Asterias (Uraster) rubens belongs to the Invertebratæ, class Radiata.

Common name , Star-fish.

Preparation , Tincture of the living animal cut in pieces.

Authority.

Petroz, Provings, Journ. de la Soc. Gal., 1, 225.

1 , P.; 2 , P. J.; 3 , T.; 4 , M.; 5 , M'me B.; 6 , M'me T.; 7 , M'lle M.

MIND

Inclination to bite (fifth day), 5.
Uncommon cheerfulness in the evening (first day), 6.
Moral sensitiveness prompting him to weep from the least emotion (eleventh day), 1.
Weeping, with despair, followed by calmness almost immediately (third day), 7.
Melancholy, alternating with almost intolerable cerebral excitement; she is inclined to give herself up to mental or bodily work, to walk, or engage in violent exercise; this condition is not at all like inebriety from strong liquors; it is rather a species of moral intoxication (second and third day), 7.
Feeling of excessive anguish from noon till 3 P.M., it seems as if some misfortune was impending, as if he was going to hear bad news; he then feels as if he should give way to tears (sixth day), 4.
Depression, feeling of weariness; it seems as if some misfortune was about to happen to him, and that, should it actually come upon him, he would weep, rather than brace himself to meet it, or become angry (sixth day), 4.
Irritation, anger, inclination to pick a quarrel with somebody (from noon to 2 P.M.), (sixth day), 4.
Slight disturbance of the understanding, with general debility (sixth day), 2. [10.]
Is scarcely able to work in the evening (sixth day), 1.

HEAD

Disturbed feeling in the brain (first day), 1.
*Vertigo (tenth day), 5.
Short-lasting vertigo, 3.
Vertigo when walking (first day), 3.
During the severe pains, the whole skull is painful, 5.
Heat of the head, as if surrounded by hot air (first day), 7.*
Heaviness of the head, in one hour (first day), 1.
Heaviness of the head, heat, throbbing in the head, flushed face (first day), 1.
Fulness of the head, seeming to disturb it laterally (first and second day), 7. [20.]
Sensation of fulness in the head like congestion; and even sometimes like a rush of blood to the head (second day), 1.
The blood goes to the head; feeling of fulness, heat; the head seems about to burst (second day), 1.
Violent rush of blood to the head (fourth day), 7.
Pain as if the skull was being crushed (third day), 7.
Slight twitches in the brain, 7.
Twitchings in the brain when blowing his nose, during the first half of the night (fourth day), 3.
Towards noon, the headache stopped, with a detonating sensation which made her thoughts clearer, 7.
Throbbing in the head (second day), 7.
Throbbing in the head when climbing a height, when walking (second day), 1.
In the night he wakes up in great distress; it seemed as if the brain was receiving shocks from a electric battery; the head felt as if bursting, consciousness was almost extinct; he apprehended a fit of apoplexy; this condition lasted several minutes; when he came to himself his pulse was hard and very quick, the right carotid was throbbing violently (night of the sixth). This fever lasted until the close of the following day, 2. [30.]
Boring pain above the left eye, coming on and ceasing suddenly; it causes contraction of the eyebrows. While this pain lasts the sight is dimmed as by a mist (second day), 7.
Severe pressive pain at the sinciput in the morning, which hardly ceases in the daytime by walking in the open air, 7.
Pressive pain at the forehead, feeling of fulness, contraction of the muscles and compression above the eyes, .

EYES

Fatigued look of the eyes, 7.
Bloodshot eyes (fourth day), 1.
Pain in the eyes from within outward (seventh day), 7.
Heat in the eyes (first day), 7.
Winking of the lids, their free border is red (seventh day), 7.
The eyeballs are drawn backward (third day), 7.
Light fatigues the eyes (first day), 1. [50.]
The eyes can hardly bear the light (fourth day), 7.
He can hardly use his eyes in the evening (sixth day), 1.

EARS

Lancinating pain, which is felt during some seconds in the auditory meatus, is concentrated at the occiput, and there ceases; these pains return in the course of the day, but more feebly (third day), 3.
Sudden, very loud noise, but lasting only a second, in both ears (third day), 3.
Hard hearing, especially in the right ear (second day), 5.
Hard hearing, with sounds as of a river, of waves (seventh day), 1.

NOSE

Sneezing and coryza on waking in the morning (ninth day), 2.
Epistaxis (ninth day), 1.
Epistaxis, which returns three times in five days, 2.

FACE

Expression of dulness; a sort of stupidity in the posture and look (seventh day), 5. [60.]
Redness of the face (fourth day), 5.*
Flushed, swollen face (third day), 5.

MOUTH

Swelling of the tongue (third day), 5.
Drawing pain in the tongue (third day), 5.
Her tongue troubles her; repugnance to talking (fifth day), 5.
Increase of saliva (fifth day), 5.

THROAT

Dryness of the throat (sixth day), 5.
In the morning on awaking, sore throat with constriction (eighth day), 5.
Irritation of the throat; short-lasting sensation of heat, which is renewed several times during the day (first day), 2.
Irritation of the throat, slightly felt at first, afterwards becoming worse (fifth day), 5. [70.]
Dull pain, which seems to extend all along the œsophagus (first day), 3.

STOMACH

Want of appetite; loss of taste (fourth day), 7.
Aversion to meat (seventh day), 1.
Capricious appetite; she desires highly seasoned dishes, strong cheese, liqueurs, coffee, tea (eighth, ninth, and tenth days), 7.
In the morning, loud and frequent eructations (first day), 1.
Nausea (second day), 1.
In the morning, after many loud eructations, lassitude of the stomach, with great heat of this organ (seventh day), 1.

ABDOMEN

In the course of the twenty-four hours the abdomen is alternately swollen and lessened in size (third day), 7.
Flatulence, which is very troublesome after each meal, because it does not pass off either above or below (third day), 7.
Severe colic, with shivering, alternating with flushes of heat in the face (fifth day), 7. [80.]
Colic, followed by diarrhœa (third day), 5.
Dull pain, in shocks, in the right side of the abdomen, and near the navel (seventh day), 1.
Drawing in the abdominal walls (third day), 7.

STOOL AND ANUS

Heat in the rectum, 4.
Slight hæmorrhoidal swelling (third day), 7.
Hæmorrhoidal flux, lasting two days (fifth and sixth days), 1.
Liquid stool, of a brown color, gushing out violently (fourth day), 5.
Several soft stools in one day, 4.
Difficult, thick stool (third day), 7.
Constipation; ineffectual urging, a symptom she had never had before (first day), 7.

URINARY ORGANS. [90.]

Frequent urging to urinate; urine more abundant (seventh day), 1.
Frequent emission of watery urine (second day), 7.
Thick, viscid urine (eighth day), 1.

SEXUAL ORGANS

Frequent erections during sleep, 1.
Erections in the morning (third day), 3.
Unusual moisture of the vagina, which affords relief (third day), 7.
She is harassed by sexual desires, so that she fears she may not be able to endure these painful sensations and nervous disturbances (third day), 7.
Every morning in bed, excitement of the sexual appetite (third day), 7.
Sensation of pressure in the lower organs of the abdomen (womb?); walking is troublesome (third day), 7.
Severe general pain over the womb, as if something protruded behind it (second day), 7. [100.]
Jerking in the uterus (second day), 7.
The menses are delayed eight days, during which the colic and other sufferings, which usually accompany them, are present, but are no longer felt after the appearance of the flow, which is more abundant than usual, 7.

CHEST

Very slight eruption between the breasts, 6.
Slight redness, with branlike efflorescence, on the chest (fourth day), 7.
Blotch on the chest as large as a child's palm, causing a great deal of itching; this redness disappeared in five or six days, 7.
Swelling, distension of the breasts, as before the menses (third day), 7.
Sensation of fulness of the chest, which makes him fearful of syncope (seventh day), 1.
Drawing pain in the breasts (second day), 7.
Drawing pain towards the inner portion of the chest from before backward; under the left breast, this pain extends over the whole inner portion of the arm to the end of the little finger (fifth day), 1.*
Lancinating pain in the anterior inferior portion of the chest, to the right and left of the sternum; this pain, which lasts only a little while, diminishes by throwing back the upper chest and shoulders (fourth day), 5. [110.]
During the night anxiety, caused by undulating pulsations in the chest (sixth day), 4.
The whole left side of the chest is painful, with aggravation from movement (first day), 5.
Sensation as if the left breast was pulled inward, 4.
Pain under the sternum, 6.
Dull pain in the muscles of the præcordial region (second day), 2.
Compression in the præcordial region, 4.

HEART AND PULSE

Strong and frequent palpitation of the heart, 1.
The beats of the heart are dull, scarcely perceptible, and prolonged; it seems as if the heart had ceased to beat, 4.
Leaping palpitation (third day), 1.
During the night and in the morning, anxiety in the heart (seventh day), 1.

NECK AND BACK. [120.]

Drawing pain in the back, 7.
Drawing pain in the sacrum (first and second days), 7.

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL

Diminished sensibility of the limbs, especially the legs and thighs (fourth day), 3.

UPPER EXTREMITIES

Uneasiness in the limbs, especially in the bends of the arms; he can hardly bear the arms covered (fourth day), 7.
Pain extending from the thumb-joint to the shoulder (seventh and eighth days), 2.
Coldness of the left arm, as if a cold wind blew upon it (third day), 7.
On the left elbow, over the olecranon process, a red, round spot as large as a quarter dollar; it neither itched nor smarted, and was covered by a dry, branny, friable coating, which entirely fell off in two days; a similar eruption, but not so extensive, on the anterior portion of the same arm (eleventh day), 7.
Pain in the right shoulder (second day), 5.
Pain in the left elbow-joint (seventh day), 3.
Pain in the flexor tendons of the left wrist (second day), 3. [130.]
Numbness of the hands and fingers (sixth, seventh, and eighth days), 2.
Numbness of the left hand, extending to the arm (second day), 7.
Numbness of the hypothenar eminence of the little finger (fifth day), 4.
Much itching around the left thumb-nail, 1.

LOWER EXTREMITIES

Lassitude of the lower limbs (fourth day), 1.
Great restlessness in the lower limbs in a close room; need of fresh air (third day), 7.
Bruised pain of the lower limbs, 6.
Formication in the lower limbs (eleventh day), 1.
Pain in the right hip, and in the whole left side as far as the scapula; it lasted till the sixth day, and gave rise to fever, 2.
Burning lancination in the left great trochanter and hip-joint, darting like a flash to the outer side of the ham (third day), 1 ; (same symptom on the ninth day.) [140.]
Sensation of drawing in the right hip, as if the leg was too long and was pulled downward (fifth day), 7.
Dull pain in the left hip-joint in the morning (second day), 1.
Deepseated lancinations in the anterior portion of the thigh (first day), 5.
Pulling pain at the outer side of the left thigh (seventh and eighth days).
Very great and unpleasant itching of the thighs and legs, returning towards 6 P.M., in the open air (seventh day), 3.
Pain in the left knee (second day), 5.
A small sore, made on the leg when scratching, is the seat of a pretty sharp lancinating pain (eighth day), 3.
When standing up, weakness of the legs, so that he has to be helped in walking (third day), 5.
Pain in the right ankle-joint, 6.
Severe pain in the left ankle-joint, aggravated by walking (seventh day), 3. [150.]
Intolerable pain in the left foot and the muscles of the leg (eighth day), 3.
Pain in the joints of the left foot (second day), 7.
Burning pain in the feet (eleventh day), 1.
Painful drawing in the soles of the feet and in the toes (eighth day), 3.
Pain in the left foot; it centres at the articulation of the great toe with the first metatarsal bone, and continues there all day (sixth day); this pain, which is aggravated by movement, and makes walking impossible, has the character of a gouty pain, 3.
Lancinating pain in the toes, especially the left great toe, with very great heat and extreme soreness, which prevents the wearing of a shoe; it is worse after sunset and in a close room; the skin is red, and the redness is increased by heat; cold air, or the application of cold water, gives immediate relief, but the warmth of the bed renews the pain, although it ceases during the early part of the night (third day); this pain continues troublesome for a few evenings, but finally subsides like the other symptoms, .

GENERALITIES

Difficulty in keeping still, 1.
General malaise, lassitude, amelioration after eating, 1. [160.]
Desire for the open air; anxiety and impatience when in the house (fifth day), 7.

SLEEP AND DREAMS

After reading for a minute, he feels sleepy, and has to lie down (tenth day), 1.
Sleep from 2 A.M. to the middle of the day (third day), 7.
Sleep with restlessness (eleventh day), 1.
Much dreaming about persons and events. At night the illusions are quite exceptionally vivid; he believes that he sees, touches, and hears the individuals he dreams of, exactly as in the waking state, but without receiving any painful impression (second and third day), 7.

FEVER

Shivering with drowsiness, heat of the skin, restlessness at night (third day), 1.
Increased general heat during the whole continuance of the proving, 7.
Antipathy to everything which increases bodily heat; extreme desire to bathe in cold water (third day), 7.
Great heat in the head, afterwards in the whole body; desire to drink cold water, and to cool herself internally and externally (third day), 5.
Great lassitude under the influence of heat, especially the warmth of the bed, 1. [170.]
Heat of the skin, fever at the close of the day; shivering, heat followed by cold (tenth day), 5.
After the evening meal, general malaise, heat of the skin, frequency and fulness of the pulse (first day), 1.

CONDITIONS

Aggravation.
( Morning ), Pressive pain at sinciput; on waking, sneezing, etc.; eructations; lassitude, etc.; of stomach; erections; in bed, sexual excitement; dull pain in hip joint.
( Evening ), Aggravation of symptoms; pains of the head; can hardly use the eyes; fever.
( Night ), Wakes in great distress, etc.; anxiety; restlessness.
( 12 to 2 P.M .), Irritation, etc.
( 12 to 3 P.M .), Anguish.
( Blowing nose ), During first half of night, twitches in the brain.
( Mental exertion ), Agitation, etc., in brain.
( After meals ), Flatulence.
( Movement ), Pain in left chest; pain in left foot.
( In close room ), Restlessness of lower limbs, etc.; pain in toes.
( Walking ), Vertigo, throbbing in head; pain in left ankle joint.
( Walking up a height ), Throbbing in head.
( Warmth of bed ), Pain in toes renewed.
Amelioration.
( Evening ), Cheerfulness.
( Towards noon ), Headache ceased.
( Cold air ), Pain in toes.
( Cold water applications ), Pain in toes.
( After eating ), General malaise, etc.
( During menses ), Colic, etc., no longer felt.
( Throwing back chest ), Pain in upper chest.

SUPPLEMENT: ASTERIAS RUBENS. Authority.

8 , E. W. Berridge, M.D., N. Y. Journ. of Hom., vol. ii, p. 460, Mr. --- took several doses of 200th (Leipzig).

Dull headache in occiput for thirty minutes, one hour and a half after breakfast; it came and went suddenly. Dull occipital headache, lasting all day, commencing one hour after breakfast, 8.

Asterias Rubens