Aesculus Hippocastanum

Horse Chestnut

Abdomen

William Boericke 1922

Dull aching in liver and epigastrium. Pain at umbilicus. Throbbing in hypogastrium and pelvis.

Eyes

William Boericke 1922

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

Guiding symptoms

William Boericke 1922

The action of this drug is most marked on the lower bowel, producing engorged haemorrhoidal veins, with characteristic backache. Venous stasis general, varicose veins of purple color ; everything is slowed down, digestion, heart, bowels, etc. Torpor and congestion of the 18 .^•:SCCLUS HIPPOCASTANUM liver and portal system, with constipation. The back aches and gives out, and unfits the patient for business. Flying pains all over. Fullness in various parts; dry, swollen mucous membranes.

Head

William Boericke 1922

Depressed and irritable. Head dull, confused. Pressure in forebead, with nausea, followed by stitches in right h\pochondriLmi. Pain from occiput to frontal region, with bruised sensation of the scalp; worse in the morning. Neuralgic stitches from right to left through forehead, follow'cd by fl\ing pains in epigastrium.

Mouth

William Boericke 1922

Scalded feeling, Afetallic taste. Salivation. Tongue thickly coated, feels as if scalded.

Nose

William Boericke 1922

Dry ; inspired air feels cold, nasal passages sensitive to it. Coryza, sneezing. Pressure at root of

William Boericke 1922

Alemlirane over turbinate bones distended and boggv, dependent upon hepatic disorders.

Stomach

William Boericke 1922

VV'cight of a stone, wdth gnawing, aching pain; most manifest about three hours after meals. Tenderness and fullness in region of

Throat

William Boericke 1922

Hot, dry, raw, stitching pain into ears when swallowing. Follicular pharjmgitis 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 sw^ectish taste.

References

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