ASTERIAS RUBENS
Common
Name: Red Star Fish
Mental:
Fear at night , as if head would burst.Face is red.
Excitement at night
alternating with sadness.
Aversion to work.
Irritable, angry,
impatient and explosive individual.
Cannot tolerate
contradiction and is always ready to get into a fight. Quarrelsome,
esp. between 12-2pm.
After mental exertions,
the brain feels agitated.
They are emotional
people whose symptoms become aggravated if they become
upset.
Fear of evil, misfortune
and bad news. They will tend to weep from the least
emotion.
Insanity during
climactic period, the patient has delusions that he is under the
control of strangers and hears voices to which he answers.
Delusion they are away
from home.
Prostration of mind.
A restless, tired
sensation in upper brain with mental exertions.
Physical:
Has strong action on the
female organs and the hormonal system.
Disturbances of the
circulation, with pulsations and congestion in head, womb,
chest, mammae etc.
Overstimulation rather
than a depression of functions.
Tumor in the left breast with nightly lancinating pains and a feeling as if the breast or the nipple is drawn
back.
Tumors in the uterus with a sensation in womb
as if something is pushing out.
Resembles Sepia, however
Asterias has an overstimulation of the hormones,
resulting in excessive
sexual desire.
Epilepsy with fits
appearing usually towards the afternoon or evening, preceded by twitching over
whole body two or three days before
the attack. After
the epileptic attacks great prostration and anxiety in upper part of abdomen.
Electric shocks in the
brain with internal pressure. It powerfully affects
the
circulation in the head, producing symptoms of apoplexy.
Nervous agitation with erotic thoughts and sexual desire.
The sexual
desire is aggresive and seeks an outlet, not
satisfied by sexual intercourse.
The time of aggravation
for this remedy is around 2-3 pm.
Anxiety overwhelms him
at this time, headaches appear, epileptic fits usually take place around these
hours.
Increased general heat in the body, followed by colness