# Piper Nigrum

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Morning

## Keynote Indications
The symptoms of the Pip - n. proving 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 (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Worse from change of temperature, damp weather, evening. Worse by motion.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Sad, apprehensive.
- Unable to concen trate, starts at any noise.
- Hot -headed, irascible and often gay.
- Amorousness with hypochondriasis.
- Fear of being poisoned.
- 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.
- 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 photophobia.
- Lids ulcerated 
and bleared.
- Dim sight and vertigo 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.
- Paralysis 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
- Dyspnea, cough with pain in chest in spots, feels as if spitting blood.
- Palpitations, 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 - Nose itches, sneezing, nosebleed.

### Stomach & 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.
- Borborygmi.
- Colic and cramps, sensation as intestines would burst.
- Flatulence.
- Desire for coarse and extravagant food.
- Constant, unquenchable thirst.

### Urinary & Genital
- 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
- Inflammation and swelling of joints.

### Neck & Back
- 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.
- Eczema 
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.