Capsicum annuum

Capsicum annuum
(cayenne pepper)
* Seems to suit especially persons of lax fiber, weak; diminished vital heat.
* A relaxed plethoric sluggish, cold remedy.
* Not much reactive force.
* Such persons are fat, indolent, opposed to physical exertion, averse to go outside of their
routine, get homesick easily.
* General uncleanliness of body.
* Abstainers from accustomed alcoholics.
* It affects the mucous membranes, producing a sensation of constriction.
* Inflammation of petrous bone.
* Burning pains and general chilliness.
* Older people who have exhausted their vitality, especially by mental work, and poor living;
blear-eyed appearance; who do not react.
* Fear of slightest draught.
* Marked tendency to suppuration in every inflammatory process.
* Prostration and feeble digestion of alcoholics.
* Myalgia, aching and jerking of muscles.
Mind
- Excessive peevishness.
- Homesickness, with sleeplessness and dispositionto suicide.
- Wants to be let alone.
- Peppery disposition.
- Delirium tremens.
Head
- Bursting headache; worse, coughing.
- Hot face.
- Red cheeks.
- Face red, though cold. [Asafaet.]
Ears
- Burning and stinging in ears.
- Swelling and pain behind ears. Inflammation of mastoid. Tenderness over the petrous bone;
extremely sore and tender to touch. [Onosmod.]
- Otorrhoea and mastoid disease before suppuration.
Throat
- Hot feeling in fauces.
- Subacute inflammation of Eustachian tube with great pain.
- Pain and dryness in throat extending to the ears.
- Sore throat of smokers and drinkers.
- Smarting in; constriction.
- Burning constriction worse between acts of deglutition.
- Inflamed uvula and palate; swollen and relaxed.
Mouth
- Herpes labialis. (Apply one drop of the mother tincture).
- Stomatitis.
- Disagreeable smell from mouth.
- Fetid odor from mouth.
Stomach
- Burning in tip of tongue.
- Atonic dyspepsia.
- Much flatulence, especially in debilitated subjects.
- Intense craving for stimulants.
- Vomiting, sinking at pit of stomach.
- Much thirst; but drinking causes shuddering.
Stool
- Bloody mucus, with burning and tenesmus; drawingpain in back after stool.
- Thirsty after stool, with shivering. Bleeding piles, with soreness of anus.
- Stinging pain during stool.
Urine
- Strangury, frequent, almost ineffectual urging.
- Burning in orifice.
- Comes first in drops, then in spurts; neck of bladder spasmodically contracted.
- Ectropion of meatus.
Male
- Coldness of scrotum, with impotency, atrophied testicles, loss of sensibility in testicles,
with softening and dwindling.
- Gonorrhoea, with chordee, excessive burning, pain in prostate.
Female
- Climacteric disturbances with burning of tip of tongue. [Lathyrus.]
- Uterine haemorrhage near the menopause, with nausea.
- Sticking sensation in left ovarian region.
Respiratory
- Constriction of chest; arrests breathing Hoarseness.
- Pain at apex of heart or in rib region, worse touch.
- Dry, hacking cough, expelling an offensive breath from lungs.
- Dyspnoea.
- Feels as if chest and head would fly to pieces.
- Explosive cough.
- Threatening gangrene of lung.
- Pain in distant parts on coughing - bladder, legs, ears, etc.
Extremities
- Pain from hips to feet.
- Sciatica, worse bending backward; worse, coughing.
- Tensive pain in the knee.
Fever
- Coldness, with ill-humor.
- Shivering after drinking.
- Chill begins in back; better, heat.
- Must have something hot to back.
- Thirst before chill.
Modalities
- Better, while eating, from heat.
- Worse, open air, uncovering, draughts.
Relationship
- Antidote : Cina; Calad.
- Compare : Pulsat.; Lycop.; Bell.; Centaurea (surging of blood; homesickness; intermittent
fever).
Dose
- Third to sixth attenuation.
- In delirium tremens, dram doses of tincture in milk or tincture or orange peel.