AESCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM Horse Chestnut

REMEDY OF THE DAY: aesculus hippocastanum (Horse chestnut) Boericke W. Pocket Manueal of Homeopathy M.M. Depressed and irritable, head dull, confused, aching as from a cold. Pressure in forehead, with nausea, followed by stitches in right hypochondrium, portal congestion. Persons with hemorrhoidal tendencies, and who suffer with gastric, bilious or catarral troubles. Vertigo when sitting and walking. Anshutz E.P. Sexual Ills and diseases Aesculus's action is on the lower bowel, back, hips and liver and it is especially indicated in persons with tendency to hemorrhoids. Back and hips aching and painful, liver and portal system engorged, aching in pit of stomach to right lobe of liver. The remedy has won its chief renown in the treatment of PILES, or hemorrhoids, protruding, purple piles or "bland piles" that pain as though a chestnut burr, or small sticks, were in the rectum with burning pain after stool. for such cases it is best to take the remedy internally in the form of medicated pellets, and externally apply it in the form of suppositories for "blind piles" or of ointment if the piles protrude Bell J.B., The homeopathic Therapeutic M.M. Stool Papescent, mushy slimy, white, light brown, first part black and hard, last part white as milk, bloody and slimy or watery, painless in pm. Before stool rumbling in bowels with cutting about navel sudden urging passing of flatus. During stool severe lumbar and sacral pain: Weakness; tenesmus, unpleasant sensation in rectum and anus. After stool relief of pain in abdomen: Pain in abdomen and eructations tasting of the ingesta. Violent backache in sacro-lumbar region, agg. by walking or stooping. Pain across sacro-illiac symphysis with feeling as if back would break. Aesculus in chronic diarrhea of patients, who suffer from hemorroidal troubles associated with severe lumbar and sacral pains characteristic of this remedy, follicular pharyngitis, violent burning, raw sensation in throat, dryness and roughness of throat. Mucous membranes of mouth, throat, rectum are swollen burn, feel dry and raw. This remedy is indicated there is lameness and paralytic feeling from neck down the back and legs are weak, and he can hardly walk, must lie down, there aare fulgurant pains and ocular and vesical tabetic symptoms.  This remedy is indicated even when the sclerosis is well advanced. Beatriz H Hill!