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Erythroxylum Coca · Coca Leaves · "The Altitude Exhaustion Remedy"
coca.PlantUncommonPsoric
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🎯 A remedy for exhaustion of the nervous system caused by physical or mental strain, particularly useful for symptoms related to high altitudes.
📖 Boericke writes:
The Divine Plant of the Incas-but the Spanish priests denounced it as "un delusion del demonio"
The mountaineer's remedy. Useful in a variety of complaints incidental to mountain climbing, such as palpitation, dyspnoea, anxiety and insomnia. Exhausted nervous system from physical and mental strain. Caries of teeth.Loss of voice.--Give 5-6 drops, every half hour, two hours before expected demand on voice. Nocturnal enuresis. Emphysema (Quebracho).
👤 Constitution
Typically individuals who are physically or mentally exhausted, often bashful, ill at ease in social situations, and preferring solitude.
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Noises in ear.
head
Headaches of high altitudes.
head
Want of breath, short breath, especially in aged athletes, and alcoholic users.
respiratory
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Useful for social anxiety, irritability, and a desire for isolation.
Melancholy; bashful, ill at ease in society, irritable, delights in solitude and obscurity.
Sense of right and wrong abolished.
🔑 Modalities
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💊 Dosage & Potency
Tincture to third attenuation
Mother Tincture
🕒every half hour
📝Give 5-6 drops · two hours before expected demand on voice
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🚫 Antidotes
Gelsemium Sempervirens
🔄 Compare With
Arsenicum AlbumPaulinChamomilla
📚 Sources & References

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