A tincture is prepared from the dried fruit of Capsicum Annuum L. (the red pepper).
General Action
It produces inflammation of mucous membranes, with bloody mucous discharges (bowels, bladder, throat, etc.). It produces well- marked chill and fever, neuralgias and phlegmonous inflammations, with threatening, deep-seated abscess (lungs, ear).
Compare Belladonna, Cantharis, Merc-cor., Rhus-t., Natrum mur., and probably also Oleander.
Generalities
Cramp in l. arm, then in whole body, with stiffness of arms so that they could not be straightened, stiffness of feet on rising after sitting, with crawling and sensation as if asleep. General trembling while caressing. Superficial stitches between scapulae when breathing, and in epigastric region, side of abdomen, in ensiform cartilage and sternum. Aching, now in one part, now in another. Drawing pain here and there in limbs, back, nape, scapulae and hands, excited by motion. Painless sensation in body, moving upward and downward, with redness of cheeks. (Clucking sensation, with sudden throbbing in some large veins.) He shuns all nation. Weariness; (<) morning; not inviting sleep. Sensation as if all parts would fall asleep, (>) sulphur-fumes.
Clinical Most useful in older persons who have become debilitated by disease and who react badly, not so useful in young people. Often adapted to people who have exhausted their vitality, especially by medical work, and whose vital heat is diminished, who do not react, especially from chill, muscles are weary and painful, fear of the slightest draft of either warm or cold air; sometimes indicated in persons who abstain from their accustomed alcoholic stimulants. The pains in general are burning in character and are accompanied by chilliness. Many of the sensations are those of constriction, about the throat, chest, bladder, rectum, etc.
Mind
Disposition to start. Taciturn, absorbed in himself; T., sullen and obstinate. Contented, jocose and singing, but angry from slightest causes. Capricious, at one time laughing constantly, soon again crying. Obstinacy without cries. Reproaches and anger at the faults of others, offense at trifles and fault-finding. Anxiety; forcing him to take a deep breath. Busy, uneasy mood. Repugnance and fretfulness. Indifference to everything. Jokes and witticisms. Indisposition to work or think. Comatose all day.
Clinical Homesick, cries all the time, with chilliness and hot face.
Head
Stitches. Headache more sticking than tearing, (<) rest, (>) motion. (Tearing.) Aching as if the skull would burst (Belladonna) on coughing (Natrum mur., Phosphorus); on moving head on walking; bursting headache or feeling as if head were too full. Throbbing pain. Confusion; on waking; on waking, so that he did not recognize himself. Emptiness. Intoxication. Vertigo in morning on waking; and dullness in head, like a heedlessness and awkwardness, so that she knocked against everything, with chilliness and anxiety; with staggering from side to side.
Forehead. Drawing tearing in bone, (<) r. side. Aching above root of nose (Cantharis, Prunus-sp., Ignatia, etc.), with stitches through ear and over eye. Throbbing pain (Gloninum). Aching as if it pressed from occiput outward to forehead, with cutting from occiput to forehead. Bursting pain (Ferrum). Drawing pain.
Aching in temples; throbbing, in one or other T. Deeply penetrating stitches in vertex. Sudden stitches from vertex to forehead. Drawing-tearing in l. side of head. One-sided sticking, like a hysterical migraine, (<) raising eyes and head or stooping, with forgetfulness and nausea. Corrosive itching, and after scratching soreness as if the hair had been pulled.
Clinical The bursting headache is often associated with severe cough or is the accompaniment of malarial fever.
Eyes
Protrusion, with pallor of face. Inflammation. Stinging. Burning in morning, with redness and lachrymation. Pain as from a foreign body. Pressure on, so that he could not open them sufficiently. Pupils dilated. Painful twitching beneath r. lid. Vision almost lost. All objects seem black. Dim vision in morning, as from a foreign body floating over cornea, (>) for a moment by rubbing.
Ears
Swelling on bone behind E., painful to touch Tearing behind l.; in concha. Pain, deeply seated; deepseated itching; with every cough, as if an ulcer would open; beneath E.
Clinical Valuable remedy in chronic suppuration of the ears, with bursting headache, chilliness, etc.; suppuration of the middle ear, with perforation of the drum and discharge of yellow pus. Particularly in mastoid disease, with great tenderness over the petrous bone, threatening to involve the meninges of the brain.
Nose
Constrictive jerking pain on l. side, extending to above l. eye. Burning-tensive sensation on l. nostril, as if a pimple would form. Crawling-tickling, as in stopped coryza. Burning-crawling, with violent sneezing and discharge of mucus. (Itching internally, with stitches.) Racking sneezing, with discharge of thin mucus. Stopped coryza. Discharge of bloody mucus. Nosebleed in morning in bed and blowing of blood from nose.
Face
Redness of cheeks; of face, then pale, suffering expression. Now pallor; now redness, with red lobules of ears, with internal but not external heat. Pain, partly like bone-pains, from external touch, partly like fine pains piercing the nerves, which are tormenting when falling asleep. Pain in l. side of lower jaw, as from a boil or ulcer. Lips swollen; chaps on L. (Arum-t.), fissures (Natrum mur., Rhus-t.); scaly; ulcerating eruption on L. (not in corners), painful only on motion; burning.
Mouth
Drawing toothache. Teeth seem too long, and raised up and on edge. Swollen gum. Drawing pain gum. Pimples on tip of tongue, with stinging and pain when touched. Dry sensation on forepart of tongue in morning, without thirst. Pimples on inner surface of cheeks. Palate pains as if pressed or pinched, (<) at first when not swallowing, then (<) when swallowing. Mouth dry. Tough mucus. Salivation. Taste watery, flat, then heartburn; as of bad water; flat, disagreeable, earthy (for example, of butter); sour to broth; astringent, sour.
Clinical Stomatitis, burning ulcers.
Throat
Spasmodic contraction. Stitches in region of epiglottis, causing dry cough. Pain on swallowing as if inflamed, but when not swallowing drawing pain. Pain when coughing; as form a swelling; during a paroxysm of cough, as if an ulcer would break. Pain in upper part when not swallowing, as if sore, with spasmodic contraction, as in waterbrash. Pain externally. Rawness.
Clinical Sore throat of smokers and drinkers, with inflammation, burning, relaxed uvula, sometimes dry, in other cases with tough mucus difficult to dislodge. Diphtheria, with gangrenous sloughs extending to roof of mouth, with excessive burning, spasmodic constriction, chilliness, etc. (compare Cantharis).
Stomach
Desire for coffee. Appetite lost. Thirst lost. Eructations only when walking, and with every E. a stitch in side; odorless, afterwards they had a peppery taste. Nausea; in pit in morning and afternoon; caused by cough; after drinking coffee, with spitting of saliva. Vomiting, with purging.
Stitches in pit when breathing deeply and suddenly, talking or on touch; sudden S. in pit. Pinching boring-outward in pit, (<) sitting bent. Pressure in pit during menses, with nausea; in pit, (<) pressure; in pit, with nausea; beneath short ribs and in pit. Burning; above pit after eating at noon and in evening; warmth in epigastrium, then nausea and general sick feeling; warmth extending to fauces, then burning eructations; after breakfast, extending into mouth. Feeling as if cold water were in it, then sensation as if he were trembling.
Abdomen
Distension after eating, then shooting headache towards occiput and sweat; D. and hardness, with intolerance of tight clothing. Rumbling; with inclination to stool, (>) emission of flatus; extending upward and downward. Flatulence. Flatus moves about painfully. Feeling as if distended even to bursting, causing suffocation. Pinching after eating, with incarcerated flatus.
Colic, with cutting twisting about navel and passage of tough mucus, like diarrhoea, at times mixed with black blood, after every stool thirst, and after every drink shivering (Arsenicum Veratrum). Drawing, with twisting, with and without diarrhoea. Pain deep in, rather burning than sticking on motion, (<) stooping and walking, with cutting in umbilical region, ill humor about the pain, discontent and whining about inanimate objects (not about men or moral subjects), apprehension and sweat on face.
Pressure here and there. Tension, especially in epigastric region, between pit of stomach and navel, (<) motion, with tension in lower part of back. Tensive pain, extending to chest, as from distention of abdomen. Strong pulsations in bloodvessels. Warmth in intestinal canal. Pinching in upper part of abdomen. A hernia, consisting of wind, protrudes forcibly and painfully from abdominal ring. Pain, almost sticking, in a spot on l. side of hypogastrium as from flatus.
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.