Aesculus hippocastanum
aesc-hipHorse Chestnut The action of this drug is most marked on the lower bowel, producing engorged hæmorrhoidal 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 v
Aesculus hippocastanum — Materia Medica
Aesculus hippocastanum — mind · James Tyler Kent
Now, as the mental symptoms are the most important in a proving, so are the mental symptoms in sickness the most important. Hahnemann directs us to pay most attention to the symptoms of the mind, because the symptoms of the mind constitute the man himself. The highest and innermost symptoms are the most important, and these are the mind symptoms. Aesculus has not been brought out in the finest detail, but we have the key to it. Extreme irritability is the very general state from which ramify a great many mental symptoms. Irritability and mental depression run through a great many remedies, and form the centre around which revolve all the mental symptoms in some cases. The reason that these are more interior than some other symptoms of the mind is that these relate to the affections themselves. The mental symptoms can be classified in a remedy. The things that relate to the memory are not so important as the things that relate to the intelligence, and the things that relate to the intelligence are not so important as the things that relate to the affections or desires and aversions. We see in a state of irritability that the patient is not irritable while doing the things that he desires to do; if he wants to be talked to, for instance, you do not discover his irritability while talking to him. You never discover he is irritable if you do the things he wants you to do.
Aesculus hippocastanum — general · H.C. Allen
For persons with hemorrhoidal tendencies, and who suffer with gastric, bilious or catarrhal troubles. Fullness in various parts, as from an undue amount of blood; heart, lungs, stomach, brain, pelvis, skin. Venous congestion, especially portal and hemorrhoidal. Mucous membranes of mouth, throat, rectum are swollen, burn, feel dry and raw.
Aesculus hippocastanum — black letter · Margaret Lucy Tyler
Rectum feels full: dryness and itching. Rectum feels full of small sticks (characteristic). {Coll.) Hard dry stool passed with difficulty, with dryness of rectum and heat. Stool followed by rectal fullness. Hcemorrhoids, blind and painful, rarely bleeding. Hcemorrhoids painful, burning, purplish ; generally “ blind ”. Pain in haemorrhoids like a knife, sawing up and down : could not sit, stand or lie ; only kneel. “ Some carry the nuts in their breeches pockets as a preventive." Leucorrhcea with lameness in back across sacro-iliac articula tions, with great fatigue walking : that part of the back gives out when walking even a little way. “ Chest complaints of horses." Constant dull backache ; walking almost impossible : scarcely able to stoop, or to rise after sitting. Constant headache affecting the sacrum and hips, much worse by walking, or stooping forwards. Paralytic feeling in arms, legs and spine. Heaviness and lameness. Fullness in various parts. Mucous membranes dry, swollen ; bum and feel raw. Glandular swellings of bone (whatever th at may mean !). By the way, people carry a horse chestnut about in their clothing “ to cure rheumatism ”.
Aesculus hippocastanum — introduction · Margaret Lucy Tyler
{Horse Chestnut) As Nash says, “ this is one of the remedies that is not so remark able for its wide range of action, as it is for positiveness within its range ^ x Its sensations are, heaviness and lameness, especially in the sacrb-iliac regions. Fullness to bursting in fauces, stomach, bowels, rectum and chest : fullness in various parts, as if they contained an undue amount of blood—heart, lungs, stomach, brain, skin. And, as Kent emphasizes, purpleness of congested parts. He says: “ Aesculus is a venous remedy, engorged and full, sometimes to bursting. Now there is another feature I want to bring out. You will notice that where congestion takes place it is purple, or blue in colour. . . . The remedy is not active in its inflammatory state, it is sluggish and passive . . . the heart is labouring and the veins are congested. . . . It is one of the most frequently indicated remedies in the h&morrhoidal constitution, as it used to be called.” While Guernsey {Keynotes) lays his finger, as usual, on the spot when he says : ” The guiding thread directing the use of this remedy is found in the rectum, htemorrhoidal vessels, sacrum and back.” Popular use and observations, as so often, point to its remedial uses : as when Hering tells us” that it causes prolapsus ani in cattle which feed on it ”—and we learn that ” the nuts are carried in the pocket to avoid, or to cure piles ”. The black letter symptoms of a drug, i.e. the symptoms out standingly caused and cured by it, are pretty strong pointers to its most frequent and brilliant exploits of healing. Glance down them : ” Rectum feels full : sore with burning and itching ; full of small sticks ” (a great characteristic of the drug).
Aesculus hippocastanum — modalities · James Tyler Kent
The conditions of Aesculus are worse during sleep, hence symptoms are observed on waking. He wakes up with confusion of mind, looks all around the room in confusion, bewildered, does not know the people, wonders where he is and what is the meaning of the things he sees. It is especially useful in children that rouse up in sleep frightened and in confusion, like Lycopodium. The remedy produces great sadness, irritability, loss of memory and aversion to work. There are times when there is a sense of bodily congestion, fullness of the veins, and then these symptoms are most marked. It is a general venous stasis, and is sometimes worse in sleep, worse from lying, better from bodily exertion. The symptoms pass away after considerable exertion; moving about, doing something, keeping busy relieves. You will find it useful in persons who suffer from palpitation when the pulsation extends to the extremities and the throbbing of the heart in sleep can be heard; an audible palpitation.
Aesculus hippocastanum — head · James Tyler Kent
This remedy is full of headache. It has also dull aching pain, when it seems that the brain would be pressed out. But especially are these pains felt in the back of the head, as if the head would be crushed; hard aching pains, violent aching pains, fullness of the brain. "Dull frontal headache, from right to left, with constrictive feeling of skin of forehead." Fullness of the head, with dull, heavy pains, aching in the forehead; pain over the right eye. "Neuralgic pains in the right supraorbital region." "Shooting in left parietal bone, later in right." Formication of the scalp. If you examine the skin you will find formication, tickling and shooting and itching all over the body, so what there is in the scalp is only what belongs to the remedy in all parts.
Unlock 31+ more Materia Medica entries for Aesculus hippocastanum
Read the full multi-book Materia Medica, repertorise Aesculus hippocastanum, ask the AI tutor about it, and practise it in a live AI case — free account, no card required.
Create your free account