Anise Stellatum

(Star Anise)

Pharmacy

Anis. Anisestellatum. Star anise. Chinese anise. Illicium stellatum. Illicium verum. N. 0. Magnoliacee. Ulecebraceae. Tincture of seeds. Historical dose: Tincture and all potencies.

Clinical

• Asthma
• Catarrh
• Colic
• Convulsions
• Cough
• Dyspnea
• Hemoptysis
• Lungs disorders
• Stomach, catarrh
• Rheumatism
• Thigh, pain
• Vomiting

Herbal

Illicium is a genus of Magnoliaceous shrubs or low trees with smooth entire leaves, exhaling when bruised a strong odor of aniseed, owing to the volatile oil contained in minute pellucid dots, which may be seen by the aid of a lens. The star anise fruit is used throughout China, Japan, and India as a condiment and is chewed in small quantities after a meal to sweeten the breath.

Anis has a local repute as a stomachic and carminative and should be remembered in the treatment of flatulent conditions. It has been used for the so-called three months colic, especially if it recurs at regular hours, with much rumbling in the abdomen. Colic of babies.

Homeopathic

The Anis provings were made by Franz and Mure. Both showed the action of the drug on the nose, mouth, and stomach. Franz had many symptoms on the face, especially lips, skin, and limbs.

Characteristic pain in the region of the third rib, about an inch or two from the sternum, generally on the right side, but occasionally on the left. Frequent cough with this pain. Purulent tracheal and gastric catarrh of old alcoholics. Old asthmatics. Vomiting, epileptiform convulsions with biting of the tongue.

Abdomen - Three months colic, especially if it recurs at regular hours, bowels disturbed. Violent wind colic. Rumbling in abdomen. Pain in spleen region.

Back - Pain in back and chest. Cramp-like drawing, as from a cold in the left side of dorsal vertebra.

Chest - Pain in the region of the third rib, about one or two inches from the sternum, generally on the right side, but occasionally on the left. Pain about the junction of the third rib with cartilages, hemorrhage, coughs, congestion, and enlarged liver.

Ears - Buzzing in ears. Ringing in ears followed by sleep.

Rectum - Stools bilious, compact, and dark-colored.

Skin - Stitches as with pins in the left palm, between first and second fingers, better by scratching, but afterwards return with burning. Dull, painful stitches in the skin of the lower forearm. Crawling, itching stitches in the right palm. Itching in front and above the left ear, better by touch.

Sleep - Sleepless at nightfall. Disturbed sleep.

Stomach - Nausea in stomach, extends to chest, then ceases. Nausea with gagging and inclination to vomit. Bloating of stomach, acidity.

Temperature - Heat from abdomen to stomach and chest, running over different places and abating during the day.

Throat - Touch, viscid phlegm from stomach with old alcoholics.

Comments

A very remarkable symptom of Franz' has been confirmed by Flora A. Waddell. A man suffering from rheumatism of two years' duration came limping into Dr. Waddell's office, asking if she could do anything for his limb. He complained that when he sat down he couldn't rest in that position at all.

Asked why, he replied: "Whenever I sit down my limb feels as if broken off right here," pointing to the middle of his thigh. He said he often got up to straighten himself in order to make sure. He also had some pain in his arm and severe "sore pain" in his back. Anis 30x cured all the symptoms.

Mure's Anis symptoms were noted on head, abdomen, chest, and back. Tough white expectoration appears to be a characteristic and there is pain in the region of the third rib, about one or two inches from the sternum (junction of rib with its cartilage), generally on the right side, but occasionally on the left.

Relations

• In chest pains, Pix, Menth-pu.
• Magn-gr, palpable after: Aeon. and Bry. in hemorrhage.

Reference

Boericke. Clarke.