Coffea cruda
di Henry N. Guernsey — Key-Notes to the Materia Medica
This is one of the best remedies for mental irritability. Five remedies have mental irritability in a marked degree.
Acon., irritability, fearful and anxious; dreads things.
Aurum, irritability, suicidal, will thrash around in bed (as females in confinement) as if wishing to injure or kill themselves.
Chamom, irritability, spiteful and uncivil.
Coffea, irritability, wakeful, on the constant move.
Nux vom., irritability, sullen, keeps the eyes shut, doesn't wish to speak or have anything to do with any one.
Mental.--Great gayety; mental irritability; easy comprehension; excitement of the intellect; nervous excitement; excessive irritability of the body.
Generalities.--Hearing sensitive; acute hearing. Delicate taste. Aversion to the open air. Pain as if from rending; tight pain. Sensation of warmth. Very severe after-pains, or labor pains.
Sleep.--Sleeplessness in general: after midnight; complaints causing sleeplessness; sleepless after labor. Remarkable wakefulness under any circumstances; from drinking coffee.
Worse.--From excessive joy; from narcotic medicines; from noise; from strong smells.
Remedies following:--Aurum, Bellad., Opium, Nux vom., Lycop.
Antidote:--Nux vomica.