MATERIA MEDICA
The 90 substances tested in Hahnemann ’s lifetime can now be found in the Homeopathic Materia Medica , along With additional medicines tested by Hahnemann’s students and present-day homeopaths. The total number of remedies is now more than 2,000. The Materia Medica is a thorough listing of every homeopathic remedy and the symptoms they are known to heal. The Homeopathic Materia Medica has also been very insightful in understanding modern diseases.
For instance, many Americans consume coff ee on a daily basis. The Materia Medica listing for coff ee shows many mental symptoms. The listing for coff ee cruda, the unroasted coffee bean, has the symptom of sensitivity to all sensory stimulation. Under the mental symptoms, the Materia Medica lists irritability, gaiety, excitement, impressionability, being filled With ideas, quick to act, and tossing about in anguish.
It also lists symptoms aff ecting the head, such as a tight pain made worse from noise and smell and sensations as if the brain were torn to pieces from a nail driven into the head. If you have ever seen people go through coff ee With drawal, and they get headaches, you may see that they have head pain similar to what is described. Coff ee is also known to cause toothaches, which are temporarily relieved by holding ice water in the mouth.
Coffee can cause symptoms that include hasty eating and drinking, excessive hunger, intolerance of tight clothing and sleeplessness on account of mental activity.
So, if my patient was a small child who was teething, felt better chewing on chips of ice and had too much mental excitability to be able to stay asleep at night, I could say that this child’s symptoms are most similar to the symptoms of too much coff ee. This little child has not consumed any coff ee at all, but the child has symptoms similar to the suff ering of coff ee intoxication. Applying Hahnemann ’s theory of letting likes be cured by likes, I would prescribe coffee in a homeopathic potency as the remedy most likely to give the child relief from teething.
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