(Cayenne Pepper)
Seems to suit especially persons of lax fiber,
weak; diminished vital heat. A relaxed plethoric sluggish, cold remedy. Not
much reactive force. Such persons are fat, indolent, opposed to physical
exertion, averse to go outside of their routine, get homesick easily.
General uncleanliness of body. Abstainers from accustomed
alcoholics. It affects the mucous membranes, producing a sensation of
constriction. Inflammation of petrous bone. Burning pains and
general chilliness. Older people who have exhausted their vitality,
especially by mental work, and poor living; blear eyed appearance; who do
not react. Fear of slightest draft. 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. | ||
| 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. Otorrhea 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. Gonorrhea, with
chordee, excessive burning, pain in prostate. | ||
| Female.
Climacteric disturbances with burning of tip of tongue. Uterine hemorrhage
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. Dyspnea. 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,
drafts. | ||
| Relationship.
Antidote: Cina Compare: Puls.; Lyc.; Bell. | ||
| Dose. Third to
sixth attenuation. In delirium tremens, dram doses of tincture in milk or
tincture of orange peel. |