Coffea
Botanical Name: Coffea arabica Lin. Family: Rubiaceae. Description: An evergreen shrub or small tree attaining a height of 5 - 10 meters. Under cultural conditions it is kept down to a height of 1.5 - 2 meters. Flowers are white, fragrant, borne, in clusters in the axils of leaves. Fruit small, fleshy drupes, bright green when young, changing to yellow and later to scarlet red with ripening. The fleshy mucilaginous pulp of the drupe encloses two oval greenish grey seeds of beans.
Delusion he sees paradise,
..and 'Weeping from the slightest neglect' (Prinses op de erwt..). Coffea is one of the big remedies for exhilaration with excessive excitement, laughing, joy and ailments generated from these emotions. On the other hand it has excessive fear, irritability, sensitivity for pain and light, sounds, temperature.
Patients may be quite hysterical; and on the other hand we have seen very quiet and balanced patients. How can we understand the remedy picture ?
The Coffea patients want to achieve (Achieve) very pleasant, nice and even magnificent things in order to be good for their family (LOVE for family) and to the world (Benevolence). They are creative (Activity, creative) and very sensitive for beauty of the nature (CHARMED with description of beauties of nature).
They have heavenly visions: Delusion he sees paradise, Visions of magnificent grandeur. There is benevolence, veneration for the Supreme Being. It is said that Coffea is idealistic; probably this is wrong, it is better to see them as idealizing.
There is great mental power: ACHIEVE things, desire to achieve, LEARNING easily, PLANS many; night, THEORIZING; night, THOUGHTS rush, flow of thoughts while reading, EFFICIENCY increased, ENERGY, lots of.
They see the paradise and the beautiful visions. But it is more a mental experience (like Coca and Cocaine) than a lived feeling. They do not experience it as Medorrhinum, Veratrum, Cannabis or Anhalonium.
It is too nervy; the communication with the bodily sensations is problematic. The body cannot stand the excited mentality:
JOY with sudden diarrhea, JOY, sleeplessness from excessive joy, CATALEPSY from joy, CONVULSIONS in children from excessive playing or laughing, EXALTATION of all powers of body before convulsions, TWITCHING from excessive joy.
And the mind is in turmoil from physical symptoms: DESPAIR, colic drives him to despair, ANGUISH with toothache, ANXIETY from flatus, EXCITEMENT during dentition, FEAR of death, from pain.
And there are quite hysterical symptoms: RAGE in toothache, JOY with sudden diarrhoea, EXHILARATION from palpitation, HOWLING from fright.
Decompensation.
CLINGING convulsively to persons or furniture, DEATH, conviction of death in metrorrhagia. DEATH, thoughts of death without fear.
And they may become nasty:
PUSH impelled to push things.
IMPULSE, morbid impulse to pinch.
THROWS things away; everything given.
And there is much weakness in the second and third phase of the remedy; mental and bodily weakness. They are more extreme than China.
In patients we saw that they had to live up to expectations and where overtaxed. This is especially so for children who had to compensate the loss of a parent (father). For example taking care of the siblings or taking a parental role to fill the gap.
From their nature they see a beautiful world with heavenly scenes, they are joyful, optimistic, even exhilarated. They try there best being creative, intelligent and heaving lots of energy. But they do not listen to their body and emotions and the reality is overtaxing the person. Their feelings get mixed up, the mind and body cannot accomplish and hysterical symptoms appear.
She is like the daughter of Countess Ellcinon; she is the princess (Prinses op de erwt..). She is young and lively and bright; but she too has to behave! So she gets many symptoms from laughing to loud and playing too much. 'Remember that you are a princess!'.
Vermeulen 1
Similar to Nux-v, but less irritated, ambitious and malicious.
Allen encyclopedia
Love for family. Desire to perform good deeds intensified (Benevolence excited). Veneration for Supreme Being.
Brain feels clear, and is very active. The intellectual faculties chiefly stipulated are the imagination and the memory. The power of judgment is increased. Attention is more alive.
Coffea tosta is the roasted berry for consumption. Its symptoms are slightly different and even more outspoken. The Benevolence is even excited benevolence; there is an explicit Desire to perform good deeds. A dream is recorded:
Dream of the death of a good friend; it does not abate his mental exhilaration and he looks at it all with supernatural indifference.
And she desires to be killed during parturition.