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.).
Relations
Compare: Acon., Cham., Ign. Sulph.
Incompatible: Canth., Caust., Coc, Ign.
Aggravation
Sudden mental emotion; EXCESSIVE JOY; cold, open air; narcotic medicines.