Coffea Cruda – Materia Medica | Homoeopathy | HDS

LATIN  NAME : Coffea Arabica

FAMILY  NAME : Rubiaceae.

COMMON  NAME :Coffee,  Arabian Coffee

PARTS  USED : The homeopathic remedy coffea is prepared using ripened and unroasted coffee beans. These beans are macerated in alcohol for aminimum of five days prior to filtering the solution. Subsequently, the resulting solution is repetitively diluted to the desired levels and succussed to obtain the homeopathic remedy coffea.

INTRODUCTION : Coffee plant is a small tree from 15 to 30 feet in height; the branches are opposite, gradually diminishing in length as they ascend, forming a pyramidal summit, which is covered with green foliage throughout the year; the leaves are opposite, smooth,dark green, oblong-ovate and four or five inches long, the flowers are white, with an odor resembling jasmine, the fruit is first green, then red, and ultimately dark purple.

We use the raw, not the roasted bean. When Coffee is roasted it destroys the caffein and changes it into caffeine this is stimulating like tobacco. Hahnemann’s caution in this respect is justified. His treatise on the effects of Coffee was published in Leipzig in 1803.A full proving of coffee by five persons, one of whom was Hahnemann, is recorded by Stapfin his additions to the Materia Medica, and contains 246 symptoms.Caffeine, the alkaloid of Coffea, contains the toxic principles of coffee in a very concentrated form.It occurs in long, snow-white, opaque, odorless crystals, sometimes feathery crystals, of a feeble, bitter taste.

 PROVED BY      : Dr. Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann

 CLINICAL AUTHORITIES:

• Religious insanity
• Sick headaches
• Odontalgia
• Colic during paroxysm of intermittent fever
• Incarcerated hernia
• Diarrhoea,
• Metrorrhagia,
• Cardiac hyperaesthesia,
• Crural neuralgia
• Sleeplessness after typhoid,

MIND

• Delirium at night, with dry heat.
• Fear of death.
• After parturition.

SENSORIUM

• Cardiac hyper aesthesia.
• Threatening of apoplexy; overexcited, talkative, full of fear, pangs of conscience,aversion to open air, sleepless, convulsive grinding of teeth.

INNER HEAD

• Sick headache.

SIGHT AND EYES

• Eyes half open during sleep, with convulsive motion of eyes when awake.
• Summer complaint.
• Sick headache.

UPPER FACE

• Sick headache.

TEETH AND GUMS

• Neuralgic toothache, entirely ameliorates by holding cold water in mouth, returning as this becomes warm.

APPETITE, THIRST

• Increased hunger, with hurried eating.
• 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, aggravates after eating.

ABDOMEN

• Distended abdomen, extreme emaciation.
• Summer complaint.
• Intermittent fever.

STOOL AND RECTUM

• Summer complaint.

URINARY ORGANS

• Frequent, profuse micturation, urine colorless.
• Urine passes off drop by drop.

FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS

• Metrorrhagia

RESPIRATION

• Asthmatic attacks in morning, wants to move continually.
• Asthma at night.

NECK AND BACK

• Delirium tremens.

NERVES

• Great agitation and restlessness
• Ague
• Cardiac hyperaesthesia
• Muscular jerking.
• Convulsions of teething children, with grinding of teeth and coldness of limbs, after overexcitement.

SLEEP

• Imperfect sleep, with eyes half open and convulsive.

TIME

• In morning : crackling noise in head; hypersensitiveness of sexual organs agg; hoarsenessand roughness in larynx on awaking; asthmatic attacks; slight sweat.
• In afternoon : attack of crural neuralgia; sciatic or crural neuralgia agg.
• 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 agg; excessive dryness of mouth wakenshim; hypersensitiveness of sexual organs agg; emissions; asthma; attack of cruralneuralgia; sciatic or crural neuralgia agg; 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 amel.
• Feeling of heat in bed, yet avoids being uncovered.
• Better after getting out of bed.
• Hot or warm drinks        : toothache agg from.
• Worse from cold   : amel 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 agg; headache disappears; sees more clearly; crackling  noise inhead; diarrhoea from taking cold; hypersensitiveness of sexual organs agg; irritation tocough, with coryzaagg.
• Fresh air      : fear of.
• Cold air       : dread of
• sore throat agg 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.

FEVER

• Flushes of heat and transitory flushes in face.
• Feverish with pain and always ready to weep.
• Ague, paroxysms every fourth day, two well days intervening..
• 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 diarrhoea; 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 asof 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 oesophagus; in throat and head, constantlyincreasing; in small of back with ineffectual labor pains; from face down arms, even tofinger 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; 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; extendinginto 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

• Extreme emaciation.
• Summer complaint of children.

SKIN

• Measly spots on skin with dry heat at night; over excitability and weeping.

STAGES 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
• Symptoms caused by fright do not yield to Acon.
• Suitable to children for great restlessness, nervousness and weeping.
• Sanguine choleric temperament.
• Complaints during infancy and dentition.
• Coffee drinkers are hard to cure of ague.

 MODALITIES.  

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

DOSE :

Third to two hundredth potency.