Cayenne Pepper-Solanaceae
General
Persons with light hair, blue eyes, nervous but stout and plethoric habit. Phlegmatic diathesis; lack of reactive force, especially with fat people, easily exhausted; indolent, dreads any kind of exercise; persons inclined to be jovial, yet get angry at trifles. Children; dread open air; always chilly; refractory, clumsy, fat dirty, and disinclined to work or think. Desires to be let alone; wants to lie down and sleep. Homesickness [of the indolent, melancholic], with red cheeks and sleeplessness. Constriction: in fauces; throat; nares; chest; bladder; urethra; rectum. Burning and smarting sensation, as from cayenne pepper, in throat and other parts, not (>) by heat. Tonsillitis: with burning, smarting pain; intense soreness; constriction of throat with burning; inflamed dark red, swollen. The burning spasmodic constriction and other pains, worse between acts of deglutition [Ign.]. Painful swelling behind the ear [mastoid], extremely sore and sensitive to touch. Every stool is followed by thirst and every drink by shuddering. As the coldness of the body increases, so also does the ill-humor. Nervous, spasmodic cough; in sudden paroxysms; as if head would fly to pieces. With every explosive cough [and at no other time] there escapes a volume of pungent, foetid air. pain in distant parts on coughing [bladder, knees, legs, ears].
Relations
Compare: Apis, Bell. , Bry. , Calad. , Puls. Cina follows well in intermittent fever. The constricting, burning, smarting pains differentiate from Apis and Belladonna.