The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Æsculus Glabra aesc-g.

Hering, 1879–91 (1879)In every bookSave

General

Ohio Buckeye. Sapindaceæ.
A beautiful tree growing in the bottom lands of the Ohio river. The tincture is to be made of the whole fruit ; the bark may differ. Symptoms mostly toxic ; provings commenced only by Hale.

Mind

Confusion of mind, with vertigo, often followed by stupefaction and coma.

Sensorium

Vertigo with staggering, reeling, unconsciousness.
Vertigo with full, heavy head, dim sight, thick speech, nausea and vomiting.

Inner head

Fulness and heaviness in head without pain, with vertigo and faintness towards evening.
(OBS :) According to the wry neck, the vertigo, sensation of fulness and heaviness of head, stupor, great weakness and trembling of limbs, it may be used in meningitis.

Sight and eyes

Sight dim or lost.
Eyes fixed and dead.
Eyes expressionless.

Taste, speech, tongue

Speech thick and tongue as if lame.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Nausea, with loathing of food and vomiting.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Cramplike pain.
Sensation of fulness.

Abdomen and loins

Distension (with cattle).

Stools and rectum

Hard, knotty stools.
Constipation.
Very painful, dark purple hemorrhoidal tumors, with lame back and lower limbs.
It is popular to carry the fruit in the breeches-pocket, as a preventive of piles.

Neck and back

Wry neck (cattle).
Great lameness and weakness of back.

Lower limbs

Trembling of lower limbs.
Hind limbs lame ; falling (cattle).
A strong tendency to contraction of legs.

Nerves

Spasms and convulsions, followed by lameness (cattle).
Great weakness.

Sleep

Stupor and confusion, followed by coma.

Time

Towards evening : vertigo and faintness.

Fever

Some typhoid symptoms.

Sensations

Pain : in hemorrhoids.
Cramplike pain : in stomach.
Fulness and heaviness : in head ; in stomach.

Relations

Collateral relations : Æsc. hipp.
Discrete relations : Aloes ; Colinsonia ; Ignat. ; Nux vom .