Cayenne Pepper (Solanaceae)
- Persons with light hair, blue eyes, nervous but stout and plethoric habit.
- Phlegmatic diathesis; lack of reactive force, especially with fat people, easily exhausted; indolent, dreads any kind of exercise; persons inclined to be jovial, yet angry at trifles.
- Children; dread open air; always chilly; refractory, clumsy, fat, dirty, and disinclined to work or think.
- Desires to be let alone; wants to lie down and sleep.
- Homesickness (of indolent, melancholic), with red cheeks and sleeplessness.
- Constriction: in fauces; throat; nares; chest; bladder; urethra; rectum.
- Burning and smarting sensation, as from cayenne pepper, in throat and other parts, not > heat.
- Tonsillitis: with burning, smarting pain; intense soreness; constriction of throat with burning; inflamed, dark red, swollen.
- The burning spasmodic constriction and other pains, worse between acts of deglutition (Ign.).
- Painful swelling behind ear (mastoid), extremely sore and sensitive to touch.
- Every stool is followed by thirst and every drink by shuddering.
- As the coldness of the body increases, so also does the ill-humor.
- Nervous, spasmodic cough; in sudden paroxysms; as if head would fly to pieces.
- With every explosive cough (and at no other time) there escapes a volume of pungent, fetid air.
- Pain in distant parts on coughing (bladder, knees, legs, ears).
Relations
- Compare: Apis, Bell., Bry., Calad., Puls.
- Cina follows well in intermittent fever.
- The constricting, burning, smarting pains differentiate from Apis and Belladonna.
