• Asterias Rubens has a flabby, lymphatic constitution with a red face.

• Lancinating, shooting, stinging pains.

• Asterias Rubens causes nervous disturbances: neuralgia, chorea, hysteria.

• Used for cancer of the breast and has an influence over cancerous disease.

• It causes excitement in both sexes, particularly a heightened sexual desire.

• It causes nodes and indurations of mammary gland with dull aching, neuralgic pain.

• A tendency to glandular affections, especially of the mammary glands.

• It experiences general aggravation from touch and pressure.

• Complaints are often accompanied by a sense of heat or burning.

• Weakness and easy fatigue.

• Sensitive to atmospheric changes.

•

• The patient experiences irritability and impatience.

• The patient has a changeable mood, alternating between joy and sadness.

• The patient experiences anxiety, especially about health.

• The patient has fear of death.

• The patient has an aversion to mental work; difficulty concentrating.

• The patient experiences restlessness and fidgetiness.

• The patient has a tendency to weep easily.

• The patient experiences hysterical tendencies, with exaggerated emotional responses.

• The patient has difficulty making decisions.

• The patient experiences forgetfulness and mental confusion.

• The patient desires company and sympathy.

•

• Primarily indicated for plethoric, lymphatic constitutions.

• Especially suited to women around the climacteric.

• Symptoms often associated with a sensation of fullness or congestion.

• Strong tendency toward cancerous affections, particularly in the breast and skin.

• General sensation of heat and burning, internally and externally.

• Marked irritability and nervous excitability.

• Complaints are often lateralized to the left side.

• Great sensitivity to pain.

• Weakness and fatigue are prominent.

•

• Great irritability; easily angered by trifles.

• #

• Headache, often one-sided, with throbbing or shooting pains.

• The headache is aggravated by warmth, noise, and light.

• It experiences vertigo, with a tendency to fall to the left.

• The scalp feels sensitive to touch.

• It experiences blurred vision.

• It experiences photophobia (sensitivity to light).

• It experiences inflammation of the eyes, with redness and burning.

• It experiences lachrymation (excessive tearing).

• It develops styes on the eyelids.

• It experiences tinnitus (ringing in the ears).

• It experiences hearing difficulties.

• It experiences otalgia (ear pain).

• It experiences frequent sneezing.

• It experiences coryza (inflammation of the nasal mucous membrane) with watery discharge.

• It experiences epistaxis (nosebleeds).

• It experiences a sore throat with a sensation of dryness or burning.

• It experiences difficulty swallowing.

• It develops enlarged tonsils.

•

• It experiences cough, dry and hacking, worse at night.

• It experiences oppression of the chest, with difficulty breathing.

• It experiences asthma-like symptoms.

• It experiences palpitations, especially after exertion or excitement.

• It experiences angina-like pains in the chest.

• A rapid or irregular heartbeat.

• It experiences pain in the mammary glands, with induration and nodules.

• It develops cancer of the breast, with lancinating pains and enlarged glands.

• It experiences swelling and tenderness of the breasts, especially before menstruation.

• It experiences a burning sensation in the chest.

• It experiences a sensation of a lump in the breast.

• It experiences nausea and vomiting.

• It experiences gastric acidity.

• It experiences loss of appetite.

• A craving for sweets.

• It experiences abdominal pain, cramping.

• It experiences distension and flatulence.

• It experiences tenderness to pressure.

• #

• It experiences constipation, with hard, dry stools.

• It experiences diarrhea, with watery stools.

• It experiences hemorrhoids, with burning and itching.

•

• It experiences frequent urination.

• It experiences a burning sensation during urination.

• It experiences incontinence.

• It experiences increased sexual desire in both sexes.

• It experiences nymphomania in women.

• It experiences uterine affections.

• It experiences painful menstruation (dysmenorrhea).

• It experiences leucorrhea (whitish or yellowish discharge from the vagina).

• It experiences swelling and induration of the testicles in men.

• It experiences pain in the joints, especially the knees and ankles.

• It experiences weakness and heaviness of the limbs.

• It experiences numbness and tingling in the hands and feet.

• It experiences coldness of the extremities.

• It experiences swelling of the hands and feet.

• It develops skin eruptions on the extremities.

• It experiences restless sleep.

• It experiences sleeplessness before midnight.

•

• Pain in the back, especially in the lumbar region, worse from bending.

• Weakness and heaviness of the limbs.

• Rheumatoid pains in the joints, worse from warmth and at night.

• Swelling of the hands and feet.

• Stiffness in the joints, especially in the morning.

• Pain in the neck and shoulders.

• Skin eruptions on the extremities, especially vesicles and pustules.

• Itching skin, worse from warmth and at night.

• Eczema-like eruptions.

• Burning sensations in the skin.

• Ulcers, with a tendency to become cancerous.

• Sleeplessness, especially before midnight.

• Restless sleep, with frequent waking.

• Dreams vivid and anxious.

• Dreams of death, fire, or accidents.

• Touch.

• Pressure.

• Warmth.

• Night.

• Before menses.

• Excitement.

• Atmospheric changes (damp weather).

• #

•

• #

• Cold air.

• Rest.

• Open air.

•

• Compare: Conium maculatum, Carbo animalis, Arsenicum album, Condurango, Phytolacca, Calcarea carbonica.

• Incompatible: Nux vomica, Coffea cruda.

• Complementary: Calcarea carbonica.

• Antidotes: Camphora.

•

• Open air.

• Cold applications.

• Motion.

• Uncovering.

•

• Complementary: Conium, Graphites, Lachesis.

• Antidotes: Camphora, Pulsatilla.

• Comparisons: Carbo animalis, Hydrastis, Phytolacca, Scrophularia nodosa.

• Similar to: Calcarea carbonica, Sepia, Phosphorus.

• , especially about health, with fear of cancer.

• #

• , with a tendency to weep without cause.

• #

• ; cannot sit still.

• Aversion to mental work; difficulty concentrating, poor memory.

• #

• ; easily excitable and emotional.

• Fear of disease, particularly cancer.

• Oversensitivity to noise and external impressions.

• Alternating moods; laughing then crying.

• Desire for sympathy, yet rejects comfort.

• Lack of self-confidence.

• , with a tendency to fall to the left.

• , with a feeling of fullness, heat, and pressure.

• Headaches are worse from warmth and lying down.

• , as if looking through a mist or veil.

• #

• ; sensitive to light, especially artificial light.

• #

• , especially for high-pitched sounds.

• , often with a feeling of fullness and pressure.

• Frequent sneezing, especially in the morning.

• #

• , especially from the left nostril.

• Sore throat, with a burning sensation and dryness.

• #

• , worse in the morning.

• Dryness of the throat, with a constant desire to swallow.

• , with difficulty breathing.

• #

• , dry and hacking, worse at night and lying down.

• , with wheezing and shortness of breath.

• #

• , especially when lying down, from excitement, or before menses.

• #

• , radiating down the arm, with numbness and tingling.

• #

• , with sharp, shooting pains.

• Sensitive nipples, easily irritated and painful.

• #

• with hard, nodular tumors.

•

• Appetite increased or decreased.

• Nausea and vomiting, especially after eating.

• Distension and tenderness of the abdomen.

• Abdominal pain, cramping, worse from pressure.

• Diarrhea, with offensive stools, worse in the morning.

• Constipation, with hard, difficult stools and ineffectual urging.

• #

• Hemorrhoids, with bleeding and pain, worse from sitting.

• Flatulence, with a feeling of fullness.

•

• Frequent urination, with burning pain and urging.

• Involuntary urination, especially at night (enuresis).

• Scanty urine, with a red sediment.

• Increased sexual desire, particularly in women.

• Menstrual irregularities; early and profuse menses (menorrhagia).

• #

• ; uterine hemorrhage between periods.

• #

• ; profuse, irritating vaginal discharge, excoriating the genitals.

• Pain in the ovaries, especially the left ovary.

• Swelling and induration of the testicles, with pain.

• Sexual aversion in some cases, especially in women.

• Impotence in men.

• , warm room, warm applications.

• #

• , pressure.

• #

• , especially on the left side.

• #

• Damp weather.

• #