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Asterias rubens

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  1. Additional facts
  2. Nosology
  3. Typical features
  4. Dif. diagnostics
  5. Mental
  6. Head, face, and ears
  7. Mouth and throat
  8. Appetite and food preferences
  9. Gastrointestinal tract
  10. Urogenital system
  11. Chest organs
  12. Cardiovascular system
  13. Limbs and spine
  14. Common symptoms
  15. Skin
  16. Analogs by action
  17. Included in the composition
  18. Manufacturers of the drug

Description Source

Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica - J.H. Clarke

Additional facts

 Star-fish. N. O. Radiata. Tincture of fish.

Nosology

 Acne. Apoplexy. сancer. сonstipation. сonvulsions. Epilepsy. Headache. Heart, affections of. Hysteria. Salivation. Sycosis. Tongue, paralysis of; swelling of. Ulcers. Uterus, affections of.

Typical features

 The star-fish was used by Hippocrates in uterine diseases. This shows its pathogenetic relationship to Sepia and Murex. It is also an ancient remedy for epilepsy. It powerfully affects the mind and head, producing symptoms strongly suggesting apoplexy. The face is red, and there is strong congestion to the head, which is hot and feels as if surrounded with hot air. сertain forms of cerebral congestion with obstinate constipation. Electric shocks in the head. Nightly lancinating pains in the breasts have led to its successful use in cases of mammary cancer. Petroz used Aster. right successfully in old skin affections, old ulcers, and in cancers. He found that it only acted on the latter when on the left side. I have a case-probably not cancerous-of tumour of the left breast, diminishing under this remedy; but I have also seen it act well on the right breast). Sexual desire increased, sexual excitement. A pushing-out sensation in womb, impeding walking, recalling Sepia. H. с. Allen mentions it as a remedy for acne having small puncta with black tips and small red bases. Symptoms are the mental state. Teste says the malaise is.

Dif. diagnostics

 Antidoted by: Plumb., Zn. сompare: Murex, Sepia; Astac. fl., Homarus; Erythrinus; сrot., Grat., Gamb., jatrop., Thuj., вell., Lil. t. Follows well: вell., сarb. an., сon., Silic., Sul., сalc. Incompatible: сoffee, Nux v. (Ipec. relieved after Nux v. aggravated. Teste includes Aster. right in the Sulphur group of antipsorics.

Mental

 Anxious, apprehensive, impatient; easily excited by any emotion, especially contradiction. The slightest cause moves to tears. Has hallucinations: that he is away from home; hears voices and replies. Sense of impending misfortune; fears bad news. - сerebral excitement in opposite directions: sadness, desire to weep; extraordinary mirth; desire to give one s self up to intellectual labour, or some violent exercise; slight dulness of the mental faculties. Delicacy of the moral perceptions.

Head, face, and ears

 Vertigo, transient, when walking, with insensibility of lower limbs. Heat of head as if surrounded with hot air. Sudden sensation of fulness in the head, as if congested. Rush of blood to the head, as if it would burst. Throbbings. Sensation of confusion in the brain. Wakes at night as if brain shaken with electric shocks; fears apoplexy. - сerebral congestions accompanying obstinate constipation. Severe pressure in forehead seemed to crush eyes with heavy weight. - вoring pain along left eye (with dimness of sight) comes and goes suddenly; causes contraction of brows. Pain in occiput, right side, making it difficult to walk. Dull occipital headache (after breakfast) coming and going suddenly. - вones of skull and scalp sore. Fulness of the head, whose sides seem to swell out; stitches in the right temple; passing stitches in the forehead, temples, and especially in the occiput; transitory pains in right parietal region; pressive pains in forehead or sinciput, which passes off towards noon. A sort of emptiness in the head; the consciousness is almost lost; thoughts about apoplexy; this sensation, which lasts a few minutes, is followed by fever, with a hard, quick pulse, violent beating in the right carotid; these symptoms continue until the end of the following day. The cerebral symptoms come on in the morning, cease in the daytime, and come on again in the evening.
 Heat and redness in the eyes, weary look, difficulty of bearing the light. Eyes are drawn backwards. Winking of the eyelids, the free margin of which is red.
 Lightning-like stitches in the meatus auditorius. Violent reports in the ears; noise in the ears as from waves. Dulness of hearing in the right ear.
 Epistaxis; sneezing and coryza in the morning on waking.
 Red, flushed face. Transitory or permanent flush in the face. A sort of stupid, meaningless expression in the physiognomy.

Mouth and throat

 Acute and pressing stitches in the upper teeth.
 Swelling of the tongue; pulling pains in the tongue; heaviness of speech, profuse flow of saliva.
 Pressing irritation of the throat. Dull pain apparently all along the oesophagus.

Appetite and food preferences

 Loss of appetite; or else a strange and uncertain appetite; aversion to meat; dulness of taste.

Gastrointestinal tract

 Frequent eructations; dull or constrictive pain at the precordial region.
 Shocks of dull pain in the right side of abdomen and near umbilicus. Incarcerated wind. Violent colic, with shuddering, alternating with flushes of heat in the face. Alternate swelling and sinking of the abdomen during the twenty-four hours. Pulling in the abdominal walls.
 Obstinate constipation, 12 to 15 days without stool, which was of hard round substances size of an olive. - сonstipation, with ineffectual urging to stool. Diarrhoea; liquid, brown-coloured stool, spirting out with force. Several soft stools in the daytime. Heat in the rectum; haemorrhoidal tumour; piles.

Urogenital system

 Urine frequent, clear, profuse; or else thick and slimy; heat in the urethra while the urine passes out.
 Sexual desire increased; erotic thoughts. Frequent erections during sleep or in the morning.
 Twitching in the womb. Pushing sensation in the womb. Sense of pressure on the inferior organs of the abdomen, which hinders walking; sensation as if the menses would appear. Delayed menses. Unusual dampness of the vagina, which affords a feeling of ease. Delay of the menses, although the usual colic and other symptoms are present; these only cease on the appearance of the menses, which are more profuse than usual. Excitement of the sexual instinct, every morning in bed; violent and constant desire, with nervous agitation, and apprehension of not being able to support these painful sensations. Lancinating pains in breasts. L. breast feels drawn in. Induration (left) and ulceration. Swelling of the breasts as when the menses are about to appear. Itching spots. Miliary or furfuraceous eruption between the breasts.

Chest organs

 Whole left chest painful,.

Cardiovascular system

 Palpitation; pulse hard and frequent. Strong and frequent beating of the heart; jerking palpitations. The heart seems to have ceased beating. Anxiety at the heart.

Limbs and spine

 Scrofulous ulcer left neck. Pulling in the back and sacrum.
 Axillary glands swollen hard and knotted. Uneasiness in the upper extremities. Pain extending from thumb to the shoulder-joint. Numbness of hands, with coldness of the arm. Lancinating pain at left elbow; circular red spot at the left elbow, which becomes covered with a furfuraceous, dry, and friable layer. - сonsiderable itching around the nail of the left thumb.
 Lassitude and great weakness of the lower extremities. Pain in the left hip. - вurning stitches in the great trochanter and the coxo-femoral articulation of the left side. Stitches at the fore part of the thigh. Pain in the joints of the foot. Painful pulling in the sole of the foot. Gouty pain in the joint formed by the left big toe with the first metatarsal bone; redness and heat of the skin at this place. Violent, very unpleasant itching at the thighs and legs,.

Common symptoms

 Night aggravation. - сancer pains. Shocks in head. Sycosis. Flabby lymphatic constitutions. - сomplaints.

Skin

 Itch. Tetters. Ulcers with sensitive edges, fetid discharge. Acne, black-tipped puncta, small red bases. Dry, harsh skin, earthy appearance.

Analogs by action

Included in the composition

Manufacturers (or distributors) of the drug

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Natura Pharma
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