Æsculus Glabra

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 [1]

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

SENSORIUM [2]

Vertigo with staggering, reeling, unconsciousness.

Vertigo with full, heavy head, dim sight, thick speech, nausea and vomiting.

INNER HEAD [3]

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 [5]

Sight dim or lost.

Eyes fixed and dead.

Eyes expressionless.

TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE [11]

Speech thick and tongue as if lame.

HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING [16]

Nausea, with loathing of food and vomiting.

SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH [17]

Cramplike pain.

Sensation of fulness.

ABDOMEN AND LOINS [19]

Distension (with cattle).

STOOLS AND RECTUM [20]

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 [31]

Wry neck (cattle).

Great lameness and weakness of back.

LOWER LIMBS [33]

Trembling of lower limbs.

Hind limbs lame ; falling (cattle).

A strong tendency to contraction of legs.

NERVES [36]

Spasms and convulsions, followed by lameness (cattle).

Great weakness.

SLEEP [37]

Stupor and confusion, followed by coma.

TIME [38]

Towards evening : vertigo and faintness.

FEVER [40]

Some typhoid symptoms.

SENSATIONS [43]

Pain : in hemorrhoids.

Cramplike pain : in stomach.

Fulness and heaviness : in head ; in stomach.

RELATIONS [48]

Collateral relations : Æsc. hipp.

Discrete relations : Aloes ; Colinsonia ; Ignat. ; Nux vom .