Aesculus hippocastanum

Aesculus hippocastanum
(horse chestnut)
* The action of this drug is most marked on the lower bowel, producing engorged
haemorrhoidal 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 haemorrhoidal 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.
- Haemorrhoids, 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.
- Leucorrhoea, 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
haemorrhoidal 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 p.m.
- Chilliness up and down back.
- Fever 7 to 12 p.m.
- 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 haemorrhoids, 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.