CAPSICUM
Source indications
Kent's Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica
- Fat, flabby, red-faced children of beer drinkers and pepper eaters
- Poor reaction
- Relaxed and flabby constitution
- Red face and varicose condition
- Over stimulated children of over stimulated men
- Rosy face that is cold
- Face studded with fine capillaries
- Plump and round with no endurance
- False plethora
- Red end of the nose
- Red cheeks
- Red eyes
- Easily relaxed individuals
- Slow reaction after diseases
- Sluggish state
- Tired, lazy constitution
- School girls who cannot study or work
- Homesickness
- Gouty constitutions
- Cracking joints
- Gouty deposits in the joints
- Stiff joints
- Clumsy, weak joints
- Sluggishness of the whole economy
- Chilly patients
- Sensitive to air
- Wants to be in a warm room
- Sensitive to cold and bathing
- Homesickness with red cheeks and sleeplessness
- Hot feeling in the fauces
- Fearfulness
- Oversensitive to impressions
- Always looking for an offense or slight
- Suspicious
- Looking for an insult
- Obstinate
- Red cheeks after emotions
- Lack of heat with red cheeks
- One cheek pale and the other red
- Cheeks alternately red and pale
- Clumsy and awkward children
- Persistent thoughts of suicide
- Headaches as if the skull would split when moving the head, walking or coughing
- Feeling as if the head would fly to pieces
- Holds the head with the hand
- Feeling as if the head were large, aggravated by coughing and stepping, ameliorated by lying with the head high
- Bursting pain and throbbing
- Headache with pulsation in the forehead and temples
- Headache as if the brain would be pressed through the forehead
- Feeling as if the brain would be pressed out on stooping
- Red eyes would be pressed out on stooping
- Oversensitiveness to noise, smells, taste and touch, to impressions, to insults
- Excited patient
- Pains in the ears
- Itching pain in ears
- Aching, pressing pain in ears with cough, as if an abscess would burst
- Peculiar action on the bones of the internal ear and mastoid process
- Abscesses round about and below the ear and caries
- Petrous portion of temporal bone necrosed
- Mastoid abscess
- Old catarrhs
- Takes cold in the nose and throat
- Collection of mucus
- Red face that is cold
- Red and cold end of the nose
- Fat and flabby with not much endurance
- Never could learn at school
- Breaks out into a sweat and freezes in the cold air when exerting
- Nose red and hot
- Skin all over is red and burning
- Capillary congestion
- Cheeks are red and hot, and this alternates with paleness
- Red dots on the face
- Pains in the face like bone pains, from external touch
- Pains are worse from touch
- Pain in the zygoma, or the zygoma is sensitive
- Sensitive to pressure over the mastoid
- Swelling in the region of the mastoid
- Taste foul like putrid water
- Pungent offensive taste in the mouth when coughing
- Hot pungent air comes up from the throat, tasting foul when coughing
- Flat, sensitive, spreading ulcers with lardaceous base on the tongue and lips
- Mucous membrane remains raised when pinched up showing sluggish circulation
- Flabbiness
- Wrinkles on pressure
- Feeble circulation
- Parts touched are loose and flabby, red, fat and cold
- Skin is moist and cold
- Fine measly condition of the skin due to capillary congestion
- Complains of feeling cold
- Slow reaction after eruptive diseases, after glandular diseases, after bowel complaints
- Does not take on flesh
- Throat looks as if it would bleed, it is so red, a fine rash-like appearance it is puffed, discoloured, purple, mottled, flabby and spongy-looking; dark Ted
- Burning soreness with ulceration in the fauces
- Uvula elongated
- Stitching in throat
- Enlarged tonsils, inflamed, large and spongy
- Throat remains sore a long time after a cold or sore throat
- Burning, pressing pain in the throat, the throat dark red
- Relaxed sore throat
- Pain on swallowing, dysphagia
- Throat sluggish for weeks, a do-nothing state, does not get very bad, but gets no better, a lack of reaction
- Thirst when the chill begins
- Thirst after every dysenteric stool
- Sudden craving for ice-cold water, which causes chilliness
- Craving for water before the chill and when taken it hastens the chill
- Feels cold in the stomach
- Desires something warm, something stimulating
- Craves pungent things
- Dipsomania
- After stool; tenesmus and thirst
- Drinking causes shuddering
- Smarting kind burning in anus and rectum
- Violent tenesmus in rectum and bladder at the same time
- Haemorrhoids protruding, smarting, burning
- Smarting like pepper in haemorrhoids
- Stinging and burning haemorrhoids
- Tenesmus of the bladder
- Strangury
- Burning, biting pain after urination
- Old cases of gonorrhoea, in which there is no reaction
- Creamy discharge in gonorrhoea
- Plethora with no endurance
- Sensitive to cold
- Red face