Coffea Fever Symptoms


Allen gives the therapeutic indications of the remedy Coffea in different kinds of fevers like: Continued, Bilious, Intermittent, Malarial, Remittent, Pernicious, Typhoid, Typhus, Septic fever, etc…


Fever

Characteristic – Over – sensitiveness, all the senses more acute, sight, hearing, smell, taste, tough (Belladonna, Chamomilla, Opium).

Ailments: the bad effects of sudden emotions or pleasurable surprises (Causticum – exciting or bad news, Gelsemium), weeping from delight, alternate laughing and weeping.

Pains are felt intensely, seem almost insupportable, driving to despair (Aconite, Chamomilla).

Sleepless, wide – awake condition, ecstasy, full of ideas, no sleep in consequence, physical excitement through mental exaltation.

Headache: from over – mental exertion, thinking, talking, one – sided, as from a nail driven into the brain (Ignatia, Nux. Verbascum), as if the brain were torn or dashed to pieces, aggravation in open air.

Unusual activity of mind and body.

Intermittent, jerking toothache, relieved by holding ice water in the mouth, but returns when water becomes warm (Bryonia, Causticum, Pulsatilla, Sepia,).

Aggravation: Excessive joy: cold open air, narcotics.

Amelioration: Warmth, during rest, evening until midnight. Type: Simple, quartan (?)

Time: 3 and 8 P.M., fever usually without chill.

Chill: Without thirst. Coldness and chilliness running all through the limbs. Chills running down the back. Chilly feeling, with external and internal warmth ( Cinchona ). Internal shivering, with external heat of face or whole body. Chills ascend from the fingers and toes to nape of neck, thence to vertex, increased by exercise (relieved by exercise, Caps. ). Great sensitiveness to cold ( Baryta ). Cold hands and feet. Flushes of heat, or currents of cold air down the back. Ecstasy.

Heat: With thirst. External, dry heat of the skin. External heat, with thirst, and shivering in the back after lying down at night. Dry heat at night, with hot flushes to the face, hot cheeks, and delirium. Dry warmth of the face. Feeling of heat when in bed, yet avoids being uncovered ( Aconite – must uncover, Belladonna ). One cheek hot and red, with constant shuddering ( Chamomilla ) ecstasy.

Sweat: With thirst. Morning sweat. General over whole body, most on palms of hands, and in the face, with internal shivering. Extremely sensitive and nervous.

H. C. Allen
Dr. Henry C. Allen, M. D. - Born in Middlesex county, Ont., Oct. 2, 1836. He was Professor of Materia Medica and the Institutes of Medicine and Dean of the faculty of Hahnemann Medical College. He served as editor and publisher of the Medical Advance. He also authored Keynotes of Leading Remedies, Materia Medica of the Nosodes, Therapeutics of Fevers and Therapeutics of Intermittent Fever.