Coffea cruda Kind Anhang

 

ADHS

 

Kind zuckt beim kleinsten Geräusch zusammen und erwacht

A child, brought to a homeopath with hyperactivity, agitated thoughts, sweaty, trembling hands, a homeopathic preparation of coffee (= Coffea cruda).

It would relieve and correct their symptoms.

[Ursula Sommer]

nervös - lebhaft - leiden unter Schlaflosigkeit - anhänglich, klammernd

[C. Hering]

Guiding Symptoms of our Materia Medica - spasms brought on by excessive laughing and playing, in weakly, excitable children

Always think of Acon. and Cham. while studying Coff.

Coff. belongs to the family Rubiaceae and hence needs comparative study.

 

Kinder: nervös - lebhaft - leiden unter Schlaflosigkeit - anhänglich, klammernd

Kind zuckt beim kleinsten Geräusch zusammen und erwacht

 

Mother’s aversion to coffee while pregnant = associaTED with cow’s-milk allergy in the child

 

Mind:

Conscientious children; feel extremely remorseful if anything goes wrong.

Full of ideas; quick to act, and hence cannot relax and sleep.

Unusual activity of mind and body with acuteness of intellect that makes them very creative (Chin. Med. Phos. Sulph. Tub). Children are often

described by their parents as untiring horses with a racing mind (Lach. Med.).

Children who are mild, passive, and refined and hence can be easily suppressed (Staph).

Hasty when eating and drinking (Hep).

Insecure children with a weak willpower.

Phenomenal memory, with the ability to quote poetry at great length, remember tables, logarithms, and various formulae of chemistry and physics.

Physicals

Oversensitivity to all stimuli, like Cham and Op.

Pains are felt intensely; seem almost insupportable, driving children to despair, restlessness, giving an expression of anguish (think of Cham).

Tall, lean, and stooping children with a dark complexion.

Other important symptoms

Mind:

Cheerful and vivacious, even during fever.

Children love to remain in darkness.

Clinging.

Memory active until midnight. hence cannot relax and sleep.

Unusual activity of mind and body with acuteness of intellect that makes them very creative (Chin. Med. Phos. Sulph. Tub).

Children often described by their parents as untiring horses with a racing mind (Lach. Med).

Children who are mild, passive, and refined, and hence can be easily suppressed (Staph).

Hasty when eating and drinking (Hep).

Insecure children with a weak willpower.

Phenomenal memory, with the ability to quote poetry at great length, remember tables, logarithms, and various formulae of chemistry and physics

at the tips of fingers.

Moaning and shrieking from pain, during fever, or in sleep.

Capricious.

Children who resent sympathy.

Either very loquacious or talks in monosyllables.

Excessive crying with practically no sleep in newborn babies.

Excessive howling and screaming over trifles.

Extremely industrious and creative children, who work very hard to be successful, so that they will be accepted by the group.

Fear of pain.

Impressionable.

Says he is all right, though actually very sick.

Tendency to faint from sudden emotions.

Throws things in anger.

Weeps with pain or joy.

Witty.

Head:

Headache < mental exertion/overeating/slightest noise (sound of footsteps)/thinking/talking.

Migraines in overactive, and intelligent children.

Examination findings:

- Cerebral hemorrhage.

Eye:

Examination findings:

- Dilated pupils.

- Bright and brilliant eyes.

Ears:

Aversion to noise; it hurts him.

Acute sensitivity of hearing.

Nose:

Acute sense of smell.

Face:

Examination findings:

- One cheek hot and red (with fever/pain/any kind of excitement).

- Shiny red face with high fever (Op).

- Bluish discoloration from spasm of glottis.

- Perspiration of upper lips.

Mouth:

Difficult dentition.

Grinding of teeth.

Toothache < from warm food and drinks, > holding ice-cold water in the mouth

Acute sense of taste.

Biting the teeth together ameliorates.

Dryness of mouth at night, with thirstlessness.

Examination findings:

- Early decay and caries of teeth.

- Hasty speech.

Throat:

Constant desire to swallow due to sensation of lump in throat.

Sore throat.

Examination findings:

- Elongated, red, inflamed uvula.

Stomach:

Continuous nausea during headaches.

Excessive hunger, especially before meals.

Increased thirst (at night/with fever).

Indigestion of infants.

Bilious vomiting.

Hiccoughs.

Violent, sour, and spasmodic eructations.

Aversion: Coffee;

Abdomen:

Extreme sensitiveness to touch, even of clothing (colic).

Child bends double and weeps with the colic.

Obstructed flatulence.

Examination findings:

- Distended abdomen.

- Strangulated hernia.

Rectum:

Watery and painless diarrhea after emotions, like anger, fright and joy.

Dentitional diarrhea.

Itching of anus at night.

Offensive flatus.

Examination findings:

- Excoriation of anus.

- Spasmodic contraction of sphincter.

- Stool: Tapeworm segments.

Urinary organs:

Suppression of urine.

Examination findings:

- Urine: Decreased specific gravity, and sugar +

Sexorgans:

Extreme hypersensitivity of the genitals.

Tendency to masturbate.

Voluptuous itching of the genitals.

Larynx and Trachea:

Laryngismus stridulous.

Rough or hoarse voice on waking in the morning.

Viral laryngitis.

Respiratory organs:

Allergic bronchial asthma.

Asthma after emotions of nervous children.

Respiration tends to get arrested on coughing.

Cough:

Constant dry, hacking and spasmodic cough in short paroxysms after measles, during inspiration and when out in the open air.

Forced to bend double with the cough.

Exhaustion from coughing.

Chest:

Examination findings:

- Chest X-ray: Pneumonic consolidation.

Back:                                               

Perspiration on the back at night.

Limbs:

Cold and clammy perspiration on hands when writing.

Twitching and choreic movements in muscles of the (upper) limbs

Examination findings:

- Coldness of limbs.

- Convulsions or contraction of tendons of fingers.

- Excoriation between the thighs and of the feet from perspiration.

- Knees tend to knock when walking.

- Trembling of hands when holding them out straight or writing.

Sleep:

Restless sleep or absolute sleeplessness in newborns.

Sleep disturbed by the slightest noise.

Sleepless after excitement.

Sleepless after measles.

Fever:

Fever with shaking chills (in open air).

Internal chilliness with external heat of one side of face and body.

Increased thirst, moaning, shrieking and sighing, with a hot and shiny red discoloration of the face when there is a rise in temperature.

Traumatic fever.

Skin:

Very sensitive to touch and pressure of clothing.

Intense itching; scratches the part until it becomes raw and bleeds.

Examination findings:

- Chickenpox.

- Measles.

- Purpura miliaris.

- Rubella.

- Scarlet rash.

Convulsions:

Ailments from: Dentition; excitement and excessive playing or laughing.

Convulsions and spasms worse from every motion.

Generals:

Aversion and aggravation from open air.

Hypovolemic shock from injury.

Neuritis.

Oversensitive to or bad effects of antibiotics, anti-epileptics and Ritalin.

Trembling of whole body from joy or fright.

Examination findings:

- Rapid, full, bounding pulse.

 

 

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