Asterias Rubens

COMMON NAME:

      STAR FISH.

Symptoms

      Easily excited by any emotion, especially by contradictions (Anacardium, Belladonna, Conium, Nux vomica, Sulphur). (A.).

Weeps from least emotion (Ignatia, Pulsatilla, Natrum muriaticum, Sepia). (B.).

Irritable temperament (Nux vomica). (A.).

Gait unsteady; muscles refuse to obey the will (Alumina, Argentum nitricum, Gelsemium).

Hysterical and neuralgic symptoms predominate (C.).

Sexual erethism (Aurum, Hyoscyamus, Phosphorus, Pic-Ac., Sulphur, Zincum met.) (B.).

Sexual desire increased in women (Cantharis, Conium, Fluor-Ac., Hyoscyamus, Lachesis, Murx., Nux vomica, Orig., Phosphorus, Platina, Pulsatilla, Veratrum). (A.). SANGUINEOUS CONGESTION TO THE BRAIN (A.).

RUSH OF BLOOD TO THE HEAD; IT FEELS SURROUNDED BY HOT AIR (B.).

APOPLEXY: FACE RED; PULSE HARD, FULL, FREQUENT (Aconite, Belladonna, Gelsemium, Gloninum, Nat- M., Opium, Verat-V.). (A.).

Stools of brown, gushing water (B.).

Diarrhoea; stools gushing out in a violent jet (Crot-T., Gratiola, Gum., Jatropa, Podophyllum, Thuja). (A.).

Constipation: obstinate; ineffectual desire; stools of hard, round balls, like olive (A.).

Pulsations in head, womb, chest, etc. (B.).

Epilepsy: twitching over the whole body four or five days before the attack (A.).

Red face (Amyl. nitrosum, Belladonna, Ferrum, Meli., Sanguinaria, Stramonium, Verat-V.,).

CANCER OF THE MAMMAE: ACUTE LANCINATING PAIN; DRAWING PAIN IN BREAST; SWOLLEN, DISTENDED, AS BEFORE THE MENSES; BREAST FEELS DRAWN IN (A.).

A livid, red spot appeared, broke and discharged; gradually invaded the entire breast; very fetid odour; edges pale, elevated, mammillary, hard, everted; bottom covered with reddish granulations (A.).

Colic and other sufferings cease with the appearance of the menstrual flow (Br.).

A remedy for the sycotic diathesis (Medorrhinum, Nat-S., Sepia, Thuja). (Br.).

Numbness of hand and fingers of the left side (Br.).

Axillary glands swollen, hard and knotted (Br.).

AGGRAVATION:

      From contradiction; in cold, damp weather; in left side; from coffee; and at night.

AMELIORATION:

      From the appearance of menses.

RELATIONSHIP:

      Similar to: Murx., Sepia

COMPARE: Arsenicum, Ars-I., Carb-An., Condur., Con and Silicea in mammary cancer; an Belladonna, Calcarea, and Sulph. in epilepsy.

ANTIDOTES: Plb., and Zincum met.

Adolph Lippe

Adolph Lippe (born near Goerlitz, Prussia, 11 May 1812; died in Philadelphia, 23 January 1888) was a homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. Adolph got a legal education at Berlin. After completing his legal studies, Lippe became interested in homeopathy, and emigrated to the United States in 1837 to further his study. In 1838, he enrolled in the North American Academy of Homeopathy at Allentown, Pennsylvania, from where he graduated in 1841. He settled in Philadelphia, where from 1863 until 1868 he was professor of materia medica in the Homeopathic College of Pennsylvania. Besides some essays and treatises from the French, German, and Italian which became standards, Lippe was the author of:
Comparative Materia Medica (Philadelphia, 1854)
Text-Book of Materia Medica (1866)