Piper Nigrum

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Piper Nigrum Reference Specimen Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification
🧬 Remedy Miasm: Psoric Miasm The Psoric miasm is considered the mother of all chronic diseases. It primarily manifests as functional nervous weakness, allergies, skin itching, eruptions, and hypersensitivity.
GENERAL
  • The symptoms of the Pip - n provingTesting a remedy on healthy volunteersThe systematic method of administering a substance to healthy subjects to observe and record the symptoms it produces. are Houat's.
  • The only additional symptom is one recorded by Berridge as having occurred in a woman on two occasions from taking a large quantity of pepper: “Feeling as if temples and mal ar bones were pressed in, worse on left side.” Sensation of burning and pressure everywhere.
  • Clarke can confirm the full, heavy headache of Houat's provings by personal experience.
  • He gets the headache whenever he takes food highly peppered and he knows of others who do the same
MODALITIES ETC
  • Worse from change of temperature, damp weather, evening.
  • Worse by motion
RELATIONSHIPS
📊 Side-by-Side Comparison:

Compare: (1) Piper-m. (2) Cub., also mental, genito-urinary, skin and general symptoms.

MIND
  • Sad, apprehensive.
  • Unable to concen trate, starts at any noise.
  • Hot -headed, irascible and often gay.
  • Amorousness with hypochondriasis.
  • Fear of being poisoned.
HEAD
  • Heavy headache, as if temples were pressed in, pressure in nasal and facial bones.
EYES
  • Bursting aching in eyeballs.
  • Eyes inflamed and burning.
  • Lachrymation and photophobiaExtreme sensitivity to lightAn abnormal intolerance to light, causing eye discomfort, squinting, or pain in bright environments..
  • Lids ulcerated and bleared.
  • Dim sight and vertigoSensation of dizziness or spinningA feeling of movement or spinning of oneself or the surroundings when there is no actual movement. with headache, nausea and vomiting
EARS
  • Crusty ulcers in concha of ears
FACE
  • Red burning face.
  • Lips dry and cracked
MOUTH
  • Burning dryness of mouth and throat.
  • Heat and dryness of palate and tongue, as if burned
THROAT
  • Sore, feels raw, burns.
  • Burning pain in tonsils.
  • Constant accumulation of mucus in th roat and expectoration.
  • ParalysisLoss of voluntary muscle functionThe loss of the ability to move (and sometimes to feel anything) in part or most of the body. of muscles of throat, can cry but not articulate intelligibly.
  • Tongue - Eruption of little vesicles on margin of tongue.
  • Painful, heavy tongue, impeded speech.
  • Whitish coating on middle of tongue
CHEST
  • DyspneaDifficulty or shortness of breathLaborious or painful breathing, often associated with respiratory or cardiac conditions., cough with pain in chest in spots, feels as if spitting blood.
  • PalpitationsSensation of rapid or irregular heartbeatA noticeably rapid, strong, or irregular heartbeat due to agitation, exertion, or physical conditions., cardiac pain, slow, intermittent pulse.
  • Kidneys - Bladder feels full, swollen, frequent inclination without success.
  • Burning in bladder and urethra.
  • Difficult urination.
  • Priapism.
  • Dyspnea and attacks of suffocation.
  • Severe coughing, especially in evening and when going to sleep.
  • Cough is violent, occasionally spitting of blood, croupy, hollow.
  • Nose itches, sneezing, nosebleed
ABDOMEN
  • Full feeling.
  • Gastric discomfort.
  • Sensation of hea t and dryness in stomach.
  • Cramps and drawing in stomach.
  • Vomiting with great exertion, it seemed as if stomach itself would be vomited.
  • Teeth - Tooth decays.
  • Violent toothache, worse in warmth and evening.
  • Temperature - Dryness and coldness of skin, heat with biting dryness.
  • Heat in forehead with heaviness of head and vertigo.
  • Cold sweat with great heat through whole body.
  • Sweat which seems to cor rode the skin.
  • Disposition of abdomen to obesity.
  • Abdomen swollen, hard, burn ing.
  • Inflammation of intestines with great thirst.
  • Tympanites.
  • BorborygmiStomach gurgling or rumbling soundsGurgling, rumbling, or splashing noises heard from the abdomen, caused by gas moving through the intestines..
  • ColicSevere fluctuating pain in the abdomenSevere, often fluctuating pain in the abdomen caused by gas, spasm, or obstruction in the intestines, common in infants. and cramps, sensation as intestines would burst.
  • FlatulenceGas accumulation in stomach or intestinesThe presence of excessive air or gas in the digestive tract, causing bloating and wind..
  • Desire for coarse and extravagant food.
  • Constant, unquenchable thirst
GENITALS ETC
  • Inflammation and swelling of penis with priapism and burning pains.
  • Burning, pricking, excoriating pains in glans.
  • Menses difficult, retarded, capri cious, irregular.
  • Menses with colic and black blood.
  • Ovaries and uterus congested with pricking and sharp pains.
  • Burning and distending pains in uterus
EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
  • Inflammation and swelling of joints
BACK AND NECK
  • Burning in loins and kidneys with contractive movements.
  • Breasts - Great flow of milk
SKIN
  • Large pustules on face, leaving scars.
  • Very tender skin.
  • Itching, by scratching, heat and motion.
  • EczemaItchy, inflamed skin conditionAn inflammatory skin rash causing dry, red, itchy, and sometimes cracking or blistered skin patches. on lips.
  • Crusty ulcers in ears
SLEEP
  • Irresistible drowsiness.
  • Lethargic sleep.
  • Nightmares.
  • Wakens at night with out being able to sleep again
GENERALITIES
  • Burning sensation.
  • Pressure in nasal bones in temples and facial bones.
  • Sensation of a foreign, round body rising to stomach.
  • Contraction of uterus and sensation as if something about to enter it

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📚 Literature Citation & References:
This clinical profile is compiled from: Robin Murphy, MD — Lotus Materia Medica, 3rd Edition; Samuel Hahnemann — Materia Medica Pura; William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica; and Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad — Homeopathy: Like Cures Like. Compiled in accordance with classical homeopathic provings and clinical practice.
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