Horse Chestnut-Sapindaceae
General
For persons with haemorrhoidal tendencies, and who suffer with gastric, bilious or catarrhal troubles. Fullness in various parts, as from an undue amount of blood; heart, lungs, stomach, brain, pelvis, skin. Venous congestion, especially portal and haemorrhoidal. Despondent, gloomy; very irritable; loses temper easily and gains control slowly; miserably cross [Cham.]. Mucous membranes of mouth, throat, rectum are swollen, burn, feel dry and raw. Coryza : thin, watery, burning; rawness and sensitive to inhaled cold air. Follicular pharyngitis: violent burning, raw sensation in throat; dryness and roughness of throat. Frequent inclination to swallow, with burning, pricking, stinging and dry constricted fauces [Apis, Bell.]. Rectum : dryness and heat of; feels as if full of small sticks; knife-like pains shoot up the rectum [Ign. , Sulph.]; haemorrhoids blind, painful, burning, purplish, rarely bleeding. Rectum sore, with fullness, burning and itching [Sulph.]. Constipation : hard, dry stool, difficult to pass; with dryness and heat of rectum; severe lumbo-sacral backache. Stool followed by fullness of rectum and intense pain in anus for hours [Aloe, Ign. , Mur. ac. , Sulph. ]. Prolapsus uteri and acrid, dark leucorrhoea, with lumbosacral backache and great fatigue, from walking. Severe dull backache in lumbo-sacral articulation; more or less constant; affecting sacrum and hips. Back "gives out" : during pregnancy, prolapsus, leucorrhoea; when walking or stooping; must sit or lie down. Sensation of heaviness and lameness in back. Paralytic feeling in arms, legs and spine.
Relations
Similar : to, Aloe, Coll. , Ign. , Mur. ac. , Nux, Sulph. , in haemorrhoids. After Coll. has improved piles, Aesc. often cures. Useful after Nux and Sulph. have improved, but failed to cure piles.
Aggravation
Motion; backache and soreness, by walking and stooping; inhaling cold air.