Coffea tosta
Coffea arabica (roasted) · Plant · Rubiaceae
Coffea tosta suits sensitive, nervous individuals who are over-stimulated and hypersensitive, particularly those adversely affected by strong coffee. It is beneficial to persons who live in the open air and is serviceable against both cold and heat.
Key symptoms
- Toothache of sound teeth better from cold water
- Nervous excitement and hypersensitivity from coffee intake
- Migraine headache
- Vertigo
- Seminal emissions
- Urinary affections
- Antidote to opium, Nux vomica, Belladonna, and other narcotic poisons
Better (amelioration)
- Cold water relieves intense toothache in sound teeth
- Open air is beneficial
Sensitiveness
This drug is characterized by a general sensitivity. Sensitiveness of vision, of hearing, of smell, of touch; sensitiveness to pain. it is most astonishing sometimes about this great sensitiveness. Pains are increased by noise.
Sensitiveness of hearing is so great that sounds are painful. Pains in the face, toothache, headache; pains in the lower limbs; everywhere aggravated by noise.
All the nervous disturbances possible are found in this medicine, and they are all aggravated by noise. Even the opening of the door and the ringing of the door-bell produces great suffering. Such patients are so sensitive that they hear sounds which those in a state of health cannot hear.
Coffee. N. O. Rubiaceæ. Infusion of the well-roasted berries.
Clinical
Antidote to poisons. Labour pains. Migraine. Nervous excitement, effects of. Seminal emissions. Urinary affections. Vertigo.
Characteristics
The symptoms of Coffea t. have been principally obtained from sensitive persons on whom strong coffee has acted injuriously; and the clinical uses have been mainly based on these. But a word must be said about the antidotal effects of Coffee. As an allopathic antidote to Opium in poisonous doses its value is well known. In addition to Opium and its derivatives it counteracts the effects of Nux vomica, Belladonna, narcotic mushrooms, poisonous sumach, tobacco, bitter almonds, Prussic acid, Coloc., Valer., Cicuta, Chamom., salts of Antimony, Lead, Phosphorus, Phosphoric acid. On account of its extensive antidotal properties Coffee has largely been condemned by homœopathic practitioners; but it should be remembered that it does not antidote all other medicines, and it is questionable if it …
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