A comprehensive archive of homœopathic materia medica

Article

RED ONLY – Capsicum. (Capsicum Annuum.) – THE GUIDING SYMPTOMS OF OUR MATERIA MEDICA By CONSTANTINE HERING, M.D.

Main * Caps.

[1] Mind.
[2] Sensorium.
[3]
Inner head.
[4] Outer head.
[5] Sight and eyes.
[6]
Hearing and ears.
[7] Smell and nose.
[8] Upper face.
[9] Lower face.
[10] Teeth and gums.
[11]
Taste, speech, tongue.
[12]
Inner mouth.
[13]
Palate and throat.
[14]
Appetite, thirst. Desires..
[15] Eating and drinking.
[16] Hiccough, belching, nausea..

[17] Scrobiculum and stomach.
[18] Hypochondria.
[19]
Abdomen and loins.
[20]
Stools and rectum.
[21]
Urinary organs.
[22]
Male sexual organs.
[23]
Female sexual organs.
[24] Pregnancy. Parturition..
[25] Voice and larynx. Trachea..
[26] Respiration.
[27]
Cough.
[28] Inner chest and lungs.
[29] Heart, pulse and circulation.
[30] Outer chest.
[31]
Neck and back.
[32] Upper limbs.

[33] Lower limbs.
[34] Limbs in general.
[35] Rest. Position. Motion.
[36]
Nerves.
[37] Sleep.
[38] Time.
[39] Temperature and weather.
[40]
Fever.
[41] Attacks, periodicity.
[42] Locality and direction.
[43]
Sensations.
[44]
Tissues.
[45] Touch. Injuries..
[46]
Skin.
[47] Stage of life, constitution.
[48] Relations.

Caps. * Full text (70 Ko) * Red and blue only (55 Ko) * Red only

MIND. [1] [Caps.]

Homesickness : with red cheeks and sleeplessness ; with hot feeling in fauces.
After emotions, fever, with red cheeks.
   

INNER HEAD. [3] [Caps.]

Headache, as if skull would split, when moving head, walking, or coughing.
   

HEARING AND EARS. [6] [Caps.]

Painful swelling behind ear ; periostitis and caries of mastoid process.
   

TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] [Caps.]

Taste : sour ; flat, watery, followed by heartburn ; foul, like putrid water. θ Diarrhœa. θ Intermittent. θ Dysentery.
   

INNER MOUTH. [12] [Caps.]

Burning blisters in mouth. θ Scarlatina.
Tough mucus in mouth, or dryness.
   

PALATE AND THROAT. [13] [Caps.]

Tough congealed mucus in posterior nares, on rising in morning, requiring much hawking to dislodge.
Tonsillitis with burning, smarting pain.
Great soreness in throat, with smarting. θ Scarlatina.
Burning and other pains in throat < between acts of deglutition.
Throat inflamed, dark red, burning, pressing.
   

APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] [Caps.]

Dipsomania ; morning vomiting, sinking at stomach.
   

SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] [Caps.]

Stomach icy cold, or burning in it.
Dyspepsia from torpidity, particularly in old people.
   

ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] [Caps.]

Burning or cutting pains in abdomen. θ Hemorrhoids.
Peculiar feeling in abdomen, a sort of drawing ; he must bend double.
   

STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] [Caps.]

Dysentery : tenesmus and strangury ; pain < from a current of air, even if warm.
After stool :tenesmus ; burning at anus ; thirst, drinking causes shuddering ; drawing pains in back.
Smarting and burning pain in anus and rectum. θ Diarrhœa. θ Dysentery.
Violent tenesmus. θ Dysentery.
Tenesmus of rectum and bladder at same time.
   

URINARY ORGANS. [21] [Caps.]

Burning in bladder. θ Dysentery. θ Gonorrhœa.
Tenesmus vesicæ ; strangury. θ Dysentery.
Burning, smarting after urination.
   

MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] [Caps.]

Gonorrhœa : second stage ; white discharge, like cream ; excessive sensibility of parts to contact ; chordee, which can only be appeased or subdued in cold water.
   

FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] [Caps.]

Disordered menstruation, with a pushing or sticking sensation in left ovarian region.
   

VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] [Caps.]

Hoarseness from straining voice, in singers, preachers, etc.
   

COUGH. [27] [Caps.]

Nervous, spasmodic cough.
   

NECK AND BACK. [31] [Caps.]

Coldness beginning in back. θ Intermittent.
   

NERVES. [36] [Caps.]

Lack of reactive force, especially with fat people.
   

FEVER. [40] [Caps.]

Shivering and chilliness after every drink.
Hectic fever after emotions, and in nostalgia.
   

SENSATIONS. [43] [Caps.]

As if Cayenne pepper was sprinkled on parts.
   

TISSUES. [44] [Caps.]

Relaxed fibre : obesity.
Intermittent fever.
   

SKIN. [46] [Caps.]

Burning in skin.

® 2002

Main