Asterias Rubens Homeopathic Materia Medica

Guiding symptoms of Materia Medica

Asterias Rubens

Common name: Starfish, Red starfish

Founder: Petroz

Family: Radiata

Introduction: 

• This medicine is prepared from starfish to belong to the natural order of radiata
• It shows its pathogenetic relationship to sepia and Murex
• Which are prepared from cuttlefish and purple fish respectively
• Medicine prepared from fish

Clinical: 

• Acne
• Apoplexy
• Cancer
• Convulsion
• Constipation
• Epilepsy
• Headache
• Diarrhoea
• Uterus affection
• Heart affection
• Hysteria
• Ulcer

Sphere of action: 

• It mainly acts on Circulation
• Nerves
• Female sexual organs
• Rectum
• These remedies produce a disturbance of the circulation with pulsation and congestion in head, womb and chest
• Acting on the female sexual organ it produces great excitement

Constitution: 

• It suited to the flabby, lymphatic constitution with a red face

Temperament: Irritable temperament

Diathesis: Sycotic diathesis

Miasm: Sycotic and psora

Mind: 

• Easily excited by any emotion
• Nervous
• Sad
• Anxious
• Apprehensive 
• Impatient 
• Slightest cause moves the tears
• A hallucination that he is away from home hears voice and replies
• Sense of impending misfortune
• Fears bad news
• Desire to weep

Head: 

• Shocks in brain
• Throbbing, heat in the head 
• Cannot bear contradiction 
• Feel like head surrounded by hot air 
• Vertigo when walking 
• The sensation of fullness in the head
• The rush of blood to head sensation like the head would bust
• Pain in occiput
• Head pain making difficult to walk
• Cerebral congestion with obstinate constipation
• Feel like emptiness in head

Eye:

• Eyes are turning backwards 
• Free margin of the eye is red 
• Winking of eyelids
• The weary look of the eye 
• Heat and redness in the eye 
• The difficulty of bearing the light

Ears:

• The dullness of hearing in the right ear
• Noise in the ears like waves
• Violent pain in the ears

Nose: 

• Epistaxis
• Coryza and sneezing in the morning on waking

Face: 

• Red
• Acne on the side of nose, chin and mouth 
• Acne at the age of adolescence
• Flushed face
• Stupid meaningless expression in face

Mouth: 

• Profuse flow of saliva 
• Swelling of tongue
• Heaviness of speech
• Pulling pain in the tongue

Throat: 

• Dull pain in the oesophagus
• Pressing pain in the throat

Stomach: 

• Loss of appetite
• Aversion to meat
• Frequent eructation 
• Constrictive pain in at the precordial region

Abdomen: 

• Pulling in the abdominal wall
• Violent colic with flushes of heat on the face
• Dull pain in the right side of the abdomen near the umbilicus

Stool: 

• Ineffectual Desire 
• Constipation
• Diarrhoea
• Watery, brown, gushing out in a jet
• Stool like olives
• Obstinate constipation
• Hard round ball like stool
• Several soft stools in the day time

Urinary organ: 

• Heat in urethra while urine passes out 
• Frequent urination
• Clear, profuse or, thick and slimy urine

Male sexual organ: 

• Erotic thoughts
• Frequent erection during sleep and in the morning
• Increased sexual desire

Female: 

• Breast swell and pain worse left side
• The excitement of sexual  instinct with nervous agitation
• Colic and another suffering stop with the appearance of flow
• Ulceration with sharp pain radiate to scapula
• Pain radiate to left-hand finger
• Pain worse by motion
• Dull aching, neuralgic pain in mammary gland
• Nodes and induration of mammary gland
• Mastitis
• Left breast feels like pulled inward
• Twitching in the womb
• Delayed menses
• Dampness of vagina

Nervous system: 

• Epilepsy preceded by twitching all over the body
• Gait unsteady. Muscles refuse to obey the will 
• Neuralgia of the left breast and arms

Chest: 

• Pain under the sternum and muscles of the precordial region
• Numbness of the left side finger and hand
• Breast pain extends to the inner arm and tip of the little finger
• Cancer of mammae in the ulcerative stage
• The auxiliary gland is swollen, hard and knotted
• Lancinating pain. 

Heart: 

• Anxiety at the heart
• The strong and frequent beating of a heart
• Palpitation
• Pulse hard and frequent
• Jerking palpitation

Skin: 

• Acne
• Itchy spot
• Without liability and elasticity
• Psoriasis and herpes with worse left arm and neck
• Fetid ichor
• Worse at night and damp weather
• Dry, harsh skin
• Itch
• Tetters

General Modality:

• Aggravation: Night. Cold damp weather, coffee, left the side

Relationship:

• Antidote: Zincum Metallicum, Plumbum met
• Compare Arsenicum Album. Conium Mec. Carbo Vegetabilis, Thuja, Murex, Sepia
• Follows well: Belladonna, Carbo Animalis, Conium Mac, Silicea, Sulpher, Calcarea Carbonica
• Incompatible: Coffea, Nux vomica

Dose: Sixth potency