Aesculus Hippocastanum

This remedy has not been proved, but it has been used with signal success in

scrofulous, herpetic, eczematous eruptions and discharges. Favus-like eruptions. Eruptions from

• ▸fright.
• ▸Painful, irritating, scabby eruptions of face.
• ▸Scrofulous ophthalmia.
• ▸Scrofulous otorrheea,

• ▸offensive.
• ▸Hereditary syphilis.
• ▸It seems to combine the powers of its various components.
• ▸I have

confirmed its utility in many aggravated skin affections.

Depressed; gloomy; low-spirited; irritable-—Loses temper easily, regains it

slowly.—Unable to fix his attention.

Paralytic feeling in arms, legs, and spine.—Feels faint, weak, and

weary.—Disposition to stretch and yawn.—Fulness in various organs, as if they contained too

much blood.—Mucous dry, swollen; burn and feel raw.

• ▸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.

Dull pressure in forehead; slight nausea in stomach, followed at once by stitches in

right hypochondrium.—Severe lancinating headache at base of brain, as if too full; tympany;

tongue white Confused feeling, with giddiness; < rising from a seat —Frequent flying pains

through the temples.—Flushes of heat over the occiput, neck, and shoulders.—Head too heavy to

hold up without balancing; all head symptoms accompanied by hemorrhoidal, rectal, or sacral

symptoms.

Heavy and hot, with lachrymation, with enlarged blood vessels. Eyeballs sore.

Weight in the eyes; they feel heavy and dull.—Eyes feel heavy and hot; balls

• ▸sore.
• ▸—Painful aching over |.
• ▸eye.
• ▸—Flickering before the eyes.

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.

Stinging and burning in posterior nares and soft palate-——Dryness of posterior nares and

throat; sneezing, followed by severe coryza.—Pain in r. nasal bone; soreness in 1.

Pale, miserable appearance —Flying heat and redness of |. side of face —Face swells

enormously after washing in water.

• ▸Scalded feeling.
• ▸Metallic taste.
• ▸Salivation.
• ▸Tongue thickly coated, feels as if scalded.

Tongue coated white or yellow.—Thick yellow phlegm in the mouth.—Taste sweet;

bitter; metallic (coppery, with salivation).—Tongue feels as if it had been scalded.

Pricking, formication, burning and stinging in fauces; shooting in |. side.—Feeling as

if something had lodged in fauces causing constant inclination to swallow.—Feeling of dryness

and roughness (or rawness and burning) in throat, as from taking cold.—Constrictive feeling in

fauces.—Neuralgic pains in fauces.—Dark congested fauces with a full feeling and

irritation.—Sore throat, chronic, with hemorrhoidal difficulty.

• ▸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.

Weight of a stone, with gnawing, aching pain; most manifest about three hours after meals. Tenderness and fullness in region of liver.

Belching, nausea, vomiting.—Violent vomiting; great burning distress in the

stomach.—Heartburn and gulping up of food after eating.—Pressure as from a stone in pit of

stomach.—Eructations of wind; empty.

Dull aching in liver and epigastrium. Pain at umbilicus. Jaundice; throbbing in hypogastrium and pelvis.

Tenderness in the right hypochondrium.—Much distress in liver and

epigastrium.—Fulness in liver and abdomen.—Constant severe aching from pit of stomach to r.

lobe of liver—Abdomen and liver region tender to touch.—Sensation of fulness, flatulency, and

colicky pains; hemorrhoidal colic.—Emission of fetid flatus; rumbling in bowels.—Cutting in r.

inguinal region (hernia).

• ▸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.

Dry, uncomfortable feeling in rectum as if it were filled with small

sticks.—Soreness, burning, itching, raw feeling, and fulness at anus.—Pain like a knife sawing

backwards and forwards through anus.—Hemorrhoids like ground nuts, purple; painful sensation

of burning; generally blind; aching and lameness or shooting in the back.—Hzemorrhoids blind

and painful; rarely bleeding; < standing or walking.—Stool hard, dry, and passed with

difficulty —Sensation of rigid hardness before stool.—Stools hard and black; natural consistence

• ▸and white.
• ▸—Backache after a difficult, large, and hard stool.
• ▸—Prolapsus ani after stool.
• ▸—Several

large piles which seem to block up the rectum, little or no bleeding, great suffering,

constipation.—Chronic diarrhoea, with characteristic backache or heemorrhoids.—Piles develop

and become particularly troublesome in climacteric years.

• ▸Pain in region of |.
• ▸kidney.
• ▸—Frequent scanty urination.
• ▸—Urine dark and

muddy; dark-brown sediment; yellow, with thick mucous sediment.—Urine hot.

Frequent, scant, dark, muddy, hot urine. Pain in kidneys, especially left and ureter.

Constant throbbing behind symphysis pubis. Leucorrhoea, with lameness of back across the sacro-iliac articulation; dark yellow, sticky corroding; worse after menses.

Inflamed cervix uteri, retroversion, prolapsus, enlargement and

induration, when characterised by great tenderness heat and throbbing. —Old cases of leucorrhcea,

of a dark yellow colour, thick and sticky, worse after menstrual period, increased by walking,

corrodes the labia, with aching in the sacrum and knees.—Uterine soreness with throbbing in

hypogastrium.—During pregnancy sacro-iliac symphysis gives out while she walks; must sit

down; feels best lying.

Discharge of prostatic fluid at stool.

Discharge of prostatic fluid at every stool, and at micturition; seminal

loss during sleep.—A variety of suffering about the generative organs.

Short cough, increased by swallowing and breathing

• ▸deeply.
• ▸—Hoarseness.
• ▸—Raw feeling in chest.
• ▸—Tightness in chest.
• ▸—Abundant raising of mucus in

morning.—Cough, with sensation of stiffness in the throat and suffocation in the upper

chest.—Oppression, stitches, soreness and other troubles of chest —Catarrhal affections causing

hoarseness and cough.

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.

Twitching over region of heart.—Stitches and neuralgic pains in region of heart, esp.

apex; and forehead.—Functional disturbances of the heart from hemorrhoidal complaints.

• ▸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.

Constant backache affecting the sacrum and hips, very much aggravated by walking

and stooping forward; almost impossible to rise after sitting down.—Back gives out when

• ▸walking.
• ▸—Aching between the shoulders.
• ▸—Spine feels weak.
• ▸—The sacrum, back, neck, head,

chest, heart, and abdomen, all seem in remarkable sympathy with the rectum and its vessels.

Rheumatic pains in r. scapula and r. side of chest; worse during

inspiration.—Shooting, drawing, and tearing pains in shoulders, arms, hands, and

fingers.—Paralytic feeling in arms, legs, and spine.

Legs so weak she can hardly walk.—L. knee swollen, painful, stiff; cannot

bear slightest pressure.—Tendo Achillis sore.

Aching and soreness in limbs, in left acromion process with shooting down arms; finger tips numb.

• ▸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.

• ▸Chill at 4 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸; fever from 7 to 12 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸—During fever no thirst, bursting headache,

photophobia, profuse hot sweat, heart beats violently.

Aethiops Antimonialis.

Made by triturating two parts of sulphuret of antimony with one of quicksilver. (Berliner,

• ▸Zeit.
• ▸f.
• ▸Hom.
• ▸ALrzte.
• ▸, vol.
• ▸ii.
• ▸Hom.
• ▸Recorder, 1894, p.
• ▸28.
• ▸) Trituration.

• ▸Compare: Asc.
• ▸gl.
• ▸, Alo.
• ▸, Collins.
• ▸, Merc.
• ▸, Nux v.
• ▸, Pod.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸Nux v.
• ▸antidotes the pile

• ▸symptoms.
• ▸/t follows well: Collins, Nux v.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸Compare also: Kali bi.
• ▸(throat; but AEsc.
• ▸h.
• ▸has

not the stringy mucus); Phytolacca (follicular pharyngitis).

• ▸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.

Tincture, to third potency.