Coca
as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927
Erythroxylon coca
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Mind
Melancholy; bashful, ill at ease in society, irritable, delights in solitude and obscurity. Sense of right and wrong abolished.
General
The Divine Plant of the Incas - but the Spanish priests denounced it as "un delusion del demonio" The mountaineer's remedy. Useful in a variety of complaints incidental to mountain climbing, such as palpitation, dyspnœa, anxiety and insomnia. Exhausted nervous system from physical and mental strain. Caries of teeth. Loss of voice.––Give 5-6 drops, every half hour, two hours before expected demand on voice. Nocturnal enuresis. Emphysema (Quebracho).
Modalities
Better, from wine; riding, quick motion in open air. Worse, ascending, high altitudes.
Head
Fainting fit from climbing mountains. Shocks coming from occiput with vertigo. Noises in ear. Headache with vertigo, preceded by flashes of light. Like a band across forehead. Diplopia. Tongue furred. Headaches of high altitudes. Tinnitus.
Stomach
Peppery sensation in mouth. Longing for alcoholic liquors and tobacco. Great satiety for a long time. Incarcerated flatus; rises with noise and violence, as if it would split the œsophagus. Tympanitic distention of abdomen. No appetite but for sweets.
Male
Diabetes, with impotency (Phos ac).
Respiratory
Hawking of small, transparent pieces of mucus. Weak vocal cords. Hoarseness; worse after talking. Want of breath, short breath, especially in aged athletes, and alcoholic users. Hæmoptysis. Asthma, spasmodic variety.
Heart
Palpitation, with weak heart and dyspnœa.
Sleep
Can find no rest anywhere, but sleepy. Nervousness and nightly restlessness during teething.
Relationships
Compare: Ars; Paulin; Cyp; Chamom. Antidote: Gels.
Dose
Tincture to third attenuation.
What the other books say about Coca
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Coca in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- Coca in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Create a free accountCite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Coca — Mind. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/coca. Published 1927: public domain in the US (since 2023) and in India (author died 1929). Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.