Coffea Arabica, Linn.

Nat. order , Rubiaceæ.

Preparation , Tincture of the raw berries.

Authorities. [The symptoms without authority are so found in Stapf's résumé.]

1 , Hahnemann, from Stapf's Beiträge zur rein. Arzn.; 2 , "A.,",from ibid.; 3 , "Br.," ibid.; 4 , Franz, ibid.; 5 , "Hsch.," ibid.; 6 , Langhammer, ibid.; 7 , Stapf, ibid.; 8 , Thorer, ibid.; 9 , Marvaud, Aliments d'Épargne (with sphygmographic tracings, see Plate 1), cold infusions of raw Coffea.

MIND

Emotional.
Lively fancies; full of plans for the future ; contrary to his custom is very much charmed by the beauties of nature, descriptions of which are related to him (after three hours), 4.
During the febrile heat she talked irrationally, with open eyes, and wished this or that thing brought to her, 1.
Quiet mood, free from care (curative action), 1.
He is able to hear many annoying things spoken of, without being affected or becoming offended thereby (curative action).
On walking in the open air, he became sad, lachrymose, and disinclined to work, 1.
Anxiety and unsteadiness, 5.
Great anxiety, so that she does not know what she shall do with herself; she trembles, and cannot hold the pen still (after three hours), 1.
Peevish; he could throw everything away from him, 1.
Peevish, full of care, lachrymose mood. [10.]
Very peevish, 1.
She has only peevish and sad thoughts; she cries aloud and can be quieted by nothing; this ill-humor seems to be somewhat relieved in the open air, 1.
Somewhat fretful, 1.
Very much out of humor; not inclined to speak; makes short answers (immediately), 3.
Intellectual.
*Unusual activity of mind and body until midnight (after six hours), when she fell asleep, 7.
*The greatest activity of mind, 2.
Acuteness of thought, 2.
Vivid flow of ideas, 2.
Inability to think clearly (after six hours), 8.
It seemed as though his thoughts disappeared for a moment (second day). [20.]
Inattention and loss of thought (after forty-eight hours), 4.
While reading, loses the whole connection; does not know what he is reading, without, however, being conscious of any foreign thoughts (absentmindedness); when he does not read he is beset by a thousand thoughts, and recollects the most remote events, 4 . [Mental activity the primary effect of Coffea; dulness of mind, on the contrary, is the secondary effect; many intermediate symptoms can be classed among the primary effects. -Stapf.]

HEAD

Confusion and Vertigo.
Confusion in the head (after three hours), 1.
Confusion in the forepart of the head, sometimes extending to the right temple, as a sticking-drawing pain; aggravated on walking in the open air, 1.
Dizzy confusion of the head (after four hours), 8.*
Vertigo, with blackness before the eyes, on stooping (first day), 8.
General Head.
Rush of blood to the head, especially while talking, 1.
Rush of blood to the head, with anxious heat and redness of the face.
Lightness of the head, and of all physical movements; a general unusual, increased sensation of health and vigor, 2.
Heaviness of the head, with heat in the face, 1. [30.]
Head seems heavy and dizzy, with general anxiety; she believes that she will fall (second day), 8.
Headache, as if the brain were too full and crushed, especially in the occiput, after waking from the midday nap, neither aggravated nor especially relieved by motion, by mental exertion, nor in the open air (after four hours), 1.
Headache in the morning on waking; lack of general tension in the brain; he avoids opening the eyes; on stooping it seems as if the brain fell forward, and so pressed against the temples and forehead, 1.
Reflection caused drawing headache, accompanied by pressure in the upper part of the forehead, 4.
Headache, as if the brain were torn or beaten, commencing while walking in the open air, but soon disappearing in the room, 1 . [Symptoms expressing aggravation and amelioration of the headache in the open air, seem to be the primary action. -Hahnemann.]
The headache is renewed and aggravated after eating; it disappears in the open air, but returns in a short time in the room, 1.*
Forehead.
Compressive headache in the forehead (second evening), 8.
Headache on reading, as if the brain at the frontal eminence, then behind the frontal bone, were beaten, torn, and crushed (after two hours), 1.
Temples.

EYE

Hardened mucus in the canthi of both eyes, in the forenoon (after half an hour), 6.
Boring in the right eye, with diminished acuteness of vision.
Vision.
In the open air he sees much more clearly than before, 4.
She was able to read fine print clearly, without the pressure in the eyes which she formerly experienced, 7 . [In part curative action. -Stapf.]

EAR

Music sounds too loud; he can bear only the lowest tones of the instrument.

NOSE

Objective. [50.]
Sneezing, in the evening, in bed, and on waking.
Frequent sneezing.
A sudden, profuse, watery discharge from the nose (after half an hour), 1.
Fluent coryza, with sneezing, several evenings, late.
Somewhat fluent coryza, with sneezing, several evenings, late.
Bleeding from the nose, 1.
Bleeding from the nose, with heaviness of the head, in the morning on rising, and at 6 P.M., several days at the same time, with morose ill-humor, 1.
Stopped catarrh, with scanty discharge, 4.
Stoppage of the nose, as in stopped catarrh, 4.
Subjective.
Sensation of warmth, like a coryza, in the left nostril, aggravated by hawking, 7. [60.]
Painfulness in the anterior angle of the left nostril (after one hour), 1.
An almost burning sore pain in the left nostril, 1.

FACE

The infant gets red and hot in the cheeks, and sleeps uneasily (first and second days).
Drawing in the left malar bone, alternating with tearing in the teeth (first day), 8.

MOUTH

Teeth.
Painfulness of the front teeth on touch and chewing, as if they were loose.
Simple pain in a back tooth, only when biting upon them, 1.
Momentary drawing in the hollow left upper back teeth, as after taking a little cold, 8.
(Drawing pain across the left upper back teeth, which disappears on biting the jaws together), 4.
Toothache, sticking jerking from above downward into the nerves of the roots of the teeth, 1.
Tongue.
Sensation of dryness and slight burning in the forepart of the tongue, without thirst (after one hour), 7.
General Mouth. [70.]
Dryness within the mouth, without thirst, in the morning, in bed, 1.
A simple pain in the arches of the palate, when not swallowing, aggravated while swallowing (after four hours), 1.
Saliva.
Increased secretion of saliva, 9.
Taste.
Taste excessively bitter, 1.
Bitter taste in the mouth in the morning (second day), 8.
Bitterness in the mouth the whole day, though food does not taste bitter, 1.
Taste in the mouth as after hazelnuts, 1.
Taste in the mouth as after sweet almonds, 4.
Food has a good but too strong taste, on which account he cannot eat much; tobacco tastes excessively strong, and he is unable to smoke much (after three hours), 1.
Tobacco had an especially pleasant taste, 7. [80.]
Pure drinking water has a bitter taste (second day), 8.
Bitter things taste excessively bitter, 1.

THROAT

Sensation of catarrh in the back of the throat, in the morning after rising; catarrhal mucus flows from the nose, without sensation of catarrh in the nostrils of frontal sinuses.
Heat rises up into the throat, immediately, 1.
A kind of sore throat; swelling of the arches of the palate, which seems like an accumulation of tough mucus, 1.

STOMACH

Appetite.
Great hunger before dinner; eager, hasty eating, 1.
Diminished appetite ; at supper the food tasted good, still he had no appetite and no hunger (after eight hours), 1.
Very long-continued loss of appetite, and aversion to food, drink, and tobacco, with nausea and salt taste in the mouth, although food has no unusual or unpleasant taste (after two hours), 1.
Thirst.
Thirst at night; he frequently awoke to drink, 1.
Excessive thirst, without heat of the body or dryness of the tongue, 1. [90.]
Aversion to coffee, 1.
Eructation.
Eructations tasting of the food, from noon till evening, 1.
Short eructations of only air, 7.
Hiccough.
Hiccough.
Nausea and Vomiting.
Nausea in the morning.
Nausea in the afternoon about 5 o'clock; he became weak, was obliged to sit down, followed by inclination to vomit, 1.
Nausea, as if in the stomach, from 8 to 9 P.M., like a faintness and vertigo; she was obliged to sit and lie down, with weariness of the limbs and some chilliness (after twenty-four hours), 1.
Nausea and vomiting (in large doses, fasting), 9.
While eating palatable food he became qualmish and nauseated, 1.
Constant inclination to vomit, which seems to have its seat in the upper part of the throat, 1.
Stomach. [100.]
Easy contraction of the gastric and intestinal muscles, 9.
An unpleasant sensation beneath the stomach, followed by distension and dull pain.
Tension across the stomach and hypochondria.
Sensation of pressure in the pit of the stomach at various times during the day; the clothes seemed too tight, and she was obliged to loosen them, 1.
While eating bread, soon after a moderate meal, and extremely painful pressure in the left side of the epigastric region, .

ABDOMEN

Objective.
Fermentation in the abdomen and passage of much flatus, the whole day (after four hours), 1.
Fermentation in the abdomen, followed by vomiting; soon afterwards repeated vomiting for the second and third time, 1.
Movings about the abdomen, as if necessitating a stool.
Passage of much flatus. [110.]
Frequent and easy passage of flatus during the first hour after taking Coffea, but after twelve hours difficult, scanty, short, interrupted emission of flatus, and constant urging to pass it on account of disturbance in the abdomen, 1.
Frequent and profuse passage of almost odorless flatus, 1.
Fulness in the abdomen, with some griping pain, after supper.
Fulness of the abdomen, after a walk in the open air, 1.
(Frightful cramplike pain in the abdomen and chest, with outward manifestation of the most severe labor-pains, complaints as if the intestines would be cut to pieces, with convulsions; her body was bent up, feet drawn up towards her head, with frightful cries and grinding of the teeth; she became cold, constantly uttered the most piteous cries, and help her breath), 1.
Pressure in the abdomen, as from incarcerated flatus, 5.
Constant painful pressure in both sides of the abdomen, in the morning, in bed, also extending into the abdominal rings, as though a hernia would protrude, without distension of the abdomen; passage of some flatus relieves for only a moment, 1.
Jerking stitches in the side of the abdomen, with every expiration (after a quarter of an hour), 1.
Colic, as if the abdomen would burst asunder, 1.
Colic and diarrhœa (in large doses, fasting), 9.
Hypogastrium. [120.]
Sticking, extending out at the abdominal ring, as in inguinal hernia, 1.

RECTUM AND ANUS

Urging to stool; the stool was soft, yet he was not able to pass it easily, 1.

STOOL

Two stools every day (contrary to custom), the first consistent, the second liquid, 3.
Three hard stools (second day).

URINARY ORGANS

Bladder.
Pressure upon the bladder, which obliges him to urinate, 1.
Urethra.
Burning tearing in the forepart of the urethra, 1.
Frequent urging to pass urine in the morning, though it was passed in very small quantities and by drops (after a quarter of an hour).
Micturition.
Frequent micturition, 7.
The quantity of urine is very much increased (after fourteen hours), 1.
Passage of much urine about midnight, with relaxed genitals (after five hours), 1. [130.]
Scanty secretion and passage of urine (immediately), 1.
Urine.
Urine blood-red, though not turbid.

SEXUAL ORGANS

Male.
Erections and emissions, 1.
The genital organs seemed relaxed, with diminished sexual desire.
Incapacity for coition and impotency; the sexual organs could not be excited, and the desire was sluggish (after two hours), 1

[Excitement of the sexual organs is the primary action, relaxation thereof the secondary action of Coffea.]

Itching in the forepart of the penis and glans.
Voluptuous itching on the tip of the glans penis, which obliges scratching for several hours (after forty-seven hours).
Relaxation of the scrotum, with excitement of the "inner genital organs," yet with "cold fantasies."
Sore pain on the scrotum, on the slightest rubbing of the clothes, 4.
Digging-smarting pain in one testicle. [140.]
Absence of sexual excitement; the genitals were relaxed; even his fantasies were not at all inclined to sexual desire (first three days).
Great desire for coition; the sexual organs were very much excited, but there followed only general dry heat of the body, without emission, 1.
Nightly emissions, 1.
Female.
The after pains are immediately relieved, and then removed. [Curative action.]
(Menstruation appears the same evening, with scarcely any drawing pains in the abdomen), (first day). [Curative action.]

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

Larynx.
Great roughness and hoarseness in the larynx, in the morning on waking, 1.
Violent irritation to cough about midnight, lasting an hour, 1.
Cough.
Cough, in the evening, in bed, and on falling asleep.
Short coughs in rapid succession, severe, interrupted, frequently scraping (after one hour), 1.
Short hacking coughs in quick succession, as from irritation in the throat, frequently repeated (after one hour), 7. [150.]
Dry hacking cough in sudden paroxysms, as from spasmodic constriction in the larynx, which seemed to be covered with dry mucus, 1.
The child coughs quite dry, several times immediately after falling asleep (first evening).
He was obliged to hold himself inwardly with the cough; the eyes became obscured; he became faint, and felt as if he were whirling around, 1.

CHEST

Oppression of the chest (immediately), 1.
Oppression of the chest; she is obliged to take short breaths; respiration raises the chest visibly (after the disappearance of the heat of the face), 7.
Pain in the side of the chest, on coughing, almost like sticking, 1.

BACK

Pain in the small of the back, while walking, 1.
Paralytic pain in the small of the back, while sitting and standing, 1.
Pressive pain in the small of the back.

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL

Objective.
Exhausted, heavy, and powerless in the limbs; the knees knock together; febrile warmth internally and externally, together with chilliness, after 4 P.M., 1.
Subjective. [160.]
Sense of lightness in the limbs.
She was obliged to lie down after every walk, on account of pain in the limbs, 1.
Bruised pain in all the joints, especially of those that had been bent, in the morning, in bed, disappearing on rising, 1.
Sticking jerking in one or another limb, 1.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

Objective.
A kind of spasmodic drawing up, together with twitches in the arms, after holding them in a bent position, 4.
Great weakness in the arms, and weariness in the whole body, 1.
Subjective.
Tearing in the left arm, so that she could not move it easily, 1.
Arm.
Rheumatic, bruised pain in the left upper arm, 4.
Hands.
The hands tremble if he tries to hold them still, 4 . [S. 168, 170, 175, 180 can be considered as secondary action (?). -Stapf.]
Fingers.
Cramplike contraction, at times, in one or another finger; in the morning he was unable to straighten the little finger, 1. [170.]
Sensation of numbness in the fingers (after a quarter of an hour), 4.
Sensitive drawing or tearing downward in the soft parts of the fingers (after two hours), 1.
A finger that had been slightly burnt, but was quite painless before the drug was taken, began to pain violently (after three hours), 4.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

Thigh.
The slightest rubbing of the woollen clothing made the inner side of the thigh sore, or at least caused a painful sensation of soreness, 1.
Pain, as if bruised, on the nates beneath the hip-joints, from the ischium to the thigh, while sitting and walking; while walking he was obliged to limp, 1.
Knee.
Trembling motion of the knees while descending steps (secondary action) (?), 1.
Cramp in the calf, on drawing up the knee, 1.
Drawing pain beneath the right knee.
A jerking, corroding, and smarting on the right tibia, during rest and motion, with a sensation as if the bones were bruised, together with a sensation of heat in them, 1.
Ankle.
A jerking sticking beneath the inner malleolus of the right foot, on stepping upon the heel or bending the foot backward, even on touching the part, 1.
Foot. [180.]
Trembling of the feet (after one hour and three-quarters), 7.
Constant weariness of the feet, extending half way up the thighs, after walking in the open air, 1.
Cramp in the soles of the feet, on putting out the foot, 1.
Toes.
Slight stitches in the balls of the great toes, at 4 P.M.

GENERALITIES

He became extremely excited as soon as the Coffea was taken in the evening; all movements were performed with unusual lightness (after twelve hours), 4.
Great mobility of the muscles; every motion was easy, rapid, and performed with a certain consciousness of vigor, 2.
Trembling motion, together with warmth in the back and between the shoulders, 5.
Disinclined to work; he lost the desire to work, even while busy, 1.
Inclination to lie down and close the eyes, without ability or desire to sleep, 3.
The greatest mental and physical exhaustion (after forty-five hours), 4.
Subjective. [190.]
Dulness of internal sensibility on account of supernatural speculations (secondary action).
Great weariness on ascending steps, soon disappearing, 1.
Pain in the whole body, so that he had little rest, 1.
Walking in the open air affects him extremely; it forces water from his eyes, and he soon becomes very weary (after six hours and a half), 4.
Aversion to the open air, 1.

SKIN

Eruption and itching over the whole body (secondary action) (?), 1.
Coffea changed the itching of the eruption into a burning, 1.
Itching on the right side of the scrotum.

SLEEP AND DREAMS

Sleepiness.
Yawning, 1.
Frequent deep yawning, 4. [200.]
Much yawning and sleepiness (first day).
Very weary with sleep (after twelve hours), 2.*
Overpowered with sleep; he dreaded apoplexy, 1.
Sound sleep.
Talking immediately after falling asleep, in a girl six years old.
Unconscious tossing about at night in sleep, so that in the morning he was lying turned about in bed, 1.
Sleeplessness.
*Sleeplessness on account of excessive mental and physical excitement, 7 . [Excitement and sleeplessness are the primary effects of Coffea, sleepiness in its various forms its secondary effect. -Stapf.]
Sleeplessness after midnight (from 2 to 7), with colic-like incarceration of flatus under, the ribs, which causes anxiety and sensation of heat, over the whole body, without sweat, excepting under the nose, without thirst, and with desire to be uncovered, 1.
Very wide awake in the evening.
At first he is wide awake, but soon afterwards sleepy, 5. [210.]
Light sleep, 1.
Sleep at night uneasy; he was obliged to turn from side to side, 4.
Frequent waking from sleep at night, as from fright, 6.
He slept until 3 A.M., after which he only dozed, but on waking did not come to his senses, 3.*
Waking, with starting.
Frequent waking towards morning, 6.
Dreams.
Dreams at night, 1.
Very long vivid dreams at night, 1.
Interrupted fancies at night while half asleep, busied with thoughts from which he cannot free himself and which deprive him of sound sleep.

FEVER

Chilliness.
Bodily temperature lowered from 0.4 to 0.6, 9. [220.]
Chilliness throughout the whole body (with warm skin), more noticed and worse when moving; on rising from the chair creeping chills, with pale face, for then minutes (after half an hour), 7.
Chilliness aggravated by motion, 7.
Violent chill, though without thirst, at 5 A.M. and 1 P.M., 1.
Internal shivering, even in the chest, with chilliness, and at the same time heat in the head and sweat in the face; all without thirst, 1.
Great sensitiveness to cold.
Open air, which was usually agreeable and to which he was accustomed, seemed very cutting, 4.
Sensation of coldness over the whole body; cold creepings up the back, as in a cold room, soon followed by redness and heat of the face, with cold hands, which are hot on the inner surface, while externally they are cold, 4.
Chilliness in the back, mingled with sensation of heat, especially warmth in the middle of the back and across the lower abdomen, as if sweat would break out, 7.
Repeated attacks of chilliness and shivering in the back, with the usual general warmth of the body, 4.
Some chilliness, with heat, on both cheeks, 1. [230.]
Coldness of the hands, followed by coldness of the feet (after two to three hours), 1.
Cold feet in the afternoon after 4, together with headache and rush of blood to the head, disappearing in the open air (after twenty-four hours), 1.
Heat.
Heat of the whole body, externally perceptible, at 8 P.M., with great dryness of the mouth, then shivering in the back and posterior portion of the body; then the hands and feet became icy cold; then in the bed at one time great heat, then great coldness until after midnight; in the morning headache, as if beaten, so that every step on walking is painful (after thirty hours), 1.
General heat, with redness of the face and much thirst, at 3 P.M., without previous chill; following the heat general sweat, which during the first hours was accompanied by thirst, 1.
Slight heat, without thirst, after the chilliness (after a quarter of an hour), 7.
Sensation of heat in the morning, in bed, though disliking to be uncovered, .

CONDITIONS

Aggravation.
( Morning ), On waking, headache, etc.; on rising, bleeding from nose; in bed, dryness of mouth; bitter taste; after rising, sensation in back of throat; nausea; in bed, pressure in sides of abdomen; on waking, roughness, etc., in larynx; in bed, pain in joints; at 7 o'clock, chilly; after fever paroxysm, headache; in bed, sensation of heat.
( Afternoon ), Eructations; nausea, etc.; after 4 o'clock, febrile warmth, etc.; at 4 o'clock, stitches in balls of great toes; at 1 o'clock chill; after 4 o'clock, cold feet, etc.; at 3 o'clock, general heat, etc.
( Evening ), In bed and on waking, sneezing; late, fluent coryza; at 6 o'clock, bleeding from nose; from 8 to 9 o'clock, nausea, etc.; in bed and on falling asleep, cough; at 8 o'clock, heat of body; after lying down, sensation of heat.
( Night ), Thirst; about midnight, passage of much urine; about midnight, irritation to cough; towards morning, frequent waking; general sweat; on waking, dry heat; towards morning, perspiration.
( Walking in open air ), All symptoms; sadness, etc.; confusion in head; fulness in abdomen; weariness of feet.
( While ascending steps ), Trembling of the knees; weariness of feet.
( While ascending steps ), Trembling of the knees; weariness.
( While walking in cold air ), Headache in temples.
( Eating ), Headache; heat in face , etc.
( Hawking ), Sensation in left nostril.
( Motion ), Chilliness.
( On putting out foot ), Cramp in soles.
( On reading ), Headache.
( Reflection ), Headache.
( In room ), Headache returns.
( While sitting still ), Crackling in vertex.
( On stooping ), Vertigo.
( After supper ), Fulness in abdomen, etc.
( Swallowing ), Pain in arches of palate.

COFFEA CRUDA.