Asterias rubens
By Adolph von Lippe — Keynotes and Red Line Symptoms of the Materia Medica
Common name: star fish.
Easily excited by any emotion, especially by contradictions (Anac., Bell., Con., Nux-V., Sulph.) (A.).
Weeps from least emotion (Ign., Puls., Nat-M., Sep.) (B.).
Irritable temperament (Nux-V.) (A.).
Gait unsteady; muscles refuse to obey the will (Alum., Arg-N., Gels.).
Hysterical and neuralgic symptoms predominate (C.).
Sexual erethism (Aur., Hyos., Phos., Pic-Ac., Sulph., Zinc.) (B.).
Sexual desire increased in women (Canth., Con., Fluor-Ac., Hyos., Lach., Murx., Nux-V., Orig., Phos., Plat., Puls., Verat.) (A.).
SANGUINEOUS CONGESTION TO THE BRAIN (A.).
RUSH OF BLOOD TO THE HEAD; IT FEELS SURROUNDED BY HOT AIR (B.).
APOPLEXY: FACE RED; PULSE HARD, FULL, FREQUENT (Acon., Bell., Gels., Glon., Nat-M., Op., Verat-V.) (A.).
Stools of brown, gushing water (B.).
Diarrhœa; stools gushing out in a violent jet (Crot-T., Grat., Gum., Jatr., Podo., Thuj.) (A.).
Constipation: obstinate; ineffectual desire; stools of hard, round balls, like olive (A.).
Pulsations in head, womb, chest, etc. (B.).
Epilepsy: twitching over the whole body four or five days before the attack (A.).
Red face (Amyl-N., Bell., Ferr., Meli., Sang., Stram., Verat-V.).
CANCER OF THE MAMMÆ: ACUTE, LANCINATING PAIN; DRAWING PAIN IN BREAST; SWOLLEN, DISTENDED, AS BEFORE THE MENSES; BREAST FEELS DRAWN IN (A.).
A livid, red spot appeared, broke and discharged; gradually invaded the entire breast; very fetid odour; edges pale, elevated, mammillary, hard, everted; bottom covered with reddish granulations (A.).
Colic and other sufferings cease with the appearance of the menstrual flow (Br.).
A remedy for the sycotic diathesis (Med., Nat-S., Sep., Thuj.) (Br.).
Numbness of hand and fingers of the left side (Br.).
Axillary glands swollen, hard and knotted (Br.).
AGGRAVATION: From contradiction; in cold, damp weather; in left side; from coffee; and at night.
AMELIORATION: From the appearance of menses.
RELATIONSHIP. Similar to: Murx., Sep.
COMPARE: Ars., Ars-I., Carb-An., Condur., Con., and Sil. in mammary cancer; an Bell., Calc., and Sulph. in epilepsy.
ANTIDOTES: Plb. and Zinc.