Coffea cruda



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, especially 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.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica