Cayenne Pepper
- Seems to suit especially persons of lax fiber, weak; diminished vital heat.
- A relaxed plethoric sluggish, cold remedy.
- Not much reactive force.
- Such persons are fat, indolent, opposed to physical exertion, averse to go outside of their routine, get homesick easily.
- General uncleanliness of body.
- Abstainers from accustomed alcoholics.
- It affects the mucous membranes, producing a sensation of constriction.
- Inflammation of petrous bone.
- Burning pains and general chilliness.
- Older people who have exhausted their vitality, especially by mental work, and poor living; blear-eyed appearance; who do not react.
- Fear of slightest draught.
- Marked tendency to suppuration in every inflammatory process.
- Prostration and feeble digestion of alcoholics.
- Myalgia, aching and jerking of muscles.
Mind
- Excessive peevishness.
- Homesickness, with sleeplessness and disposition to suicide.
- Wants to be let alone.
- Peppery disposition.
- Delirium tremens.
Head
- Bursting headache; worse, coughing.
- Hot face.
- Red cheeks.
- Face red, though cold (Asafaet).
Ears
- Burning and stinging in ears.
- Swelling and pain behind ears.
- Inflammation of mastoid.
- Tenderness over the petrous bone; extremely sore and tender to touch (Onosmod).
- Otorrhea and mastoid disease before suppuration.
Throat
- Hot feeling in fauces.
- Subacute inflammation of Eustachian tube with great pain.
- Pain and dryness in throat extending to the ears.
- Sore throat of smokers and drinkers.
- Smarting in; constriction.
- Burning constriction worse between acts of deglutition.
- Inflamed uvula and palate; swollen and relaxed.
Mouth
- Herpes labialis (Apply one drop of the mother tincture).
- Stomatitis.
- Disagreeable smell from mouth.
- Fetid odor from mouth.
Stomach
- Burning in tip of tongue.
- Atonic dyspepsia.
- Much flatulence, especially in debilitated subjects.
- Intense craving for stimulants.
- Vomiting, sinking at pit of stomach.
- Much thirst; but drinking causes shuddering.
Stool
- Bloody mucus, with burning and tenesmus; drawing pain in back after stool.
- Thirsty after stool, with shivering.
- Bleeding piles, with soreness of anus.
- Stinging pain during stool.
Urine
- Strangury, frequent, almost ineffectual urging.
- Burning in orifice.
- Comes first in drops, then in spurts; neck of bladder spasmodically contracted.
- Ectropion of meatus.
Male
- Coldness of scrotum, with impotency, atrophied testicles, loss of sensibility in testicles, with softening and dwindling.
- Gonorrhea, with chordee, excessive burning, pain in prostate.
Female
- Climacteric disturbances with burning of tip of tongue (Lathyrus).
- Uterine hemorrhage near the menopause, with nausea.
- Sticking sensation in left ovarian region.
Respiratory
- Constriction of chest; arrests breathing Hoarseness.
- Pain at apex of heart or in rib region, worse touch.
- Dry, hacking cough, expelling an 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-bladder, legs, ears, etc.
Extremities
- Pain from hips to feet.
- Sciatica, worse bending backward; worse, coughing.
- Tensive pain in the knee.
Fever
- Coldness, with ill-humor.
- Shivering after drinking.
- Chill begins in back; better, heat.
- Must have something hot to back.
- Thirst before chill.
Modalities
- Better, while eating, from heat.
- Worse, open air, uncovering, draughts.
Relationship
- Antidote: Cina; Calad.
- Compare: Pulsat; Lycop; Bell; Centaurea (surging of blood; homesickness; intermittent fever).
Dose
- Third to sixth attenuation.
- In delirium tremens, dram doses of tincture in milk or tincture or orange peel.
