CASES

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

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