Æsculus Glabra

Fetid or Ohio Buckeye. (States of North America watered by Ohio River.) N. O. Sapindaceæ. Part employed, whole ripe fruit.

Clinical

Constipation / Cough / Cramp in stomach / Hæmorrhoids / Meningitis / Paralysis / Speech, thick / Vertigo / Wry-neck

Characteristics

Æsculus glabra, like the Horse-chestnut, has a marked action on the rectum. It produces hard, knotty stools; very painful. Dark purple hæmorrhoidal 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: Æsc. 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, hæmorrhoidal 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.