Capsicum. (Capsicum Annuum.)
By Constantine Hering — The Guiding Symptoms of our Materia Medica
Cayenne or red pepper. Solanaceæ.
This plant is cultivated abundantly almost everywhere.
The stem is smooth, thick and branching, rising to the height of two or three feet ; leaves are ovate and pointed ; flowers are solitary and white, standing on long peduncles ; the fruit is a pendulous pod, containing numerous flat, kidney-shaped, buff- colored seeds.
In purchasing the dry capsules and seeds as imported, from which tincture is prepared, care must be taken to avoid confusion with the smaller pods sold under the same name, and as Chillies a name applied to two or three species.
Hahnemann prepared a tincture of the powdered ripe pods, with the seeds, in the proportion of 20 grains of the powder to 400 drops of alcohol.
MIND [1]
Coma and delirium. θ Typhus. θ Yellow fever.
Forgetfulness.
Children become clumsy, awkward ; especially with headache.
Cloudiness of intellect ; idiocy, melancholy, hypochondriasis.
Haunted by a disposition to suicide.
He is taciturn, peevish and obstinate.
Disinclination to think and work.
He is in a contented mood, is jocose, and sings, and still he becomes angry from the slightest cause.
Homesickness : with red cheeks and sleeplessness ; with hot feeling in fauces.
Melancholy or hypochondriasis.
Fear of censure.
Fearfulness.
Awakens with fright, screams, and remains full of fear.
Anxiety and fear, as though he was going to die.
Peevish, irritable, angry ; easily offended, takes everything in bad part.
Obstinacy.
After emotions, fever, with red cheeks.
SENSORIUM [2]
Intoxication.
Vertigo : reeling from side to side ; with hypochondriasis and torpid digestion ; during cold stage of intermittent fever.
Senses obtuse.
INNER HEAD [3]
Empty, stupid feeling in head.
Darting pains in head ; < at rest ; > walking.
Headache, as if skull would split, when moving head, walking, or coughing.
A bursting headache, or feeling as if brain was too full, or head too large.
Bursting headache in evening, > from lying with head high.
Bursting pain and throbbing in head. θ Pertussis. θ Intermittent fever.
Headache as if skull was bruised, on moving head and on walking.
Throbbing headache in forehead and temples.
Pressing headache in forehead and temples.
Constant pressive headache in forehead, above root of nose, with stitches through ear and over eye.
Pressing headache in forehead, as though a pressure from occiput would force the brain out through forehead, accompanied by cutting pain coming forward from occiput.
Pressive headache with nausea and vomiting.
Drawing tearing in left side of head.
Violent, deeply penetrating stitches in vertex.
A headache, more stitching than tearing ; < during rest ; > on motion.
Headache during chill. θ Intermittent.
Chronic headache with absence of perspiration.
Megrim and hysterical cephalalgia.
Brain symptoms in measles.
OUTER HEAD [4]
Head seems too large.
Drawing, tearing pain in right frontal bone.
Skull feels bruised, on moving head, or walking.
Tinea capitis.
Chilliness of scalp, followed by burning itching of integuments of skull, > from scratching.
Biting itching on hairy scalp, as from lice, compelling him to scratch ; after scratching roots of hair and scalp feel painful, as though hair was being pulled out.
Sweat on forehead ; cold sweat on forehead, with sensation of fainting.
Swelling on mastoid process behind ear, painful to contact.
Periostitis and caries of mastoid process.
SIGHT AND EYES [5]
Flickering before eyes, with headache.
Objects appear black ; dim vision ; amblyopia amaurotica.
Burning in eyes, with redness and lachrymation.
Pressing pain in eyes, as from a foreign body.
Inflammation of eyes, with relaxation of external and internal coats.
Pupils markedly dilated or contracted.
Fine sticking pain in eyes.
Eyes very prominent, with paleness of face.
Pressure in eyelids, so that he cannot open them far enough.
Painful quivering under right eyelid.
Eyes > after rubbing.
Eyes protrude from sockets, with burning and lachrymation. θ Pertussis.
HEARING AND EARS [6]
Cannot bear noise. θ Intermittent fever.
Dull hearing, after previous burning and stinging in ear.
Catarrhal deafness.
Stitching pains in ears, with burning and stinging ; hardness of hearing.
A pressive pain in ear with every cough, as if an abscess would open. θ Pertussis.
A pressive pain very deep in ears.
Pressive, later an itching pain, deep in ear.
Aching in one or both ears when coughing.
Itching pain very deep in ear. θ Otitis.
Tympanum perforated, and cavity filled with thick, yellow pus. θ Otitis.
Tearing in concha of ear.
Ears very hot. θ Pertussis.
Tearing pain behind left ear.
Swelling behind ear, painful to touch.
Painful swelling behind ear ; periostitis and caries of mastoid process.
Deep-seated swelling under ear. θ Otitis.
SMELL AND NOSE [7]
Diminished acuteness of smell.
Nosebleed in morning, in bed.
Bloody mucous discharge from nose, when coughing. θ Pertussis.
Collection of thick mucus in nose and throat. θ Scarlatina.
Stoppage of nose.
Coryza and influenza.
Crawling tickling in nose, as in stopped coryza.
Tingling, titillation in nose. θ Hoarseness. θ Coryza.
Sneezing, with roughness in throat. θ Scarlatina.
Tip of nose very hot and red, < towards evening. θ Pertussis.
Contractive jerking pains in left side of nose and above left eye.
Painful acne below nostrils.
Itching, with stitches in nose.
On coughing or sneezing, cutting in one or other limb.
UPPER FACE [8]
Increased heat of face.
Cheeks red, not hot, alternating with paleness. θ Scarlatina. θ Intermittent.
Pain in face, < from touch and in evening. θ Prosopalgia.
Pain in face, partly like bone pains, excited by external touch ; partly like fine pains, piercing the nerves, which are tormenting on falling asleep.
Pressure in zygoma, < from touch and in evening.
Faceache.
Neuralgia facialis. θ Fothergill's disease.
Swollen face, with toothache.
Painful quivering below right eyelid.
Red dots in face and herpes on forehead, with biting and itching.
Erythematous eruption on internal surface of cheeks, and on left side of face, with biting sensation as from salt.
LOWER FACE [9]
Lips : swollen ; cracked ; smarting ; burning. θ Diarrhœa. θ Scarlatina.
Burning, painful vesicles in mouth. θ Cancrum oris.
Acne about lips.
TEETH AND GUMS [10]
Teeth feel elongated and dull.
Drawing pain in teeth ; carious toothache with or without swelling of cheeks.
Teeth dirty and painful. θ Stomatitis.
Gums : hot, burning, swollen, inflamed and sensitive ; spongy, retracted from teeth. θ Stomatitis.
TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE [11]
Taste : sour ; flat, watery, followed by heartburn ; foul, like putrid water . θ Diarrhœa. θ Intermittent. θ Dysentery.
When coughing, the air from lungs causes a strange, offensive taste in mouth.
Small burning blisters on tongue. θ Scarlatina.
Tongue and inside of lips full of flat, sensitive, spreading ulcers, with a lardaceous centre. θ Stomatitis.
Feeling of dryness of tongue without thirst.
INNER MOUTH [12]
Fetid odor, unbearable, carrion-like. θ Stomacace.
Saliva : viscid, offensive, copious. θ Stomatitis. θ Scarlatina.
Salivation during chill. θ Intermittent.
Burning blisters in mouth. θ Scarlatina.
Small, flat, burning ulcers in mouth and fauces.
Tough mucus in mouth, or dryness.
Cancrum oris.
PALATE AND THROAT [13]
Pain in upper part of fauces between acts of deglutition, as if parts were sore and were being spasmodically drawn together, as in waterbrash.
Burning soreness with ulcers on fauces. θ Angina faucium.
Painful pressure in hard and soft palate while swallowing. θ Scarlatina. θ Angina aphthosa.
Tough congealed mucus in posterior nares, on rising in morning, requiring much hawking to dislodge.
Uvula elongated, feels as if pressing on something hard.
Continuous stitches in throat, exciting dry, convulsive cough. θ Pertussis.
Stinging, causing night cough.
Continued stitching in throat, in region of epiglottis, causing a dry cough without relief.
Tonsillitis with burning, smarting pain.
Left tonsil inflamed ; right painful. θ Asthma.
Great soreness in throat, with smarting. θ Scarlatina.
Spasmodic contraction of throat. θ Angina faucium.
Constriction of throat, with burning ; whitish deposit. θ Scarlatina. θ Diphtheria.
Burning and other pains in throat < between acts of deglutition.
Pain in throat, only when coughing, as from a single swelling.
Pressive pain in throat, as if an abscess would break, during a paroxysm of coughing. θ Pertussis.
Sensation of roughness in throat.
Throat inflamed, dark red, burning, pressing.
Whitish spots in throat, with a red halo.
Inflammation of throat, dark purplish-red color of velum palati, right side, near eustachian tube, with most violent pains, causing anxiety ; salivation and thirst for cold water ; heat, with shuddering and cold finger-tips ; pulse unchanged ; < in morning and towards evening.
Relaxed sore throat with cough ; subacute inflammation of throat, with dryness and smarting ; relaxed uvula of smokers and drinkers.
Pain on swallowing, as in inflammation of throat, but when not swallowing, drawing pain in throat.
Difficulty in swallowing, tongue furred ; haggard look.
Dysphagia paralytica.
Torpidity of fauces, pharynx and œsophagus.
Aphthous angina.
Tonsillitis.
Angina pharyngea maligna, gangrenosa.
Deposits covering a considerable portion of fauces, with smarting. θ Diphtheria.
In scarlatinal anginas with redness of face as in tipplers, small red spots in face, burning vesicles in mouth and on tongue.
APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS [14]
Appetite increased, alternating with aversion to food and complete anorexia.
Thirstlessness, or intense thirst with abdominal uneasiness, but no tenderness on pressure.
Thirst, during fever only, for large quantities.
Thirstily, as the chill comes on. θ Intermittent.
Thirst after stool. θ Dysentery.
Desire for coffee, but it nauseates. θ Diarrhœa.
Dipsomania ; morning vomiting, sinking at stomach.
EATING AND DRINKING [15]
Food tastes sour. θ Diarrhœa.
Better while eating ; < after.
After eating : burning in stomach.
Vegetables cause flatulence.
Water causes : purging ; shuddering ; tenesmus and thin stool ; chills.
Drinking cold water > cough.
Nausea, and attacks of suffocation, after coffee, yet desire for it.
HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING [16]
Belching, with stitch in side, while walking.
Heartburn ; waterbrash. θ Catarrh of stomach.
Nausea and vomiting, with headache.
Nervous, spasmodic vomiting.
Vomits phlegm, with chill. θ Intermittent.
Vomiting in malignant fevers. θ Yellow fever.
SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH [17]
Pressing pain in scrobiculum.
Stitches in scrobiculum on breathing deeply, from talking and from touch.
Accumulation of mucus and acids in stomach.
Burning in stomach. θ Gastralgia. θ Colic.
Sensitiveness and aching in region of stomach and duodenum after colic. θ Dysentery.
Sensation as if cold water were in stomach.
Stomach icy cold, or burning in it.
Deranged stomach, with fever.
Dyspepsia from torpidity, particularly in old people.
Gastralgia and gastromalacia.
HYPOCHONDRIA [18]
"Catching" pain in region of liver, or in lower portion of right lung, with each cough. θ Pleuro-pneumonia.
Spleen sensitive, swollen, especially after abuse of quinine.
Painful enlargement of spleen. θ Intermittent.
ABDOMEN AND LOINS [19]
Burning or cutting pains in abdomen. θ Hemorrhoids.
Cutting and twisting pain in bowels, as from wind ; before stool. θ Dysentery.
Drawing and twisting in abdomen, with and without diarrhœa.
Peculiar feeling in abdomen, a sort of drawing ; he must bend double.
Colic, with cutting-twisting pain about navel, and passage of tough mucus, like diarrhœa, at times mixed with black blood ; after every stool, thirst, and after every drink, shivering.
Flatulence and wind-colic.
Abdomen distended to bursting. θ Dysentery.
Sore pains in abdomen and loins.
A tensive pain, extending from abdomen to chest, as from distension in abdomen ; cannot bear clothing.
A pressive tension in abdomen, especially in epigastric region, between pit of stomach and navel, < on motion, together with a pressive tension in lower portion of back.
Abdomen distended ; suffocative arrest of breathing. θ Dysentery. θ Cystitis.
Pain in inguinal region.
Hernia ventosa.
STOOLS AND RECTUM [20]
Stools : frequent, small, with tenesmus and burning in rectum and bladder ; bloody, mucous, shaggy ; greenish, frothy, < at night ; tenacious mucus, mixed with black blood.
Mucous diarrhœa with tenesmus.
Dysentery : tenesmus and strangury ; pain < from a current of air, even if warm.
After a drink, must go to stool, but was costive ; only a little mucus passed.
Before stool : cutting, flatulent colic, twisting pains about umbilicus.
During stool : tenesmus ; cutting and twisting.
After stool :tenesmus ; burning at anus ; thirst, drinking causes shuddering ; drawing pains in back.
Smarting and burning pain in anus and rectum. θ Diarrhœa. θ Dysentery.
Biting-stinging pain in anus, with diarrhœa-like stool.
Violent tenesmus. θ Dysentery.
Tenesmus of rectum and bladder at same time.
Hemorrhoids : burning as if pepper was sprinkled on them, swollen, itching, throbbing ; with sore feeling in anus ; bleeding or blind ; with mucous discharge ; with bloody, mucous stools ; with drawing pain in small of back and cutting pain in abdomen.
Suppressed hemorrhoidal flow, causing melancholy.
URINARY ORGANS [21]
Renal pains, with or without calculi. θ Nephritis.
Burning in bladder. θ Dysentery. θ Gonorrhœa.
Colic, with spasm of bladder.
Burning in orifice of urethra, immediately before, during, and for a minute after urinating.
Stitches, as with needles, in forepart of urethra, when not urinating.
Pressure towards bladder, and some stitches extending from within outward in region of neck of bladder, while coughing, and some time afterwards.
Tenesmus vesicæ ; strangury. θ Dysentery.
Frequent, unsuccessful desire to urinate. θ Diarrhœa.
Frequent micturition, scalding, smarting, sticking pain in urethra, tenesmus and even chordee ; (as inflammation subsides discharge less and thinner). θ Gonorrhœa.
Burning, smarting after urination.
Burning-biting pain in urethra, after urinating.
Retention of urine, spasm of bladder. θ Cystitis, in horses.
Urine red, or bloody.
Inflammation of neck of bladder. θ Cystitis.
Purulent discharge from urethra, sometimes bleeding. θ Gonorrhœa.
Male Sexual Organs
MALE SEXUAL ORGANS [22]
Painful erections at night ; cream-like discharge from urethra ; burning, when urinating ; at other times cutting, stinging in urethra.
Discharge from urethra : purulent ; bloody, urethra painful to touch ; cream-like.
Gonorrhœa : second stage ; white discharge, like cream ; excessive sensibility of parts to contact ; chordee, which can only be appeased or subdued in cold water.
Protracted gleet.
Coldness of scrotum, and impotence ; dwindling of testicles and extinction of sexual instinct ; shrivelling of spermatic cords ; emaciation ; falling off of beard and weakness of sight.
Prepuce swollen.
Crampy, testicular pains after emissions.
Pain in prostate gland. θ Gonorrhœa.
Coldness of scrotum, in morning on walking.
FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS [23]
Discharge of fetid mucus from vagina.
During menstruation : nausea ; pressure in epigastrium.
Disordered menstruation, with a pushing or sticking sensation in left ovarian region.
PREGNANCY. PARTURITION. LACTATION [24]
During pregnancy : affections of ears ; heartburn, vomiting ; mucous diarrhœa ; hemorrhoids ; burning in anus.
VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA [25]
Hoarseness from straining voice, in singers, preachers, etc.
Hoarseness, nose stopped up, throat feels rough. θ Scarlatina.
Excessive tingling and tickling in larynx, < after lying down, in evening. θ Pertussis.
Crawling and tickling in larynx and trachea, with a dry, hacking cough, in evening, after lying down.
Tickling sensitiveness in trachea, causing him to sneeze violently a few times.
Chronic sore throat. θ Bronchitis maligna.
RESPIRATION [26]
Exhalation from lungs, on coughing, causes a strong offensive taste in mouth.
Seems as if she could not get air deep enough into lungs.
Deep breathing, almost like a sigh. θ Pertussis.
Respiration slow.
Asthma : with red face, eructations, chest feels distended ; wheezing inspiration ; breathing < when moving about, ascending or walking.
Sibilant rales mostly left side posteriorly, during inspiration ; spongy sound during expiration ; constant dyspnœa ; oppression at bifurcation of bronchia, > from successful cough. θ Asthma.
Dyspnœa, which seems to rise from stomach, or from fulness of chest.
COUGH [27]
Painful cough.
Frequent dry, hacking cough.
Dry, hard evening cough, with pain in distant parts.
Evening and night cough, with hectic.
Nervous, spasmodic cough.
Cough in sudden paroxysms, convulses whole body.
Cough, with headache, as if head would fly to pieces.
Cries after coughing. θ Whooping cough.
With every explosive cough (and at no other time) there escape a volume of pungent, fetid air. θ Pleuro-pneumonia.
Coughing or sneezing causes a sudden pain in one or other of limbs.
Cough, with drawing from chest into neck.
Cough, with feeling of pulling upward from stomach, up chest to throat pit.
Stitches in suffering parts, with cough.
During cough : splitting pain in head ; drawing or stinging in sides of chest ; stitches in back and bladder ; pressive ulcerative pain in neck or ear ; bursting pain in head, chest and bladder ; escape of urine ; pressure about thighs ; inclination to vomit, or vomiting ; offensive breath ; pain in knees or legs, ears and throat.
Cough < : after anger ; after warm drinks ; evening, night ; when lying ; after sharp winds ; dry, cold weather ; any draught, warm or cold.
Expectoration infrequent ; particularly in morning.
Sputa dirty brown, not rusty. θ Pleuro-pneumonia.
INNER CHEST AND LUNGS [28]
Stitches in side, particularly the left.
Pain in chest and back ; during heat. θ Intermittent.
Drawing in one or both sides of chest, up to neck. θ Pertussis.
Throbbing pain in chest.
Pain in chest when sitting, as if chest was too full and there was not room enough in it.
Pain as if chest was constricted, which arrests breathing and is < even on slight motion.
Hæmoptysis, with dyspnœa.
Pneumonia, complicated with bronchitis.
Pleuritic pains. θ Quotidian intermittent.
HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION [29]
Pectoral anxiety.
Fatty degeneration of heart and atheroma in obese persons.
Pulse : irregular, often intermittent ; slow, intermitting.
Pulse full, strong, most frequent in evening. θ Dysentery.
Unusually violent pulsation of arteries of abdomen.
Clucking rapid pulsations in some of larger arteries.
OUTER CHEST [30]
Pains in sternum, with sweat, while walking.
NECK AND BACK [31]
Jerking-tearing pain in right cervical glands.
Glands of neck painful, swollen. θ Stomatitis.
Excruciating, tearing pains in back, extorting cries, cause him to double up, during chill. θ Intermittent.
Drawing-tearing pain in back and spine.
Shooting in back and chest. θ Cough.
Pain in sacrum and small of back. θ Hemorrhoids. θ Dysentery.
Pain in back continuing after stool. θ Diarrhœa.
Chilliness between scapulæ. θ Asthma.
Coldness beginning in back. θ Intermittent.
Sensation as if cold water was dropping down back. θ Intermittent.
UPPER LIMBS [32]
Drawing-tearing pain in arms.
LOWER LIMBS [33]
Shooting-tearing from hip to knee and foot, especially when coughing.
Sticking-tearing pain from hip joints to feet, especially on coughing.
Drawing pain in hip joint (pain like a stiff neck), < from touch and bending trunk backward.
Caries of right hip ; left leg atrophied and painful.
Tensive pain in knee.
An internal pain in left leg made up of drawing and stitching.
Single stitches in right great toe, produced by stamping foot.
Cold sweat on upper part of legs.
Cold feet.
Violent pains in left atrophic leg. θ Spinal curvature, with coxarthrocace.
Paralysis of lower extremities.
LIMBS IN GENERAL [34]
Rheumatic pain in limbs. θ Cough.
Tearing in limbs ; they are drawn up during chill. θ Intermittent.
Weakness and heaviness of limbs, followed by trembling of upper limbs and knees ; hands refused to write.
Stiffness and painfulness of all joints on beginning to walk.
Pains in joints from taking cold.
REST. POSITION. MOTION [35]
Rest : < darting pains in head ; < headache.
Lying : cough worse.
Lie down : great desire.
He shuns all motion.
Inclination to bend forward.
Moving : head, headache as if skull would split, and as if bruised ; asthma ; chilly ; joints stiff, crack on.
Talking : stitches in scrobiculum.
Walking : > darting pains in head ; head as if bruised ; asthma ; pains in sternum.
Ascending : asthma.
NERVES [36]
All senses are more acute.
Great restlessness. θ Measles.
Want of bodily irritability.
Lack of reactive force, especially with fat people.
Great desire to lie down and sleep ; does not want to exert himself in the least. θ Angina faucium. θ Diphtheria.
Weak, exhausted ; vital forces sunken. θ Paralysis. θ Gangrene. θ Meteorism. θ Typhus.
Staggering when walking.
Sciatica.
Paralysis of tongue, fauces, pharynx, œsophagus, stomach and intestinal canal.
SLEEP [37]
Great drowsiness after eating.
Yawning. θ Diarrhœa.
Constant desire to lie down and sleep. θ Sore throat.
Sleepless from emotions, from homesickness, or from cough.
Screaming in sleep. θ Pertussis.
Sleep full of dreams, restless. θ Pertussis.
Lethargy.
Sopor, with hospital gangrene.
TIME [38]
Remission during day and before midnight.
Night : painful erections.
Morning : in bed, nosebleed ; coldness of scrotum.
At 10.30 A. M. : chill.
At 11 A. M. : fever.
Evening : tip op nose very hot and red ; pain in face ; pressure in zygoma ; cough < ; pulse and strong ; chill ; bursting headache.
TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER [39]
Shuns open air ; sedentary ; uncleanly ; chill in open air.
Dreads uncovering, even in hot stage.
Generally better in warmth.
Great sensitiveness to cool air, particularly a draught.
Elevated temperature of intestinal canal.
Cool air, especially a draught of air, becomes very unpleasant ; warmth of body becomes less and less and intolerance of a cool temperature greater and greater.
In proportion as coldness of body increases, low-spiritedness and contraction of pupils increase.
Heat of hands, but not of remaining portion of body.
FEVER [40]
Fever heat, with violent burning and headache.
Absence of thirst during heat. θ Intermittent.
Heat, followed by chill, with thirst.
Great sleepiness after fever ; could scarcely prevent herself from going to sleep ; especially after eating.
Heat lessened by motion.
Fever at 11 A. M. (following chill at 10.30 A. M.), lasting all night, with great thirst.
Skin cool, pulse slow, want of appetite. θ Dysentery.
Coldness over whole body ; limbs are cold without shivering.
Shivering and chilliness after every drink.
Chilly externally ; inwardly, burning.
Chill begins in back, with thirst, < after drinking, lessened when walking out of doors.
Chilly on moving.
Chill at 10.30 A. M., commencing between shoulders and running down back.
Evening chill.
Chilliness when airing the bed.
Chill in open air, particularly in a draught.
Thirst just before and during chill.
During chill, cold across chest, with a sensation as of water dropping down back.
During chill : anxiety, giddiness and dulness of head ; intolerance of noise ; cannot collect her thoughts and is awkward so that she runs into everything ; tearing pains in back and limbs, extorting cries and causing the patient to bend up ; > by putting hot things to back.
Chill, followed by sweat ; or by heat, with sweat and thirst.
Sweat : violent, copious ; lessened by motion.
Sweat coming on soon after fever commences, and continuing with it.
Profuse sweat after fever, all night.
Intermittent, with torpidity of abdominal nervous centres and painful enlargement of spleen.
Intermittent fever, with predominance of chill, accompanied by thirst, without much heat.
Hectic fever after emotions, and in nostalgia.
Putrid typhus, with extreme prostration and black vomit.
ATTACKS, PERIODICITY [41]
Periodicity marked.
Chill spreads gradually until extreme points are reached, then as gradually declines. θ Intermittent.
LOCALITY AND DIRECTION [42]
Shifting pains, which were very violent, now here, now there.
Right : frontal bone, drawing, tearing ; painful quivering under eye ; inflammation of throat ; catching pain in lung ; cervical glands, jerking tearing ; hip, caries ; great toe, stitches.
Left : side of head, drawing tearing ; side of face, erythematous eruption ; ovary pushing or stitching ; sibilant rales ; leg atrophied and painful.
SENSATIONS [43]
As if Cayenne pepper was sprinkled on parts.
Violent pains on various places ; now here, now there. θ Neuralgia of children.
Sensation as if parts would go to sleep.
Extreme lassitude ; all limbs feel bruised ; all limbs affected.
As if skull was bruised, on moving ; as if throat was sore and was being spasmodically drawn together ; as if chest was contracted ; as if cold water was dropping down back ; as if skull would spit ; as if brain was too full or head too large ; uvula feels as if pressing on something hard ; as if cold water was in stomach ; as if pepper was sprinkled on hemorrhoids.
Burning : gums ; in throat ; in stomach ; in abdomen ; in rectum and bladder ; in anus ; in urethra ; after urinating ; in head ; in skin ; in breast and face ; blisters in mouth ; in eyes ; in ears ; in lips ; over whole body.
Tearing : pain in right frontal bone ; in right cervical glands ; pain in back ; in arms ; in limbs ; behind left ear.
Darting pains ; in head.
Cutting : pain in bowels ; before stool ; in urethra ; forward from occiput.
Shooting : in back and chest ; from hip to knee and foot.
Stitches : as with needles in urethra ; left ovarian region ; with cough ; in back of bladder ; in side of chest ; breast and face ; through ear and over eye ; in vertex ; in nose ; in left leg ; in right great toe ; over whole body.
Sticking : tearing pain from hip joints to foot ; in eyes ; in throat ; in urethra.
Stinging : in arms ; in urethra ; pain in head ; in ears ; in throat ; in chest.
Jerking : pain in right cervical glands ; in nose and above eye.
Jerking-tearing : in right cervical glands.
Drawing : pain in right frontal bone ; pain in teeth ; in abdomen ; in left leg ; in back ; in head ; in one or both sides of chest ; in back and spine ; in arms ; in hip joint ; tearing, left side of head ; in throat.
Smarting : in fauces ; in anus ; in lips ; in throat ; in urethra.
Biting : in arms ; itching, on hairy scalp ; of herpes on face.
Biting-stinging pain : in anus.
Scalding pain : in urethra.
Soreness : in throat.
Sore pain : in urethra.
Splitting : in head.
Bursting : in head.
Tenesmus : of rectum and bladder.
Pressive : pain in throat ; in scrobiculum ; tension in abdomen ; pain in neck or ear ; in forehead and temples ; in eyes.
Pressure : towards bladder ; in epigastrium ; about thighs ; in zygoma.
Pushing : in left ovarian region.
Pulling : upward from stomach.
Twisting : pain in bowels ; in abdomen.
Catching pain : in region of liver.
Aching : in ears.
Tensive : pain extending from abdomen to chest ; in knee.
Rheumatic : pains in limbs.
Pain : in prostate gland ; in chest ; in sacrum ; in back ; in joints ; drawing stitching in left leg ; in inguinal region ; knees or legs ; ears and throat.
Painful : enlargement of spleen.
Throbbing : headache in forehead ; pain in chest ; of hemorrhoids.
Trembling : upper limbs and knees.
Crampy : testicular pains after emissions.
Constriction : of throat.
Distended : chest feels.
Elongated : teeth feel.
Heaviness : of limbs.
Empty, stupid feeling : in head.
Weakness : of limbs.
Roughness : in throat.
Hot : gums.
Heat : increase of, in face ; followed by chill and thirst.
Coldness : of scrotum, in morning, on waking ; beginning in back ; over whole body.
Chilliness : between scapulæ ; shivering after every drink.
Chilly : externally on moving.
Tingling : in larynx.
Tickling : in larynx ; in nose.
Crawling : in larynx ; in nose.
Itching : breast and face ; deep in ear ; hemorrhoids ; over whole body.
Dryness : on tongue.
TISSUES [44]
Irritation and inflammation of mucous linings.
Relaxed fibre : obesity.
Joints : crack ; stiff, painful on beginning to move ; pain, as if paralyzed.
Chronic muscular rheumatism in patients of sedentary habits.
Gout, stiffness, painfulness and cracking of joints.
Glandular swellings ; scrofula.
Marasmus.
Dropsy, with torpidity.
Seasickness ; cholera ; cachexia Africana ; yellow fever ; typhus ictorodes.
Intermittent fever.
TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES [45]
Worse from touch ; skin sensitive, with many internal ailments.
Seasickness.
Touch : pains in face < ; excited by ; urethra painful to.
SKIN [46]
Burning in skin.
Stitching, burning, itching over whole body, < on breast and face.
Skin bloated, flabby.
Formication.
Itching < from scratching.
Acne rosacea.
Scarlet eruption on neck and breast, face of extreme redness, sometimes alternating with a mottled appearance ; lips swollen and cracked, burning blisters in mouth and on tongue ; saliva very slimy and little increased in quantity ; tickling and roughness in throat, with sneezing and a hacking cough. θ Scarlatina.
Herpetic-like eruption on forehead, on face itching-burning.
Herpes.
Scrofulous ulcers ; carbuncle.
STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION [47]
Light hair, blue eyes.
Frequently indicated in persons of lax fibre and muscles, less frequently in those of tense fibre.
Nervous, but full habit.
Phlegmatic, awkward, easily offended ; indolent, melancholic ; lack of reaction. θ Gastric troubles.
Lazy, fat, unclean persons who dread open air.
Children who are always chilly, refractory, clumsy.
Gouty individuals.
Hemorrhoidal constitutions.
Blonde girl, æt. 17 ; asthma.
Woman, æt. 67, nervous temperament and full habit ; pleuro-pneumonia.
RELATIONS [48]
Antidoted by : Calad., Camphor., Cina, Cinchon., Sulph. ac ., or vapor of burning sulphur (sensation as if parts had "gone to sleep").
It antidotes : effects of alcohol, coffee, opium, quinine (fevers after abuse of), manihot (cold feeling in limbs, muscles lame, swelling of belly).
Compatible : Bellad., Lycop., Pulsat., Silica .
Compare : Arnic ., Bellad . (headache, etc.), Bryon . (headache, cough, etc.), Calad., Chelidon., Cina, Cinchon., Crot. tig . (after drinking urging to stool), Helleb . (colic with spasm of bladder), Ignat., Lycop., Natr. carb . (tenesmus of rectum and bladder), Nux vom ., Pulsat ., Silica, Stramon., Veratr. and Viola od .