AESCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM- a snapshot

A remedy acting mainly on throat, liver, rectum and back and has plethora of concomitants within each of these affected regions with each other.

  • Gloomy, easily angered (composure attained slowly only later)
  • Miserably cross
  • Body feels sore on getting up in the morning
  • Congestion and fullness everywhere
    • Heart, lung, brain, pelvis, stomach etc
    • Venous congestion
  • Mucous membranes raw, hot and dry
  • Haemorrhoids
    • Non bleeding, painful
    • Haemorrhoids in climacteric years
    • With cough (concomitant)
    • With heart complaints (concomitant)
  • Pain in rectum for hours after stools (ALOE, IGNATIA, MURIATIC ACID, SULPH)
  • Coryza, thin, acrid
  • Throat
    • Scrapy
    • Prominent veins
    • Sensitive to inhaled cold air
    • Follicular pharyngitis, pricking, constricted (APIS, BELL), inclined to swallow
      • Liver troubles with (concomitant)
      • Haemorrhoids with (concomitant)
  • Backache
    • With haemorrhoids (concomitant)
    • With prolapsed uterus, acrid leucorrhoea (concomitant)
    • Great prostration with backache, < walking
    • Pregnancy during (concomitant)
    • With chest pains (concomitant)
  • Liver
    • Congested, portal congestion
    • Jaundice
  • Sore legs and extremities
  • Rectum
    • Feels dry, as if full of sticks
    • Pains shooting up the rectum (IGNATIA, SULPHUR)
    • Sore and itchy anus (SULPH)
    • Dry hard constipation with backache (concomitant)
    • Sensation of bugs crawling in anus (SULPH)
  • Severe pain in stomach 3 hours after eating

(Think of this remedy in a person where you find rectal, liver and throat complaints occurring with each other. Backache is also a prominent concomitant. The patient is prostrated, fatigued. Has chronic constipation generally, and is cross and easily angered. He is irritable after getting up in the morning like LYCO. When you think of NUX VOM or SULPH also think of this remedy. It comes close to COLLINSONIA in its rectal complaints.)