The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica
Æsculus Glabra aesc-g.
General
Ohio Buckeye. Sapindaceæ.
A beautiful tree growing in the bottom lands of the Ohio river. The tincture is to be made of the whole fruit ; the bark may differ. Symptoms mostly toxic ; provings commenced only by Hale.
Mind
Confusion of mind, with vertigo, often followed by stupefaction and coma.
Sensorium
Vertigo with staggering, reeling, unconsciousness.
Vertigo with full, heavy head, dim sight, thick speech, nausea and vomiting.
Inner head
Fulness and heaviness in head without pain, with vertigo and faintness towards evening.
(OBS :) According to the wry neck, the vertigo, sensation of fulness and heaviness of head, stupor, great weakness and trembling of limbs, it may be used in meningitis.
Sight and eyes
Sight dim or lost.
Eyes fixed and dead.
Eyes expressionless.
Taste, speech, tongue
Speech thick and tongue as if lame.
Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting
Nausea, with loathing of food and vomiting.
Scrobiculum and stomach
Cramplike pain.
Sensation of fulness.
Abdomen and loins
Distension (with cattle).
Stools and rectum
Hard, knotty stools.
Constipation.
Very painful, dark purple hemorrhoidal tumors, with lame back and lower limbs.
It is popular to carry the fruit in the breeches-pocket, as a preventive of piles.
Neck and back
Wry neck (cattle).
Great lameness and weakness of back.
Lower limbs
Trembling of lower limbs.
Hind limbs lame ; falling (cattle).
A strong tendency to contraction of legs.
Nerves
Spasms and convulsions, followed by lameness (cattle).
Great weakness.
Sleep
Stupor and confusion, followed by coma.
Time
Towards evening : vertigo and faintness.
Fever
Some typhoid symptoms.
Sensations
Pain : in hemorrhoids.
Cramplike pain : in stomach.
Fulness and heaviness : in head ; in stomach.
Relations
Collateral relations : Æsc. hipp.
Discrete relations : Aloes ; Colinsonia ; Ignat. ; Nux vom .