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(Un roasted 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. Dysmenorrhoea, large clots
of black blood. HYPERSENSITIVE VULVA AND VAGINA. Voluptuous itching.
Sleep.
Wakeful; on a constant move. Sleeps till 3 a.m., 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.
Aggravation.
WORSE, excessive emotions (joy), narcotics, strong odors, noise,
open air, cold, night.
Amelioration.
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. Matte). 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.
Un roasted 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 vasomotor centers.
Acute pulmonary edema. 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.; Tab ac.
Dose.
Third to two hundredth potency.
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