Skin symptoms most important. Urticaria.
Natural
Clinical Applications
Compare: Bombyx -Caterpillar-Itching of whole body (Urticaria). Apis; Rhus; Nat m; Homar .
Key Symptoms & Indications
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Skin symptoms most important. Urticaria.
Physical Symptoms
Skin
Nettle-rash over whole body. Itching. Crusta lactea, with enlarged lymphatic glands. Erysipelas, and liver affections with nettle-rash . Swelling of cervical glands. Jaundice.
Fever
Inward chilliness; very sensitive to air, worse uncovering; violent fever, with headache.
Mentions in Classic Materia Medicas
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ASTACUS FLUVIATILIS
Nettle-rash over whole body. Itching. Crusta lactea, with enlarged lymphatic glands. Erysipelas, and liver affections with nettle-rash. Swelling of cervical glands. Jaundice.
Inward chilliness; very sensitive to air, worse uncovering; violent fever, with headache.
Compare: Bombyx-Caterpillar-Itching of whole body (Urticaria). Apis; Rhus; Nat m; Homar.
Third to thirtieth potency.
Astacus Fluviatilis.
Biliousness. Colic. Cough. Diarrhœa. Fever. Glands, enlarged. Intermittent fever. Jaundice. Liver complaints. Nettle-rash. Neuralgia. Shiverings. Stomach, disorders of. Toothache. Tumours.
The well-known effects of shell-fish, as well as of other fish, in producing nettle-rash is exemplified in Astacus beyond all other varieties. The lacquer-workers of the East have discovered in the river-crab the best antidote to the effects of Rhus which they employ in their craft. The liver is markedly affected, and a great characteristic is "nettle-rash with liver complaint." jaundice of children. Itching of various parts. Crusta lactea, with large lymphatic glands. Enlarged glands of neck in children and old people. Pain and tenderness of liver, jaundice, stools of pipe-clay colour. Inward chilliness and sensitiveness to air; < uncovering. Violent fever with headache, glowing red face, inward chilliness. Nervous crawls over body. Tumours, recent. Gout of drinking people. Stinging pains are felt in various parts. A notable remedy.
Antidoted by: Acon. Compare: Apis, Rhus, Homarus, Chloral, Nat. m.
Apprehensiveness, with anxiety in chest.
Dulness in head.─On head, neck and chest inflammation, with red spots filled with serum, gone after a sweat.─A thick, crusty eruption on scalp, with enlarged lymphatic glands.
Dilated pupils.─Dim vision.─Sees coloured spots when reading.─Motion of eyes painful.─Yellow conjunctiva.
Sensation as if a foreign body obstructed passage of r. ear, causing slight deafness.─Heat and redness of ears.
Nose-bleed, relieving the attacks.
At intervals darting like lightning from temple to cheek.─Face glowing and red with fever.─Erysipelas with nettle-rash.
Toothache at intervals; dull drawing, as if tooth being drawn out.─Toothache in whole lower r. jaw, with cold feeling in an eyetooth.
Canker-spots in mouth; scorbutus.─Fishy taste, followed by nausea spreading through chest.
Fulness and pressure in stomach; burning in epigastrium.─Empty eructations; with sneezing and yawning.─Nausea and vomiting.
Severe pain in duodenum.─Liver inflamed, sensitiveness to pressure.─Jaundice; of little children.─Pressure in region of spleen.─Colicky pain with tenesmus and prostration; > sitting, < walking.
Stool, colour of pipe-clay; pain in liver.─Diarrhœa, with vomiting and colicky pain.
Pain in kidneys, stinging in night; < when inhaling.─Fishy-smelling urine.─Urging, scanty discharge, burning during and after urination; reddish sediment.─Urine pale, acid; quantity of albumen.
Restless sleep from strong sexual excitement.─Averse to coition; diminished power; scrotum relaxed.
Dyspnœa, with anxiety and rattling of mucus.─Cough from tickling in larynx < during day.─Cough did not molest him when walking, but returned as soon as he sat down.
Nettle-rash over whole body; with liver complaint.─Itching on various parts.─Jaundice; of children.─Erysipelas, with fever, headache, and increased sweat.
Sensitiveness to air no matter how great the feeling of heat.─Inward chilliness and sensitiveness to air; < from uncovering.─Nervous crawls all over body.─Chilly confusion of the head, face red, swollen; eyelids swollen; great prostration and slight delirium.─Violent fever, with headache, glowing red face, inward chilliness and sensitiveness to air.
Astacus fluviatilis
Astacus fluviatilis
• Commonly known as river crab or crawfish.
• The tincture is prepared from the whole animal.
• It markedly affects the liver and lymphatic glands.
• It produces URTICARIA; with liver complaints; jaundice of children.
• Itching in various parts.
• Crusta lactea, with enlarged lymphatic glands.
• Enlarged glands of neck in children and old people.
• Stinging pains are felt in various parts.
• Inward chilliness or shiverings.
• Nervous crawls over the body.
• Erysipelas, with nettlerash.
• Cramps in liver region, liver inflamed agg. pressure.
• Cough amel. when walking but returns as soon as he sits down.
• Violent fever, with headache; red glowing face.
• It constricts and may completely close both the duodenum and esp. the opening of the gall duct into the duodenum.
• Air.
• Uncovering.
• Calc; Rhus-t.
Astacus
Cough did not molest him while walking, but returned as soon as he sat down.
ASTACUS FLUVIATILIS
(Cancer Fluviatilis)
REGION:
Liver.
Glands.
Vaso-motors.
WORSE:
Air.
Uncovering.
Stinging pains. Shiverings. .................... Cough, > walking. URTICARIA; with hepatic symptoms, jaundice, etc.; with cramps in liver region; on right side only.
REMEDY RELATION
Related: Calc-c. Rhus-t.
Astacus fluviatilisS
(Crawfish)
PHARMACY
Astacus fluviatilis. Crawfish. Cancer astacus. Cancer fluviatilis. River crab. N.0. Crustacea. Europe. Tincture from whole animal.
Historical use: Tincture and all potencies.
CLINICAL
- Biliousness
- Colic
- Cough
- Diarrhea
- Fever
- Swelling of cervical glands
- Intermittent fever
- Jaundice
- Liver complaints
- Nettle rash
- Neuralgia
- Shivering
- Stomach disorder
- Toothache
- Tumors
HOMEOPATHIC
The well-known effects of shellfish, as well as of other fish, in producing nettle rash is exemplified in Astacus more than all other remedies. The lacquer workers of the East have discovered that the river crab is the best antidote to the effects of Rhus-t., which they employ in their craft.
The liver is markedly affected and a great characteristic is "nettle rash with liver complaint." Pain and tenderness of the liver, jaundice, stools of pipe-clay color. Jaundice in children. Skin symptoms. Urticaria, with liver complaints. Itching of various parts. Stinging pains are felt in various parts. Nervous crawls over the body.
Crusta lactea with enlarged lymphatic glands. Enlarged glands of the neck in children and the elderly. Tumors. Gout from drinking alcohol. Inward chilliness and sensitiveness to air, worse uncovering. Violent fever with headache. Glowing red face, inward chilliness.
MIND
Melancholic mood. Apprehensiveness with anxiety in the chest. Slight delirium during nettle rash.
Abdomen
Constricts and may completely close both the duodenum and especially the opening of the gall duct into the duodenum.
Liver
Cramps in liver region. Liver inflamed, worse pressure.
Lungs
Cough, better when walking, but returns as soon as he sits down.
Modalities
Worse from air, uncovering.
Skin
Itching in various parts. Nettle rash over the whole body. Crusta lactea with enlarged lymphatic glands. Erysipelas and liver infection with nettle rash. Jaundice.
Temperature
Violent fever with headache. Red glowing face. Inward chilliness, very sensitive to air, worse uncovering, violent fever with headache.
RELATIONS
Antidoted by: Aeon
Compare:
- Cale, Rhus-t., Apis, Homarus, Chloral, Nat-m.
- Bombyx - Caterpillar. Itching of whole body, urticaria.
REFERENCES
Boehricke. Clarke.
Remedy Profile
- Type Remedy
- Common Name N/A
- Origin Source Natural
Dosage & Potency
Third to thirtieth potency.
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