Aesculus Hippocastanum

AeSCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM. [Aesc. hipp.] Horse Chestnut. Helbig. Sapindaceae.

► Depressed, low-spirited ; irritable. ► Unable to fix attention.

► Confused feeling in the head, with giddiness.

► Dull pressure in forehead, slight nausea, followed at once by stitches in right hypochondrium. ► Neuralgic darting from right to left across the forehead ; followed by flying pains in the epigastrium. ► Frequent flying pains through the temples. ► Dull pain in the occiput with flushes of heat over the occiput, neck and shoulders.

► Soreness of side of scalp rested on (right).

► Flickering before the eyes. ► Pupils dilated ; contract slowly. ► Eyes feel heavy and dull, balls feel sore and hot. ► Burning and stinging deep in the left orbit as is the pain surrounded the ball. ► Painful aching over the left eye. ► Twitching : of the lids ; of the muscles under the left eye. ► Lachrymation.

► Burning in ears ; pressure ; ringing in the right.

► Dryness of the posterior nares and throat. θ Coryza. ► Fluent coryza, dull frontal headache, thin, watery discharge ; burning ; rawness ; sensitiveness to inhaled air. ► Stinging and burning in posterior nares and soft palate.

► Pale, miserable appearance. ► Flying heat and redness of the left side of the face. ► Face swells after washing ; rubbing causes red spots.

► Taste : sweet ; bitter, afterward sweetish ; metallic ; oily or coppery with salivation. ► Cannot control the tongue so as to form words rightly. ► Tongue coated white or yellow ; feels scalded. ► Tip of the tongue sore, as if ulcerated.

► Thick yellow phlegm in the mouth. ► Salivation, oily taste ; teeth as if covered with oil.

► Hawks up ropy mucus of a sweetish taste. ► Pricking in fauces ; pressure as if something had lodged there. ► Dryness, burning and constriction in fauces. ► Tonsils dark, congested, swollen ; worse the left ; inclination to swallow, with dull aching pain, burning like fire. ► Frequent neuralgic pains in the fauces.

► Stomach feels full, as if walls were thick, after eating.

► Eructations : sour ; greasy ; bitter ; taste of food ; empty ; thick mucus. ► Violent retching and vomiting ; burning in stomach.

► Pressure as from a stone in the pit of the stomach. ► Gnawing and emptiness in the stomach in the early morning. ► Fluttering, faintness in stomach, burning, great distress. ► Periodical tightness in scrobiculus, with labored breathing.

► Constant, severe aching, from the pit of the stomach to the right lower lobe of the liver. ► Tenderness in the right hypochondrium ; stitches, following headache. ► Pinching pain in the right hypochondrium, with colic ; pain through to the back on inspiring. ► Congestion of liver and portal system. ► Pain in the region of the spleen.

► Burning distress, soreness and aching at navel. ► Abdomen tender to touch ; sense of fulness and throbbing in it. ► Rumbling in the bowels, with cutting about the navel. ► Cutting in the right inguinal region. ► Flatulent of flying pains in the bowels.

► Passing fetid flatus. ► Soreness, burning, itching, fulness and urging at the anus. ► Dryness, heat and constriction of the rectum ; rectum feels as if full of small sticks ; knife-like pain in anus. ► Hemorrhoids purple ; painful sensation of burning ; seldom bleed ; aching and lameness, or shooting in back. ► Prolapsus ani after stool ; dull headache. ► Stool large, dry, hard and knotty ; difficult, dark ; mushy, light brown ; first part hard, black, the last of about natural consistency, but white as milk.

► Frequent, scanty urination ; pain in kidneys. ► Urine : dark, muddy, passed with much pain ; scalding ; hot ; dark brown sediment ; yellow, with thick white mucous sediment.

► Leucorrhoea dark yellow, thick and sticky ; worse after menses ; worse walking ; corrodes the labia ; aching in the sacrum and knees.

► Sacro-iliac symphysis gives out while walking ; must sit down ; still better lying. θ Hemorrhoids.

► Sensation of dryness and stiffness of the glottis and of the laryngo-pharyngeal mucous membrane. ► Hoarse voice.

► Rapid, labored ; with pain in right lung.

► Dry, short, increased by swallowing and deep breathing ; dry, hacking, caused by constriction of the fauces, with irritation of the epiglottis.

► Raw feeling in the chest. ► Lungs feel engorged, heavy. ► Stitches through chest ; stitches go from left to right side.

► Darting in the region of heart, with fulness and palpitation. ► Dull, aching, burning in the region of the heart. ► Palpitation, heart's action full, heavy ; can feel the pulsation all over the body. ► Pulse : accelerated ; soft, weak.

► Lameness and weariness, in back of neck. ► Aching between the shoulders. ► Pains in right scapula and chest ; worse inhaling. ► Severe, dull, aching pain in lumbo-sacral region, affecting sacrum and hips ; worse stooping forward and when walking.

► Left arm and hand much warmer, feel heavy and swollen. ► Right arm feels paralyzed, cannot raise it. ► Pricking, swollen feeling of hands after washing them. ► Nails blue.

► Back and legs weak ; can hardly walk, must lie down.

► Joints stiff aching and painful. ► Limbs feel heavy.

► Lying : 24, 33.

► Flying, neuralgic pains. ► Lameness and paralytic feelings : 31, 32, 33. ► Feels faint, weak ; weariness, faintness at the stomach.

► Disposition to stretch and yawn. ► Drowsy ; falls asleep ; on awaking, knows not where she is. ► Awakened by burning pain in the stomach. ► Morning on awaking, sore and tired.

► Morning : 17, 37, 44. Evening : 40.

► Chilliness : creeping up and down the back, with burning in the anus ; better from heat of fire. ► Evening : fever, skin hot, dry ; burning palms and soles. ► Disposition to stretch and yawn ; head aches, as if it would burst. ► Flashes of heat over the occiput, face, neck and shoulders. ► Sweat profuse, hot, with the fever.

► Right : hypochondria, see 18 ; groin, lung, see 26 ; inhaling, arm paralyzed. Left : pain in eyeball, red face, tonsil congested ; heart, see 29 ; arm heavy. ► Left to right : stitches through chest.

► Fullness as from too much blood ; heart, head, skin. ► Sore feeling of muscles, mornings on awaking and on motion. ► Dryness of mucous membranes. ► Mucous membranes swell.

► Formication : scalp, nose, fauces. ► Itching of the body, especially about the waist.

► Hemorrhoidal tendency.

► Collateral : Aesc. glab. ► Concordances : Aloe soc., Collin., Mercur., Nux vom., Podoph., Sulphur (weak spine).