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Coca

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Erythroxylum Coca · Coca Leaves · "The Altitude Exhaustion Remedy"

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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

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

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 Album →PaulinChamomilla →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Coca is listed in 71 rubrics across 15 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 16 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Nervous System13 Circulatory System9 Respiratory System9 Modalities8 Mind7 Head6 Stomach6 Generalities3 Urinary System3 Female Sexual System2 Face1 Tongue1 Throat1 Male Sexual System1 Abdomen1

See all 71 rubrics for Coca →