Piper nigrum
Plant · Piperaceae
Piper nigrum suits individuals with pervasive burning and pressure sensations affecting the head, throat, stomach, and urinary tract. It is indicated in conditions with sadness, apprehensiveness, and inability to concentrate.
Key symptoms
- Burning and pressure sensation everywhere
- Burning pain in throat and tonsils
- Burning in bladder and urethra with difficult micturition
- Heavy headache as if temples were pressed in
- Eyes inflamed and burning with bursting aching in eyeballs
- Flatulence, tympanites, colic, and cramps
- Great flow of milk
Black Pepper
Sensation of burning and pressure everywhere.
Mind
Sad, apprehensive. Unable to concentrate; starts at any noise.
Head
Heavy headache, as if temples were pressed in; pressure in nasal and facial bones. Eyes inflamed and burning. Red burning face. Bursting aching in eyeballs. Nose itches; sneezing; nosebleed. Lips dry and cracked.
Throat
Sore, feels raw, burns. Burning pain in tonsils.
Stomach
Gastric discomfort. Full feeling. Great thirst. Flatulence. Tympanites. Colic and cramps.
Chest
Dyspnœa, cough with pain in chest in spots, feels as if spitting blood. Palpitation, cardiac pain slow intermittent pulse. Great flow of milk.
Urinary
Burning in bladder and urethra. Difficult micturition. Bladder feels full, swollen; frequent inclination without success. Priapism.
Dose
Low attenuations.
Pepper. N. O. Piperaceæ. Trituration or tincture of dried fruits (peppercorns).
Clinical
Anus, fissure of. Blenorrhagia. Breasts, swelling of; eruption on. Constipation. Cough. Dysuria. Hæmorrhoids. Headache. Menses, irregular; scanty. Milk, excessive flow of. Neuralgia. Priapism. Speech, difficult. Teeth, caries of. Tongue, eruption on; heavy. Toothache. Uterus, cramps in.
Characteristics
The Peppers are tropical climbing shrubs. Piper nig. yields the pepper of commerce. The fruit when ripe is red. It is gathered before it is fully ripe and spread on mats in the sun, when it loses its red colour and becomes black and shrivelled. This is Black pepper. White pepper is the same fruit freed from its outer skin by maceration in water and subsequent rubbing (Treas. of Bot.). The symptoms of the proving are Houat's. The only additional symptom is one recorded by Berridge as having occurred in a lady on two occasions from taking a large quantity of pepper: "Feeling as if temples and malar bones were pressed in, < …
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