Asterias rubens

Asterias rubens
(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.
Head
- Cannot bear contradiction.
- Shocks in brain; throbbing; heat in head, as if surrounded by hot air.
Face
- Red.
- Pimples on side of nose, chin and mouth.
- Disposition to pimples at adolescence.
Female
- Colic and other sufferings cease with appearanceof flow.
- Breasts swell and pain in breasts; worse left.
- Ulceration with sharp pains, piercing to scapulae.
- 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.]
Chest
- Breasts swollen, indurated.
- Neuralgia of left breast and arm. [Brom.]
- Pain under sternum and in muscles of praecordialregion.
- 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 mammae even in ulcerative stage. Acute, lancinating pain. Axillary glands swollen
hard and knotted.
Nervous system
- Gait unsteady; muscles refuse to obey the will.
- Epilepsy; preceded by twitching over whole body.
Stool
- Constipation.
- Ineffectual desire.
- Stool like olives.
- Diarrhoea, watery brown, gushing out in jet.
Skin
- 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 indamp weather.
Relationship
- Antidotes : Plumb.; Zinc.
- Compare : Conium; Carbo; Ars.; Condurango.
- Incompatible : Nux; Coffea.
Modalities
- Worse, coffee, night; cold damp weather, left side.
Dose
- Sixth potency.