Capsicum annuum
as H.C. Allen recorded it in Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 1899
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Keynotes
Capsicum annuum
Cayenne Pepper. Solanaceae.
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.
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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, fetid air.
Pain in distant parts on coughing (bladder, knees, legs, ears).
Puls.
Cina follows well in intermittent fever.
The constricting, burning, smarting pains differentiate from Apis and Belladonna.
What the other books say about Capsicum annuum
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Capsicum annuum in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Capsicum annuum in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
- Capsicum annuum in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
- Capsicum annuum in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Cite this page. H.C. Allen. Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica. 3rd edition (1910). Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. Capsicum annuum — Keynotes, pp. 79–82. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/capsicum-annuum. Published 1910: public domain in the US (before 1931) and in India (author died 1909). Replaces B. Jain's 2005 "rearranged and classified" edition (© the publisher), per the owner's decision of 13 Sep 2026. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.