# Homarus

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Chilly
- **Aggravation Time:** Night

## Keynote Indications
A. M. Cushing studied the affect of lobster poison, noting the specific affect eating lobster 
 
 
has shown on specific occasions. Noting that perso ns have been known to die after eating lobster and then 
drinking milk, Cushing put a little of the poison into warm milk. In ten minutes it was a hard mass. Cushing 
found that milk aggravated his symptoms during the proving. 
“Worse from milk.” Other prominent symptoms from his proving included a severe sore throat, dry, inflamed 
throat with large, granulated blood vessels. Throat burns with tough mucus.  
Headaches, chiefly frontal and temporal pain, with soreness in eyes. Pain in stomach and abdomen, better 
after eating. Deranged digestion. Belching. Disturbed sleep, waking at night with flatulence.  
Chilliness. Itching of the skin. Sharp and sudden pains, all day and after retiring. Back pains. Strange, dull 
feeling all over, not dizzy. Sick feeling, unable t o move, but better moving. Nervous feeling, restlessness, but 
dread of moving. Sexual excitement.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better from motion. Better inhaling cold air. Better eating. Bette r passing wind. Weakness worse 
walking. Worse from drinking milk. Worse after sleep. Worse at night. Worse on drawing a long breath.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Frightened feeling.
- Dullness of mind.
- Nervous, but with dread of moving.
- Frightened feeling.
- Dullness of mind.
- Nervous, but with dread of moving.

### Head
- Headache in morning, sharp at times, mostly in temporal region, worse left.
- Dizziness.
- Headache in morning, sharp at times, mostly in temporal region, worse left.
- Dizziness.

### Eyes
- Aching, smarting in eyes.
- Aching pai n in left ball.
- Profuse lachrymation.
- Lids stuck together in the 
morning.
- Edema of lids.

### Ears
- Frequent stabbing through lower lobe of left ear, had to pinch it.

### Mouth
- Profuse salivation.
- Nose - Stinging and burning in nasal pas sages extending to throat after rising.
- Sensation of m ucus in left 
nostril.
- Nose stopped in morning.
- Discharge from the nose, watery from left nostril.
- Sneezing often.
- Pulse - Pulse full, rolling.

### Throat
- Pain near left ear, sharp, sudden, tra nsient.
- Burning in throat, right side and in esophagus, stomach 
and bowels.
- Edema of throat, can hardly breathe.
- COMMENTS - During the proving, Cushing noted that he “Felt as though could not move, on moving no pain, 
felt better by moving.” On this indication with others, he cured a case with Hom.
- 4x.
- The patient had headache, sore throat, loss of appetite and when she awoke in the morning felt as if she could 
not move at all.
- On receiv ing Hom., there was a speedy restoration of keen appetite, both for food and work 
and loss of headache and sore throat.
- Another cured case had “No appetite, dis tress in stomach, restless sleep, very tired in morning.” A case of 
frequent “bilious spells” was also cured in a man who had Nux-v.
- and Dios, with only temporary relief.
- L.
- H.
- Hallock related a personal experi ence in which, an hour after eating a small amount of lobster salad, 
general pruritus commenced, worse in lower limbs, espe cially the calves.
- The itching was of a biting, burning 
character, not better by rubbing or scratching, almost unendurable.
- It lasted two hours in spite of bathing with hot and cold water, fresh and salt.
- No sooner had the itching abated 
than his lips, nose, eyes began to swell, until the eyes were closed and lips almost completely in verted.
- Throat swollen and edematous so that it was almost impossible to breathe, profuse salivation.
- Eight hours after the meal he had the ap pearance of a severe and protracted debauch.
- In twenty -four hours 
was as well as ever.
- Once subsequently he had a similar experience after eating lobster.

### Chest
- Sharp pain in back side of left lung.
- Burning distress at right of lower end of sternum in both sides, 
with difficult breathing.
- Intense edema of throat rendering breathing almost impossible.
- Difficult breathing after retiring.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Belching tasteless wind  in the morning.
- Pain in morning with occasional hot flashes.
- Sharp pain 
after a light breakfast.
- Burning in stomach.
- Temperature - Chilliness all over with trembling.
- Feet cold and damp, afterwards burning.
- Pain in diaphragm and hypochondria.
- Pain in liver and spleen.

### Urinary & Genital
- Long-continued excitement every morning and in night.

### Extremities
- Grinding pain just above elbows.
- Pain in left wrist in afternoon.
- Pain in right thigh and leg.
- Knees weak 
and trembling, worse right, worse afternoon.
- Lame pain in right knee.
- Left foot lame through toe joints at times.
- Liver - Pain in lower part of liver.
- Sharp pain in region of left lobe of liver, worse drawing a long  breath.

### Neck & Back
- Aching just below diaphragm in center of right scapula, in morning, inside of scapula, worse right.
- Sharp 
pain at superior spinous process of left ilium.
- Sharp 
pain, transient, sudden in right side near kidney, forcing him to sit down.
- Causations - Milk.

### Skin
- Sore pimple on left thigh, outside.
- Itching in various parts, frequently, day and night, before and after 
retiring, better scratching, but appearing in anotherplace.
- Itching sudden, worse night, in limbs, frequent 
sudden darting, on various parts, worse legs.

### Sleep
- Restless at night.
- Sleepless.
- Woke early and could not go to sleep on account of pains all over, worse 
epigastric region, back, arms and legs.