Asterias rubens

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.