Asterias rubens
by Adolph von Lippe — Keynotes and Red Line Symptoms of the Materia Medica
Historical reference for practitioners and students. The statements below reflect the named author’s homeopathic teaching and do not establish treatment effectiveness. This text is not medical advice and must not replace appropriate diagnosis or care.
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.