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Coffee

Coffea arabica

Coffee appears in Hermetikon as an archive-backed plant entry, with references across historical medical, magical, symbolic, and ritual contexts where the source texts support them.

Risk: moderate
Books: 68
Contexts: 3
Mentions: 240

Overview Reading Contexts Citations Related Books

Archive Profile

Identity, safety, and search aliases used to connect this herb to the archive.

Herb identity

Common name: coffee
Latin name: Coffea arabica(ambiguous)
Identity note: Archive hits include beverage, plant, social customs, and medical stimulant discussions.

Safety

moderate

Caffeine sensitivity, pregnancy, sleep, anxiety, and stimulant interactions are relevant.

Historical archive citations are not medical advice. Use modern clinical and poison-control sources for ingestion, dosage, pregnancy, and toxicity questions.

NCCIH Caffeine: Caffeine sensitivity, pregnancy, sleep, anxiety, and stimulant interactions are relevant.

Aliases

coffeeCoffea arabicacoffee plant

Coffee in Historical Sources

Curated archive synthesis of recurring uses, recipes, rituals, and interpretive problems.

Hermetikon's curated reading of Coffee (Coffea arabica) is built from 3 source-linked archive notes and 2 preparation or ritual-use entries. The strongest recurring contexts are preparations, ritual uses, and identity. Each note below links back to the archive source used for the claim.

Preparation

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King's American Dispensatory gives coffee as a pharmaceutical syrup flavor, including a Java coffee syrup made by percolating coffee with hot water and dissolving sugar in the percolate.

King's American Dispensatory | Harvey Wickes Felter | 1854

Page 987

Identity

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Hill's coffee entry is botanical rather than occult: it describes the coffee-tree as an eastern shrub with bay-like leaves, jasmine-like white flowers, and fruit.

The Family Herbal | John Hill | 1755

Page 135

Ritual

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Hastings records Baganda river-crossing offerings in which coffee berries are thrown into the water after asking the spirit for safe passage.

Hastings' Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics | James Hastings | 1918

Page 182

Preparations and ritual uses

Coffee syrup

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King's prepares syrup of coffee by percolating Java coffee with hot water and dissolving sugar in the resulting percolate.

King's American Dispensatory | Harvey Wickes Felter | 1854

Page 987

River-spirit offering

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Hastings records coffee berries thrown into water after a request to the river spirit for safe passage.

Hastings' Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics | James Hastings | 1918

Page 182

Coffee Archive Contexts

Compact source patterns from the extracted citation set.

Astrology

6 passages across 6 books; strongest source: Encyclopaedia of Occultism.

Matched as coffee; medium confidence.

Preparation

5 passages across 5 books; strongest source: Hastings' Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics.

Matched as coffee; medium confidence.

Safety

3 passages across 3 books; strongest source: Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable.

Matched as coffee; medium confidence.

Coffee Cited Excerpts

Representative public passages with the herb mention highlighted and linked to archive source material.

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King's American Dispensatory

Harvey Wickes Felter

1854

"...; syrup, 12 fluid ounces. Mix them together. This syrup is brown and unsightly. SvRi-p OF CoFFKK.— Flavoring extract of coffee, 4 fluid ounces; syrup, 12 fluid ounces. .Mix them together. ."^vRip OF CoFFEK. — Coflee ( Java), 8 ounces (av.) ; sugar, 20 ounces (av.); boiling water, a sufficient amount. Percolate the coffee with liot water until 10 fluid ounces of percolate are obtained, and in the percolate dissolve the sugar. SvRVP OF GixoER. — Flavoring extract of ginger, 1 fluid ounce; syrup, 32 fluid ounces. Mix them together. This syrup is likely to be unsi..."

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Preparationalias: coffeemedium confidence

The Family Herbal

John Hill

1755

"...iven in powder for three or four days, and a vomit or bleeding before the use of it, as may be found necessary. ### The COFFEE-TREE. *Arbor coffee ferens.* A BEAUTIFUL shrub of the eastern part of the world, which we keep in many of our stoves, and which flowers and bears its fruit with us. It grows eight or ten feet high; the branches are slender and weak; the leaves are large, oblong, and broad, somewhat like those of the bay-tree, but bigger, and thin. The flowers are white, moderately large, and like jasmine; the fruit is a"

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Preparationalias: coffeemedium confidence

The Golden Bough

James George Frazer

1906

"...eight outriders galloping ahead on hobby-horses to announce their coming. Contributions of eggs, butter, loaves, cream, coffee, sugar, and tallow-candles were received and conveyed away in baskets. When they had made the round of the farms, some of the farmersâ€™ wives helped to arrange the wedding feast, and the children danced merrily in clogs on the stamped clay floor till the sun rose and the birds began to sing. All this is now a thing of the past. Only the old folks still remember the little Whitsun-bride and her mimic pomp.[[334]](4270233193503605876_60..."

CHAPTER X RELICS OF TREE-WORSHIP IN MODERN EUROPEOpen in Reader

Astrologyalias: coffeemedium confidence

The Golden Bough

James George Frazer

1890

X. Relics of Tree Worship in Modern EuropeOpen in Reader

Astrologyalias: coffeemedium confidence

Encyclopaedia of Occultism

Lewis Spence

1920

"...y, though with no attempt at splendour or show. Signor Gualdi met, shortly after his arrival at Venice, one day, at the coffee-house which he was in the habit of frequenting, a Venetian nobleman of sociable manners, who was very fond of art, and this pair used to engage in sundry discussions, and they had many conversations concerning the various objects and pursuits which were interesting to both of them. Acquaintance ripened into friendly esteem, and the nobleman invited Signor Gualdi to his private house, whereat — for he was a widower — Signor Gualdi first..."

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Astrologyalias: coffeemedium confidence

Books Mentioning Coffee

Complete public source inventory, placed after the interpretive reading so the page opens with the most useful synthesis first.

68 books

Myths of the Cherokee

James Mooney | 1900

Archive Profile

Herb identity

Safety

Aliases

Coffee in Historical Sources

Preparation

Identity

Ritual

Preparations and ritual uses

Coffee syrup

River-spirit offering

Coffee Archive Contexts

Astrology

Preparation

Safety

Coffee Cited Excerpts

King's American Dispensatory

The Family Herbal

The Golden Bough

The Golden Bough

Encyclopaedia of Occultism

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