Aesculus Hippocastanum (horse chestnut)
Aesculus hippocastanum
A leading remedy for hemorrhoids with a sense of fullness, burning, and aching in the rectum. Especially useful when veins feel engorged, sore, and bruised, with pain that may extend to the lower back, and when the rectum feels dry and swollen as if full of sticks or glass.
Key indications
- Hemorrhoids with a dry, painful, swollen, stuffed feeling in the rectum
- Burning, aching pain extending to the lower back or sacrum
- Rectum feels dry and full of sticks or small pebbles
- Soreness worse from walking, standing, or bearing down
Walking, standing, bearing down, passing stool, cold damp
Warm applications, rest, lying down
30C twice daily during acute episodes; 200C once daily for chronic hemorrhoidal tendency. Stop on improvement.
General guidance only. 200ck may be substituted for 200C potencies. Stop the remedy upon significant improvement. If no improvement after 2-3 doses in acute cases or after 4-6 weeks in chronic cases, try a different remedy. Consult a experienced practitioner if you feel you need additional help for serious or persistent symptoms.