Red Starfish
- A remedy for the sycotic diathesis; flabby, lymphatic constitution, flabby with red face.
- Lancinating pains.
- Nervous disturbances, neuralgia, chorea, and hysteria come within the range of this remedy.
- Has been used for cancer of the breast, and has an unquestioned influence over cancer disease.
- Excitement in both sexes.
Head
- Cannot bear contradiction.
- Shocks in brain; throbbing; heat in head, as if surrounded by hot air.
Face
- Red.
- Pimples on side of nose, chin and mouth.
- Disposition to pimples at adolescence.
Female
- 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 indurations of mammary gland, dull aching, neuralgic pain in this region (Conium).
Chest
- Breasts swollen, indurated.
- Neuralgia of left breast and arm (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.
- Cancer mammae even in ulcerative stage.
- Acute, lancinating pain.
- Axillary glands swollen hard and knotted.
Nervous System
- Gait unsteady; muscles refuse to obey the will.
- Epilepsy; preceded by twitching over whole body.
Stool
- Constipation.
- Ineffectual desire.
- Stool like olives.
- Diarrhea, watery brown, gushing out in jet.
Skin
- Destitute of pliability and elasticity.
- Itching spots.
- Ulcers, with fetid ichor. Acne.
- Psoriasis and herpes zoster worse left arm and chest.
- Enlarged axillary glands, worse, at night and in damp weather.
Relationship
- Antidotes: Plumb; Zinc.
- Compare: Conium; Carbo; Ars; Condurango.
- Incompatible: Nux; Coffea.
Modalities
- Worse, coffee, night; cold damp weather, left side.
Dose
- Sixth potency.
