RED STARFISH.
Introduction
First proved by Dr. Petroz of Spain, in 1850.
We know but little of the clinical results of this remedy.
Symptoms
It has been used in apoplexy, preceded by sudden attacks of vertigo; for attacks of epilepsy, preceded for several days by twitching over the whole body; and four chorea (31), quiet only when the hands were in the pockets.
Asterias has a pain, probably neuralgic, that runs from under the l. breast, over the inner portion of arm to the end of the little finger.
Willard Ide Pierce, author of Plain Talks on Materia Medica (1911) and Repertory of Cough, Better and Worse (1907). Dr. Willard Ide Pierce was a Director and Professor of Clinical Medicine at Kent's post-graduate school in Philadelphia.