COFFEA CRUDA


COFFEA CRUDA symptoms from Manual of the Homeopathic Practice by Charles Julius Hempel. What are the uses of the homeopathy remedy COFFEA CRUDA…


INTRODUCTION

COFF. Crude Coffee. Stapf’s “Additions. ” Duration of a Action : ten days.

COMPARE WITH

Aconite, Agaricus, An. mur., Angust., ant., ARs., Asa-f., bell., Bryonia, Cantharis, Carb. v., Causticum, cham., cocc., Colocynthis, Conium, Digitalis, Ignatia, Iodium, Kali, Lauroc., Mang., Mercurius, Nux-v., Opium, Phosph., Pulsatilla, Rhus, Sepia, sulph., Valer., Veratr.

ANTIDOTES

Aconite chronic affections resulting from the abuse of Coffee are met by cham., Ignatia, Mercurius, Nux v., Sulphur Coffea antidotes Psorin.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

All the joints feel bruised, especially those which are bent, early in the morning when in bed; the pain disappears on rising. Darting through one or the other limb. After every walk her lower limbs feel so painful that she has to lie down. Great debility when going up-stairs. Pain in the whole body. Great mobility of the muscles. Convulsions, with grinding of the teeth and cold limbs.

CHARACTERISTIC PECULIARITIES

Morbid excitation of the organs of sense and of the nervous system, with sensitiveness to pain. Aggravation of the pains in the open air. Sad weeping mood in the open air, with indisposition to work. Great nervousness, with lachrymation and weariness during a walk in the open air. Weariness of the limbs, up to the thighs, after a walk in the open air.

SKIN

Eruption and itching of the whole body. Coffee transforms an itching eruption into a burning one.

SLEEP

Little sleep. Great wakefulness in the evening. Sleeplessness, owing to an excessive agitation of body and mind. Over-whelmed with sleep. Sleeplessness after midnight. Restless sleep the whole night. Great drowsiness, with weariness. Waking with starting. Talks in the sleep. Long, vivid dreams at night.

FEVER

Frequent deep yawning. Aversion to open air. Constant weariness of the feet. Great sensitiveness to cold. Violent thirst, without heat or dryness of the tongue. Feeling of warmth, with redness of the face, without thirst. Paroxysms of chilliness, increased by motion. Cold feet in the afternoon, after four o’clock, with headache and congestion of the head, going off by a walk in the air. Cold hands, afterwards cold feet. Repeated chills and shuddering in the back, the body having the natural warmth. Feeling of coldness over the whole body. Chilliness in the back, mingled with heat. Feeling of general heat in the evening after lying down. Chilliness and heat in either cheek. Tremulous motion in the back and between the shoulders, accompanied with warmth. From eight to nine in the evening a nausea is felt, as if in the stomach, a sort of fainting and vertigo.

MORAL SYMPTOMS

Great anguish, she is unable to compose herself. Anguish of heat and conscience. Excessive relaxation of body and mind. Want of memory and attention. A little out of humor. Ecstasy.

SENSORIUM

Giddiness and dullness of the head. Vertigo and blackness before the eyes, when stooping. Gloominess in the head. Inability to think acutely.

HEAD

Contractive headache in the forehead. Hemicrania, as if a nail had been driven into the parietal bone. Slight rheumatic drawing in the left half of the occiput. The headache is renewed and aggravated after a meal; it disappears in the open air, and comes on again for a short time in the room. Aching pain in the temples, moving towards the occiput, when walking in the cold air, decreasing in the room. Headache, as if the brain were torn or would be dashed to pieces, coming on during a walk in the open air and subsiding in the room. Headache, after reading, in the frontal protuberance and behind the parietal bone, as if the brain were bruised, torn, or smashed. Headache, as if the brain were too full and dashed to pieces, especially in the occiput after waking from the siesta. Aching pain on the top of the head. Pulsative snapping in the brain, in the region of the ear, as of electric sparks. Heaviness in the head and heat in the face. Heat in the face, with red cheeks, after a meal. Rushes of blood to the head, anxious heat, and redness in the face. Rush of blood to the head, especially when talking. Headache, early in the morning, when waking, like a tightness of the brain all over; when stooping forward he feels as if the brain were falling forward. Itching of the hairy scalp.

EYES

Boring in the right, eye, with diminution of sight.

EARS

Hardness of hearing, with humming in the ears.

NOSE

Sudden, copious watery discharge from the nose. Bleeding from the nose. Fluent coryza, with sneezing. Dry coryza, with very little discharge,.

TEETH AND JAWS

Toothache, a darting in the nerve of the root. Simple pain in one of the molar teeth, only when biting upon it. Painfulness of the fore-teeth when touching them, or when chewing, as if they were loose. Darting in the teeth, also lacerating darting. Toothache, with restlessness, anguish, weeping mood, and renewal of the pain after a meal or at night.

MOUTH AND THROAT

Rising of heat in the throat. Feeling of dryness and a slight burning in the fore and upper part of the tongue, without thirst. Sore throat, with great painfulness of the affected parts and swelling of the uvula.

TASTE AND APPETITE

Bitterness in the mouth, early in the morning, and the whole day, the food had no bitter taste. Diminished appetite, at supper. Continual loss of appetite and aversion to food, drink, tobacco, with nausea and disposition to vomit, and a salt taste in the mouth; the food has no bad taste. Great hunger before a meal; greedy, hurried eating. Violent thirst, without heat or dryness of the mouth; nightly thirst. Aversion to coffee.

GASTRIC SYMPTOMS

Constant inclination to vomit, in the upper part of the throat. Morning nausea. Vomiting during small-pox. Bilious vomiting.

STOMACH AND ABDOMEN

Stitches in the pit of the stomach, accompanied with pressure. Tension across the stomach and the hypochondria. Pinching pressure in the abdomen, as if hernia would protrude. Fullness in the abdomen, after walking in the open air. Fermentation in the abdomen, followed by vomiting. Sticking in the abdominal ring, from within outward, as in inguinal hernia. Dartings in the side of the abdomen, during every expiration. Colic, as if the abdomen would burst (Frightful crampy pain in the abdomen and chest, as of violent labor-pain; she complains as if all her bowels would be cut up, with convulsions; her body bent double, her feet drawn up to her head, with horrible cries and grinding of teeth; she became cold and stiff, emitted painful sounds; the breathing became suppressed.).

STOOL

Diarrhoea, with warmth and a slight sensation of roughness at the anus. Diarrhoea of infants. Diarrhoea during dentition.

URINE

Burning lacerating or smarting in the fore part of the urethra. The urine comes off in small quantities, but only drop by drop. Pressure on the bladder.

GENITAL ORGANS

Strangulating smarting pain in one of the testicles. Want of sexual excitement. Great disposition for an embrace. Indisposition to have an embrace, with impotence, the sexual organs cannot be excited, and the imagination is dull. 1. The excitation of the sexual desire is a primary effect, the weakening of the same secondary effect of Coffee. Nocturnal emission.

CHEST

Oppression of the chest, she is obliged to take short inspirations. Turns of short cough in quick succession, frequent attacks of short, single, abrupt scraping. Cough in the evening when in bed, and going to sleep. Violent irritation with cough, about midnight. Sudden attacks of a dry and hacking cough, as if occasioned by a spasmodic constriction of the larynx. When coughing, the side of the chest aches. Sudden coryza and sneezing.

BACK

Pain in the small of the back when walking. Aching pain in the small of the back. Paralytic pain in the small of the back when sitting or standing.

ARMS

Great weakness in the arms and weariness in the whole body. Sense of lightness in the limbs. Rheumatic pain, as if bruised, in the region of the left upper arm. Trembling of the hands. Sensation of numbness in the fingers.

LEGS

Pain as if bruised, when sitting or walking, in the femur. Bruised sensation of the tibia. Trembling of the feet. Trembling sensation in the knee. Drawing pain below the right knee. Crampy sensation in the calf when drawing the knee up. Crampy sensation in the sole of the foot.

Charles Julius Hempel
Charles Julius Hempel (5 September 1811 Solingen, Prussia - 25 September 1879 Grand Rapids, Michigan) was a German-born translator and homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. While attending medical lectures at the University of New York, where he graduated in 1845, he became associated with several eminent homeopathic practitioners, and soon after his graduation he began to translate some of the more important works relating to homeopathy. He was appointed professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1857.