Introduction
Coffea Arabic, Linn.
Natural order: Rubiaceae.
Preparation: Tincture of the raw berries.
Mind.
Emotional.
Lively fancies; full of plans for the future; contrary to his custom is very much charmed by the beauties of nature, descriptions of which are related to him (after three hours).
During the febrile heat she talked irrationally, with open eyes, and wished this or that thing brought to her. Quiet mood, free from care (curative action). He is able to hear many annoying things spoken of, without being affected or becoming offended thereby (curative action).
On walking in the open air, he became sad, lachrymose, and disinclined to work. Anxiety and unsteadiness. Great anxiety, so that she does not know what she shall do with herself; she trembles, and cannot hold the pen still (after three hours).
Peevish; he could throw everything away from him. Peevish, full of care lachrymose mood. Very peevish. She has only peevish and sad thoughts; she cries aloud and can be quieted by nothing; this ill humor seems to be somewhat relieved in the open air. Somewhat fretful. Very much out of humor; not inclined to speak; makes short answers (immediately).
Intellectual.
Unusual activity of mind and body until midnight (after six hours), when she fell asleep. The greatest activity of mind.
Acuteness of thought. Vivid flow of ideas. Inability to think clearly (after six hours). It seemed as though his thoughts disappeared for a moment (second day). Inattention and loss of thought (after forty eight hours). While reading, loses the whole connection; does not know what is reading or has read, without, however, being conscious of any foreign thoughts (absentmindedness); when he does not read he is beset by a thousand thoughts, and recollects the most remote events. (* Mental activity the primary effect of Coffen; dulness of mind on the contrary, is the secondary effect; many intermediate symptoms can be classed among the primary effects– STAPF.*).
Head.
Confusion and Vertigo.
Confusion in the head (after three hours).
Confusion in the forepart of the head, sometimes extending to the right temple, as a sticking drawing pain; aggravated on walking in the open air. Dizzy confusion of the head (after four hours).
Vertigo, with blackness before the eyes, on stooping (first day).
General Head.
Rush of blood to the head, especially while talking.
Rush of blood to the head, with anxious heat and redness of the face.
Lightness of the head, and of all physical movements; a general, unusual, increased sensation of health and vigor. Heaviness of the head, with heat in the face. Head seems heavy and dizzy, with general anxiety; she believes that she will fall (second day).
Headache, as if the brain were too full and crushed, with especially in the occiput, after waking from the midday nap, neither aggravated nor especially relieved by motion, by mental exertion nor in the open air (after four hours). Headache in the morning on waking; lack of general tension in the brain; he avoids opening the eyes; on stooping it seems as if the brain fell forward, and so pressed against the temples and forehead.
Reflection caused drawing headache, accompanied by pressure in the upper part of the forehead. Headache, as if the brain were torn or beaten, commencing while walking in the open air, but soon disappearing in the room. (* Symptoms expressing aggravation and amelioration of the headache in the open air, seem to be the primary action.–HAHNEMANN. *) The headache is renewed and aggravated after eating; it disappears in the open air, but returns in a short time in the room.
Forehead.
Compressive headache in the forehead (second evening).
Headache on reading, as if the brain at the frontal eminence, then behind the frontal bone, were beaten, torn, and crushed (after two hours).
Temples.
Pressive headache in the temples, extending to the occiput, while walking in the cold air; it is relieved while sitting in a room); again it becomes very violent on first going into the open air, but afterwards it almost entirely disappears (after three quarters of an hour).
Vertex.
Crackling is sometimes heard and felt in the vertex, while sitting still. Pressive pain in the upper part of the vertex.
Parietals.
Crackling in the brain in the region of the ear, rhythmical with the pulse. One sided headache, as if a nail were driven into the parietal bone.
Occiput.
Slight rheumatic drawing in the left side of the occiput.
External Head.
Itching on the scalp.
Eye.
Hardened mucus in the canthi of both eyes, in the forenoon (after half an hour). Boring in the right eye, with diminished acuteness of vision.
Vision.
In the open air he sees much more clearly than before.
She was able to read fine print clearly, without the pressure in the eyes which she formerly experienced. (* In part curative action.–STAPF. *).
Ear.
Music sounds too loud; he can bear only the lowest tones of the instrument.
Nose.
Objective.
Sneezing, in the evening, in bed, and on waking.
Frequent sneezing. A sudden, profuse, watery discharge from the nose (after half an hour). Fluent coryza, with sneezing, several evenings, late. Somewhat fluent coryza, with sneezing, several evenings, late.
Bleeding from the nose. Bleeding from the nose, with heaviness of the head, in the morning on rising, and at 6 P.M., several days at the same time, with morose ill humor. Stopped catarrh, with scanty discharge. Stoppage of the nose, as in stopped catarrh.
Subjective.
Sensation of warmth, like a coryza, in the left nostril, aggravated by hawking. Painfulness in the anterior angle of the left nostril (after one hour). An almost burning sore pain in the left nostril.
Face.
The infant gets red and hot in the cheeks, and sleeps uneasily (first and second days). Drawing in the left malar bone, alternating with tearing in the teeth (first day).
Mouth.
Teeth.
Painfulness of the front teeth on touch and chewing, as if they were loose. Simple pain in a back tooth, only when biting upon them. Momentary drawing in the hollow left upper back teeth, as after taking a little cold. (Drawing pain across the left upper back teeth, which disappears on biting the jaws together).
Toothache, sticking jerking from above downward into the nerves of the roots of the teeth.
Tongue.
Sensation of dryness and slight burning in the forepart of the tongue, without thirst (after one hour).
General Mouth.
Dryness within the mouth, without thirst, in the morning, in bed.
A simple pain in the arches of the palate, when not swallowing, aggravated while swallowing (after four hours).
Saliva.
Increased secretion of saliva.
Taste.
Taste excessively bitter. Bitter taste in the mouth in the morning (second day). Bitterness in the mouth the whole day, though food does not taste bitter. Taste in the mouth as after hazelnuts. Taste in the mouth as after sweet almonds. Food has a good but too strong taste, on which account he cannot eat much; tobacco tastes excessively strong, and he is unable to smoke much (after three hours). Tobacco has an especially pleasant taste.
Pure drinking water has a bitter taste (second day). Bitter things taste excessively bitter.
Throat.
Sensation catarrh in the back of the throat, in the morning after rising; catarrhal mucus flows from the nose, without sensation of catarrh in the nostrils or frontal sinuses. Heat rises up into the throat, immediately. A kind of sore throat; swelling of the arches of the palate, which seems like an accumulation of tough mucus.
Stomach.
Appetite.
Great hunger before dinner; eager, hasty eating.
Diminished appetite; at supper the food tasted good, still he had no appetite and no hunger (after eight hours). Very long continued loss of appetite and aversion to food, drink, and tobacco, with nausea and salt taste in the mouth, although food has no unusual or unpleasant taste (after two hours).
Thirst.
Thirst at night; he frequently awoke to drink. Excessive thirst, without heat of the body or dryness of the tongue.
Aversion to coffee.
Eructation.
Eructations tasting of the food, from noon till evening. Short eructations of only air.
Hiccough.
Hiccough.
Nausea and Vomiting.
Nausea in the morning. Nausea in the afternoon about 5 o’clock; he became weak, was obliged to sit down, followed by inclination to vomit. Nausea, as if in the stomach, from 8 to 9 P.M. like a faintness and vertigo; she was obliged to sit and lie down, with weariness of the limbs and some chilliness (after twenty four hours). Nausea and vomiting (in large doses, fasting).
While eating palatable food he became qualmish and nauseated.
Constant inclination to vomit, which seems to have its seat in the upper part of the throat.
Stomach.
Easy contraction of the gastric and intestinal muscles. An unpleasant sensation beneath the stomach, followed by distension and dull pain. Tension across the stomach and hypochondria.
Sensation of pressure in the pit of the stomach at various times during the day; the clothes seemed too tight, and she was obliged to loosen them. While eating bread, soon after a moderate meal, an extremely painful pressure in the left side of the epigastric region. Stitches in the pit of the stomach, combined with pressure; after a few hours painless distension and swelling of the pit of the stomach.
Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.