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Coca
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Coca Reference Specimen
Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification
🧬 Remedy Miasm: Tubercular Miasm
The Tubercular miasm is a combination of Psora and Syphilis. It manifests as a susceptibility to respiratory illnesses, rapid weight loss, and a constant desire for mental and physical change.
🧠General & Mental Health
▲GENERAL
Complaints related to mountain climbing.
Altitude, mountain sickness.
Palpitations,
dyspnea, anxiety and inso mnia.
Dizziness, dyspnea and exhaustion on going to high altitudes, mountain
climbing, airplane flying etc.
Exhaustion of the brain and nervous sys tem from physical and mental strain.
Muscle exhaustion.
Ringing in
the ears, deafness and also fever (Chin.
).
Tooth decay.
Voice loss.
Nocturnal bedwetting.
Emphysema(Queb.).
Characteristic sensation as if a worm or small foreign bodies were under the skin,
moving away when touched.
Cocaine poisoning causes a sensation as if small foreign bodies were under the skin, generally like grains
of sand or else as of a worm under the skin.
It is known as Magnan's Symptom, after the neurologist who first described it.
His description is “a sensation
as if foreign bodies were under the skin, generally small round substances like grains of sand.”
Korkasoff reported a case of multiple neuritis in which this symptom was present.
The patient was a woman
who was being treated for a uterine affection by means of vaginal tampons containing c ocaine.
A
discontinuance of these caused the disappearance of the symptom.
COMMENTS-Dr.
J.
W.
Springthorpe described a variety of this symptoms expe rienced by himself and
recorded in a paper entitled “The Confessions of the Cocainist.” He called it “Hunting the Cocaine bug.” “You
imagine,” he says, “that in your skin are worms or similar things, moving along.
“If you touch them with wool and espe cially with absorbent wool, they run away and disappear, only to peep
cautiously out of some corner to see if there is any danger.
These worms are projected only on the Cocainist's
own person or clothing.
He sees them on his linen in his skin, creeping along his penholder, but not on other,
people or things and not on clothes brought clean from the laundry.”
Cooper cured a case of chronic rheumatism in an aged woman who had this symptom with the fraction of a
grain of cocaine given in single doses at long intervals.
In a case reported in Lancet, June, 1886, a man who had a 4 percent solution of cocaine applied to a tooth
swallowed twenty to thirty drops of the solution.
Half an hour after, he was seized wi th a feeling of faintness
and giddiness followed by an attack of palpitation with a sense of flushing, especially up the back.
There was a marked diminution of smell, great difficulty in producing vomiting, a scarlatina-like rash over the
body, especially about the neck, dimness of vision, relaxation of sphincters and weakness of limbs.
The mind
remained clear, but the pulse was fast, weak and intermittent.
A striking case was recorded in the British Medical Journal of December 13,1890.
At a meeting of the Paris
Academie de Medecine on December 2nd, M.
Hallopeau presented a communication after distinguishing two
forms of cocaine poisoning: the acute in which the symptoms are produced imme diately after a dose and
speedily pass off, and the chronic in which they are due to the prolonged use of the drug.
He then related a case that in his opinion showed that the poisonous effects, while coming on acutely, might
last for a considerable time.
On March 7, 1890, a man had about eight milligrams oí hydrochlorate of cocaine
injected into his gum as a preliminary to the extraction of a tooth.
Toxic symptoms at once supervened.
There was intense precordial oppression with thready pulse and extreme excitement and loquacity.
The patient
walked about the room, hitting out at random with his fists and crying out that he was dying.
In ten minutes he
became quiet and the tooth was extracted after which he was able to walk home, but arrived there in a state
of extreme prostration.
Then ensued a train of nervous symptoms, such as continual headache, intractable sleeplessness, a bad taste
in the mouth with attacks of excitement accompanied by giddiness, faintness, and a sense of impending death.
All brain work was impossible, the patient could not do the simplest sum in arithm etic and was in a state of
profound depression.
A sense of formication and numbness in the hands and forearms was almost incessant.
This condition lasted four months.
It was two months after the injection before the least improvement was
observed, and then progress towards recovery was very slow.
M.
Hallopeau thought the symptoms indicated a poisonous action of cocaine on the nervous centers and
especially the brain.
As it is impossible to suppose that so small a quantity of the drug should have remained
in the circulation, he was driven to conclude either that it was stored up in the cells of certain nervous centers
or that it produced in them persistent lesions.
Among other effects observed from its use in dentistry are “mental depression and drowsiness an d intense
oppression in chest, dilatation of pupils, acceleration of pulse and breathing and mental excitement.”
W.
J.
Guernsey quoted in H.
P., November, 1888 from Med.
Register, August 11, 1888, the experience of J.
E.
Shadle, who applied pledgets of a 4 percent solution of cocaine to the nasal cavities of a man of 35,
preparatory to operation.
On each occasion he complained of a “cold, gone, relaxed feeling about the external genitals and a sensation
as if he penis were absent.
Towards the end of treat ment he noticed a permanent weakness of the sexual
organs and finally seminal losses and impotence set in and continued until the Cocaine was entirely withheld.”
R.
K.
Ghosh noted experiences with Coca (which he finds in drop doses act better in such cases than in the
potencies) in pal pitation and dyspnea on ascending, when arising from nervous causes, especially in
complaints from self-abuse generally.
After the invigorating effects of cocaine have passed off, including the sense of lightness and ability to climb a
mountain without fatigue, or when the intoxication has been carried to a further degree, there is a sense of
heaviness, numbness and drowsiness with a disinclination to move.
Extreme weariness, especially weakness of the legs.
Extreme affects f rom altitude sickness.
Fatigue.
Characteristic headache, headaches of high altitudes.
Tight headache, as if a rubber band were stretched
across the forehead.
After affects from altitude sickness (Carb-V., Sil., Calc.).
Can be used prophylactically if ther e's a history of
altitude sickness or lung weakness.
Asthma aggravated by altitude.
Effects of cold, cough from cold air, rheu-matism from slightest cold.
Excessive secretion of urine with or with out sugar.
General affect of relaxing the
sphincters.
Sensation as if the esophagus would be rent by force of rising flatus.
Nymphomania after childbirth
during menses, from irritation of eczema or other disorders of the vulva in satyriasis.
Temperature-Sense of flushing, especially up the back with palpitations.
Chilliness and headache in
afternoon.
At night, heat and sleeplessness, with throbbing in arter ies.
Night sweats.
Flushes of heat on the
back and burning in abdomen.
Extreme weariness accompanies the fever.
Tympanitic distention of abdo men.
Pressure and tension in hypochondria after meals.
Violent
pains with bloated distention.
Colic.
Passage of much flatulence.
Violent bellyache, better frequent discharges
of inodorous flatus.
Causations-Ascending, high altitudes.
Retards hunger and thirst.
Very little need of nourishment, even during heavy work and remarkable
vigor.
Great satiety for a long time.
No appetite except for sweets.
Aversi on to solid food.
Desires stimulants.
Craving for alcohol and tobacco.
Ailments from salt food.
Can't eat salty food.
Great thirst.
Bad effects of
stimulants, alcohol and tobacco
▲MODALITIES ETC
Better from wine.
Better after dinner.
Better lying on face.
Better quick motion.
Better open air.
Better after sunset.
Worse from cold air.
Worse ascending, high altitudes.
Worse climb ingmountains.
Worse mental or physical exertion.
Worse walking.
Worse sitting.
Worse salty food
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This clinical profile is compiled from: Robin Murphy, MD — Lotus Materia Medica, 3rd Edition; Samuel Hahnemann — Materia Medica Pura; William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica; and Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad — Homeopathy: Like Cures Like. Compiled in accordance with classical homeopathic provings and clinical practice.
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