CAPSICUM ANNUUM
By C.M. Boger — A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica
REGION
- MUCOUS MEMBRANES.
- THROAT.
- Kidneys.
- Bones.
- Mastoids.
WORSE
- SLIGHT DRAFTS.
- COLD: AIR. Water.
- Uncovering.
- Dampness.
- Bathing.
- Empty swallowing.
- Drinking: < throat, or excites urination.
- Eating.
- Drunkards.
BETTER
- Continued motion.
- Lax, lazy fat, red
(Asaf.), clumsy, unclean persons (Sul.), 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.). Neuralgias. Deep abscess. Foul secretions. .................... Changeable. Capricious. Homesick. Splitting headache, > 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; < drinking. Dysentery. Urging to urinate. Strangury. Thick, white, creamy gonorrhœa. 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.