COCA.
Erythroxylon coca, Lam.
Natural order
, Lineæ (suborder, Erythroxylæ).
Preparation
, Tincture of leaves.
Authorities.
1, Rauch,
aged 45, took 2d dec. dil., first day; 1st dil., second day; 2d dil., third day (from Dr.
Clotar Muller’s compilation, Hom. Viertljhrschft., 7, 443); 2,
Reichenbach, aged 35, took 2d and 1st dec. dils.; 3,
same prover took tincture, 10 to 60 drops; 4,
Kallenbach, aged 27, took 50 drops of tincture at one dose; 5,
Dr. Muller, aged 38, chewed a leaf and took 2 and 3 drops of tincture; 6, same prover, second proving chewing two leaves and taking 5 to
60 drops of tincture; 7, R. H., aged 26, chewed four or
five leaves at different times for eighteen days; 8,
Hermine Pekarek, girl, aged 9 1/2, took 10 and 15 drops tincture, repeated doses; 9, Poppig, effects of infusion, etc., “Journeys in Chili and
Peru;” 9a,
Archibald Smith, from Poppig’s “Journeys;” 10,
Tschudi, general effects observed in Coca chewers; 11,
Dr. Frankl, effects of infusion, A. H. Z., Mon. Bl., 1, 48; 12,
Stokes, provings with tincture, 10-drop doses, M. Hom. Rev., 3, 163; 13, Drysdale and Stokes, effects of chewing leaves, ibid.; 14, Isaac Ott, proving with 1 drachm of leaves at each meal,
first day; 2 drachms, second day, Phil. Med. Times, March, 1870; 15,
Berridge, proving with C. M. (Fincke), N. Am. J. of Hom., N. S., 3, 505; 16, Berridge, provings with 21st dil. and 3 drops tincture, from
Hering’s monograph; 17, Croker, proving with 21st dil.,
ibid.; 18, Sarah A. Ferguson, took infusion, ibid.; 19, Carl Haller, from ibid.; 20,
Caroline Lebeau, ibid.; 21, Lilienthal, took tincture,
3d and 30th dils., ibid.; 22, Montegazza, from ibid.; 23, omitted; 24, Pope,
effects of chewing leaves and of infusion, ibid.; 25,
Ray, effects of 21st dil., ibid.; 26, omitted; 27, Scheibler, effects of 21st dil. and tincture, ibid.; 28, Safford, provings, from ibid.; 29,
Searle, from ibid.; 30, Addie Williams, effects of
tincture and infusion, ibid.; 31, omitted; 32, Weddell, from ibid.; 33,
omitted; 34, Johnston, Chemistry, from ibid.; 35, omitted; 36, Scherze,
“Journeys,” from ibid.; 37, Schlechlendal,
from ibid.; 38, W. R. Scott, from ibid.; 39, “H.,” from ibid.; 40,
N. N., from ibid.; 41, A. Haller, from ibid.; 42, George Gassett, from ibid.; 43,
A. Marvaud, effects of chewing leaves, of cold infusion, and of subcutaneous injection of
Cocaine, from “Aliments d’Épargne,” p. 360, et seq.; 44,
Experiments of Demarle, from last author.
MIND.
► Emotional. ► Brain excited, [12]. ► Gentle excitement, followed by wakefulness (from weak tea), [34]. ► Pleasant
excitement, with following sleeplessness, [19]. ► A peculiar aberration of the intellectual faculties,
characterized by hallucinations, [32]. ► Excited fantasies, wonderful visions, now indescribably
beautiful and wonderful forms, now frightful images, [10].
► Passion for solitude, [9].
► Desire to isolate one’s self, [9a]. ► In the evening, while
writing, the child groans, with irregular or difficult breathing, [8]. ► Lively mood, inclination
for mental work (first day), [11]. [10.] ► After he felt
perfectly healthy again, his spirits remained excellent, in spite of depressing
circumstances, [27]. ►
Felt very much elated, [12]. ►
Felt sometimes like expectation, [12]. ► Mental depression (eighth day), [18]. ► Depressed and weary in the
evening (fifth day), [2]. ►
Sadness, [9a]. ►
The sadness and dejection of mind of the Indians in the Peruvian Andes ought not to be
ascribed to the use of Coca; on the contrary, the Coca is the only thing to rouse them, at times, out of their
stupidity, [19]. ►
When lifting anything, fear lest I should let it fall, in the morning (sixteenth day), [15]. ► Great
apprehension (seventh day), [7]. ►
Great apprehension, with violent palpitation (ninth day), [7].
[20.] ► Very
irritable (fifth day), [2]. ►
Woke this morning early, feeling ill-humored because the light came in strongly through the
blind, which I had to darken. Afterwards dreamed that I was relating some joke to some
friends, at which we all laughed; I actually laughed in my sleep, but on being woke
immediately, could only recollect part of the joke (seventeenth day), [15]. ► Very morose mood, [9a]. ► General
obtuseness of feeling (chronic symptom of chewers), [9].
► They turn phlegmatic while under the influence of the
leaves; the most important, even dangerous, even cannot frighten them out of their state of
rest, [19]. ►
During the periods of enjoyment, the phlegm of the chewer is marvellous; no degree of
urgency or entreaty will move him; under the influence of the Coca
the chewer is heedless of the thunderstorm which threatens to drown him where he lies or the
roar of approaching wild beasts, or of the smoking fire which creeps along the grass, and is
about to surface or scorch him in his lair, [34]. ► Mood changeable, mostly very morose; irresolute, false, and
deceitful characters, [10]. ►
The disposition is very changeable; they are mostly very wayward, but notwithstanding the
sad condition, they yield on the first opportunity to an unbridled passion for brandy, [9]. ► Intellectual.
► Can, while in a condition of mental excitement, write
quite freely and correctly, [22]. ► From 7 to 10 A.M., felt like work;
after that, a dull frontal headache, lasting the rest of the day (second day), [18]. [30.] ► Aversion to concentration of thought upon any one thing, [28]. ► Not in humor to
study or read journals; lazy and sleepy (first day, 9 P.M.), [11].
► Dull apathetic condition, [10]. ► Brain feels so muddled
that he cannot read French journals understandingly; must look in dictionary for words
usually familiar to him (fourth day), [21]. ► Slow in finding the words to express himself at times (first
day), [27]. ► *Mind
much clearer; spirits much better, [25].
HEAD.
► Confusion and Vertigo.
► Confusion of the head (twelfth day), [3]. ► Confusion of the head in
the morning; relieved after washing and drinking coffee, [8].
► Confusion of brain, vertigo in forehead, disposition to
sleep, want of appetite, low-spirited, about 5 or 6 P.M., indoors (second day), [25]. ► Vertigo (second
day), [3]. [40.] ► Vertigo, whirling (eighteenth day), [3]. ► Vertigo on rapidly
ascending steep steps, followed by diarrhœa once (after two hours), [2]. ► Vertigo while walking, with
sensation as though the body were drawn to one side (seventh day after 30 drops), [6]. ► Vertigo, lasting
half an hour, relieved by rest and by a glass of wine, [2].
► Vertigo and dizziness (fifth day), [3]. ► Slight vertigo on moving in
the open air; objects seem to turn, lasting one hour, [1].
► Transient vertigo while sitting still, and once
afterwards when rising from sitting (fifteen minutes after 40 drops, eighth day), [6]. ► Vertiginous
feeling, preventing literary labor for about an hour, [13].
► When the head was bent forwards in writing, transient
feeling of giddiness, which seemed to proceed from occiput forwards, on left side; in five
minutes another similar but slighter symptom, 7.30 P.M. (eighth day), [16]. ► General Head. ► Head very clear, [12]. [50.] ► Headache, [9a]. ► Headache is
excited from sleeping near heaps of dried leaves, [9].
► Headache followed tablespoonful doses in two hours from
first dose, abating somewhat before second dose, present all the afternoon, left at evening
(fourth day), [18]. ►
Headache, leaving after eating, returning in three hours and a half, and leaving at sunset
(third day), [18]. ►
Headache began at 10 A.M., relieved by walking in open air, but returned upon going indoors
(fifth day), [18]. ►
(In afternoon (indoors), headache; afterwards, soon after commencing walk in open air,
headache in upper part of forehead for a short time), from heat of weather (one hundred and
fifty-third day), [16]. ►
Headache in the afternoon (as if catarrhal), with cold feet and unusual urging to stool
(second day), [3]. ►
Headache and giddiness, [22]. ►
Headache increasing (7 P.M.), especially over right eye; burning of the eyes (seventh day), [21]. ► Headache, with
chilliness (third day), [3]. [60.]
► Frequent headache, [14].
► (About 1 P.M. (indoors), slight headache; afterwards,
when walking in open air (it was raining), pain sometimes in right temple, sometimes in
forehead; lessened or removed by standing still; after coming indoors, dull pain in
forehead, sometimes in right half, sometimes left, sometimes all over forehead), (one
hundred and thirty-eighth day), [16]. ► Rather severe headache (after two hours), [7]. ► (In afternoon, dull
headache; afterwards, when walking in open air (it was a warm day), frontal headache, worse
at each step, not lasting long, from the hot weather), (one hundred and fifty-second day), [16]. ► Very slight dull
headache after rising (twenty-eighth day), [16]. ► Fulness of the head, like after drinking wine, 4 P.M. (first
day), [21]. ► Forehead.
► Fulness in forehead, as if the brain were heavier in
that region (first days), [21]. ►
Fulness of forehead; dull feeling over the whole brain; slight shooting pains in right
temple; sensation of tension over forehead, as if an india-rubber band were stretched over
it (seventh day), [21]. ►
Fulness and pressive pain in forehead, although he sits near the open window, with
aggravation towards 9 P.M. (sixth day), [21]. ► Frontal fulness of the head; the letters swim together on
reading; eyes feel heavy (fourth day), [20]. [70.] ► Severe pain deep in
the left side of the forehead, like a pressing asunder, on coughing or on pressing at stool
(fourth day), [4]. ►
Severe headache just above the eyes (seventh day), [7].
► Frontal headache, next above the eyebrows, not
constant, increased by elevating the head and turning the eyes up, [28]. ► Dull frontal headache,
which vanished with the setting of the sun, followed by a state of mental exhilaration, [18]. ► Dull frontal
headache, relieved somewhat upon walking a mile, returning upon going indoors, with a heavy
feeling of eyelids, 9 A.M. (after one hour), [18]. ► Slight pressive pain in the forehead (fourth day), [4]. ► Sensation as if a
band was stretched over forehead, from temple to temple (ninth day), [21]. ► Temples. ► (Pain in both temples when walking quickly in the hot sun,
lessened by standing still; after coming indoors, a pain for a minute or so in coronal
region; after this had gone, pain in right temple on shaking head from side to side;
afterwards, when lying down, pain in anterior part of top of head, and also other parts not
particularly noticed; these pains soon went off), 12.50 P.M. (one hundred and thirty-fifth
day); from the heat of the weather, [16]. ► Sudden pain about region of left temple, quickly passing off;
10.45 A.M. the same; 9.30 P.M. (sixth day), [16]. ► Dull pain over left temple (first day), [21]. [80.] ►
Pressing pains in right temple, as if a nail was driven in, and the old dull, pressing,
frontal headache again, especially over right eye (nineteenth day), [21]. ► Slight pressing pains in
left temple, with dulness of head, half an hour after taking a dose (fourth day), [21]. ► Headache in the
morning in the right temple, sharp on first rising, and all day, whenever looking up; the
pain darts from the temple in a straight line to the top of the head, and leaves a sore
feeling behind; hurts through this same place when coughing (tenth and eleventh days), [30]. ► Parietals.
► When blowing nose, a sudden pain extending over
anterior portion of right side of head, soon passing off, 9.50 P.M. (second day), [16]. ► Rather painful
pressure on sides of head, [12]. ►
Pressive headache on the right side and in the occiput, and somewhat weaker on the right
side of the forehead, with chilliness and vertigo (eighteenth day), [3]. ► Throbbings in right side of
head for a minute or so at 3.15 P.M. (fifteenth day), [15].
► Throbbing in right side of head for a minute or two at
9 P.M. (tenth day), [15]. ►
Occiput. ► Pain in lowest part of occiput when
yawning; the pain sometimes prevented the completion of the yawn (one hundred and sixth
day), [16]. ►
(About 6.10 P.M., when running in open air, pain in occiput felt at every step; afterwards,
pain there when walking for a minute or so), from hot weather (one hundred and fifty-ninth
day), [16]. [90.] ► Headache in the occiput (nineteenth day), [3]. ► After waking from the
midnight nap, the phantasms had disappeared, but on attempting to read, drawings commenced
in the occiput, and extended to the temples (this condition lasted the whole afternoon),
(fourth day), [3]. ►
Pressure in the occiput (second day), [3]. ► Headache in fresh air changed to the occiput, as if it were
held from ear to ear in a vice (first day), [20].
EYE.
► Eyes hollow,
surrounded by deep violet-brown circles, [10]. ► He was chewing a leaf, in the corner, with staring eyes fixed
upon the ground, automatic motion of the hands, and some dull groaning, [10]. ► Slight discharge of mucus
from the right, and also somewhat from the left eye, during the day (second day after 10
drops), [6]. ► Pain
in the eyes (fourth day), [7]. ►
Pressure in the eyes (ten minutes after chewing the leaf), (ninth day), [7]. ► The eyes become very
sensitive; reading cannot be endured long; some are troubled with slight headache, while
others suffer from nausea and various disorders of the digestive apparatus, which may be
compared with sea-sickness, [9]. ► Brow. [100.] ► A boring pain over the right eye, [28]. ► Sensation as if something
were beating over the eyes (first day), [7]. ► Lids. ► Heaviness of
eyelids (fifth day), [18]. ►
Disposition on the part of the upper lids to fall, without being sleepy (ninth day), [2]. ► Lachrymal Apparatus.
► Lachrymation of the right eye, with slight redness of
the conjunctiva and of the lids at the inner canthus, in the morning (after 10 drops), [6]. ► Pupils. ► Dilates the pupils; renders the eyes intolerant of light
(after large doses), [34]. ►
Widens the pupils, and lessens the sensitiveness to light, [19].
► Vision. ►
Momentary blackness before the eyes (such as he had formerly experienced in summer heat; on
going from sunlight into a dark room), on ascending stairs (three hours after 40 drops,
eighth day), [6]. ►
Great photophobia, with dilated pupils, [10].
► Letters swim on the paper (after ten minutes), [7]. [110.] ► It is impossible to continue reading because the letters run
together; fiery points float before the eyes downward (seventh day), [7]. ► It seems as if he were
writing with two pens (after ten minutes), [7]. ► Flickering before the eyes (after ten minutes), [7]. ► Slight flickering
black points before the eyes, towards 4 P.M., while reading (eighth day), [6]. ► Fiery points flit before
the eyes (after ten minutes), [7]. ► Bright flash, like distant sheet-lightning, before eyes in
the dark, at 11 P.M. (tenth day), [15]. ► Appearance of flames before the eyes, by paroxysms, similar
to distant heat-lightning (after two hours), [3]. ► The appearance of flames before the eyes returns in the
evening (second day), [3]. ►
White spots before the eyes, so that the book from which I was reading seemed mottled white
(fourth day), [3]. ►
White spots, and glittering tortuous lines before the eyes, on going out after eating, with
great weariness, lasting an hour (eighteenth day), [3].
[120.] ► Vision of
colors and floating of sparks from before downward (soon after chewing the leaf, ninth day),
[7]. ► Small bits
of thread, about an inch long, which he has seen habitually hovering up and down before
eyes, morning, in bed, or when looking into the light of the sun, or on the white wall of
the room, paper, or white curtains, have become smaller and more indistinct (third day), [27c]; more perceptible again (fourteenth day), [27c]. After Camphor,
instead of the floating threads, only one small dark spot the size of a lentil, floating
before his eyes, [27].
EAR.
► Objective. ► Discovered accidentally, when washing, an excess of wax in
right ear, easily removed by the towel, 7 A.M. (seventy-sixth and ninety-second days), [16]. ► Subjective.
► Sensation of deafness in both ears, although everything
is heard a distinctly as usual; still there is a constant sensation as though there were
something in the ears which caused deafness (first day), [4].
► Slight earache in right internal ear for a few minutes
(in church), 7.20 P.M. (thirtieth day); (indoors), 1 P.M. (ninety-third day); an aching pain
in right internal ear, and, to a less extent, in right mastoid process for a few seconds,
then in ear, only for a few seconds more (sixty-fourth day), [16].
► During loud reading in the room there was a sensation
as though the tympana were pressed outwards by the tones, or as though the tones first
entered the ears through a thicker medium (second day), [4].
► Hearing. ►
Hearing painfully acute, during evening, [12]. ► Pulsation and dull roaring in both ears, in the forenoon
(second day), [4]. ►
Audible pulsation in both ears (first day), [4]. ► Cracking in both ears, on empty swallowing (second day), [4]. [130.] ► Singing in the left ear, for several minutes (first day), [4]. ► Severe ringing in
the ears; did not hear though one knocks three times at the door; when one speaks it seems
as though the voice came from a great distance (seventh day), [7].
► Violent ringing in the ears (first day), [7]. ► Violent roaring in the ears
(after two hours), [7].
NOSE.
► Objective. ► Sneezing several times (after three-quarters of an hour),
(second day), [1]. ►
Sneezed after rising, and in evening (twelfth day); later days occasionally indoors, [16]. ► Running of clear
water from nose, and occasionally sneezing, without having properly a coryza as he usually
has it; (weather warm and showery; the same next day), (nineteenth day), [27]. ► Flowing from the nose of
clear water, occasional sneezing, feeling of soreness in left nostril, from 6 A.M. till 5
P.M., when in the draught, though not subject to colds (twenty-second day), [27]. ► Clear watery flow from
nose, with small specks of blood on blowing nose (after inhalation), [27]. ► Increased nasal mucus
(forty-first day), indoors (forty-second day), and out of doors, in morning; scarcely any
excess in afternoon or evening; at one time, in morning, heat in nose (indoors),
(forty-third day), [16]. ►
Subjective. [140.] ►
In early morning, in bed, feeling of heat and irritation in right nostril, as from catarrh
(eighty-fifth day); in whole nose, especially the left nostril, before and after rising
(eighty-seventh day), [16]. ►
In part of evening, indoors, nostrils feel rather hot internally, as after catching cold;
nasal mucus less (forty-second day); later days, 6.40 A.M., heat and irritation in left
nostril, as from a cold, [16]. ►
In evening, irritation as if from taking cold; in the night, 9 o’clock, wakened by running
from nose, [16]. ►
During day, felt a soreness in nostrils, especially left; weather warm; after Camphor, [27].
FACE.
► Paleness of the
face, [1]. ► A kind
of chlorosis develops; the bilious color first noticed gives place to a leaden hue, [9a]. ► Cheeks. ► Burning redness of cheeks, first left, then right, with white
spots in the centre of latter (sixty-fifth day), [18].
► Pressive pain in the right malar bone (first day), [3]. ► Lips. ► Pale lips and gums, with green blunted teeth, [10]. ► About 10.45 A.M., slight
burning in left upper lip, where the mustache grows (fifty-first day), [16]. ► Lower Jaw. [150.] ► Soreness in left
lower jaw, just above submaxillary gland; worse on talking, and especially by eating solid
food on that side (second day), [25].® 2000
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