Relaxed,
sluggish, indolent, fat.
Homesick. Unclean. Peppery disposition. Delirium tremens.
Burning, constriction, chilliness.
Suppuration. Inflammation of the mastoid. Halitosis.
Sore throat of smokers and drinkers.
Much thirst, but drinking causes shuddering or shivering.
Thirsty after stools. Dysentery.
Pain in distant parts on coughing.
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COMMON NAME
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Cayenne
Pepper
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FAMILY
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Solanaceae
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SOURCE
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Tincture
of ripe, dried fruit.
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PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTION
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- | Mucus
membrane - Irritation, congestion, inflammation.
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- | Spinal cord - Excessive chilliness. |
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A/F
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MODALITIES
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< | Drinking (aggravates throat or excites urination)
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MIND
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- | HOME
SICKNESS; with red face, sleeplessness and disposition to suicide.
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- | Awkward, runs into everything.
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- | Dipsomania, Delirium TREMENS.
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- | Jocular, sings; yet at slightest cause get angry.
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- | Obstinacy, capriciousness [Cham, Cina].
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- | If she wants a certain thing, she will oppose if proposed by someone else.
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- | Very sensitive, feels easily insulted, insecure without social relationship,
tries to be more sociable to hide insecurity.
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- | Fear of censure, of ghosts.
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- | Nostalgia; emotions go back to past events with such force, that it
overtakes the whole person and he thinks he will die, can't stand it. Lives
totally in the past.
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- | When he reaches a point where he can't tolerate past emotions, he switches
off completely and can't or won't remember. No feelings left.
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- | Tremendous anxiety (hidden), has to accomplish something but the mind is
dull and anxious because cannot accomplish what he has to do.
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- | Averse to go outside their routine.
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- | Lazy; tries to do best with least effort, indolent, sluggish. |
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GUIDING INDICATIONS
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- | Person
of lax fibres, weak, lazy, indolent, fat, red, clumsy, awkward and of unclean
habits.
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- | Affects mucous membranes which become dark, red, spongy, ooze bloody mucus,
producing a sensation of soreness and CONSTRICTION.
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- | Pains - Burning, SMARTING as if pepper is sprinkled on the part.
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- | Pungent or strangling, thread-like < cold water.
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- | Tearing, drawing from above downward.
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- | Shuddering during pain or from drinking.
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- | Burning pains and general chilliness.
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- | Marked tendency to suppuration in every inflammatory process.
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- | Persons who react poorly and are afraid of COLD.
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- | Abstainers from accustomed alcoholics.
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- | Circulation sluggish; parts pinched remain in raised position for a long
time.
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- | Head - Headache from any over indulgence; bursting headache as if head would fly
to pieces, holds head with hands < coughing > heat > movement >
lying with head high.
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- | Ears - MASTOIDITIS; Tenderness over petrous bone [Onos].
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- | Nose - NOSE RED, BUT COLD.
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- | G.I.T. - Stomatitis; foetid odor from mouth.
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- | Pain and dryness in throat extending to ears.
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- | SORE THROAT OF SMOKERS and DRINKERS with tenacious mucus difficult to
dislodge.
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- | Very painful sensation in the throat when coughing and stitches in neck of
bladder < between acts of swallowing [Ign].
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- | Uvula, swollen, elongated with sensation as if it were pressing on something
hard.
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- | Intense craving for stimulants, pungent things, pepper, coffee, beer,
alcohol, whisky, salt.
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- | Whisky drinkers crave pepper, but pepper increases desire for whisky.
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- | Desire for coffee but it nauseates.
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- | MUCH THIRST, BUT DRINKING CAUSES SHUDDERING and pain in back.
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- | EXCESSIVE THIRST AFTER STOOL, SHUDDERING and pain in back.
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- | Dysentery; bloody mucus and burning and tenesmus, drawing pain in back after
stool.
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- | Bleeding piles with soreness of anus. Burning piles; as if pepper was
sprinkled on them.
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- | In piles; tenesmus ani > only by squatting down on heels.
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- | Urinary system - Burning at orifice of urethra.
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- | Male genitalia - Gonorrhoea; second stage, white discharge.
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- | Excessive sensibility of parts to touch or contact, cordee only suppressed
by cold water.
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- | Coldness of scrotum in morning on waking, impotency.
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- | Respiratory system - With explosive cough, there escapes a volume of pungent,
foetid air.
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- | Pain in distant parts on coughing; bladder, legs, ears, etc.
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- | Cough > drinking cold water.
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- | Constriction of chest, arrests breathing.
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- | Extremities - Sciatica < coughing, bending backward.
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- | Fever - CHILL begins between shoulder blades > heat.
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- | Sensitive to noise during chill.
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- | Chilly after drinking. No thirst during sweat and heat stage.
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- | Sleep - Lies in unusual position on back with right knee raised to get sleep.
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- | Wakes up 3 hours after sleep, overtaken by anxiety and insecurity, stays
awake 2 hours, then falls asleep again until late morning. |
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KEYNOTES
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HOMESICKNESS with red face and sleeplessness and disposition to suicide.
- NOSE RED, BUT COLD.
- TONGUE; GREENISH AT BASE.
- Intense craving for stimulants, pepper.
- Much thirst but drinking causes shuddering.
- Stools followed by thirst, followed by shuddering.
- Pain in distant parts on coughing.
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CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS
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Phlegmatic temperament and laxness of muscles. Tendency to get fat.
- BURNING and sensation OF CONSTRICTION.
- Coldness of parts. Chilliness; persons afraid of cold.
- Sluggishness, lack of reaction.
- Over-sensitiveness to noise. All senses acute.
- Distant pains especially on coughing.
- HOMESICK WITH DISPOSITION TO SUICIDE.
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CLINICAL
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- | Capsicum
tincture is used as a stomachic for lack of appetite and dyspepsia - Dr.Otto
Lesser.
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- | 10 minim dose of the tincture given before meals cures dipsomania - Dr.Lyanr,
Dr.Ringer.
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- | 10-30 drops of the tincture will enable a drunkard to walk home - Dr.Ghusal. |
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REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS
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Follows Well: Bell, Lyc, Puls, Sil
Compare: Arn, Bell, Bry, Canth, Psor
Antidoted By: Calad, Camph, Chin, Cina, Sul-ac
It Antidotes: Coff, Op
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