Aesculus hippocastanum
as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931
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Keynotes
Reflex rectal symptoms. Rectum: painful constriction; as of a knife sawing up and down. HOT, DRY, STIFF, ROUGH or full feeling internally; throat, abdomen, anus, etc. Purple puffy parts. Venosity. Pains, sticking; like hot lightning. .................... Irritable. Crushing in occiput. Nose sensitive to cool inspired air; it burns. Congestive catarrh. Follicular pharyngitis. Throbs, deep in abdomen. Stool, hard, dry; of several colors. RECTUM: sore, as of a burr or sticking pains long after stool; as of a bug crawling from anus (Sul.). Piles, purple, painful, external; with BACKACHE (Nux-v.), chest pains, etc. Laming, dull, lumbar pain; small of back gives out; repeated efforts at rising; < walking. Lumbar region or back: as if to break. Bruised pain in sacrum and hips. Paralytic heaviness: of arms, spine, feet.
Worse
Morning, on waking. After stool. Lying. Stooping. Urinating. Walking.
Better
COOL: Open air. Bathing. Bleeding (piles). Kneeling. Continued exertion.
Region
Veins: Liver. Naso-pharynx. ABDOMEN (R). RECTUM. Mucus membranes: Naso-pharynx. Occiput. Sacro-iliac region.
Relationships
Complementary: Carbo-v. Lach. Mur-ac. Related: Alo. Collin. Pul.
What the other books say about Aesculus hippocastanum
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Aesculus hippocastanum in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Aesculus hippocastanum in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- Aesculus hippocastanum in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
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Create a free accountCite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Aesculus hippocastanum — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/aesculus-hippocastanum. Author died 1935: public domain in India. The catalogue records 1931; a 1931 edition is public domain in the US from 1 Jan 2027 at the latest — the edition this transcription follows is not stated in the file. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.