CAPSICUM ANNUUM
Source indications
Allen's Keynotes
- 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, 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 better by heat
- tonsillitis: with burning, smarting pain; intense soreness; constriction of throat with burning; inflamed, dark red, swollen
- burning spasmodic constriction and other pains, worse between acts of deglutition
- painful swelling behind ear, 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 there escapes a volume of pungent, fetid air
- pain in distant parts on coughing
