Piper Nigrum.
Pepper. N. O. Piperaceć. Trituration or tincture of dried fruits
(peppercorns).Clinical.─
Anus, fissure of. Blenorrhagia.
Breasts, swelling of; eruption on. Constipation. Cough. Dysuria. Hćmorrhoids. Headache.
Menses, irregular; scanty. Milk, excessive flow of. Neuralgia. Priapism. Speech, difficult.
Teeth, caries of. Tongue, eruption on; heavy. Toothache. Uterus, cramps in.
Characteristics.─
The Peppers are tropical
climbing shrubs. Piper nig. yields the pepper of
commerce. The fruit when ripe is red. It is gathered before it is fully ripe and spread on
mats in the sun, when it loses its red colour and becomes black and shrivelled. This is
Black pepper. White pepper is the same fruit freed from its outer skin by maceration in
water and subsequent rubbing (Treas. of Bot.). The
symptoms of the proving are Houat’s. The only additional symptom is one recorded by Berridge
as having occurred in a lady on two occasions from taking a large quantity of pepper:
“Feeling as if temples and malar bones were pressed in, <
on left side.” This confirms one of Houat’s symptoms. The full, heavy headache of
Houat’s provings I can confirm by personal experience: I get the headache whenever I take
food highly peppered; and I know others who do the same. Sensations of burning occur almost everywhere. Pressure
is almost as common: Pressure in nasal bones, in temples and facial bones. Contraction of
uterus and sensation as if something about to enter it. Sensation of a foreign round body
rising to stomach. The symptoms are < by change of
temperature; in damp weather; in evening; by motion.
Relations.─
Compare:
Piper m., Cubeba (botanical; also mental, genito-urinary, skin, and general symptoms).
SYMPTOMS.
1. Mind.─
Hot-headed, irascible, and often gay.─Amorousness
with hypochondriasis.─Fear of being poisoned.
2. Head.─
Heaviness and congestion of the
cerebellum, with pale face.─Rushing and congestion of blood to head with
throbbing.─Brain: empty feeling; numbness causing swooning; fluctuation
and oscillation in morning.─Pressure on head; as if bones of cranium and
face rested on lower jaw.─Neuralgic pain through whole head at every
change of temperature.─Violent headache; feels as if it would burst at
vertex.─Pressing pains at temples as if they would be broken in.
3. Eyes.─
Eyes inflamed and burning, with
sensation of cold in lids.─Lids ulcerated and bleared.─Lachrymation
and photophobia.─Dim sight and vertigo, with headache, nausea, and
vomiting.
4. Ears.─
Crusty ulcers in concha of ears.
5. Nose.─
Frequent sneezing, epistaxis.─Dry
and fluent coryza.─Dryness and burning in nostrils; nostrils stopped up.─Pressure
on nasal bones as if being crushed.
6. Face.─
Feeling as if temples and malar bones
were pressed in, < l. side.─Red,
burning face.─Drawing faceache; as if muscles and bones were ranging
themselves on one another.─Convulsive closure of jaws.─Eczema
on lips.
8. Mouth.─
Tooth decays.─Violent
toothache, < in warmth and evening.─Eruption
of little vesicles on margin of tongue.─Painful, heavy tongue; impeded
speech.─Whitish coating on middle of tongue.─Burning
dryness of mouth and throat.─Heat and dryness of palate and tongue, as
if burned.
9. Throat.─
Constant accumulation of mucus in
throat and expectoration.─Burning in throat with sensation of stiffness
as if it were an iron tube.─Burning pains in tonsils, with sensation as
if they were being pierced.─Paralysis of muscles of throat; can cry but
not articulate intelligibly.
11. Stomach.─
Constant, unquenchable thirst.─Vomiting
with great exertion; it seemed as if stomach itself would be vomited.─Sensation
of heat and dryness in stomach.─Cramps and drawing in stomach, with
desire for coarse and extravagant food.─Gastric discomfort.
12. Abdomen.─
Burning and lancinating pains in
liver, as if a tumour there.─Disposition of abdomen to obesity.─Abdomen
swollen, hard, burning.─Tympanites with sensation as if everything in it
were in ebullition.─Borborygmi.─Inflammation of
intestines with great thirst.─Heaviness, flatulence.─Colic
and cramps; sensation as if intestines would burst.─Painful restlessness
and anxiety in intestines.─Sensation of round foreign body rising to
stomach, with heavy pain in intestines.─Electrical-like discharges in
intestines when he moves.
13. Stool and Anus.─
Inflammation of rectum, anus
swollen and burning; fear to go to stool on account of the difficulty and pain.─Fissures
at anus.─Large flowing hćmorrhoids.─Long-lasting
constipation, then involuntary, thin stools.
14. Urinary Organs.─
Full, swollen bladder,
frequent inclination to urinate without success.─Burning pains in
bladder as from live coals.─Burning in glans and urethra.─Blennorrhśa,
greenish, offensive.─Difficult micturition.─Urine:
turbid, brownish; diabetic; bloody; containing sand.
15. Male Sexual Organs.─
Excessive priapism.─Inflammation
and swelling of penis, with priapism and burning pains.─Burning,
pricking, excoriating pains in glans.─Strong ejaculation, or almost
none, and very difficult.
16. Female Sexual Organs.─
Ovaries and uterus
congested, with pricking and lancinating pains.─Contraction of uterus
with sensation as if something strove to penetrate into it.─Burning and
distending pains in uterus.─Menses: difficult, retarded; capricious,
irregular, with colic and black blood.
17. Respiratory Organs.─
Ulceration and false
membranes thick, deep in larynx.─Voice: low, deep, rough,
unintelligible.─Hoarseness with coughing and constant snuffing.─Severe
coughing, esp. evening and when going to sleep.─Cough: violent,
occasionally spitting of blood; croupy; hollow.─Dyspnśa and attacks of
suffocation.
18. Chest.─
Disposition to obesity of chest.─Painful
spots an chest, < coughing, breathing, motion.─At
each coughing spell it seemed as if chest would be torn and he would spit blood.─Burning,
lancinating pains; sensation of heat and dryness of chest.─Burning and
swollen heat.─Great flow of milk.─Dartrous eruption
on l. breast.
19. Heart.─
Sensation as if heart were surrounded
with water.─Frequent palpitation.
20. Back.─
Burning in loins and kidneys, with
contractive movements.
21. Limbs.─
Inflammation and swelling of joints.
24. Generalities.─
Bones brittle.─Motion
of carriage deafens and = spasms.─Spasms
with tetanic stiffness of limbs.─< From
motion; in evening; in damp weather.
25. Skin.─
Crusty ulcers in ears.─Large
pustules on face, leaving scars.─Eczema on lips.─Very
tender skin.─Itching, < by
scratching, heat, and motion.
26. Sleep.─
Irresistible drowsiness.─Lethargic
sleep.─Wakens at night without being able to sleep again.─Nightmare.
27. Fever.─
Dryness and coldness of skin, heat
with biting dryness.─Heat in forehead with heaviness of head and
vertigo.─Cold sweat with great heat through whole body.─Sweat
which seems to corrode the skin.® 2000
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