CAPSICUM ANNUUM

Homeopathic Materia Medica & Symptoms

Boericke's Materia Medica

  • lax fiber
  • weakness
  • diminished vital heat
  • relaxed
  • plethoric
  • sluggish
  • cold
  • not much reactive force
  • fat
  • indolent
  • opposed to physical exertion
  • averse to routine
  • homesick easily
  • general uncleanliness
  • abstainers from alcohol
  • constriction sensation
  • inflammation of petrous bone
  • burning pains
  • general chilliness
  • exhausted vitality
  • blear-eyed appearance
  • fear of draught
  • suppuration tendency
  • prostration
  • feeble digestion
  • myalgia
  • aching muscles
  • jerking muscles
  • excessive peevishness
  • sleeplessness
  • disposition to suicide
  • wants to be let alone
  • peppery disposition
  • delirium tremens
  • bursting headache
  • worse coughing
  • hot face
  • red cheeks
  • burning in ears
  • stinging in ears
  • swelling behind ears
  • pain behind ears
  • inflammation of mastoid
  • tenderness over petrous bone
  • soreness to touch over petrous bone
  • otorrhea
  • mastoid disease
  • hot feeling in fauces
  • subacute inflammation of Eustachian tube
  • great pain in Eustachian tube
  • pain in throat extending to ears
  • dryness in throat extending to ears
  • sore throat of smokers
  • sore throat of drinkers
  • smarting in throat
  • constriction in throat
  • burning constriction in throat
  • worse between acts of deglutition
  • inflamed uvula
  • inflamed palate
  • swollen uvula
  • swollen palate
  • relaxed uvula
  • relaxed palate
  • herpes labialis
  • stomatitis
  • disagreeable smell from mouth
  • fetid odor from mouth
  • burning in tip of tongue
  • atonic dyspepsia
  • much flatulence
  • intense craving for stimulants
  • vomiting
  • sinking at pit of stomach
  • much thirst
  • shuddering from drinking
  • bloody mucus in stool
  • burning in stool
  • tenesmus
  • drawing pain in back after stool
  • thirst after stool
  • shivering after stool
  • bleeding piles
  • soreness of anus
  • stinging pain during stool
  • strangury
  • frequent urging to urinate
  • ineffectual urging to urinate
  • burning in orifice of urethra
  • urine comes in drops then spurts
  • spasmodically contracted neck of bladder
  • ectropion of meatus
  • coldness of scrotum
  • impotency
  • atrophied testicles
  • loss of sensibility in testicles
  • softening of testicles
  • dwindling of testicles
  • gonorrhea
  • chordee
  • excessive burning in gonorrhea
  • pain in prostate
  • climacteric disturbances
  • burning of tip of tongue in menopause
  • uterine hemorrhage near menopause
  • nausea near menopause
  • sticking sensation in left ovarian region
  • constriction of chest
  • arrests breathing
  • hoarseness
  • pain at apex of heart
  • pain in rib region
  • worse touch
  • dry hacking cough
  • 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
  • pain in bladder on coughing
  • pain in legs on coughing
  • pain in ears on coughing
  • pain from hips to feet
  • sciatica
  • worse bending backward
  • worse coughing in sciatica
  • tensive pain in knee
  • coldness with ill-humor
  • shivering after drinking
  • chill begins in back
  • better heat
  • must have something hot to back
  • thirst before chill

Allen's Keynotes

  • persons with light hair, blue eyes, nervous but stout and plethoric habit
  • phlegmatic diathesis; lack of reactive force, especially with fat people, easily exhausted; indolent, dreads any kind of exercise; persons inclined to be jovial, yet angry at trifles
  • children; dread open air; always chilly; refractory, clumsy, fat, dirty, and disinclined to work or think
  • desires to be let alone; wants to lie down and sleep; homesickness, with red cheeks and sleeplessness
  • constriction: in fauces; throat; nares; chest; bladder; urethra; rectum
  • burning and smarting sensation, as from cayenne pepper, in throat and other parts, not better by heat
  • tonsillitis: with burning, smarting pain; intense soreness; constriction of throat with burning; inflamed, dark red, swollen
  • burning spasmodic constriction and other pains, worse between acts of deglutition
  • painful swelling behind ear, extremely sore and sensitive to touch
  • every stool is followed by thirst and every drink by shuddering
  • as the coldness of the body increases, so also does the ill-humor
  • nervous, spasmodic cough; in sudden paroxysms; as if head would fly to pieces
  • with every explosive cough there escapes a volume of pungent, fetid air
  • pain in distant parts on coughing

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