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Asterias Rubens
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Asterias Rubens

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Asterias Rubens Reference Specimen Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification
🧬 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 & Mental Health
GENERAL
  • The starfish was used by Hipp ocrates in uterine diseases🌿 DiseasesMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines..
  • This shows its pathogenic relationship to Sep and Murx.
  • It is also an ancient remedy for epilepsyNeurological disorder causing seizuresA neurological disorder marked by sudden recurrent episodes of sensory disturbance, loss of consciousness, or convulsions. and stroke🩺 StrokeClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
  • Aster, has been successful in curing breast cancers with nightly sharp pains.
  • Drawn back feeling in eyes.
  • Nipples feel drawn in Breast cancer🩺 Breast CancerClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
  • 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.
  • H. C. Allen mentions it as a remedy for acne having small puncta with black🌿 BlackMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. 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.
  • COMMENTS-Asterias powerfully affects the mind and head, producing symptoms strongly suggesting a stroke.
  • The face is red and there is strong congestion 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).
  • 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🌿 TeaMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines..
  • Worse from coffee
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
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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 epilepsy🩺 EpilepsyClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
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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👁️ Head & Sensory Organs
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
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
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
🫁 Respiratory & Throat
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.
  • 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.
  • Rash or furfuraceous eruption between breasts
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🥗 Digestive & Genitourinary
ABDOMEN
  • Frequent belchings.
  • Dull or constrictive pain at the precordial region.
  • Frequent forcible eructations in morning.
  • Nausea.
  • Distress in pit, with great debility
GENITALS ETC
  • 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.
  • 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
🦴 Musculoskeletal & Skin
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
SKIN

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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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This clinical profile has been prepared, peer-reviewed, and verified by the Herbalhomeo expert homeopathic team in accordance with authoritative medical references.

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