Coca. Kader Kochi.

Synonyms

Erythroxylum coca.

Constituents

Evergreen tree. Height 3 meters. Leaves contain cocaine, Pyrrolidine, hygrine, nicotine, and vitamin E. Pungent.

Therapeutics

This is stimulant medicine.

It is medicine for fibromyalgia, neurasthenia, and fatigue.

It is medicine to forgot miseries.

It is medicine for depression, and erectile dysfunctions (Areca). 

It is medicine for epistaxis.

It is medicine for excess of hunger and thirst.

It is medicine for altitude sickness.

It is medicine for pain due to rheumatism.

It is medicine to promote muscle power.

It promotes acetylcholine secretion. So, it can increase muscle strength transiently. 

It is medicine to promote pleasure feeling by increasing dopamine release (Cocculus, Hyoscyamus).

It is remedy for Parkinsonism tremor.

It is remedy for mountaineer's dyspnoea.

It is remedy for hypertension, and cardiac hypertrophy (Iberis).

It is remedy for longevity.

It was used for making cigarette and snuff powder.

The leaves mixed with lime had been chewed for intoxication.

It had been used as antidote to tobacco (Arnica, Arsenic album). 

The Coca-Cola was the mixture of coca leaves, whisky, sugar and coffee until 1903. 

It had been considered as an elixir (Thuja, Camphor, Cinchona, Arsenic album, Cinnamon, Allium sativa, Wine, Milk). Coca bags were found in the mummy of Inca king in AD 10.

 

Dose

Dilution.