Aesculus Hip. Is generally indicated for
persons with haemorrhoidal tendencies and who suffer
from gastric disorders.
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.
Leucorrhoa, 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.
SUMMARY OF INDICATIONS:
HAEMORRHOIDS(WITH ACCOMPANYING BAD TEMPER)- LOW
BACKACHE.
NOTE: THE OINTMENT IS USED AS AN
EXTAERNAL APPLICATION IN PAINUL HAEMORRHOIDS.)
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