Capsicum caps.

MUCOUS MEMBRANES. THROAT. Kidneys. Bones. Mastoids.

SLIGHT DRAFTS. COLD: AIR. Water. Uncovering. Dampness. Bathing. Empty swallowing. Drinking: < throat, or excites urination. Eating. Drunkards.

Continued motion.

Lax, lazy fat, red (Asaf.), clumsy, unclean persons (Sul.), who react badly and dread the cold. Old age. Indolent and can't think clearly. BURNING-SMARTING; tip of tongue; throat, stomach, stool, piles, prostate. SORENESS. Constriction; of throat, with urging to swallow. Dark, red, spongy mucous surfaces or oozing bloody mucus. Sprangling, thread-like pains (Cep.). Neuralgias. Deep abscess. Foul secretions.

Changeable. Capricious. Homesick. Splitting headache, > heat. Ears affected alternately. Mastoiditis. NOSE AND FACE RED, BUT COLD. Vesicles or flat, painful aphthæ. Tongue greenish at base. Swelled uvula. Increased saliva. Smoker's sorethroat. Craves stimulating, pungent things; wants a bracer. Dipsomania. Waterbrash. Acid dyspepsia. Small, hot, mucous stools, with tenesmus, also of bladder; then thirst and lumbar pain; < drinking. Dysentery. Urging to urinate. Strangury. Thick, white, creamy gonorrhœa. Cough causes distant pains, or raises foul air; too weak to cough out expectorate. Ribs seem dislocated. Sleepy after meals. Chilly; with the pains; begin in back; with violent thirst, but shivers from every drink; with excruciating backache; alternating with heats, mounting to head; then sweat. Coldness of affected parts. Sweats easily; cold on thighs.

Complementary: Nat-m. Related: Canth.

Persons with light hair, blue eyes, nervous but stout and plethoric habit. Phlegmatic diathesis; lack of reactive force, especially with fat people, easily exhausted; indolent, dreads any kind of exercise; persons inclined to be jovial, yet angry at trifles. Children; dread open air; always chilly; refractory, clumsy, fat, dirty, and disinclined to work or think. Desires to be let alone; wants to lie down and sleep; Homesickness (of indolent, melancholic), with red cheeks and sleeplessness. Constriction: in fauces; throat; nares; chest; bladder; urethra; rectum. Burning and smarting sensation, as from cayenne pepper, in throat and other parts, not > heat. Tonsillitis: with burning, smarting pain; intense soreness; constriction of throat with burning; inflamed, dark red, swollen. The burning spasmodic constriction and other pains, worse between acts of deglutition (Ign.). Painful swelling behind ear (mastoid), extremely sore and sensitive to touch. Every stool is followed by thirst and every drink by shuddering. As the coldness of the body increases, so also does the ill-humor. Nervous, spasmodic cough; in sudden paroxysms; as if head would fly to pieces. With every explosive cough (and at no other time) there escapes a volume of pungent, fetid air. Pain in distant parts on coughing (bladder, knees, legs, ears).

Compare: Apis, Bell., Bry., Calad., Puls. Cina follows well in intermittent fever. The constricting, burning, smarting pains differentiate from Apis and Belladonna.

Affects the mucus tissues in a very prominent degree.

Inclined to be jovial and pleasant, but gets angry at least trifle. Dreads all sorts of exercise.

Aches as if it would burst; also beating, throbbing, darting; better in motion; biting, burning, or stinging itch on the head, as if the part had been rubbed with Cayenne pepper. Eyes ache, as if a foreign body were lodged in. Ear, aching, tearing in (see bones). Otalgia of various kinds, often followed by deafness. Lips, cracked; rhagades of the lips, often very painful to the touch. Mouth. tenacious mucus.

Diphtheria, where there is a sensation of contraction in the throat, even during swallowing; diphtheria with painful sensations in the throat when coughing; elongation of the uvula, with a sensation as though it was pressing on something hard.

Respiration deep; constriction of; oppressing the breathing; worse from least motion; cough with pain, as if sore in the throat, with feeling of constriction.

Sensation of tension and distension in, as if it would burst; colic about the umbilicus with mucous stools.

Flatulent colic followed by small frequent stools of mucus, mixed with blood.

Tenesmus of bladder; stitches in the neck of the bladder when coughing; affections of the urethra; frequent but unsuccessful attempts to urinate.

Male: Impotence with cold and shrivelled scrotum, testicles, and spermatic cord; violent erections only subdued by cold water; dwindling testes. Female: Disordered menstruation, with a pushing or sticking sensation in the left ovarian region.

Drawing and tearing pain in spinal column.

Sleeplessness after midnight; sensation as if falling from a height during sleep, yawning by day, and sleepless by night.

In intermittent fever, chill begins in the back, with shivering and thirst, gradually spreads all over the body; followed by fever without thirst. Thirst, drinking causing shuddering.

Affections of in general; pains in bones of the face; inflammation of the petrous bone, and severe pain in.

Of constriction; cramp pain in the muscles. Pain as if paralyzed in the joints, drawing from above downward; increased activity of all the senses; heartburn with eructation of red pepper feel and taste; sensation of cold water in the stomach.

Symptoms generally appear on left side; for light-haired people; forehead; tendency to get fat; laxness of the muscles; bloatedness of the skin.

Bellad., Lycop., Pulsat., Silic.

Cina.

The burning pain in throat is worse between the acts of swallowing. Chills commence in back, with thirst worse after drinking. Most complaints aggravated after drinking. After every stool, thirst; after every drink, shivering. Cough expels an offensive breath from the lungs.

Cayenne Pepper (CAPSICUM)

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.

Excessive peevishness. Homesickness, with sleeplessness and disposition to suicide. Wants to be let alone. Peppery disposition. Delirium tremens.

Bursting headache; worse, coughing. Hot face. Red cheeks. Face red, though cold (Asafaet).

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). Otorrhœa and mastoid disease before suppuration.

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.

Herpes labialis (Apply one drop of the mother tincture). Stomatitis. Disagreeable smell from mouth. Fetid odor from mouth.

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.

Bloody mucus, with burning and tenesmus; drawing pain in back after stool. Thirsty after stool, with shivering. Bleeding piles, with soreness of anus. Stinging pain during stool.

Strangury, frequent, almost ineffectual urging. Burning in orifice. Comes first in drops, then in spurts; neck of bladder spasmodically contracted. Ectropion of meatus.

Coldness of scrotum, with impotency, atrophied testicles, loss of sensibility in testicles, with softening and dwindling. Gonorrhœa, with chordee, excessive burning, pain in prostate.

Climacteric disturbances with burning of tip of tongue (Lathyrus). Uterine hæmorrhage near the menopause, with nausea. Sticking sensation in left ovarian region.

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. Dyspnœa. 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.

Pain from hips to feet. Sciatica, worse bending backward; worse, coughing. Tensive pain in the knee.

Coldness, with ill-humor. Shivering after drinking. Chill begins in back; better, heat. Must have something hot to back. Thirst before chill.

Better, while eating, from heat. Worse, open air, uncovering, draughts.

Antidote: Cina; Calad.

Compare: Pulsat; Lycop; Bell; Centaurea (surging of blood; homesickness; intermittent fever).

Third to sixth attenuation. In delirium tremens, dram doses of tincture in milk or tincture or orange peel.

Burning pains, especially in mucous membranes, or smarting, as from red pepper, on the parts.

Cough with pains in distant parts as head, bladder, knees, legs, etc.

Chill or shuddering after every drink; begins between the shoulders and spreads all over.

Capsicum is also a good remedy for dysentery or one later stage of gonorrhœa, or in throat complaints, when there is great burning in the mucous membrane of the affected part. In short, it is a remedy to be remembered in all affections, accompanied with burning of mucous membranes in any locality. The characteristic burning is not like that of Arsenicum, but feels as if red Pepper had been applied to the parts; nor is it relieved by heat applied, as is that of Arsenic. Capsicum has pain in head when coughing as if it would burst. I cured a very bad case of years' standing; the patient would cry out and grasp head with both hands at every cough. It finally became so bad that he had to lie in bed, because the hurt was so much < when sitting, Capsicum cured very quickly. Other remedies having similar < are Bryonia, Natrum mur., Squilla, Sulphur.

Capsicum also has pain in distant parts on coughing, such as bladder, knees, legs, etc.

Chilliness or shuddering after every drink.

Chill begins between shoulders and spreads.

Lack of reaction especially fat people.

Peevish, easily offended. Home-sickness, with redness of the cheeks and sleeplessness.

Vertigo and giddiness, especially during the cold stage of the intermittent fever if the head would burst, with fulness. Pressing headache, as if the head would burst, with fulness, nausea, and vomiting ; worse in the evening, -from moving the head,- when walking in the cold air ; better when lying with the head high, and from heat. One-sided headache, pressing, with nausea and vomiting ; worse from moving the head and eyes. Darting pain through the head ; worse during rest ; better from moving about.

Burning in the eyes, (in the morning), with redness and lachrymation. Objects appear black when brought before the eyes, (incipient amaurosis).

Swelling behind the ears, painful to the touch. Hardness hearing after previous burning and stinging in the ear.

Bleeding from the nose, in the morning in bed.

Redness of the cheeks, (without heat often changing to paleness. Dull pressing pain in the cheek bone, excited by touching the parts. Swollen, cracked lips. Lips peel off ; burning of the lips.

Burning blisters in the mouth. Stomacace. Fetid odor from the mouth. Spasmodic contraction of the throat. Inflammation, with dark redness and burning of the throat. The pain in the throat is worse between the acts of deglutition.

Unnaturally increased appetite, alternated with aversion to food. Taste sour. Thirstlessness.

Burning in the stomach, (after eating). Distention of the abdomen, with suffocative arrest of breathing. Colic from flatulence. Painless rumbling in the abdomen.

Dysentery ; stools of bloody mucus with tenesmus, and strangury. Diarrhœa at night, with burning at the anus. Hæmorrhoidal tumors, with burning, (bleeding).

Strangury, with tenesmus of the bladder. Spasmodic contraction of the neck of the bladder. Burning while urinating. Discharge of blood from the urethra, which is painful to the touch.

Men. Impotence, with coldness of the scrotum. Purulent discharge from the urethra. Dwindling of the testes.

Oppressed breathing appearing to come from the abdomen, or from fulness of the chest. Asthma with redness of the face, eructation and sensation at ; if the chest were extended. Deep breathing, almost like a sigh. Dry, hard cough in the evening and at night, with pain in distant parts, (stitches in the bladder, pain in the know or legs, ears, throat). When coughing, he exhales fetid smelling air.

Aversion to exercise. Phlegmatic temperament, and relaxed fibres.

Pulse irregular, and often intermitting. Chill almost always with violent thirst worse after drinking. Heat, with perspiration, and no thirst. Perspiration after the chill, without previous heat. On the upper part of the legs cold perspiration.

Sensation over the whole body, as if the parts would go to sleep.

Stiffness and painfulness of all the joints when beginning to move. Cracking of all the joints, (finger joints, knee). Most complaints are aggravated from eating and drinking ; are most severe on beginning to exercise ; and axe relieved or ameliorated by continued exercise.

Capsicum annuum. Cayenne Pepper. (South America and West Indies.) N. O. Solanaceæ. Tincture of the dried pods.

Amaurosis. Asthma. Brain, irritation of. Delirium tremens. Cough . Diarrhœa. Diphtheria. Dysentery. Ear affections . Glandular swellings. Hæmorrhoids. Headache. Heartburn . Hernia. Home-sickness. Intermittents. Lungs, affections of . Measles. Mouth, ulcers in . Neuralgia. Nose, affections of . Obesity. Œsophagus, stricture of. Paralysis. Pleuro-pneumonia. Pregnancy, disorders of. Rectum, diseases of. Rheumatic gout. Rheumatism. Sciatica . Scrofula. Seasickness. Stomatitis. Throat, sore . Tongue, paralysis of. Trachea, tickling in. Urine, disorders of. Whooping-cough . Yellow fever.

Capsicum should be studied in connection with the other great members of the Solanum family, Belladonna, Stramonium, Hyoscyamus, Dulcamara, Solanum Carolinense, Solanum nigrum, Solanum tuberosum (Potato), and Lycopersicum esculentum (Tomato). It acts with great intensity on the mucous membranes, and also on the bones: affections of bones in general; pains in bones of face; inflammation of petrous bone. Capsicum corresponds especially to persons of light hair and blue eyes; also to persons of lax fibre and muscles; obesity; lazy, fat, unclean persons who dread the open air; clumsy children; awkward persons; hæmorrhoidal troubles. Lack of reaction and bodily irritability. Symptoms generally appear on left side. As with Dulcamara , there is extreme sensitiveness to cold and damp which < most symptoms. The well-known burning effects of red pepper is a leading indication for its use Burning pains" wherever occurring demand that Capsicum should have the first consideration, if there are no other determining symptoms in favour of another remedy. The burning of Caps . is < from cold water. Redness of the skin, and even a scarlet eruption like Belladonna . Very characteristic is a cough with fetid breath, or bad taste. Cough causing splitting pain in head. Chill at 10.30 a.m., beginning between shoulders and running down back. A case of poisoning in a worker in a capsicum-plaister factory brought out: severe chill with shaking; and it ended in an intense coryza. Caps . 30 brought speedy relief in a case of tympanites following laparotomy, the concomitant symptoms being: cold nose and extremities, and cyanosis. Caps . is a notable fever remedy. The patient is thirsty — but drinking causes shuddering. Absence of thirst during heat. Burning, pungent pains, < by application of cold water, are very marked. Burning, pungent sensation in face < by slightest draught of cold air; burning in throat; burning blisters in roof of mouth (diphtheria or gangrene); constriction of throat, spasmodic closure, pain when not swallowing; burning in rectum, tenesmus, hæmorrhage; burning on urination; burning in bladder. Caps . is among the remedies of the front rank in stomatitis in inflammation of the middle ear, with involvement of mastoid cells in the sore throat of smokers and drinkers, with inflammation, burning, relaxed uvula, sometimes dry, sometimes with tough mucus difficult to dislodge. Local burning and general chilliness distinguish Caps . in a vast number of cases. Caps . is indicated where there is lack of reaction in persons of lax fibre. The mental state shows home-sickness. "Home-sickness, with red cheeks and sleeplessness; with hot feeling in fauces." (With a few doses of Caps. I cured completely an Australian girl, of florid complexion, who had come to London to study, and who was quite incapacitated by home-sickness.) There is awkwardness, fearfulness, obstinacy. Alternating states; laughs and weeps by turns; is now jocose and sings, but becomes angry from slightest cause. Delirium: it has been given with great success in delirium tremens, mostly in drachm doses of the tincture, given in milk. > From heat is the most important modality. Patients who cannot get to sleep without a hot bottle at their back. Rest < some forms of headache and > others. Motion = headache as if skull would split; as if bruised; asthma; chilliness; stiff joints to crack. Ascending = asthma. < By touch. Shuns open air; dreads uncovering; dreads air, especially a draught. Spirits become lower as body becomes cooler. Sensation as if cayenne pepper were sprinkled on parts. Violent pains in various places; now here now there. Sensation as if parts would go to sleep. I had one patient on whom Caps . acted well in summer, but not in winter. Equal parts of tincture of Caps. and glycerine make an excellent liniment for external use in many cases of chronic rheumatism and neuralgia.

Antidoted by: Calad., Camph., Cina, Chi., Sul. ac., or vapour of burning sulphur. It antidotes: Effects of Alcohol, Coffee, Opium, Quinine. Compatible: Bell., Lyc., Puls., Sil. Compare: Arn., Bell. (headache, &c.); Bry. (headache from cough); Canth. (burning pains, throat symptoms, dysentery, urinary symptoms); Pso. (lack of reaction; despair of recovery; Caps. in persons of lax fibre); Lach. (thirst before chill; continues into chill; drinking < ; also Elaps); Nat. m., Carb. v. and Menyanth. (intermittents; Nat. m. is the "chronic" of Caps.); Carb. an. and Nit. ac. (inflammation behind ears, Aur. and Nit. ac. preferable in abscess; Sil. in chronic suppuration); Phos. ac. (home-sickness; Caps. has red face); Ars., Alum., Carb. v., Lyc. have burning pains > by heat. Merc., Nit. ac., Sul. have passage of blood from bowels. Crot. t. (after drinking urging to stool); Helleb. (colic with spasm of bladder); Plat. (burning, pungent pain in face, < slightest draught of air, warm or cold). Compare also Solanaceæ.

Tendency to take alarm. — Discontent. — Opinionativeness. — Strong disposition to take everything in bad part, to fly into a rage, even on account of harmless jests, and to utter reproaches. — Capricious and exceedingly changeable humour. — Dulness of all the senses. — Want of reflection and awkwardness. — Nostalgia, with redness of the cheeks and sleeplessness. — Disposition to jest, and to utter witticisms, but gets angry at least trifle.

Bewilderment of the head. — Intoxication, as if from spirituous liquors. — Headache, as if the cranium were going to burst, on walking, or moving the head or coughing. — Attack of semi-lateral headache, pressive and shooting, with nausea, vomiting, and loss of memory, aggravated by movement of the eyes. — Shooting, or acute, drawing pains, esp. in the sides of the head. — Pain of pressive severing in the brain, as if from fulness. — Pulsative headache; (better in motion). — Gnawing itching in the scalp, with pain in the roots of the hair after scratching.

Pressure in the eyes, as if from a foreign body introduced into them. — Inflammation of the eyes, with redness, burning pain, and lachrymation. — Eyes prominent. — Confusion of sight, esp. in the morning, as if something were swimming on the cornea, mitigated for an instant by rubbing. — Objects appear black when brought before the eyes. — Sight entirely extinct, as if from amaurosis.

Acute drawing pains in the ears. — Itching and pressure in the bottom of the auditory tube. — Painful swelling on the bone behind the ear; < by touch. — Tearing behind l. ear. — Diminution of hearing after previous burning and stinging in the ear.

Epistaxis, esp. in bed, in the morning. — Painful pimples under the nostrils. — Dry coryza, with tingling and tickling in the nostrils.

Redness of the face (without heat), often alternately with paleness. — Many small red spots on the face. — Corroding, itching tetter on the forehead. — Pains in the face, in the bones, where they are aggravated by the touch, or in the nerves where they are aggravated during sleep. — Dull pressure on the cheek-bone. — Swelling of the lips. — Ulcerated eruptions, and fissures in the lips.

Pains in the teeth, as if they were set on edge, or elongated. — Pullings in the teeth, and in the gums. — Swelling of the gums.

Burning vesicles in the mouth and on the tongue. — Viscid saliva in the mouth.

Sore throat with painful deglutition and pulling sensation in the pharynx. — Inflammation, with dark redness and burning of the throat. — Cramp-like contraction of the throat. — Uvula elongated, with sensation as if it were pressing on something hard.

Unnaturally increased appetite, alternated with aversion to food. — Aqueous and insipid taste. — Sour taste in the mouth, and also a taste of broth. — Want of appetite. — Desire for coffee, with inclination to vomit before or after taking it. — Pyrosis. — Nausea, felt generally in the epigastrium, with pressure on the part.

Pain in the stomach, which is inflated. — Sensation of cold in the stomach. — Burning pain in the stomach, and in the epigastrium, esp. just after a meal. — Shootings in the epigastrium, on breathing rapidly and deeply, on speaking, and on the part being touched.

Abdomen inflated, almost to bursting, with pressive tension, and suspension of respiration. — Painless rumbling in the abdomen. — Colic about umbilicus, with mucous stools. — Draggings and movements in the abdomen. — Strong pulsations in the abdomen. — Flatulent colic. — Protrusion, flatulent hernia in the inguinal ring.

Tenesmus. — Small dysenteric evacuations, with discharge of slimy and sanguineous matter, preceded by flatulent colic. — Nocturnal diarrhœa, with burning pains in the anus. — Blind hæmorrhoids, with pain during evacuation. — Hæmorrhoidal tumours, with burning (bleeding).

Tenesmus of the bladder. — Frequent, urgent and almost useless efforts to make water. — Burning pains on making water. — Cramp-like and incisive contractions in the neck of the bladder. — Incisive and shooting pains in the urethra, when not urinating. — Purulent running from the urethra, as in gonorrhœa. — Flow of blood from the urethra, which is painful to the touch.

Impotence and coldness of the genital parts. — Purulent discharge from the urethra. — Dwindling of the testes. — Violent erections in the morning. — Trembling of the whole body, during amorous caresses.

Disordered menstruation, with a pushing or sticking sensation in l. ovarian region.

Hoarseness. — Cough, more violent in the evening and at night, with pains in other parts of the body, esp. in the head and in the bladder, as if they were going to burst, or with pressure in the throat and ears, as if an abscess were about to open in them. — Cough, after taking coffee. — Cough, with fetid breath, and disagreeable taste in the mouth.

Want to breathe deeply. — Deep breathing, almost like a sigh. — Oppressed respiration, sometimes as if proceeding from the stomach, or from fulness of the chest. — Asthma, with redness of the face, eructation and sensation as if the chest were extended. — Constrictive pain in the chest. — Shootings in the chest on breathing. — Pulsative pain in the chest, which suspends respiration, and which is increased by movement.

Stiffness of the neck. — Acute drawing pains in the back.

Rheumatic pain in limbs. — Tension in the knees and stiffness in the calves of the legs on walking. — Stiffness of the arms and legs, with tingling as when they are asleep. — Shooting-tearing from hip to knee and foot, esp. when coughing. — Caries of r. hip; l. leg atrophied, violent pains in atrophied leg. — Cold sweat on upper part of legs.

Aching pains. — Drawing pains in the limbs excited by movement. — Pain, as from dislocation, and stiffness in the joints, with cracking, esp. at the beginning of a walk. — Phlegmatic temperament, and relaxed fibres. — Cramps in the body, with stiffness in the arms and legs, with numbness and sensation of tingling. — Repugnance to movement. — The symptoms show themselves chiefly in the evening and at night, and are aggravated by the open air, by contact, and by cold, as well as on beginning to move, and after drinking or eating. — Great sensibility to fresh air, and to a current of air. — Symptoms generally appear on l. side; suited for light-haired people; tendency to get fat; laxness of the muscles.; bloatedness of the skin. — Affections of the bones in general; pains in bones of the face.

Sleeplessness, without apparent cause. — Sleeplessness after midnight. — Sensation as if falling from a height during sleep. — Sleep full of dreams.

Pulse irregular, and often intermitting. — Febrile shivering and cold over the whole body, with ill-humour increasing with the cold, or else with anxiety, dizziness and dulness of the head. — Shivering, commencing at the back; between shoulders. — Cold and shivering whenever drink is taken. — Fever with predominance of cold, and with thirst, burning heat, and affections of the mucous membranes. — Shiverings, with much thirst, afterwards heat, (without or) with thirst and perspiration. — On the upper part of the legs cold perspiration.

Coma and delirium. θ Typhus. θ Yellow fever.
Forgetfulness.
Children become clumsy, awkward ; especially with headache.
Cloudiness of intellect ; idiocy, melancholy, hypochondriasis.
Haunted by a disposition to suicide.
He is taciturn, peevish and obstinate.
Disinclination to think and work.
He is in a contented mood, is jocose, and sings, and still he becomes angry from the slightest cause.
Homesickness : with red cheeks and sleeplessness ; with hot feeling in fauces.
Melancholy or hypochondriasis.
Fear of censure.
Fearfulness.
Awakens with fright, screams, and remains full of fear.
Anxiety and fear, as though he was going to die.
Peevish, irritable, angry ; easily offended, takes everything in bad part.
Obstinacy.
After emotions, fever, with red cheeks.

Intoxication.
Vertigo : reeling from side to side ; with hypochondriasis and torpid digestion ; during cold stage of intermittent fever.
Senses obtuse.

Empty, stupid feeling in head.
Darting pains in head ; < at rest ; > walking.
Headache, as if skull would split, when moving head, walking, or coughing.
A bursting headache, or feeling as if brain was too full, or head too large.
Bursting headache in evening, > from lying with head high.
Bursting pain and throbbing in head. θ Pertussis. θ Intermittent
fever.
Headache as if skull was bruised, on moving head and on walking.
Throbbing headache in forehead and temples.
Pressing headache in forehead and temples.
Constant pressive headache in forehead, above root of nose, with stitches through ear and over eye.
Pressing headache in forehead, as though a pressure from occiput would force the brain out through forehead, accompanied by cutting pain coming forward from occiput.
Pressive headache with nausea and vomiting.
Drawing tearing in left side of head.
Violent, deeply penetrating stitches in vertex.
A headache, more stitching than tearing ; < during rest ; > on motion.
Headache during chill. θ Intermittent.
Chronic headache with absence of perspiration.
Megrim and hysterical cephalalgia.
Brain symptoms in measles.

Head seems too large.
Drawing, tearing pain in right frontal bone.
Skull feels bruised, on moving head, or walking.
Tinea capitis.
Chilliness of scalp, followed by burning itching of integuments of skull, > from scratching.
Biting itching on hairy scalp, as from lice, compelling him to scratch ; after scratching roots of hair and scalp feel painful, as though hair was being pulled out.
Sweat on forehead ; cold sweat on forehead, with sensation of fainting.
Swelling on mastoid process behind ear, painful to contact.
Periostitis and caries of mastoid process.

Flickering before eyes, with headache.
Objects appear black ; dim vision ; amblyopia amaurotica.
Burning in eyes, with redness and lachrymation.
Pressing pain in eyes, as from a foreign body.
Inflammation of eyes, with relaxation of external and internal coats.
Pupils markedly dilated or contracted.
Fine sticking pain in eyes.
Eyes very prominent, with paleness of face.
Pressure in eyelids, so that he cannot open them far enough.
Painful quivering under right eyelid.
Eyes > after rubbing.
Eyes protrude from sockets, with burning and lachrymation. θ Pertussis.

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Most of the substances that are used on the table as seasoning in foods will in the course of a generation or two be very useful medicines because people poison themselves with these substances, tea, coffee, pepper, and these poisonous effects in the parents cause in the children a predisposition to disease, which is similar to the disease produced by these substances.

In the fat, flabby, red-raced children of beer drinkers and pepper eaters, with poor reaction, a relaxed and flabby constitution, red face and varicose condition, those that have been over stimulated, children of over stimulated men, we find the sphere of Capsicum very often.

In those constitutions in which the face looks rosy, but it is cold or not warm, and upon close examination the face is seen to be studded with a fine system of capillaries. Plump and round, with no endurance, a false plethora like Cal.

The end of the nose is red, the cheeks are red, redness over the cheeks, red eyes, easily relaxed individuals. These constitutions react slowly after diseases and do not respond to remedies, a sluggish state, a tired, lazy constitution.

In school girls who cannot study or work, who get home-sick and want to go home. In gouty constitutions, with cracking of the joints and gouty deposits in the joints, stiff joints, clumsy, weak, give out soon. There is sluggishness of the whole economy. They are chilly patients, are sensitive to air, and what to be in a warm room. Even in the ordinary weather the open air causes chilliness. They are sensitive to cold and to bathing.

In the mental state there is no more striking thing than this symptom : homesickness. A sickness like homesickness runs through the remedy and is accompanied by red cheeks and sleeplessness, hot feeling in the fauces, fearfulness. They are oversensitive to impressions, are always looking for an offence or slight; always suspicious and looking for an insult.

Obstinate to the extreme; it is a devilishness. Even if she wants a certain thing she will oppose it if is proposed by some one else. After emotions red cheeks, yet with the red cheeks lack of heat, even with increased temperature; or one cheek pale and the other red, or the cheeks alternate red and pale. Children are clumsy and awkward.

The Capsicum mind is almost overwhelmed by persistent thoughts of suicide. He does not want to kill himself, he resists the thoughts, and yet they persist, and he is tormented by these thoughts.

There are persistent thoughts in many remedies, and it is necessary to distinguish between impulses and desires.

If he desires to have a rope or a knife to commit suicide, that is altogether different from an impulse to commit suicide.

An impulse is sometimes overwhelming and overbalances the mind, and he commits suicide. You should always find out from a patient whether he loathes life and wants to die, or if he has impulses which he wishes to put aside. Some persons lie awake at night and long for death, and there is no reason for it. That is a state of the will, insanity of the will.

In another patient the thoughts jump into his mind and he cannot put them aside, and the thoughts are tormenting. The distinguishing feature of the remedy is often found by differentiating between the two. Desires are of the will; impulses come into the thoughts.

Headaches as if the skull would split when moving the head, when walking or coughing. Feeling as if the head would fly to pieces; holds the head with the hand. Feeling as if the head were large, aggravated by coughing and stepping, ameliorated by lying with the head high.

Bursting pain and throbbing. Headache with pulsation in the forehead and temples. Headache as if the brain would be pressed through the forehead. On stooping, feeling as if the brain would be pressed out, as if the red eyes would be pressed out on stooping.

The senses are disturbed and are overacute; oversensitiveness to noise, smells, taste and touch, to impressions, to insults. The patient is excited.

Pains in the ears; itching pain; aching, pressing pain with cough, as if an abscess would burst. It has a peculiar action on the bones of the internal ear and mastoid process. Abscesses round about and below the car and caries; petrous portion of temporal bone necrosed. It has been a frequently indicated remedy in mastoid abscess.

Old catarrhs. The patient takes cold in the nose and throat and this is followed by a collection of mucus. Very often in stupid patients it is difficult to get symptoms, and you must depend on what you see, the character of the discharge and a few other things, and you will find that some of these cases will be cured and all the other symptoms will go away; but in some of these old catarrhs no reaction seems to come after the most carefully chosen remedies, and all at once the doctor observes that the patient has a red face and it is cold and the end of the nose is red and cold, and the patient is fat and flabby and yet has not much endurance, never could learn at school, and if she exerts breaks out into a sweat and freezes in the cold air.

He has a key to the patient and examines the patient by the key, that is, by the drug, a mad practice and never to be resorted to except as a dernier resort and in stupid patients. When he gives Capsicum to that patient it arouses her, it may not cure; but after it the Silicea or Kali bich. or other remedy which was perhaps given before and did not act takes hold and cures.

In the text it says, "Nose red and hot."

The skin all over is red and burning, a capillary congestion.

The cheeks are red and hot, and this alternates with paleness. Red dots on the face. Pains in the face like bone pains, from external touch. Pains are worse from touch. Pain in the zygoma, or the zygoma is sensitive. Sensitive to pressure over the mastoid. Swelling in the region of the mastoid.

Taste foul like putrid water. When coughing the air from the lungs causes a pungent offensive taste in the mouth. A hot pungent air comes up from the throat , tasting foul when coughing.

On the tongue and lips, flat, sensitive, spreading ulcers with lardaceous base. The mucous membrane of the lips and various parts of the body if pinched up with the fingers remain in the raised position, showing a sluggish circulation.

This is the flabbiness of Capsicum. It wrinkles on pressure. It is a feeble circulation. The parts you touch are loose and flabby, red, fat and cold. That child will not react well if it has measles, until it gets Capsicum.

The skin is moist and cold, and there is a fine measly condition of the skin due to capillary congestion. If the child is old enough, it will complain of feeling cold. There is slow reaction after eruptive diseases, after glandular diseases, after bowel complaints. The child was fat and flabby, but now does not take on flesh.

He takes cold in the throat and nose, and the throat looks as if it would bleed, it is so red, a fine rash-like appearance - it is puffed, discolored, purple, mottled, flabby and spongy-looking; dark red. Burning soreness with ulceration in the fauces. Uvula elongated. Stitching in throat. Enlarged tonsils, inflamed, large and spongy.

The throat remains sore a long time after a cold or sore throat. Burning, pressing pain in the throat, the throat dark red; relaxed sore throat; pain on swallowing, dysphagia. Throat sluggish for weeks, a do-nothing state, does not get very bad, but gets no better, a lack of reaction.

When the chill begins there is thirst. Thirst after every dysenteric stool, a sudden carving for ice-cold water, which causes chilliness. Craving for water before the chill and when taken it hastens the chill; it feels cold in the stomach.

He desires something warm, something stimulating, craves pungent things. This is seen in whisky drinkers; they crave pepper, and the pepper, on the other hand, turns round and craves whisky. These diffusable stimulants crave some stimulating thing, crave support. Dipsomania.

Let me give you a hint in Arsenic. In dipsomania the sinners who have been drinking a great many drinks in a day sometimes get to that state in which they must get up during the night for a drink or they will not be able to get up in the morning.

In the morning the first three or four drinks will be thrown up, but the next one will stay down; they must take a number until one sticks. They have got to that state in which they must keep on taking it. If they sleep too long the first few drinks will come up, and so they must get up in the night or the whisky will not stay down in the morning until they have taken a number of drinks.

You will see this in lawyers who do a great amount of work on stimulants. Nux, Ars., and Caps. will do something for them if they will co-operate with you. I remember saying to one old toper, who had kept up altogether on champagne, that he would have to stop it. He whined,

"I don't think it is worth while."

If he could not get his champagne he didn't think life worth living. if these people want to get benefit they must co-operate.

Dysentery. After stool, tenesmus and thirst, and drinking causes shuddering. Smarting and burning in anus and rectum. Violent tenesmus in rectum, and bladder at the same time. Haemorrhoids; protruding, smarting, burning; smarting like pepper; they sting and burn as if pepper had been sprinkled on them.

Tenesmus of the bladder; strangury. Burning, biting pain after urination, in old cases of gonorrhoea, in which there no reaction.

The discharge is creamy. You take a picture, of his face, you notice the plethora, but also that he has no endurance, plump, flabby, sensitive to cold, red face. He does not react after cold. He has the, last drop or a creamy discharge with burning on urination.

Capsicum will sometimes stop it suddenly. Coldness of scrotum. Prepuce swollen, oedematous. Pain in the prostate gland after gonorrhoea.

Coldness of the affected part. Coldness in patches. Coldness of the whole body.

It is useful in perplexing and troublesome chronic hoarseness. He had had a cold and remedies for the acute condition have been given, perhaps two or three remedies, Acon., Bry., Hep., Phos., but all at once you wake up to the fact of his chronic constitutional state of hoarseness. He is rotund, chilly, red faced, and the hoarseness disappears under Capsicum.

It is the same with the cough. After making several blunders you wake up and see it is a Capsicum case and that you have never yet gotten at the root of the trouble. This shows the importance of getting at the things general first. If there is much acute suffering of course you must give an acute remedy, but if the patient has delayed recovery and convalescence is slow the next remedy should be the remedy for the patient.

Sometimes it is Sulph., Phos., Lyc., and sometimes it is Caps. If the patient has a good constitutional state he will get over the told on -the acute remedy, but the old gouty, rheumatic, flabby patients need a constitutional remedy.

Cough in sudden paroxysms convulsing the whole body. Cries, after the cough from the headache. Stitches in the suffering part with the cough. Every cough jars the affected joint. The constitutional state comes first and the particulars must agree i. e., prescribe according to the totality.

Adapted to the phlegmatic diathesis; per- sons with light hair, blue eyes, nervous, but plethoric habit; lax fibre and weak muscles; awkward, indolent, easily offended.

Children, dread the open air, are always chilly; refractory, clumsy, fat, unclean and disinclined to work or think.

Homesickness (of the indolent, melancholic) with red cheeks and sleeplessness, hot sensation in fauces.

Lack of reactive force, especially with fat, indolent persons, who are constitutionally opposed to physical exertion.

Desires to be let alone; wants to lie down and sleep.

Constriction: in fauces; throat; nares; chest; bladder; urethra; rectum.

Burning and smarting sensation, as from cayenne pepper, in throat and other parts, not > by heat.

Every stool is followed by thirst, and every drink by shud- dering.

Every chill is attended with thirst and every drink with shuddering.

Cina follows well in intermittent fever.

The constricting, burning, smarting pains differentiate from Apis and Belladonna.

Compare : Carbo an., Ign.

From eating; drinking; cold open air. Night, after midnight.

Warmth; during the day.

Periodicity strongly marked. Quotidian; rarely tertian. Malarial fevers of the topics.

Evening; 5 to 6 P. M.; 10:30 A. M.

5 to 6 P. M. every day. 10:30 A. M.

Different times of day. Every other day.

Thirst some time before chill (Cinch.—thirst and bone pains 1 to 6 hours before chill, Eup., Nat.).

Thirst, without bone pains. Thirst during chill with pain in back and limbs.

Bone pains in arms and legs. Thirst for lemonade, and acid drinks—not water.

With great thirst. Chill begins in the back, between the shoulder-blades (Polyp.—in lumbar region, Eup. purp.); worse after drinking. Shivering and chilliness after every drink. Chill : with pain in back and tearing in limbs, extorting cries and causing patient to bend double; > by jugs of hot water or hot irons to the back; lessened by walking out-of-doors; with painful swelling of spleen; contracted pupils; contraction of the limbs (Cimex); anxiety, giddiness and headache; intolerance of noise (Bell.); ptyalism and mucus vomiting; in the open air, particularly in a draft, extremely sensitive to cold air (Bar., Camph.); inward burning and external chill.

Chill followed by sweat; or by heat with sweat and thirst (Ant. c.). Chill spreads gradually until extreme points are reached, then as gradually declines. During chill, coldness of chest, with a sensation of water dropping down the back.

"As the coldness of the body increases, so also does the ill-humor."—HAHNEMANN.

Commencing in back between the shoulders; worse after drinking, relieved by putting jugs of hot water to back; must have something hot to back.

Violent chill with general coldness of body.

Eup. purp.

Commencing in back, lumbar region, passes up and down spine with bone pains, blue lips and nails. Nausea as chill is leaving.

Violent shaking, with comparatively little coldness of body.

Capsicum. Eup. purp.

Without thirst; lessened by motion. Sweat and heat simultaneously (Ant. c.); face alternately pale and red; internal heat with violent burning (Ars.) followed by chill with thirst during chill. Headache with pain in the back, relieved by walk- ing about (Rhus). Glowing hot cheeks, with cold hands and feet. Heat of the ears, and hot, red tip of the nose, towards even- ing. General heat; anxiety; uneasiness; dullness of the mind and intolerance of noise.

Fever at 11 A. M. (following chill at 10:30 A. M.), lasting all night, without subsequent sweat. Fever (after very short chill at 11 A. M. or 12 M.) lasts all night with great thirst. Great sleepiness after fever (Apis, Pod.); especially after eating; could scarcely be prevented from going to sleep.

Light, transient, or mixed with sweat. No thirst in heat. Heat.—Protracted and well marked, with thirst.

Headache; intolerance of noise; sleepiness after. Head light, as if falling to left side.

Without thirst; violent; copious; lessened by motion.

Sweat with the heat, or after the chill, without previous heat

(Caust.). Coming on soon after fever commences, and continu- ing with it. Sweat in axilla (Bov.). Acrid sweat; so acrid that it caused the hands of any person brought in contact with it to burn and tingle. Cold on thighs.

General; copious, or alternating with heat. Sweat.—Light, mostly on forehead and head.

Chill, heat and sweat, all relieved by motion. Neither stage relieved by anything.

Capsicum is a valuable remedy in intermittents occurring in midsummer; its symptoms are clearly defined and ought not to be confounded with any other remedy. The chill beginning in the back between the scapulæ; relieved by hot irons or jugs of hot water and lessened by motion, is characteristic. It is oftener indicated than used—just the reverse of Quinia.

Capsicum, Cinchona, Eupatorium perf. and Natrum mur., have thirst some time before paroxysm begins; "knows the chill is coming, because he wants to drink." It is a chief symptom of the prodrome in each. Both Capsicum and Cinchona are wanting in the bone pains and backache so characteristic of Eupatorium and Natrum.

Burning blisters, and flat, lardaceous, spreading ulcers on the tongue. Taste sour; of putrid water. Desire for coffee, but it nauseates. Better while eating; worse after. Ap- petite unimpaired.

Clear comparatively; chill is predominant; in mucous, flabby constitutions; sometimes dysenteric diarrhœa of slimy, burning stools, attended with qualmishness of the stomach, and fullness at the epigastrium.

Intermittents attended with painful enlargement of spleen and torpidity of abdominal nervous centres. Fevers from or after abuse of Quinine.

Capsicum.

Thirst before the chill (Cinch., Eup., Nat.) but no bone pains.

Chill; with great thirst < after drinking. Shivering and chilliness after every drink, > by heat to back.

Heat; without thirst, > by motion. Sleepy after fever and after eating (Apis, Pod.).

Sweat; without thirst, acrid; or after chill, or heat with sweat (Ant. c.); > by motion.

Midsummer fevers.

Children become clumsy, awkward; especially with headache.
Taciturn and obstinate.
Haunted by a disposition to suicide.
Homesickness; with red cheeks and sleeplessness; with hot feeling in feeling in fauces.
Melancholy or hypochondriasis.
Peevish, irritable, angry; easily offended.
Awakens with fright, screams, and remains full of fear.
After emotions, fever, with red cheeks.

Vertigo, during cold stage of intermittent fever.
Vertigo; with staggering; chills, with anxiety.
Senses obtuse, or increased acuteness of all the senses.

Headache, as if the skull would split, when moving the head, or walking.
Throbbing headache, in one or the other temple.
Pressing frontal headache.
Darting pains in head; worse at rest; better walking.

Head seems too large.
Drawing, tearing pain in the right frontal bone.
Skull feels bruised, on moving the head, or walking.
Itching of the scalp; a short of biting, burning, itching; better by scratching, but becoming very much worse immediately afterward.

Objects appear black.
Dim vision, particularly early in morning; better on rubbing the eyes.
Burning in the eyes, with redness and lachrymation.
Pressing pain in the eyes, as from a foreign body.
Eyes seem large, reddish and protruding.

Dull hearing after previous burning and stinging in ear.
Catarrhal deafness.
Aching in one or both ears, when coughing.
Tympanum perforated, and cavity filled with thick yellow pus.
Painful swelling behind the ear, very tender to touch; caries of mastoid process.
Tearing pain behind left ear.
Pressive, later an itching pain, deep in the ear.
Ears very hot.

Influenza, with violent sneezing and discharge of thin mucus, sometimes with burning, tickling and roughness.
Nosebleed in the morning, in bed; bloody mucous discharge, when coughing.
Collection of thick mucus in the nose and throat.
Tingling, titillation in the nose; tip of nose very hot.

Cheeks red, not hot, changing with paleness.
Pain in the face, worse from touch in the evening.
Faceache; pains in a fine line coursing along the nerve.
Eruption on face or forehead, with corrosive itching.

Lips: swollen; cracked; smarting.

Gums: hot, burning, swollen, or sensitive; spongy, retracted from the teeth.
Pain in teeth, which seem elongated, but not much worse on biting on them.

Taste: insipid; sour; flat; watery; foul, like putrid water.
When coughing, the air from the lungs causes a strange, offensive taste in the mouth.
Small burning blisters on tongue, painful to touch.
Tongue and inside of lips full of flat, sensitive, spreading ulcers, with a lardaceous centre.

Fetid odor, unbearable, carrion-like.
Saliva: viscid, offensive, copious, salivation during chill.
Burning blisters in the mouth, painful to touch.

Uvula elongated, feels as if pressing on something hard.
Small, flat, burning ulcers, in mouth and fauces.
Constriction of the throat, with burning; whitish deposit.
Left tonsil inflamed; right, painful.
Throat inflamed, dark red, burning and pressing.
Soreness, smarting, burning and biting in the throat.
Difficulty in swallowing, tongue furred; haggard look.
Stinging, causing night cough.
Burning, etc., worse between the acts of swallowing.
Continuous stitches in the throat, exciting, dry, convulsive cough.

Appetite increased, alternating with aversion to food.
Thirsty, as the chill comes on.
Intense thirst, abdominal uneasiness, but no tenderness on pressure.
Desire for coffee, but it nauseates.

Better while eating; worse after.
Food tastes sour.
After eating: burning in the stomach; vegetables cause flatulence.
Water causes purging; shuddering; tenesmus; thin stool; chills.
Nausea, and attacks of suffocation, after coffee, yet desire for it.
Red face immediately after dinner, and the patient must go to stool, during or after which there is burning in the anus.
Drinking: 40.

Belching, with stitch in the side.
Eructations like the fumes of Capsicum.
Heart-burn.
Water-brash.
Nausea and vomiting, with headache; nervous, spasmodic vomiting.
Vomits phlegm with the chill; vomiting in malignant fevers.

Accumulation of mucus and acids in stomach.
Stomach icy-cold, afterward sensation of trembling or burning in stomach, with occasional pungent eructations.
Deranged stomach, with fever.
Sensitiveness and aching in the region of stomach and duodenum after the colic.

"Catching pain" in the region of the liver, or in lower portion of the right lung, with each cough.
Spleen sensitive, swollen; especially after quinine.

Colic around umbilicus with mucous stools, sometimes streaked with blood; every stool is followed by thirst and every drink by shuddering; must go to stool immediately after drinking, passing nothing but mucus.
Burning pains in belly.
Cutting in bowels, as from wind; before stool.
Sore pains in the abdomen and loins.
Hard pushing or sticking sensation in a small spot in the left iliac region.
Abdomen distended; suffocative arrest of breathing or painful pressure in lower part of back.

Stools: frequent, small, with tenesmus and burning in rectum and bladder; bloody mucus, shaggy; greenish, frothy, worse at night; tenacious mucus mixed with black blood.
Diarrhœa with smarting, stinging or burning pains.
Hemorrhoids; burning, swollen, itching, throbbing; with sore feeling in anus; bleeding or blind; with mucous discharge; tenesmus recti et vesicæ with small diarrhœic stools, burning and lancinating pains; profuse flow of blood.
Suppressed hemorrhoidal flow, causing melancholy.
After a drink, must go to stool, but was costive; only a little mucus passed.

Stitches in neck of bladder, when coughing.
Colic, with spasm of bladder.
Burning in the bladder.
Frequent unsuccessful desire to urinate.
Tenesmus vesicæ; strangury.
Burning, smarting, before, during, or after urination.
Discharge from urethra; purulent; bloody; urethra painful to touch; discharge cream-like.

Impotence; scrotum cold, shriveled.
Painful erections at night; cream-like discharge from the urethra; burning, when urinating; at other times cutting, stinging in the urethra.
Gonorrhœa.
Prepuce swollen.
Testes dwindle; spermatic cord shriveled.
Crampy pains in testicles, after emissions.

During menstruation: nausea; pressure in the epigastrium.
Disordered menstruation, with a pushing or sticking sensation in the left ovarian region.

During pregnancy; heart-burn, vomiting; mucous diarrhœa; hemorrhoids, burning in anus.

Tingling, tickling in the larynx.
Hoarseness, nose stopped up, throat feels rough.

Seems as if she could not get the air deep enough into the lungs; feels obliged to take a deep inspiration, it seems as if it would relieve all symptoms.
Deep breathing, almost like a sigh; slow breathing.
Painful sensation as if the chest were pressed upon, causing great oppression; worse on motion.
Asthma: with red face or alternately red and pale; eructations; chest feels distended; wheezing inspiration; breathing worse when moving about, ascending or walking; with stiff back.
Sibilant rales mostly left side posteriorly, during inspiration; spongy sound in expiration; constant dyspnœa; oppression at bifurcation of bronchia, better from successful cough.

With every explosive cough (and at no other time), there escapes a volume of pungent, fetid air.
Stitches in the suffering parts, with the cough.
Cries after coughing.
Dry, hard, evening cough, with pain in distant parts.
Nervous, spasmodic cough.
Cough in sudden paroxysms, convulses whole body.
Sputum dirty brown, not rusty.
Pains in ears when coughing; ears and tip of nose hot; bloody mucus from nose; eyes protrude with burning and lachrymation.
Cough worse: evening, night; when lying, until fairy settled; after sharp winds; dry, cold weather; any draught, warm or cold; after warm drinks.

Pain in the chest and back; heat.
Throbbing pain in the chest.
Drawing in one or both sides of the chest, up to the neck.

Pulse: irregular, often intermitting; slow, intermitting, full, strong, frequent, mostly in evening.

Pains in sternum with sweat, while walking.

Glands of neck painful, swollen.
Jerking, tearing pain in the right cervical glands.
Drawing, tearing pains, in and beside the spine.
Excruciating, tearing pains in the back, extorting cries, causing him to double up during the chill.
Pain in sacrum and small of back, with hemorrhoids; dysentery.

Drawing, tearing pains in the arms.
Drawing, tearing, and stitching pains from the shoulder toward the hand and fingers.

Shooting-tearing, from the hip to the knee and foot, especially when coughing.
Pains of various kinds, extending from above down ward.
Tensive pain in the knee.
Caries of right hip; left leg atrophied and painful.
Cold sweat on upper part of the legs.
Feet cold.

Rest: 3. Motion: 26, 40, 44. Moving head: 3, 4. Walking: 3, 4, 26, 30, 36; in open air: 40. Ascending: 26. Lying: 27. Desire to lie down: 36. Must bend double: 31.

Lack of reactive force, especially with fat people.
Vital forces sunken. θ Paralysis, gangrene, meteorism, typhus.
Weak, exhausted.
Staggering when walking.
Great desire to lie down and sleep; does not want to exert himself in the least.

Yawning.
Sleepless from emotions, from homesickness, or from cough.
Sleep full of dreams, restless.
Screaming in sleep.
Sensation as if one were falling from a height during sleep.
Many dreams, full of contrarieties.

Remission during day and before midnight.
Morning: 7, 27. Evening: 8, 27, 29. Night: 13, 22, 27.

Generally better in warmth.
Dreads uncovering even in hot stage of ague. Shuns open air: 47. Draught: 27, 40. Open air: 40. Dry cold: 27. Sharp winds: 27.

Skin cool, pulse slow, want of appetite.
Shivering and chilliness after every drink.
Chill begins in back, with thirst, worse after drinking, lessened when walking out of doors.
Chill in the open air, particularly in a draught.
Chill followed by sweat; or by heat, with sweat and thirst.
Chill externally; burning inwardly.
Fever heat, with violent burning.
Heat: followed by chill, with thirst; lessened by motion.
Sweat: violent, copious; lessened by motion.

Periodicity marked.
Chill spreads gradually until extreme points are reached; then as gradually declines.

Right: 4, 13, 18, 31, 33. Left: 6, 13, 18, 26, 33. Below upwards: 28. Above downwards: 33.

Violent pains at various places; now here, now there; neuralgia of children.
Superficial drawing pains in different parts of the body.
Burning, smarting sensations.
Sensations as if parts would go to sleep.

Relaxed fibre; obesity.
Glandular swellings.
Joints: crack; stiff, painful on beginning to move; pain, as if paralyzed.

Worse from touch; skin sensitive, with many internal ailments.
Touch: 8, 21. Scratching: 46.
Seasickness.

Itching worse from scratching.
Burning in the skin.
Herpetic-like eruption on forehead or face, itching, burning.
Stinging-biting or burning-itching, worse on scalp, face and chest.
Skin bloated, flabby.

Light hair, blue eyes.
Nervous, but full habit.
Phlegmatic: awkward, easily offended; indolent, melancholic; lack of reaction.
Lazy, fat, unclean, dreads the open air.
Children who are always chilly, refractory, clumsy.
Less frequently indicated in persons of tense fibre.
Hemorrhoidal constitutions.
Gouty.

Complaints from coffee.
Fevers from, or after abuse of quinine.
Vapor of Sulphur or Sulph ac. antidotes feeling as if parts were going to sleep.
Antidotes to Capsic.: Calad., Camphor., Cina, Cinchon.

A tincture is prepared from the dried fruit of Capsicum Annuum L. (the red pepper).

It produces inflammation of mucous membranes, with bloody mucous discharges (bowels, bladder, throat, etc.). ▶ It produces well-marked chill and fever, neuralgias and phlegmonous inflammations, with threatening, deep-seated abscess (lungs, ear).

Compare Bell., Canth., Merc. cor., Rhus t., Nat. m., and probably also Oleander.

Cramp in left arm, then in whole body, with stiffness of arms so that they could not be straightened, stiffness of feet on rising after sitting, with crawling and sensation as if asleep. ▶ General trembling while caressing. ▶ Superficial stitches between scapulæ when breathing, and in epigastric region, side of abdomen, in ensiform cartilage and sternum. ▶ Aching, now in one part, now in another. ▶ Drawing pain here and there in limbs, back, nape, scapulæ and hands, excited by motion. ▶ Painless sensation in body, moving upward and downward, with redness of cheeks. ▶ (Clucking sensation, with sudden throbbing in some large veins.). ▶ He shuns all motion. ▶ Weariness; agg. morning; not inviting sleep. ▶ Sensation as if all parts would fall asleep, amel. sulphur-fumes.

Most useful in older persons who have become debilitated by disease and who react badly, not so useful in young people. ▶ Often adapted to people who have exhausted their vitality, especially by mental work, and whose vital heat is diminished, who do not react, especially from chill, muscles are weary and painful, fear of the slightest draft of either warm or cold air; sometimes indicated in persons who abstain from their accustomed alcoholic stimulants. ▶ The pains in general are burning in character and are accompanied by chilliness. ▶ Many of the sensations are those of constriction, about the throat, chest, bladder, rectum, etc.

Homesick, cries all the time, with chilliness and hot face.

▶ Disposition to start. ▶ Taciturn, absorbed in himself; T. sullen and obstinate. ▶ Contented, jocose and singing, but angry from slightest causes. ▶ Capricious, at one time laughing constantly, soon again crying. ▶ Obstinacy without cries. ▶ Reproaches and anger at the faults of others, offense at trifles and fault-finding. ▶ Anxiety; forcing him to take a deep breath. ▶ Busy, uneasy mood. ▶ Repugnance and fretfulness. ▶ Indifference to everything. ▶ Jokes and witticisms. ▶ Indisposition to work or think. ▶ Comatose all day.

Stitches. ▶ Headache more sticking than tearing, agg. rest, amel. motion. ▶ (Tearing.). ▶ Aching as if the skull would burst (Bell.), on coughing (Nat. m., Phos.); on moving head and on walking; bursting headache or feeling as if head were too full. ▶ Throbbing pain. ▶ Confusion; on waking; on waking, so that he did not recognize himself. ▶ Emptiness. ▶ Intoxication. ▶ Vertigo in morning on waking; and dulness in head, like a heedlessness and awkwardness, so that she knocked against everything, with chilliness and anxiety; with staggering from side to side.

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It produces inflammation of mucous membranes, with bloody, mucous discharges (bowels, bladder, throat, etc.). It produces well-marked chill and fever, neuralgias and phlegmonous inflammations, with threatening, deep-seated abscesses (lungs, ear).

Great sensitiveness to cold air, especially to drafts of air.
General creaking and cracking in the joints.
Stiffness and painfulness of all the joints when beginning to walk.
Dread of all motion.
A general relaxed and phlegmatic temperament.
Most of the symptoms are < after eating and drinking, most violent on beginning to move, and > continued motion.

Clinical:
Most useful in older persons who have become debilitated by disease and who react badly; not so useful in young people.
Often adapted to people who have exhausted their vitality, especially by mental work, and whose vital heat is diminished, who do not react, especially from chill; muscles are weary and painful; fear of the slightest draft of either warm or cold air; sometimes indicated in persons who abstain from their accustomed alcoholic stimulants.
The pains in general are burning in character and are accompanied by chilliness.
Many of the sensations are those of constriction, about the throat, chest, bladder, rectum, etc.

Taciturn, and absorbed in himself.
Irritated by the slightest causes.
Unusual alteration of mood.
(Homesickness, with chilliness, hot and red cheeks and sleeplessness.)

Headache, generally throbbing, in the forehead or temples.
Violent headache, as though the skull would burst, on coughing.
A feeling as though the head were too full.
Drawing tearing in the bones of the forehead, worse on the right side.
Aching above the root of the nose.
One-sided neuralgia of the head, a pressing pain, < moving the head or eyes, nausea, even to vomiting.

Pain as from a foreign body in the eyes.
Burning.
Pupils dilated.
Dimness of vision.

Pressing pain deep in the ears, as if an abscess would form.
Painful swelling behind the ears.

Clinical:
Valuable remedy in chronic suppuration of the ears, with bursting headache, chilliness, etc.; suppuration of the middle ear, with perforation of the drum and discharge of yellow pus.
Particularly in mastoid disease, with great tenderness over the petrous bone, threatening to involve the meninges of the brain.

Tickling, with sneezing, in the nose.
Diminished smell.
Nose-bleed in the morning in bed.

Pain, fine, as if in the nerves or in the bones, < external touch, tormenting when falling asleep, especially about the malar bone.
Redness of face, frequently alternating with paleness.
Lips swollen and cracked; smarting and burning.

Vesicles in the mouth, with burning.
Fetid odor.
Viscid, offensive saliva.
Tough mucus in the mouth.

Spasmodic contraction of the throat.
Sore throat, even when not swallowing; on swallowing, feels inflamed.

Clinical:
Sore throat of smokers and drinkers, with inflammation, burning, relaxed uvula, sometimes dry, in other cases with tough mucus, difficult to dislodge.
Diphtheria, with gangrenous sloughs extending to roof of mouth, with excessive burning, spasmodic constriction, chilliness, etc. (Compare Canth.)

Unnatural appetite, alternating with aversion to food.
Loss of thirst.
(When drinking, chills.)
Food has a sour taste; after eating, burning in the stomach.
Great flatulence from vegetables.
Swelling of the pit of the stomach.

Distended; feels as though it would burst; takes away the breath.
Flatulent colic.
Colic, with cutting twisting about navel and passage of tough mucus, like diarrhœa, at times mixed with black blood; after every stool thirst, and after every drink shivering.
Tension, especially in epigastric region, between pit of stomach and navel, < motion, with tension in lower part of back.
Tensive pain, extending to chest, as from distention of abdomen.

Tenesmus.
Urging to stool after drinking, but only a little mucus passed.
Feeling as if he would have diarrhœa as soon as he drank anything (Crot. tig.), but only a little passed every time.
Hæmorrhoids.
Burning in the anus; burning pain.
Biting-stinging in anus, with diarrhœa-like stools.
Small, frequent passages, consisting of mucus, at times mingled with blood and causing tenesmus (Merc. c., Canth.), preceded by flatulent colic in hypogastrium.
Diarrhœa, then empty tenesmus; mucus diarrhœa, with tenesmus.
Small stool, consisting of only mucus.

Clinical:
Dysentery, stools bloody, tenacious mucus, with excessive burning and tenesmus; also associated with tenesmus of the bladder (Canth. and Merc. cor.); also particularly characterized by excessive thirst, with shivering from drinking (Arsen.) and by severe pain in back after the stool.

Tenesmus; strangury; frequent, almost ineffectual, urging to urinate.
Pressure towards bladder while coughing and afterwards, with stitches extending outward in region of bladder.
Burning pain in urethra during and after micturition.

Loss of sexual power.
Coldness of the scrotum in the morning on waking.

Hoarseness.
Tickling in the larynx in the evening after lying down, causing dry, hacking cough.
Dry cough, worse in the evening and at night; cough is generally associated with concomitant symptoms, especially pains in other portions of the body, ears, throat, etc.
The cough expels an extremely offensive breath from the lungs.
Dyspnœa.
Constriction of the chest, arresting breathing, < motion.
Pain as if the chest were too full, or as if it would fly to pieces.

Drawing tearing and jerking pains in the neck, in the right cervical glands, or up and down the spine.

Pain, sticking, tearing or drawing from the hips to the feet, < coughing, touch, or bending trunk backward.
Tensive pain in the knee.

Sleeplessness after midnight; cannot fall asleep.
Sleep full of dreams.

General coldness.
Coldness in the evening.
Shivering and chilliness after every drink.
Heat localized, of the ears towards evening, of the tip of the nose, of the hands, < in the morning by washing in cold water.

Clinical:
Intermittent fever; chill begins in the back, ameliorated by heat; thirst, but chill after drinking; with the chill excruciating pain in back and limbs, heat and sweat often commingled; generally less thirst during the fever and sweat than during the chill; the thirst begins even before the chill.
In scarlet fever, with corrosive discharge from nose, great fetor of breath, general tendency to coldness.
Sometimes indicated in typhoid fever.
Occasionally in pyæmia, with high temperature and profuse sweat, easily chilled, aggravated by drinking.

Cap. / Captain

Capsicum,- To thee we turn,
When the parts affected burn.
Burn the urinary flue
Skin, and throat and anus, too.
When the skin is overmuch
Sensitive to slightest touch.
when a cough hurts head and throat,
Setting fetid breath afloat.
Stools are bloody slime, with straining,
After stool a thirst obtaining.
Chilly after taking drink,
Chill of back on ague brink.
Always chilly-Non-complete
Is the store of vital heat
When there is a scrotum cold,
When a gonorrhoea, old.
With a sluggish personnel,
Where on coffee seeds on well.
Worse like Rhus, on motion starting,
But continued,- ease imparting.

The Captain,-Has a skin very sensitive to touch.

Captain Ole, the Spanish Spy, is in the Car, lacing a shoe for Belle Apis.

This Captain,-Who is always chilly- void of vital heat,-Is the fussy jawing Chap, at Sandy Lead.

Skin Tender- Very Sensitive to Touch: Caps., Oleo., Canth., Spig., Carb. v., Lach., Chin., Sul., Hep., Bell., Apis.

Chilly-Void of Animal Heat: Caps., Fer., Sep., Arg. n., Alu., Cal. c., Hep., Pul., Sil., Led.

Indicated chiefly in coughs and in intermittent fever, occurring in old people or in persons of lax fibre and low vitality who take cold easily and do not react readily.

Peevish; depressed; homesick.

Tenderness and pain behind the year, in the mastoid.

Throat feels hot and smarts as though from red pepper; throat dry, with relaxation of the uvula.

Explosive, hard cough, with feeling as though head and chest would fly to pieces; pain when coughing, in distant parts; in knee, hip, leg, ear.

Chill, beginning in the back or between the shoulders, between 5 and 6 p. m.; chill is preceded by thirst and relieved from application of heat to the back.

Better from heat, from eating.

Worse from open air, from uncovering.

Dullness of all senses. Awkwardness. Exceedingly changeable moods. Self will. Reproachful. Timidity. Inclination to be jocular and given to witticism. Homesickness, with red cheeks and sleepiness. Capricious, takes things in bad part.

Intoxication and reeling, especially during the chilly stage, and on awaking in the morning.

Throbbing ache in forehead or temples. Hysterical migraine., attacks of unilateral pressive headache, with qualmishness ending in vomiting Tearing head pains, mostly in forehead. Bursting headache during motion. Worse: Evening: moving head or eyes, cold, walking, stooping. Better: Continuous gentle motion in open air, warmth, lying with head high.

Dilated pupils. Dim vision. Progressive paralysis of the optic nerve.

Swelling behind. Diminution of hearing.

Nose - bleed, early in the morning in bed. Diminished sense of smell. Stuffed coryza with crawling in.

Hot, red, often alternating with paleness. Forthergill's prosopalgia, a benumbing pressure on zygoma, excited and worse by touch. Swollen, cracked lips.

Aphthae. Burning vesicles in. Bad odor from. Sore throat when not swallowing. Spasmodic constriction for throat.

Burning in, after eating. Swelling of pit.

Distension of, with pressive, tensive pain, which takes his breath. Flatulent colic.

Appetite: Immoderately ravenous hunger alternating with aversion to food. Thirstless.

Taste: Sour. Heartburn.

Nausea: Coming from stomach.

Of bloody mucus, with tenesmus. Nightly diarrhoea with burning in anus. Dysenteric.

Moist hemorrhoids with burning.

Urging of urinate with tenesmus of neck of bladder. Discharge of blood from urethra. Burning urination.

Purulent urethral gonorrhoea. Cold scrotum, with impotency.

Tight, as from fullness of chest. Tightness of chest, which seems to come from stomach. Involuntary forcible expirations. Inclination to take a deep breath. Bad smelling breath when coughing.

Violent, dry, with concomitant symptoms and pains in other parts, especially in ears and throat, in evening and at night.

Tearing pain in.

Pain in thigh.

Cracking and squeaking in joints. Stiffness and painfulness of all joints when beginning to walk. Averse to all motion. Very sensitive to cool air, especially to drafts. Persons of relaxed fibre and phlegmatic temperament. Many symptoms are worse after eating and drinking, reach their greatest intensity at the beginning of, and are better during continued motion. Lazy, fat and unclean.

Sleepless after midnight.

Pulse: Very irregular, often intermittent. Chill: Predominates, almost always with violent thirst. With shuddering, after every drink. With heat of face. In cold air, especially in drafts. Evening chill. Diminution of natural bodily heat. Feeling of a cold sweat on thighs. Heat: With coexistent sweat and thirst. Internal, with cold sweat on forehead. Heat and sweat first, then chill with shuddering and chattering teeth. Sweat: Accompanies the heat. After the chill, without previous heat.

Allied Remedies: Arn., CALAD., Cham., Chin., CINA, Ign., Merc., Nux-v., Puls.

Home-sickness with redness of cheeks and sleeplessness.

Phlegmatic temperament and laxness of the muscles.

Tendency to get fat.

Stiffness and painfulness of the joints when beginning to move.

Crackling of joints.

Cough with pain far from the chest.

Tearing drawing from above downward.

Stools of bloody mucus with tenesmus, burning of the anus, worse at night.

Aggravation in the evening, after eating and drinking, when beginning to move.

Amelioration after having moved about for some time.