Asterias Rubens

▲   MODALITIES ETC

Worse

Worse, Coffea Cruda ^Coffee, night; cold damp weather, left side.

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

Compare

Compare: Conium Mac ^Conium; Carboneum Oxygenisatum ^Carbo; Arsenicum Album ^Ars.; Condurango ^Condurango.

Antidotes

Antidotes: Plumbum Metallicum ^Plumb.; Zincum Metallicum ^Zinc.

Incompatible

Incompatible: Nux Vomica ^Nux; Coffea Tosta ^Coffea.

▲   MIND

Mind

Behaviour; biting

Delusions, imaginations, hallucinations, illusions

hears sounds; voices

about self; is under control of another; strangers

desire for open air

Desires, wants; to bath in cold water

Excitement

night

ailments from emotional excitement

Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition

anger (see irritability and quarrelsome)

cheerful, happy; evening

impatience

in house

indifference, apathy, etc.

irritability

before convulsion

mirth, hilarity, liveliness, etc.; evening

quarrelsome, argumentative

12 to 2 p.m.

unhappy; despair

unhappy; sadness, mental depression

weeping, crying, tearful mood (lamenting)

after slight emotion

Hysteria

Intellectual faculties

impaired thinking; dull, sluggish

impaired thinking; weakness of mind

Insanity; at menopause, or similar age in men

Insecure, uncertain, scared

anxiety

anxiety; noon; till 3 p.m.

anxiety; night

anxiety; in house

anxiety; sleep; after period

anxiety; on waking

fear; noon until 3 p.m.

fear; of extreme emotion

at night, with feelings as if head would burst

fear; of evil

fear; of fainting

fear; of misfortune

fear; on waking

Memory; weakness of memory; for what has just done

Restlessness, nervousness

night

Talking, conversation

intolerant of contradiction

dislike of talking, desire to be silent, taciturn

Unconsciousness

on waking

▲   VERTIGO, DIZZINESS

Vertigo

Sudden

While walking

▲   HEAD

Head

Cannot bear contradiction

Shocks in brain; throbbing; Heat in head, as if surrounded by hot air.

Congestion (see pulsation)

night

during constipation

fullness

night

as if head would burst

Empty, hollow sensation

Hot

as if surrounded by hot air

burning

with red face

Pulsating

on climbing stairs or hill

blowing nose

while walking

Twitching of muscles

blowing nose

as if in brain

Headache

Pain, headache

night

night; on waking

eyes and vision (affecting or affected by); blinding

with running or blocked nose; blowing nose

sudden pain or sudden increase of pain; pain comes on suddenly

and go suddenly

walking; while

walking; on walking up steps or hill

in forehead

morning

above root of nose

back of head (occiput); after breakfast

back of head (occiput); mental labour

back of head (occiput); sides

right

temples

top of head (vertex); morning

top of head (vertex); night

top of head (vertex); mental exertion

top of head (vertex); walking in open air

boring, digging, screwing; forehead; over eyes

bursting

cutting, darting, stabbing; back of head (occiput)

cutting, darting, stabbing; temples

piercing, stabbing (see cutting); back of head (occiput)

piercing, stabbing (see cutting); temples

pressing (see bursting, pulling)

as if in a vice

forehead

forehead; over eyes

Shocks, blows, jerks, etc. (see jerking pain, pulsation, plug, nail)

▲   EYES

Eyes

Lids; winking

Discoloration

redness

redness; lids; spots; edges of

Eye feels hot

Pain

extending to other parts; outward

pulling; pulling the eyeball backward

Intolerance of light (photophobia)

artificial light

Sunken

Twitching; lids

Weak; light

Vision

Dim; during headache

Foggy; during headache

Lost vision, blindness

▲   EARS

Ear

Noises in ear

explosions

violent in ears

rushing

as of water

like a waterfall

Pain; piercing, stabbing

Hearing

Impaired

▲   FACE

Face

Red

Pimples on side of nose, chin and mouth

Disposition to pimples at adolescence.

Expression; dazed

Motions of jaw; lockjaw

Pain

jaw; upper jaw

pressing; upper jaw

Skin

discoloration; earthy

discoloration; pale

discoloration; red

like insects crawling on skin (see skin)

out-breaks on skin; pimples

chin

wrinkled; forehead; in headache

▲   NOSE

Nose

Nose bleed

morning; in bed; on waking

Discharge

Running or blocked nose (coryza); morning; waking

Sneezing; morning; on waking

▲   MOUTH

Mouth

Speech; difficult

Saliva

Salivation

Tongue

Pain

tongue; jerking

pulling; tongue

stitching, sudden, sharp; tongue

Swelling; tongue

Taste

Taste; tasteless, lacks taste; tastelessness of food

▲   THROAT

Throat

Choking, constricting; morning

Feels hot

Irritation

Pain

burning

burning; gullet

sore; morning; on waking

sore; on waking

▲   CHEST

Chest

Breasts swollen, indurated

Neuralgia of left breast and arm ( Bromium ^Brom.) Pain under sternum and in muscles of precordial region

Left breast feels as if pulled inward, and pain extends over inner arm to end of little finger

Numbness of hand and fingers of left side

acute, lancinating pain

Nervous System.

Gait unsteady; muscles refuse to obey the will

Epilepsy; preceded by twitching over whole body.

Anxiety

night

region of heart

morning

night

Breast; indurated (hard from inflammation)

Swelling; breast

Fullness

Heart

sensation as if heart had ceased

palpitations

Heat

Pain

pulling shoulders back

breast

under breast; left

under breast; extending to fingers

sides; left

sides; on movement

heart; extending to other parts; to left hand

cutting (sudden sharp pain); breast

pulling

extending to arm

extending backwards, from chest

stitching, sudden, sharp

Pulsation

night

Skin

discoloration; redness

out-breaks on skin; breast

scaly skin between breasts

itching

in spots

arm pit

Swelling; arm pit glands

Around armpit

axillary glands swollen hard and knotted.

Respiration

Pain; when breathing in

▲   COUGH

Cough

Morning; in bed

▲   EXPECTORATION

Expectoration

Blackish

▲   SKIN

Skin

Destitute of pliability and elasticity

Itching spots

Ulcers, with fetid ichor

Acne

Psoriasis and herpes zoster worse left arm and chest

Enlarged auxiliary glands, worse, at night and in damp weather.

Itching; spots

Out-breaks on skin

herpetic

pimples

rash (see granular); scabies

▲   BACK AND NECK

Back

Pain

pulling

pulling; sacrum (base of spine)

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

aching, dull pain (see boring, pulling, distress, digging, gnawing, biting, pressing, etc.)

Stomach

appetite; capricious (hunger, but knows not for what, or refuses things when offered)

appetite; lacking, no appetite

desires, cravings; alcoholic drinks

brandy

desires, cravings; cheese

strong cheese

desires, cravings; coffee

desires, cravings; cold drinks

desires, cravings; tea

emptiness, weak feeling, faintness, hungry feeling

burping, belching; morning

Eating

aversion to certain foods or drinks; meat

desires, cravings; pungent things, smelly food

Flatus

Flatulence; after eating

Nausea

Stomach; nausea

▲   RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Rectum

Constipation

ineffectual urging and straining

Diarrhoea

Pain

burning; after stool

urge to stool, or urinate, but producing nothing; during stool

urge to stool, or urinate, but producing nothing; after stool

Stool

Constipation

Ineffectual desire

Stool like olives

Diarrhoea, watery brown, gushing out in jet.

Shooting out

Soft

Thin, liquid

brown

▲   GENITALS ETC

Urine

Copious

Thick

Thick and sticky

Clear as water

Womb

Female

pain; womb (see abdomen, pain)

Genitals

Colic and other sufferings cease with appearance of flow

Breasts swell and pain in breasts; worse left

Ulceration with sharp pains, piercing to scapulae

Pains down left arm to fingers, worse motion

Excitement of sexual instinct with nervous agitation.

Nodes and induration of mammary gland, dull aching, neuralgic pain in this region ( Conium Mac ^Conium.)

Male; erections; during sleep

Female

sexual intercourse; desire increased

sexual intercourse; desire increased; morning, in bed

sexual intercourse; desire increased; insatiable

sexual intercourse; desire increased; violent

Menses

period; late

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Coldness

as if cold wind blowing; on upper limbs

upper limbs

left

sensation of cold air; as if blew upon left arm

with stiffness and numbness

as from cold wind

Contraction of muscles and tendons

lower limbs

leg

Cracking noise in joints

knee

knee; left

ankle

Hands and feet; corns; painful

Heat

foot

foot; burning

toes

first toe (large toe)

Heaviness; upper limbs

Movements and positions

convulsion

convulsion; convulsive movement

lameness

stretched out; foot; sole, painful

Numbness (see tingling)

hand

left

extending to arm

fingers

lower limbs

thigh

leg

Pain

joints

upper limbs

left

shoulder

elbow

fingers; flexor tendons

thumb

extending to shoulder

joints; extending to shoulder

hip

morning

evening

thigh

knee

left

ankle

while walking

foot

joints in foot

toes

first toe (large toe)

first toe (large toe); movement

first toe (large toe); joints

first toe (large toe); joints; gouty

burning; foot

pulling; upper limbs

pulling; upper arm

pulling; forearm; opposite side to thumb

pulling; wrist

afternoon

pulling; hip

pulling; thigh

outer side

pulling; knee

pulling; leg; calf

pulling; ankles

pulling; foot; back of foot

pulling; foot; sole

pulling; toes

shooting (see stitching, sudden, sharp); foot

shooting (see stitching, sudden, sharp); toes

sore, bruised

upper limbs

lower limbs

foot; sole

toes

stitching, sudden, sharp; elbow

stitching, sudden, sharp; wrist

stitching, sudden, sharp; hip

extending to other parts; downward

stitching, sudden, sharp; thigh

stitching, sudden, sharp; leg

stitching, sudden, sharp; foot

stitching, sudden, sharp; toes

cold

first toe (large toe)

Pulsation, throbbing; upper limbs

Restlessness

covering

warm bed

upper limbs

bend of elbow, when covered

lower limbs

close room

warmth of bed

leg

Skin

discoloration; upper limbs; red; spots

discoloration; toes; red

discoloration; toes; first toe (large toe); red

itching

like insects crawling on skin; lower limbs

like insects crawling on skin; leg

lower limbs

lower limbs; evening

lower limbs; evening; 6 p.m.

lower limbs; in open air

thigh

thigh; evening

thigh; evening; open air

thigh; in open air

knee

leg

leg; evening; 6 p.m.

leg; in open air

leg; over shin bone

out-break on skin; elbow

point of the elbow; dry, scaly skin

out-break on skin; lower limbs; blisters

out-break on skin; thigh

blisters

blisters; itching

blisters; become ulcers

out-break on skin; ankle; blisters

out-break on skin; foot

itching

blisters

back of foot

back of foot; itching

back of foot; blisters

back of foot; blisters; itching

Stiffness; hand

Swollen

toes; first toe (large toe)

toes; first toe (large toe); gout-like

Weakness; leg; while standing

▲   FEVER AND CHILL

Fever and chill

Shaking, shivering, rigors

Afternoon

Evening

Alternating with chills

Long lasting heat

▲   GENERALITIES

Fatigue

Lethargic, tired

Sleep and dreams

Disturbed

Dreams

anger (see quarrels)

previous events

vivid

Restless

night; feeling comes on after midnight

Sleepiness, tiredness; while reading

Waking; late

Convulsions

Convulsions

rapid muscle spasm

without consciousness

from contradiction

epileptic

from excitement

with falling

forward

Generalities

Desire for open air

Desire to bath in cold water

Eating and food; coffee

Inflammation; hair follicles

Pain

appear suddenly

appear suddenly; and disappear suddenly

Pulse

contracted

frequent, accelerated, elevated, exalted, fast, innumerable, rapid

hard

soft

Symptoms not symmetrical; left

Temperature (felt and effects of temperature); cold, wet weather

Twitching

twitching, involuntary movements (chorea)

Weakness (see lethargic, weariness)

eating

from heat

of bed

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