Materia Medica by Kent (caps)Most of the substances that are
used on the table as seasoning in foods will in the course of a
generation or two be very useful medicines, because people
poison themselves with these substances, tea, coffee, pepper,
and these poisonous effects in the parents cause in the children
a predisposition to disease, which is similar to the disease
produced by these substances. In the fat, flabby, red-faced
children of beer drinkers and pepper eaters, with poor reaction,
a relaxed and flabby constitution, red face and varicose
condition, those that have been overstimulated, children of
overstimulated men, we find the sphere of Capsicum very often.
In those constitutions in which the face looks rosy, but it is
cold or not warm, and upon close examination the face is seen to
be studded with a fine system of capillaries. Plump and round,
with no endurance, a false plethora like CAL. The end of the
nose is red, the cheeks are red, redness over the cheeks, red
eyes, easily relaxed individuals.