Coffea Cruda
by H. C. Allen
Coffee (Rubiaceae)
–Coffea suited for Tall, lean, stooping persons, dark complexion, sanguine choleric temperament.
Coffea Cruda has Oversensitiveness; all the senses more acute, sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch ( Belladonna, Chamomilla, Opium ).
Coffea Cruda has Unusual activity of mind and body.
Full of ideas; quick to act, no sleep on this account.
Coffea Cruda 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 patient to despair ( Aconite, Chamomilla ); tossing about in anguish.
Sleepless, wide-awake condition; impossible to close the eyes; physical excitement through mental exaltation. (Compare, [Senecio], for sleeplessness form prolapsus, uterine irritation, during climacteric.).
Coffea Cruda Headache: from over-mental exertion, thinking, talking; one-sided, as from a nail driven into the brain ( Ignatia, Nux ); as if brain were torn or dashed to pieces; worse in open air.
Hasty eating and drinking ( Belladonna, Hepar ).
Toothache: intermittent, jerking, relieved by holding ice-water in the mouth, but returns when water becomes warm ( Bismuth, Bryonia, Pulsatilla, Causticum, Sepia, Natrum sulph. ).
Coffea Cruda Relations. – Compare: Aconite, Chamomilla, Ignatia, Sulphur
Incompatible: Cantharis, Causticum, Cocculus indicus, Ignatia
Aggravation. – Sudden mental emotion; excessive joy; cold, open air; narcotic medicines.