Capsicum caps.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

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Region

MUCOUS MEMBRANES. THROAT. Kidneys. Bones. Mastoids.

Worse

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

Better

Continued motion.

General

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.

Particulars

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.

Related

Complementary: Nat-m. Related: Canth.

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Keynote

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).

Relations

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

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General

Affects the mucus tissues in a very prominent degree.

Mental

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

Head

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.

Throat

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.

Chest

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

Abdomen

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

Stool

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

Urine

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

Sexual

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.

Back

Drawing and tearing pain in spinal column.

Sleep

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

Fever

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.

Bones

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

Sensations

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.

Generalities

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

Remedies following

Bellad., Lycop., Pulsat., Silic.

Antidote

Cina.

Seven Hundred Red Line Symptoms from Materia Medica

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Red line symptom

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.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

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Common name

Cayenne Pepper (CAPSICUM)

General

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 disposition to 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). Otorrhœa 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; drawing pain 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. Gonorrhœa, with chordee, excessive burning, pain in prostate.

Female

Climacteric disturbances with burning of tip of tongue (Lathyrus). Uterine hæmorrhage 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. 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.

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.

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Leaders

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.

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Mind and Disposition

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

Head

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.

Eyes

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

Ears

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

Nose

Bleeding from the nose, in the morning in bed.

Face

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.

Mouth and Throat

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.

Appetite and Taste

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

Stomach and Abdomen

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

Stool and Anus

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

Urinary Organs

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.

Sexual Organs

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

Chest

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.

Generalities

Aversion to exercise. Phlegmatic temperament, and relaxed fibres.

Fever

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.

Skin

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

Conditions

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.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

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General

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

Clinical

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.

Characteristics

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.

Relations

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.

Mind

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.

Head

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.

Eyes

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.

Ears

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.

Nose

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

Face

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.

Teeth

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.

Mouth

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

Throat

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.

Appetite

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.

Stomach

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

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.

Stool and Anus

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).

Urinary Organs

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.

Male Sexual Organs

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.

Female Sexual Organs

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

Respiratory Organs

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.

Chest

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.

Neck and Back

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

Limbs

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.

Generalities

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.

Sleep

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

Fever

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.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

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Mind

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.

Sensorium

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

Inner head

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.

Outer head

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.

Sight and eyes

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.

Hearing and ears

Cannot bear noise. θ Intermittent fever.
Dull hearing, after previous burning and stinging in ear.
Catarrhal deafness.
Stitching pains in ears, with burning and stinging ; hardness of hearing.
A pressive pain in ear with every cough, as if an abscess would open. θ Pertussis.
A pressive pain very deep in ears.
Pressive, later an itching pain, deep in ear.
Aching in one or both ears when coughing.
Itching pain very deep in ear. θ Otitis.
Tympanum perforated, and cavity filled with thick, yellow pus. θ Otitis.
Tearing in concha of ear.
Ears very hot. θ Pertussis.
Tearing pain behind left ear.
Swelling behind ear, painful to touch.
Painful swelling behind ear ; periostitis and caries of mastoid process.
Deep-seated swelling under ear. θ Otitis.

Smell and nose

Diminished acuteness of smell.
Nosebleed in morning, in bed.
Bloody mucous discharge from nose, when coughing. θ Pertussis.
Collection of thick mucus in nose and throat. θ Scarlatina.
Stoppage of nose.
Coryza and influenza.
Crawling tickling in nose, as in stopped coryza.
Tingling, titillation in nose. θ Hoarseness. θ Coryza.
Sneezing, with roughness in throat. θ Scarlatina.
Tip of nose very hot and red, < towards evening. θ Pertussis.
Contractive jerking pains in left side of nose and above left eye.
Painful acne below nostrils.
Itching, with stitches in nose.
On coughing or sneezing, cutting in one or other limb.

Upper face

Increased heat of face.
Cheeks red, not hot, alternating with paleness. θ Scarlatina. θ Intermittent.
Pain in face, < from touch and in evening. θ Prosopalgia.
Pain in face, partly like bone pains, excited by external touch ; partly like fine pains, piercing the nerves, which are tormenting on falling asleep.
Pressure in zygoma, < from touch and in evening.
Faceache.
Neuralgia facialis. θ Fothergill's disease.
Swollen face, with toothache.
Painful quivering below right eyelid.
Red dots in face and herpes on forehead, with biting and itching.
Erythematous eruption on internal surface of cheeks, and on left side of face, with biting sensation as from salt.

Lower face

Lips : swollen ; cracked ; smarting ; burning. θ Diarrhœa. θ Scarlatina.
Burning, painful vesicles in mouth. θ Cancrum oris.
Acne about lips.

Teeth and gums

Teeth feel elongated and dull.
Drawing pain in teeth ; carious toothache with or without swelling of cheeks.
Teeth dirty and painful. θ Stomatitis.
Gums : hot, burning, swollen, inflamed and sensitive ; spongy, retracted from teeth. θ Stomatitis.

Taste, speech, tongue

Taste : sour ; flat, watery, followed by heartburn ; foul, like putrid water . θ Diarrhœa.
θ Intermittent. θ Dysentery.
When coughing, the air from lungs causes a strange, offensive taste in mouth.
Small burning blisters on tongue. θ Scarlatina.
Tongue and inside of lips full of flat, sensitive, spreading ulcers, with a lardaceous centre. θ Stomatitis.
Feeling of dryness of tongue without thirst.

Inner mouth

Fetid odor, unbearable, carrion-like. θ Stomacace.
Saliva : viscid, offensive, copious. θ Stomatitis. θ Scarlatina.
Salivation during chill. θ Intermittent.
Burning blisters in mouth. θ Scarlatina.
Small, flat, burning ulcers in mouth and fauces.
Tough mucus in mouth, or dryness.
Cancrum oris.

Palate and throat

Pain in upper part of fauces between acts of deglutition, as if parts were sore and were being spasmodically drawn together, as in waterbrash.
Burning soreness with ulcers on fauces. θ Angina faucium.
Painful pressure in hard and soft palate while swallowing. θ Scarlatina. θ Angina aphthosa.
Tough congealed mucus in posterior nares, on rising in morning, requiring much hawking to dislodge.
Uvula elongated, feels as if pressing on something hard.
Continuous stitches in throat, exciting dry, convulsive cough. θ Pertussis.
Stinging, causing night cough.
Continued stitching in throat, in region of epiglottis, causing a dry cough without relief.
Tonsillitis with burning, smarting pain.
Left tonsil inflamed ; right painful. θ Asthma.
Great soreness in throat, with smarting. θ Scarlatina.
Spasmodic contraction of throat. θ Angina faucium.
Constriction of throat, with burning ; whitish deposit. θ Scarlatina. θ Diphtheria.
Burning and other pains in throat < between acts of deglutition.
Pain in throat, only when coughing, as from a single swelling.
Pressive pain in throat, as if an abscess would break, during a paroxysm of coughing. θ Pertussis.
Sensation of roughness in throat.
Throat inflamed, dark red, burning, pressing.
Whitish spots in throat, with a red halo.
Inflammation of throat, dark purplish-red color of velum palati, right side, near eustachian tube, with most violent pains, causing anxiety ; salivation and thirst for cold water ; heat, with shuddering and cold finger-tips ; pulse unchanged ; < in morning and
towards evening.
Relaxed sore throat with cough ; subacute inflammation of throat, with dryness and smarting ; relaxed uvula of smokers and drinkers.
Pain on swallowing, as in inflammation of throat, but when not swallowing, drawing pain in throat.
Difficulty in swallowing, tongue furred ; haggard look.
Dysphagia paralytica.
Torpidity of fauces, pharynx and œsophagus.
Aphthous angina.
Tonsillitis.
Angina pharyngea maligna, gangrenosa.
Deposits covering a considerable portion of fauces, with smarting. θ Diphtheria.
In scarlatinal anginas with redness of face as in tipplers, small red spots in face, burning vesicles in mouth and on tongue.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Appetite increased, alternating with aversion to food and complete anorexia.
Thirstlessness, or intense thirst with abdominal uneasiness, but no tenderness on pressure.
Thirst, during fever only, for large quantities.
Thirstily, as the chill comes on. θ Intermittent.
Thirst after stool. θ Dysentery.
Desire for coffee, but it nauseates. θ Diarrhœa.
Dipsomania ; morning vomiting, sinking at stomach.

Eating and drinking

Food tastes sour. θ Diarrhœa.
Better while eating ; < after.
After eating : burning in stomach.
Vegetables cause flatulence.
Water causes : purging ; shuddering ; tenesmus and thin stool ; chills.
Drinking cold water > cough.
Nausea, and attacks of suffocation, after coffee, yet desire for it.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Belching, with stitch in side, while walking.
Heartburn ; waterbrash. θ Catarrh of stomach.
Nausea and vomiting, with headache.
Nervous, spasmodic vomiting.
Vomits phlegm, with chill. θ Intermittent.
Vomiting in malignant fevers. θ Yellow fever.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Pressing pain in scrobiculum.
Stitches in scrobiculum on breathing deeply, from talking and from touch.
Accumulation of mucus and acids in stomach.
Burning in stomach. θ Gastralgia. θ Colic.
Sensitiveness and aching in region of stomach and duodenum after colic. θ Dysentery.
Sensation as if cold water were in stomach.
Stomach icy cold, or burning in it.
Deranged stomach, with fever.
Dyspepsia from torpidity, particularly in old people.
Gastralgia and gastromalacia.

Hypochondria

"Catching" pain in region of liver, or in lower portion of right lung, with each cough. θ Pleuro-pneumonia.
Spleen sensitive, swollen, especially after abuse of quinine.
Painful enlargement of spleen. θ Intermittent.

Abdomen and loins

Burning or cutting pains in abdomen. θ Hemorrhoids.
Cutting and twisting pain in bowels, as from wind ; before stool. θ Dysentery.
Drawing and twisting in abdomen, with and without diarrhœa.
Peculiar feeling in abdomen, a sort of drawing ; he must bend double.
Colic, with cutting-twisting pain about navel, and passage of tough mucus, like diarrhœa, at times mixed with black blood ; after every stool, thirst, and after every drink, shivering.
Flatulence and wind-colic.
Abdomen distended to bursting. θ Dysentery.
Sore pains in abdomen and loins.
A tensive pain, extending from abdomen to chest, as from distension in abdomen ; cannot bear clothing.
A pressive tension in abdomen, especially in epigastric region, between pit of stomach and navel, < on motion, together with a pressive tension in lower portion of back.
Abdomen distended ; suffocative arrest of breathing. θ Dysentery. θ Cystitis.
Pain in inguinal region.
Hernia ventosa.

Stools and rectum

Stools : frequent, small, with tenesmus and burning in rectum and bladder ; bloody, mucous, shaggy ; greenish, frothy, < at night ; tenacious mucus, mixed with black blood.
Mucous diarrhœa with tenesmus.
Dysentery : tenesmus and strangury ; pain < from a current of air, even if warm.
After a drink, must go to stool, but was costive ; only a little mucus passed.
Before stool : cutting, flatulent colic, twisting pains about umbilicus.
During stool : tenesmus ; cutting and twisting.
After stool :tenesmus ; burning at anus ; thirst, drinking causes shuddering ; drawing pains in back.
Smarting and burning pain in anus and rectum. θ Diarrhœa. θ Dysentery.
Biting-stinging pain in anus, with diarrhœa-like stool.
Violent tenesmus. θ Dysentery.
Tenesmus of rectum and bladder at same time.
Hemorrhoids : burning as if pepper was sprinkled on them, swollen, itching, throbbing ; with sore feeling in anus ; bleeding or blind ; with mucous discharge ; with bloody, mucous stools ; with drawing pain in small of back and
cutting pain in abdomen.
Suppressed hemorrhoidal flow, causing melancholy.

Urinary organs

Renal pains, with or without calculi. θ Nephritis.
Burning in bladder. θ Dysentery. θ Gonorrhœa.
Colic, with spasm of bladder.
Burning in orifice of urethra, immediately before, during, and for a minute after urinating.
Stitches, as with needles, in forepart of urethra, when not urinating.
Pressure towards bladder, and some stitches extending from within outward in region of neck of bladder, while coughing, and some time afterwards.
Tenesmus vesicæ ; strangury. θ Dysentery.
Frequent, unsuccessful desire to urinate. θ Diarrhœa.
Frequent micturition, scalding, smarting, sticking pain in urethra, tenesmus and even chordee ; (as inflammation subsides discharge less and thinner). θ Gonorrhœa.
Burning, smarting after urination.
Burning-biting pain in urethra, after urinating.
Retention of urine, spasm of bladder. θ Cystitis, in horses.
Urine red, or bloody.
Inflammation of neck of bladder. θ Cystitis.
Purulent discharge from urethra, sometimes bleeding. θ Gonorrhœa.
Male Sexual Organs

Male sexual organs

Painful erections at night ; cream-like discharge from urethra ; burning, when urinating ; at other times cutting, stinging in urethra.
Discharge from urethra : purulent ; bloody, urethra painful to touch ; cream-like.
Gonorrhœa : second stage ; white discharge, like cream ; excessive sensibility of parts to contact ; chordee, which can only be appeased or subdued in cold water.
Protracted gleet.
Coldness of scrotum, and impotence ; dwindling of testicles and extinction of sexual instinct ; shrivelling of spermatic cords ; emaciation ; falling off of beard and weakness of sight.
Prepuce swollen.
Crampy, testicular pains after emissions.
Pain in prostate gland. θ Gonorrhœa.
Coldness of scrotum, in morning on walking.

Female sexual organs

Discharge of fetid mucus from vagina.
During menstruation : nausea ; pressure in epigastrium.
Disordered menstruation, with a pushing or sticking sensation in left ovarian region.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

During pregnancy : affections of ears ; heartburn, vomiting ; mucous diarrhœa ; hemorrhoids ; burning in anus.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Hoarseness from straining voice, in singers, preachers, etc.
Hoarseness, nose stopped up, throat feels rough. θ Scarlatina.
Excessive tingling and tickling in larynx, < after lying down, in evening. θ Pertussis.
Crawling and tickling in larynx and trachea, with a dry, hacking cough, in evening, after lying down.
Tickling sensitiveness in trachea, causing him to sneeze violently a few times.
Chronic sore throat. θ Bronchitis maligna.

Respiration

Exhalation from lungs, on coughing, causes a strong offensive taste in mouth.
Seems as if she could not get air deep enough into lungs.
Deep breathing, almost like a sigh. θ Pertussis.
Respiration slow.
Asthma : with red face, eructations, chest feels distended ; wheezing inspiration ; breathing < when moving about, ascending or walking.
Sibilant rales mostly left side posteriorly, during inspiration ; spongy sound during expiration ; constant dyspnœa ; oppression at bifurcation of bronchia, > from successful cough. θ Asthma.
Dyspnœa, which seems to rise from stomach, or from fulness of chest.

Cough

Painful cough.
Frequent dry, hacking cough.
Dry, hard evening cough, with pain in distant parts.
Evening and night cough, with hectic.
Nervous, spasmodic cough.
Cough in sudden paroxysms, convulses whole body.
Cough, with headache, as if head would fly to pieces.
Cries after coughing. θ Whooping cough.
With every explosive cough (and at no other time) there escape a volume of pungent, fetid air. θ Pleuro-pneumonia.
Coughing or sneezing causes a sudden pain in one or other of limbs.
Cough, with drawing from chest into neck.
Cough, with feeling of pulling upward from stomach, up chest to throat pit.
Stitches in suffering parts, with cough.
During cough : splitting pain in head ; drawing or stinging in sides of chest ; stitches in back and bladder ; pressive ulcerative pain in neck or ear ; bursting pain in head, chest and bladder ; escape of urine ; pressure about thighs ;
inclination to vomit, or vomiting ; offensive breath ; pain in knees or legs, ears and throat.
Cough < : after anger ; after warm drinks ; evening, night ; when lying ; after sharp winds ; dry, cold weather ; any draught, warm or cold.
Expectoration infrequent ; particularly in morning.
Sputa dirty brown, not rusty. θ Pleuro-pneumonia.

Inner chest and lungs

Stitches in side, particularly the left.
Pain in chest and back ; during heat. θ Intermittent.
Drawing in one or both sides of chest, up to neck. θ Pertussis.
Throbbing pain in chest.
Pain in chest when sitting, as if chest was too full and there was not room enough in it.
Pain as if chest was constricted, which arrests breathing and is < even on slight motion.
Hæmoptysis, with dyspnœa.
Pneumonia, complicated with bronchitis.
Pleuritic pains. θ Quotidian intermittent.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Pectoral anxiety.
Fatty degeneration of heart and atheroma in obese persons.
Pulse : irregular, often intermittent ; slow, intermitting.
Pulse full, strong, most frequent in evening. θ Dysentery.
Unusually violent pulsation of arteries of abdomen.
Clucking rapid pulsations in some of larger arteries.

Outer chest

Pains in sternum, with sweat, while walking.

Neck and back

Jerking-tearing pain in right cervical glands.
Glands of neck painful, swollen. θ Stomatitis.
Excruciating, tearing pains in back, extorting cries, cause him to double up, during chill. θ Intermittent.
Drawing-tearing pain in back and spine.
Shooting in back and chest. θ Cough.
Pain in sacrum and small of back. θ Hemorrhoids. θ Dysentery.
Pain in back continuing after stool. θ Diarrhœa.
Chilliness between scapulæ. θ Asthma.
Coldness beginning in back. θ Intermittent.
Sensation as if cold water was dropping down back. θ Intermittent.

Upper limbs

Drawing-tearing pain in arms.

Lower limbs

Shooting-tearing from hip to knee and foot, especially when coughing.
Sticking-tearing pain from hip joints to feet, especially on coughing.
Drawing pain in hip joint (pain like a stiff neck), < from touch and bending trunk backward.
Caries of right hip ; left leg atrophied and painful.
Tensive pain in knee.
An internal pain in left leg made up of drawing and stitching.
Single stitches in right great toe, produced by stamping foot.
Cold sweat on upper part of legs.
Cold feet.
Violent pains in left atrophic leg. θ Spinal curvature, with coxarthrocace.
Paralysis of lower extremities.

Limbs in general

Rheumatic pain in limbs. θ Cough.
Tearing in limbs ; they are drawn up during chill. θ Intermittent.
Weakness and heaviness of limbs, followed by trembling of upper limbs and knees ; hands refused to write.
Stiffness and painfulness of all joints on beginning to walk.
Pains in joints from taking cold.

Rest. position. motion

Rest : < darting pains in head ; < headache.
Lying : cough worse.
Lie down : great desire.
He shuns all motion.
Inclination to bend forward.
Moving : head, headache as if skull would split, and as if bruised ; asthma ; chilly ; joints stiff, crack on.
Talking : stitches in scrobiculum.
Walking : > darting pains in head ; head as if bruised ; asthma ; pains in sternum.
Ascending : asthma.

Nerves

All senses are more acute.
Great restlessness. θ Measles.
Want of bodily irritability.
Lack of reactive force, especially with fat people.
Great desire to lie down and sleep ; does not want to exert himself in the least. θ Angina faucium. θ Diphtheria.
Weak, exhausted ; vital forces sunken. θ Paralysis. θ Gangrene. θ Meteorism.
θ Typhus.
Staggering when walking.
Sciatica.
Paralysis of tongue, fauces, pharynx, œsophagus, stomach and intestinal canal.

Sleep

Great drowsiness after eating.
Yawning. θ Diarrhœa.
Constant desire to lie down and sleep. θ Sore throat.
Sleepless from emotions, from homesickness, or from cough.
Screaming in sleep. θ Pertussis.
Sleep full of dreams, restless. θ Pertussis.
Lethargy.
Sopor, with hospital gangrene.

Time

Remission during day and before midnight.
Night : painful erections.
Morning : in bed, nosebleed ; coldness of scrotum.
At 10.30 A. M. : chill.
At 11 A. M. : fever.
Evening : tip op nose very hot and red ; pain in face ; pressure in zygoma ; cough < ; pulse and strong ; chill ; bursting headache.

Temperature and weather

Shuns open air ; sedentary ; uncleanly ; chill in open air.
Dreads uncovering, even in hot stage.
Generally better in warmth.
Great sensitiveness to cool air, particularly a draught.
Elevated temperature of intestinal canal.
Cool air, especially a draught of air, becomes very unpleasant ; warmth of body becomes less and less and intolerance of a cool temperature greater and greater.
In proportion as coldness of body increases, low-spiritedness and contraction of pupils increase.
Heat of hands, but not of remaining portion of body.

Fever

Fever heat, with violent burning and headache.
Absence of thirst during heat. θ Intermittent.
Heat, followed by chill, with thirst.
Great sleepiness after fever ; could scarcely prevent herself from going to sleep ; especially after eating.
Heat lessened by motion.
Fever at 11 A. M. (following chill at 10.30 A. M.), lasting all night, with great thirst.
Skin cool, pulse slow, want of appetite. θ Dysentery.
Coldness over whole body ; limbs are cold without shivering.
Shivering and chilliness after every drink.
Chilly externally ; inwardly, burning.
Chill begins in back, with thirst, < after drinking, lessened when walking out of doors.
Chilly on moving.
Chill at 10.30 A. M., commencing between shoulders and running down back.
Evening chill.
Chilliness when airing the bed.
Chill in open air, particularly in a draught.
Thirst just before and during chill.
During chill, cold across chest, with a sensation as of water dropping down back.
During chill : anxiety, giddiness and dulness of head ; intolerance of noise ; cannot collect her thoughts and is awkward so that she runs into everything ; tearing pains in back and limbs, extorting cries and causing the patient to bend up ; > by
putting hot things to back.
Chill, followed by sweat ; or by heat, with sweat and thirst.
Sweat : violent, copious ; lessened by motion.
Sweat coming on soon after fever commences, and continuing with it.
Profuse sweat after fever, all night.
Intermittent, with torpidity of abdominal nervous centres and painful enlargement of spleen.
Intermittent fever, with predominance of chill, accompanied by thirst, without much heat.
Hectic fever after emotions, and in nostalgia.
Putrid typhus, with extreme prostration and black vomit.

Attacks, periodicity

Periodicity marked.
Chill spreads gradually until extreme points are reached, then as gradually declines. θ Intermittent.

Locality and direction

Shifting pains, which were very violent, now here, now there.
Right : frontal bone, drawing, tearing ; painful quivering under eye ; inflammation of throat ; catching pain in lung ; cervical glands, jerking tearing ; hip, caries ; great toe, stitches.
Left : side of head, drawing tearing ; side of face, erythematous eruption ; ovary pushing or stitching ; sibilant rales ; leg atrophied and painful.

Sensations

As if Cayenne pepper was sprinkled on parts.
Violent pains on various places ; now here, now there. θ Neuralgia of children.
Sensation as if parts would go to sleep.
Extreme lassitude ; all limbs feel bruised ; all limbs affected.
As if skull was bruised, on moving ; as if throat was sore and was being spasmodically drawn together ; as if chest was contracted ; as if cold water was dropping down back ; as if skull would spit ; as if brain was too full or head too large ; uvula feels
as if pressing on something hard ; as if cold water was in stomach ; as if pepper was sprinkled on hemorrhoids.
Burning : gums ; in throat ; in stomach ; in abdomen ; in rectum and bladder ; in anus ; in urethra ; after urinating ; in head ; in skin ; in breast and face ; blisters in mouth ; in eyes ; in ears ; in
lips ; over whole body.
Tearing : pain in right frontal bone ; in right cervical glands ; pain in back ; in arms ; in limbs ; behind left ear.
Darting pains ; in head.
Cutting : pain in bowels ; before stool ; in urethra ; forward from occiput.
Shooting : in back and chest ; from hip to knee and foot.
Stitches : as with needles in urethra ; left ovarian region ; with cough ; in back of bladder ; in side of chest ; breast and face ; through ear and over eye ; in vertex ; in nose ; in left leg ; in right great toe ; over whole
body.
Sticking : tearing pain from hip joints to foot ; in eyes ; in throat ; in urethra.
Stinging : in arms ; in urethra ; pain in head ; in ears ; in throat ; in chest.
Jerking : pain in right cervical glands ; in nose and above eye.
Jerking-tearing : in right cervical glands.
Drawing : pain in right frontal bone ; pain in teeth ; in abdomen ; in left leg ; in back ; in head ; in one or both sides of chest ; in back and spine ; in arms ; in hip joint ; tearing, left side of head ; in throat.
Smarting : in fauces ; in anus ; in lips ; in throat ; in urethra.
Biting : in arms ; itching, on hairy scalp ; of herpes on face.
Biting-stinging pain : in anus.
Scalding pain : in urethra.
Soreness : in throat.
Sore pain : in urethra.
Splitting : in head.
Bursting : in head.
Tenesmus : of rectum and bladder.
Pressive : pain in throat ; in scrobiculum ; tension in abdomen ; pain in neck or ear ; in forehead and temples ; in eyes.
Pressure : towards bladder ; in epigastrium ; about thighs ; in zygoma.
Pushing : in left ovarian region.
Pulling : upward from stomach.
Twisting : pain in bowels ; in abdomen.
Catching pain : in region of liver.
Aching : in ears.
Tensive : pain extending from abdomen to chest ; in knee.
Rheumatic : pains in limbs.
Pain : in prostate gland ; in chest ; in sacrum ; in back ; in joints ; drawing stitching in left leg ; in inguinal region ; knees or legs ; ears and throat.
Painful : enlargement of spleen.
Throbbing : headache in forehead ; pain in chest ; of hemorrhoids.
Trembling : upper limbs and knees.
Crampy : testicular pains after emissions.
Constriction : of throat.
Distended : chest feels.
Elongated : teeth feel.
Heaviness : of limbs.
Empty, stupid feeling : in head.
Weakness : of limbs.
Roughness : in throat.
Hot : gums.
Heat : increase of, in face ; followed by chill and thirst.
Coldness : of scrotum, in morning, on waking ; beginning in back ; over whole body.
Chilliness : between scapulæ ; shivering after every drink.
Chilly : externally on moving.
Tingling : in larynx.
Tickling : in larynx ; in nose.
Crawling : in larynx ; in nose.
Itching : breast and face ; deep in ear ; hemorrhoids ; over whole body.
Dryness : on tongue.

Tissues

Irritation and inflammation of mucous linings.
Relaxed fibre : obesity.
Joints : crack ; stiff, painful on beginning to move ; pain, as if paralyzed.
Chronic muscular rheumatism in patients of sedentary habits.
Gout, stiffness, painfulness and cracking of joints.
Glandular swellings ; scrofula.
Marasmus.
Dropsy, with torpidity.
Seasickness ; cholera ; cachexia Africana ; yellow fever ; typhus ictorodes.
Intermittent fever.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Worse from touch ; skin sensitive, with many internal ailments.
Seasickness.
Touch : pains in face < ; excited by ; urethra painful to.

Skin

Burning in skin.
Stitching, burning, itching over whole body, < on breast and face.
Skin bloated, flabby.
Formication.
Itching < from scratching.
Acne rosacea.
Scarlet eruption on neck and breast, face of extreme redness, sometimes alternating with a mottled appearance ; lips swollen and cracked, burning blisters in mouth and on tongue ; saliva very slimy and little increased in quantity ; tickling and
roughness in throat, with sneezing and a hacking cough. θ Scarlatina.
Herpetic-like eruption on forehead, on face itching-burning.
Herpes.
Scrofulous ulcers ; carbuncle.

Stage of life, constitution

Light hair, blue eyes.
Frequently indicated in persons of lax fibre and muscles, less frequently in those of tense fibre.
Nervous, but full habit.
Phlegmatic, awkward, easily offended ; indolent, melancholic ; lack of reaction. θ Gastric troubles.
Lazy, fat, unclean persons who dread open air.
Children who are always chilly, refractory, clumsy.
Gouty individuals.
Hemorrhoidal constitutions.
Blonde girl, æt. 17 ; asthma.
Woman, æt. 67, nervous temperament and full habit ; pleuro-pneumonia.

Relations

Antidoted by : Calad., Camphor., Cina, Cinchon., Sulph. ac ., or vapor of burning sulphur (sensation as if parts had "gone to sleep").
It antidotes : effects of alcohol, coffee, opium, quinine (fevers after abuse of), manihot (cold feeling in limbs, muscles lame, swelling of belly).
Compatible : Bellad., Lycop., Pulsat., Silica .
Compare : Arnic ., Bellad . (headache, etc.), Bryon . (headache, cough, etc.), Calad., Chelidon., Cina, Cinchon., Crot. tig . (after drinking
urging to stool), Helleb . (colic with spasm of bladder), Ignat., Lycop., Natr. carb . (tenesmus of rectum and bladder), Nux vom ., Pulsat ., Silica,
Stramon., Veratr. and Viola od .

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

James Tyler Kent · Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Séror HTML text (Kent d. 1916; public domain)

Lecture

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.

Mind

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.

Head

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.

Ears

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.

Nose

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.

Face

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.

Abdomen

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.

The Therapeutics of Fevers

H. C. Allen · The Therapeutics of Fevers · 1902 Library of Congress printing (Allen d. 1909; public domain)

Characteristic

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.

Relations

Cina follows well in intermittent fever.

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

Compare : Carbo an., Ign.

Aggravation

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

Amelioration

Warmth; during the day.

Type

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

Time

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.

Prodrome

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.

Chill

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.

Heat

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.

Sweat

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.

Tongue

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.

Apyrexia

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.

Analysis

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.