Other names and synonyms
aesc-g.Description Source
Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica - J.H. ClarkePharmacological Group
Additional facts
Fetid or Ohio вuckeye. States of North America watered by Ohio River. N. O. Sapindaceae. Part employed, whole ripe fruit.
Nosology
Constipation. сough. сramp in stomach. Haemorrhoids. Meningitis. Paralysis. Speech, thick. Vertigo. Wry-neck.
Typical features
Aesculus glabra, like the Horse-chestnut, has a marked action on the rectum. It produces hard, knotty stools; very painful. Dark purple haemorrhoidal tumours, with lame back and lower limbs. Hale gives the indication: Very painful external tumours, dark purple, with constipation and vertigo; weakness of sacrum and lower limbs. At the same time there is fulness and heaviness of the head without pain; the sight may be dim or lost; eyes fixed and expressionless. The speech is thick and the tongue as if lame. In cattle it produces wry-neck and paresis of hind limbs. There is a cough produced by sudden irritation of throat, sensation as of a feather tickling the throat, causing hawking and raising of mucus finally streaked with blood.
Dif. diagnostics
Compare: Aesc. hipp., Alo., сollins., Ign., Nux v.
Mental
Confusion, with vertigo, often followed by stupefaction and coma.
Head, face, and ears
Vertigo, with staggering, reeling, unconsciousness. Vertigo, with full, heavy head, dim sight; thick speech, nausea and vomiting; faintness; towards evening.
Eyes fixed and dead; expressionless. Sight dim or lost.
Eyes fixed and dead; expressionless. Sight dim or lost.
Mouth and throat
Speech thick, and tongue as if lame.
Gastrointestinal tract
Nausea, with loathing of food and vomiting. Distension (in cattle). Full sensation. - сramp-like pain.
Hard, knotty stools; constipation. Very painful, dark purple, haemorrhoidal tumours, with lame back and lower limbs.
Hard, knotty stools; constipation. Very painful, dark purple, haemorrhoidal tumours, with lame back and lower limbs.
Chest organs
Sudden irritation of the throat; a sensation of a feather tickling the throat causing hacking and raising of mucus, finally streaked with blood.
Limbs and spine
Wry-neck (cattle). Great lameness and weakness of back.
Trembling of lower limbs. Hind limbs lame; paralysis. Strong tendency to contraction of legs.
Trembling of lower limbs. Hind limbs lame; paralysis. Strong tendency to contraction of legs.
Common symptoms
Spasms and convulsions, followed by lameness. Trembling.
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