Capsicum Annuum

▲   GENERAL

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 draft. Marked tendency to suppuration in every inflammatory process. Prostration and feeble digestion of alcoholics. Myalgia, aching and jerking of muscles.

▲   MODALITIES ETC

Worse

BETTER, while eating, from heat. WORSE, open air, uncovering, drafts.

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

Compare

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

Antidotes

Antidote: Cina ^Cina; Caladium Seguinum ^Calad.

▲   MIND

Mind

Excessive peevishness

Homesickness, with sleeplessness and disposition to suicide

Wants to be let alone

Peppery disposition

Delirium tremens.

Excitement; ailments from emotional excitement

Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition

irritability; during chill

sensitive, oversensitive; to noise; during chill

Home-sickness (see desires home)

Insecure, uncertain, scared; frightened easily; starting, startled

▲   HEAD

Head

Hot face

Red cheeks

Face red, though cold ( Asafetida.)

Headache

Bursting headache; worse, coughing

Pain, headache

on coughing

in forehead

bursting; on coughing

sore bruised, sensitive to pressure; while walking

▲   EARS

Ear

Burning and stinging in ears

Swelling and pain behind ears

inflammation of mastoid

tenderness over the petrous bone; extremely sore and tender to touch ( Onosmod.) Otorrhoea and mastoid disease before suppuration.

Bones threatening to decay

the part of the skull sticking out slightly, behind the ear (mastoid process)

skull, above ear

Pain; soreness; behind

Swelling; behind

Hearing

Too sensitive

during chill

during heat

to noises; while perspiring

▲   FACE

Face

Skin

discoloration; red

discoloration; red; without fever

▲   NOSE

Nose

Discharge from nose

thick and sticky, tough; from behind nostrils

behind nostrils (see catarrh)

Discharge

Running or blocked nose (coryza); blocked

▲   MOUTH

Mouth

Herpes labialis ( Apply one drop of the mother tincture.) Stomatitis

Fetid odor from mouth.

Odour (halitosis, bad breath); offensive; during cough

Saliva

Dryness

Saliva; mucus, slime; thick and sticky

Taste

Disagreeable smell from mouth

Taste; putrid

▲   THROAT

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.

Discoloration; redness

Inflammation

Pain

on coughing

when not swallowing

burning

pressing

Voice

hoarseness

hoarseness; overuse of the voice

hoarseness; from talking

▲   CHEST

Respiration

Constriction of chest; arrests breathing

Hoarseness

Pain at apex of heart or in rib region, worse touch

Dry, hacking cough, expelling an offensive breath from lungs

Dyspnoea

Feels as if chest and head would fly to pieces

Explosive cough

Threatening gangrene of lung

Pain in distant parts on coughing - bladder, legs, ears, etc.

Deep

▲   COUGH

Cough

Evening

From emotions; nervous

▲   SKIN

Skin

Itching; scratching

▲   BACK AND NECK

Back

Coldness

dorsal (shoulder level); between shoulder blades

Pain; when beginning to move

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Stomach; Burning in tip of tongue

Atonic dyspepsia

Intense craving for stimulants

Much thirst; but drinking causes shuddering.

Pain

burning

pulling

Bladder

pain; aching

pain; burning

retention of urine (see urination delayed); after exertion

urge to urinate, but producing nothing; during stool

Stomach

coldness

coldness; icy

desires, cravings; alcoholic drinks

thirst; during chill

thirst; after stool

Flatus

Much flatulence, especially in debilitated subjects

Vomiting

Vomiting, sinking at pit of stomach

Stomach; vomiting; morning

▲   RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Rectum

Diarrhoea; in cold air; drafts

Dysentery

Pain

burning; during diarrhoea

burning; in dysentery

urge to stool, or urinate, but producing nothing; with pain in bladder

urge to stool, or urinate, but producing nothing; during dysentery

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.

Bloody

Frequent

Mucous, slimy

Small (see long and narrow)

▲   GENITALS ETC

Urine

Strangury, frequent, almost ineffectual urging

Burning in orifice

Comes first in drops, then in spurts; neck of bladder spasmodically contracted

Ectropion of meatus.

Urethra

Male; erections; painful (see urethra)

Urethra (urinary part of genitals); painful during erection

discharge; like cream

Male

Male; Coldness of scrotum, with impotency, atrophied testicles, loss of sensibility in testicles, with softening and dwindling

Womb

Lathyrus.) Uterine hemorrhage near the menopause, with nausea

Genitals

Gonorrhoea, with chordee, excessive burning, pain in prostate.

Female; Climacteric disturbances with burning of tip of tongue

Sticking sensation in left ovarian region.

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Pain from hips to feet

Sciatica, worse bending backward; Worse, coughing

Tensive pain in the knee.

Cracking noise in joints

Pain; joints; paralytic

▲   FEVER AND CHILL

Fever and chill

Coldness, with ill-humor

Shivering after drinking

Chill begins in back; better, heat

Must have something hot to back

Thirst before chill.

Open air

exercise in open air

On going into the cold air

From the least draft of air

Beginning in particular area

back

back; between the shoulder blades

Drinking

During movement

Periodic, recurring; recurring every third day

With perspiration; after chill

With fever, but chill predominating

Shaking, shivering, rigors; on drinking

Warmth; external warmth

In warmth; in warm weather

Shivering from drinking cold water

Hectic fever

Movement

Perspiration with heat

With shivering; from drinking

Stages of chill, heat and sweat

chill followed by heat

chill then sweat, without intervening heat

▲   GENERALITIES

Sleep and dreams

Sleeplessness, insomnia

night; after midnight

night; from homesickness

Perspiration

Movement

Generalities

Evening

Change of position

Flabby feeling

Lack of irritability

Lying down; lying down

Movement

at beginning of movement

of affected part

continued movement

Obesity

Pain; tearing; downward

Lack of reaction

Relaxation of muscles

Symptoms not symmetrical; left

While sitting

On first sitting down

Swelling; puffy

Temperature (felt and effects of temperature); cold in general

Uncleanliness

Walking; beginning of walk

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