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Asterias Rubens

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Asterias Rubens Reference Specimen Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification

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  • Miasm: Syphilitic Miasm
  • Temperament: ❄️ Chilly
  • Aggravation: 🌇 Morning

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🧬 Remedy Miasm: Syphilitic Miasm The Syphilitic miasm leads to destruction on both physical and mental levels. It presents as ulceration, bone decay, severe depression, and self-destructive tendencies.
▲ GENERAL
  • The starfish was used by Hipp ocrates in uterine diseases.
  • This shows its pathogenic relationship to Sep and Murx.
  • It is also an ancient remedy for epilepsy and stroke.
  • Aster, has been successful in curing breast cancers with nightly sharp pains.
  • Drawn back feeling in eyes.
  • Nipples feel drawn in Breast cancer.
  • Increased sexual desire, sexual excitement.
  • Powerfully affects the brain and the head, causing severe congestion with red face, strokes.
  • This remedy produces disturbances of the circulation with pulsations and congestion in head , womb, chest.
  • Sexual desire increased, sexual excitement.
  • A pushing-out sensation in womb, impeding walking (Sep.).
  • Petroz used Asterias rubens successfully in old skin affections, old ulcers and in cancers.
  • He found that it only acted on the latter when on the left side.
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  • Allen mentions it as a remedy for acne having small puncta with black tips and small red bases.
  • Nervous disorders include neuralgiaSharp nerve pain along a nerve pathIntense, shooting, or burning pain that radiates along the course of one or more nerves., chorea, hysteria and epilepsy is preceded by twitching over whole body.
  • Chorea, quiet only when the hands are in the pockets.
  • Left-sided symptoms are worse at night, by motion and in cold, damp weather.
  • Tears ameliorate the mental state
▲ MODALITIES ETC
  • Better appearance of menses.
  • Worse from coffee.
  • Worse at night.
  • Worse cold damp weather.
  • Worse left side.
  • Worse from heat, motion.
  • Worse during menses.
  • Worse from contradiction.
  • Malaise is worse heat
▲ RELATIONSHIPS
📊 Side-by-Side Comparison:

Antidotes: Plb., Zinc. Antidoted by: Plum., Zinc. Compare: (1) Care., Con., Carb -an., Ars.,
Cund., Murex. Sep., Astac., Homarus, Eryth., Crot., Grat., Gamb., Jatr., Thuj., Bell..Lil-t./’b/fows we//:
Bell..Carb-an.. Con., Sil., Suiph.'Caic.Incompatible: Coffee, Nux -v. (Ip. relieved afterNux -v. aggravated.)
Teste includes Aster, in the Sulphur group of anti-psorics.

▲ MIND
  • Easily excited by any emotion.
  • Weeps from least emotion.
  • Sense of impending misfortune.
  • Fears bad news.
  • Fear of apoplexy at night, with feeling as if head would burst.
  • Fear of fainting with sensation of fu llness in chest.
  • Melancholy alternating with cerebral excitement.
  • Cannot bear contradiction.
  • Indifference.
  • Unwilling to think or work.
  • Clearness of mind when headache disappears.
  • Irritability, necessity of quarrelling with somebody.
  • Irritability before convulsion.
  • Impatience in house.
  • Sadness, desire to weep.
  • Anxiety during sleep after menses.
  • Feeling of extreme anxiety from noon to 3 p.m.
  • Nervous agitation with erotic thoughts and sexual desire.
  • Insanity during menopauseEnd of menstrual cycles in womenThe natural biological transition in a woman's life when menstrual periods permanently stop, typically occurring between ages 45 and 55..
  • Delusion he is under control of strangers .Hallucinations of hearing voices, away from, among strangers.
  • Loss of consciousness in epilepsyNeurological disorder causing seizuresA neurological disorder marked by sudden recurrent episodes of sensory disturbance, loss of consciousness, or convulsions..
▲ VERTIGO, DIZZINESS
  • VertigoSensation of dizziness or spinningA feeling of movement or spinning of oneself or the surroundings when there is no actual movement., transient, when walking.
  • Vertigo with insensibility of lower limbs.
  • Sudden attacks, like shocks in head.
  • Vertigo, precursor of apoplexy.
  • COMMENTS - Asterias powerfully affects the mind and head, producing symptoms strongly suggesting a stroke.
  • The face is red and there is strong conges tion to the head, which is hot and feels as if surrounded by hot air.
  • Certain forms of cere bral congestion with obstinat e constipationInfrequent or difficult bowel movementsA condition where stool is dry, hard, and difficult or painful to pass..
  • Electric shocks in the head.
  • Nightly sharp pains in the breasts have led to its successful use in cases of breast cancer.
  • Teste noted that the malaise is worse by heat.
  • Great desire for cold drinks.
  • Coffee worsens all the symptoms and excites them anew several days after they have disappeared.
  • Breast cancer in the upper-left quadrant, which is the most frequent place to get breast cancer of the left breast that has metastasized to the axillary glands of the armpit.
  • Tumors of the nipp le.
  • Characteristic severe lancinating pains which are worse at night.
  • Sharp, darting pains.
  • Bearing down pains.
  • May complain of a sensation of the breast being drawn inward.
  • Sharp pains that extend to the scapula.
  • Severe, dull, aching pains in the breast.
  • Pains can be related to hormones, can be worse premenstrually.
  • Substernal pains.
  • Cancer pains, inflamed and swollen glands (Con.).
  • Axillary glands are swollen, indu rated and knotted in the left side of the neck.
  • Pain extends down the left arm.
  • Swollen breast, can have ulcerations.
  • The affected breast may develop a red spot that suppurates premenstrually.
  • At times it will become inflamed and discharge with an offensive odor coming out.
  • For stroke patients, or threatened stroke or epilepsy (Bell., Glon.).
  • They get a red, congested face and are excitable, apprehensive with fears.
  • Weeping ameliorates the mental state.
  • Worse at night, cold, and motion.
  • Desire cold drinks.
  • Aggravated by coffee.
  • They are very excitable, weepy, and fear something bad wil l happen, fear of getting bad ne ws or misfortune (common symptoms of cancer patients)
▲ HEAD
  • Face red, with throbbing carotids.
  • Rushes of blood to head with throbbing.
  • Sensation as if head would burst, precursor to stroke.
  • Sensation as if head would split.
  • Shocks in brain, t hrobbing.
  • Heat in head, as if surrounded by hotair.
  • Bones of skull and scalp sore.
  • Pain in occiput, right side.
  • Emptiness in the head.
  • Severe pressure in forehead.
  • Boring pain, above left eye.
  • Burning pains in head.
  • Soreness of whole scalp during severe headache.
▲ EYES
  • Drawn backwards.
  • Winking of eye lids.
  • Heat and redness in the eyes, weary look.
  • Difficulty of bearing the light.
  • Eyes are drawn backwards.
  • Edges of eyelids reddened.
  • PhotophobiaExtreme sensitivity to lightAn abnormal intolerance to light, causing eye discomfort, squinting, or pain in bright environments..
  • Light fatigues eyes.
  • Twitching of lids
▲ EARS
  • Lightning-like stitches in the meatus auditorius.
  • Violent reports in the ears.
  • Noise in the ears as from waves.
  • Noise of rushing water.
  • Dullness of hearing in the right ear
▲ FACE
  • Red, flushed face.
  • Redness of face, precursor of apoplexy.
  • Acne.
  • Pimples on side of nose, chin and mouth.
  • Disposition to pimples atadolescence.
  • Pimples, black tips with small red bases.
  • Neuralgia.
  • Livid discoloration of face, during epileptic attack with falling
▲ MOUTH
  • Acute and pressing stitches in the upper teeth.
  • Swelling of the tongue.
  • Pulling pains in the tongue.
  • Heaviness of speech.
  • Profuse flow of saliva.
  • Dry, hard, exceedingly painful pimples on lower lip.
  • Loss of taste.
  • Shooting pain in tongue.
  • Difficulty to move tongue, aversion to speak.
  • Talking difficult with profuse salivation.
  • Nerves - Gait unsteady, muscles refuse to obey the will.
  • Epilepsy, preceded by twitching over whole body.
  • Nose - Nosebleed, sneezing and coryzaCommon head cold with nasal dischargeAcute inflammation of the nasal mucous membranes, producing sneezing, congestion, and watery discharge. in the morning on waking.
  • Sneezing and coryza in morning on awaking.
  • Pimples on sides of nose and chin
▲ THROAT
  • Rough sensation in larynx causes cough
▲ CHEST
  • Enlarged axillary glands, worse at night and in damp weather.
  • Axillary glands swollen hard and knotted.
  • Ulceration with sharp pains, piercing to scapu lae.
  • Pain under sternum and in muscles of precordial region.
  • Full feeling in chest with fear of fainting.
  • Violent itching spot upon chest.
  • Itching in right axilla.
  • Pain under sternum.
  • Lancinating pain.
  • Constitutions - A remedy for the sycotic diathesis, flabby with red face.
  • Flabby lymphatic constitution.
  • PalpitationsSensation of rapid or irregular heartbeatA noticeably rapid, strong, or irregular heartbeat due to agitation, exertion, or physical conditions., pulse hard and frequent.
  • Strong and frequent beating of the heart, jerking palpitations.
  • As if heart had ceased to beat, with dull, prolonged heartbeats.
  • Anxiety at the heart.
  • Violent beating in right carotid artery.
  • Pulse hard, full, frequent.
  • Kidneys - Heat in the urethra while the urinating.
  • Frequent urination with copi ous, clear urine.
  • Thick, viscid urine profuse.
  • Urine thick and slimy.
  • Short breath with pain in chest when inhaling.
  • Cough with expectoration, morning in bed.
  • Easy hawking of greyish- black mucus during forenoon
▲ ABDOMEN
  • Frequent belchings.
  • Dull or constrictive pain at the precordial region.
  • Frequent forcible eructations in morning.
  • Nausea.
  • Distress in pit, with great debility.
  • Temperature - Shivering with sleepiness, followed by hot skin and restless night.
  • Fever followed by coldness.
  • Violent heat, in head, then over whole body.
  • Increased general heat alternating with cold.
  • Shocks of dull pain in the right side of abdomen and near umbilicus.
  • Incarcerated wind.
  • Violent colicSevere fluctuating pain in the abdomenSevere, often fluctuating pain in the abdomen caused by gas, spasm, or obstruction in the intestines, common in infants., with shuddering, alternating with f lushes of heat in the face.
  • Alternate swelling and sinking of the abdomen during the twenty - four hours.
  • Sensation of pressure on lower abdominal organs.
  • Tearing, drawing pain in abdominal walls.
  • Loss of appetite.
  • Uncertain appetite.
  • Dullness of taste.
  • Aversion to meat.
  • De sires cold drinks.
  • Desires highly seasoned food, strong cheese.
  • Desires liquors, tea.
  • Great desire for cold drinks.
  • Worse from coffee
▲ GENITALS ETC
  • Sexual desire increased, erotic thoughts.
  • Frequent erections during sleep or in the morning.
  • Jerking or distress in uterus.
  • Colic and other sufferin gs cease with appearance of flow.
  • As if something were passing out of uterus.
  • As if something protruded behind uterus.
  • Pushing sensation in uterus.
  • Twitching of uterus.
  • V agina moist with feeling of ease.
  • Violent and constant sexual desire, not better by sex, with nervous agitation with disposition to weep.
  • Sexual desire increased, worse mornings in bed
▲ EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
  • Gait unsteady muscles refuse to obey the will.
  • Numbness of hand and fingers of left side.
  • Numbness of hands, with coldness of the arm.
  • Lassitude and great weakness of the lower limbs.
  • Pain in the left hip.
  • Pain in the joints of the .
  • foot.
  • Feeling in all limbs as if beaten, most in arms, when walking in open air.
  • Restlessness in limbs worse covered or in warm room
▲ BACK AND NECK
  • ScrofulousProne to swollen glands or tuberculosisRelating to scrofula, a constitutional tendency to tuberculous swelling of the lymph nodes. ulcerOpen painful sore on skin or mucous membraneAn open sore on an external or internal surface of the body, caused by a break in the skin or mucous membrane. left neck.
  • Pulling, drawing in the back and sacrum.
  • Breasts - Breast cancer even in ulcerative stage.
  • Neuralgia of left breast and arm (Brom.).
  • Acute, lancinating, or smarting pains in breast tumor, entirely depriving her of rest at night.
  • Nodes and indurationHardening of body tissueThe hardening of normally soft organic tissues, usually due to chronic inflammation, infiltration, or scarring. of breast gland.
  • Dull aching, n euralgic pain in breast region (Con.').
  • Nipples retracted.
  • Breasts swell and painful, worse left breast feels as if pulled inward.
  • Pain from breasts extends over inner arm to end of little finger.
  • Slight eruption between breasts.
  • Axillary glands swollen hard and knotted.
  • Rash or furfuraceous eruption between breasts
▲ SKIN
  • Acne with black tipped puncta, small red base.
  • Dry, harsh skin, earthy appearance.
  • Destitute of pliability and elasticity.
  • Itching spots.
  • PsoriasisSkin disease causing scaly red patchesA skin disease that causes red, itchy, scaly patches, most commonly on the knees, elbows, trunk, and scalp. and herpes zoster worse left arm and chest.
  • Eruption on thighs and insteps of small itching vesicles which tear easily and form superficial ulcers with sensitive edges, fetid discharge.
  • Scabies.
  • Tetters
▲ SLEEP
  • Sleeplessnes from nightly, pains.
  • InsomniaPersistent inability to fall or stay asleepA sleep disorder marked by difficulty falling asleep, waking up too early, or unrefreshing sleep..
  • Disposition to sleep after reading a moment.
  • Late falling asleep and late getting up.
  • Agitated sleep, tossing about Sleep quiet but not refreshing.
  • Many dreams about persons and events.
  • Dreams, images vivid and lifelike.
  • Dreams, sees and hears people as if she was awake

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📚 Literature Citation & References:
This clinical profile is compiled from: Robin Murphy, MD — Lotus Materia Medica, 3rd Edition; Samuel Hahnemann — Materia Medica Pura; William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica; and Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad — Homeopathy: Like Cures Like. Compiled in accordance with classical homeopathic provings and clinical practice.
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