Author: Urenus

Common name(s) / Synonyms: —
Botanical/Taxonomic: Prepared by trituration of two parts sulphuret of antimony with one of mercury (Berliner, Zeit. f. hom. Aerzte., vol. ii. Hom. Recorder, 1894, p. 28); Trituration.

1. IDENTIFICATION
   Prepared by trituration of two parts sulphuret of antimony with one of mercury.
2. CLINICAL (Key clinical indications)
   Scrofula;
   Ophthalmia;
   Otorrhoea;
   Skin affections;
   Syphilis.
3. CHARACTERISTICS (Keynotes / guiding symptoms)
   This medicine has not been proved, but has been used with marked success in scrofula, herpetic and eczematous eruptions, and discharges;
   Eruptions like fungi;
   Eruptions from fright;
   Scaly, painful, irritating eruptions of the face;
   Scrofulous ophthalmia;
   Offensive scrofulous otorrhoea;
   Hereditary syphilis;
   Appears to combine the power of several components;
   Its usefulness has been confirmed in many aggravations of skin affections.
4. SYMPTOMS
5. Eyes
   Scrofulous ophthalmia.
6. Ear
   Offensive scrofulous otorrhoea.
7. Skin
   Herpetic eruptions;
   Eczematous eruptions;
   Eruptions like fungi;
   Eruptions from fright;
   Scaly, painful, irritating eruptions of the face;
   Aggravations of skin affections.

Common names: Castaño de la India; Hippocastanum vulgaris; Horse-chestnut
Family: Sapindaceae
Origin/Distribution: North India and North America
Part used: Tincture of the ripe kernel; trituration of the dried kernel; tincture of the fruit with its husk (according to Hering, this is the best)

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IDENTIFICATION

Tincture prepared from the ripe kernel or from the whole fruit with its husk; trituration of the dried kernel.

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CLINICAL (Key clinical indications)

Ano, affections of.
Headache.
Back, affections of.
Throat, affections of.
Altered taste.
Haemorrhoids.
Hernia.
Liver, affections of.
Jaundice.
Intermittents.
Tongue, affections of.
Lumbago.
Prostate, affections of.
Pain in sacrum.
Cough.
Uterus, prolapse of.

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CHARACTERISTICS (Keynotes / Guiding symptoms)

Aesculus hip. is a great remedy for haemorrhoids.

In some districts it is a popular custom to carry a chestnut in the pocket as a preventive.

Produces many symptoms of liver disorder: malaise; dullness of head and mind; fulness at the root of the nose.

Follicular pharyngitis with dryness, burning, roughness, constriction in the throat as in follicular pharyngitis.

Soreness and fulness in the region of the liver; abdomen sore to touch.

Jaundice with bilious stools.

Pulsations in the abdomen, especially the hypogastrium.

Its most intense action is on the lower bowel and pelvic organs.

Haemorrhoids, blind or bleeding; if bleeding, give relief.

Sensation of dryness in the rectum, as of small splinters or little sticks pricking the folds of the mucous membrane; with sensation of weakness in the sacro-iliac joint, as if the legs would give way. (Arg. n. also has pain in sacro-iliac joint and sensation as if the bones were loosening.)

Constipation; stools large, hard, followed by sensation of prolapse of rectum.

General soreness in sacral and lumbar regions, with stiffness in the back; almost impossible to walk.

Tearing in hips and lumbar region.

Poisoning with the green bark of the chestnut has produced the following symptoms in the body: pupils very dilated in bright light; face flushed; pulse full; drowsy and apparently asleep, but sleep interrupted at short intervals by sudden waking and cries; great terror as from a dream of death or apparitions on opening the eyes; questioning fails to discover the cause of his terror.

Patients of Aesc. h. are, as a rule, discouraged and irritable.

Much walking < all symptoms.

Cold air and cold seasons <; nose and throat very sensitive on inhaling; < after washing.

summer; < winter (haemorrhoids).

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RELATIONSHIPS

Compare: Aesc. gl., Alo., Collinson., Merc., Nux v., Pod., Sul. Nux v. antidotes the haemorrhoidal symptoms.

Follows well: Collinson., Nux v., Sul.

Compare also with: Kali bich. (throat; but Aesc. h. has no stringy mucus); Phytolacca (follicular pharyngitis).

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SYMPTOMS

1. Mind

Depressed; melancholy; low-spirited; irritable.
Loses temper easily, and regains it slowly.
Unable to fix the attention.

2. Head

Dull pressure in forehead; slight nausea in stomach, followed by stitches in right hypochondrium.
Severe lancinating headache at base of brain, as if very full; tympanites; tongue white.
Confused sensation with dizziness; < rising from a seat.
Frequent quick pains through temples.
Flushes of heat in occiput, neck and shoulders.
Head very heavy; must balance it; all head symptoms accompanied by rectal haemorrhoids or sacral symptoms.

3. Eyes

Weight in eyes; feel heavy and dull.
Eyes feel heavy and hot; sore eyes.
Aching pain over left eye.
Flames before the eyes.

5. Nose

Stinging and burning in posterior nares and soft palate.
Dryness of posterior nares and throat; sneezing followed by severe coryza.
Pain in right nasal bone; soreness in left.

6. Face

Pale; miserable appearance.
Alternating heat and redness of left side of face.
Face enormously swollen after washing with water.

8. Mouth

Tongue coated white or yellow.
Thick yellow phlegm in mouth.
Taste sweet; bitter; metallic (coppery, with salivation).
Tongue feels as if scalded.

9. Throat

Stitches, tingling, burning and stinging in fauces; sudden, in left side.
Sensation as if something lodged in fauces, causing constant inclination to swallow.
Sensation of dryness and roughness (or rawness and burning) in throat, as from a cold.
Sensation of constriction in fauces.
Neuralgic pains in fauces.
Dark congestion of fauces with sensation of fulness and irritation.
Chronic sore throat with haemorrhoidal difficulty.

11. Stomach

Eructations; nausea; vomiting.
Violent vomiting; great burning distress in stomach.
Heartburn and regurgitation of food after eating.
Pressure as of a stone in pit of stomach.
Eructations of air; empty.

12. Abdomen

Right hypochondrium sensitive.
Much distress in liver and epigastrium.
Fulness in liver and abdomen.
Severe constant soreness from pit of stomach to right lobe of liver.
Abdomen and liver region sensitive to touch.
Sensation of fulness, flatulence and colicky pains; haemorrhoidal colic.
Emission of fetid flatus; rumbling in intestines.
Cutting in right inguinal region (hernia).

13. Stool and Anus

Dryness; troublesome sensation in rectum as if full of splinters.
Soreness; burning; itching; raw sensation and fulness in anus.
Pain as of a knife going back and forth in anus.
Haemorrhoids like peanuts; purple; painful burning sensation; generally blind; sore and disabling, or sudden in the back.
Blind, painful haemorrhoids; rarely bleeding; < standing or walking.
Stools hard, dry, passed with difficulty.
Sensation of hard rigidity before stool.
Stools hard and black; of natural consistency and white.
Backache after large, hard stools.
Anal prolapse after stool.
Several large haemorrhoids appearing to block rectum; small or non-bleeding; great suffering; constipation.
Chronic diarrhoea with characteristic backache or haemorrhoids.
Haemorrhoids develop or become particularly troublesome at the climacteric years.

14. Urinary Organs

Pain in region of left kidney.
Scanty, frequent urination.
Urine dark and turbid; dark brown sediment; yellow, with thick mucous sediment.
Urine hot.

15. Male Sexual Organs

Discharge of prostatic fluid with every stool and during urination; seminal emissions during sleep.
Various sufferings in generative organs.

16. Female Sexual Organs

Cervix uteri inflamed; retroversion; prolapse; enlargement and induration, characterised by great sensitivity, heat and throbbing.
Old cases of leucorrhoea; dark yellow; thick and sticky; worse after menstrual period; increased by walking; excoriates labia; with soreness in sacrum and knees.
Uterus sore with throbbing in hypogastrium.
During pregnancy the sacro-iliac symphysis loosens while walking; must sit down; feels better lying.

17. Respiratory Organs

Short cough; increased by swallowing and deep breathing.
Hoarseness.
Raw sensation in chest.
Chest tight.
Abundant expectoration in morning.
Cough with sensation of stiffness in throat and suffocation in upper chest.
Oppression; stitches; soreness and other distress in chest.
Catarrhal affections cause hoarseness and cough.

19. Heart

Constrictions over region of heart.
Stitches and neuralgic pains in region of heart, especially apex; and in forehead.
Functional disturbances of heart from haemorrhoidal troubles.

20. Back

Constant backache affecting sacrum and hips; much aggravated by walking and stooping forward; almost impossible to rise after sitting.
Back gives way when walking.
Soreness between shoulders.
Spine feels weak.
Sacrum, back, neck, head, chest, heart and abdomen seem to have great sympathy with rectum and its vessels.

22. Upper Extremities

Rheumatic pains in right scapula and right side of chest; worse during inspiration.
Sudden drawing and tearing pains in shoulders, arms, hands and fingers.
Paralytic sensation in arms, legs and spine.

23. Lower Extremities

Legs so weak he can scarcely walk.
Left knee swollen, painful, stiff; cannot bear the least pressure.
Achilles tendon sore.

24. Generalities

Paralytic sensation in arms, legs and spine.
Feels faint; weak; without strength.
Disposition to stretch and yawn.
Fulness in various organs as if they contained much blood.
Mucous membranes dry; swollen; burning as if raw.

27. Fever

Chill at 4 p.m.; fever from 7 to 12 p.m.
During fever: thirstless; bursting headache; photophobia; profuse hot sweat; heart beats violently.

Common name(s) / Synonyms: Castaño de Asia; Fetid or Ohio Buckeye (States of North America watered by the Ohio River)
Family: Sapindaceae
Origin/Distribution: States of North America watered by the Ohio River
Part used: The whole ripe fruit

1. IDENTIFICATION
   A remedy of marked action upon the rectum, similar to Aesculus hippocastanum.
2. CLINICAL (Key clinical indications)
   Cramp in the stomach;
   Constipation;
   Unclear speech;
   Haemorrhoids;
   Meningitis;
   Paralysis;
   Torticollis;
   Cough;
   Vertigo.
3. CHARACTERISTICS (Keynotes / Guiding symptoms)
   Marked action upon the rectum;
   Stool hard, knotty; very painful;
   Haemorrhoidal tumours, dark purple, with weakness of the back and lower extremities;
   “Very painful external tumours, dark purple, with constipation and vertigo; weakness of the sacrum and lower extremities.” (Hale);
   Fulness and heaviness of the head, without pain; vision blurred or lost; eyes fixed and expressionless;
   Speech unclear; tongue as if without strength;
   (Veterinary) In cattle produces torticollis and paresis of the hind limbs;
   Cough from sudden irritation of the throat; sensation as if a feather tickled the throat, causing hawking and expulsion of mucus, finally streaked with blood.
4. RELATIONSHIPS
   Compare: Aesc. hipp.; Alo.; Collins.; Ign.; Nux v.
5. SYMPTOMS
6. Mind.
   Confusion, with vertigo, frequently followed by stupor and coma.
7. Head.
   Vertigo, with staggering, reeling, unconsciousness;
   Vertigo, with head full and heavy; vision blurred; speech unclear; nausea and vomiting; fainting; in the evening.
8. Eyes.
   Eyes fixed and dull; without expression;
   Vision blurred or lost.
9. Mouth.
   Speech unclear; tongue as if without strength.
10. Stomach.
    Nausea, with aversion to food and vomiting;
    Distension (in cattle);
    Sensation of fulness;
    Pain as from cramp.
11. Stool and Anus.
    Stool hard, knotty; constipation;
    Haemorrhoidal tumours very painful, dark purple, with weakness of the back and lower extremities.
12. Respiratory Organs.
    Sudden irritation of the throat; sensation as of a feather tickling the throat, causing hawking and expelling mucus, finally streaked with blood.
13. Neck and Back.
    Torticollis (in cattle);
    Great weakness and impotence of the back.
14. Lower Limbs.
    Trembling of lower extremities;
    Hind limbs incapacitated; paralysis;
    Strong tendency to contraction of the legs.
15. Generalities.
    Spasms and convulsions, followed by weakness;
    Tremblings.

Common names / Synonyms: Adrenalina; Extract of suprarenal glands
Classification: A sarcode
Preparation: Tincture or trituration

1. IDENTIFICATION
   A sarcode prepared from extract of the suprarenal glands; used as tincture or trituration.
2. CLINICAL (Key clinical indications)
   Addison’s disease;
   Weakness;
   Haematuria;
   Hyperaemia;
   Adrenal neuralgia;
   Palpitations;
   Bronzed skin;
   Tachycardia.
3. CHARACTERISTICS (Keynotes / guiding symptoms)
   Adrenalin has cured a number of cases of Addison’s disease and has arrested others;
   The principal features of this affection may be taken as guides for its use: bronzing of the skin; loss of strength; exhaustion; excessively rapid pulse;
   It has cured a case of haematuria accompanied by pain in the suprarenal region;
   It has been used locally in cases of hyperaemia of the conjunctiva, causing it to disappear almost immediately, thus making operations possible;
   It appears to possess a very powerful local action upon dilated vessels;
   When injected into the circulation, it increases blood pressure; the arteries are contracted;
   The general muscular system is affected; a slight stimulus produces prolonged contraction.
4. RELATIONSHIPS
   (As not stated in the text.)
5. SYMPTOMS
6. Generalities
   Loss of strength;
   Exhaustion;
   Excessively rapid pulse;
   Tachycardia;
   Palpitations;
   Increased blood pressure when injected;
   Contraction of arteries;
   General muscular system affected; slight stimulus produces prolonged contraction.
7. Eyes
   Hyperaemia of the conjunctiva; disappears almost immediately under local application.
8. Urinary System
   Haematuria;
   Pain in suprarenal region accompanying haematuria.
9. Circulation
   Dilated vessels; powerful local action upon them;
   Increased blood pressure; arterial contraction.

Common names / Synonyms: Adonis primaveral; Falso heléboro; Ojo de faisán; Adonis vernalis
Family: Ranunculaceae
Preparation: Infusion of the tincture of the fresh plant; an extract, Adonidin

1. IDENTIFICATION
   A plant remedy of the Ranunculaceae family; used in infusion of the tincture of the fresh plant; also prepared as an extract, Adonidin.
2. CLINICAL (Key clinical indications)
   Albuminuria;
   Affections of the heart;
   Oedema;
   Valvular diseases;
   Cardiac asthma.
3. CHARACTERISTICS (Keynotes / guiding symptoms)
   Like Convallaria, Adonis is a popular heart remedy in Russia;
   It has not been proved, but indications for its use have been defined by experience;
   Rapid and weak action of the heart;
   Oedemas;
   Scanty urine with albumin and casts;
   Valvular diseases and cardiac asthma;
   There is no record of use in potencies;
   Cash gave great relief to a patient aged 74 years, with water retention and mitral regurgitation, with the dose of one grain of Adonidin every 8 hours, after failure of Arsenicum and Digitalis;
   Urinary secretion increased from half a pint to 2½ pints in 24 hours;
   Respiration improved; sleep returned.
4. RELATIONSHIPS
   Compare: Digitalis; Convallaria; Strophanthus.
5. SYMPTOMS
6. Generalities
   Oedema;
   Rapid and weak cardiac action;
   Improvement in respiration;
   Return of sleep after increase of urinary secretion.
7. Stomach / Urinary System
   Scanty urine with albumin and casts;
   Urinary secretion markedly increased under Adonidin.
8. Respiratory Organs
   Cardiac asthma;
   Respiration improved after administration.

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