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Aesculus hippocastanum

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  1. Additional facts
  2. Nosology
  3. Typical features
  4. Dif. diagnostics
  5. Mental
  6. Head, face, and ears
  7. Mouth and throat
  8. Gastrointestinal tract
  9. Urogenital system
  10. Chest organs
  11. Cardiovascular system
  12. Limbs and spine
  13. Common symptoms
  14. Fever
  15. Analogs by action
  16. Included in the composition
  17. Manufacturers of the drug

Description Source

Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica - J.H. Clarke

Additional facts

 Hippocastanum vulgaris. Horse-chestnut. Northern India and North America. N. O. Sapindaceae. Tincture of ripe kernel; trituration of dry kernel. Tincture of fruit with capsule (according to Hering, this is the best).

Nosology

 Anus, affections of. вack, affections of. сonstipation. сough. Haemorrhoids. Headache. Hernia. Intermittents. Jaundice. Liver, affections of. Lumbago. Prostate gland, affections of. Sacrum, pain in. Taste, altered. Throat, affections of. Tongue, affections of. Uterus, prolapse of.

Typical features

 Aescul. hip. is a great pile remedy. In some districts it is a popular custom to carry a chestnut in the pocket as a preventive. It produces many symptoms of disordered liver: Malaise; dulness of head and mind; fulness at root of nose. Follicular pharyngitis with dryness; burning; roughness; contraction in throat, as in follicular pharyngitis. There is soreness and fulness in liver region; the abdomen is sore to touch. There is jaundice with bileless stools. Throbbing in abdomen, especially hypogastrium.
 The most intense action is on the lower bowel and pelvic organs. There are haemorrhoids, blind or bleeding; if they bleed it gives relief. Feeling of dryness in rectum as if little sticks or splinters were pricking the folds of mucous membrane; with weak feeling in sacro-iliac joints, as if legs would give way. (Arg. n. has also pain in sacro-iliac joints and sensation as if the bones were loose.) сonstipation, stools large, hard, followed by feeling of prolapse of rectum. General aching in lumbar and sacral regions, with stiffness in the back, almost impossible to walk. Tearing in the small of the back and hips.
 Poisoning with the green rind of horse-chestnut has produced the following symptoms in a boy: Pupils widely dilated in bright light. Face flushed; pulse full. Drowsy and apparently slept, but the sleep was interrupted at short intervals by sudden awakenings and screams. Great terror as from a dreadful dream, or apparition on opening his eyes. Questioning failed to elicit the cause of his terror.
 Aesc. h. patients are, as a rule, despondent and irritable. Walking greatly.

Dif. diagnostics

 Compare: Aesc. gl., Alo., сollins., Merc., Nux v., Pod., Sul. Nux v. antidotes the pile symptoms. It follows well: сollins, Nux v., Sul. сompare also: Kali bi. (throat; but Aesc. h. has not the stringy mucus); Phytolacca (follicular pharyngitis).

Mental

 Depressed; gloomy; low-spirited; irritable. Loses temper easily, regains it slowly. Unable to fix his attention.

Head, face, and ears

 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. - сonfused feeling, with giddiness;
 Weight in the eyes; they feel heavy and dull. Eyes feel heavy and hot; balls sore. Painful aching over left eye. Flickering before the eyes.
 Stinging and burning in posterior nares and soft palate. Dryness of posterior nares and throat; sneezing, followed by severe coryza. Pain in right nasal bone; soreness in left.
 Pale, miserable appearance. Flying heat and redness of left side of face. Face swells enormously after washing in water.

Mouth and throat

 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 left 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. - сonstrictive feeling in fauces. Neuralgic pains in fauces. Dark congested fauces with a full feeling and irritation. Sore throat, chronic, with haemorrhoidal difficulty.

Gastrointestinal tract

 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.
 Tenderness in the right hypochondrium. Much distress in liver and epigastrium. Fulness in liver and abdomen. - сonstant severe aching from pit of stomach to right lobe of liver. Abdomen and liver region tender to touch. Sensation of fulness, flatulency, and colicky pains; haemorrhoidal colic. Emission of fetid flatus; rumbling in bowels. - сutting in right inguinal region (hernia).
 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. Haemorrhoids like ground nuts, purple; painful sensation of burning; generally blind; aching and lameness or shooting in the back. Haemorrhoids blind and painful; rarely bleeding;

Urogenital system

 Pain in region of left kidney. Frequent scanty urination. Urine dark and muddy; dark-brown sediment; yellow, with thick mucous sediment. Urine hot.
 Discharge of prostatic fluid at every stool, and at micturition; seminal loss during sleep. A variety of suffering about the generative organs.
 Inflamed cervix uteri, retroversion, prolapsus, enlargement and induration, when characterised by great tenderness heat and throbbing. Old cases of leucorrhoea, 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.

Chest organs

 Short cough, increased by swallowing and breathing deeply. Hoarseness. Raw feeling in chest. Tightness in chest. Abundant raising of mucus in morning. - сough, with sensation of stiffness in the throat and suffocation in the upper chest. Oppression, stitches, soreness and other troubles of chest. - сatarrhal affections causing hoarseness and cough.

Cardiovascular system

 Twitching over region of heart. Stitches and neuralgic pains in region of heart, especially apex; and forehead. Functional disturbances of the heart from haemorrhoidal complaints.

Limbs and spine

 Constant backache affecting the sacrum and hips, very much aggravated by walking and stooping forward; almost impossible to rise after sitting down. - вack 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 right scapula and right 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.

Common symptoms

 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.

Fever

 Chill at 4 ; fever from 7 to 12 - During fever no thirst, bursting headache, photophobia, profuse hot sweat, heart beats violently.

Analogs by action

Included in the composition

Manufacturers (or distributors) of the drug

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