Homeopathic Medicine :: Aesculus Hippocastanum – Horse Chestnut

For persons with haemorrhoidal tendencies, and who suffer with gastric, bilious or catarrhal troubles. Fullness in various parts, as from undue amount of blood; heart, lungs, stomach, brain, pelvis, skin.

Aesculus Hippocastanum

Horse Chestnut. Sapindacae.

For persons with haemorrhoidal tendencies, and who suffer with gastric, bilious or catarrhal troubles.

Fullness in various parts, as from undue amount of blood; heart, lungs, stomach, brain, pelvis, skin.

Venous congestion, especially portal and haemorrhoidal.

Despondent, gloomy; very irritable; looses temper easily and gains control slowly; miserably cross ( Cham. ).

Mucous membranes of mouth, throat, rectum are swollen, burn, feel dry and raw.

Coryza; thin, watery, burning: rawness and sensitive to inhaled cold air.

Follicular pharyngitis; violent burning, raw sensation in throat; dryness and roughness of throat.

Frequent inclination to swallow, with burning, pricking, stinging and dry constricted fauces ( Apis , Bell. ).

Rectum: dryness and heat of; feets as if full of small sticks; knife-like pains shoot up the rectum ( Ign. , Sulph. ); haemorrhoids blind, painful, burning purplish; rarely bleeding.

Rectum sore, with fullness, burning and itching ( Sulph. ).

Constipation: hard, dry stool, difficult to pass; with dryness and heat of rectum; severe lumbo-sacral backache.

Stool followed by fullness of rectum and intense pain in anus for hours ( Aloe , Ign. , Mur. ac. , Sulph. ).

Prolapsus uteri and acrid, dark leucorrhoea, with lumbo-sacral backache and great fatigue, from walking.

Severe dull backache in lumbo-sacral articulation; more or less constant; affecting sacrum and hips.

Back “gives out” during pregnancy, prolapsus, leucorrhoea; when walking or stooping; must sit or lie down.

Sensation of heaviness and lameness in back.

Paralytic feeling in arms, legs and spine.

Relationship. Similar: to, Aloe , Coll. , Ign. , Mur. ac. , Nux , Sulph. , in haemorrhoids.

After Coll. had improved piles, Aesc often cures.

Useful after Nux and Sulph. has improved, but failed to cure piles.

Aggravation. Motion; backache and soreness, by walking and stooping; inhaling cold air.


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