This again the provings suggest, dryness of posterior nares and throat, with sneezing, followed by severe coryza. Stinging and burning in posterior nares and soft palate. Pricking, formication, burning and stinging in fauces; shooting in left side. Violent burning in throat, with raw feeling. Dryness and roughness of throat, as from taking cold. Dry, constricted fauces. Dark congested fauces, with full feeling and irritation. Catarrhal laryngitis; larynx dry and stiff.
But everywhere it will show its peculiar characteristics- fullness to bursting-dull aching back, etc. prohibits movement- and everywhere congestion and purpleness, and dryness, and burning.
By the way, Kent tells us that Aesculus” is a wonderful eye, remedy, especially when the eyes have `haemorrhoids’: i.e. enlarged blood vessels. Redness, burning lachrymation, with enlarged blood vessels. Increased determination of blood to the eyes also”. And he points out that in common with all the remedies of venous plethora, Pulsatilla, etc., the Aesculus patient feels better “when surrounded by cold air”.
BLACK LETTER SYMPTOMS
RECTUM feels full : dryness and itching.
Rectum feels full of small sticks (characteristic). (Collinsonia)
Hard dry stool passed with difficulty, with dryness of rectum and heat.
Stool followed by rectal fullness.
Haemorrhoids, blind and painful, rarely bleeding.
Haemorrhoids painful, burning, purplish; generally “blind”.
Pain in haemorrhoids like a knife, sawing up and down: could not sit, stand or lie; only kneel.
“Some carry the nuts in their breeches pockets as a preventive.”
LEUCORRHOEA with lameness in back across sacro-iliac articulations, with great fatigue walking; that part of the back gives out when walking even a little way.
“CHEST complaints of horses.”
Constant dull BACKACHE; walking almost impossible: scarcely able to stoop, or to rise after sitting.
Constant headache affecting the sacrum and hips, much worse by walking, or stooping forwards.
Paralytic feeling in arms, legs and spine.
Heaviness and lameness.
Fullness in various parts.
Mucous membranes dry, swollen; burn and feel raw.
Glandular swellings of bone (whatever that may mean!).
By the way, people carry a horse chestnut about in their clothing ” to cure rheumatism”.
