{"id":639,"remedy_name":"Asterias Rubens","remedy_type":"Homeopathic Remedy","alternative_names":[""],"miasm":"Syphilitic Miasm","temperament":"Chilly","aggravation_time":"Morning","keynote_indications":"The starfish was used by Hipp ocrates in uterine diseases. This shows its pathogenic \nrelationship to Sep. and Murx. It is also an ancient remedy for epilepsy and stroke.  \nAster, has been successful in curing breast cancers with nightly sharp pains.  Drawn back feeling in eyes. \nNipples feel drawn in. Breast cancer. Increased sexual desire, sexual excitement. \nPowerfully affects the brain and the head, causing severe congestion with red face, strokes.  \nThis remedy produces disturbances of the circulation with pulsations and congestion in head , womb, chest. \nSexual desire increased, sexual excitement. A pushing-out sensation in womb, impeding walking (Sep.). \nPetroz used Asterias rubens successfully in old skin affections, old ulcers and in cancers. He found that it only \nacted on the latter when on the left side. H. C. Allen mentions it as a remedy for acne having small puncta with \nblack tips and small red bases. \nNervous disorders include neuralgia, chorea, hysteria and epilepsy. Epilepsy is preceded by twitching over \nwhole body. Chorea, quiet only when the hands are in the pockets. Left-sided symptoms. Symptoms are worse \nat night, by motion and in cold, damp weather. Tears ameliorate the mental state.","modalities":"Better appearance of menses. Worse from coffee. Worse at night. Worse cold damp weather. \nWorse left side. Worse from heat, motion. Worse during menses. Worse from contradiction. Malaise is worse \nheat.","symptoms_by_system":{"Mind":"Easily excited by any emotion. Weeps from least emotion. Sense of impending misfortune. Fears bad \nnews. Fear of apoplexy at night, with feeling as if head would burst. Fear of fainting with sensation of fu llness \nin chest. \nMelancholy alternating with cerebral excitement. Cannot bear contradiction. Indifference. Unwilling to think or \nwork. Clearness of mind when headache disappears. \nIrritability, necessity of quarrelling with somebody. Irritability before convulsion. Impatience in house. Sadness, \ndesire to weep. \nAnxiety during sleep after menses. Feeling of extreme anxiety from noon to 3 p.m. Nervous agitation with erotic \nthoughts and sexual desire. \nInsanity during menopause. Delusion he is under control of strangers .Hallucinations of hearing voices, away \nfrom, among strangers. Loss of consciousness in epilepsy. Easily excited by any emotion. Weeps from least emotion. Sense of impending misfortune. Fears bad \nnews. Fear of apoplexy at night, with feeling as if head would burst. Fear of fainting with sensation of fu llness \nin chest. \nMelancholy alternating with cerebral excitement. Cannot bear contradiction. Indifference. Unwilling to think or \nwork. Clearness of mind when headache disappears. \nIrritability, necessity of quarrelling with somebody. Irritability before convulsion. Impatience in house. Sadness, \ndesire to weep. \nAnxiety during sleep after menses. Feeling of extreme anxiety from noon to 3 p.m. Nervous agitation with erotic \nthoughts and sexual desire. \nInsanity during menopause. Delusion he is under control of strangers .Hallucinations of hearing voices, away \nfrom, among strangers. Loss of consciousness in epilepsy.","Vertigo":"Vertigo, transient, when walking. Vertigo with insensibility of lower limbs. Sudden attacks, like shocks \nin head. Vertigo, precursor of apoplexy. \nCOMMENTS - Asterias powerfully affects the mind and head, producing symptoms strongly suggesting a \nstroke. \nThe face is red and there is strong conges tion to the head, which is hot and feels as if surrounded by hot air. \nCertain forms of cere bral congestion with obstinat e constipation. Electric shocks in the head. Nightly sharp \npains in the breasts have led to its successful use in cases of breast cancer.  \nTeste noted that the malaise is worse by heat. Great desire for cold drinks. Coffee worsens all the symptoms \nand excites them anew several days after they have disappeared. \nBreast cancer in the upper-left quadrant, which is the most frequent place to get breast cancer. Cancer of the \nleft breast that has metastasized to the axillary glands of the armpit. Tumors of the nipp le. \nCharacteristic severe lancinating pains which are worse at night. Sharp, darting pains. Bearing down pains. \nMay complain of a sensation of the breast being drawn inward. Sharp pains that extend to the scapula. Severe, \ndull, aching pains in the breast.  Pains can be related to hormones, can be worse premenstrually. Substernal \npains. \nCancer pains, inflamed and swollen glands (Con.). Axillary glands are swollen, indu rated and knotted. \nKnotted in the left side of the neck. Pain extends down the left arm. Swollen breast, can have ulcerations. \nThe affected breast may develop a red spot that suppurates premenstrually. At times it will become inflamed \nand discharge with an offensive odor coming out. \nFor stroke patients, or threatened stroke or epilepsy (Bell., Glon.). They get a red, congested face and are \nexcitable, apprehensive with fears. \nWeeping ameliorates the mental state. Worse at night, cold, and motion. Desire cold drinks. Aggravated by \ncoffee. They are very excitable, weepy, and fear something bad wil l happen, fear of getting bad ne ws or \nmisfortune (common symptoms of cancer patients).","Head":"Face red, with throbbing carotids. Rushes of blood to head with throbbing. Sensation as if head would \nburst, precursor to stroke. Sensation as if head would split. Shocks in brain, t hrobbing. Heat in head, as if \nsurrounded by hotair.  Bones of skull and scalp sore. Pain in occiput, right side. Emptiness in the head. \nSevere pressure in forehead. Boring pain, above left eye. Burning pains in head. Soreness of whole scalp \nduring severe headache. Face red, with throbbing carotids. Rushes of blood to head with throbbing. Sensation as if head would \nburst, precursor to stroke. Sensation as if head would split. Shocks in brain, t hrobbing. Heat in head, as if \nsurrounded by hotair.  Bones of skull and scalp sore. Pain in occiput, right side. Emptiness in the head. \nSevere pressure in forehead. Boring pain, above left eye. Burning pains in head. Soreness of whole scalp \nduring severe headache.","Eyes":"Drawn backwards. Winking of eye lids. Heat and redness in the eyes, weary look. Difficulty of bearing \nthe light. Eyes are drawn backwards. Edges of eyelids reddened. Photophobia. Light fatigues eyes. Twitching \nof lids.","Ears":"Lightning-like stitches in the meatus auditorius. Violent reports in the ears. Noise in the ears as from \nwaves. 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 \nmouth. Disposition to pimples atadolescence.  Pimples, black tips with small red bases. Neuralgia. Livid \ndiscoloration 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. \nHeaviness of speech. Profuse flow of saliva. Dry, hard, exceedingly painful pimples on lower lip. Loss of taste. \nShooting pain in tongue. Difficulty to move tongue, aversion to speak. Talking difficult with profuse salivation.  \nNerves - Gait unsteady, muscles refuse to obey the will. Epilepsy, preceded by twitching over whole body.  \nNose - Nosebleed, sneezing and coryza in the morning on waking. Sneezing and coryza in morning on \nawaking. 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 \nknotted. Ulceration with sharp pains, piercing to scapu lae. Pain under sternum and  in muscles of precordial \nregion. Full feeling in chest with fear of fainting. Violent itching spot upon chest. Itching in right axilla. Pain \nunder sternum. Lancinating pain. \nConstitutions - A remedy for the sycotic diathesis, flabby with red face. Flabby lymphatic constitution. Palpitations, pulse hard and frequent. Strong and frequent beating of the heart, jerking palpitations. As \nif heart had ceased to beat, with dull, prolonged heartbeats. Anxiety at the heart. Violent beating in right carotid \nartery. Pulse hard, full, frequent. \nKidneys - Heat in the urethra while the urinating. Frequent urination with copi ous, clear urine. Thick, viscid \nurine. Urine profuse. Urine thick and slimy. Short breath with pain in chest when inhaling. Cough with expectoration, morning in bed. Easy \nhawking of greyish- black mucus during forenoon.","Stomach & Abdomen":"Frequent belchings. Dull or constrictive pain at the precordial region.  \nFrequent forcible eructations in morning. Nausea. Distress in pit, with great debility. \nTemperature - Shivering with sleepiness, followed by hot skin and restless night. Fever followed by coldness. \nViolent heat, in head, then over whole body. Increased general heat. Heat alternating with cold. Shocks of dull pain in the right side of abdomen and near umbilicus. Incarcerated wind. Violent \ncolic, with shuddering, alternating with f lushes of heat in the face. Alternate swelling and sinking of the \nabdomen during the twenty - four hours. Sensation of pressure on lower abdominal organs. Tearing, drawing \npain \nin abdominal walls. Loss of appetite. Uncertain appetite. Dullness of taste. Aversion to meat. De sires cold drinks. Desires \nhighly seasoned food, strong cheese. Desires liquors, tea. Great desire for cold drinks. Worse from coffee.","Urinary & Genital":"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 \nsomething were passing out of uterus. As if something \nprotruded behind uterus. Pushing sensation in uterus. Twitching of uterus. V agina moist with feeling of ease. \nViolent and constant sexual desire, not better by sex, with nervous agitation with disposition to weep. Sexual \ndesire increased, worse mornings in bed.","Extremities":"Gait unsteady muscles refuse to obey the will. Numbness of hand and fingers of left side. Numbness \nof hands, with coldness of the arm. Lassitude and great weakness of the lower limbs. Pain in the left hip. Pain \nin the joints of the . foot. Feeling in all limbs as if beaten, most in arms, when walking in open air. Restlessness \nin limbs worse covered or in warm room.","Neck & Back":"Scrofulous ulcer left neck. Pulling, drawing in the back and sacrum. \nBreasts - Breast cancer even in ulcerative stage.  Neuralgia of left breast and arm (Brom.). Acute, \nlancinating, or smarting pains  in breast tumor, entirely depriving her of rest at night. Nodes and induration \nof breast gland. Dull aching, n euralgic pain in breast region (Con.'). Nipples retracted. Breasts swell and \npainful, worse left. Left breast feels as if pulled inward. Pain from breasts extends over inner arm to end of \nlittle finger. Slight eruption between breasts. Axillary glands swollen hard and knotted. Rash or furfuraceous \neruption between breasts.","Skin":"Acne with black tipped puncta, small red base. Dry, harsh skin, earthy appearance. Destitute of pliability \nand elasticity. Itching spots. Psoriasis and herpes zoster worse left arm and chest. Eruption on thighs and \ninsteps of small itching vesicles which tear easily and form superficial ulcers. Ulcers with sensitive edges, fetid \ndischarge. Scabies. Tetters.","Sleep":"Sleeplessnes from nightly, pains. Insomnia. Disposition to sleep after reading a moment. Late falling \nasleep and late getting up. Agitated sleep, tossing about. Sleep quiet but not refreshing. Many dreams. Dreams \nabout persons and events. Dreams, images vivid and lifelike. Dreams, sees and hears people as if she was \nawake."},"schema_version":"1.0","api_provider":"Allahshafi"}