AESCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM
Horse Chestnut
The action of this drug is most marked on the lower bowel, producing
engorged hćmorrhoidal veins, with characteristic backache, with absence of actual
constipation. Much pain but little bleeding. Venous stasis general, varicose veins of purple
color; everything is slowed down, digestion, heart, bowels, etc. Torpor and congestion of the
liver and portal system, with constipation. The back aches and gives out and unfits the
patient for business. Flying pains all over. Fullness in various
parts, dry, swollen mucous membranes. Throat with hćmorrhoidal conditions.
Head.–
Depressed and irritable.
Head dull, confused, aching as from a cold. Pressure in forehead, with nausea, followed by
stitches in right hypochondrium. Pain from occiput to frontal region, with bruised sensation
of the scalp; worse in the morning. Neuralgic stitches from right to left through forehead,
followed by flying pains in epigastrium. Vertigo when sitting and walking.
Eyes.–
Heavy and hot, with lachrymation, with enlarged blood vessels. Eyeballs sore.
Nose.–
Dry; inspired air feels cold, nasal
passages sensitive to it. Coryza, sneezing. Pressure at root of nose. Membrane over
turbinate bones distended and boggy, dependent upon hepatic disorders.
Mouth.–
Scalded feeling. Metallic taste. Salivation. Tongue
thickly coated, feels as if scalded.
Throat.–
Hot, dry, raw,
stitching pain into ears when swallowing. Follicular pharyngitis connected with hepatic
congestion. Veins in pharynx distended and tortuous.
Throat sensitive to inspired air; feels excoriated and constricted, burns like fire on
swallowing, in afternoon. Early stages of atrophic pharyngitis in dried-up, bilious subjects.
Hawking of ropy mucus of sweetish taste.
Stomach.–
Weight of a stone, with gnawing, aching pain; most
manifest about three hours after meals. Tenderness and fullness in region of liver.
Abdomen.–
Dull aching in liver and epigastrium. Pain at
umbilicus. Jaundice; throbbing in hypogastrium and pelvis.
Rectum.–
Dry, aching. Feels full of
small sticks. Anus raw, sore. Much pain after stool, with prolapse. Hćmorrhoids, with sharp shooting pains up the back; blind and
bleeding; worse during climacteric. Large, hard, dry stools. Mucous membrane seems swollen and
obstructs the passage. Irritation caused by ascarides and aids their expulsion. Burning in anus with chills up and down back.
Urinary.–
Frequent, scant, dark, muddy, hot urine. Pain in
kidneys, especially left and ureter.
Male.–
Discharge of prostatic fluid at stool.
Female.–
Constant throbbing behind
symphysis pubis. Leucorrhśa, with lameness of back across
the sacro-iliac articulation; dark yellow, sticky corroding; worse after menses.
Chest.–
Feels constricted. Heart’s action full and heavy, can
feel pulsations all over. Laryngitis; coughs depending on hepatic
disorders; hot feeling in chest; pain around heart in hćmorrhoidal subjects.
Extremities.–
Aching and soreness in limbs, in left acromion
process with shooting down arms; finger tips numb.
Back.–
Lameness in neck; aching between shoulder blades; region
of spine feels weak; back and legs give out. Backache affecting sacrum and hips; worse
walking or stooping. When walking feet turn under. Soles feel sore, tired, and
swell. Hands and feet swell, and become red after washing, feel full.
Fever.–
Chill at 4 pm. Chilliness up and down back. Fever 7 to
12 pm. Evening fever, skin hot and dry. Sweat profuse and hot with the fever.
Modalities.–
Worse, in
morning on awaking, and from any motion, walking; from
moving bowels; after eating, afternoon, standing. Better,
cool open air.
Relationship.–
Aesculus glabra-Ohio-Buckeye
Proctitis. Very painful, dark purple, external hćmorrhoids, with constipation and vertigo and
portal congestion. Speech thick, tickling in throat, impaired vision, paresis. Phytolacca (throat dry, more often in acute cases). Negundium Americanum–Box-elder–(Engorgements of rectum and
piles with great pain, ten-drop doses of tincture every two hours). Compare also: Aloe, Collinson. Nux. Sulphur.
Dose.–
Tincture, to third potency.