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Coca Reference Specimen Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification

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  • Category: 🩺 Homeopathic
  • Miasm: Syphilitic Miasm
  • Temperament: ❄️ Chilly
  • Aggravation: 🌆 Evening

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🧬 Remedy Miasm: Syphilitic Miasm The Syphilitic miasm leads to destruction on both physical and mental levels. It presents as ulceration, bone decay, severe depression, and self-destructive tendencies.
▲ GENERAL
  • Complaints related to mountain climbing.
  • Altitude, mountain sickness.
  • PalpitationsSensation of rapid or irregular heartbeatA noticeably rapid, strong, or irregular heartbeat due to agitation, exertion, or physical conditions., dyspneaDifficulty or shortness of breathLaborious or painful breathing, often associated with respiratory or cardiac conditions., anxiety and inso mnia.
  • Dizziness, dyspnea and exhaus tion on going to high altitudes, mountain climbing, airplane flying etc.
  • Exhaustion of the brain and nervous sys tem from physical and mental strain.
  • Muscle exhaustion.
  • Ringing in the ears, deafness and also fever (Chin.
  • ).
  • Tooth decay.
  • Voice loss.
  • Nocturnal bedwetting.
  • Emphysema(Queb.).
  • Characteristic sensation as if a worm or small foreign bodies were under the skin, moving away when touched.
  • Cocaine poisoning causes a sensation as if small foreign bodies were under the skin, generally like grains of sand or else as of a worm under the skin.
  • It is known as Magnan's Symptom, after the neurologist who first described it.
  • His description is “a sensation as if foreign bodies were under the skin, generally small round substances like grains of sand.” Korkasoff reported a case of multiple neuritisInflammation of a nerveInflammation of one or more nerves, causing pain, tenderness, numbness, or tingling in the affected area. in which this symptom was present.
  • The patient was a woman who was being treated for a uterine affection by means of vaginal tampons containing c ocaine.
  • A discontinuance of these caused the disappearance of the symptom
▲ MODALITIES ETC
  • Better from wine.
  • Better after dinner.
  • Better lying on face.
  • Better quick motion.
  • Better open air.
  • Better after sunset.
  • Worse from cold air.
  • Worse ascending, high altitudes.
  • Worse climb ingmountains.
  • Worse mental or physical exertion.
  • Worse walking.
  • Worse sitting.
  • Worse salty food
▲ RELATIONSHIPS
📊 Side-by-Side Comparison:

Antidotedby: Gundlach discov ered the bes t antidote to be Gels. Compare: (1) Ars., Guar.,
Cypr., Cham. (2) Arn., Calc., Ars. - effects of climbing. (3) Stram. likes company and light, Coca likes solitude
and darkness. (4) Scutel., Valer., Cann-i., Thea, Coffea, Tab.

▲ MIND
  • Lively mood, inclination for mental work.
  • Clearness of mind at night.
  • Hurry in movements.
  • Timidity.
  • Bashful, ill at ease in society.
  • Craves solitude, obscurity and darkness.
  • Irritability on waking in morning.
  • Confusion of mind.
  • Personal appearance neglected.
  • Deceitful.
  • Sense of right and wrong abolished.
  • Melancholy from nervous exhaustion.
  • Mental prostrationExtreme physical weakness or exhaustionA state of extreme physical weakness, collapse, or exhaustion, often accompanying severe illness. alternating with exhila ration.
  • Mental depression and drowsiness.
  • Muddled feeling in brain.
  • Want of will power.
  • Forsaken feeling.
  • Loss of energy.
  • Unpleasant feeling about himself.
  • Slow in finding words to express oneself.
  • Loquacious excitement with blissful visions.
  • Great mental excitement.
  • Exhilaration, before menses.
  • Wonderful visions.
  • Hallucinations of hearing.
  • Very changeable mood.
  • Pleasant fancies.
  • Sense of impending death.
  • Overpowered by indescribable anxi ety.
  • Nervousness and nightly restlessness of children during dentition.
  • Fear of falling when walking.
  • Timidity.
▲ VERTIGO, DIZZINESS
  • Fainting fit from climbing mountains.
  • VertigoSensation of dizziness or spinningA feeling of movement or spinning of oneself or the surroundings when there is no actual movement. and fainting after exertion.
  • Vertigo with shocks coming from occiput.
  • Vertigo with involuntary quick stepping when walking.
  • COMMENTS - Dr.
  • J.
  • W.
  • Springthorpe described a variety of this symptoms expe rienced by himself and recorded in a paper entitled “The Confessions of the Cocainist.” He called it “Hunting the Cocaine bug.” “You imagine,” he says, “that in your skin are worms or similar things, moving along.
  • “If you touch them with wool and espe cially with absorbent wool, they run away and disappear, only to peep cautiously out of some corner to see if there is any danger.
  • These worms are projected only on the Cocainist's own person or clothing.
  • He sees them on his linen in his skin, creeping along his penholder, but not on other, people or things and not on clothes brought clean from the laundry.” Cooper cured a case of chronic rheumatismJoint, muscle, or tissue painInflammatory pain, stiffness, and swelling in joints, muscles, or surrounding connective tissues. in an aged woman who had this symptom with the fraction of a grain of cocaine given in single doses at long intervals.
  • In a case reported in Lancet, June, 1886, a man who had a 4 percent solution of cocaine applied to a tooth swallowed twenty to thirty drops of the solution.
  • Half an hour after, he was seized wi th a feeling of faintness and giddiness followed by an attack of palpitation with a sense of flushing, especially up the back.
  • There was a marked diminution of smell, great difficulty in producing vomiting, a scarlatinaScarlet fever bacterial infectionAnother term for scarlet fever, an acute contagious bacterial disease causing a red rash. -like rash over the body, especially about the neck, dimness of vision, relaxation of sphincters and weakness of limbs.
  • The mind remained clear, but the pulse was fast, weak and intermittent.
  • A striking case was recorded in the British Medical Journal of December 13,1890.
  • At a meeting of the Paris Academie de Medecine on December 2nd, M.
  • Hallopeau presented a communication after distinguishing two forms of cocaine poisoning: the acute in which the symptoms are produced imme diately after a dose and speedily pass off, and the chronic in which they are due to the prolonged use of the drug.
  • He then related a case that in his opinion showed that the poisonous effects, while coming on acutely, might last for a considerable time.
  • On March 7, 1890, a man had about eight milligrams oí hydrochlorate of cocaine injected into his gum as a preliminary to the extraction of a tooth.
  • Toxic symptoms at once supervened.
  • There was intense precordial oppression with thready pulse and extreme excitement and loquacity.
  • The patient walked about the room, hitting out at random with his fists and crying out that he was dying.
  • In ten minutes he became quiet and the tooth was extracted after which he was able to walk home, but arrived there in a state of extreme prostration.
  • Then ensued a train of nervous symptoms, such as continual headache, intractable sleeplessness, a bad taste in the mouth with attacks of excitement accompanied by giddiness, faintness, and a sense of impending death.
  • All brain work was impossible, the patient could not do the simplest sum in arithm etic and was in a state of profound depression.
  • A sense of formication and numbness in the hands and forearms was almost incessant.
  • This condition lasted four months.
  • It was two months after the injection before the least improvement was observed, and then progress towards recovery was very slow.
  • M.
  • Hallopeau thought the symptoms indicated a poisonous action of cocaine on the nervous centers and especially the brain.
  • As it is impossible to suppose that so small a quantity of the drug should have remained in the circulation, he was driven to conclude either that it was stored up in the cells of certain nervous centers or that it produced in them persistent lesions.
  • Among other effects observed from its use in dentistry are “mental depression and drowsiness an d intense oppression in chest, dilatationStretching or widening of a vessel or organThe state of being dilated or stretched beyond normal dimensions (e.g., dilatation of the heart). of pupils, acceleration of pulse and breathing and mental excitement.” W.
  • J.
  • Guernsey quoted in H.
  • P., November, 1888 from Med.
  • Register, August 11, 1888, the experience of J.
  • E.
  • Shadle, who applied pledgets of a 4 percent solution of cocaine to the nasal cavities of a man of 35, preparatory to operation.
  • On each occasion he complained of a “cold, gone, relaxed feeling about the external genitals and a sensation as if he penis were absent.
  • Towards the end of treat ment he noticed a permanent weakness of the sexual organs and finally seminal losses and impotence set in and continued until the Cocaine was entirely withheld.” R.
  • K.
  • Ghosh noted experiences with Coca (which he finds in drop doses act better in such cases than in the potencies) in pal pitation and dyspnea on ascending, when arising from nervous causes, especially in complaints from self-abuse generally.
  • After the invigorating effects of cocaine have passed off, including the sense of lightness and ability to climb a mountain without fatigue, or when the intoxication has been carried to a further degree, there is a sense of heaviness, numbness and drowsiness with a disinclination to move.
  • Extreme weariness, especially weakness of the legs.
  • Extreme affects f rom altitude sickness.
  • Fatigue.
  • Characteristic headache, headaches of high altitudes.
  • Tight headache, as if a rubber band were stretched across the forehead.
  • After affects from altitude sickness (Carb - V., Sil., Calc.).
  • Can be used prophylactically if ther e's a history of altitude sickness or lung weakness.
  • AsthmaChronic respiratory disease causing difficulty breathingA condition characterized by spasms in the bronchi of the lungs, causing difficulty in breathing, typically from an allergic reaction or hypersensitivity. aggravated by altitude.
  • Effects of cold, cough from cold air, rheu - matism from slightest cold.
  • Excessive secretion of urine with or with out sugar.
  • Nocturnal bedwetting.
  • General affect of relaxing the sphincters.
  • Sensation as if the esophagus would be rent by force of rising flatus.
  • Nymphomania after childbirth during menses, from irritation of eczemaItchy, inflamed skin conditionAn inflammatory skin rash causing dry, red, itchy, and sometimes cracking or blistered skin patches. or other disorders of the vulva in satyriasis
▲ HEAD
  • Fainting fit from climbing mountains.
  • Headaches of high altitudes.
  • Headache with vertigo, preceded by flashes of light.
  • Shocks coming from occiput with vertigo.
  • Like a band across forehead.
  • MigraineSevere recurring headache, often on one sideA recurrent throbbing headache that typically affects one side of the head and is often accompanied by nausea and disturbed vision., worse coughing, better eating, sunset.
  • Pressive pain in occiput.
  • Sensation as if brain was muddled.
  • Fullness and pressive pa in forehead.
  • Occiput painful and tender to touch, worse coughing.
  • Occipital headache with chilliness.
  • Violent headache, just over eyes with low ringing in ears.
▲ EYES
  • Pressure and pain in eyes.
  • Aching pain behind eyes causing feeling as if squinting inwards.
  • DiplopiaDouble visionThe simultaneous perception of two images of a single object that may be displaced horizontally, vertically, or diagonally..
  • Intolerance of light with dilated pupils.
  • White, dark and fiery spots before the eyes.
  • Flickering before the eyes.
  • Dark cloud before eyes.
  • Indistinct vision soon followed by head ache and nausea.
  • Pupils dilated with great photophobiaExtreme sensitivity to lightAn abnormal intolerance to light, causing eye discomfort, squinting, or pain in bright environments..
  • Heaviness of lids
▲ EARS
  • TinnitusRinging or buzzing in the earsThe perception of noise or ringing in the ears when no external sound is present..
  • Noises in ears.
  • Ringing, buzzing, and humming in ears with fever.
  • Acute and painful hearing
▲ MOUTH
  • Mouth dry, especially on waking.
  • Peppery sensation in the mouth.
  • Tongue furred.
  • Tooth decay.
  • Lips blue, swollen, chapped.
  • Lips and gums pale.
  • Dryness Coca erythroxylon of lips and mouth.
  • Ulceration at corners of mouth.
  • Taste salty, slimy, bitter.
  • Taste lost in morning.
  • Fetid breath.
  • Nose - Sense of smell greatly diminished.
  • Nosebleedfrom high altitudes.
  • Nosebleed passing from right to left.
  • Sneezing, and running of clear water from nose.
  • Heat and irritation in nostrils
▲ THROAT
  • Hoarseness, worse af ter talking.
  • Voice loss.
  • Weak vocal cords.
  • Uvula feels swollen, swallowing difficult.
  • Dryness early in morning.
  • Tuberculosis of larynx.
  • Belchings, rise with noise and violence, as if it would split the esophagus.
  • Tickling in fauces and pharynx.
  • Hawking of small, transparent lumps of mucus, chiefly in morning
▲ CHEST
  • Sudden attack of cramp in chest, became cold and unable to continue the ascent.
  • Intense oppression in chest.
  • Rush of blood to chest with slight headache.
  • Heaviness and oppression of chest.
  • Pain under clavicles, worse under left.
  • Transient, shooting, in chest, between third and sixth ribs, worse during deep inspiration.
  • Constitutions - Suited to old people.
  • Short- breathed people, weakly, nervous, fat, plethoric people.
  • Children with marasmusSevere malnutrition causing wastingSevere undernourishment causing an infant's or child's weight to be significantly low for their age, leading to muscle wasting..
  • AnginaChest pain from reduced heart blood flowA condition marked by severe pain in the chest, often also spreading to the shoulders, arms, and neck, caused by an inadequate blood supply to the heart. pectoris from climbing mountains or over -exertion.
  • Violent and audible palpitations with flushing.
  • Violent palpitations from overexertion.
  • Rapid pulse with violent sweating.
  • Pulse extremely slow and intermittent, loses one beat in four.
  • Palpitations with weak heart and dyspnea.
  • Pulse weak and accelerated, increased arterial tension.
  • Throbbing of heart against ribs audible.
  • Exhaustion of heart with irregular action.
  • Kidneys - bine stitches in female urethra before urinating.
  • Frequent desire, with increase, flow.
  • Film on urine smells like sweat.
  • Yello wish red flocculent deposits, oily scum on surface.
  • Nocturnal bedwetting.
  • Pains in perineum at end of urination.
  • Decrease of solids in urine turbid on standing and covered with a light pellicle.
  • Oppressed breathing at night.
  • Altitudes sickness.
  • Rapid breathing.
  • Want of breath, worse ascending, high altitudes.
  • Cough from cold air or fast walking.
  • Short of breath, especially in aged athletes.
  • Dyspnea of those who use tobacco or whiskey to excess.
  • Emphysema.
  • Asthma, spasmodic variety.
  • Senile asthma.
  • Obstructed breathing and heaviness in chest oblige him to walk slowly.
  • Incessant dyspnea, with desire to take a deep breath.
  • Hawking of small, transparent pieces of mucus.
  • Expectoration of small limps like boiled starch, after rising in morning.
  • He moptysis.
  • Upper portion of both lungs as if constricted, during whole day
▲ ABDOMEN
  • Empty feeling or full feeling in stomach.
  • Incarcerated flatus, r ises with noise and violence, as if it would split the esophagus.
  • DyspepsiaIndigestion or upper abdominal discomfortDiscomfort or pain in the upper abdomen, often associated with nausea, bloating, heartburn, or acid reflux., especially in hypochondriacs.
  • Hiccough after supper.
  • Active digestion.
  • Frequent eructations.
  • Weak and difficult digestion.
  • Temperature - Sense of flushing, especially up the back with palpitations.
  • Chilliness and headache in afternoon.
  • At night, heat and sleeplessness, with throbbing in arter ies.
  • Night sweats.
  • Flushes of heat on the back and burning in abdomen.
  • Extreme weariness accompanies the fever.
  • Tympanitic distention of abdo men.
  • Pressure and tension in hypochondria after meals.
  • Violent pains with bloated distention.
  • ColicSevere fluctuating pain in the abdomenSevere, often fluctuating pain in the abdomen caused by gas, spasm, or obstruction in the intestines, common in infants..
  • Passage of much flatulenceGas accumulation in stomach or intestinesThe presence of excessive air or gas in the digestive tract, causing bloating and wind..
  • Violent bellyache, better frequent discharges of inodorous flatus.
  • Causations - Ascending, high altitudes.
  • Retards hunger and thirst.
  • Very little need of nourishment, even during heavy work and remarkable vigor.
  • Great satiety for a long time.
  • No appetite except for sweets.
  • Aversi on to solid food.
  • Desires stimulants.
  • Craving for alcohol and tobacco.
  • Ailments from salt food.
  • Can't eat salty food.
  • Great thirst.
  • Bad effects of stimulants, alcohol and tobacco
▲ GENITALS ETC
  • Diabetes with impotency (Ph -ac.).
  • Sensation as if penis were absent.
  • Emis sions.
  • SpermatorrheaInvoluntary seminal dischargeAn abnormal, involuntary discharge of semen without orgasm or sexual stimulation, often due to nervous weakness. and partial impo tence.
  • Nervous prostration from sexual excess.
  • Satyriasis.
  • Weakness, seminal emissi ons with voluptuous dreams.
  • Menses flow in gushes, awake ning her from sound sleep.
  • Nymphomania during menses and after childbirth
▲ EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
  • Weakness of limbs.
  • Feeling of internal cold with numbness of hands and feet.
  • Crawling, numbness of arms.
  • When walking, takes involuntary quick steps, head inclined forward with vertigo.
  • Rheumatism, coming from slightest cold
▲ SKIN
  • Itching and prickling under the skin.
  • Like a worm or insects crawling under the skin, moving away when touched.
  • Scarlatina-like rash over body.
  • Increased heat of skin
▲ SLEEP
  • Nervousness with nightly restlessness during teething.
  • Chronic sleeplessness.
  • Inclination to sleep, but can find no rest.
  • Great drowsiness.
  • Awakens with a shock in brain.
  • Can find no rest anywhere, but sleepy.
  • Awakes with a shock in brain when lying on back

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📚 Literature Citation & References:
This clinical profile is compiled from: Robin Murphy, MD — Lotus Materia Medica, 3rd Edition; Samuel Hahnemann — Materia Medica Pura; William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica; and Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad — Homeopathy: Like Cures Like. Compiled in accordance with classical homeopathic provings and clinical practice.
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