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Coffeinum

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Coffeinum · Caffeine (alkaloid of Coffea) · "The Excitable Alkaloid"
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🎯 It acts as a powerful stimulant to the nervous and circulatory systems, producing symptoms of intense anxiety, rapid heart rate, and physical tremors.
📖 Clarke writes:
Coffein or Caffein, an alkaloid obtained from Coffea arabica. C8 H10 N4 O2. Trituration of the alkaloid, and also of the Citrate of Coffein.
👤 Characteristics
Sphere of Action & Core States
Proving symptoms consistent with the pathogenesis of Coffea
Pulsation of the arteries on head and temples
Vomiting with relief of all symptoms
Restlessness and dizziness
Unable to keep erect
Violent precordial anxiety
Palpitation
Abdominal pulsation
Violent trembling of all the extremities
Grating of the teeth
Feeling of constriction of the neck and throat, recurring periodically every fifteen minutes
Pulse very rapid
Leading Mental & Emotional Indicators
Features expressive of the greatest anxiety
Violent precordial anxiety
Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms
Sparks before eyes
Roaring in the ears
Vomiting with relief of all symptoms
Restlessness and dizziness
Unable to keep erect
Violent trembling of all the extremities
Grating of the teeth
Feeling of constriction of the neck and throat, recurring periodically every fifteen minutes
Pulse very rapid
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Violent precordial anxiety with rapid pulse
Clarke
Violent trembling of all extremities
Clarke
Pulsation of arteries on head and temples
Clarke
Feeling of constriction of the neck and throat recurring every fifteen minutes
Clarke
Features expressive of the greatest anxiety
Clarke
Sparks before the eyes and roaring in the ears
Clarke
Dizziness and inability to keep erect
Clarke
Grating of the teeth
Clarke
Abdominal pulsation
Clarke
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Use for states of over-excitement, delirium, confusion of ideas, and inability to focus.
Emotional.
Great excitement, so that he was unable to fix the mind, [2] .
Very excited fantasies, [3] .
Peculiar intoxicated condition, [3] .
Delirium, [1] .
Visions, [3] .
Intellectual.
Confusion of ideas, [3] .
Obscuration of mind, [1] .
🔑 Modalities
Better from
Vomiting
all symptoms
📚 Sources & References
Clarke's DictionaryAllen's EncyclopediaBoericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaPhatak's Concise MM

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