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Coffea Cruda

30CCoffea
Unroasted Coffee · Coffee · "The Oversensitivity Remedy"
coff.PolychrestPlantCommonPsoric
🎯 It acts as a powerful stimulant to the nervous and vascular systems, causing extreme sensitivity and mental agitation.
📖 Boericke writes:
Stimulates the functional activity of all organs, increasing the nervous and vascular activity. The drinking of coffee by the aged is likely to increase production of acid, causing irritation of kidneys; muscle and joint pains, and with the increased susceptibility of old people to the stimulating action of coffee and tea, their use should be curtailed or carefully watched. Great nervous agitation and restlessness. Extreme sensitiveness characterizes this remedy. in various parts; always with great nervous excitability and intolerance of pain, driving to despair. Unusual activity of mind and body. Bad effects of sudden emotions, surprises, joy, etc. Nervous . Coffea is specially suited to tall, lean, stooping persons with dark complexions, temperament choleric and sanguine. Skin hypersensitive.
👤 Constitution
•Tall, lean, stooping persons with dark complexions, having a choleric or sanguine temperament.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Unusual activity of mind and body.
introduction
Seems as if brain were torn to pieces, as if nail were driven in head.
head
Sensitive hearing.
head
Hypersensitive vulva and vagina.
female
Sleepless, on account mental activity; flow of ideas, with nervous excitability.
sleep
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Used for mental over-activity, restlessness, and emotional excitability.
Gaiety, easy comprehension, irritability, excited; senses acute.
Impressionable, especially to pleasurable impressions.
Full of ideas, quick to act.
Tossing about in anguish (Acon).
🔑 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.

Third to two hundredth
Centesimal
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🤝 Complementary
Aconitum Napellus →
🚫 Antidotes
Tabacum →Nux Vomica →
🔄 Compare With
Thea Chinensis →Aconitum Napellus →Nux Vomica →Chamomilla →Coffea Tosta →
⚠️ Inimical
Camphora →Cocculus Indicus →

Boericke's Materia Medica

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Coffea Cruda is listed in 154 rubrics across 19 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 53 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Female Sexual System22Nervous System22Head16Mind14Circulatory System12Modalities11Fever9Teeth9Stomach7Face7Generalities6Respiratory System6Abdomen4Locomotor System3Ears2Taste1Throat1Nose1Urinary System1

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