AESCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM Horse Chestnut Constitution Sapindaceae • For persons with hemorrhoidal tendencies, and who suffer with gastric, bilious or catarrhal troubles.
Mental Generals • Despondent, gloomy; very irritable; loses temper easily and gains control slowly; miserably cross (Cham.). Physical Generals • Fullness in various parts, as from an undue amount of blood; heart, lungs, stomach, brain, pelvis, skin. • Venous congestion, especially portal and hemorrhoidal. • Mucous membranes of mouth, throat, rectum are swollen, burn, feel dry and raw. Nose • Coryza: thin, watery, burning; rawness and sensitive to inhaled cold air. Throat • Follicular pharyngitis: Violent burning, raw sensation in throat; dryness and roughness of throat. • Frequent inclination to swallow, with burning, pricking, stinging and dry constricted fauces (Apis, Bell.). Gastro-intestinal System • Rectum: Dryness and heat of; feels as if full of small sticks; knife-like pains shoot up the rectum (Ign., Sulph.); hemorrhoids blind, painful, burning, purplish, rarely bleeding. • Rectum sore, with fullness, burning and itching (Sulph.). • Constipation: Hard, dry stool, difficult to pass; with dryness and heat of rectum; accompanied by severe lumbo-sacral backache. • Stool followed by fullness of rectum and intense pain in anus for hours (Aloe, Ign., Mur-ac., Sulph.). Female Reproductive System • Prolapsus uteri and acrid, dark leucorrhea, with lumbo-sacral backache and great fatigue, from walking. Back
• Severe dull backache in lumbo-sacral articulation; more or less constant; affecting sacrum and hips. • Back “gives out”: During pregnancy, prolapsus, leucorrhea; when walking or stooping; must sit or lie down. • Sensation of heaviness and lameness in back. Nervous System • Paralytic feeling in arms, legs and spine. Modalities • Aggravation: Motion; backache and soreness by walking and stooping; inhaling cold air. Relation • Similar: To, Aloe, Coll., Ign., Mur-ac., Nux-v., Sulph., in hemorrhoids. • After Coll. has improved piles, Aesc. often cures. • Useful after Nux-v. and Sulph. have improved, but failed to cure piles.
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