Caffeine-Coffee.
CHARACTERISTICS.
Irritable, hypersensitiveness and weakly subjects who complain of inability to sleep. Pains are intolerable with great irritability and hypersensitiveness of the nervous system. Migraine or nervous headache from nervous irritation or exhaustion. Weak action of the heart. Muscular weakness of the heart in dropsy and pneumonia.
TOXIC EFFECTS.
Extreme pallor. Irritability of disposition, great hypersensitiveness and watchfulness, with depression of the spirits. Visions. Wakefulness.1. Acidity of the stomach and bowels, causing constipation or diarrhoea. Passive congestion of the liver with hemorrhoids.2. Very weak action of the heart with sense of oppression. Pulse is usually slow, and is always weak, soft and irregular.3. Muscular weakness. Tremor of the hands, feet and tongue. Tonic contraction of the muscles, and tetanoid convulsions. Paralysis of the respiratory muscles.4.
DOSE.
Caffeina, 1/2-3 gr. mixed with sugar.
Caffeina citrata, 2-10 gr. in water.
CAFFEINA citrata effervescens. Teaspoonful in water. Medium sized doses may aggravate the symptoms where the drug is well affiliated, hence the minimum amount should be prescribed at first.
THERAPEUTIC USES.
Irritable, hypersensitiveness and weakly subjects who complain of inability to sleep.1. (The effervescent mixture at night).
Melancholia, debility, sleeplessness.1.
Migraine or nervous headache from nervous irritation or exhaustion.1. (One grain of caffeine every half hour or, better, the hydrobromate of caffeine compound).
Pains are intolerable, with great irritability and hypersensitiveness of the nervous system.1.
Spasmodic asthma.4. (Strong, hot coffee).
Weak action of the heart, pulse weak, soft and irregular.3. (Powerfully stimulated by hypodermic use of from four to eight drops of the salicylate prepared as follows: caffeine, twenty grains; salicylate of soda, seventeen and one-half grains,; water, eighty minims).
Pneumonia, weak heart.3.
Dropsy dependent upon muscular weakness of the heart.3. (Citrate of caffeine, three grains, three times per day).
Delirium tremens. Mental depression, insomnia, tremor, weak pulse. 1-3-4.
Atony of the bowels following typhoid fever.2. (Careful use of small quantities of strong coffee).
Constipation or diarrhoea from atony of the bowels.2. (Small quantities of an infusion of pure coffee, upon rising).
Indigestion in debilitated subjects with sense of repletion. Acidity and heart-burn.2.
