├Жsculus Glabra
By John Henry Clarke тАФ A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica
Fetid or Ohio Buckeye. (States of North America watered by Ohio River.) N. O. Sapindace├ж. Part employed, whole ripe fruit.
Clinical
Constipation / Cough / Cramp in stomach / H├жmorrhoids / Meningitis / Paralysis / Speech, thick / Vertigo / Wry-neck
Characteristics
├Жsculus glabra, like the Horse-chestnut, has a marked action on the rectum. It produces hard, knotty stools; very painful. Dark purple h├жmorrhoidal 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: ├Жsc. hipp., Alo., Collins., Ign., Nux v.
1. Mind
Confusion, with vertigo, often followed by stupefaction and coma.
2. Head
Vertigo, with staggering, reeling, unconsciousness. Vertigo, with full, heavy head, dim sight; thick speech, nausea and vomiting; faintness; towards evening.
3. Eyes
Eyes fixed and dead; expressionless. Sight dim or lost.
8. Mouth
Speech thick, and tongue as if lame.
11. Stomach
Nausea, with loathing of food and vomiting. Distension (in cattle). Full sensation. Cramp-like pain.
13. Stool and Anus
Hard, knotty stools; constipation. Very painful, dark purple, h├жmorrhoidal tumours, with lame back and lower limbs.
17. 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.
20. Neck and Back
Wry-neck (cattle). Great lameness and weakness of back.
23. Lower Limbs
Trembling of lower limbs. Hind limbs lame; paralysis. Strong tendency to contraction of legs.
24. Generalities
Spasms and convulsions, followed by lameness. Trembling.