Homoeopathic Gem : Aesculus Hippocastanum

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Plant of Aesculus Hippocastanum (Horse Chestnut)

Words that describe Aesculus Hippocastanum

1. Sleep :
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.

2. Headache :
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.

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3. Plethora :
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.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.

4. Haemorrhoids :
It has most troublesome hemorrhoids with fullness of the right hypochondrium (Due to portal congestion). 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.

Keynotes of Aesculus Hippocastanum

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

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

3. Venous congestion, especially portal and haemorrhoidal.

4. Eye heavy and hot, with lachrymation, with enlarged blood vessels.

5. Dry; inspired air feels cold, nasal passages sensitive to it.

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6. Veins in pharynx distended and tortuous.

7. Rectum feels full of small sticks.

8. Haemorrhoids, with sharp shooting pains up the back; blind and bleeding; worse during climacteric.

9. Burning in anus with chills up and down back.

10. Leucorrhoea, with lameness of back across the sacro-iliac articulation; dark yellow, sticky corroding; worse after menses.