# Coffea

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Chilly
- **Aggravation Time:** Night

## Keynote Indications
The provings of Coff. were made with the raw berries. Coff. belongs to the same family as 
Chin, and Ip., and like these remedies has many symptoms like intermittent fever. It has been noticed that 
coffee-drinkers with malaria are more difficult to cure than those who do not drink coffee. 
Over excitable and over sensitive nerves, special senses become over acute. Hyperactivity of mind and 
body. Sudden emotions, especially joy and pleasurable surprise, can produce dangerous symptoms.  
Severe insomnia. Great nervous agitation and  restlessness. Hysteria, screaming weep ing. Convulsions of 
teething children with grinding of the teeth and coldness of the limbs. Convulsions from excessive playing or 
laughing in weakly children. 
Skin hypersensitive. Touch, noise, odors, pain become int olerable. Neuralgia in various parts, always with 
great nervous excitability. Intolerance of pain, driving to despair. Nervous palpitations. 
Stimulates the functional activity of all organs increasing the nervous and vascular activity. Sensation of 
warmth. 
Coffee drinking is likely to increased production of uric acid, causing irritation of kidneys, muscle and joint 
pains, and should be curtailed or careful watching in the elderly as they are more susceptible to the stimulating 
action of coffee or tea. 
Clarke noted that although it is believed that coffee antidotes almost all homeopathic medicines, it is doubtful 
whether it could do so, especially when remedies are given in high potency. Experience shows that cor rectly 
selected homeopathic remedies act in spite of taking coffee.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better warmth. Better from lying down, sleep. Better cold drinks. Bet ter holding ice in mouth. 
Worse excessive excitement. Worse strong emotions, joy. Worse mental exertion. Worse overeating. 
Worse alcohol, wine, narcotics. Worse from strong odors, noise. Worse open air. Worse cold, wind. Worse 
from touch, would like to rub the part but it is too se nsitive. Worse at night, sleeps until 3 a.m. Warm drinks 
aggravate toothache.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Clearness of mind in evening, at night.
- Unusual activity of mind and body.
- Full of ideas, quick to act.
- Easy comprehension, irritability, excited, senses acute.
- Sentimental.
- Faints easily.
- Fright from sudden 
pleasant surprise.
- Complaints from fright.
- Ailments from disappointed love.
- Ailments from excessive laughing 
and playing.
- Trembles.
- Clinging to persons or furniture.
- Confusion during paroxysm of pain.
- Tossing about 
Coffea cruda in anguish (Aeon.).
- Throws things about.
- Pains seem intolerable, driving to despair with 
weeping.
- Fear of death during labor or after-pains.
- Fear of death from pains.
- Fear of danger on falling asleep.
- Fear of fresh air.
- Pangs of conscience.
- Weeps, laments and tosses about, over trifles.
- Immoderate activity and vigour.
- Increased feeling of energy and health.
- Ecstasy.
- Buoyancy.
- Great loquacity, 
brain feels clear and is active, he feels strong enough to do anything.
- Hasty eating and drinking.
- Hurried in 
movements.
- Memory becomes very acute.
- Memory active until midnight.
- Wakeful, full of ideas.
- Lively 
fancies, full of plans for the future.
- Theorizing.
- Weeping from delight.
- Capriciousness.
- Cry and laugh easily.
- Now joyous now gloomy.
- Mental and physical exhaustion.
- Delirium 
tremens, with trem bling of hands.
- Thinks that he is not at home, restlessness.
- Annoyed by voices.
- Resents 
sympathy.
- Weeping during headache, during menses.
- All senses more acute, reads fine print easier.
- Hearing, smell, taste and touch acute.
- Excitement as if hurried.
- Sensitive to noises, even if anyone walks across the floor.
- Fear of least noise.
- Impressionable to pleasurable 
impressions.
- Unconsciousness, fainting after strong emotions.
- Unconsciousness during childbirth.
- Clearness of mind in evening, at night.
- Unusual activity of mind and body.
- Full of ideas, quick to act.
- Easy comprehension, irritability, excited, senses acute.
- Sentimental.
- Faints easily.
- Fright from sudden 
pleasant surprise.
- Complaints from fright.
- Ailments from disappointed love.
- Ailments from excessive laughing 
and playing.
- Trembles.
- Clinging to persons or furniture.
- Confusion during paroxysm of pain.
- Tossing about 
Coffea cruda in anguish (Aeon.).
- Throws things about.
- Pains seem intolerable, driving to despair with 
weeping.
- Fear of death during labor or after-pains.
- Fear of death from pains.
- Fear of danger on falling asleep.
- Fear of fresh air.
- Pangs of conscience.
- Weeps, laments and tosses about, over trifles.
- Immoderate activity and vigour.
- Increased feeling of energy and health.
- Ecstasy.
- Buoyancy.
- Great loquacity, 
brain feels clear and is active, he feels strong enough to do anything.
- Hasty eating and drinking.
- Hurried in 
movements.
- Memory becomes very acute.
- Memory active until midnight.
- Wakeful, full of ideas.
- Lively 
fancies, full of plans for the future.
- Theorizing.
- Weeping from delight.
- Capriciousness.
- Cry and laugh easily.
- Now joyous now gloomy.
- Mental and physical exhaustion.
- Delirium 
tremens, with trem bling of hands.
- Thinks that he is not at home, restlessness.
- Annoyed by voices.
- Resents 
sympathy.
- Weeping during headache, during menses.
- All senses more acute, reads fine print easier.
- Hearing, smell, taste and touch acute.
- Excitement as if hurried.
- Sensitive to noises, even if anyone walks across the floor.
- Fear of least noise.
- Impressionable to pleasurable 
impressions.
- Unconsciousness, fainting after strong emotions.
- Unconsciousness during childbirth.

### Vertigo
- Dizziness and confusion in the head.
- Vertigo with blackness before eyes.
- Vertigo when stooping.
- Vertigo during coug h.
- Vertigo with whirling sensation in head, occasionally a general faint feeling, worse 
thinking.
- Vertigo with burning in stomach.
- Vertigo during sick headache, worse change of position or from 
moderate outdoor exercise.
- COMMENTS - Teste grouped Coff.
- with  Caust.
- He remarked that potentized Coff.
- prevents or neutralizes in 
many persons the effects of roasted coffee.
- Teste noted that this quasi -isopathic action is by no means 
confined to Coff., potentizations of many other drugs being antidotal to secondary effects of the crude 
substances.
- Hahnemann described the migraine of cof fee-drinkers thus: “It comes in the morning after waking increasing 
little by little.
- The pain becomes intolerable and sometimes burning integument of head very sensitive and 
painful on slightest touch.
- Body and mind excessively sensitive.
- Patients look exhausted, retire to dark places, 
close their 
Coffea cruda eyes to avoid light of day, remain seated in an armchair or stretched on a bed.
- “The least noise or motion excites the pain.
- They avoid talking, being talked to or hearing others talk.
- The body 
is colder than usual though no chills are experienced, the hands and feet are especially cold.
- “They loathe everything, especially food and drink, on account of a continual sickness at the  stomach.
- If the 
attack is very violent a vomiting of mucus takes place, which, how ever, does notrelieve the headache.
- There 
are no alvine discharges.
- This kind of megrim scarcely ever leaves before evening.
- “If the paroxysm is less violent, a little strong coffee which was the first cause of such a headache will produce 
a temporary palliation of the pain, but the disposition to relapse becomes so much greater.
- The attacks come irregularly, every fortnight or every few weeks without any apparent cause and quite 
suddenly, so much so that the patient often does not feel a single unpleasant symptom the evening preceding 
 
 
the attack.
- Such a headache has never been seen by me except in real cof fee-drinkers.” 
More recently.
- Dr.
- Gilles de la Tourette (Lancet, July  20, 1895) has described the effects of coffee.
- In his 
opinion they are very frequently mistaken for the effects of alcohol.
- “Morning vomiting of glairy mucus, pain in the pit of the stomach, thickly -coated tongue, loss of appetite.
- The 
disgust excited by even the idea of solid food is such that these patients eat nothing else but bread soaked in 
their poison—coffee.
- There supervene then nausea, vomiting and painful acid belchings.” 
The effects of coffee are less deep than those of alcohol and quickly disappear when the habit is discontinued.
- Characteristic exaltation of the senses and sensibility in general (Aeon.).
- Sight is im proved, fine print can be 
read easily, hearing is more acute and noises are intolerable and are accompanied with fear of death.
- Th e 
mental activities are exalted.
- Great sensitiveness to touch or contact.
- Nervous energy, anxious, wide awake, and hypersensitive to all light and noise, any stimulus.
- Ailments due to 
over-excitement (Arg-n., Phos.), pleasant surprises, joy.
- Happy excitement.
- Very sensitive to the cold and the 
wind.
- Over excitement from severe pain, hypersensitive to the pain.
- Frets over the pain.
- Cannot stand the pain, pain 
out of proportion.
- Pain leads to sleeplessness and over excitability.
- An emergency remedy for amputation pain 
and severe nerve pain with burning.
- Tendency to be intellectual, very quick minded, clear thinkers with brilliant memo ries, but can't turn their 
sensitivity off, an increased nervous system.
- Voracious mental appetite (Sulph.).
- Hyperactiv ity.
- Severe insomnia from an overactive mind.
- Sleep is disturbed by terrifying dreams.
- Slowed pulse.
- Headaches 
(Cham, for coffee headache).
- One-sided headaches with the sensation as if a nail was being pounded in (Ign., 
Thuja, Anae., Nux-v.), usually right over the eye.
- Sense of lightness of move ment, the head feels light, full of 
vigor.
- Ringing in the ears or a roaring sensation in the head.
- For teething and toothache.
- Tendency to colic.
- Diarrhea 
in housewives who have much care and trouble in managing their households.
- Labor pains.

### Head
- Headaches from mental overexertion, thinking or talking.
- Sensation as if brain were torn to pieces.
- As 
if a nail were driven into the head.
- Sensation as if brain is shattered or crushed.
- Headaches worse motion, 
noise, music or light.
- Tight pain, worse from noise, smell, narcotics.
- Head feels too small.
- Feels and hears a 
cracking in vertex.
- Coffee and caffeine headaches (Cham.).
- Temples throbbing with burning in eyes.
- Pains 
driving to despair, patient runs wildly about room.
- Rush of blood to head, after exhausting joy.
- Threatening 
apoplexy.
- Hyperemia of brain after abuse of Bell.
- Headaches from mental overexertion, thinking or talking.
- Sensation as if brain were torn to pieces.
- As 
if a nail were driven into the head.
- Sensation as if brain is shattered or crushed.
- Headaches worse motion, 
noise, music or light.
- Tight pain, worse from noise, smell, narcotics.
- Head feels too small.
- Feels and hears a 
cracking in vertex.
- Coffee and caffeine headaches (Cham.).
- Temples throbbing with burning in eyes.
- Pains 
driving to despair, patient runs wildly about room.
- Rush of blood to head, after exhausting joy.
- Threatening 
apoplexy.
- Hyperemia of brain after abuse of Bell.

### Eyes
- Burning in eyes and throbbing in temples, during sick headache.
- Eyes half open during sleep, with 
convulsive motion of eyes when awake.
- Eyes reddish and shining.
- Pupils dilated.
- B right eyes.
- Can read fine 
print more distinctly.
- Power of vision increased, esp.
- in open air.
- Scintillations.
- Dim vision during cough.

### Ears
- Sensitive hearing.
- Noise is painful, even footsteps.
- Sensitive to noise, music, voices.
- Hearing acute, 
overhears distant sounds.
- Hardness of hearing with buzzing as of a swarm of bees.
- Noises and singing in 
ears, with nervous people.
- Crackling noise in head, sy nchronous with pulse, worse mornings and in open air, 
better indoors.

### Face
- Shining red face with much fever.
- Flushed face during sick headache.
- Tran sitory flushes in face.
- One 
cheek hot a nd red, with constant shuddering.
- Dry heat with red cheeks.
- Acfiing, sharp, radiating pains.
- Prosopalgia extending to molar teeth, ears, forehead and scalp.
- Sweat on face with internal chilliness.

### Mouth
- Excessive dryness of mouth at night.
- Hot breath.
- Taste more acute.
- Delicate taste.
- Taste sweetish.
- Loss of taste.
- Salivation during pregnancy.
- Hasty eating and drinking.
- Nose - Acute, sensitive smell.
- Nosebleed with heaviness of head and ill humor during straining at stool.
- Perspiration - Cold, clammy sweat, over whole body, but chiefly on palms of hands.
- Slight sweat, mostly in 
face.

### Throat
- Sore throat, worse cold air.
- Sore throat, parts very sensitive.
- Swelling and painfulness of throat, worse 
swallowing.
- Pain as from a plug with constant desire to swallow.
- Uvula too long, swollen.
- Larynx as if covered 
with dry mucus.
- Trachea as if ra w.
- Roughness and hoarseness in larynx, in morning on waking.
- Spasm of 
glottis, starts from sleep with short inhalation or gasping.

### Chest
- Sharp pains in sides during cough.
- Constitutions - Complaints during infancy and dentition.
- Suited to tall, lean, and stooping persons with dark 
complexions.
- Sanguine choleric temperament.
- Cough - Short, dry cough of measles in ner vous, delicate children.
- Short, dry, hack ing, constant, [5] as from 
 
 
constriction of larynx.
- [4] Cough and sleeplessness after measles.
- Feels exhausted after coughing.
- [5] Irritable, 
nervous, at night, with anxiety and sleeplessness.
- [11] Irritation tocough, with coryza, worse open air.
- Single, 
sudden shocks, quickly following each oth er.
- From irritation in throat, phlegm in back part of throat.
- When 
falling asleep or soon after.
- Dry, hacking, like whooping cough, with this difference, that the spasms are 
principally experienced during inspirations, not during expirations.
- Violent irregular palpitations, es pecially after excessive joy or surprise.
- Nervous palpitation with 
trembling of limbs, worse sun, heat.
- Hypertension.
- Sudden rise of blood pressure and urinary suppression.
- Pulse full and frequent.
- Pulse intermitting.
- Pulse more frequent, but less vigorous, even small and weak.
- Kidneys - Suppression of urine.
- Frequent, profuse urination of colorless urine.
- Pressure on bladder.
- Urine 
passes off drop by drop.
- Short, dry cough of measles in ner vous, delicate children.
- Asthmatic attacks in morning, wants to 
move continually.
- Short inspiration, chest heaves visibly.
- Suffocative fits.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Intolerance of tight clothing.
- Bilious vomiting and restlessness at commencement of variola.
- Gastric 
derangements of infants.
- Anguish and pressure in stomach pit.
- Burning in stomach during vertigo.
- Stomach 
feels over loaded dur ing colic.
- Burning, sour eructations.
- Hiccoughs.
- Eructation like rotten eggs.
- Violent 
spasmodic eructations, with rising of the ingesta.
- Continual nausea during headache.
- Constant inclination to 
vomit, felt in throat.
- Vomiting of mucus during violent attacks of megrim.
- Teeth - Dentition of anemic, sensitive children.
- Convulsive grinding of teeth.
- Toothache during menses.
- Toothache, 
Coffea cruda 
better holding ice water in mouth,  worse as it warms.
- Severe toothache, intolerant of the pain  with 
restlessness, anxiety and weeping.
- Temperature - Chilliness worse every movement.
- Internal chills with external heat of face and body.
- Chills 
with heat of head and sweat of face.
- Chills running down back.
- Running all through limbs.
- Shivering, from least 
exposure to cold air.
- Chills without thirst.
- Traumatic fever.
- Even with mild fever patient is very nervous and 
sensitive.
- Ague, paroxysms every fourth day, two well days interven ing.
- Intermittent fever.
- Feverish with pain 
and always ready to weep.
- Flatulence.
- Intolerance of tight clothing.
- Clothes are oppressive.
- Abdominalpains with 
despair.Tensionof epigastric region, with sensitivity to touch.
- Colic, which seems to be unendurable.
- Pains 
as if abdomen would burst.
- Pressure in abdomen as from incarcerated flatus.
- Distended abdomen, extreme 
emaciation.
- Incarcerated hernia.
- Diminished appetite.
- Hasty eating and drinking.
- Excessive hunger.
- Aversion to coffee.
- Bad effects from 
wine and liquor.
- Bad effects from drinking too much wine.
- Thirst increased, esp.
- at night.
- Worse from 
drinking too much coffee.
- Thirst during sweat.
- Headache from eating too much.

### Urinary & Genital
- Hypersensitiveness of sexual organs.
- Scrotum relaxed.
- Hot, itching ge nitals.
- Emissions at night, 
followed by great languor and irritability of temper.
- Greatly excited sexual desire, with dry heat of body.
- Menses too early and long lasting.
- Profuse menses with excessive sensitive ness of organs and 
voluptuous itching.
- Dysmenorrhea, large clots of blackblood, 
with extreme sensitiveness of genitals.
- Toothache during menses.
- Bearing down in genitals with frequent 
urination.
- Metrorrhagia.
- Severe after pains or  labor pains with fear of death.
- Voluptuous itching in the vulva.
- Hypersensitive vulva and vagina.
- Vagina and vulva are too sensi tive to rub or scratch, aversion to sex.
- Leucorrhea like mucus, or milky, worse while urinating.
- Severe after -pains or labor p ains, with fear of death.
- Labor-pains ceasing, with loquacity.
- Irregular, ineffectual labor-pains.
- Puerperal fever from mental excitement.
- Nymphomania.

### Extremities
- Trembling of hands, cannot hold the pen.
- Twitching of limbs.
- Crural neu- 
ralgia, worse motion afternoon and night, better by pressure.
- Pain in limbs, worse noise.
- Coldness of limbs, 
hands and feet.
- Sciatica, worse motion, afternoon and night with restlessness and sleeplessness at night.

### Neck & Back
- Small of back as if lame, while sitting or standing.
- Breasts - Agalactia.
- Emaciation of breasts.
- Breast cysts from coffee drinking.
- Causations - Effects of sudden emotion, especially pleasurable ones.
- Ill effects of fear, fright, disappointed 
love, over fatigue, excessive laughing, long journey.
- Wine.
- Slight passive movements are perceived as 
enormous, children at times 
cannot bear to be carried about.

### Skin
- Skin very sensitive, eruptions become extremely irritable.
- Painfully sensit ive.
- Itching, scratches until it 
bleeds.
- Itching of eruption changes into burning.
- Measly spots on the skin, with dry heat.
- Purple miliary 
eruptions all over.
- Scarlet fever, may aid in bringing out the eruption in cases of extreme wakefulness and 
nervous excitement.
- Scarlet rash with overwhelming pains and lamenting.
- Varicella, smallpox.
- Dryness of skin, 
but not in febrile diseases.
- Stinging and smarting on skin.

### Sleep
- Restless sleep, frequent, sudden starting and waking.
- Nervous sleepless ness.
- Insomnia.
- Sleeplessness, before or after midnight, from nursing the sick.
- Sleeps until 3 a.m., after which only doz ing.
- Sleeplessness from excessive use of coffee.
- Wakes with a start, sleep disturbed by dreams.
- Sleepless, 
on account of mental activity, flow of ide as.
- Disturbed sleep from itching of anus.
- Sleeplessness after 
pleasurable excitement.
- Sleepless with nervous excitability.
- Sleepless so long as any noise or light 
continues, at night.
- Sleeplessness after acute diseases.
- Long and vivid dreams.
- Pleasant dreams, even merry.

### Generalities
- As if head too small, as if some thing hard pressing on surfa ce of brain, as if head would burst 
and fly to pieces if she moved.
- As if intestines were being cut.
- As if body would burst.
- Tight pains and 
sensations.
- Sensation of warmth.