CAPSICUM



Cold sweat on upper part of the legs.

Feet cold.

Position etc.

      Rest: Motion: Moving head: walking: in open air: Ascending: Lying: Desire to lie down: Must bend double: Eating:.

Nerves

      Lack of reactive force, especially with fat people. Vital forces sunken. Paralysis, gangrene, meteorism, typhus.

Weak, exhausted. Staggering when walking.

Great desire to lie down and sleep; does not want to exert himself in the least.

Sleep

      yawning.

Sleepless from emotions, from homesickness, or from cough.

Sleep full of dreams, restless. Screaming in sleep.

Sensation as if one were falling from a height during sleep.

Many dreams, full of contrarieties.

Time

      Remission during day and before midnight.

Morning:, 2. Evening: Night:,,.

Temperature and Weather

      Generally better in warmth.

Dreads uncovering even in hot stage of ague. Shuns open air:. Draught: Open air:. Dry cold: Sharp winds: Warm drinks: Our of doors:.

Chill Fever Sweat

      Skin cool, Pulse cool, Pulse slow, want of appetite.

Shivering and chilliness after every drink.

Chill begins in back, with thirst, worse after drinking, lessened when walking out of doors.

Chill in the open air, particularly in a draught.

Chill followed by sweat; or by heat, with sweat and thirst.

Chill externally: burning inwardly.

Fever heat, with violent burning.

Heat: followed by chill, with thirst; lessened by motion.

Sweat: violent, copious; lessened by motion.

Attacks

      Periodicity marked.

Chill spreads gradually until extreme points are reached; then as gradually declines.

Sides

      Right:,, Left:,,, Below upwards:. Above downwards:.

Sensations

      Violent pains at various places; now here, now there; neuralgia of children.

Superficial drawing pains in different parts of the body.

Burning, smarting sensations.

Sensations as if parts would go to sleep.

Tissues

      Relaxed fibre; obesity.

Glandular swellings.

Joints: crack; stiff, painful on beginning to move; pain, as if paralyzed.

Contact Injuries etc.

      Worse from touch; skin sensitive, with many internal ailments.

Touch: Scratching; Pressure.

Seasickness.

Skin

      Itching worse from scratching.

Burning in the skin.

Herpetic-like eruption on forehead or face, itching, burning.

Stinging-biting or burning-itching, worse on scalp, face and chest.

Skin bloated, flabby.

Stages and States

      Light hair, blue eyes, Nervous, but full habit.

Phlegmatic: awkward, easily offended; indolent, melancholic; lack of reaction.

Lazy, fat, unclean, dreads the open air.

Children who are always chilly, refractory, clumsy.

Less frequently indicated in persons of tense fibre.

Hemorrhoidal constitutions, Gouty.

Relationship

      Complaints from coffee.

Fevers from, or after abuse of quinine. Vapor of Sulphur or Sulph ac. antidotes feeling as if parts were going to sleep.

Antidotes to Capsie.: Caladium, Camphor., Cina, Cinchon.

C. Hering
Hering got the degree of M. D. from the University of Wuezburg with highest honours. The theme of his thesis was "De'Medicina Futura" (The medicine of future). Hering left Germany for West Indies and finally arrived at Philadelphia in Jan, 1833. He established a homeopathic school at Allentown, Pennsylvania, commonly known as "Allentown Academy". Soon he became very popular as a physician. He is known as the 'Father of Homeopathy' in America.