Piper Nigrum
By Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
Piper nigrum, L.
Natural order , Piperaceæ.
Common names , Black pepper, Poivre noir.
Preparation , Triturations.
Authority.
Berridge, Month. Hom. Rev., 1870, 14, p. 108, effects, on two occasions, of large quantities of pepper, in a lady.
- Feeling as if temples and malar bones were pressed in, worse on left side.
SUPPLEMENT: PIPER NIGRUM. Authority.
2 , Dr. Houat, Nouvelles Données de Mat. Méd. (We add these symptoms by Houat to complete his work, and for purposes of criticism. -T. F. A.).
MIND
- Hot-headed, irascible, and often gay, 2.
- Disposition to excesses of all sorts, 2.
- Amorous thoughts and desires, with hypochondria, 2.
- Hypochondriac, with fear of being poisoned, 2.
HEAD
- Heaviness and congestion of the cerebellum, with paleness of the face, 2.
- Rushing ( bouillonnements , literally boiling up) and congestion of blood to the head, with burning and throbbing pains and prickings, 2.
- Sensation of emptiness in the brain, or of fulness, as of a great deal of fluid, 2.
- Attacks of numbness in the brain, producing a sort of sleep and swoon, 2.
- Sensation of pressure on the head, and as if the bones of the cranium and face rested on the lower jaw, 2.
- Neuralgic pains running through the whole head at every change of the temperature, 2.
- Violent headache; it feels as if it would burst at the vertex, 2.
- Feeling of fluctuation and oscillation of the brain when moving, 2.
- Pressing pains at the temples, as if they would be broken in, 2.
EYE
- The eyes inflamed and burning, with a sensation of cold on the eyelids, 2.
- Eyelids ulcerated and bleared, 2.
- Lachrymation and photophobia, 2.
- Dimness of sight and vertigo, with cephalalgia, nausea, and vomiting, 2.
NOSE
- Frequent sneezing, epistaxis, 2.
- Dry and fluent coryza, 2.
- Dryness and burning in the nostrils; the nostrils are stopped up, 2.
- Pressure on the bones of the nose as if they were being crushed, 2.
FACE
- Red and burning face, 2.
- Drawing faceache, with a sensation as if all the muscles and bones were ranging themselves one upon the other, 2.
- Convulsive closure of the jaws, 2.
MOUTH
- Caries and decay of a tooth, 2.
- Violent toothache, particularly in the warmth and evening, 2.
- Eruption of little burning vesicles on the margin of the tongue, 2.
- Painful heavy tongue; impeded speech, 2.
- A whitish coating on the middle of the tongue, 2.
- Burning dryness of the mouth and throat, 2.
- Heat and dryness of the palate, which seemed to be burned; likewise of the tongue, 2.
THROAT
- Constant need of expectorating much mucus, which forms in the throat, 2.
- Burning in the throat, with a sensation of stiffness, as if it were an iron tube, 2.
- Burning pains on the tonsils, with sensation as if they were being pierced, 2.
- Paralysis of the muscles of the throat; one cries, but is not able to articulate intelligibly, 2.
STOMACH
- Continual unquenchable thirst, 2.
- Vomiting, accompanied by great exertion; it seems as if the whole stomach itself were to be vomited, 2.
- Sensation of heat and dryness in the stomach, 2.
- Cramps and drawing in the stomach, with a desire for coarse and extravagant food, 2.
- Gastric discomfort, 2.
ABDOMEN
- Burning and lancinating pains in the liver, as if there were a tumor, 2.
- Disposition of the abdomen to obesity, 2.
- Swollen, hard, and burning abdomen, 2.
- Tympanitis of the abdomen, with a sensation as if everything in it were in ebullition, 2.
- Borborygmus in the intestines, with much flatus, also in the stomach, 2.
- Inflammation of the intestines, with great thirst, 2.
- Heaviness in the intestines, with a great deal of flatulency, 2.
- Colic and cramps in the intestines; sensation as if they would burst, 2.
- A very painful sensation of restlessness and anxiety in the intestines, 2.
- Sensation of a foreign round body, which rises even to the stomach, with tearing pains in the intestines, 2.
- Pains as from an abscess in the intestines, 2.
- When he stirs, electric discharges seem to be produced in the intestines, 2.
- Burning in the loins and kidneys, with contractive movements, 2.
RECTUM AND ANUS
- Inflammation of the rectum, the anus swollen and burning; great hesitation to go to stool on account of the difficult and painful defecation, 2.
- Fissures at the anus, 2.
- Large and flowing hæmorrhoids, 2.
STOOL
- Long-lasting constipation, then involuntary thin stools, 2.
URINARY ORGANS
- Full and swollen bladder, with frequent inclination to urinate without success, 2.
- Burning pains in the bladder, as if there were a pan of coals, 2.
- Blennorrhagic discharge, greenish, and of an offensive odor, 2.
- Burning in the glans, and in the urethra, 2.
- Difficulty of urinating, with urine generally saturated, turbid, brownish, 2.
- Diabetic urine, 2.
- Hæmaturia, 2.
- Urine containing sand, 2.
SEXUAL ORGANS
- Priapism atrocious, 2.
- Inflammation and swelling of the penis, with priapism and burning pains, 2.
- Pains of excoriation at the penis, as from an excess of sexual indulgences, 2.
- Burning and pricking of the glans, 2.
- Strong ejaculation, or almost none, and very difficult, 2.
- Congestion of blood in the ovaries and uterus, with pricking and lancinating pains, 2.
- Contraction of the uterus, with a sensation as if something strove to penetrate into it, 2.
- Burning and distending pains in the uterus, 2.
- Menses make their appearance with difficulty; retarded menstruation, 2.
- Menses capricious, irregular, with colic and blackish blood, 2.
RESPIRATORY ORGANS
- Ulcerations and false membranes thick and deep in the larynx, 2.
- Voice low, deep, and sometimes rough, 2.
- Low voice, which cannot be understood, 2.
- Hoarseness, with coughing and constant snuffling, 2.
- Incessant coughing, with sensation of ulceration in the bronchia, 2.
- Severe coughing, especially at evening, and when going to sleep, 2.
- Violent cough, occasionally spitting of blood, 2.
- Croupish cough, with pains of excoriation in the trachea, 2.
- Brisk, hollow, resounding cough, more so at evening and morning, with a whitish and sometimes grayish expectoration, 2.
- Dyspnœa and attacks of suffocation, 2.
CHEST
- Disposition for obesity of the chest, 2.
- Painful spots on various parts of the chest, aggravated by coughing, respiration, and motion, 2.
- At each coughing spell, it seems as if the chest would be torn and he would spit blood, 2.
- Burning and lancinating pains in the entire chest, 2.
- Sensation of heat and dryness in chest, 2.
- Burning and swollen breast, 2.
- Great flow of milk, 2.
HEART
EXTREMITIES
- Inflammation and swelling of the joints, 2.
GENERALITIES
- Bones easily fractured, 2.
- The motion of a carriage deafens and produces spasms, 2.
- Attacks of spasms, with tetanic stiffness of the limbs, 2.
- Great weakness of the whole body, 2.
- Aggravation of the sufferings from motion, in the evening, and in damp weather, 2.
SKIN
- Crusty ulcers on the concha of the ears, 2.
- Large pustules, leaving marks on the face, 2.
- Eczema on the lips, 2.
- Dartrous eruption and ulceration, principally at the left mamma, 2.
- Very tender skin, 2.
- Insupportable itching through the whole body, aggravated by scratching, and by heat and motion, 2.
SLEEP
- Irresistible desire to sleep, especially in the evening and after eating, 2.
- Great sleepiness, particularly in the evening, 2.
- Lethargic sleep, 2.
- Awaking at night without being able to sleep again, 2.
- Sleep, with nightmare and frightful dreams, 2.