ASTERIAS RUBENS HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINE

ASTERIAS RUBENS

Star-fish		Radiata

For the sycotic diathesis; flabby, lymphatic constitution; irritable temperament.        Easily excited by any emotion, especially by contradictions (Anac., Con.).        Heat of the head, as if surrounded by hot air.        Sanguineous congestion to the brain.        Apoplexy; face red, pulse hard, full, frequent.        Cancer of mammae; acute lancinating pain; drawing pain in breast; swollen, distended, as before the menses; breast feels drawn in.        A livid red spot appeared, broke and discharged; gradually invaded entire breast, very fetid odor; edges pale, clevated, mamillary, hard, everted; bottom covered with reddish granulations.        Gait unsteady: muscles refuse to obey the will (Alum., Gels.).        Epilepsy: twitching over the whole body four or five days before the attack.        Constipation: obstinate; ineffectual desire; stools of hard, round balls, like olives.        Diarrhoea: watery, brown, gushing out in a violent jet (Crot. t., Grat., Gum., Jatr., Thuja).        Sexual desire increased in women (Lit.).        Relations. - Similar: to, Murex, Sepia.        Compare: Carbo an., Con., Sil. in mammary cancer; Bell., Cal., Sulph. in epilepsy.