Coffea cruda
as H.C. Allen recorded it in Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 1899
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Keynotes
Coffea cruda
Coffee. Rubiaceae.
Tall, lean, stooping persons, dark complexion, sanguine choleric temperament.
Oversensitiveness; all the senses more acute, sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch (Bell., Cham., Opium).
Unusual activity of mind and body.
Full of ideas ; quick to act, no sleep on this account.
Ailments: the bad effects of sudden emotions or pleasurable surprises (Caust. — exciting or bad news. Gels.) ; weeping from delight; alternate laughing and weeping.
Pains are felt intensely; seem almost insupportable, driving patient to despair (Acon., Cham.); tossing about in anguish.
Sleepless, wide-awake condition; impossible to close the eyes; physical excitement through mental exaltation. (Compare, Senecio, for sleeplessness from prolapsus, uterine irritation, during climacteric.)
Headache : from over-mental exertion, thinking, talking; one-sided, as from a nail driven into the brain (Ign., Nux) ; as if brain were torn or dashed to pieces; worse in open air.
Hasty eating and drinking (Bell., Hep.).
Toothache: intermittent, jerking, relieved by holding ice-water in the mouth, but returns when water becomes warm (Bis., Bry., Puls., Caust., Sep., Nat. s.).
Incompatible: Canth., Caust, Coc., Ign.
Aggravation. — Sudden mental emotion; excessive joy; cold, open air; narcotic medicines.
What the other books say about Coffea cruda
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Coffea cruda in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Coffea cruda in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
- Coffea cruda in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
- Coffea cruda in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Cite this page. H.C. Allen. Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica. 3rd edition (1910). Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. Coffea cruda — Keynotes, pp. 99–102. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/coffea-cruda. Published 1910: public domain in the US (before 1931) and in India (author died 1909). Replaces B. Jain's 2005 "rearranged and classified" edition (© the publisher), per the owner's decision of 13 Sep 2026. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.