CAPSICUM ANNUUM

Capsicum Annuum

(Cayenne Pepper)

Caps.

Suited for individuals with weak vitality, sluggishness, and coldness. Beneficial for those who are overweight, inactive, avoid physical exertion, and get homesick easily. Common in people with poor hygiene and those who have stopped drinking alcohol. Affects mucous membranes, causing a constricted feeling. Induces inflammation of the petrous bone, burning pains, and general chilliness. Often helps older people who are exhausted, especially from mental work or poor living conditions, who show no reaction to stimuli and fear slight drafts. Tends to cause suppuration in inflammations, prostration, and weak digestion in alcoholics. Symptoms include myalgia, muscle aches, and jerks.

Mind:
Excessive irritability, homesickness with insomnia, suicidal tendencies, desire for solitude, irritable disposition, and delirium tremens.

Head:
Bursting headache worsened by coughing, hot face, red cheeks, and a cold yet red face.

Ears:
Burning and stinging sensations, swelling and pain behind ears, mastoid inflammation, extreme tenderness over the petrous bone, otorrhea, and pre-suppurative mastoid disease.

Mouth:
Herpes labialis, stomatitis, unpleasant mouth odor, and halitosis.

Throat:
Hot sensation, subacute eustachian tube inflammation with pain, sore and dry throat extending to the ears, sore throat in smokers and drinkers, smarting, and burning constriction worsened between swallowing acts. Inflamed and swollen uvula and palate.

Stomach:
Burning at the tongue tip, atonic dyspepsia, flatulence, intense craving for stimulants, vomiting, sinking sensation at the stomach pit, marked thirst but shuddering upon drinking.

Stool:
Bloody mucus with burning and tenesmus, back pain after stool, thirst and shivering post-stool, bleeding piles, and stinging pain during stool.

Urinary:
Strangury, frequent but ineffective urging, burning at the orifice, spasmodic contraction of bladder neck, and ectropion of the meatus.

Male:
Cold scrotum with impotence, atrophied and insensitive testicles, gonorrhea with excessive burning and pain in the prostate.

Female:
Climacteric disturbances with tongue tip burning, uterine hemorrhage near menopause with nausea, and sticking sensation in the left ovarian region.

Respiratory:
Chest constriction, hoarseness, apex heart pain or rib pain worsened by touch, dry hacking cough, dyspnea, explosive cough, gangrene threat in lungs, and distant pain on coughing.

Extremities:
Pain from hips to feet, sciatica worsened by bending backward and coughing, and knee tensive pain.

Fever:
Coldness with ill humor, shivering post-drinking, chills starting in the back, improved by heat, needing hot items on the back, and thirst before chills.

Modalities:
Improved by eating and heat. Worsened by open air, uncovering, and drafts.

Relationship:
Antidotes: Cina, Caladium. Comparable to Pulsatilla, Lycopodium, Belladonna, and Centaurea tagana.

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