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COFFEA TOSTA

Coffea Tosta
coff-tPlantCommonPsoric✨ Exclusively from Hering

Exclusively Documented in Hering

This remedy is documented exclusively in Hering's Guiding Symptoms. It does not appear in Boericke's Materia Medica or other standard texts.

🎯 Acts primarily on the nervous system to produce states of extreme over-excitement, agitation, and physical sensitivity.
About: Coffea Tosta is indicated for individuals suffering from intense nervous excitement, often manifesting as palpitations, hysterical headaches, or extreme restlessness. It is frequently used in cases where emotional or physical over-stimulation leads to exhaustion, such as during labor or following excessive work and care.
👤 Constitution
Beneficial to persons who live in the open air and to old people of nervous and excitable temperament.
Useful during lactation, but harmful during puerperal state or during menstruation.
Relieves the last moments of the dying, particularly those suffering from abdominal complaints, dropsy and consumption.
Useful as a stimulant in apparent death, particularly in asphyxia and premature birth.
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Extreme nervous excitement with a conviction of impending death, especially during labor.
Hering
Periodic headaches occurring in hysterical women.
Hering
Face becomes hot and deeply flushed during periods of intense stress or labor.
Hering
Diarrhea resulting from overwork and excessive mental or emotional care.
Hering
Palpitations of the heart associated with an irritable heart or fainting spells.
Hering
Cramplike drawing pains in the umbilical region accompanied by severe backache.
Hering
General trembling of the hands.
Hering
Eyes appear shining and bright during states of high agitation.
Hering
🩺 Systems & Indications
Hering Exclusive
🧠Mind
She is greatly excited and is sure she will die. Labor.
Begs that some one might end her life. Labor.
Increased intellectual activity and perception of sounds, motion, etc.
Full of apprehension of terrible things happening.
Painful anxiety, without fear of falling, during downward motion of hammock, while asleep.
She does not know where she is
  • feels strangely in her head ;
  • palpitation, trembling and chilliness..
Hering Symptom Grade:
Keynote (Grade 3)
Important (Grade 2)
Minor (Grade 1)
🔑 Modalities
Hering Exclusive
Worse from
Morningmigraine shortly after awaking
Better from
Cold Waterintense pain in sound teeth
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🚫 Antidotes
COLOCYNTHISBELLADONNA
🔄 Compare With
COFFEA CRUDAACONITUM NAPELLUS
📚 Sources & References
Boericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaClarke's DictionaryAllen's KeynotesPhatak's Concise MM

Compiled from classical homeopathic texts in the public domain. Click any active source badge to open the original text. For educational and reference purposes only. Always consult a qualified homeopath for treatment.