A Homeopathic Remedy for Insomnia

As a homeopathic remedy, Coffea is used to treat insomnia caused by excessive mental activity. It is also useful for over-excitement and for preventing nightmares and vivid, disturbing dreams.

This remedy is prepared from whole, unroasted coffee beans. It is then diluted, succussed, and bottled using plain pills or tablets as the delivery carrier.

Coffee? To help you sleep?

Well, not exactly. Homeopathically prepared Coffea has quite a different effect than you would think - and taking it won't give you a boost in the morning - but read on to discover why it works and why it's safe.

The primary law of homeopathy is "similia similibus curentur", or simply put, "like cures like". Substances that can make you ill (or hyper, as in the case of coffee) can also cure you. Coffee is a stimulant, therefore if someone is over-stimulated, administering a homeopathic preparation of coffee will counter-act that.

Think about how hyperactivity is treated in children with ADHD. Do doctors prescribe a sedative to calm them down? No, the ADHD medications, like Ritalin, are STIMULANTS. Yet, these stimulants actually counteract the hyperactivity.

To put it VERY simplistically, I like to explain it like this: A fly lands on your arm and it tickles. The fly has stimulated the nerve endings in your skin. So, what do you do? You scratch it. You apply MORE of the same stimulation which caused the itch in the first place, and the tickling sensation goes away. This is much like the action of homeopathic remedies - taking a substance which causes your symptoms only stronger, will "knock out" the symptoms you were suffering from. It overpowers them, and stimulates your body to mount a defense.

People Who Can Benefit From Coffea Have One Or More Of The Following Symptoms:

Oversensitiveness; all the senses more acute, sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch.

Unusual activity of mind and body.

Full of ideas; quick to act, no sleep on this account.

Ailments: the bad effects of sudden emotions or pleasurable surprises.

Sleepless, wide-awake condition; impossible to close the eyes; physical excitement through mental exaltation.

Headache: from over-mental exertion, thinking, talking; one-sided, as from a nail driven into the brain, as if brain were torn or dashed to pieces; worse in open air.

From Allen's Keynotes. Dr. HC Allen 1836-1909

I am a graduate of the Homeopathy School of Colorado and hold the designation of CHom (Classical Homeopath). While at the school, I had the privelege of training under homeopaths Alastair Gray, DSH, PCH, Judith Reichenberg-Ullman, ND, DHANP, MSW and Robert Ullman, ND, DHANP, and Kim Elia. I also participated as a supervisor in the published proving of Aquilegia vulgaris - the common Columbine.
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