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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.
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.
H.
C.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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..
▲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
👁️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.
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.
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
🥗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.
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
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
📋 Remedy Stats
🏷️ Category🩺 Homeopathic
🧬 MiasmSyphilitic Miasm
🌡️ Temperament❄️ Chilly
🕒 Aggravation🌇 Morning
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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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