Aesculus glabra

by Constantine Hering — The Guiding Symptoms of our Materia Medica

Historical reference for practitioners and students. The statements below reflect the named author’s homeopathic teaching and do not establish treatment effectiveness. This text is not medical advice and must not replace appropriate diagnosis or care.

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 .

Aesculus glabra across the other classic books

Aesculus glabra appears in 5 of the 21 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Allen TF — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“Æsculus glabra, Willd, Nat. order , Sapindaceæ. Common names , Fetid Buckeye, Ohio Buckeye. Preparation , Triturations from the whole fruit. Authority. Hale ("New Remedies"). Confusion of mind, always attended by vertigo, and may be followed by stupefaction and coma. Vertigo, with staggering, reeling and…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Fetid or Ohio Buckeye. (States of North America watered by Ohio River.) N. O. Sapindaceæ. Part employed, whole ripe fruit. Constipation / Cough / Cramp in stomach / Hæmorrhoids / Meningitis / Paralysis / Speech, thick / Vertigo / Wry-neck Æsculus glabra, like the Horse-chestnut, has a marked action on the rectum. It…”
Hale — The introduction story — early pathogenetic and clinical evidence for medicines new to Hale's generation.
“{Ohio Buckeye.) Botanical Description. — This is a large tree, growing abundantly in the rich alluvial bottom lands of Ohio, and other States watered by the Ohio river. The bark exhales an unpleasant odor, as in the rest of the genus. Flowers small, not showy, stamens curved, much longer than the corolla, which is of…”
Hughes & Dake — The source evidence — provings and poisonings retained with their experimental context.
“^SCULUS GLABRA, ^sculuj glabra^ Will J. Stinking Buckeye. Nat. Ord., Saptndacem I. Frtnfingj, — I. Two of my pupi!s once attempted to prove the buckeye, but did not continue the experiments on account of the apparent gravity of tne few symptoms which manifested themselves. It caused vertigo, with reeling like drunken…”

Aesculus glabra in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Aesculus glabra in 3 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic.

MOUTH - LAME Tongue - as if
MOUTH - SPEECH - thick
EXTREMITIES - LAMENESS - Lower Limbs

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