Astacus Fluviatilis astac.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

C. M. Boger · Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica · A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1915 — the Materia Medica half

Region

Liver. Glands. Vaso-motors.

Worse

Air. Uncovering.

General

Stinging pains. Shiverings.

Particulars

Cough, > walking. URTICARIA; with hepatic symptoms, jaundice, etc.; with cramps in liver region; on right side only.

Related

Related: Calc-c. Rhus-t.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Crawfish (CANCER ASTACUS)

General

Skin symptoms most important. Urticaria.

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.

Relationship

Compare: Bombyx-Caterpillar-Itching of whole body (Urticaria). Apis; Rhus; Nat m; Homar.

Dose

Third to thirtieth potency.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1st edition (1900-02, three volumes); homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML digitization

General

Cancer fluviatilis. Crawfish or River Crab. N. O. Crustaceæ. Tincture from whole animal.

Clinical

Biliousness. Colic. Cough. Diarrhœa. Fever. Glands, enlarged. Intermittent fever. Jaundice. Liver complaints. Nettle-rash . Neuralgia. Shiverings . Stomach, disorders of. Toothache. Tumours.

Characteristics

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.

Relations

Antidoted by: Acon. Compare: Apis, Rhus, Homarus, Chloral, Nat. m.

Mind

Apprehensiveness, with anxiety in chest.

Head

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.

Eyes

Dilated pupils. ─ Dim vision. ─ Sees coloured spots when reading. ─ Motion of eyes painful. ─ Yellow conjunctiva.

Ears

Sensation as if a foreign body obstructed passage of r. ear, causing slight deafness. ─ Heat and redness of ears.

Nose

Nose-bleed, relieving the attacks.

Face

At intervals darting like lightning from temple to cheek. ─ Face glowing and red with fever. ─ Erysipelas with nettle-rash.

Teeth

Toothache at intervals; dull drawing, as if tooth being drawn out. ─ Toothache in whole lower r. jaw, with cold feeling in an eyetooth.

Mouth

Canker-spots in mouth; scorbutus. ─ Fishy taste, followed by nausea spreading through chest.

Stomach

Fulness and pressure in stomach; burning in epigastrium. ─ Empty eructations; with sneezing and yawning. ─ Nausea and vomiting.

Abdomen

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

Stool, colour of pipe-clay; pain in liver. ─ Diarrhœa, with vomiting and colicky pain.

Urinary Organs

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.

Male Sexual Organs

Restless sleep from strong sexual excitement. ─ Averse to coition; diminished power; scrotum relaxed.

Respiratory Organs

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.

Skin

Nettle-rash over whole body; with liver complaint. ─ Itching on various parts. ─ Jaundice; of children. ─ Erysipelas, with fever, headache, and increased sweat.

Fever

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.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

General

Crawfish. Crustaceæ.
Frequently made use of in olden times.
Tincture from the whole fish, prepared by C. Hg. in 1825, still had a fish smell in 1867, and produced symptoms.
Fully proved and introduced by Buchner, in 1842.

Mind

Melancholic mood.
Apprehensiveness with anxiety in chest.
Slight delirium, with nettlerash.

Sensorium

Giddiness.
Dulness in head.

Inner head

Pressing and throbbing on small spots, particularly in right temple.
Pressing dulness in frontal region.
Headache with pressure towards eyes.
Stinging pain in temples.
Pressing stinging pain extends towards occiput, but mo in right temple and about ear.
Excessive pain caused by violent spasmodic sneezing.

Outer 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.

Sight and eyes

He sees colored spots when reading.
Dimness of vision.
Dilated pupils.
Motion of eyes is painful.
It pains him to turn his eyes ; giddy ; nervous ; crawls all over his body.
Lachrymation.
Pressure in upper part of right eye.
Conjunctival vessels injected.
Yellow conjunctiva.

Hearing and ears

Sensation as if a foreign body obstructed passage of right ear, causing slight deafness.
Heat and redness of ears.
Outward pressing and stinging, particularly in right ear.

Smell and nose

Sneezing, with yawning and belching.
Nosebleed relieving attacks.
Slight coryza.

Upper face

At intervals darting like lightning from temple to cheek.
Burning heat in face.
Face glowing and red with fever.
Erysipelas with nettlerash.

Teeth and gums

Dull, drawing toothache, returning at intervals.
At intervals pain as if tooth was being torn out.
Toothache in whole right lower jaw, with cold feeling in an eyetooth.

Taste, speech, tongue

Pressing pain in tongue and pharynx.
Sweetish pappy taste after cough.

Inner mouth

Canker spots ; scorbutus.

Palate and throat

A fishy taste in roof of mouth, later farther back and lower down ; after smelling tincture.

Eating and drinking

After eating : colicky pain below navel, he has to bend double.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Fishy taste, followed by nausea, spreading through chest.
Nausea with vomiting.
Empty eructations.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Fulness and pressure in stomach ; burning in epigastrium. θ Gastric and bilious troubles.

Hypochondria

Very severe pain in region of duodenum.
Inflammation of liver followed by jaundice ; hepatic region painful on pressure.
Pressure in region of spleen.

Abdomen and loins

Colicky pain with tenesmus and prostration ; relieved by sitting, < when walking.
Colicky pain around umbilicus with distension.

Stools and rectum

Stools color of pipe-clay ; pain in liver.
Diarrhœa with vomiting and colicky pain.
Soft mucous stool with scraping in rectum.

Urinary organs

Pain in kidneys ; stinging in night ; < when inhaling.
Fishy smelling urine.
Tearing stitching pain in region of right kidney ; drawing in ureter.
Pressing in bladder and heavy feeling.
Urging, scanty discharge, burning during and after urination ; reddish sediment.
Pale urine with acid reaction, containing a large quantity of albumen.

Male sexual organs

Restless sleep from strong sexual excitement.
Averse to coition ; diminished sexual power ; scrotum relaxed.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

Jaundice of little children.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Tickling in chink of glottis or deeper, exciting cough ; tenacious mucus in larynx and trachea.
Roughness and scraping in throat, necessitating hawking.

Respiration

Dyspnœa with anxiety and rattling of mucus.
Pressure and oppressed breathing in bronchia.

Cough

Cough from tickling in larynx, < during day.
Sweetish expectoration.
Cough did not molest him while walking, in evening, but returned as soon as he sat down.
Frequent coughing without expectoration in the forenoon.
Cough < in afternoon ; chest painful ; expectoration of salivary and white mucus.
Light yellow expectoration.

Inner chest and lungs

Congestion of lungs with dyspnœa and blood-spitting.
Pricking under left nipple.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Pulse 50 in morning, later 80.

Outer chest

Pressure on whole sternum.

Neck and back

Pain below right shoulder in front.
Itching in nape of neck with flushed face.
Swelling of cervical glands with children and old people.
Jerking under left kidney.

Upper limbs

Pressure and tension in axillæ and deltoid muscles.
Trembling in arms when leaning on them.
Rheumatic pain in left arm.
Lassitude in arms, they pain when touched.
Pressure and heaviness in bends of elbows.
Jerking and drawing in left forearm.
Chilliness and trembling of arms.
Transitory tearing and stinging pain in left thumb, in morning.

Lower limbs

Burning on anterior surface of left thigh.
Slight tension from knee down to foot.

Rest. position. motion

Sitting : colic > ; cough <.
Walking : colic < ; cough better.
Motion : eyes painful.

Nerves

Lassitude and weariness, trembling and fatigue.
(OBS :) Paralysis.

Sleep

Restless sleep, anxious or lewd dreams, skin hot, wakes in perspiration, particularly on lower part of body.

Time

Morning : pain in thumb.
Forenoon : cough dry.
During day : cough <.
Afternoon : cough <.
Evening : chill over body.
Night : stinging in kidney.

Temperature and weather

Temperature increased in evening.
Sensitive to air, no matter how great the feeling of heat.
Inward chilliness, and sensitiveness to air ; worse from uncovering.

Fever

Nervous crawls all over body.
Chills, confusion of head, face red, swollen ; eyelids tumefied ; great prostration and slight delirium.
Violent fever with headache, glowing red face, inward chilliness and sensitiveness to air.
Chill over whole body, particularly sensible in arm pits ; in evening.
Increase of temperature in evening and slight excitement of sensorium. θ Sopor.
After overheating from exertion and taking cold, first stage of typhoid fever treated with Rhus and Bryon., got much <, with nausealike fainting, fever heat, glowing face, inner chilliness and sensitiveness to air ; after uncovering, greater, long-lasting chill.

Locality and direction

Right : pain in temple ; pressure in eye ; obstruction and stinging in ear ; toothache lower jaw ; pain below shoulder.
Left : pricking under nipple ; jerking under kidney ; pain in arm ; in thumb ; burning in thigh.

Sensations

As of a foreign body in ear ; as if teeth were being torn out.
Darting : like lightning from temple to cheek.
Jerking : under left kidney ; in left forearm.
Stitching and tearing : in right kidney.
Stinging : in temples ; in ears ; in kidneys ; in left thumb.
Pricking : under left nipple.
Burning : during urination ; on thigh ; in epigastrium.
Scraping : in rectum ; in throat.
Pressing : on small spots in head ; dulness in frontal region ; towards eyes ; stinging towards occiput, in right temple and about ear ; in upper part of right eye ; outward, in ears ; in tongue and pharynx ; in stomach ; in spleen ; in bladder ; in bronchia ; on sternum ; in axillæ and deltoid muscles ; in bends of elbows.
Drawing : in ureter ; in left forearm.
Dull drawing : in teeth.
Rheumatic pain : in left arm.
Colicky pain : around umbilicus.
Undefined pain : in head from sneezing ; in right duodenum ; in kidneys ; in chest ; below right shoulder.
Throbbing : in head.
Fulness : in stomach.
Heaviness : in bladder ; in bends of elbows.
Tension : from knee to foot.
Crawls : over body.
Itching : in nape of neck : on various parts.
Tickling : in larynx.
Heat : of ears ; in face.
Coldness : in eyetooth.

Tissues

Tumors, if not too old.
Gout of drinking people.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Pressure : hepatic region painful ; pain in region of duodenum.
Passive motion : eyes painful.

Skin

A violent attack of an eruption like nettlerash.
Itching on various parts of body.
Nettlerash over whole body.
Nettlerash with liver complaint.
Erysipelas, with fever, headache and increased sweat.
Crusta lactea. See 4 .
Jaundice of children.

Relations

Antidote : Acon .
Compare : Apis (urinary symptoms, stinging pains, etc.) ; Rhus tox . (urticaria).