Materia Medica de A a Z

CAPSICUM ANNUUM (Caps)

Region

MUCOUS MEMBRANES. THROAT. Kidneys. Bones. Mastoids.

Worse

SLIGHT DRAFTS. COLD (AIR. Water.) Uncovering. Dampness. Bathing. Empty swallowing. Drinking (agg. throat, or excites urination). Eating. Drunkards.

Better

Continued motion.

General

Lax, lazy fat, red (Asaf), clumsy, unclean persons (Sulph), 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. (All-c)]. Neuralgias. Deep abscess. Foul secretions..................... Changeable. Capricious. Homesick. Splitting headache, amel. 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; agg. drinking. Dysentery. Urging to urinate. Strangury. Thick, white, creamy gonorrhoa. 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.

Complementary: Nat-m.

Related: Canth.