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Aesculus Hippocastanum

Horse Chestnut, Aesc hip, Aesculus Hipposcastanum, Aesculus Hippocastanum, Aesculus hip, Aesc.
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HPUS indication of Aesculus Hippocastanum: Hemorrhoids
Aesculus Hippocastanum
Common symptoms: Hemorrhoids, Back pain, Irritability.
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Below are the main rubriks (i.e strongest indications or symptoms) of Aesculus in traditional homeopathic usage, not approved by the FDA.

  GENERAL

General

The action of Aesculus Hippocastanum is most marked on the lower bowel, producing engorged hemorrhoidal veins, with characteristic backache, with absence of actual constipation. Much pain but little bleeding. Venous stasis general, varicose veins of purple color; everything is slowed down, digestion, heart, bowels, etc. Torpor and congestion of the 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. Throat with hemorrhoidal conditions.

Dose

Tincture, to third potency.

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  MODALITIES ETC

Worse

WORSE, in morning on awaking, and from any motion, Walking; from moving bowels; after eating, afternoon, standing.

Better

BETTER, cool open air.

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  VERTIGO, DIZZINESS

Vertigo

Vertigo when sitting and walking.

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  HEAD

Depressed and Irritable

Head dull, confused, aching as from a cold

Pressure in forehead, with nausea, followed by stitches in right hypochondrium

Headache

Neuralgic stitches from right to left through forehead, followed by flying pains in epigastrium

Scalp

Pain from occiput to frontal region, with bruised sensation of the scalp; worse in the morning

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  EYES

Eyes

Heavy and hot, with lachrymation, With enlarged blood vessels

Eyeballs sore.

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  NOSE

Nose

Dry; inspired air feels cold, Nasal passages sensitive to it

Pressure at root of nose

Membrane over turbinate bones distended and boggy, dependent upon hepatic disorders.

Discharge

coryza, sneezing

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  MOUTH

Mouth

Scalded feeling

Saliva

Salivation

Saliva; mucus, slime; thick and sticky

Tongue

Tongue thickly coated, feels as if scalded.

Taste

Metallic taste

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  THROAT

Throat

Hot, DRY, raw, stitching pain into ears when swallowing

Follicular pharyngitis 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 sweetish taste.

Dryness

Swelling; swollen and knotted; throat

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  CHEST

Chest

Feels constricted

Heart’s action full and heavy, can feel pulsations all over

Laryngitis; coughs Depending on hepatic disorders; hot feeling in chest; pain around heart in hemorrhoidal subjects.

Inflammation; bronchial tubes (bronchitis)

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  BACK AND NECK

Neck

Lameness in neck; aching between shoulder blades; region of Spine feels weak; back and legs give out

Back

Backache affecting sacrum and hips; worse walking or stooping

When walking feet turn under

Soles feels sore, tired, and swell

Hands and feet swell, and become red after washing, feel full.

Pain

before chill

on movement

while walking

in women

from when period is suppressed

lumbar (lower half of back)

before chill

during movement

on rising from a seat

while walking

lower back / base of spine

sacrum (base of spine)

rising from sitting

when stooping

while walking

extending to other parts; hips

junction of pelvis and spine

aching; when period is suppressed

aching; after stooping

aching; while walking

aching; lumbar (lower half of back)

on movement

aching; base of spine / lower back

aching; base of spine

stooping

walking

junction of hip bones to spine

with rigidness; on waking

with rigidness; sacrum (base of spine)

while walking

tearing; base of spine; and hips while walking

Paralysis; spine

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  ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Tenderness and fullness in region of liver.

Dull aching in liver and epigastrium

Pain at umbilicus

Jaundice; throbbing in hypogastrium and pelvis.

Pain; liver

Stomach

constriction

Eating

Weight of a stone, with gnawing, aching pain; most manifest about three hours after meals

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  RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Rectum

Dry, aching

Feels full of small sticks

Anus raw, sore

Much pain after stool, with prolapse

Hemorrhoids; with sharp shooting pains up the back; blind and bleeding; worse during climacteric

Large, hard, dry stools

Mucous membrane seems swollen and obstructs the passage

Irritation caused by ascarides and aids their expulsion

Burning in anus with chills up and down the back.

Urinary Organs.

Frequent, scant, dark, muddy, hot urine

Pain in kidneys, especially left and ureter.

Constipation

from portal stasis

Dragging, heaviness, weight

Fullness

after stool

Haemorrhoids

blind

bluish

chronic

external

large

walking

wiping after stool

Heat

Itching

Pain

after stool

burning

after stool

pressing (pressure)

soreness

sticking

stinging

sudden, sharp

urge to stool, or urinate, but producing nothing

Skin and lining; dryness

Urging, desire to stool (see pain; urge to stool, or urinate, but producing nothing)

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  GENITALS ETC

Genitals

Male; Discharge of prostatic fluid at stool.

Female; Constant throbbing behind symphysis pubis

Menses

Leucorrhoea, with Lameness of back across the sacro-illiac articulation; dark, yellow, sticky corroding; worse after menses.

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  EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Aching and soreness in limbs, in left acromion process with shooing down arms; finger tips numb.

Paralysis

upper limbs; sensation of paralysis

lower limbs; sensation of paralysis

leg, sensation of paralysis

Weakness

upper limbs

lower limbs

after walking

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  FEVER AND CHILL

Fever and chill

Chill at 4 P.M

Chilliness up and down back

Fever 7 to 12 P.M

Evening fever, skin hot and dry

Sweat profuse and hot with the fever.

Autumn

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  GENERALITIES

Generalities

Blood vessels; congestion of blood

Full feeling; internally

Heaviness; externally

Movement; movement of affected part

Walking

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