Plant
Aesculus Hippocastanum
Horse Chestnut
Repertory abbreviation: Aesc.
The action of this drug is most marked on the lower bowel, producing engorged hzmorrhoidal veins, with characteristic backache. Venous stasis general, varicose veins of purple color; everything is lowed down, diges- tion, 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.
Head
Depressed and irritable. Head dull, confused. Pressure in forehicad, 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 gastrium.
Eyes
Heavy and hiot, with lachrymation, with cn- lurged blood zcssels. Eyeballs sore.
Nose
Dry; inspired air feels cold, nasal pussages sensiliz'v to it. Coryza, sneezing. Pressure at root of 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 cars when swallowing. Follicular I pharyngitis connected with hepatic congestion. Veins in pharynx distended and lortuous. Throat sensitive to inspired air; feels ex- coriated and constricted, burns like fre on swallowing, in afternoon. Early stages of atrophic pharyngitis in dried-up, bilious subjects. Hawking of ropy mucus of sweetish taste.
Stomach
W'eight 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 uinbilicus. Throbbing in hypogastrium and pelvis. 19
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, hot urine. Pain in kid- neys, especially left and ureter.
Male
Discharge of prostatic fluid at stool. Femaie. - Conslant throbbing behini symphysis pubis. Leucorrhoea, with lancness of back across the sucro- 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.
Back
Lameness in neck; aching between shoulder blades; region of spine feels weak; back and legs give out. Backache affecting sacrum and hips; worse walk- ing or stooping. When walking feet turn under. Soles feel sore, tired, and well. Hands and feet swell, and become red after washing, feel full. Fever 7 to 12 p. M. Evening fever, skin hot and dry. Sweat profuse and hot with the fever.
Extremities
Aching and soreness in limbs, in left acromion process with shooting down arms: finger tips numb.
Fever
Chill at 4 P. M. Chilliness up and down
Modalities
Worse, in morning on awaking, and from any motion; fionn moving bowels; after eating, afternoon, standing. Better, while at rest; walking; cool open air. Comparison. — Aisculus glabra -- Ohio Buckeye -- (Very painful, dark purple, external haemorrhoids, with constipation and vertigo and portal congestion. Speech thick, tickling in throat, impaired vision, paresis.) Aloes; Collinsonia; Nux; Sulph. Phytolacca (throat dry, more often in acute cases.) Ncgundium Amcricauuin -- Box- elder - (Engorgements of rectum and piles with great pain, ten-drop doses of tincture every two hours.)
Dose
Tincture, to third potency.