An Alkaloid from Erythroxylon Coca
- Besides the great usefulness of Cocaine as a local anaesthetic, it has specific homeopathic uses, though the symptoms are mainly clinical only.
- Sensation as if small foreign bodies or worms were under the skin.
Mind
- Talkative.
- Constant desire to do something great, to undertake vast feats of strength.
- Cerebral activity.
- Frightful persecutory hallucinations; sees and feels bugs and worms.
- Moral sense blunted.
- Personal appearance neglected.
- Thinks he hears unpleasant remarks about himself.
- Hallucinations of hearing.
- Irrational jealousy.
- Insomnia.
Head
- Throbbing and bursting sensation.
- Pupils dilated.
- Hearing greatly increased.
- Roaring and noises in head.
Eyes
- Glaucoma, increased tension, decreased corneal sensibility.
- Eyes staring, expressionless.
Throat
- Dry, burning, tickling, constricted, paralysis of muscles of deglutition.
- Speech difficult.
Stomach
- Loss of appetite for solid food.
- Likes sweets.
- Hemorrhages from bowels, stomach.
Nervous System
- Chorea; paralysis agitans; alcoholic tremors and senile trembling.
- Local sensory paralysis.
- Formication and numbness in hands and forearms.
Sleep
- Restless, cannot sleep for hours after retiring.
Fever
- Coldness with intense pallor.
Relationship
- Compare: Stovain (an analgesic, a vasomotor dilator). Antidote to disagreeable effects occasionally resulting from injection of cocaine into skin or gums, drop doses of nitroglycer. 1 % sol.
Dose
- Lower potencies.
- As a local application to mucous membranes, 2-4 %.
