Coca

by C.M. Boger — A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica

REGION

NERVES: BRAIN. Respiration. Heart.
Muscles.

WORSE

Ascending.
High altitudes.
Cold.
Mental exertion.

BETTER

Rapid motion, in open air.
After sunset.
Dizzy, dyspnœic and exhausted

(Ars.). Muscle exhaustion. .................... Mental prostration; alternating with brightness. Timid, craves solitude. Sense of impending death. Loquacious excitement, with blissful visions. Exhilaration; before menses. Flashes before eyes. Migraine. Carious teeth. Aphonia. Senile asthma. Palpitation; excessively rapid pulse, with violent sweating. Crawling numbness in arms. Like a worm under skin (Calc-c.), moving away when touched. Sleepless; awakes with a shock in brain.

Related: Cann.

Coca across the other classic books

Coca appears in 7 of the 13 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Allen HC — The keynotes that separate this remedy from its nearest neighbours.
“For persons who are wearing out under the physical and mental strain of a busy life; who suffer from exhausted nerves and brains (compare, Fluor. ac.). Melancholy, from nervous exhaustion ; bashful, timid, ill at ease in society. Sad, irritable; delights in solitude and obscurity. Longing for alcoholic liquors and…”
Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“Erythroxylon coca, Lam. Natural order , Lineæ (suborder, Erythroxylæ). Preparation , Tincture of leaves. Authorities.”
Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“The Divine Plant of the Incas-but the Spanish priests denounced it as "un delusion del demonio" The mountaineer's remedy. Useful in a variety of complaints incidental to mountain climbing, such as palpitation, dyspnœa, anxiety and insomnia. Exhausted nervous system from physical and mental strain. Caries of teeth…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Erythroxylon coca. N. O. Lineæ (suborder Erythroxyleæ). Tincture of leaves. Solution or trituration of the alkaloid, Cocaine. Angina pectoris / Asthma / Constipation, chronic / Cough / Deafness / Debility / Fever / Heart disease / Hæmorrhoids / Mountain-sickness, or Veta / Rheumatism / Scrofula / Scurvy / Voice…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Coca. Lineæ (suborder Erythroxyleæ). Nearest related to the Malpighiaceæ and Sapindaceæ, next to the Aceripaceæ and the Rhizoboleæ. A bush six or eight feet high, small white flowers and bright green leaves. The leaves are two and half inches long and half as wide ; the characteristic sign of the leaf is an arched…”
Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: erythroxylon coca. Coca is used by the natives of South America as we use Coffee, Tea and Tobacco (C.). Its principal alkaloid is Cocaine. The mountaineer's remedy. Useful in a variety of complaints incidental to mountain climbling, such as palpitation, dyspnœa, anxiety and insomnia (Br.). Generally…”

Coca in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Coca in 376 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in HEAD (61), MIND (48), EXTREMITIES (35), SLEEP (35), COUGH (33).

MIND - TIMIDITY - bashful
GENERALITIES - OLD - people
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - exertion, - after
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - ascending
GENERALITIES - ASCENDING - agg.
FEMALE GENITALIA - MENSES - sleep,only during - gushes during
HEAD - FULLNESS - Occiput - lying on face amel.
HEAD - PAIN, - high altitudes,in
MALE GENITALIA - ABSENT,sensation as if penis were
VERTIGO - LYING - face,on, - amel.
STOMACH - ERUCTATIONS - coffee,after
FEMALE GENITALIA - MENSES - copious - night
FEMALE GENITALIA - MENSES - night - more at
URINE - SEDIMENT - gelatinous
FACE - PAIN - pressing
HEAD - PAIN, - Occiput - coughing,on
HEAD - CONSTRICTION,tension - Forehead - band,as from
CHEST - OPPRESSION - night
GENERALITIES - INFLAMMATION - nerves
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Joints - wandering

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