Æsculus Glabra aesc-g.

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

Fetid or Ohio Buckeye. (States of North America watered by Ohio River.) N. O. Sapindaceæ. Part employed, whole ripe fruit.

Clinical

Constipation. Cough. Cramp in stomach. Hæmorrhoids. Meningitis. Paralysis. Speech, thick. Vertigo. Wry-neck.

Characteristics

Æsculus glabra , like the Horse-chestnut, has a marked action on the rectum. It produces hard, knotty stools; very painful. Dark purple hæmorrhoidal tumours, with lame back and lower limbs. Hale gives the indication: "Very painful external tumours, dark purple, with constipation and vertigo; weakness of sacrum and lower limbs." At the same time there is fulness and heaviness of the head without pain; the sight may be dim or lost; eyes fixed and expressionless. The speech is thick and the tongue as if lame. In cattle it produces wry-neck and paresis of hind limbs. There is a cough produced by sudden irritation of throat, sensation as of a feather tickling the throat, causing hawking and raising of mucus finally streaked with blood.

Relations

Compare: Æsc. hipp., Alo., Collins., Ign., Nux v.

Mind

Confusion, with vertigo, often followed by stupefaction and coma.

Head

Vertigo, with staggering, reeling, unconsciousness. ─ Vertigo, with full, heavy head, dim sight; thick speech, nausea and vomiting; faintness; towards evening.

Eyes

Eyes fixed and dead; expressionless. ─ Sight dim or lost.

Mouth

Speech thick, and tongue as if lame.

Stomach

Nausea, with loathing of food and vomiting. ─ Distension (in cattle). ─ Full sensation. ─ Cramp-like pain.

Stool and Anus

Hard, knotty stools; constipation. ─ Very painful, dark purple, hæmorrhoidal tumours, with lame back and lower limbs.

Respiratory Organs

Sudden irritation of the throat; a sensation of a feather tickling the throat causing hacking and raising of mucus, finally streaked with blood.

Neck and Back

Wry-neck (cattle). ─ Great lameness and weakness of back.

Lower Limbs

Trembling of lower limbs. ─ Hind limbs lame; paralysis. ─ Strong tendency to contraction of legs.

Generalities

Spasms and convulsions, followed by lameness. ─ Trembling.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

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

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 .