Æsculus Hippocastanum aesc.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

C. M. Boger · Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica · A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1915 — the Materia Medica half

Region

Veins: Liver. Naso- pharynx. ABDOMEN (R). RECTUM. Mucus membranes: Naso-pharynx. Occiput. Sacro-iliac region.

Worse

Morning, on waking. After stool. Lying. Stooping. Urinating. Walking.

Better

COOL: Open air. Bathing. Bleeding (piles). Kneeling. Continued exertion.

General

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.

Particulars

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.

Related

Complementary: Carbo-v. Lach. Mur-ac. Related: Alo. Collin. Pul.

Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica

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Keynote

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.

Relations

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.

Key-Notes to the Materia Medica

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General

The guiding thread directing the use of this remedy is found in the rectum, hæmorrhoidal vessels, sacrum and back. In the sacro-iliac symphysis region is found a painful weariness, brought on by exercise, relieved by rest; moving about causes the back to "give ou t" and unfits one for business.

Head

Depressed and irritable state of the mind: headache, bursting, dull, heavy; shooting, lancinating pains, neuralgic; head too heavy to hold up without balancing, all accompanied by hæmorrhoidal, rectal or sacral symptoms.

Mouth and Throat

Taste bitter, sweet, coppery, with salivation. Sore throat, chronic, with hæmorrhoidal difficulty.

Stomach and Abdomen

Belching, nausea, vomiting. Burning distress in stomach, also aching, and pressure as from a stone. Tenderness and full feeling in region of the liver and stomach. Sensation of fulness, flatulency, and colicky pains; hæmorrhoidal colic. Inguinal hernia.

Chest

Abundant raising of mucus in the morning. Cough, with sensation of stiffness in the throat and suffocation in the upper chest. Oppression, stitches, soreness and other troubles of chest. Catarrhal affections causing hoarseness and cough.

Rectum and Stool

Rectum feels as if full of small sticks; sensation of fulness; dryness and itching; feels sore, with burning and itching. Sensation of rigid hardness before stool; frequent ineffectual urging to stool; sometimes from a feeling of obstruction. Stools hard and black; natural consistence and white. Backache after a difficult, large and hard stool. Bowels always want to be relieved. Much pain in anus after stool, coming on an hour or two after, and then lasting for several hours. Anus feels very raw and sore. Prolapsus ani after stool. Several large piles which seem to block up the rectum, little or no bleeding, great suffering, constipation. Sharp, shooting pains up the back from Hæmorrhoids. Chronic diarrhœa, with the characteristic backache or Hæmorrhoids. Pain in hæmorrhoids, like a knife sawing up and down, could not sit, stand or lie, only relief was from kneeling. Both blind and bleeding hæmorrhoids of years standing. Much bleeding of hæmorrhoids. Piles develop and become particularly troublesome in climacteric years.

Urine

Much suffering in a variety of ways in urinating, as urging, dysuria, sediment, pain after, etc.

Sexual

Male: Discharge of prostatic fluid at every stool, and at micturition; seminal loss during sleep. A variety of suffering, about the generative organs. Female: Inflamed cervix, uteri retroversion, prolapsus, enlargement and induration, when characterized by great tenderness, heat and throbbing. Old cases of leucorrhœa, of a dark yellow color, thick and sticky, worse after menstrual period, increased by walking, corrodes the labia, with aching in the sacrum and knees. Leucorrhœa, with lameness in the back, across the sacroiliac articulations, which seem to give out in walking. During pregnancy the same articulations seem to give out in walking.

Heart

Darting stitches, burning, sharp pains, palpitations, and many other discomforts about the heart.

Neck and Back

Constant dull backache; walking almost impossible. Spine feels weak. Backache in cervical, lumbar and sacral region, worse from motion. Spine feels weak. The sacrum, back, neck, head, chest, heart and abdomen, all seem in remarkable sympathy with the rectum and its vessels.

Extremities

Rheumatic, neuralgic, aching. Shooting, drawing and tearing pains in shoulders, arms, hands and fingers. Left knee swollen and stiff: unable to bear the slighest pressure on it. Legs so weak, can hardly walk. Back and legs weak, can hardly walk, must lie down. Aching, bruised, stinging and soreness in lower extremities. One often feels better after bleeding of hæmorrhoids. Paralytic feeling in arms, legs and spine.

Fever

Chill at 4 P.M., fever from 7 to 12 P.M. During fever no thirst, bursting headache, photophobia, profuse hot sweat, heart beats violently.

Sensation

Sensation of fulness, as if too much blood in different parts of the body. Sensation like hot lightning. The whole body feels as if bruised. Pricking and sticking in fauces and rectum. Pressure in head, ears, bones of nose, stomach and rectum. Constriction in fauces, stomach, bowels, rectum and chest. Stitches, darting, flying pains, lancinating, stinging and darting.

Worse

From cold air and after washing in water. In winter.

Better

In summer. Chill better from heat.

Seven Hundred Red Line Symptoms from Materia Medica

J. W. Hutchison · Seven Hundred Red Line Symptoms from Materia Medica · rewritten from Hering's and other materia medicas

Red line symptom

Dry, uncomfortable feeling in the rectum, as if it were filled with small sticks. Hemorrhoids like ground nuts, purple, generally blind, with burning; also with aching; lameness and shootings in the back. Thick, dark, corroding leucorrhoea, with aching and lameness in the back across the sacro-iliac articulations Constant backache affecting the sacrum and hips, very much aggravated by walking and stooping forward.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Horse Chestnut

General

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 various parts, dry, swollen mucous membranes. Throat with hæmorrhoidal conditions.

Head

Depressed and irritable. Head dull, confused, aching as from a cold. Pressure in forehead, with nausea, followed by stitches in right hypochondrium. Pain from occiput to frontal region, with bruised sensation of the scalp; worse in the morning. Neuralgic stitches from right to left through forehead, followed by flying pains in epigastrium. Vertigo when sitting and walking.

Eyes

Heavy and hot, with lachrymation, with enlarged blood vessels. Eyeballs sore.

Nose

Dry; inspired air feels cold, nasal passages sensitive to it. Coryza, sneezing. Pressure at root of nose. Membrane over turbinate bones distended and boggy, dependent upon hepatic disorders.

Mouth

Scalded feeling. Metallic taste. Salivation. Tongue thickly coated, feels as if scalded.

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.

Stomach

Weight of a stone, with gnawing, aching pain; most manifest about three hours after meals. Tenderness and fullness in region of liver.

Abdomen

Dull aching in liver and epigastrium. Pain at umbilicus. Jaundice; throbbing in hypogastrium and pelvis.

Rectum

Dry, aching. Feels full of small sticks. Anus raw, sore. Much pain after stool, with prolapse. Hæmorrhoids, 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 back.

Urinary

Frequent, scant, dark, muddy, hot urine. Pain in kidneys, especially left and ureter.

Male

Discharge of prostatic fluid at stool.

Female

Constant throbbing behind symphysis pubis. Leucorrhœa, with lameness of back across the sacro-iliac articulation; dark yellow, sticky corroding; worse after menses.

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 hæmorrhoidal subjects.

Extremities

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

Back

Lameness in neck; aching between shoulder blades; region of spine feels weak; back and legs give out. Backache affecting sacrum and hips; worse walking or stooping. When walking feet turn under. Soles feel sore, tired, and swell. Hands and feet swell, and become red after washing, feel full.

Fever

Chill at 4 pm. Chilliness up and down back. Fever 7 to 12 pm. Evening fever, skin hot and dry. Sweat profuse and hot with the fever.

Modalities

Worse, in morning on awaking, and from any motion, walking; from moving bowels; after eating, afternoon, standing. Better, cool open air.

Relationship

Aesculus glabra-Ohio-Buckeye Proctitis. Very painful, dark purple, external hæmorrhoids, with constipation and vertigo and portal congestion. Speech thick, tickling in throat, impaired vision, paresis. Phytolacca (throat dry, more often in acute cases). Negundium Americanum--Box-elder--(Engorgements of rectum and piles with great pain, ten-drop doses of tincture every two hours). Compare also: Aloe, Collinson. Nux. Sulphur.

Dose

Tincture, to third potency.

Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics

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Leaders

Sense of fullness and pulsation in various organs and veins (especially plethoric), as if too full of blood.

Constant dull backache across sacrum and hips; < walking or on stooping (piles, leucorrhœa, displacements etc.).

Sense of fullness, and as of sticks in the rectum (hæmorrhoids).

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

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

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

This is one of the remedies that is not so remarkable for its wide range of action as it is for positiveness within its range. Almost all its usefulness, so far as known, centres in its action in the lower back and pelvic region and ever prominent is this characteristic: Constant dull backache, affecting sacrum and hips, much aggravated by walking or stooping. It is one of our leading remedies for hæmorrhoids, and in addition to this backache there is a feeling of fullness, dryness, and sticking as if the rectum was full of sticks. There is not the tendency to protrusion or prolapsus that there is in Ignatia, Aloe, Podophyllum and some other remedies, and the backache is often greatly out of proportion to any external evidence of piles. This feeling of fullness seems to be a sort of general characteristic of Æsculus, but is especially prominent in the pelvic cavity.

These symptoms are often found in conjunction with other affections besides hæmorrhoids, such as uterine displacements, and inflammations; and some very bad forms of leucorrhœa have been promptly cured by this remedy. There is another quite valuable symptom in these pelvic troubles, viz.: throbbing or beating sensations, that calls for Æsculus. I have seen equally good results from the use of this remedy in the 3d, and the potencies.

I used Æsculus with great results in coryza and sore throat. The coryza is very much like the Arsenic coryza, thin, watery, and burning, but what characterizes Æsculus here is sensation of rawness: sensitive to inhaled cold air. In the throat it has the same sensation of rawness, both in the acute form, and also in chronic follicular pharyngitis, for which it is often a good remedy. It may be that age and use will develop more uses for this remedy.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1st edition (1900-02, three volumes); homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML digitization

General

Hippocastanum vulgaris. Horse-chestnut. (Northern India and North America.) N. O. Sapindaceæ. Tincture of ripe kernel; trituration of dry kernel. Tincture of fruit with capsule (according to Hering, this is the best).

Clinical

Anus, affections of. Back, affections of. Constipation. Cough. Hæmorrhoids . Headache. Hernia . Intermittents. Jaundice. Liver, affections of. Lumbago . Prostate gland, affections of. Sacrum, pain in. Taste, altered. Throat, affections of. Tongue, affections of . Uterus, prolapse of.

Characteristics

Æscul. hip . is a great pile remedy. In some districts it is a popular custom to carry a chestnut in the pocket as a preventive. It produces many symptoms of disordered liver: Malaise; dulness of head and mind; fulness at root of nose. Follicular pharyngitis with dryness; burning; roughness; contraction in throat, as in follicular pharyngitis. There is soreness and fulness in liver region; the abdomen is sore to touch. There is jaundice with bileless stools. Throbbing in abdomen, especially hypogastrium.

The most intense action is on the lower bowel and pelvic organs. There are hæmorrhoids, blind or bleeding; if they bleed it gives relief. Feeling of dryness in rectum as if little sticks or splinters were pricking the folds of mucous membrane; with weak feeling in sacro-iliac joints, as if legs would give way. ( Arg. n . has also pain in sacro-iliac joints and sensation as if the bones were loose.) Constipation, stools large, hard, followed by feeling of prolapse of rectum. General aching in lumbar and sacral regions, with stiffness in the back, almost impossible to walk. Tearing in the small of the back and hips.

Poisoning with the green rind of horse-chestnut has produced the following symptoms in a boy: Pupils widely dilated in bright light. Face flushed; pulse full. Drowsy and apparently slept, but the sleep was interrupted at short intervals by sudden awakenings and screams. Great terror as from a dreadful dream, or apparition on opening his eyes. Questioning failed to elicit the cause of his terror.

Æsc. h . patients are, as a rule, despondent and irritable. Walking greatly < all symptoms. Cold air and cold seasons < ; nose and throat very sensitive when inhaling; < after washing. > Summer; < winter (hæmorrhoids).

Relations

Compare: Æsc. gl., Alo., Collins., Merc., Nux v., Pod., Sul. Nux v. antidotes the pile symptoms. It follows well: Collins, Nux v., Sul. Compare also: Kali bi. (throat; but Æsc. h. has not the stringy mucus); Phytolacca (follicular pharyngitis).

Mind

Depressed; gloomy; low-spirited; irritable. ─ Loses temper easily, regains it slowly. ─ Unable to fix his attention.

Head

Dull pressure in forehead; slight nausea in stomach, followed at once by stitches in right hypochondrium. ─ Severe lancinating headache at base of brain, as if too full; tympany; tongue white. ─ Confused feeling, with giddiness; < rising from a seat. ─ Frequent flying pains through the temples. ─ Flushes of heat over the occiput, neck, and shoulders. ─ Head too heavy to hold up without balancing; all head symptoms accompanied by hæmorrhoidal, rectal, or sacral symptoms.

Eyes

Weight in the eyes; they feel heavy and dull. ─ Eyes feel heavy and hot; balls sore. ─ Painful aching over l. eye. ─ Flickering before the eyes.

Nose

Stinging and burning in posterior nares and soft palate. ─ Dryness of posterior nares and throat; sneezing, followed by severe coryza. ─ Pain in r. nasal bone; soreness in l.

Face

Pale, miserable appearance. ─ Flying heat and redness of l. side of face. ─ Face swells enormously after washing in water.

Mouth

Tongue coated white or yellow. ─ Thick yellow phlegm in the mouth. ─ Taste sweet; bitter; metallic (coppery, with salivation). ─ Tongue feels as if it had been scalded.

Throat

Pricking, formication, burning and stinging in fauces; shooting in l. side. ─ Feeling as if something had lodged in fauces causing constant inclination to swallow. ─ Feeling of dryness and roughness (or rawness and burning) in throat, as from taking cold. ─ Constrictive feeling in fauces. ─ Neuralgic pains in fauces. ─ Dark congested fauces with a full feeling and irritation. ─ Sore throat, chronic, with hæmorrhoidal difficulty.

Stomach

Belching, nausea, vomiting. ─ Violent vomiting; great burning distress in the stomach. ─ Heartburn and gulping up of food after eating. ─ Pressure as from a stone in pit of stomach. ─ Eructations of wind; empty.

Abdomen

Tenderness in the right hypochondrium. ─ Much distress in liver and epigastrium. ─ Fulness in liver and abdomen. ─ Constant severe aching from pit of stomach to r. lobe of liver. ─ Abdomen and liver region tender to touch. ─ Sensation of fulness, flatulency, and colicky pains; hæmorrhoidal colic. ─ Emission of fetid flatus; rumbling in bowels. ─ Cutting in r. inguinal region (hernia).

Stool and Anus

Dry, uncomfortable feeling in rectum as if it were filled with small sticks. ─ Soreness, burning, itching, raw feeling, and fulness at anus. ─ Pain like a knife sawing backwards and forwards through anus. ─ Hæmorrhoids like ground nuts, purple; painful sensation of burning; generally blind; aching and lameness or shooting in the back. ─ Hæmorrhoids blind and painful; rarely bleeding; < standing or walking. ─ Stool hard, dry, and passed with difficulty. ─ Sensation of rigid hardness before stool. ─ Stools hard and black; natural consistence and white. ─ Backache after a difficult, large, and hard stool. ─ Prolapsus ani after stool. ─ Several large piles which seem to block up the rectum, little or no bleeding, great suffering, constipation. ─ Chronic diarrhœa, with characteristic backache or hæmorrhoids. ─ Piles develop and become particularly troublesome in climacteric years.

Urinary Organs

Pain in region of l. kidney. ─ Frequent scanty urination. ─ Urine dark and muddy; dark-brown sediment; yellow, with thick mucous sediment. ─ Urine hot.

Male Sexual Organs

Discharge of prostatic fluid at every stool, and at micturition; seminal loss during sleep. ─ A variety of suffering about the generative organs.

Female Sexual Organs

Inflamed cervix uteri, retroversion, prolapsus, enlargement and induration, when characterised by great tenderness heat and throbbing. ─ Old cases of leucorrhœa, of a dark yellow colour, thick and sticky, worse after menstrual period, increased by walking, corrodes the labia, with aching in the sacrum and knees. ─ Uterine soreness with throbbing in hypogastrium. ─ During pregnancy sacro-iliac symphysis gives out while she walks; must sit down; feels best lying.

Respiratory Organs

Short cough, increased by swallowing and breathing deeply. ─ Hoarseness. ─ Raw feeling in chest. ─ Tightness in chest. ─ Abundant raising of mucus in morning. ─ Cough, with sensation of stiffness in the throat and suffocation in the upper chest. ─ Oppression, stitches, soreness and other troubles of chest. ─ Catarrhal affections causing hoarseness and cough.

Heart

Twitching over region of heart. ─ Stitches and neuralgic pains in region of heart, esp. apex; and forehead. ─ Functional disturbances of the heart from hæmorrhoidal complaints.

Back

Constant backache affecting the sacrum and hips, very much aggravated by walking and stooping forward; almost impossible to rise after sitting down. ─ Back gives out when walking. ─ Aching between the shoulders. ─ Spine feels weak. ─ The sacrum, back, neck, head, chest, heart, and abdomen, all seem in remarkable sympathy with the rectum and its vessels.

Upper Limbs

Rheumatic pains in r. scapula and r. side of chest; worse during inspiration. ─ Shooting, drawing, and tearing pains in shoulders, arms, hands, and fingers. ─ Paralytic feeling in arms, legs, and spine.

Lower Limbs

Legs so weak she can hardly walk. ─ L. knee swollen, painful, stiff; cannot bear slightest pressure. ─ Tendo Achillis sore.

Generalities

Paralytic feeling in arms, legs, and spine. ─ Feels faint, weak, and weary. ─ Disposition to stretch and yawn. ─ Fulness in various organs, as if they contained too much blood. ─ Mucous dry, swollen; burn and feel raw.

Fever

Chill at 4 p.m.; fever from 7 to 12 p.m. ─ During fever no thirst, bursting headache, photophobia, profuse hot sweat, heart beats violently.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

Mind

Mind clear ; anterior lobes feel light ; posterior dull, heavy.
On awaking knows not where she is nor whence came the objects around her.
Unable to fix his attention.
Disinclination to perform any labor.
Inward cheerfulness and placidity of temper.
Feeling of sadness, lasting all day.
Depressed, low-spirited.
Feels dull, gloomy and despondent.
Very irritable all day, and restless during forepart of night.
Extremely irritable ; loses temper easily, and gains control over it but slowly.
Feels miserably cross.

Sensorium

Confused feeling in head, with giddiness ; slight while sitting, worse when rising from a seat, afternoon.
Vertigo with a sensation as if he had to balance the head ; very annoying all afternoon.

Inner head

Dull pain in right temple and occiput, followed by dull stitches in forehead and left temple.
Feeling as if a board was on head ; < rising from a seat.
Neuralgic pains in different parts of head, temples, occiput and frontal region, coming and going.
Severe lancinating headache at base of brain, as if too full ; tympani ; tongue white.
Dull heavy pain deep in brain.
Headache all over as if it would burst. θ Fever.
A sensation of fulness and pressure, rather than of acute pain.
Sensation of fulness in head, beating of temporal arteries, and pain extending through head from one temporal region to other ; < by stooping, laughing and study.
Congestion to head with beating of temporal arteries, lasting half an hour, and accompanied by a dull pain on top of head.
Heaviness, with dull stupefying pain in head.
Heaviness in forehead, with aching in back part of head.
Fulness in forehead with dull heavy pain.
Aching in forehead ; sometimes over left, sometimes over right eye ; also right temple.
Dull pain over right eye ; eyes heavy ; after sleep.
Dull pressure in forehead with slight nausea in stomach, followed at once by stitches in right hypochondrium.
Dull frontal headache, from right to left, with constrictive feeling of skin of forehead, followed by flying pains in epigastrium.
Shooting pain in forehead.
Neuralgic pains in right supraorbital region.
Severe frontal headache ; back aches and is weak.
Pressing in left temple, followed by same sensation in right.
Beating in right temple.
Frequent flying pains through temples and forehead ; throat constricted.
Dull heavy pain extending through top of head.
Neuralgic pains in left side of head.
Very severe pain in right side of head above temple.
Dull aching pain in left side of head.
Dull pain in right side of head, followed by same sensation in l. side, continuing about an hour.
Dull pain in occiput, with flushes of heat over occiput, neck and shoulders, and lame feeling in small of back. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Heavy feeling in back of head.
Dull aching sensation in back part of head, afterwards extending to forehead, much < by stooping.
Dull pain in occiput ; a bruised feeling with heat, extending to ears.
Burning pain in back part of head.
Headache with dull pain and stitches, chiefly in forehead, temple and occiput ; accompanied by confusion and vertigo, with sensation of fulness and pressure rather than other pain.
Sensations in head, accompanied by beating of arteries all over body and accelerated pulse.
Sick-headache ; feeling of fulness in forehead, with sickness of stomach in evening.
Neuralgic darting from right to left across forehead ; followed by flying pains in epigastrium.
Stitches in right side of head, right breast and anterior part of right thigh simultaneously.
Sensation of fulness in upper part of head, with stiffness of neck and spine.
Dull aching sensation in forehead, with beating in temples, flashes of heat and accelerated pulse.
Dull heavy pains in forehead, and pains in back, loins, left shoulder and elbow, as if from exertion.
Headache with drowsiness ; too weak to walk.

Outer head

Shooting in left parietal bone, later in right.
Pains in vertex, with a very annoying sensation, as though a number of pin-points were inserted in skin.
Hyperesthesia of scalp.
Soreness of side of scalp rested on (r).
Formication in front of temple.

Sight and eyes

Flickering before eyes.
Pupils dilated ; contract slowly.
Can read well at a distance, can now read without spectacles.
Eyes feel heavy and hot.
Burning and stinging deep in left orbit, as if pain surrounded ball.
Painful aching over left eye.
Weight in eyes, they feel heavy and dull.
Twitching : of lids ; of muscles under left eye.
Eyes filled with tears.
Balls feel sore, dull aching in them.
Sharp shooting in left eyeball, sometimes through left ear.
Dull pain over the eyes ; shooting over left.

Hearing and ears

Ringing in right ear.
Shooting pain in left ear and eye, later in right ear.
Burning in ears : pressure.
Fulness : in ears.

Smell and nose

Dryness of posterior nares and throat, with sneezing, followed by severe coryza.
Fluent coryza, dull frontal headache, thin watery discharge ; burning, rawness ; sensitive to inhaled air.
Pain in right nasal bone ; soreness in left.
Sneezing.
Stinging and burning in posterior nares and soft palate.
Formication on nose.

Upper face

Stitches in left malar bone.
Pale, miserable appearance.
Ill-looking countenance.
Flying heat and redness of left side of face.
After rubbing face it flushes.
Rubbing after washing causes red spots.
Face swells enormously after washing in water.

Lower face

Severe neuralgic pains from upper lip, extending around to right side of head ; all forenoon.
Severe pains in right mastoid region.
Lips hot.

Teeth and gums

Shooting in lower molar teeth, later in right only.
Ache in middle lower molar, < by warm drinks and pressing teeth together, > by holding cold water in mouth.
Teeth feel as if covered with oil.

Taste, speech, tongue

Taste : bitter, afterwards sweetish ; sweet with ropy mucus ; oily or coppery, with salivation ; metallic.
Cannot control tongue so as to form words rightly.
Tongue furred. θ Hemorrhoids.
Tongue coated white or yellow ; feels scalded.
Tip of tongue sore, as if ulcerated.

Inner mouth

Thick yellow phlegm in mouth, and on tongue.
Mouth dry, as if excoriated and constricted.
Increased flow of saliva, with oily taste.

Palate and throat

Stinging and burning in soft palate.
Pricking, formication, burning and stinging in fauces ; shooting in left side.
Feeling as if something had lodged in fauces, causing constant inclination to swallow.
Throat feels dry and stiff when swallowing.
Dry feeling, or a constrictive sensation, with desire to swallow.
Tonsils swollen, fiery red ; neck swollen and stiff.
Tonsils dark, congested, with an aching distress.
Violent burning in throat, with raw feeling.
Frequent neuralgic pains in fauces.
Constricted sensation in fauces, tongue feels as if scalded.
Hawks up ropy mucus, of a sweetish taste.
Tonsils-dark and congested, swollen ; left worse ; inclination to swallow, with dull aching pain, burning like fire.
Feeling of dryness and roughness of throat as from taking cold.
Frequent inclination to swallow, with dry constricted fauces, burning.
Throat and œsophagus constricted, scraped, causes hawking.
Dark congested state of fauces, with a full feeling and irritation. θ Chronic angina.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Loss of appetite. θ Hemorrhoids.
Considerable thirst.

Eating and drinking

Burning in pit of stomach and feeling as if about to vomit, is removed by eating dinner.
Stomach feels dull, as if walls were thickened, after eating ; a distended feeling the only sign which tells him to stop.
Pain in stomach, continuing until he eats again.
Regurgitation of food an hour after eating.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Eructations : sour ; greasy ; bitter ; frequent ; empty ; taste of food, with nausea.
Nausea. θ Hemorrhoids.
Nausea with increase of saliva and slight burning in stomach.
Nausea most after eating or in afternoon.
Nausea with heavy pressure in epigastric region.
Sickness with heaviness in base of brain from forehead to occiput.
Desire to vomit.
Violent retching and vomiting, with burning in stomach.
Heartburn and gulping up all food after eating ; can hardly eat anything.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Pressure as from a stone in pit of stomach.
Periodical tightness in scrobiculum, with labored breathing.
At the epigastrium : fulness ; burning distress, aching ; pressure as from a stone ; flying pains after headache.
Sinking at pit of stomach, emptiness with gnawing.
Gnawing and emptiness in stomach early mornings.
Fluttering, with faintness in stomach.
Constant distress and burning in stomach, inclination to vomit.
Aching, cutting, burning distress in stomach.
Sharp pain in region of stomach and apex of heart.
Pain in stomach and rumbling in abdomen.
Violent burning in stomach, bowels and liver, with distress, nausea and violent vomiting.

Hypochondria

Dull aching in right hypochondriac region.
Constant, severe aching, from pit of stomach to lower lobe of liver.
Tenderness in right hypochondrium.
Pinching pain in right hypochondrium, with colic ; pain through to back on inspiring.
Stitches in hypochondria following headache.
Stitches, pinching and aching in liver, extending between shoulders.
Tenderness in right hypochondriac region ; full feeling.
Constant dull aching distress in right lower lobe of liver and region of gall bladder ; much distress in liver and epigastrium.
Constant aching pain from pit of stomach to right lobe of liver.
Congestion of liver and portal system.
Fine stitching in left hypochondrium, < moving and laughing.
Pain in region of spleen.

Abdomen and loins

Burning distress, soreness and aching at navel.
Abdomen tender to touch.
Rumbling in bowels, with cutting about navel, with distension and bearing down.
Flatulent pains in bowels. θ Hemorrhoids.
Rumbling noise and abdominal pain extending downward evenings.
At navel : pain, soreness and aching ; pricking ; great distress with urging to stool ; colicky pains after hard stool.
Sensation of fulness in abdomen. θ Hemorrhoids.
Stitches in left side below ribs.
Sensation of soreness in lumbar region.
Deep-seated shooting in right side just above hip ; tearing above right hip.
Flying pains in bowels.
Cramp pain, cutting in bowels before stool.
Cramplike contraction of bowels.
Colicky pains in bowels, with severe cutting in rectum.
Throbbing in abdomen. θ Portal congestion.
Hemorrhoidal colic.
Throbbing in pelvic cavity and hypogastrium. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Pain in hypogastric region. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Cutting in right inguinal region.
Severe neuralgic pain in right inguinal region.
Inguinal hernia.

Stools and rectum

Rectum : feels full ; dryness and itching. θ Hemorrhoids.
Rectum feels as if full of small sticks.
Dryness, heat and constriction of rectum.
Mucous lining feels thickened, obstructing defecation.
Dryness and itching in rectum, with a feeling of stiffness of skin and adjacent cellular tissues.
Sensation in rectum as though a bug was creeping out.
Feeling in rectum as though folds of mucous membrane obstructed passage, and as if, were effort continued, rectum would protrude.
Prolapsus of rectum.
Soreness of rectum : with a feeling as if something would pass off all the time ; aching and fulness ; with increased secretion of mucus.
Rectum sore, with burning and itching.
Considerable pain, aching, swelling and rigid hardness of rectum, commencing an hour after stool, continuing from two to six hours. θ Hemorrhoids.
Pressure in rectum, with constant desire but ineffectual efforts to stool.
Urging to stool, often ineffectual ; rectum seems swollen.
Passes fetid flatus.
Much flatus passed in evening.
Stool softer than natural.
Stools loose, preceded by griping.
Frequent loose stools, with constant urging ; composed of ingesta.
Light-colored soft stool. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Stools mushy, light brown.
Copious, soft stool, followed by burning, and a feeling of swelling and constriction of rectum.
Diarrhœa ; desire to have bowels evacuated coming on suddenly, preceded by passage of flatus and followed by pain in abdomen and eructations tasting of ingesta.
Diarrhœa, evacuations yellow, thin, preceded by pain in abdomen which passed off with stool.
In afternoon, watery discharges from bowels not attended with any pain.
Chronic diarrhœa.
An evacuation, at first black and hard, then white and soft.
First part hard, black, last of about natural consistency, but white as milk, followed by tearing in anus. θ Liver complaint.
Very dark stools. θ Hemorrhoids.
Stool large, dry, hard, difficult, dark.
Stool very hard and dry, with colicky pains in umbilical region, followed by severe cutting pains in rectum.
Stool large, hard, dry, knotted, voided with difficulty and followed by severe cutting, burning or constricting pains in anus, a portion of which seems to protrude ; with dull pains in lower abdomen and severe lumbo sacral
backache.
Sense of fulness and bearing down with constipation. θ Hemorrhoids.
Bowels always wanted to be relieved. θ Hemorrhoids.
Constipation. θ Hemorrhoids.
Hard dry stool passed with difficulty, with dryness of rectum and heat ; no bleeding.
After stool, pain in anus intense, lasting till evening ; every other day stool, inclined to bleeding. θ Hemorrhoids.
Stool followed by rectal fulness. θ Hemorrhoids.
Much pain after stool in morning, not subsiding till evening.
Intolerable burning, itching, stinging pain at anus, with feeling of fulness, which could only be relieved by rubbing or by pressure ; only felt while walking.
Anus feels raw.
Pain like a knife sawing backward and forward through anus. θ Hemorrhoids.
Dryness of passage for several days, followed by a secretion of moisture.
(OBS :) Stricture of the sphincter ani.
Anus sore, it protrudes at or after stool.
Prolapsus ani after stool, with dull backache.
Fulness and itching in anus after a walk.
Rubbing induces a flow of blood to anus.
Troublesome itching of anus.
(OBS :) Fissure of anus.
Pain in anus commences about an hour after evacuation, and continues from two to six hours. θ Hemorrhoids.
Occasional attacks of hemorrhoids, attended with very little hemorrhage, although considerable pain, aching, swelling and rigid hardness of rectum ; attacks usually accompany constipation.
Hemorrhoids, blind and painful, rarely bleeding.
Blind piles of ten years' standing ; bleeding of twenty years.
Several large piles which seem to block up rectum, little or no bleeding, great suffering, constipation.
Sharp, shooting pains running through hemorrhoidal tumors, up to sacrum and along back.
Large protruding painful hemorrhoids. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Appearance of hemorrhoids, like ground-nuts, of a purple color, very painful, and with a sensation of burning.
Hemorrhoids painful, burning, purplish ; generally "blind ;" aching and lameness, or sharp, shooting pains up back.
Hemorrhoids severe and of long standing, patient felt as if the gut was turned inside out.
Pain worse in tumors when standing on feet or walking.
Hemorrhoids, could not sit or lie down with ease.
Pain in hemorrhoids, like a knife sawing up and down, could not sit, stand or lie, only possible position was kneeling ; slight protrusion.
Some carry nuts in their breeches-pockets as a preventive.

Urinary organs

Terrible pain in region of kidney, continuing about an hour and aggravated by motion.
Shooting pain in left kidney.
Shooting pain in left ureter, from below upward.
Desires to urinate often, but passes little at a time, scanty and dark yellow, with scalding in passing through urethra.
Frequent urging to urinate, with scanty, high-colored urine.
Urine : dark, muddy, passed with much pain ; scalding ; with dark-brown sediment ; yellow, with thick-white mucous sediment ; hot.
Diminished quantity of urine passed during day.
During day urine passed was deep red, with strong odor.

Male sexual organs

Amorous dreams and seminal emissions.
Seminal emissions. θ Disease of prostate.
Transient pains in genitals.
Testicles : feel sore, itch ; drawing in left.
Drawing from right testicle in direction of spermatic cord.
Dull and heavy shooting pain through penis.
Shooting pain in right testicle.

Female sexual organs

Inflamed cervix uteri attended with retroversion, prolapsus, ulceration, enlargement and induration, when characterized by great tenderness, heat and throbbing.
Uterine soreness, with throbbing in hypogastrium. θ Hemorrhoids.
Old cases of leucorrhœa ; discharge of a dark, yellow color, thick and sticky ; < after a menstrual period, increased by walking, corrodes labia, aching in sacrum and knees.
Leucorrhœa, with lameness in back, across sacro-iliac articulations, and great fatigue from walking, because that part of back gives out in walking even but a little way.
Thick, dark and corroding leucorrhœa, with constant backache. θ Prolapsus uteri.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

During pregnancy, sacro-iliac symphysis gives out while she walks ; she must sit down ; feels best lying.
Piles troublesome during pregnancy.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Hoarse voice.
Larynx feels dry and stiff ; later mucus is secreted.
Glottis feels dry and stiff ; also pharyngo-laryngeal mucous membrane.
Tickling in larynx, causing a cough, with mucous expectoration.
Throbbing, darting pain in trachea, produces titillation.
Catarrhal laryngitis, laryngeal cough, and perhaps coughs dependent on hepatic disorders.
Pressure in throat-pit, as if something had stuck there which required to be expelled.

Respiration

Rapid, labored breathing.
After a full breath, lungs feel sore, with great rush of blood.
Pain on inhaling in scapula and chest.

Cough

Cough caused by tickling in larynx.
Dry short cough, increased by swallowing and deep breathing.
Dry hacking cough, caused by constriction of fauces, with irritation of epiglottis.
Spits blood on getting up in morning.
Chronic cough, with emaciation.

Inner chest and lungs

Heat in thorax and stomach.
Hot feeling in chest with cold rising, as after peppermint.
Raw feeling in chest and throat.
Stitches in left side, 10 P. M.
Sudden stitches through chest ; going from left to right Crampy pains in chest, 10 to 11 A. M.
Tightness of chest.
Constant burning distress, with a constrictive feeling of lower part of chest.
Pains alternate with those in abdomen.
Lungs feel engorged, heavy.
Soreness over lungs on taking a deep breath. θ Rush of blood.
Sensation as if lung moved up and down painfully, on right side, with each respiration.
Stitching pain in lower and lateral parts of right chest, increased by breathing.
Pain in right scapula and in left side of chest, < on inspiration.
Pituitous consumption.
Chest-complaints of horses.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Darting in region of heart, with fulness and palpitation.
Dull aching, burning in region of heart.
Frequent stitches and shooting, < when breathing, 4 P. M.
Twitching over region of heart, darting, with fulness and palpitation.
Neuralgic pain so severe as to arrest breath, also pain at apex, and pit of stomach.
Sharp pains about apex, in forehead and between shoulders.
A peculiar sensation from apex to left axilla, and, at times, down arms.
Heart-beat full and rapid ; jars prover while lying down.
Palpitation, heart's action full, heavy ; can feel pulsation all over body.
Severe periodical palpitation, with great anguish.
Pulse : accelerated and hard, or soft and weak.
Pulse 66, soft and regular, with burning pain in heart.
Disturbances of heart, with hemorrhoidal complaints.

Outer chest

Pains in sternum, as if a piece was torn out of chest.

Neck and back

Neck : dull heavy pain ; stiff and swollen (with tonsillitis) ; glands sensitive, slightly swollen.
Weakness, lameness and weariness in back of neck.
Aching between shoulder blades.
Continual pain in back, neck and shoulders, at times with pricking sensation and with fulness in both ears.
Drawing in muscles of right side of neck.
Stiffness in muscles of neck.
Heat in back of neck and shoulders.
Spine feels weak.
Great lameness of back, < on walking. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Chilliness extending up back.
Stiffness of back when moving.
Backache is attended with aching in legs and knees.
Caused spinal diseases with sheep.
Pains attending curvature of spine.
Constant dull backache ; walking almost impossible ; scarcely able to rise or stoop or to rise after sitting.
Dull aching sensation in lumbar region.
Weak and bruised feeling in lumbar region.
Painful weakness of loins with dull aching pain, accompanied by several tumors around anus.
Chilly sensation followed by pain in lumbar region, rendered much < by pressure.
Severe dull aching pain in the lumbar and sacral region, aggravated by walking.
Weakness, weariness and lameness in small of back.
Pain extends from bowels to small of back.
Sensation of lameness and soreness in small of back.
Constant backache affecting sacrum and hips, much < by walking or stooping forward.
Tearing in small of back and hips when walking.
Severe pain across back and hips, as if they would break in two. θ Hemorrhoids.
Pain, especially in hip and sacrum. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Backache in cervical, lumbar and sacral region, or sacro-iliac symphysis, < from motion.
Constant dull pain across hips and sacrum.
Dull aching in small of back, < from motion.
Pain and lameness in each sacro-iliac symphysis, < when walking ; patient can hardly walk on account of this lameness in back, which seems to be of a rheumatic character. θ Leucorrhœa. θ
Constipation. θ Hemorrhoids. θ Rheumatism.
Pain across sacro-iliac symphysis, more or less constant, with a feeling as if back would give way at that point, causing great fatigue when walking. θ Uterine
complaints.

Upper limbs

Rheumatic pain in right scapula and right side of chest ; < when inhaling.
Pains in scapula and chest ; < during inspiration.
Strange trembling of muscles of left shoulder, continuing two hours and followed by a sensation of soreness.
Aching in left acromion process, with shooting down arm.
Left upper arm and shoulder feel as if one had taken violent exercise.
Shooting pain extending down arms.
Neuralgic pains in arms.
Twitches in left arm.
Arm and hand of left side become numb, as if paralyzed.
Right arm feels paralyzed, cannot raise it.
Hands weak, cannot control muscles well when writing.
Shooting pain in left arm extending to wrist.
Neuralgic pain of left arm extending down to end of index finger, followed by a tingling sensation.
Tearing pain in right arm extending down index finger.
Pain extending to ulnar side of forearm from elbow to little finger, as if nerve had been compressed.
Drawing tearing in left arm extending to ends of fingers.
Stinging sensation in right arm extending to fingers.
Drawing in metacarpal bones of left hand.
Left arm and hand much warmer, feel heavy and swollen.
Pricking, swollen feeling of hands after washing them.
Cracking of skin on hands.
Nails blue.

Lower limbs

Constant aching bruised feeling in right hip joint, pain extending downward.
Shooting down right thigh ; soreness and lameness in right hip joint.
Stinging on anterior part of right thigh, just above knee.
Sensation of soreness in left hip and knee joints.
In morning pain in right knee and leg, as after violent exercise.
Stiffness of knee joints, particularly when rising from a seat.
Left knee swollen, painful and stiff ; unable to bear slightest pressure.
Aching in legs and knees.
Legs so weak she can hardly walk ; spine weak. See 31 .
Back and legs weak : can hardly walk, must lie down.
Calves feel sore.
Neuralgic pains in right leg extending downward.
Wandering pains in lower extremities.
Soreness of lower extremities felt most when walking.
Legs much affected, can't walk ; bowels loose.
Feet swell after walking.
Tendo-achillis sore.
Tension and soreness in left ankle.
Tension in right ankle, also in left knee.
Boring pain in dorsum of left foot.
Burning pain in left great toe.

Limbs in general

Darting and shooting pains in upper and lower extremities ; most on left side.
Shooting pains extending down left arm and leg.
Feeling of lameness in left shoulder and right ankle joint.
Joints stiff, aching and painful.
Limbs feel heavy.
Spasms of muscles of limbs.
Muscles sore, < on awaking and on motion.

Rest. position. motion

Could not sit nor lie down with ease ; bleeding of piles gives some relief. θ Hemorrhoids.
Dreadful pain, could not sit, stand or lie ; only possible motion was kneeling. θ Hemorrhoids.
Lying : back feels best in pregnancy ; increases heart troubles.
Must sit down : during pregnancy when back gives out.
Stooping : back aches more.
Rising after sitting : backache < ; can hardly get up.
Motion : muscles feel sore ; backache < ; soreness >.
Walking : increases leucorrhœa ; causes burning in epigastrium ; fulness and itching in anus ; back gives out ; aching tearing in back and hips ; almost impossible when back aches ; causes feet to swell ; totters.
Writing : hands become weak.

Nerves

Flying, neuralgic pains.
Lameness and paralytic feelings.
Feels faint, weak ; weariness, faintness at stomach.
Cannot control muscles to speak or to write.
Cannot walk, feels so weak. θ Headache with drowsiness.
Very much weakened. θ Hemorrhoids.
Feels faint and weak ; totters when walking.
Weariness and faintness in stomach.
Feeling of malaise.
Paralytic feeling in arms, legs and spine.
Too sore and languid to attend to business.
Feeling of extreme illness, great weakness, faintness and tottering gait.
A kind of tetanus after a horrible constriction in pit of stomach, she got stiff with the pain, hands blue with a pricking and stinging, lasting two hours ; second attack of same kind.

Sleep

Dreams and restless nights, with obstinate erections, but no emission.
Disposition to stretch and yawn.
Yawning and stupefying sleepiness.
Drowsy ; falls asleep ; on awaking, knows not where she is.
Restless all night ; thoughts continually crowding on mind prevent sleep.
Awakened by burning pain in stomach.
Mornings, on awaking, sore and tired.
Awaking : does not want to rise ; wants to sleep again ; eyes heavy, dull headache over right eye ; feels sore and is red all over, morning ; muscles sore ; pressing in stomach.

Time

Morning : gnawing emptiness in stomach ; feels sore all over ; spitting blood.
Day : drowsy.
Afternoon : throat better ; vertigo.
At 4 P. M. : chills.
At 7 to 12 P. M. : fever.
Forepart of night : restless.

Temperature and weather

Chilly from cold air.
Cold air : teeth chatter and skin feels chilly ; riding in it makes him chilly ; nose and throat sensitive when inhaling.
After washing in water : hands prick ; skin, face and hands swell and redden.
Heat of stove : relieves chill.
Worse in Winter and better in Summer. θ Hemorrhoids.

Fever

Chilliness : creeping up and down back ; with burning in anus ; better from heat of fire.
Chills : along spine ; up back ; cannot get warm.
Chill 4 P. M., with goose-skin, > from heat of fire ; fever 7 to 12 P. M.
Chilliness, with rigor.
Feverish pulsations, with hot and dry hands.
Flashes of heat over occiput, face, neck, shoulders and body.
Skin hot and dry ; evening fever ; palms and soles burn ; disposed to yawn and stretch ; head aches as if it would burst.
Fever : 7 to 12 P. M., no thirst, bursting headache, photophobia ; with profuse hot sweat ; lungs feel engorged, heart beats violently.
Sweat profuse, hot, with fever.
Sweat : abdominal symptoms decline ; on head and face.
Intermittent fevers.

Attacks, periodicity

Periodically : tightness in scrobiculum ; palpitation and anxiety.
Alternating : pains in chest and abdomen.

Locality and direction

Right : dull pain over eye ; stitches in hypochondrium ; soreness of scalp ; pain and aching in lower lobe of liver ; pinching pain in hypochondrium ; tenderness in hypochondrium ; shooting in side above hip ; neuralgia in inguinal
region ; lung painful ; rheumatic pain in scapula ; rheumatic pain in side of chest ; arm feels paralyzed.
Left : stinging and burning deep in orbit ; heat and redness of side of face ; spleen painful ; drawing in testicle ; arm and hand feel warm, heavy and swollen.
Right to left : dull frontal headache ; stitches in chest.
Left to right : stitches in chest ; lameness of arms.
Front to back : pinching pain in right hypochondrium.
Below upward : shooting in back ; chills along spine.
Wandering pains : in legs.

Sensations

Sensation of fulness, as from too much blood in different parts of body.
Sensation like hot lightning.
The whole body feels as if bruised or beaten.
Soreness : on side of scalp rested on ; eyeballs ; nose ; stomach ; hypochondrium ; protruding anus ; testicles ; calves ; tendo-achillis ; muscles ; all over.
As if he had to balance head, vertigo ; as if a board was on head ; as if too full at base of brain ; as if head would burst ; beating of arteries all over body, with headache ; pains as from overexertion ; as though pin points were inserted in skin of
vertex ; as if pain surrounded eyeball ; as if teeth were covered with oil ; as if something had lodged in fauces ; aching distress in tonsils ; tongue as if scalded ; stomach feels full as if walls were thickened ; sinking at pit of stomach ; gnawing
and emptiness in pit of stomach ; fluttering with faintness in stomach ; dull aching distress in right lower lobe of liver and gall bladder ; rectum as if full of small sticks ; feeling of stiffness of skin and tissues about anus ; as though a bug was creeping out of
rectum ; as though folds of mucous membrane obstructed rectum, as if it would protrude, as if something would pass off all the time ; like a knife sawing backward and forward through anus ; as if something had got stuck in throat pit ; as if right lung moved up and down
painfully ; cold rising in chest as after peppermint ; in chest as if lungs were engorged ; in region of heart ; in left great toe ; a peculiar sensation from apex of heart to axilla ; can feel pulsation all over body ; as if a piece was torn out of
sternum ; as if back and hips would break in two ; as if back would give at sacro-iliac symphysis ; as after violent exercise in left upper arm, shoulder, right knee and leg ; as if ulnar nerve had been compressed.
Terrible pain : in region of left kidney.
Tearing pain : above right hip ; in small of back and hips ; down arms and fingers.
Neuralgic pains : in head ; in right supraorbital region ; in left side of head ; from upper lip to right side of head ; in fauces ; in right inguinal region ; about heart ; in arms ; in right leg downward.
Lancinating : in head, at base of brain.
Cutting : in stomach ; about navel ; in rectum ; in right inguinal region ; in rectum.
Stitches : in right hypochondrium ; in forehead, temples and occiput ; in right side of head ; in right breast ; in right thigh ; in l. malar bone ; in hypochondria ; in liver ; in left side below ribs ; sudden through chest from left to
right ; in lower r. chest ; in region of heart.
Stinging : deep in left orbit ; in posterior nares ; in soft palate ; at anus ; in right arm ; on anterior part of right thigh above knee ; in hands.
Burning : in back part of head ; deep in left orbit ; in ears ; in nose ; coryza ; in posterior nares and soft palate ; in fauces ; in throat ; in tonsils ; in pit of stomach ; in stomach, bowels and liver ; at navel ; in
rectum ; in anus ; in hemorrhoids.
Scalding : in urethra.
Pricking : in fauces ; in back, neck and shoulders ; in hands.
Shooting pain : in forehead ; in parietal bones ; in left eyeball ; over left eye ; in ears ; in lower molars ; above right hip ; through hemorrhoidal tumors ; up sacrum ; along back ; in left kidney and ureter ; through
penis ; in right testicle ; in region of heart ; down arms ; down right thigh ; down left arm and leg.
Darting : in larynx ; in region of heart.
Boring : in dorsum of left foot.
Flying pains : through temples and forehead ; in epigastrium ; in bowels.
Bruising feeling : in occiput ; in lumbar region ; in right hip joint.
Aching : in occiput ; in forehead ; over eyes ; in right temple ; in eyeballs ; in lower molars ; in tonsils ; from pit of stomach to lower lobe of liver ; in liver ; at navel ; of rectum ; in hemorrhoids ; in sacrum ;
in legs and knees ; in region of heart ; between shoulder blades ; in lumbar region ; in left acromion process ; in right hip joint ; in legs and knees ; of joints.
Soreness : in left nasal bone ; of tip of tongue ; at navel ; in lumbar region ; of rectum ; at anus ; in testicles ; over lungs ; in left shoulder, after trembling ; in right hip joint ; in left knee and hip joint ; of
tendo-achillis ; in left ankle ; of muscles ; all over.
Rawness : in nose, coryza ; in throat ; of anus ; in chest and throat.
Dull pressure : in forehead.
Pinching : in right hypochondrium ; in liver.
Dull stitches : in forehead and left temple.
Pain : in right nasal bone ; in right mastoid region ; in region of spleen ; in hypogastric region ; in right scapula and left side of chest ; at apex of heart ; at pit of stomach ; in sternum ; in back, neck and shoulders ; in spinal
curvature ; in hip and sacrum.
Dull pain : in right temple and occiput ; deep in brain ; in vertex ; in forehead over orbits ; over right eye ; in left side of head ; in right hypochondriac region.
Fulness : in head ; in forehead ; in vertex ; in ears ; in fauces ; in right hypochondriac region ; in abdomen ; in rectum ; at anus.
Swollen feeling : in rectum ; in left arm ; of hands.
Heaviness : in forehead ; of eyes ; in occiput ; from forehead to occiput ; in left arm ; in limbs.
Rheumatic pain : in lungs ; in right scapula and right side of chest.
Twitching : over region of heart.
Drawing : in left testicle ; in muscles of right side of neck ; in metacarpal bones of left hand.
Dull heavy pain : in neck.
Pressure : in temples ; ears ; bones of face ; epigastric region ; in stomach ; in rectum ; in throat-pit.
Tightness : of chest.
Tension : in ankles.
Constricted feeling : of skin of forehead ; in throat ; of mouth ; in fauces ; in œsophagus ; in scrobiculum ; in stomach ; of rectum ; in anus ; in lower chest.
Cramp pain : in bowels ; in chest.
Beating : in temples.
Throbbing : in abdomen ; in pelvic cavity and hypogastrium ; in trachea.
Lame feeling : in small of back ; in neck ; in sacro-iliac symphysis ; in right hip joint ; in left shoulder and right ankle.
Paralytic feeling : in arms, legs and spine.
Weariness : in neck ; in back ; in stomach.
Stiffness : in larynx and glottis ; of neck ; of back ; of knee joints ; of joints.
Formication : in front of temple ; on nose ; in fauces.
Tingling : in left arm and index finger.
Tickling : in larynx.
Heat : of eyes ; of left side of face ; of lips ; in stomach ; in rectum ; in thorax ; in back of neck and shoulders.
Chilliness : up back ; in lumbar region ; with gooseskin.
Dryness : of posterior nares and throat ; of mouth ; in rectum ; of larynx.
Itching : in rectum ; at anus ; of testicles.

Tissues

Fulness in various parts, as if they contained an undue amount of blood.
Venous congestion, especially portal and hemorrhoidal.
Sore muscles, mornings on awaking and on motion.
Mucous membranes dry, swollen ; burn and feel raw.
Glandular swellings of bone.
Joints weak ; lumbo-sacral region aches.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Touch : abdomen tender ; glands sensitive ; side of head he has been lying on feels sore.
Rubbing : causes face to flush ; produces red spots on hands after washing ; induces a flow of blood to anus.

Skin

Formication : scalp, nose, fauces.
Itching of body, especially about waist.
After washing : red spots on face.

Stage of life, constitution

Bilious temperament. θ Anal troubles.
Climacteric years. θ Piles.
Suitable for persons with hemorrhoidal tendencies who suffer with gastric, bilious or catarrhal troubles.

Relations

Collateral relation : Æsc. glab .
Similar to : Aloes, Collinsonia, Mercur., Nux vom., Podoph., Sulphur (weak spine).
Nux vom . antidotes symptoms of piles.
Found useful after Collinsonia had improved piles.
Useful after Nux vom . and Sulphur had failed in piles.

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

James Tyler Kent · Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Séror HTML text (Kent d. 1916; public domain)

Introduction

A peculiar kind of plethora is found running through this remedy, a vascular fullness which affects the extremities and the whole body, and there are symptoms showing that the brain is similarly affected.

Modalities

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.

Mind

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. But just as soon as you do something he does not want, this irritability or disturbance of the will is brought on, and this is the very innermost of the man’s state.

That which he wishes belongs to that which he wills, and the things that relate to what he wills and the most important things in every proving.

You may say that an individual is sad, but he is sad because he lacks something that he wants; he desires something which he has not and becomes sad for it; sadness may go on to such an extent that the mind is in confusion.

Confusion of mind and vertigo. Make this distinction, vertigo is not confusion of the intelligence.

You have only to meditate upon it a moment and you will see that it is not.

Confusion of the mind is a disturbance of the intellect, not disturbance of the sensorium; you will make a distinction between staggering when walking and a period of disturbance of the mind, with inability to think clearly.

Vertigo is a sensation of rolling, and belongs to the sensorium. A great mistake has been made in some of our repertories, in that confusions of mind are placed with vertigo under sensorium.

These things must be thought out carefully, so that we are clear in our own minds as to what symptoms mean when they are given to us by patients.

A patient may state that when walking in the street he is dizzy or that it appears as though everything interiorly were turning around, yet he may be perfectly able to add up a column of figures; his mind may be clear.

If we ourselves are perfectly clear as to the meaning of these expressions, we will commonly glean the meaning of the patient. It is important to record the language of the patient, yet often a patient will say something which you can see he does not mean at all, and it then becomes necessary to put in a parenthesis what he really means. For instance, a patient says:

"I have such a pain in my chest," with the band on the abdomen, or a woman when menstruating will say the pain is in the stomach when you know it is in the uterus.

Patients must be questioned oftentimes as to their statements, or requested to place the hand upon the painful part. In the same way, therefore, patients talk about dizziness when they are not dizzy at all, but feel a confusion of mind, or they speak of confusion of mind when they mean that they stagger in the street.

It is in the nature of this remedy to have flying pains all over the body, like Pulsatilla and Kali carb., flitting, sharp, shooting, tearing pains, flying from one part to another; they seem at times to be scarcely more than skin deep. Sometimes they fly along the course of the nerves.

Head

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.

Eyes

Aesculus is a wonderful eye remedy, especially when the eyes have "hemorrhoids" . Does that convey any idea to you?

By that I mean particularly enlarged blood vessels.

Great redness of the eyes, with lachrymation. burning eyeballs and vascular appearance.

This increased determination of blood is more or less painful; the eyeballs feel sore and ache; sharp, shooting pains in eyes.

In almost every rubric of Aesculus we shall find stitching and shooting; little twinges; wandering pains with fullness; almost every kind of disturbance will intensify e fullness.

Fullness of the hands and feet, not the fullness that pits upon pressure, that we call oedema, but a tenseness.

Medicines having much trouble with the veins are often disturbed by hot bathing, weakness after a hot bath, weakness in warm weather, aversion to heat and desire for cold.

It is the state of Pulsatilla. The Pulsatilla veins contract in cold weather, and the shrivelling up makes the patient feel better, but the veins fill and become engorged in the warm air and after a hot bath.

A tepid bath sometimes makes a Pulsatilla patient feel better, but a Turkish bath is generally distressing. Many of the complaints of Aesculus are of this sort; Aesculus often feels better in cold air.

The symptoms of Aesculus are often brought out, by temperature, especially the little stinging pains. It is characteristic of these superficial pains that they are nearly always ameliorated by heat, while the deeper affections are oftentimes ameliorated from cold.

Now, in Pulsatilla, the stinging pains of the scalp and those over the body, here and there, are often ameliorated by the local application of heat, while the patient himself wants to, be in the cold; in the same way Aesculus stinging pains are better from heat, while the patient is often better from cold, although at times he is aggravated from cold, damp weather in rheumatic and venous conditions.

Again, in Secale, we see that the little sharp pains that follow the course of the nerves are better from beat, but the patient himself wants to be in the cold air, or to be uncovered, except the spot of pain, which he wants kept warm.

We notice the same thing running through Camphora; during the twinges of pain he wants the windows closed and wants hot applications; but as soon as the pain is over he wants the windows up and desires to be uncovered so that he can breathe. These are general things, things that are to be observed in analyzing symptoms.

Aesculus then is a venous remedy, engorged and full, sometimes to bursting. Now, there is another feature I want to bring out. You will notice where congestion takes place that it is purple or blue in color.

Throat

This remedy produces inflammation of the throat, the characteristic being that it is very dark. It has the tendency to produce varicose veins and ulceration, and round about these we have marked duskiness.

Aesculus cures varicose leg ulcers with a purplish areola.

When we study the hemorrhoidal state we see the tumor is purple, looking almost as if it would slough. The remedy is not active in its inflammatory state, it is sluggish and passive.

Certain remedies produce a slight inflammation with a high degree of redness, everything is violent and rapid, but in this medicine things are slow; the activities are reduced, the heart is laboring and the veins are congested.

Stomach, Digestion

"Eructations: sour, greasy, bitter."

"Desire to vomit."

"Heartburn and gulping up of food after eating."

It has a great disturbance of digestion, and we can see by these symptoms that we must class it with Phosphorus and Ferrum.

As soon as the patient has swallowed the food, or a little while after, it becomes sour and he eructates it, until after a while he has emptied the stomach of its contents.

Such is the state of Phosphorus, Ferrum, Arsenicum, Aesculus and a few other medicines. Aesculus has also a state of congestion and ulceration of the stomach.

"Constant distress and burning in the stomach. Inclination to vomit."

Such a state as this might be present in ulceration of the stomach.

Abdomen

The abdomen is full of troubles.

If we read the symptoms of the right hypochondrium, of the abdomen and of the rectum, we shall see from the study of these that there must be a marked portal stasis.

Digestion is slow, the bowels are constipated and there is protrusion of the rectum when at stool. It has most troublesome hemorrhoids with fullness of the right hypochondrium.

The liver is full of suffering. After eating there is distress in the bowels and rectum. Sticking, jagging, burning pains, as if the rectum were full of sticks.

Great suffering with blind hemorrhoids. The hemorrhoidal veins are all distended and ulcerate. The stool becomes jammed into the rectum, against these distended veins, and then ulceration takes place with bleeding and great suffering.

This remedy is often supposed to be suitable to hemorrhoids that do not bleed, but it cures bleeding piles also. We find in the text over two pages devoted to the symptoms of the rectum. Great soreness; much pain; urging to stool; dark stool followed by white one, showing the liver engorgement. Chronic constipation.

Back

The back is the seat of much trouble, especially low down in the back, through the sacrum and hips; although there is also aching all along the back and pain in the back of the neck.

It is a very common thing for patients suffering from hemorrhoids to have pain in the back of the neck and base of the brain, basilar headaches, and when these hemorrhoidal patients undertake to walk they have pain and aching across the sacrum into the hips.

This pain through the sacrum and into the hips, when walking, is a striking feature of Aesculus, so striking that you may expect it to be present even when there are no hemorrhoids.

Constant dull backache; walking is almost impossible; scarcely able to rise or walk after sitting. You will see one suffering from the Aesculus backache, on attempting to rise from sitting, make many painful efforts before he finally succeeds. This is found in Sulphur, Petroleum and is also cured by Agaricus.

Genital female

Aesculus is indicated oftentimes in the troubles of women, with great dragging pain in the pelvis. Many a time has Aesculus cured the dragging-down pain of the pelvis with copious leucorrhoea and pressing pain in the hips when walking.

The woman feels that the uterus is engorged. She says that the lower part of the abdomen feels full, both before and during menstruation. There is much suffering at this time with pains in the hips.

"Uterine soreness, with throbbing in the hypogastrium."

"Old cases of leucorrhoea, discharge of a dark yellow color, thick and sticky."

"Leucorrhoea, with lameness in the back across sacro iliac articulations."

During pregnancy there are many complaints, with soreness and fullness and uneasy consciousness of the uterus and pain across the back when walking.

Aesculus is full of gouty sufferings; gout in all the joints, gouty rheumatic affections, neuralgic affections. Especially in this rheumatic tendency found from the elbows to the hands, in the forearm and hands. Rending, tearing pains, flying hither and thither without any particular order, relieved by heat.

Varicose veins of the thighs and legs have been cured by Aesculus (Fluoric acid ). This varicose tendency in the body we have already seen is a striking feature of Aesculus.

After the sore throat has passed away, engorged veins are left, which Aesculus sometimes cures. After eye troubles have been cured, varicose veins - remain in the eye.

With rheumatic complaints there are varicose veins. It is one of the most frequently indicated remedies in the hemorrhoidal constitution, as it used to be called.

The Therapeutics of Fevers

H. C. Allen · The Therapeutics of Fevers · 1902 Library of Congress printing (Allen d. 1909; public domain)

Characteristic

Most suitable to persons with hemorrhoidal tendencies, who suffer from gastric, bilious or catarrhal troubles.

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

Constant backache—severe, dull, aching pain—affecting the sacrum and hips, sacro-iliac articulations, worse when walking or stooping forward.

Back gives out at that point when walking, must sit or lie down.

Venous congestion (portal and hemorrhoidal); fulness in various parts, as from an undue amount of blood; heart, lungs, stomach, brain, pelvis, skin.

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, especially in hemorrhoidal subjects; 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; feels as if full of small sticks; knife-like pains shoot up the rectum (Ign., Nit. ac., Sulph.); hemorrhoids blind, painful, burning, purplish; rarely bleeding; sore, with fulness, burning and itching.

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

Aggravation

Backache and soreness from walking and stooping; motion; inhaling cold air; swallowing liquids.

Type

Quotidian; tertian; double tertian. Periodicity marked. Autumnal fevers. Remittent. Malarial.

Time

4 P. M. (Lyc., Puls.). Evening. Fever without chill from 7 to 12 P. M.

Prodrome

Yawning, stretching and bursting headache. Without thirst.

Chill

At 4 P. M., with goose-flesh, relieved by heat of fire (Ign.); along the spine; runs up the back, or creeping up and down the back (Gels.), with heat and burning in the rectum and anus. Severe chilliness, with rigor; cannot get warm.

At 4 P. M. (Anac., Lyc., Puls.); coldness without shivering; thirsty but unable to drink from pain in throat.

Heat

Flushes of heat over the face, occiput, neck and shoulders, or over the whole body. In evening fever from 7 to 12 P. M., no thirst, skin hot and dry, palms and soles burn, disposed to yawn and stretch; head aches as if it would burst. Photophobia. Lungs feel engorged; heart beats violently.

Burning in the mouth and profuse salivation. Burning dryness and constriction of the throat, constant inclination to swallow, profuse saliva and frequent spitting of mucus from the mouth.

During paroxysm burning of throat and pharynx as from a live coal; great thirst with inability to swallow from painful dryness of throat.

With hot sweat of entire body.

Sweat

Profuse, hot, and comes on with the heat, not after it; on head and face. The congestions of head, face and chest decline and abdominal symptoms disappear during sweating stage.

Pulse

Soft, slow and feeble. Functional disturbances of heart from hemorrhoidal complications; heartbeat full and rapid; can feel pulsations over whole body (Nat. m.).

Tongue

Coated white or yellow; tip sore as if ulcerated; feels scalded. Taste sweet with ropy mucus; metallic, coppery, with salivation.

Apyrexia

Constipation and hemorrhoids, with the characteristic backache, dryness and burning of the rectum. Painful dryness and burning of throat and pharynx with difficult swallowing.

In France, during the continental wars of the Empire, the blockade of the European ports by the English navy was so rigid that Peruvian bark—the recognized specific for intermittent fever—was effectually excluded.

It was during this time that a vigorous search by the faculty for a substitute for bark, brought into experimental use many remedies, and among others Arsenic and Æsculus.

The Bulletin des Science Médicales, in 1808, Vol. II, p. 560, published a large number of cures obtained by the bark of the horse-chestnut. Dr. Ranque reports 43 cases; Dr. Cazin 2 cases of tertian and one of double tertian; and Dr. Lacroix in an epi- demic of intermittent fever in the department of Loire et Cher, successfully treated over 200 cases with Æsculus alone.

Analysis

The hemorrhoidal diathesis with lumbo-sacral backache, and the dry, burning throat, pharynx and rectum are most marked.