Common name: Cayenne, or red pepper.
Introduction
Capsicum annuum, Linn. Natural order: Solanaceae. Preparation: Tincture of the powdered ripe pods, with the seeds; in the proportion of 20 grains of the powder to 400 drops of alcohol (Hahnemann).
Mind
He makes reproaches and becomes angry at the faults of others; he becomes offended at trifles and finds fault. Even in the midst of joking he becomes offended at the slightest trifles. Obstinate, with outcries (after three hours). Indisposition to work or think. Repugnance and fretfulness. Anxiety and apprehensiveness; he imagines that he will die. The aversion to everything and the fretfulness were dissipated by sleep (curative action. H). Anxiety, which compels him to take a deep breath. Fearfulness (after two hours). He is very easily irritated. Capricious; at one time constantly laughing, soon again crying. An excessively busy uneasy mood. Indifferent to everything. He is taciturn, peevish, and obstinate. He is taciturn, absorbed in himself. Quiet mood (curative action). Contentment (curative action). Firmness, happy mood (curative action). He is in a contented mood, is jocose, and sings, and still he becomes angry from the slightest causes (after four hours). He makes jokes and utter witticisms.
Head
Confusion and Vertigo. Intoxication. Confusion of the head. Confused on first waking from sleep (fourth day). Obscuration and confusion of the head. Dizziness and dulness in the head, like a heedlessness and awkwardness, so that she knocked against everything; with a febrile chill and coldness, together with anxiety. Dizziness in the morning on waking. Vertigo, staggering from one side to the other. General Head. A bursting headache, or a feeling as if the brain were too full. Headache on coughing, as if the skull would burst. Emptiness and dulness of the head (after twelve hours). When he awoke from sleep his head was so dull that he did not even recognize himself. Headache, as if the skull were bruised, on moving the head and on walking. (Tearing headache). A headache, more sticking than tearing, which was worse during rest, but relieved on motion. A sticking headache. Throbbing, beating headache in one or the other temple. Throbbing, beating headache. Forehead. Bursting headache in the forehead. Constant pressive headache in the forehead, above the root of the nose, together with some stitches through the ear and over the eye. Pressive headache in the forehead, as if it pressed from the occiput outward to the forehead, with a cutting from the occiput to the forehead (immediately). Throbbing headache in the forehead. Tearing headache in the forehead. Drawing-tearing pain in the frontal bone, more on the right side (after six and seven hours, and after third day). Temples. Pressive headache in the temples. Pressive pain in the temporal region. Vertex. Severe, deeply penetrating stitches in the vertex. Two sudden, violent stitches from the vertex to the forehead (after one hour). Sides. Drawing-tearing in the left side of the head (after seventeen and forty-eight hours). A one-sided, pressive-sticking headache, like an hysterical migraine, which was increased by raising the eyes and the head, or by stooping, and was accompanied by forgetfulness and nausea. External Head. Slight shivering over the hairy portion of the head, followed by burning-itching on the scalp, which was relieved after scratching, but returned with increased severity (after two hours).
Eyes
The eyes protrude from the head, with paleness of the face (after sixteen hours). Inflammation of the eyes. Painful twitching beneath the right eyelid (after half an hour). Pressure on the eyes, so that he was unable to open them sufficiently wide. A pressive pain in the eye, as from a foreign body. A burning in the eyes, which become red and watery, in the morning. Pupil. Fine stinging pain in the eyes (from the dust). Much dilated pupils. Great dilatation of the pupils. Vision. Dim vision in the morning, as if a foreign body floated over the cornea and obscured it, so that one saw clearly again for a moment on rubbing the eye. All objects seem black. Visual power almost lost, like blindness.
Ears
A swelling on the bone behind the ear, painful to touch. Tearing pain behind the left ear (after six hours). Pain beneath the ear. A pressive pain in the ear with every cough, as if an ulcer would open. A pressive pain very deep in the ears (after one and eight hours). Itching pain very deep in the ear (after sixteen hours). Tearing in the concha of the ear.
Nose
Objective. Painful pimples beneath the nostrils. Stopped coryza. Violent racking sneezing, with discharge of thin mucus from the nose (immediately). Bloody mucus from the nose. Nose-bleed, in the morning, in bed, and blowing of blood from the nose, several times. Subjective. Burning-crawling in the nose, with violent sneezing and discharge of mucus (immediately, from the dust). Burning-tensive sensation in the left nostril, as if a pimple would form. Constrictive jerking pain on the left side of the nose, extending to above the left eye (after five hours). Crawling-tickling in the nose, as in stopped coryza.
Face
Objective. Head and redness of the face, with trembling of the limbs (immediately). Unusual redness of the face, always followed, after half an hour, by a pale suffering expression (after three hours). The face was at one time pale, at another red, with red lobules of the ears, with sensation of burning, without, however, special heat being felt by the hand. Red cheeks. Subjective. Pain in the face, partly like bone-pains, excited by external touch, partly like fine pains piercing the nerves, which are tormenting when falling asleep. Pain in the left side of the lower jaw, as from a boil or ulcer, lasting three-quarters of an hour. Lips. Ulcerating eruption on the lips (not in the corners), which only pain on motion. Swollen lips. Scaly lips. Cracking of the lips; smarting of the lips. Burning lips.
Mouth
Teeth and Gums. Drawing pain in the teeth, which was neither increased on touching the teeth nor on eating. A tooth seems to him too long and raised up, and feels blunt. Swelling of the gum. Drawing pain in the gum. Tongue. Pimples on the tip of the tongue, which sting and pain when touched. Dry sensation on the forepart of the tongue, without thirst, in the morning (after eight hours). General Mouth. Dryness of the mouth. Saliva. Tough mucus in the mouth (after two hours). Salivation. Taste. Sour taste of broth (after two hours). Acid taste in the mouth. A pungent acid taste in the mouth. Taste as of bad water. Flat, insipid, earthy taste (for example, of butter). Watery, flat taste in the mouth, followed by heartburn.
Throat
Pain in the palate, as if it was pressed or pinched by something hard, at first more when now swallowing, afterwards worse when swallowing (after one hour and a half). Pain in the upper part of the throat, when now swallowing, as if the parts were sore; and spasmodic contraction, as in water brash. Pain on swallowing, as in inflammation of the throat, but when not swallowing, drawing pain in the throat. Pressive pain in the throat, as if an ulcer would break, during a paroxysm of coughing. Pain in the throat, only when coughing, as from a simple painful swelling. A simple pain in the fauces, only when coughing. Sensation of rawness in the throat, for nearly two days. Continued stitching in the throat, in the region of the epiglottis, which caused a dry coughing, without being relieved by coughing. Spasmodic contraction of the throat. Pain externally on the throat.
Stomach
Appetite. Want of hunger, loss of appetite. He was obliged to force himself to eat; he had no real appetite, although food had a natural taste. Thirst. Desire for coffee (after eight hours). Loss of thirst. Eructations. Eructations from the stomach only when walking, and with every eructation a stitch in the side; when sitting, no eructations, and so no stitches. After eating, fulness and anxiety in the chest followed by sour eructations or heartburn; at last, thin stool. Nausea and Vomiting Qualmishness of the stomach (after one hour). Nausea. Qualmishness and nausea in the pit of the stomach, in the morning and afternoon (after twenty-four hours). Nausea and spitting of saliva, after drinking coffee. Cough excites nausea. Vomiting and purging (immediately). Heartburn. Stomach. Pressure in the pit of the stomach, with nausea. Pressive pain in the pit of the stomach. Pressure in the pit of the stomach, with nausea, during menstruation. Pressure beneath the short ribs and the pit of the stomach. Severe pressure in the pit of the stomach, increased by pressure (after half an hour). A pinching, boring-outward pain in the pit of the stomach, especially when sitting bent, lasting severely for eight minutes (after one hour and a half). Fine sudden stitches in the pit of the stomach (after a few minutes). Stitches in the pit of the stomach, when breathing deeply and suddenly, talking, or on touch. Coldness in the stomach; a feeling as if cold water were in it, followed by a sensation as if he were trembling. A burning above the pit of the stomach, immediately after eating, at noon and evening. A burning in the stomach, extending up into the mouth, after breakfast.
Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.