A tincture is prepared (in a special manner) from the unroasted beans of Coffea Arabica, L.
General Action
A general stimulant of cerebral activity.
Allies. Opium, Nux-v., Hyosc., Platina, Zincum met.
Generalities
Excitement, with lightness of all movements. Lightness of head and of all movements, increased sense of health and vigor. Pain in whole body so that he had little rest. Affected by walking in open air, it forces water from his eyes and he becomes weary. Aversion to open air. Disinclination for business (Nux-v.). Inclination to lie down and close the eyes without ability or desire to sleep. Mental and physical exhaustion (Opium). Weariness on ascending steps. Dullness of internal sensibility on account of supernatural speculations. Aggravation when walking in open air.
Clinical Neuralgias of various parts of the body, face abdomen, extremities, etc., always with great nervous excitability, intolerance of pain. Bad effects of stimulants, alcohol, tea, etc.
Mind
Irrational talking during the heat, with open eyes, wishing this or that brought to her. Lively; in evening; lively fancies, full of plans for the future, charmed with the beauties of nature of which he reads. Ill humor; (>) open air, with sadness and crying aloud; and disinclination to speak; he could throw everything away from him; full of care, lachrymose mood. Sad on walking in open air, lachrymose, disinclined to all business. Anxiety and unsteadiness; A., with trembling and inability to hold the pen still. Vivid flow of ideas. Unusual activity of mind and body till midnight (Op, in part), then sleep. Disappearance of thoughts for a moment. Inattention and loss of memory. Inability to think clearly. Does not know what he is reading or has read, without being conscious of foreign thoughts, when he does not read he is beset by a thousand thoughts and remembers the most remote events.
Clinical Delirium tremens, with trembling of hands, fears, thinks that he is not at home, restlessness, etc. Extreme activity of mind, the patient is sleepless, great flow of thought, with great acuteness of all senses. Mental excitability resulting from pleasurable emotions. Recurring attacks of weeping, with hysterical excitability, tremulousness, etc.
Head
Feeling as if the brain were torn or crushed when walking in open air, (>) in room. Aching, (<) eating, (>) open air, soon returning in the room; A. as if brain were too full and crushed, after midday nap, (<) occiput; drawing, caused by reflection, with pressure in upper part of forehead. Tension in brain in morning on waking, he avoided opening eyes, it seems on stooping as if the brain fell forward and pressed against temples and forehead. Confusion; dizzy. Heaviness, with heat in face; H. and dizziness, with general anxiety, she believes she will fall. Rush of blood, (<) talking; rush of blood, with anxious heat and redness of face. Vertigo on stooping, with blackness before eyes.
On reading, brain feels torn and crushed at frontal eminence, then behind frontal bone. Compressive pain in forehead in evening. Confusion in forehead, (<) walking in open air, changing in r. temple into sticking-drawing pain. Pain in temples when walking in cold air, extending to occiput, (>) sitting in the house, again first (<), then (>) going into open air. Pain in upper part of vertex. Crackling heard and felt in vertex when sitting still. Crackling in region of ear, rhythmical with pulse. Pain as if a nail were driven into one of the parietal bones (Ignatia nearly). Rheumatic drawing in l. side of occiput. Itching of scalp.
Clinical Extremely violent neuralgic headaches, it seems as if the brain were being torn to pieces, the patient is unable to bear the pain; it seems as if a nail were being driven into the head, etc.
Eyes and Ears
Boring in r. eye, with dim vision. Hardened mucus in canthi in forenoon. In the open air he sees more clearly than before. Music sounds too loud and shrill, he can bear only the lowest tones of the instrument.
Nose and Face
Pain in anterior angle of l. nostril; almost burning sore P. in l. nostril. Warmth in l. nostril like a coryza, (<) hawking. Sneezing; in evening in bed and on waking. Stoppage of nose. Stopped coryza, with scanty discharge. Fluent coryza evenings, with sneezing. Frequent, sudden, watery discharge from nose. Nosebleed; in morning on rising and at 6 P.M., with heaviness of head and ill humor. Cheeks red and hot (in an infant), with uneasy sleep. Drawing in l. malar-bone, alternating with tearing in a tooth.
Mouth
Sticking jerking from above downward into nerves of roots of teeth. Pain in a back tooth when biting on it; in front teeth on touch and on chewing, as if loose. Drawing in a hollow l. upper back tooth as after taking cold; (D. pain across l. upper back teeth, (>) biting jaws together). Tongue dry in forepart and burning, without thirst. Mouth dry in morning in bed, without thirst. Pain at margin of arches of palate, (<) by swallowing. Salivation. Taste bitter; in morning; in mouth all day, but food does not taste bitter; to water; excessively B. to bitter things. T. as after hazel-nuts. T. as after sweet almonds. T. especially pleasant to tobacco. Good, but too strong T. to food and tobacco, so that he cannot eat much or smoke much.
Clinical Neuralgic toothache with intolerance of the pain, (>) only by holding ice-water in the mouth (Pul.).
Throat
Soreness, swelling of arches of palate, which seems like an accumulation of tough mucus. Sensation of catarrh in back part in morning after rising, flow of mucus from nose without sensation of catarrh in nose or frontal sinuses. Heat rises into throat.
Stomach
Great hunger, before dinner and hasty eating. Appetite diminished, the supper tasted good, but he was not hungry. Aversion to food, drink and tobacco, with nausea and salt taste in mouth, although food has no unusual taste. Aversion to coffee. Thirst, without dryness of tongue or heat; T. at night, frequent waking to drink. Short eructations of air; E. tasting of food from noon till evening. Hiccough. Nausea; in morning; at 5 P.M., with weakness; from 8 to 9 P.M., like a faintness and vertigo, with necessity to sit and lie down, weariness of limbs and chilliness; while eating palatable food; in upper part of throat. Vomiting. Easy contraction of gastric and abdominal muscles. Sticking in pit, with pressure, then painless distention of pit. Pressure in pit, she was obliged to loosen the clothes; P. in epigastric region when eating bread after a moderate meal, and afterwards. Tension, and in hypochondria. Unpleasant sensation beneath stomach, then distention and pain.
Abdomen
Fulness after supper, with griping; F. after walking in open air. Fermentation and passage of much flatus; fermentation, then repeated vomiting, then waterbrash. Movings, as if necessitating a stool. Frequent and easy passage of flatus, then difficult, scanty, short, interrupted emission of flatus and constant urging to pass it; frequent, profuse, almost odorless F. Pain and diarrhoea; P. as if it would burst; P. as from incarcerated flatus; (cramplike pain, and in abdomen, with outward manifestation of labor pains, complaints as if intestines would be cut to pieces, with convulsions, body bent up, feet drawn up towards her head, frightful cries, grinding of teeth, became cold and stiff, piteous cries, holding her breath). Sticking extending out at ring, as in inguinal hernia; jerking S. in sides with every expiration. Painful pressure in sides in morning, temporarily (>) emission of flatus, extending into rings, as if a hernia would protrude.
Stool
Urging to stool, stool soft, but difficult. Two, the first consistent, the second liquid. Frequent, hard.
Urinary Organs
Pressure upon bladder, obliging him to urinate. Frequent urging in morning, but micturition scanty and in drops. Frequent micturition. Burning tearing in forepart of urethra. Urine copious; about midnight, with relaxation of genitals. Urine scanty. Urine blood-red.
Sexual Organs
Relaxed, and desire diminished. Erections and emissions. Itching in forepart of penis; voluptuous l. on tip of penis in morning; l. on r. side of scrotum. Sore pain on scrotum on slightest rubbing of clothes. Relaxation of scrotum, with excitement of inner genitals, yet with cold fantasies. Digging-smarting in one testicle. Nightly emissions. Desire, then general dry heat without emission. Impotency and sluggish desire.
Clinical Uterine haemorrhage, extreme sensitiveness of genitals, flow dark, clotted (Platina). Useful in after-pains, which are extremely difficult to tolerate.
Respiratory Organs
Roughness in larynx in morning on waking, with hoarseness (Nux- v.). Irritation to cough about midnight. He must restrain the cough, eyes obscured, faint and feeling as if he were whirling around. Cough in evening in bed and on waking; short, frequent, scraping C. Dry cough (in a child) in evening after falling asleep. Hacking cough frequently, as from irritation of throat; H. cough in sudden paroxysms, as from spasmodic constriction in larynx, which seemed covered with dry mucus.
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.