Aesculus Glabra

Ohio Buckeye. Sapindacece.

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.

Sensorium

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

Vertigo with staggering, reeling, unconsciousness.

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

Inner Head

Fullness and heaviness in the head without pain, with vertigo and faintness toward evening.

\ According to the wry neck, the vertigo, sensation of fullness 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 and Tongue

Speech thick, and tongue as if lame.

Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting

Nausea, with loathing of food and vomiting.

Stomach

Distension (with cattle).

Cramp-like pain.

Sensation of fullness.

Abdomen

Distension (with cattle).

Scrobiculum and Stomach

Hard, knotty stools.

Constipation (cattle), With men.

▌ Very painful, dark purple haemorrhoidal 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 the legs.

36 I^eryng^ Spasms and convulsions, followed by lameness (cattle).

Great weakness. *

Sleep

Stupor and confusion, followed by coma.

Time p. 58

Towards evening : vertigo and faintness.

Fever p. 58

▌ Some typhoid symptoms,

Relations p. 58

Collateral relations : Aesc. hipp.

Discrete relations : Aloes ; Collinsonia ; Ignat.; Nux vom.