ÆSCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM.
Æsculus Hippocastanum, L. Nat. order,
Sapindaceæ. Common names, Horse Chestnut; (Germ.)
Rosskastanie; (Fr.) Le marronnier d’Inde. Preparation,
Trituration or tincture from the fresh fruit without the shell.
Authorities.
1, Cooley, N.
Y. St. Trans., 8, 330 (took the tinct.); 2, Buchmann,
Viertl Jahrschrift, 10, 1 (took the powdered nut and tinct.); 3,
Augusta B. ibid. (nut and θ); 4, Miss W. Br., ibid. (nut); 5,
Miss W. N., ibid. (nut); 6, Pastor R. H. ibid. (nut); 7, Ed. B. ibid. (tinct.); 8,
Mrs. J., ibid. (tinct.); 9, C. W. Boyce, Hale’s New
Remedies, 2d ed. (1st. dec. trit.); 10, T. C. Duncan,
ibid. (1st and 2d dec. dil.); 11, W. Warren, ibid., and
N. Am. J. of Hom., 10, 80, (1st and 2d dec. trit.); 12,
H. M. Paine ibid. (tincture); 13, W. H. Burt, ibid.
(crude nut and 1st dec. trit.); 14, C. H. Lee, ibid, (3d
dil. and tinct.); 15, Dr. J. C. Raymond, N. Am. J. of
Hom., 10, 90 (6th cent. potency).
MIND.
► Great repugnance to
the drug, [9]. ►
Inward cheerfulness and placidity of temper, [5]. ► *Feeling very depressed an low-spirited, [13]. ► *Feeling very sad, [13]. ► *Feel dull, gloomy,
and despondent, [10]. ►
Gloomy forebodings, [10]. ►
*Extremely irritable; loses temper easy and gains control over it again but
slowly, [10]. ►
Feels miserably cross, [12]. ►
Day before, when he had the darting pains in the trachea, he had a feeling as if death was
impending; but this was followed by an exalted condition of brain and nervous system;
thoughts flowed free, easy, and clear, [10]. [10.] ► Thoughts rapid, [10]. ► Mind clear, [10]. ► Mind very clear,
with a light feeling of anterior lobes; posterior portion of head and cerebellum feel heavy
and dull, [10]. ►
Mind cloudy, [10]. ►
Confusion of ideas; mind gets confused, [10]. ► Very dull and stupid, [14].
► Disinclination to perform any labor, [12]. ► Have not studied to-day, [10]. ► Feel disinclined
to study, and wanting rest, [10]. ► Unable to fix his attention, [10]. [20.] ►
Loss of memory, [10]. ►
On waking (from sleep while sitting) cannot recognize what she sees; knows not where she is,
nor whence came the objects about her, [3].
HEAD.
► Confusion of head, [8]. ► Sensation in head
as if intoxicated, [5]. ►
*Confused feeling in head, with giddiness, [11].
► Vertigo, quite troublesome, [12]. ► Vertigo, very annoying all
the afternoon, [12]. ►
Slight vertigo, [12]. ►
Vertigo, with sense of balancing in the head, [11]. ► Headache general, throughout whole head, [12]. [30.] ►
Headache worse on stooping or getting up from a chair, [14].
► Heat in head, [4].
► Headache all over, as if it would burst (during fever),
[14]. ► Pain and
fulness in head, with stiffness in the neck and spine, [1].
► Fulness in head, [14].
► Severe headache, as if head would split, [14]. ► Dull headache, [13]. ► Brain feels dull
and heavy, [1]. ►
Head feels heavy, dull, especially in region of right ear, [10].
► Dull pains in head, here and there, but principally in
right temple and occiput, followed by dull stitches in the forehead and temple, [11]. [40.] ► Heaviness of head, [8].
► Lancinating headache, [1].
► Slight frontal headache (in one hour), [13]. ► Very severe frontal
headache, all day, [13]. ►
Dull frontal headache, [13]. ► Dull, heavy frontal headache, [10].
► *Dull frontal headache, with constrictive feeling of skin
of forehead, [13]. ►
Dull frontal headache, with fluent coryza, 13. ► Dull weight
in forehead, [10]. ►
*Dull pressure in forehead, with slight feeling of nausea in stomach, followed immediately
by stitches in right hypochondrium, [11]. [50.] ► Aching in forehead;
feeling in it as during cold in head, [4]. ► Throbbing in right frontal eminence, [11]. ► Neuralgic pain in region
of causality (right), darts towards the left, with a constricted feeling of the skin of the
forehead, followed by flying pains in the epigastric region (right lower lobe of liver) (in
one hour), [13]. ►
Slight uneasiness in region of left causality, [10]. ► Occasional neuralgic pains in forehead and apex of heart, [13]. ► Dull pain in
forehead over right eye, [10]. ►
Headache over right eye (after one hour), [8]. ► Pressure of hat on forehead leaves a large, red spot, [10]. ► Frequent flying
pains in forehead and temples all day, [13]. ► Frequent flying pains through temples, [13]. [60.] ►
Pain and soreness at temporal region, [10]. ► Sharp pressing pain in right temple, [11]. ► Dull pain in left temple, [11]. ► Quite severe
pains in left temple, [1]. ►
Severe shooting pains in left temple, [14]. ► Fine stitches in left temple, with slight feeling of nausea
in stomach, [11]. ►
Head feels dull over temple, [10]. ► Formication in the front of the temple, [8]. ► Feeling as if she had a
board upon the head, [3]. ►
Sensation of fulness in all the upper part of the head, [12].
[70.] ► Headache in
upper part of head; the pain is uniform and constant; the sensation that of fulness and
pressure rather than acute pain, [12]. ► Quite severe pain in right side of head, above the temples, [9]. ► A sore spot in
right parietal bone, which, upon pressure, felt as if a knife were piercing through, [14]. ► Back of head
feels heavy, [10]. ►
Dull, heavy pressure on cerebellum, [10]. ► Bruised feeling in the occiput, with feeling of lameness in
back of neck, [11]. ►
Dull pain in occiput, extending to ears, [11]. ► Dull pain in occiput, with flushes of heat in the integuments of the occiput, back of neck and
shoulders, [11]. ►
Very severe lancinating headache at base of brain, as if too full, [14]. ► Hyperæsthesia of scalp, [10]. ► Soreness of right
side of scalp (the side which rested on the pillow, [10].
EYES.
[80.] ► Eyes dull, [1]. ► Eyes clear, [10]. ► Eyes of a pinkish hue, [14].
► Quivering of lids, [7].
► Twitching of lids, [10].
► Tries to keep from winking, [10]. ► Frequent twitching of
muscles under left eye, [13]. ►
Heat in the eyes, [4]. ►
Severe smarting of the eyes, [13]. [90.] ► *Weight in the eyes,
[3]. ► Eyes heavy,
[10]. ► Jerking in
right eye (after three and a half hours), [8]. ► Shooting pain in left eye, [10].
► Light and giddy pain in right eye, while near light, [10]. ► Burning and
stinging deep in left orbit, as if the pain surrounded the ball of the left eye, with
feeling of coldness in eye, [11]. ► Painful aching over left eye, [7]. ► Lachrymation, [7]. ► Eyes filled with
tears, [10]. ►
Burning in inner canthi, [2]. [100.]
► Soreness of balls of eyes, [10]. ► Pupils dilated; contract
slowly, [10]. ► She
can read well at a distance; can read without spectacles, which she could never do before, [8]. ► Flickering before eyes,
[7]. ► Optical
illusions, [10].
EARS.
► Burning in the
ears, [11]. ►
Fulness in both ears, [10]. ►
Pressure in region of right ear, [10].
NOSE.
► Dryness of posterior
nares, [10]. ►
Posterior nares empty; used to be full of mucus in morning, [10].
[110.] ► Disposition
to sneeze, [8]. ►
Sneezing, [7], [9]. ► Thin mucus from nose,
causing a frequent use of the pocket-handkerchief, [1].
► Increased flow of mucus from nasal passages, [10]. ► Profuse secretion
of mucus in nostrils, with coryza, [13]. ► Fluent coryza, [5]. ► Much fluent coryza, [7].
► Frequent coryza, [1].
► Severe fluent coryza, [3]. (three hours after), [6]. ► Fluent coryza, with the dull frontal headache, [13]. [120.] ► Fluent coryza, with twisting sensation in the front part of
the nose, [5]. ►
Coryza, with cool feeling in the nose on breathing in, [7].
► Coryza, profuse, with feeling of fulness in nose and
forehead, as if had taken cold, [10]. ► Catarrh; fulness of nose, pressure in forehead, especially at
root of nose, [10]. ►
Left nostril filled with thick mucus; right one empty, [10].
► Violent formication on the nose, [3]. ► Fulness at root of nose
(frontal sinus), [10]. ►
Pressure at root of nose, [10]. ►
Shooting pain in nose, [3]. ►
Nose feels sore and full, [10]. [130.] ► Raw feeling
throughout the whole nasal cavity, [1]. ► Pain in right nasal bone, [10].
► Pressure in bone on left side of nose, [10]. ► Burning in the nostril, [1]. ► *Stinging and burning
in posterior nares and soft palate, [11]. ► Sensation of swelling of the nasal mucous membrane, as if
from taking cold, [9]. ►
Posterior nares and palate feel dry, [10]. ► Feeling in nose as after a pinch of snuff, [4]. ► Sensitiveness of the nasal
mucous membrane, which causes a feeling as of coldness in the nose, [6]. ► The nasal mucus becomes
even more watery, the inspired air more felt, [6]. [140.] ► Drawing in right
nostril, as in violent coryza, [8]. ► Dry feeling and sensation of heat in the nose, especially its
tip, as when a severe coryza is about to come on, [1].
FACE.
► *Pale, miserable
appearance, [3]. ►
Looks ill, [3]. ►
Flush of blood to face soon after rubbing it, [10]. ► Rubbing after washing the face produces red spots under the
skin, [10]. ►
Flying heat and redness of left side of face, [3]. ► Flying heat in left side of face, [1]. ► Burning in left cheek, [3].
MOUTH.
► Pain in sound
teeth, [10]. [150.]
► Teeth feel as if covered with oil, [10]. ► Tongue coated white,
[14]. ► Tongue
slightly coated dirty-white, [10]. ► Tongue coated yellowish-white, [°].
► Yellow coating on the tongue, [1], [14]. ► Tongue very much coated yellow, [13]. ► Tongue covered with a
light-brown coat, [1]. ►
Tongue feeling as if had been scalded, with great constriction of fauces, [13]. ► Tongue feels as if
swollen, [10]. ►
Soreness of tip of tongue, like that produced by ulcers, [9].
[160.] ► Sharp biting
and stinging pain in tip of tongue and fauces, [11]. ► Mucous surface of mouth and pharynx dry, [10]. ► Dryness of soft palate, [14]. ► Palate and
posterior nares feels dry, [10]. ► *A quantity of thick, yellow phlegm in mouth, [14]. ► Burning in mouth
and œsophagus, [7]. ►
Flow of water into the mouth, [3]. ► Rush of water into the mouth, [5].
► Collection of water in mouth compelling him to swallow,
[7]. ► Increase of
saliva, [9], [11].
[170.] ► Salivation, [9]. ► “I induced
several other persons to make a few trials, but with no result, except increased salivation,” [9].
► Ptyalism, with an oily taste, [10]. ► Coppery taste in mouth,
with increased flow of saliva (in ten minutes), [11]. ► Foul taste in mouth, [1].
► Sweetish taste, [1].
► Sweet taste, as after taking dulcamara, [3]. ► Sweet taste, like
liquorice, [5]. ►
Sweetish taste, with dryness of larynx, [8]. ► Sweet, flat, slimly taste in mouth, [13]. [180.] ► The taste, which was at first bitter, becomes sweet, [6]. ► The taste of the
drug is, at first, intensely bitter, and is peculiarly unpleasant and nauseous; the bitter
taste is soon displaced by a pleasant, sweetish flavor, very similar to that of ordinary
liquorice-root; this sweet taste remains about an hour [12].
► Bitter taste, [7],
[11]. ► Bitter,
burning taste (of the drug), acting as an astringent on the mouth and œsophagus, [7]. ► Flat, bitter taste
in the mouth, [13]. ►
Flat, slimy taste in mouth, [13]. ► Metallic taste in mouth, [9].
► The taste of the drug remained in the mouth several
hours, [9]. ►
Unable to articulate long words distinctly; cannot control the tongue so as to form the
words aright, [10].® 2000
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