CAPSICUM

CAPSICUM. [Capsic.] Cayenne or red Pepper. Hahnemann. Solanaceae.

► 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. ► Diarrhoea 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 vesicae with small diarrhoeic 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 vesicae ; 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. ► Gonorrhoea. ► 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 diarrhoea ; 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 dyspnoea ; 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.