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Capsicum Annuum

30CCapsicum
Cayenne Pepper · Red Pepper · "The Homesickness Remedy"
caps.PolychrestPlantCommonPsoric
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🎯 It acts primarily on the mucous membranes, causing burning sensations, constriction, and a lack of vital heat in sluggish, overweight individuals.
📖 Boericke writes:
(CAPSICUM)
Seems to suit especially persons of lax fiber, weak; diminished vital heat. A relaxed plethoric sluggish, cold remedy. Not much reactive force. Such persons are fat, indolent, opposed to physical exertion, averse to go outside of their routine, get homesick easily.General uncleanliness of body. Abstainers from accustomed alcoholics. It affects the mucous membranes, producing a sensation ofconstriction. Inflammation of petrous bone. Burning pains and general chilliness. Older people who have exhausted their vitality, especially by mental work, and poor living; blear-eyed appearance; who do not react. Fear of slightest draught. Marked tendency to suppuration in every inflammatory process. Prostration and feeble digestion of alcoholics. Myalgia, aching and jerking of muscles.
👤 Constitution
•Typically suits overweight, sluggish individuals with weak muscles and poor circulation who dislike physical exertion and are very sensitive to cold drafts.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
General uncleanliness of body.
introduction
Delirium tremens.
mind
Swelling and pain behind ears.
ears
Inflammation of mastoid.
ears
Hot feeling in fauces.
throat
Pain and dryness in throat extending to the ears.
throat
Sore throat of smokers and drinkers.
throat
Stomatitis.
mouth
Fetid odor from mouth.
mouth
Much thirst; but drinking causes shuddering.
stomach
Bloody mucus, with burning and tenesmus; drawing pain in back after stool.
stool
Thirsty after stool, with shivering.
stool
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Used for emotional states characterized by extreme irritability, intense homesickness, or alcohol-related delirium.
Excessive peevishness.
Homesickness, with sleeplessness and disposition to suicide.
Wants to be let alone.
Peppery disposition.
Delirium tremens.
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
↑Better from
💊 Dosage & Potency
3rd to 6th
Decimal
🕒As directed
Primary Dosage
Mother Tincture
Mother Tincture
🕒As directed
📝In delirium tremens, dram doses in milk or orange peel.
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🚫 Antidotes
Cina Maritima →Caladium Seguinum →
🔄 Compare With
Lycopodium Clavatum →Belladonna →Centaurea →Pulsatilla Pratensis →Centaurea Tagana →
📚 Sources & References

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