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individuals. These constitutions react slowly after diseases and do not respond to remedies, a sluggishstate, a tired, lazy constitution. In school girls who cannot study or work, who get home-sick and wantto go home. In gouty constitutions, with cracking of the joints and gouty deposits in the joints, stiffjoints, clumsy, weak, give out soon. There is sluggishness of the whole economy. They are chillypatients, are sensitive to air, and want to be in a warm room. Even in the ordinary weather the open aircauses chilliness. They are sensitive to cold and to bathing.In the mental state there is a no more striking thing than this symptom homesickness. Asickness like homesickness runs through the remedy and is accompanied by red cheeks andsleeplessness, hot feeling in the fauces, fearfulness. They are oversensitive to impressions, are alwayslooking for an offence or slight; always suspicious and looking for an insult. Obstinate to the extreme;it is a devilishness. Even if she wants a certain thing she will oppose it if it is proposed by some oneelse.After emotions red cheeks, Yet with the red cheeks lack of heat, even with increasedtemperature; or one cheek pale and the other red, or the cheeks alternately red and pale. Children areclumsy and awkward.The Capsicum mind is almost overwhelmed by persistent thoughts of suicide. He does not wantto kill himself, he resists the thoughts and yet they persist, and he is tormented by these thoughts. Thereare persistent thoughts in many remedies, and it is necessary to distinguish between impulses anddesires. If he desires to have a rope or a knife to commit suicide, that is altogether different from animpulse to commit suicide. An impulse is sometimes overwhelming and overbalances the mind, and hecommits suicide. You should always find out from a patient whether he loathes life and wants to die, orif he has impulses which he wishes to put aside. Some persons lie awake at night and long for death,and there is no reason for it. That is a state of the will, insanity of the will. In another . patient thethoughts jump into his mind and he cannot put them aside, and the thoughts are tormenting. Thedistinguishing feature of the remedy is often found by differentiating between the two. Desires are ofthe will; impulses come into the thoughts.Headaches as if the skull would split when moving the head, when walking or coughing.Feeling as if the head would fly to pieces; holds the head with the hand. Feeling as if the head werelarge, aggravated by coughing and stepping, ameliorated by lying with the head high. Bursting pain andthrobbing. Headache with pulsation in the forehead and temples. Headache as if the brain would bepressed through the forehead. On stooping, feeling as if the brain would be pressed out, as if the redeyes would be pressed out on stooping.The senses are disturbed and are overacute; oversensitiveness to noise, smells, taste and touch,to impressions, to insults.The patient is excited.Pains in the ears, itching pain, aching, pressing pain with cough, as if an abscess would burst. Ithas a peculiar action on the bones of the internal ear and mastoid process. Abscesses round about andbelow the ear and caries; petrous portion of temporal bone necrosed. It has been a frequently indicatedremedy in mastoid abscess.Old catarrhs. The patient takes cold in the nose and throat and this is followed by a collection ofmucus. Very often in stupid patients it is difficult to get symptoms, and you must depend on what yousee, the character of the discharge and a few other things, and you will find that some of these caseswill be cured and all the other symptoms will go away; but in some of these old catarrhs no reactionseems to come after the most carefully chosen remedies, and all at once the doctor observes that thepatient has a red face and it is cold and the end of the nose is red and cold, and the patient is fat andflabby and yet has not much endurance, never could learn at school, and if she exerts breaks out into asweat and freezes in the. cold air. He has a key to the patient and examines the patient by the key, thatis, by the drug, a bad practice and never to be resorted to except as a dernier resort and in stupidpatients. When he gives Capsicum to that patient it arouses her, it may not cure; but after it the Siliceaor Kali bich. or other remedy which was perhaps given before and did not act takes hold and cures.In the text it says, "Nose red and hot". The skin all over is red and burning, a capillarycongestion. The cheeks are red and hot, and this alternates with paleness. Red dots on the face.Pains in the face like bone pain, from external touch. Pains are worse from touch. Pain in thezygoma, or the zygoma is sensitive.Sensitive to pressure over the mastoid. Swelling in the region of the mastoid.Taste foul like putrid water. When coughing the air from the lungs causes a pungent offensivetaste in the mouth. A hot pungent air comes up from the throat, tasting foul when coughing.On the tongue and lips, flat, sensitive, spreading ulcers with lardaceous base. The mucousmembrance of the lips and various parts of the body if pinched up with the fingers remain in the raised