voluptuous itching.
Metrorrhagia : large black lumps ; < from every motion, with violent pain in groins and fear of death.
Menses : too profuse and of long duration ; profuse, with coldness and stiffness of body ; only during evening ; profuse with excessive sensitiveness of organs and voluptuous itching ; flowing profusely during first part of night.
Dysmenorrhœa.
Abdominal cramps during menstrual period, or at the beginning ; twitching of limbs, bending the body double, crying, fear, cold perspiration, she throws herself upon the ground.
Excessively painful and violent paroxysms of colic, with profuse bloody discharge, profuse secretion of mucus, voluptuous itching and excessive sexual excitement.
Leucorrhœa : like mucus, or milky ; more while urinating.
Excessive sensitiveness about vulva, with voluptuous itching, desire to rub or scratch the parts, but they are too sensitive.
Eruptions on female genitals.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

Ptyalism of pregnancy.
She is very sleepless, wide awake, and the pains are very distressing ; she feels them very acutely.
Continuous and very distressing pains, making her feel as if she would "go distracted."
Abortion ; patient querulous and in great fear of death.
Excessive labor pains ; too long continuation of after-pains.
Excessively severe pains from threatened abortion, or labor.
During labor or after-pains, extreme fear of death.
Irregular, ineffectual labor pains.
Ineffectual labor pains, contractions of uterus and pressure upon os uteri, causing only pain in small of back.
Labor pains insupportable to her feelings ; she feels them intensely, weeps and laments fearfully ; although the pains are severe, they are not efficacious ; constant whining, crying, lamenting ; violent moving of limbs ; head hot, red ; face puffed, eyes
glittering ; complete despair, great fear of death.
Labor pains ceasing, with complaining loquacity.
Lochial discharge too profuse, exalted nervous sensibility.
Insupportably intense after-pains, or pains followed by convulsions, coldness and rigidity of body.
Puerperal fever from mental excitement ; frequent crawling, with feverish heat, tongue moist, no thirst ; delirious talking, eyes open, shining ; violent abdominal pains, with oversensitiveness, despair, sleeplessness, trembling of hands.
Puerperal convulsions ; extreme excitability.
Agalactia.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Rawness in larynx, with hoarseness and roughness in morning on awaking.
Larynx as if covered with dry mucus.
Spasmodic constriction of larynx.
Spasmus glottidis ; starts from sleep with short inhalation or gasping, with wheezing, cold sweat, blue face ; < when put into bath ; mucous vomiting.
Sensation of rawness in trachea.

Respiration

Oppression of chest ; short inspiration ; chest heaves visibly.
Moaning.
Hot breath.
Child gasps for breath several times during day ; then more frequently, and finally three or four times every hour.
Suffocative fits.
Asthmatic attacks in morning, wants to move continually.
Asthma.

Cough

Irritation to cough, with coryza, < in open air.
Irritation to cough, outdoors.
Continual inclination to cough ; feels exhausted after coughing.
Cough : short, dry, hacking ; spasmodic and dry, moist ; single, sudden shocks, quickly following each other ; from irritation in throat, phlegm in back part of throat ; with dimness before eyes ; during evening and midnight ; when falling asleep or
soon after ; during measles.
Short, dry cough, as from constriction of larynx.
Dry, hacking cough, like whooping cough, with this difference, that the spasms are principally experienced during inspirations, not during expirations.
Constant cough, emaciation and cachectic appearance.
During cough : stitches in sides ; anxiety ; dimness before eyes and vertigo.

Inner chest and lungs

Oppression of chest.
Sensation as if body would burst, with feeling of fulness and pressure, severe cramps extending into chest.
Constriction of chest, asthma at night.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Palpitation of heart ; violent, irregular, with trembling of limbs.
Nervous palpitation of heart.
Palpitation after excessive exaltation, joy, surprise.
Strong, quick palpitation of heart with extreme nervousness, sleeplessness and cerebral erethism, caused by unexpected news of great good fortune.
Pulse full and frequent.
Pulse : more frequent, but less vigorous, even small and weak ; intermitting.

Neck and back

Laming pain in small of back, while sitting or standing.

Upper limbs

Pains extend from face down arms, even to finger ends.
Continual jerking and twitching of arms and hands, otherwise well.
The hands tremble if he tries to hold them still.
Great trembling of hands. θ Delirium tremens.
Trembling of hands, with heat in palms and coldness of backs of hands.

Lower limbs

Crural neuralgia of gouty, rheumatic origin, tearing, stitching pain, < from motion ; attacks irregular in appearance and lasting several hours, mostly at night or in afternoon.
Crural neuralgia of left limb, > from pressure, but very much < by pressure at point of exit of nerve.
Sciatic or crural neuralgia, in attacks ; rending, shooting, < by walking ; > by pressure, < afternoon and night ; restless and sleepless at night.

Limbs in general

Coldness of limbs, hands and feet.
Twitching of limbs.
Pains in limbs.

Rest. position. motion

While sitting : laming pain in small of back ; feels and hears crackling in vertex.
Lying down : external heat, with shivering in back in evening after.
While standing : laming pain in small of back.
After walking : bearing down in genitals.
Motion : metrorrhagia < from every ; headache < from ; crural neuralgia < from ; spasms or convulsions renewed after every ; chill increased ; inclination for.
Change of position : > vertigo.
When stooping : blackness before eyes.
Worse when bending diseased part, particularly when bending it backward or forward.
Worse when moving diseased limb.
Worse when sitting down.
While walking : bearing down in genitals ; sciatic or crural neuralgia <.
Exercise : vertigo > by moderate outdoor ; chill increased by ; inclination for.
Worse from bodily exertion.
Wants to be continually moving.
Cries and throws himself about.
Tosses about in great anguish.
Patients cannot contain themselves, they bend the body double and throw the limbs about, grate the teeth, are covered with a cold sweat and finally stretch themselves out in a stiff, rigid manner.

Nerves

Overexcitement of entire nervous system, < outdoors.
Physical excitement through mental exaltation.
Great excitement and irritability of sensory organs and of whole nervous system, as in lying-in women, and particularly after abuse of chamomile.
Great sensibility, mental and physical ; intolerance of all manipulations, which cause great agitation, interfering with treatment ; rather quiet when let alone ; afraid of the surgeon ; sleepless, so long as any noise or light continues, at night.
Extreme excitability of nervous system when spasms are apprehended, or if spasms have actually been developed, attended with cold extremities and grinding of teeth.
The child is very excitable and weakly, and in consequence frequently suffers with spasms.
Extreme sensitiveness, especially in children.
Fear of fresh air and of least noise.
Slight pain unendurable.
Great agitation and restlessness.
Great restlessness, lying awake most of night and tossing about in bed. θ Ague.
Extreme nervousness with strong, quick palpitation of heart. θ Cardiac hyperesthesia.
Hysteria and nervousness ; screams, weeping.
Fainting from sudden emotions.
The greatest mental and physical exhaustion, lassitude and general debility.
Headache or other nervous pains, with whining mood.
Muscular jerking.
Spasms brought on by excessive laughing and playing, in weakly, excitable children.
Spasms or convulsions, renewed after every emotion.
Convulsions of teething children, with grinding of teeth and coldness of limbs, after overexcitement.
Paralysis.

Sleep

Sleeplessness from overexcitement of body or mind.
Cannot get to sleep because some ideas force themselves upon the mind.
Sleeplessness from joy or agreeable surprise, from long watching, from excessive use of coffee.
Nervous, restless agitation, preventing all sleep.
Quick to act ; no sleep on this account.
The child is very excitable, playful and sleepless ; it seems as if it could not sleep ; it frets and worries in an innocent manner ; is not cross, but sleepless ; it laughs at one moment and cries the next, is feverish for want of sleep, which it cannot
obtain.
Wide awake ; not the slightest inclination to sleep ; after great mental strain, joy, night watching ; acute diseases ; dental irritation.
Sleeplessness, with palpitation and nervousness. θ Cardiac hyperesthesia.
Sleeplessness of lying-in women.
Sleeplessness during reconvalescence.
Drowsiness with inability to go to sleep ; very weary with sleep ; much gaping.
On going to sleep, starts up suddenly in affright, with groans and fear of falling.
Restless sleep ; frequent, sudden starting and waking.
Tossing about or turning from side to side in bed.
Imperfect sleep, with eyes half open and convulsive motion of eyes when awake. θ Summer complaint.
Sleeps until 3 A. M., after which he only dozes, on waking does not come to his senses.
Very long, vivid dreams at night ; pleasant dreams, even merry.

Time

In morning : crackling noise in head ; hypersensitiveness of sexual organs < ; hoarseness and roughness in larynx on awaking ; asthmatic attacks ; slight sweat.
In afternoon : attack of crural neuralgia ; sciatic or crural neuralgia <.
During evening : menses only ; cough ; dry heat with chilliness in back after going to bed ; external heat with shivering in back, after lying down.
First part of night : profuse flow of menses.
At night : delirium, with dry heat ; toothache < ; excessive dryness of mouth wakens him ; hypersensitiveness of sexual organs < ; emissions ; asthma ; attack of crural neuralgia ; sciatic or crural neuralgia < ; restless and sleepless ; lies
awake, tossing about in bed ; very long, vivid dreams ; pleasant dreams ; dry heat, with delirium ; dry heat, with measly spots on skin.
At midnight : emission of a large quantity of urine, cough.
Sleeps until 3 A. M., after which he only dozes, on waking does not come to his senses.

Temperature and weather

In room : headache returns in a short time.
Indoors : crackling in head >.
Feeling of heat in bed, yet avoids being uncovered.
Better after getting out of bed.
Hot or warm drinks : toothache < from.
Worse from cold : > from warmth.
Affected parts sensitive to warmth or cold air.
Generally dislikes to be uncovered.
Shunning open air.
Outdoors : irritation to cough ; overexcitement of entire nervous system.
In open air : headache < ; headache disappears ; sees more clearly ; crackling noise in head ; diarrhœa from taking cold ; hypersensitiveness of sexual organs < ; irritation to cough, with coryza <.
Fresh air : fear of.
Cold air : dread of : sore throat < from ; chilliness and shivering from least exposure to.
Liability to take cold from least change.
Cold : great sensitiveness to ; prosopalgia from ; pain in limbs from.
From bath : spasmus glottidis <.
Cold water : toothache > from ; neuralgic toothache entirely > by ; hypersensitiveness of sexual organs > from.
Ice : painful teeth > by contact with.

Fever

Coldness and chilliness running all through limbs.
Chills running down back.
Chill increased by exercise or motion.
Chilliness and shivering from least exposure to cold air ; cannot get warm, hands and feet cold, on account of easy perspiration ; chills ascend from fingers and toes to nape of neck and thence to vertex.
Chill without thirst.
Internal shivering, or inward chills, with external heat of face or whole body.
Chilly feelings, with internal and external warmth.
Cold, followed by pain and a desire to weep.
Great sensitiveness to cold.
Flushes of heat or currents of cold air down back.
Flushes of heat and transitory flushes in face.
External heat, with shivering in back, in evening after lying down.
Dry heat in evening after going to bed, with chilliness in back.
Child feverish for want of sleep.
Feeling of heat when in bed, yet avoids being uncovered.
Dry heat at night, with delirium.
Feverish with pain and always ready to weep.
Heat with thirst.
Heat in face, with red cheeks after eating.
One cheek hot and red, with constant shuddering.
External dry heat of skin and dry warmth of face.
Hot flushes to face, hot cheeks and delirium.
Fever is not violent, but nerves are irritated, with sleeplessness.
Even with mild fever patient is very nervous and sensitive.
Much fever, with shining redness of face. θ Metrorrhagia.
Cold, clammy perspiration over body, but chiefly in palms of hands.
Sweat occasionally follows heat.
Slight morning sweat.
Perspiration of affected parts.
Sweat with thirst.
General sweat over whole body, most on palms of hands and in face, with internal shivering.
Perspiration slight, mostly in face, with internal shivering.
Ague, paroxysms every fourth day, two well days intervening.
Intermittent.
Traumatic fever.

Attacks, periodicity

Spasmodic : eructations ; contraction of sphincter ani ; contraction of larynx ; cough.
Occasional : general faint feeling.
Transitory : flushes in face.
Frequent : profuse micturition ; short, dry cough.
Constant : desire to swallow ; thirst, after heat and during sweat ; sickness at stomach with headache ; inclination to vomit, felt in throat ; pinching pain in iliac region ; alternation of constipation and diarrhœa ; whining, crying, lamenting ;
desire to move, with asthma ; inclination to cough ; cough, jerking and twitching of arms and hands ; shuddering.
Several times during day, child gasps for breath, then more frequently and finally three or four times every hour.
Lasting several hours : attacks of crural neuralgia.
Intermittent : aching in teeth.
Every fourth day : paroxysms of ague.

Locality and direction

Right : prosopalgia extending to molar teeth.
Left : stinging pain in locality of amativeness ; buzzing in ear as of a swarm of bees ; crural neuralgia of limb.
From without inward : as if a nail was being driven into head.
From above downward : pains extend from face down arms, even to finger ends ; chills running down back.

Sensations

As of something hard pressing on surface of brain ; as if whole brain was torn and bruised, or dashed to pieces ; as if head was small and filled with fluid ; as if head would burst, or fly to pieces if she moved ; as if a nail was driven into head ;
as of a swarm of bees in left ear ; as of a plug or phlegm in throat ; as if stomach had been overloaded, with colic ; as if abdomen would burst ; as if intestines were being cut ; as if larynx was covered with dry mucus ; as of constriction of larynx ; as
if body would burst, with feeling of fulness and pressure.
Pain : in groins ; from side of palate into œsophagus ; in throat and head, constantly increasing ; in small of back with ineffectual labor pains ; from face down arms, even to finger ends ; in limbs.
Stitching pains : with crural neuralgia ; in sides.
Stinging : in locality of amativeness on left side ; toothache ; on skin.
Shooting pains : of sciatic or crural neuralgia.
Jerking : toothache.
Tearing pains : with crural neuralgia ; in flesh and cellular tissue, rather than in bones ; in parts between articulations themselves.
Rending pain : of sciatic or crural neuralgia.
Burning : in stomach ; in eyes ; eructations ; in anus.
Smarting : on skin.
Soreness : of throat.
Rawness : in larynx ; in trachea.
Roughness : in larynx.
Pinching : in iliac region.
Whirling : in head.
Pressure : in epigastrium ; in abdomen, as from incarcerated flatulence ; on bladder.
Bearing down : in genitals.
Cramps : in stomach ; in abdomen during menstrual period, or at the beginning ; extending into chest.
Constriction : of chest ; of larynx.
Bruised pain : in internal parts.
Anguish : in epigastrium.
Aching : in teeth.
Laming pain : in small of back.
Oppression : of chest.
Tension : of epigastric region.
Crackling : in vertex ; in head (one side), synchronous with pulse.
Throbbing : in temples ; toothache.
Dizzy confusion : of head.
Confusion : of senses.
Heaviness : of head, particularly in forehead over eyes.
Dryness : of mouth ; of skin.
Sensation of warmth.
Coldness : of limbs, hands and feet ; of body ; running all through limbs.
Itching : in anus ; of sexual organs ; all over, changing to burning.

Tissues

Great sensitiveness and pain of affected parts.
Increased mobility of muscles, or muscles rigid.
Tearing pains in flesh and cellular tissue, rather than in bones ; in parts between articulations themselves.
Extreme emaciation. θ Summer complaint of children.
Affections after sudden emotions, particularly pleasant surprises.
Bad effects from wine drinking.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Touch : epigastric region sensitive to ; inflammation induced by excessive joy, she is very sensitive to.
Very sensitive to contact.
Cannot suffer clothes to be tight on abdomen.
Intolerance of all manipulations, which cause great agitation, interfering with treatment.
Pressure : crural neuralgia > by ; at point of exit of nerve < crural neuralgia.
Would like to scratch or rub the part, but it is too sensitive.
Slight passive motions (rocking, etc.) startle him ; are perceived as enormous.
Children at times cannot bear to be carried about.

Skin

Dryness of skin, but not in febrile diseases.
Excessive sensitiveness of skin.
Hot skin.
Itching all over changes to burning.
Stinging and smarting on skin.
Eruptions with overexcitability and weeping.
Purple miliary eruptions all over.
Measly spots on skin with dry heat at night ; overexcitability and weeping.
Measles : frequent, short and dry cough, hoarse when crying ; skin and all senses oversensitive ; spasmodic motions, trembling, grinding of teeth ; overwakefulness with heat and sweat in face.
Measles, with overexcitability and weeping.
Scarlet rash, with overwhelming pains and lamenting mood.
Scarlet fever ; may aid in bringing out the eruption in cases of extreme wakefulness and nervous excitement.
Varicella ; smallpox.

Stage of life, constitution

Tall, lean, stooping persons, with dark complexions.
Coffee should be used by wine drinkers.
Weakly and excitable children.
Suitable to sensitive persons, and if the symptoms caused by fright do not yield to Acon.
Suitable to children for great restlessness, tossing about, nervousness, screams and weeping.
Sanguine choleric temperament.
Complaints during infancy and dentition.
Coffee drinkers are hard to cure of ague.
MG., æt. 20 weeks, father subject to attacks of hoarseness ; spasmus glottidis.
Boy, æt. 5, broken thigh ; traumatic shock.
Young girl ; convulsions.
Woman, æt. 25, easy labor two years ago ; ineffectual labor pains.
Mother of five children, æt. 28, well built, black hair and eyes, red cheeks, menses regular ; metrorrhagia.
Mother of five children ; ineffectual labor pains.
Lady unaccustomed to the use of coffee ; toothache.
ES., æt. 32 ; ague of eighteen months standing, contracted in army.
Landlady, æt. 45, using coffee two or three times a day ; diarrhœa.
Married woman, æt. 50 ; sleeplessness.

Relations

Antidoted by : Acon., Chamom., Ignat., Mercur., Nux vom., Pulsat., Sulphur .
It antidotes : Bellad., Chamom., Cicuta, Coloc., Nux vom., Strychnia, Valer . (See antidotal relations under Coffea tosta ).
Compatible : Acon . (after Coffea in ineffectual labor pains) ; Ignat . (tenderness after Coffea relieved toothache) ; after Thea
(sleeplessness) ; after Chamom . (belly-pains and diarrhœa in teething children) ; Sulphur (nervous erethism caused by coffee).
Incompatible : Canthar., Caustic., Coccul., Ignat .
Compare : Acon., Agar., Arsen., Bellad., Canthar., Caustic., Chamom., Coca, Coccul., Ignat, Mercur., Natr. mur., Nux vom., Opium, Pulsat., Sepia, Sulphur, Thea .

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

James Tyler Kent · Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Séror HTML text (Kent d. 1916; public domain)

Sensitiveness

This drug is characterized by a general sensitivity. Sensitiveness of vision, of hearing, of smell, of touch; sensitiveness to pain. it is most astonishing sometimes about this great sensitiveness. Pains are increased by noise.

Sensitiveness of hearing is so great that sounds are painful. Pains in the face, toothache, headache; pains in the lower limbs; everywhere aggravated by noise.

All the nervous disturbances possible are found in this medicine, and they are all aggravated by noise. Even the opening of the door and the ringing of the door-bell produces great suffering. Such patients are so sensitive that they hear sounds which those in a state of health cannot hear.

Perhaps no medicine in the Materia Medica approximates this sensitiveness of hearing where it is accompanied with pain, unless it be Nux vom. Those practitioners who do not know this generally resort to Nux vom. for pains aggravated from voices in another room, or from noise or the sound of children.

Many remedies have increase of nervousness from noise; noise aggravates headache, and aggravates suffering about the head, and makes some persons nervous, But pain in the extremities aggravated by noise is peculiar. It seems that the noise disturbs him so that he cannot bear pain.

The Coffea state is brought on by emotions or violent excitement of the mind, but especially by joy or

"pleasant surprise."

The result is sleeplessness, nervous excitement, neuralgia, twitching of muscles, toothache, face ache, red face and hot head.

You may be called to the bedside of a woman who has been laboring for some great cause. She works persistently, is successful, but goes to bed with weeping, delirium, neuralgia, sleeplessness.

Her heart palpitates, her pulse flickers, she has fainting spells, and without Coffea she may die. Coffee drinkers who keep up through some ordeal and then break down are similarly affected.

The Coffea patient is sensitive to wine. A small amount of wine intensifies the nervousness, produces sleeplessness, flushed face, feverishness, great excitement. Not necessarily intoxication, but nervous excitement.

Coffea has a painful sensitiveness of the skin beyond comprehension. I remember one particular case. A woman bad her lower limb out of bed and it was as red as fire down one side. I walked toward it to put my hand on it.

But she said,

"Oh, don't touch it, I can't bear to have it touched; I can't touch it myself."

I asked how long this had been coming on.

She said,

"Ob, it all came on within an hour."

Such a symptom is common in coffee drinkers. There was no fever. Intense stinging, burning pains in the skin with the redness and heat with coarse rash coming on suddenly, leaving just as suddenly. The sensitive part is aggravated by cold air, aggravated by any wind or from fanning, from motion, yet aggravated by warmth. Aggravated from anyone walking across the floor. The woman I referred to scowled when I was walking toward the bed. A number of times I have seen such things relieved within a few minutes by Coffea.

Mind

Fainting from sudden emotions. Hysteria, nervousness, weeping. Pitiful weeping from pain trembling and weeping from hurt feelings; the slightest neglect. The greatest mental and physical exhaustion; great restlessness lying awake most of the night.

The wakefulness produced by Coffea is well known, even to the laity. It is taken by nurses to keep them awake nights with their patients. The Coffea patient is quick to act and to think. So full of ideas that she lies awake nights making plans, thinking of a thousand things; utterly unable to banish the thoughts that flood the mind; hears the clocks on the distant steeples, as do Opium, China and Nux vom.

Hears the dogs barking. So great is the brain activity, the mental excitement, that she hears noises that are purely imaginary. Memory active, easy comprehension full of ideas; increased power to think and to debate. Coffea increases the mental capacity. But after a while reaction follows; she becomes stupid and sleepy.

There is no end to the fancies, to the visions. Fanciful visions come before the mind. Recalls things not thought of for years; recalls poetry that was recited in childhood. Eyes brilliant; pupils dilated; face flushed head hot.

Teeth

With all these nervous states the patient dreads the fresh air. He is extremely sensitive to cold, sensitive to the wind and cold weather. Complaints come on in the cold weather, from the cold air. Pain in the mouth and jaws, better from holding ice-cold water in the mouth.

This applies to toothache and faceache where it is deep in the jaws. Hot head; inflamed condition of the gums. Pain in the teeth; rending, tearing pain in the teeth, brought on from exposure to cold, from emotions, from excitement, from joy; aggravated from motion; ameliorated by ice or ice-cold things; aggravated by warm food.

Cannot drink warm tea, it so intensifies the pain. That is a particular. The particulars contrast with the generals. In one place you may see "better from cold" in black-faced type, but it relates to the face and jaws. Worse from cold is a general. Aversion to cold air, aversion to the open air unless it is very warm and still. Aversion to wind.

"Neuralgic toothache entirely relieved by holding cold water in the mouth, returning as it becomes warm.

Toothache during the menstrual period.

Complaints of anemic children during dentition."

Children

Those nervous, excitable children that talk to the nurse and the mother very rapidly with brilliant eyes, red face, cannot go to sleep. It will quiet the patient and actually favor the growth of the tooth in a painless manner.

That is the description of a nervous child with many nervous brain and mental troubles. This child is extremely sensitive; it takes cold. The routine prescriber gives Belladonna to a child who has hot head, hot face and throbbing carotids, and when it does not help he gives more Belladonna, and increases the size of his dose until the child has a proving.

He makes a Belladonna child, out of it when Coffea would have cured it. In most instances where Belladonna is indicated the child is sluggish and stupid, and would like to sleep. With Coffea there is excitement. The child hears things its mother cannot hear; sees things; imagines things.

Wakes up in fright. Sees this, that and the other thing in the room. Wakes up excited as if it had visions. Looks for things, and finally sees they are not there. Such things are strong features of Coffea.

Ears

At times the head is hot, the face is flushed and, the eyes so brilliant that one fears apoplexy. Patients will often tell you that they hear a "noise" in the head, a ringing and roaring in the occiput.

The ear is the one organ capable of registering sounds. But strange to say, the ears are sometimes very deceiving. Roaring in the ears sometimes seems as if it were in the occiput. Sometimes it is accompanied with a sensation of tingling or bubbling in the head.

When patients say,

"I have a roaring in the head,"

you know that means in the car; many times accompanying roaring, ringing in the ears, buzzing in the ears, is a peculiar sensation of vibration in the head that is mistaken by the patient for a sound.

I mention that because the Coffea patient feels a crackling or a bubbling in the occiput. The head feels badly; it feels too small. Headache, as of something pressing hard upon the surface of the brain.

You would naturally suppose there was a pressing because of the congestive state heretofore described.

"Headache as if the whole brain were torn and bruised, or dashed to pieces.

Worse from motion, noise or light."

The eye and the head symptoms are worse from noise and light.

"Headache intolerable.

Head feels small, and as if filled with fluid.

Nervous hysterical headache.

One-sided headache."

There is another head symptom which is quite common. A feeling as if a nail were driven into the head. Coffea headaches are worse from walking, from motion; from the mere moving across the floor, he says he feels a draft of air on his head. And that is true of the pain in any part of the body.

If a Coffea patient should have a pain in the hand, swinging of the hand through the air will aggravate. It is worse both from the motion and from the air. I want to illustrate that in this way in order to show how sensitive he is to air, and especially the painful part to cold air; when he moves against the air, against even still air he feels it. But the amelioration of the toothache from cold is an exception, is a particular.

The neuralgia of the face is a common feature of old coffee drinkers.

Sensitive persons take coffee and finally become habituated to it. They say they cannot get along without it. They must have coffee. Such individuals should stop coffee. When coffee furnishes a crutch it is a sure indication that drinking it must be stopped.

So it is with tea or any beverage. Such persons sometimes become sensitive to coffee, and they drink it in great quantities; the face becomes red; headaches come on, and other symptoms of Coffea. Stopping coffee brings out quite a proving, and you have to study Cham. and Nux for an antidote.

In all these remedies you get opposite effects. Now Opium will illustrate that. The first effect of Opium is to constipate. Let several doses be given, and as the effects of the Opium wear off he may have diarrhea. Opium eaters can seldom stop because a diarrhea comes on. If you should ever have an Opium case and diarrhea comes on Puls. will nearly always control it. But there are individuals who reverse that. Often small doses of Opium will bring on dysentery, and if it is increased, bloody dysentery and inflammation of the bowels come on. Of course, one is action and the other the reaction.

Women

A woman who is a confirmed coffee drinker will have menses too soon and lasting too long.

Uterine hemorrhage is not uncommon. Another feature of Coffea is that the woman can scarcely wear the napkin during menstruation (Platinum).

The parts are in a state of hyperesthesia. The vagina is hot and sensitive, often preventing coition. In the text it reads

"Great sensitiveness of female genital organs, with general excitability.

She is in a state of ecstacy.

Uterine hemorrhage with excessive sensitiveness of organs and voluptuous itching.

Metrorrhagia; large black lumps."

Sometimes large bright red lumps.

"Worse from every motion, with violent pain in the groins, and fear of death."

Excessive sensitiveness about the vulva with voluptuous itching, is a strong feature of Coffea, and you will often find such symptoms in coffee drinkers.

During and after labor we also see this great excitement, all these nervous manifestations. The nervous system is in a fret, and such a mental state as described comes on with after-pains; extremely sensitive to pain, cries out; sees visions; hears all sorts of noises.

Pains aggravated from motion; aggravated from noise. Wants everybody to keep still in the house.

Convulsions of children.

"Puerperal convulsions.

Extreme excitability."

"Palpitation of the heart, pulse fluttering."

"Strong, quick palpitation of the heart with extreme nervousness, sleeplessness and cerebral erethism caused by unexpected news of great good fortune."

Let a woman about to go into confinement hear suddenly some unusually good news and the becomes almost ecstatic; carries the symptom all through confinement. The child is affected, the milk is affected. The milk flows away.

Hemorrhage is likely to come on. Great nervousness, excitability, fear.

The Therapeutics of Fevers

H. C. Allen · The Therapeutics of Fevers · 1902 Library of Congress printing (Allen d. 1909; public domain)

Characteristic

Over-sensitiveness; all the senses more acute, sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch (Bell., Cham.,

Opium).

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; driv- ing to despair (Acon., Cham.).

Sleepless, wide-awake condition; ecstacy, full of ideas, no sleep in consequence; physical excitement through mental exaltation.

Headache: from over-mental exertion, thinking, talking; one-sided, as from a nail driven into the brain (Ign., Nux, Ver.); as if the brain were torn or dashed to pieces, < in open air.

Unusual activity of mind and body.

Intermittent, jerking toothache; relieved by holding ice water in the mouth, but returns when water becomes warm (Bry., Caust., Puls., Sep.).

Aggravation

Excessive joy; cold open air; narcotics.

Amelioration

Warmth; during rest; evening until midnight.

Type

Simple; quartan (?).

Time

3 and 8 P. M.; fever usually without chill.

Chill

Without thirst. Coldness and chilliness running all through the limbs. Chills running down the back. Chilly feeling, with external and internal warmth (Cinch.). Internal shivering, with external heat of face or whole body. Chills ascend from the fingers and toes to nape of neck, thence to vertex; increased by exercise (relieved by exercise, Caps.). Great sensitiveness to cold (Bar.). Cold hands and feet. Flushes of heat, or currents of cold air down the back. Ecstacy.

Heat

With thirst. External, dry heat of the skin. External heat, with thirst, and shivering in the back after lying down at night. Dry heat at night, with hot flushes to the face, hot cheeks, and delirium. Dry warmth of the face. Feeling of heat when in bed, yet avoids being uncovered (Acon.—must uncover, Bell.). One cheek hot and red, with constant shuddering (Cham.). Ecstacy.

Sweat

With thirst. Morning sweat. General over whole body, most on palms of hands, and in the face, with internal shivering. Extremely sensitive and nervous.