AESCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM [Aesc] |
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Note: Wherever it is found,
"<" denotes aggravation (worse by) and ">" denotes
amelioration (better by) |
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SYNONYM |
: | Chestnut
bud (Bach Flower) White Chestnut (Bach Flower) |
COMMON NAME |
: | Horse
chestnut |
FAMILY |
: | Sapindaceae
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SOURCE |
: | -Tincture
of ripe kernel. -Trituration of dry kernel. -Tincture of fruit with capsule. |
PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTION | : | Colon, rectum, anus- Congestion and haemorrhoids.
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A/F |
: | -Deranged
liver. -Reflex from piles. |
MODALITIES |
: | < Morning
on waking < Any motion < Walking < After eating < Afternoon < Standing > Cool, open air > Bleeding (piles) > Summer > Continued exertion |
MIND |
: | -Loses
temper easily, gains control slowly,
miserably cross (Cham). -All mental symptoms < on waking; viz. delusions, inability to recognize relatives, anxiety, confusion of the mind, sadness or mental depression. -Dullness or sluggishness. -Depressed and irritable. -Confused. -Attempts to escape from the window. |
GUIDING INDICATIONS |
: | -Fullness
in various parts, dry, swollen, mucous
membranes, flying pains all over. -Paralytic feeling in arms, legs, spine. -G.I.T.-Throat is dry, stitching pain into ears on swallowing. Follicular pharyngitis. -Haemorrhoids-blind or bleeding. If they bleed, it gives relief. -purplish, painful < during climacteric. -with sharp, shooting pains up the back. -with heaviness or lameness in sacro-iliac articulation. -Rectum-dry aching, feels full of small sticks. -Stool followed by fullness of rectum and intense pain in anus for hours (Aloe, Ign, Mur-ac, Sulph). -Irritation caused by ascarides, burning in anus with chills up and down the back. -Constipation-hard, dry, knotty, white stools. -Constant throbbing behind symphysis pubis. -Female genitalia-Leucorrhoea with lameness of back across the sacro-iliac articulation or aching in knees. -Leucorrhoea-dark yellow, sticky, corroding < after menses. -Back-Spine feels weak, back and legs give out, backache affecting sacrum and hips. -Alternate heaviness and lameness < walking < stooping < rising from stooping. -Fever-7-12 p.m. chill at 4 p.m. -Sweat profuse and hot. |
KEYNOTES |
: | 1.
Dry, aching in rectum with feeling as if full of
small sticks. 2. Haemorrhoids blind painful, purplish, with severe lumbosacral backache (alternates with lumbago - Aloe.) 3. Follicular pharyngitis, dry throat with stitching pain. 4. Throbbing in the abdominal or pelvic cavities. |
NUCLEUS OF REMEDY |
: | -Action
marked on lower bowel producing engorged
haemorrhoidal veins with characteristic backache with absence of actual
constipation. -Much pain with little bleeding. -Venous stasis. -Feeling of fullness in internal parts. -Venous remedy, engorged and full, sometimes to bursting. -Congestion of liver with piles. -Sensation of heat, dryness, stiffness, roughness in throat, nose, anus. |
CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS |
: | -Haemorrhoids-purplish,
painful, rarely bleeding,
with heaviness and lameness in sacro-iliac regions. |
CLINICAL |
: | -Ascarides,
Atrophic pharyngitis, Haemorrhoids,
Jaundice, Leucorrhoea, Lumbago, Venous stasis. -After Collinsonia has improved piles, Aesculus often cures- Dr. Allen M.D.-In the last month of pregnancy, women sometimes have a weak feeling in the small of the back, it gives out when walking, Aesculus is the remedy indicated- Dr. Eli. G. Jones. |
REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS |
: | -Compare-Aesc-glabra,
Aloe, Collin, Nux-v, Phyto
(dry throat), Ratanh, Sulph.
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