AESCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM

Homeopathic Materia Medica & Symptoms

Boericke's Materia Medica

  • Engorged hemorrhoidal veins
  • Characteristic backache
  • Absence of actual constipation
  • Much pain but little bleeding
  • Venous stasis general
  • Varicose veins of purple color
  • Torpor and congestion of the liver and portal system
  • Back aches and gives out
  • Flying pains all over
  • Fullness in various parts
  • Dry swollen mucous membranes
  • Throat with hemorrhoidal conditions
  • Depressed and irritable
  • Head dull, confused, aching as from a cold
  • Pressure in forehead with nausea
  • Stitches in right hypochondrium
  • Pain from occiput to frontal region
  • Bruised sensation of the scalp
  • Neuralgic stitches from right to left through forehead
  • Flying pains in epigastrium
  • Vertigo when sitting and walking
  • Heavy and hot eyes
  • Lachrymation
  • Enlarged blood vessels in eyes
  • Eyeballs sore
  • Dry nose
  • Inspired air feels cold
  • Nasal passages sensitive to air
  • Coryza
  • Sneezing
  • Pressure at root of nose
  • Membrane over turbinate bones distended and boggy
  • Hepatic disorders
  • Scalded feeling in mouth
  • Metallic taste
  • Salivation
  • Tongue thickly coated feels as if scalded
  • Hot dry raw throat
  • Stitching pain into ears when swallowing
  • Follicular pharyngitis connected with hepatic congestion
  • Veins in pharynx distended and tortuous
  • Throat sensitive to inspired air
  • Throat feels excoriated and constricted
  • Throat burns like fire on swallowing in afternoon
  • Early stages of atrophic pharyngitis in dried-up bilious subjects
  • Hawking of ropy mucus of sweetish taste
  • Weight of a stone in stomach
  • Gnawing aching pain in stomach
  • Tenderness and fullness in region of liver
  • Dull aching in liver and epigastrium
  • Pain at umbilicus
  • Jaundice
  • Throbbing in hypogastrium and pelvis
  • Dry aching rectum
  • Rectum feels full of small sticks
  • Anus raw sore
  • Much pain after stool with prolapse
  • Hemorrhoids with sharp shooting pains up the back
  • Blind and bleeding hemorrhoids
  • Worse hemorrhoids during climacteric
  • Large hard dry stools
  • Mucous membrane obstructs passage
  • Burning in anus with chills up and down back
  • Frequent scant dark muddy hot urine
  • Pain in kidneys especially left and ureter
  • Discharge of prostatic fluid at stool
  • Constant throbbing behind symphysis pubis
  • Leucorrhea with lameness of back across the sacro-iliac articulation
  • Dark yellow sticky corroding leucorrhea
  • Worse leucorrhea 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 hemorrhoidal subjects
  • Aching and soreness in limbs
  • Aching in left acromion process with shooting down arms
  • Finger tips numb
  • Lameness in neck
  • Aching between shoulder blades
  • Region of spine feels weak
  • Back and legs give out
  • Backache affecting sacrum and hips
  • Worse backache walking or stooping
  • Feet turn under when walking
  • Soles feel sore tired and swell
  • Hands and feet swell and become red after washing
  • Hands and feet feel full
  • 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

Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

  • Anus affections
  • Back affections
  • Constipation
  • Cough
  • Hemorrhoids
  • Headache
  • Hernia
  • Intermittents
  • Jaundice
  • Liver affections
  • Lumbago
  • Prostate gland affections
  • Sacrum pain
  • Taste altered
  • Throat affections
  • Tongue affections
  • Uterus prolapse
  • Malaise
  • Dulness of head and mind
  • Fullness at root of nose
  • Follicular pharyngitis with dryness
  • Burning in throat
  • Roughness in throat
  • Contraction in throat
  • Soreness in liver region
  • Fullness in liver region
  • Abdomen sore to touch
  • Bileless stools
  • Throbbing in abdomen
  • Throbbing in hypogastrium
  • Hemorrhoids blind or bleeding
  • Dryness in rectum as if little sticks or splinters were pricking the folds of mucous membrane
  • Weak feeling in sacro-iliac joints
  • Pain in sacro-iliac joints
  • Sensation as if the bones were loose
  • Stools large
  • Stools hard
  • Feeling of prolapse of rectum
  • Aching in lumbar region
  • Aching in sacral region
  • Stiffness in the back
  • Tearing in the small of the back
  • Tearing in the hips
  • Pupils widely dilated in bright light
  • Face flushed
  • Pulse full
  • Drowsy
  • Sleep interrupted at short intervals by sudden awakenings and screams
  • Great terror as from a dreadful dream or apparition on opening eyes
  • Despondent
  • Irritable
  • Walking aggravates all symptoms
  • Cold air aggravates all symptoms
  • Cold seasons aggravate all symptoms
  • Nose very sensitive when inhaling
  • Throat very sensitive when inhaling
  • Aggravation after washing
  • Summer ameliorates
  • Winter aggravates hemorrhoids
  • Depressed
  • Gloomy
  • Low-spirited
  • Loses temper easily
  • Regains temper slowly
  • Unable to fix attention
  • Dull pressure in forehead
  • Slight nausea in stomach
  • Stitches in right hypochondrium
  • Severe lancinating headache at base of brain as if too full
  • Tympany
  • Tongue white
  • Confused feeling
  • Giddiness
  • Aggravation rising from a seat
  • Frequent flying pains through the temples
  • Flushes of heat over the occiput
  • Flushes of heat over the neck
  • Flushes of heat over the shoulders
  • Head too heavy to hold up without balancing
  • All head symptoms accompanied by hemorrhoidal, rectal, or sacral symptoms
  • Weight in the eyes
  • Eyes feel heavy and dull
  • Eyes feel heavy and hot
  • Eye balls sore
  • Painful aching over left eye
  • Flickering before the eyes
  • Stinging in posterior nares
  • Burning in posterior nares
  • Stinging in soft palate
  • Burning in soft palate
  • Dryness of posterior nares
  • Dryness of throat
  • Sneezing
  • Severe coryza
  • Pain in right nasal bone
  • Soreness in left nasal bone
  • Pale miserable appearance
  • Flying heat of left side of face
  • Redness of left side of face
  • Face swells enormously after washing in water
  • Tongue coated white
  • Tongue coated yellow
  • Thick yellow phlegm in the mouth
  • Taste sweet
  • Taste bitter
  • Taste metallic
  • Taste coppery with salivation
  • Tongue feels as if it had been scalded
  • Pricking in fauces
  • Formication in fauces
  • Burning in fauces
  • Stinging in fauces
  • Shooting in left side of throat
  • Feeling as if something had lodged in fauces causing constant inclination to swallow
  • Feeling of dryness in throat
  • Feeling of roughness in throat
  • Feeling of rawness in throat
  • Feeling of burning in throat
  • Feeling of constrictive feeling in fauces
  • Neuralgic pains in fauces
  • Dark congested fauces with a full feeling and irritation
  • Sore throat chronic with hemorrhoidal difficulty
  • Belching
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Violent vomiting
  • Great burning distress in the stomach
  • Heartburn
  • Gulping up of food after eating
  • Pressure as from a stone in pit of stomach
  • Eructations of wind
  • Eructations empty
  • Tenderness in the right hypochondrium
  • Much distress in liver
  • Much distress in epigastrium
  • Fullness in liver
  • Fullness in abdomen
  • Constant severe aching from pit of stomach to right lobe of liver
  • Abdomen tender to touch
  • Liver region tender to touch
  • Sensation of fulness
  • Flatulency
  • Colicky pains
  • Hemorrhoidal colic
  • Emission of fetid flatus
  • Rumbling in bowels
  • Cutting in right inguinal region (hernia)
  • Dry uncomfortable feeling in rectum as if it were filled with small sticks
  • Soreness at anus
  • Burning at anus
  • Itching at anus
  • Raw feeling at anus
  • Fullness at anus
  • Pain like a knife sawing backwards and forwards through anus
  • Hemorrhoids like ground nuts
  • Hemorrhoids purple
  • Painful sensation of burning in hemorrhoids
  • Generally blind hemorrhoids
  • Aching and lameness or shooting in the back
  • Hemorrhoids blind and painful
  • Hemorrhoids rarely bleeding
  • Aggravation standing
  • Aggravation walking
  • Stool hard
  • Stool dry
  • Stool passed with difficulty
  • Sensation of rigid hardness before stool
  • Stools hard and black
  • Stools natural consistence
  • Stools 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 with piles
  • Great suffering with piles
  • Constipation with piles
  • Chronic diarrhea with backache or hemorrhoids
  • Piles develop and become particularly troublesome in climacteric years
  • Pain in region of left kidney
  • Frequent scanty urination
  • Urine dark and muddy
  • Urine dark-brown sediment
  • Urine yellow with thick mucous sediment
  • Urine hot
  • Discharge of prostatic fluid at every stool
  • Discharge of prostatic fluid at micturition
  • Seminal loss during sleep
  • A variety of suffering about the generative organs
  • Inflamed cervix uteri
  • Retroversion
  • Prolapsus
  • Enlargement and induration when characterised by great tenderness heat and throbbing
  • Old cases of leucorrhea of a dark yellow colour thick and sticky
  • Worse leucorrhea after menstrual period
  • Increased leucorrhea by walking
  • Corrodes the labia
  • Aching in the sacrum with leucorrhea
  • Aching in the knees with leucorrhea
  • Uterine soreness with throbbing in hypogastrium
  • During pregnancy sacro-iliac symphysis gives out while she walks
  • Must sit down
  • Feels best lying
  • Short cough
  • Cough increased by swallowing
  • Cough increased by breathing deeply
  • Hoarseness
  • Raw feeling in chest
  • Tightness in chest
  • Abundant raising of mucus in morning
  • Cough with sensation of stiffness in the throat
  • Cough with suffocation in the upper chest
  • Oppression of chest
  • Stitches of chest
  • Soreness of chest
  • Other troubles of chest
  • Catarrhal affections causing hoarseness and cough
  • Twitching over region of heart
  • Stitches and neuralgic pains in region of heart esp apex
  • Stitches and neuralgic pains in forehead
  • Functional disturbances of the heart from hemorrhoidal complaints
  • Constant backache affecting the sacrum and hips
  • Very much aggravated backache by walking
  • Very much aggravated backache by 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
  • Rheumatic pains in right scapula
  • Rheumatic pains in right side of chest
  • Pains worse during inspiration
  • Shooting in shoulders
  • Drawing pains in shoulders
  • Tearing pains in shoulders
  • Shooting in arms
  • Drawing pains in arms
  • Tearing pains in arms
  • Shooting in hands
  • Drawing pains in hands
  • Tearing pains in hands
  • Shooting in fingers
  • Drawing pains in fingers
  • Tearing pains in fingers
  • Paralytic feeling in arms
  • Paralytic feeling in legs
  • Paralytic feeling in spine
  • Legs so weak she can hardly walk
  • Left knee swollen
  • Left knee painful
  • Left knee stiff
  • Cannot bear slightest pressure of left knee
  • Tendo Achillis sore
  • Feels faint
  • Feels weak
  • Feels weary
  • Disposition to stretch
  • Disposition to yawn
  • Fulness in various organs as if they contained too much blood
  • Mucous dry
  • Mucous swollen
  • Mucous burn
  • Mucous feels raw
  • Chill at 4 p.m.
  • Fever from 7 to 12 p.m.
  • During fever no thirst
  • During fever bursting headache
  • During fever photophobia
  • During fever profuse hot sweat
  • During fever heart beats violently

Allen's Keynotes

  • 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
  • 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
  • rectum: dryness and heat of
  • rectum: feets as if full of small sticks
  • knife-like pains shoot up the rectum
  • haemorrhoids blind, painful, burning purplish; rarely bleeding
  • rectum sore, with fullness, burning and itching
  • 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
  • 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
  • aggravated by motion
  • backache and soreness, by walking and stooping
  • aggravated by inhaling cold air

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