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Venous
stasis. Haemorrhoids. Rectum feels full of small sticks.
Burning in anus with chills up and down the back.
Jaundice, portal circulation stasis and torpor.
Flying pains all over. Fullness in various parts.
Constant throbbing behind symphysis pubis.
Lameness down the back across the sacro-iliac articulation < walking <
stooping.
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SYNONYM
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Chestnut bud (Bach Flower)
White Chestnut (Bach Flower)
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COMMON NAME
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Horse
chestnut
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FAMILY
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Sapindaceae
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SOURCE
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| - | Tincture
of ripe kernel. |
| - | Trituration of dry kernel. |
| - | Tincture of fruit with capsule.
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| - | PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTION: Colon, rectum, anus- congestion and haemorrhoids. |
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A/F
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MODALITIES
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MIND
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| - | Loses
temper easily, gains control slowly, miserably cross (Cham). |
| - | All mental symptoms < on waking; viz. delusions, inability to recognize
relatives, anxiety, confusion of the mind, sadness or mental depression. |
| - | Dullness or sluggishness. |
| - | Depressed and irritable. |
| - | Attempts to escape from the window. |
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GUIDING INDICATIONS
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| - | Fullness
in various parts, dry, swollen, mucous membranes, flying pains all over. |
| - | Paralytic feeling in arms, legs, spine. |
| - | G.I.T. - Throat is dry, stitching pain into ears on swallowing. Follicular
pharyngitis. |
| - | Haemorrhoids - blind or bleeding. If they bleed, it gives relief. |
| - | Purplish, painful < during climacteric. |
| - | With sharp, shooting pains up the back. |
| - | With heaviness or lameness in sacro-iliac articulation. |
| - | Rectum - dry aching, feels full of small sticks. |
| - | Stool followed by fullness of rectum and intense pain in anus for hour
(Aloe, Ign, Mur-ac, Sulph). |
| - | Irritation caused by ascarides, burning in anus with chills up and down the
back. |
| - | Constipation - hard, dry, knotty, white stools. |
| - | Constant throbbing behind symphysis pubis. |
| - | Female genitalia - Leucorrhoea with lameness of back across the sacro-iliac
articulation or aching in knees. |
| - | Leucorrhoea - dark yellow, sticky, corroding < after menses. |
| - | Back - Spine feels weak, back and legs give out, backache affecting sacrum and
hips. |
| - | Alternate heaviness and lameness. < Walking < stooping < rising
from stooping. |
| - | Fever - 7-12 p.m. chill at 4 p.m.
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KEYNOTES
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- Dry,
aching in rectum with feeling as if full of small sticks.
- Haemorrhoids blind painful, purplish, with severe lumbosacral backache
(alternates with lumbago - Aloe)
- Follicular pharyngitis, dry throat with stitching pain.
- Throbbing in the abdominal or pelvic cavities.
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NUCLEUS OF REMEDY
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| - | Action
marked on lower bowel, producing engorged haemorrhoidal veins, with
characteristic backache, with absence of actual constipation.
Much pain with little bleeding. |
| - | Feeling of fullness in internal parts. |
| - | Venous remedy, engorged and full, sometimes to bursting. |
| - | Congestion of liver with piles.
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| - | Sensation of heat, dryness, stiffness, roughness in throat, nose, anus. |
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CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS
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Haemorrhoids - purplish, painful, rarely bleeding, with heaviness and lameness
in sacro-iliac regions. |
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CLINICAL
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| - | Ascarides,
Atrophic pharyngitis, Haemorrhoids, Jaundice, Leucorrhoea, Lumbago, Venous
stasis. |
| - | After Collinsonia has improved piles, Aesculus often cures.
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| - | Dr. Allen M.D.-In the last month of pregnancy, women sometimes have a weak
feeling in the small of the back, it gives out when walking, Aesculus is the
remedy indicated- Dr. Eli. G. Jones. |
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REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS
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Follows Well: Coll, Nux-v, Sulph
Compare: Aesc-g, Aloe, Coll, Merc, Nux-v, Podo, Sulph
Similar: Aloe, Coll, Merc, Nux-v, Podo, Sulph
Antidoted By: Nux-v
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