Asterias Rubens aster.

Circulation. Nerves. Female organs. Rectum. Left side.

Heat. Menses. Contradiction. Cold wet.

Pulsations; in head, womb, chest, etc. Drawn back feeling in eyes, nipples, etc. Cancer.

Mentally and physically flabby. Weeps from least emotion. Rushes of blood to head; it feels surrounded by hot air. Red face. Pimples about mouth. Stools of brown, gushing water. Sexual erethism.

Related: Murex. Sep.

For the sycotic diathesis; flabby, lymphatic constitution; irritable temperament. Easily excited by any emotion, especially by contradictions (Anac., Con.). Heat of the head, as if surrounded by hot air. Sanguineous congestion to the brain. Apoplexy; face red, pulse hard, full, frequent. Cancer of mammae; acute lancinating pain; drawing pain in breast; swollen, distended, as before the menses; breast feels drawn in. A livid red spot appeared, broke and discharged; gradually invaded entire breast, very fetid odor; edges pale, clevated, mamillary, hard, everted; bottom covered with reddish granulations. Gait unsteady: muscles refuse to obey the will (Alum., Gels.). Epilepsy: twitching over the whole body four or five days before the attack. Constipation: obstinate; ineffectual desire; stools of hard, round balls, like olives. Diarrhoea: watery, brown, gushing out in a violent jet (Crot. t., Grat., Gum., Jatr., Thuja). Sexual desire increased in women (Lit.).

Similar: to, Murex, Sepia. Compare: Carbo an., Con., Sil. in mammary cancer; Bell., Cal., Sulph. in epilepsy

Red Starfish

A remedy for the sycotic diathesis; flabby, lymphatic constitution, flabby with red face. Lancinating pains. Nervous disturbances, neuralgia, chorea, and hysteria come within the range of this remedy. Has been used for cancer of the breast, and has an unquestioned influence over cancer disease. Excitement in both sexes.

Cannot bear contradiction. Shocks in brain; throbbing; heat in head, as if surrounded by hot air.

Red. Pimples on side of nose, chin and mouth. Disposition to pimples at adolescence.

Colic and other sufferings cease with appearance of flow. Breasts swell and pain in breasts; worse left. Ulceration with sharp pains, piercing to scapulæ. Pains down left arm to fingers, worse motion. Excitement of sexual instinct with nervous agitation.

Nodes and indurations of mammary gland, dull aching, neuralgic pain in this region (Conium).

Breasts swollen, indurated. Neuralgia of left breast and arm (Brom). Pain under sternum and in muscles of præcordial region. Left breast feels as if pulled inward, and pain extends over inner arm to end of little finger. Numbness of hand and fingers of left side. Cancer mammæ even in ulcerative stage. Acute, lancinating pain. Axillary glands swollen hard and knotted.

Gait unsteady; muscles refuse to obey the will. Epilepsy; preceded by twitching over whole body.

Constipation. Ineffectual desire. Stool like olives. Diarrhœa, watery brown, gushing out in jet.

Destitute of pliability and elasticity. Itching spots. Ulcers, with fetid ichor. Acne. Psoriasis and herpes zoster worse left arm and chest. Enlarged axillary glands, worse, at night and in damp weather.

Antidotes: Plumb; Zinc.

Compare: Conium; Carbo; Ars; Condurango.

Incompatible: Nux; Coffea.

Worse, coffee, night; cold damp weather, left side.

Sixth potency.

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

Acne. Apoplexy. Cancer . Constipation. Convulsions. Epilepsy. Headache. Heart, affections of. Hysteria. Salivation. Sycosis. Tongue, paralysis of; swelling of. Ulcers . Uterus, affections of.

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. Certain 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. r . 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. C. Allen mentions it as a remedy for acne having small puncta with black tips and small red bases. Symptoms are < at night; by motion, and in cold, damp weather. Tears > the mental state. Teste says the malaise is < by heat. Great desire for cold drinks Coffee < all the symptoms, and excites them anew several days after they have disappeared. Ast. r . is a very important remedy too seldom used.

Antidoted by: Plumb., Zn. Compare: Murex, Sepia; Astac. fl., Homarus; Erythrinus; Crot., Grat., Gamb., jatrop., Thuj., Bell., Lil. t. Follows well: Bell., Carb. an., Con., Silic., Sul., Calc. Incompatible: Coffee, Nux v. (Ipec. relieved after Nux v. aggravated.) Teste includes Aster. r. in the Sulphur group of antipsorics.

Anxious, apprehensive, impatient; easily excited by any emotion, esp. 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. — Cerebral 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.

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. — Cerebral congestions accompanying obstinate constipation. — Severe pressure in forehead seemed to crush eyes with heavy weight. — Boring pain along l. eye (with dimness of sight) comes and goes suddenly; causes contraction of brows. — Pain in occiput, r. side, making it difficult to walk. — Dull occipital headache (after breakfast) coming and going suddenly. — Bones of skull and scalp sore. — Fulness of the head, whose sides seem to swell out; stitches in the r. temple; passing stitches in the forehead, temples, and esp. in the occiput; transitory pains in r. 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 r. 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 r. 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.

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 œsophagus.

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

Frequent eructations; dull or constrictive pain at the precordial region.

Shocks of dull pain in the r. 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. — Constipation, with ineffectual urging to stool. — Diarrhœa; liquid, brown-coloured stool, spirting out with force. — Several soft stools in the daytime. — Heat in the rectum; hæmorrhoidal tumour; piles.

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 (l.) and ulceration. — Swelling of the breasts as when the menses are about to appear. — Itching spots. — Miliary or furfuraceous eruption between the breasts.

Whole l. chest painful, < motion. — Darting pain towards internal part of chest from before backward, extending under l. nipple into whole internal part of arm to extremity of little finger. — Stitches in the anterior portion of the chest on the r. and l. of sternum. — Pain under sternum. — Sensation as if l. breast were drawn in. — Nightly anxiety, caused by undulating beatings in the chest.

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.

Scrofulous ulcer l. 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 l. elbow; circular red spot at the l. elbow, which becomes covered with a furfuraceous, dry, and friable layer. — Considerable itching around the nail of the l. thumb.

Lassitude and great weakness of the lower extremities. — Pain in the l. hip. — Burning stitches in the great trochanter and the coxo-femoral articulation of the l. 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 l. 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, < towards six o'clock, evening, in open air. — Eruptions on the thighs and insteps, consisting of small, itching vesicles, which tear easily and change to small, burning, large and superficial ulcers, lasting several days before cicatrising.

Night aggravation. — Cancer pains. — Shocks in head. — Sycosis. — Flabby lymphatic constitutions. — Complaints < in cold, damp weather.

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

Loss of consciousness. θ Epilepsy.
Does not lose consciousness but has hallucinations-as if away from home in midst of strangers ; hears voices to which he replies. θ Epilepsy.
Unwilling to work, to think ; is indifferent ; dull headache ; insensible, does not know if he has taken his dinner ; returns in morning on getting up, 9th day.
Unusual gayety in evening.
Sadness, desire to weep.
Melancholy alternating with cerebral excitement, inclined to give herself up to mental or bodily work.
Fear of apoplexy, followed by fever.
Feeling of extreme anxiety from noon to 3 P. M.
It seems as if some misfortune was impending, as if bad news was about to arrive-tears afford relief. θ Hysteria.
Became very impatient. θ Precursor of apoplexy.
Ill-humored and disposed to weep.
Paroxysms easily excited by any emotion, especially by contradiction. θ Epilepsy.
Irritability, anger, necessity of quarreling with somebody --from noon to 2 P. M.
Irritable, slightest cause moves her to tears.
With mental exertions, a restless, tired sensation in upper brain, like that in limbs after muscular exertion.
Fear of fainting, with sensation of fulness in chest.
After mental exertions, brain agitated.
Nervous agitation, with erotic thoughts and sexual desire.

Confusion. See 37 .
Head heavy, with throbbing.
Vertigo : transitory ; when walking, with insensibility of lower limbs.
Sudden attacks of vertigo like shocks in head. θ Precursor of apoplexy.
Throbbing in head ; when ascending or walking.
Determination of blood to head ; sensation of fulness, heat ; it feels as if it would split.
Feels a tumult in brain, restless, distressed.
Heaviness of head, heat, throbbings, redness of face.
Wakes at night with sensation as if brain was shaken by electric shocks ; head seems empty, almost deprived of consciousness ; thinks he is attacked by apoplexy, lasts several minutes ; when he recovers his consciousness, pulse hard.
Since two years he lost consciousness with the attacks. θ Epilepsy.

Heat of head, as if surrounded by hot air.
Sanguineous congestion to brain. θ Precursor of apoplexy.
Awakes at night in distress as from electric shocks in brain ; head feels as if bursting ; apprehended apoplexy ; when he came to himself pulse was hard, very quick, and right carotid throbbing violently.
Cerebral congestions, accompanied by obstinate constipation.
The headache disappears suddenly towards noon, then the ideas are clear.
A violent pressure upon anterior lobes of brain, extending even beneath eyes ; one day so severe that while seated at table she fell forward, and remained unconscious for some minutes. θ Epilepsy.
Pressive pain in right side of occiput, making it difficult to walk.
Boring pain above left eye, coming and going suddenly, and producing contraction of eyebrows ; while this pain lasts she seems to look through a mist.
Acute transitory lancinations in forehead and temples, also in occiput.
Sudden pain on right side of head.
Pain in vertex as if skull would break.
Dull occipital headache for a half hour, came suddenly one and a half hours after breakfast, and went suddenly.
Dull occipital headache one hour after breakfast, lasting all day.

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The red star-fish is found on the seacoast of Europe and America; for medicinal use a tincture is prepared from the live animal, which is cut in pieces and macerated in alcohol.

Experiments hitherto made developed chiefly nervous phenomena. ▶ Hysterical and neuralgic symptoms predominate. ▶ Notice particularly the neuralgia of the left breast and arm.

Desire for open air, anxiety and impatience in the house. ▶ Difficulty in keeping still. ▶ Scarcely able to work. ▶ Malaise, lassitude amel. after eating; malaise after evening meal, with heat of skin, frequency and fulness of pulse. ▶ Lassitude under influence of heat, especially warmth of bed. ▶ Symptoms increase in intensity in the second part of the day, especially in the evening.

Is reported to have cured a case of chorea, quiet only when the hands were in the pockets; at other times trembling or arms and legs, could scarcely walk.

Uncommon cheerfulness in evening. ▶ Inclination of bite. ▶ Irritation from noon till 2 P.M., with anger and inclination to pick a quarrel with some one. ▶ Melancholy alternating with cerebral excitement, with inclination to give herself up to mental or bodily work, to walk or engage in violent exercise, species of moral intoxication. ▶ Weeping, with despair, then calmness. ▶ Sensitiveness prompting him to weep from least emotion. ▶ Anguish from noon till 3 P.M. as if a misfortune were impending or he were going to hear bad news, and he then feels as if he should give way to tears. ▶ Disturbance of understanding, with general debility.

Distress in brain. ▶ Headache stopped at noon. ▶ Aching agg. at close of day, more severe at back of head than at forehead, the head aches all night. ▶ Whole skull painful during the severe pains. ▶ Pain in skull as if being crushed. ▶ Vertigo; when walking. ▶ Shocks in brain as from an electric battery, waking him in the night, with light feeling in head, consciousness almost lost, fear of apoplexy, and on coming to himself hard quick pulse and violent throbbing in right carotid, this fever lasted till close of next day. ▶ Rush of blood; with fulness, heat and feeling as if about to burst. ▶ Throbbing; when ascending or walking. ▶ Twitches in brain; during first half of night, when blowing nose. ▶ Heaviness; with heat, throbbing in head and flushed face.

Boring above left eye. ▶ Coming on and ceasing suddenly, causing contraction of brows, with misty vision. ▶ Aching above eyes; in sinciput in morning, hardly ceasing in daytime by walking in open air; with fulness, contraction of muscles and compression above eyes; seeming to crush eyes by a heavy weight. ▶ Twitchings in forehead, at temples, especially occiput.

Pressure at temples. ▶ Lancinating pain in right temple. ▶ Pain in vertex as if skull were bruised. ▶ Agitation, spasms, feeling of uneasiness in upper part of brain, agg. exercising memory or understanding, a sensation similar to the weariness of a limb after great exertion. ▶ Flying pain in right half of head. ▶ Sudden pain in right side. ▶ Fulness of head, seeming to disturb it laterally. ▶ Occipital aching after breakfast, going and coming suddenly; at right side, agg. walking.

Bloodshot. ▶ Fatigued look. ▶ Pain from within outward. ▶ Heat. ▶ Balls drawn backward. ▶ Winking, with redness of edges of lids. ▶ Fatigued by light. ▶ Can hardly be used in evening.

Lancinating pain which is felt in auditory meatus, is concentrated at occiput and there ceases, returns in the course of the day, but more feebly. ▶ Hard hearing, agg. right ear; hard hearing, with sound as of a river of waves. ▶ Sudden loud noise in both ears.

Sneezing in morning on waking, with coryza. ▶ Epistaxis.

▶ Red; and swollen. ▶ Expression of dullness, a kind of stupidity in posture and look.

Tongue swollen. ▶ Drawing pain in tongue. ▶ Tongue troubles her, with repugnance to talking. ▶ Saliva increased.

Dryness. ▶ Irritation; with heat. ▶ Soreness in morning on waking with constriction. ▶ Dull pain extending along œsophagus.

Appetite wanting, with loss of taste. ▶ Aversion to meat. ▶ Capricious appetite, with desire for highly seasoned dishes, strong cheese, liquors, coffee, tea. ▶ Loud and frequent eructations in morning. ▶ Nausea. ▶ Lassitude of stomach in morning after many loud eructations, with heat in this organ.

Alternately swollen and lessened in size. ▶ Colic, with shivering alternating with flushes of heat in face; colic, then diarrhœa. ▶ Drawing in walls. ▶ Flatulence very troublesome after each meal, because it does not pass off either above or below. ▶ Dull pain in shocks in right side and near navel.

Hæmorrhoidal swelling. ▶ Hæmorrhoidal flux. ▶ Heat in rectum. ▶ Stool liquid, brown, gushing. ▶ Frequent, soft stools. ▶ Difficult, firm stool. ▶ Constipation ineffectual urging.

Frequent urging to urinate, and more abundant urine. ▶ Frequent emission of watery urine. ▶ Thick viscid urine, with heat in urethra on urinating.

Erections in morning; frequent in sleep. ▶ Pressure in lower organs of abdomen (womb?), walking is troublesome. ▶ Anguish in womb as if something protruded. ▶ Jerking in uterus. ▶ Unusual moisture in vagina, which affords relief. ▶ General sensation as before menses. ▶ Menses delayed eight days, during which the colic and other sufferings which usually accompany them are present, but they cease after appearance of the flow, which is more abundant than usual. ▶ She is harassed by sexual desire every morning in bed.

Breasts swell, as before menses. ▶ Lancinating pain in anterior inferior portion, to right and left of sternum, amel. throwing back upper chest and shoulders. ▶ Pain under sternum; P. in whole left side, agg. movement; dull, in muscles of præcordial region. ▶ Left breast feels as if pulled inward. ▶ Drawing pain in breast; towards inner portion of chest, from before backward, under the left breast this pain extends over inner portion of arm to end of little finger. ▶ Compression in præcordial region. ▶ Fulness, making him fearful of syncope. ▶ Undulating pulsation at night causing anxiety.

Anxiety during the night and in morning. ▶ Palpitation; leaping, and when strong extending to epigastrium with a tightening sensation. ▶ Beats scarcely perceptible and prolonged.

Drawing pain; in sacrum.

Uneasiness especially in bends of arms, and she can hardly bear the arms covered. ▶ Diminished sensibility, especially in legs and thighs. ▶ Pain in right shoulder; left elbow; flexor tendons of left wrist; extending from thumb-joint to shoulder. ▶ Numbness of hands and fingers; of left hand and fingers; of left hand, extending to arm; of hypothenar eminence and of left finger.

Bruised pain. ▶ Restlessness in a close room, with need of fresh air. ▶ Lassitude.

Lancinations in anterior part; on anterior surface; burning in left great trochanter and hip-joint, darting to outer side of ham. ▶ Aching in left hip-joint in morning. ▶ Pain in right hip and in whole left side as far as scapula, causing fever. ▶ Pulling pain at outer side of left. ▶ Drawing in right hip as if leg were too long and were pulled downward.

Pain in left knee. ▶ Lancinating pain in a sore made on leg by scratching. ▶ Legs weak when standing. ▶ Pain in right ankle; in left, agg. walking. ▶ Foot pain in left, and in muscles of leg; in joints of left ; gouty, in left, agg. movement, it centres at articulation of great toe with the metatarsal bone and continues there all day. ▶ Painful drawing in soles and toes.

Cutting in left great with soreness of left sole and pain in toes. ▶ Lancinating pain especially in left great, with heat and soreness, which prevented wearing a shoe, agg. after sunset and in a close room, with redness which was agg. by heat the pain amel. cold air or cold water, renewed by warmth of bed, but ceased in early part of night and returned several evenings.

Eruption between breasts. ▶ Redness on chest, with branlike efflorescence; red spot over left olecranon process, with a dry, branny, friable coating, and a similar spot on anterior part of same arm; red blotch on chest with itching. ▶ Formication in lower limbs. ▶ Itching around left thumb-nail; of thighs and legs, amel. towards 6 P.M. in open air.

Sleepy when reading. ▶ Sleep from 2 A.M. till middle of day. ▶ Sleep, with restlessness. ▶ Vivid dreams about persons and events.

Shivering, with drowsiness, heat of skin and restlessness at night; S. during the colic, alternating with flushes of heat in face. ▶ Coldness of left arm as from a cold wind. ▶ Heat. ▶ Antipathy to everything which causes heat, with extreme desire to bathe in cold water. ▶ Heat in head; as if surrounded by hot air; in head, then in whole body, with desire to drink cold water and cool herself internally and externally; of feet; of skin, fever at close of day, shivering, heat followed by cold; of skin after evening meal, with malaise, frequency and fulness of pulse.

Aster. / Esther.

Asterius prevents the fall,
Beneath an apoplectic thrall.
And stops and epileptic fit,
And twitching which presages it.
Her stools are hardened into balls,
Or gushing with imperious calls.
Her skin displays sycotic taint,
And breasts a cancerous complaint.
Her gait unsteady, showing nil
Controlling power of the will.

Esther,- Has Cancer.

Esther Phyllis Lapis, the creole of Euca, sews up coats for Jo Hydras, the rich old fisher of Cundu.

This Ester,- Who is subject to a tottering gait,- Is cook for the pompous old Knight Alfred Gelsem.

Cancer: Aster., Phyt., Lapis, Kreo., Euca., Sul., Ars., Sil., Pho., Cal. c., Thuj., Iod., Hydras., Aur., Con., Ichth., Cundu.

Unsteady, Tottering Gait: Aster., Coc., Pul., Mer., Pho., Con., Arg. n., Alu., Gel.