COCA-ERYTHROXYLON COCA

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, dyspnea, 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).

Mind

  • Melancholy; bashful, ill at ease in society, irritable, delights in solitude and obscurity. 
  • Sense of right and wrong abolished.

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 esophagus. 
  • Tympanitic distention of abdomen. 
  • No appetite but for sweets.

Heart

  • Palpitation, with weak heart and dyspnea.

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. 
  • Hemoptysis. 
  • Asthma, spasmodic variety.

Sleep

  • Can find no rest anywhere, but sleepy. 
  • Nervousness and nightly restlessness during teething.

Modalities

  • Better, from wine; riding, quick motion in open air. 
  • Worse, ascending, high altitudes.

Relationship

  • Compare: Ars; Paulin; Cyp; Chamom.
  • Antidote: Gels.

Dose

  • Tincture to third attenuation.