Sea Remedies

"This book offers an invitation: a subtle and simply irresistible one. From myth to neuroscience, from provings to cases, it offers the reader every possible approach. Diving for our antecedents in evolution, we rediscover senses that we have long forgotten. Emerging from the depths of this work, sea remedies cease to be just remedies. Future homeopathic books will be measured against this one." Franz Swoboda, MD, Austria. Editor of Documenta Homoeopathica, Homoeopathic Physician

"A beautifully illustrated and meticulously researched book on the sea remedies that stands to become a classic. Sea Remedies, Evolution of the Senses expands one's understanding of these valuable remedies by providing a vast amount of empirical data on provings and medical application, as well as stimulating the imagination through an intimate understanding of the substance and its role in mythology." Jane Cicchetti, RSHom(NA), CCH, Homeopath,international teacher and author of Dreams, Symbols and Homeopathy, publ. North Atlantic books, USA

"This book is the most extensive collection of remedies from the realm of the oceans, and takes homeopathic materia medica to a deeper level of understanding. The author's sensitivity of perception and ability to extract the vital information from natural science, qualitative science, literature and the homeopathic knowledge-base, comes together in a coherent presentation of sensations and functions, valuable polarities, and common themes of groups and subgroups. The beautiful design and pictures bring you, like a dive, face to face with the colourful sea realm and its remedies." Andreas N. Bjørndal, MNHL, Homeopath and Principal of the Norwegian Academy of Natural Medicine, Oslo.

Detail of red coral, a sea anemone and a cuttlefish’s eye

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Fully illustrated in colour throughout, this is a sensory materia medica of 24 sea remedies, with emphasis on the senses. The author invites us to explore this strange and mysterious undersea world, enabling us to experience the vital sensation of mollusc, starfish or lobster. We are taken on a journey through evolution, from the sensory hub of the jellyfish, to understanding coral as an animal with the capacity to change the weather, to the intricate logarithmic spiral of the nautilus. It is from the ancient sea creatures that the human senses have evolved; in fact we use less senses than some sea creatures, which also have a keen awareness of electro magnetism and lateral line symmetry. The book traces the evolution of our senses through the natural, and evolutionary history of the marine invertebrates, with appendices on biological the sensory symptoms of the corresponding remedies. There are individual chapters and appendices of symptoms for the Senses of Hearing, Smell and Taste, Touch and Vision.

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Each materia medica chapter begins with a summary of the remedy and its key elements, and then opens out to a wider examination of the sensations, functions and polarities of the remedy in every aspect. The layout of the materia medica is guided by the senses. Each materia medica chapter is followed by the natural history of the remedy; the uses of the source material in other medicines; homeopathic cases (where available) and the folklore, mythology, symbol and signature surrounding the source substance. Much oftheir the cases materiaand medica is new. willingly shared provings, andAuthors much ofand theproving materialco-ordinators is previouslyhave unpublished and unavailable elsewhere. The photographs are spectacular, making the book a joy to read and use. As one reviewer put it: the beautiful design and pictures bring you, like a dive, face to face with the colourful sea realm and its remedies.

From the book’s editor Jenni Tree This work is the academic anchor giving weight and stability to homeopaths working in many styles, whether analysing through sensation, theme, physical affinities, repertory or materia medica. The joy of the book is in its eloquent and erudite narrative. It darts into poetry and film, medical research and oceanic biodiversity, and is as beautifully written as it is illustrated. In this book we hear the voices of the invertebrate sea creatures, the porifera (sponge); cnidarians (three jellyfish, coral and two sea anemones); echinoderms (two starfish and a flower urchin); arthropods (horseshoe crab and lobster); molluscs, divided into bivalves (four bivalve shell remedies) and gastropods (two ‘snail’ shell remedies); cephalopods (the cuttlefish, squid, nautilus and octopus), and the pearls – two oceanic gems – as as well as mother of pearl.

Sea Remedies: sensory evolution provides a stunning, full-colour illustrated guide to the marine invertebrate remedies used in homeopathy. Alongside the materia medica, additional chapters explore the evolution of the senses and the relationship of our human sensory experience to that of this group of early animals.

Title: Sea Remedies: Evolution of the Senses Author: Jo Evans Editor: Jenni Tree Publisher:Emryss Edition: Hardback Language: English ISBN/EAN: 978-90-76189-23-9 Pages:656 Weight: 1360 grams

Sea Remedies: Evolution of the Senses

Contents 14

CORRESPONDENCES

lution Evo and the Unity of the Senses Myth, Mirror and Healing Alienation and Inner Spae

14 17 19

ASE & SMELL ~ HE CHEMICAL SENSES

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Te Nose Knows 25 Fantasti Voyage 27 Smell: A Sense Base or Sublime? Alhemy of the Sperm Whale Smelling and asting in the Oeans Sensations and Symptoms: Smell, aste, Chemial Messaging

29 32 37 41 47

HE SENSE OF VISION

In Darkness

49 Inner Spae: As Above, So Below

Feeling Light

51 53

Waterolours and riks of the Light

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Te Colour Purple 57 Oean Eyes 59 Cnidarian Vision, Cnidarian Senses 62 Overwhelmed by the Senses: ropisms 63 Te Brilliane of Brainless Coral 66 Tird Eye: Cnidarians and the Pineal Gland 66 Powers beyond Seeing 69 Self-Consiousness in Sea Animal Remedies 70 Additional sea remedies: sense of self onsiousness 71 An Eye for an Eye 72 Spies of Light 73 Relevane to the Cnidarian remedy provings (jellyfish, oral, anemones) 74 Sensations and Symptoms: Vision 75 6 83

HE SENSE OF OUCH

Te Paradox of ouh Of Life and Limb Te Language of the Skin Sensitivity and Numbness On Having a Shell On Being Armoured or Disrobed Sensations and Symptoms: ouh

85 87 99 101 102 103 105

Contents

Introducion

HE SENSE OF HEARING 111 Te Dane of the Sea 113 Dane, Soiety and Invertebrate Mood Modulators 117 Notes on the Evolutionary Origins of Musi and Language 119 Singing the World: Homeopathi Poetry 120 Sensations and Symptoms: Hearing, Singing, Daning, Movement 122 Evolutionary Ehoes: birds, insecs, spiders 126

Materia Media PORIFERA :

marine sponges ree of Life

129 130

Natural History

131 Spongia tosta (roasted sea sponge)

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CNIDARIANS : coral, sea anemones and jellyfish 159 ree of Life 160 Cnidarian Remedies 161 Natural History 165 Cnidarians (sea anemone) in homeopathy 165 Corallium rubrum (red gorgonian oral) Anthozoa 169 Anthopleura xanthogrammica (giant green sea anemone) Anthozoa 191 Stichodactyla haddoni (Haddon’s sea anemone) Anthozoa 211 Physalia pelagica (Portuguese man of war) Hydrozoa 221 Medusa or Aurelia Aurita (moon jellyfish) Syphozoa 231 Chironex fleckeri (box jellyfish) Cubozoa 243 ECHINODERMS : starfish and sea urchins ree of Life 256 Ehinoderm Remedies 257 Natural History 258 Acanthaster planci (rown of thorns starfish) Asteroidea Asterias rubens (red starfish) Asteroidea Toxopneustes pileolus (flower urhin) Ehinoidea MARINE ARHROPODS :

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261 275 291

lobster and horseshoe crab

ree of Life Natural History

301 302 303

Limulus cyclops (horseshoe rab) Chelieramorpha Homarus gammarus (European lobster) Crustaea MARINE MOLLUSCS, GASROPODS AND BIVALVES

ree of Life Natural History Gastropods Natural History

305 325

: sea shells

341 342

345 344

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Sea Remedies: Evolution of the Senses

Marine Mollus Remedies: the shells Cypraea eglantina(dog rose owrie ) Gastropod Murex (yrian purple dye) Gastropod Marine molluss: bivalves Pecten (sallop) jacobaeusBivalve Venus mercenaria (lam) Bivalve Calcarea carbonica (oyster shell) Bivalve

346 349 365 380 383 391 417

(mother of pearl) Summary Conchiolinum of Pearl Remedies Mytilus edulis pearl (pearl of blue mussel) Bivalve (pearl Pearl of oyster) Bivalve Pearl Signature and Symbol

441 461 463 467 477

: nautilus, octopus, squid, cuttlefish 483 ree of Life 484 Cephalopod Remedies 485 Natural History 489 (nautilus) Nautilus Nautilida 493 Sepia officinalis (sepia/uttlefish ink) Sepiida 503 Eledone cirrhosa (lesser ocopus) Ocopoda 521 Onychoteuthis banksii (lubhook squid) euthida 533 MARINE MOLLUSCS, CEPHALOPODS

SPIRAL JOURNEY :

Part I: Te Homeopathic Process

Spiral as Symbol Non-Dual Duality Spirit and Sensibility A Remembered Present

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541 543 546 548 552

SPIRAL JOURNEY : Part II: Spirals and Shell remedies Te Spiral and the Goddess Left and Right Handed Shells Whih Way to urn? Sexuality and the Shell Remedies Anima and Animus: Reiproal Spirals Uroboros: Cyles and Spirals Tree in One I Rise Again Polarity and Duality Darkness and Light Into the Labyrinth Shadow and Sex Shells and Moon Te Sinistral Way: Te Copper Breathers Life Breath: From Gills to Lungs Air and Soul

556 559 562 563 564 567 570 571 572 575 579 580 586

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587 591 594

Remedy Index

Introducion

Te Shell in the Desert: Assigning Value Summary of Shell Symbolism Material to Spiritual: Te Journey Spiral Chambers

ion

595 599 600 603 605

IMAGE CREDIS

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BIBLIOGRAPHY GLOSSARY HEMAIC INDEX OF SEA REMEDIES INDEX

608 613 617 639

Remedy Index R EMEDY NAME

COMMON NAME

A BBREV. PAGE

Aanthaster plani Crown of Torns Starfish Anthopleura xanthogrammia Giant Green Sea Anemone

Aan-p. 261 Anthop-x. 191

Asterias rubens Calarea arbonia Chironex flekeri Conhiolinum Corallium rubrum Cypraea eglantina Eledone irrhosa Homarus gammarus Limulus ylops Medusa or Aurelia aurita Murex Mytilus edulis pearl Nautilus

Red Starfish Middle layer of oyster shell Box Jellyfish Mother of Pearl Red Gorgonian Coral Dog Rose Cowrie Lesser Ocopus European Lobster Horseshoe Crab Moon Jellyfish yrian Purple Dye Pearl from Blue Mussel shell Nautilus

Aster. Cal. Chir-fl. Conh. Cor-r. Cypra-e. Eled-. Hom. Lim. Medus. Murx. Myt-e-p. Naut.

275 417 243 441 169 349 521 325 305 231 365 463 493

Onyhoteuthis banksii Pearl Pecen jaobaeus Physalia pelagia Sepia offiinalis Spongia tosta Stihodacyla haddoni oxopneustes pileolus Venus merenaria

Clubhook Squid Pearl of Oyster Sallop Portuguese Man of War Sepia/Cuttlefish Ink Roasted Sea Sponge Haddon’s Sea Anemone Flower Urhin Clam

Onyh. Pearl Pec. Physala-p. Sep. Spong. Stih-h. oxopn. Ven-m.

533 467 383 221 503 133 211 291 391

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Sample Chapter

ECHIN ODERMS T REE OF LIFE

Crinoidea Pelmatozoa

(sea lilies and feather stars)

Ophiuroidea (brittle stars and basket stars)

Echinoderms

Asterias rubens

Asterozoa Asteroidea (star fish and cushion stars)

(common red starfish) Acanthaster planci

(crown of thorns starfish)

Eleutherozoa Holothuroidea (sea cucum bers)

Echinozoa Echinoidea (sea and sandurchins dol lars)

Toxopneustes pileolus (flower urchin)

Echinoderm Remedies he ore sensation of these intense and passionate remedies is that of being

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under held bak, fullfeelings, of suppressed emotions and sensations, and at risk pressure, of bursting with these  feelings ompletely and frustratingly laking, empty and hollow: feeling the lak of emotion, sex, food and any kind of stimulation. Intensely syoti (see also delusions of limbs growing longer) as well as belonging to the aner miasm, with its sense of overwhelming struggle. S N I H C R

Mental/Emotional: Intense and passionate, but suppressed or restriced. A feeling of being under pressure. ouhy, reacs strongly to ontradicion. Ailments from mortifiation. Argumentative and impatient. May either over-reac  ompletely suppress emotional responses. Indifferene and depression alternates with anger and exitement. Delusions as to the nature of the brain. Delusions about length and growth of limbs. Teme of death, the dead and nerosis. Sensitive to odours (real and imaginary). Infestation: insecs, parasites and bloodsukers. Dreams of sinking, being trapped, stuk in the mud (see also the empty, sinking stomah sensation in oxop-p). Children and family issues: aversion to hildren, anxiety about hildren, the demands of nurturing. Pressure to give, are or nurture, at the expense of emotional freedom. Highly sexual. Dreams of fire, sex, death, wild animals.

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Desires: Stimulation, strongly flavoured food, sex, musi with a strong rhythm (haikovsky and Wagner). trong sexual element: eroti dreams, strong sexual desire, problems of a sexual nature and of the reproducive system and glands, espeially the breasts. Aversion to hildren (DD

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edusa, epia).

Sensation ~ Expansion, Bursting, Splitting  Contrac ion. Hollow  Full. ~ Compression: as if in a vie, rushed by a great weight, ramping (of jaw, head, eyes, stomah, recum, throat). ~ Burning. Ithing. Pins and needles. Numbness/oldness. ~ Stabbing. Cutting. Stithing. Elecri shoks. ~ Convulsions. Jerking. Pulsation. withing. ~ As if pulled inwards. Drawing. Boring. Digging. Srewing. Clinical : Auto-immune disease, lymphati system and glands (breasts, axillary glands). Neurologial. Cardiovasular. Sex. Hormones.

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Associated conditions: Epilepsy. Hypertension. Stroke. Glandular problems. Breast aner. Nymphomania. Migraine. Sinusitis. Flu. Oedema. Ezema. Herpes. Ane. Uleration. Problems of extremities: Feet, toes, hands, fingers. Delusions about legs (being longer, shorter).

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Crinoids (feather stars and sea lilies); Asteroidea (starfish or sea stars); Ophiuroidea (brittle stars and basket stars); Holothuroidea (sea uumbers); Ehinoidea (sea urhins and sand dollars).

Echinoderms in homeopathy o

sterias rubens (ommon red starfish) Asteroidea.

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anthaster plani (rown of thorns starfish) Asteroidea.

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oxopneustes pileolus (flower urhin) Ehinoidea.

Evolutionary history Ehinoderms first appear in the fossil reord during the mid-Cambrian period. However, possible ehinoderm speies have been traed bak to the Proterozoi period and it is thought by some researhers that ehinoderms existed in the Preambrian era. Tis is the largest phylum without any freshwater or terrestrial forms, although some an live in brakish water.

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Radial symmetry.

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Ehinoderm means spiny skin. Calareous plates, alled ossiles, are onneced by ollagen-based ligaments, under nervous ontrol.

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Mutable ollagenous tissue. Te ollagen-based ligaments an be loked or unloked, tight or loose, allowing a range of movement. Te skeleton of ehinoids (urhins) and asteroids (starfish) an also form pediellariae (piner-like strucures) as seen in oxopneustes pileolus.

Ehinoderms Natural History

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A water-vasular system: water pressure reates hydrauli power for movement, respiration and feeding. In starfish, anals radiating out from a entral ring, irling the gut, pump sea water through the body and operate the suker-like feet (podia).

Body types: Are extremely varied. Shapes are tubular, stars, spherial, disoid, feathery, bush and basket-like. Body system: Ehinoderms possess an open, fluid-filled body avity lined with tissue, the oelom or gut. Tey have a ‘mouth’ underneath, on the lower surfae, and an ‘anus’ on top. Tere are no speialised exretory organs. Tere is a non-entralised nervous system: a nerve net, but no brain. Ehinoderms possess gonads and the sexes are usually separate. Only holothurians have speialised respiratory systems, and many ehinoderms have only rudimentary irulatory systems; the water-vasular system takes over some of the funcions of these systems, as there is no heart to ac as a pump. Ehinoderms are apable of body regeneration, regrowing arms in the ase of starfish, but the powers of regeneration in this group go well beyond regeneration of arms. Tis is explored in more detail in the hapter on the Sense of ouh, under the heading Of Life and Limb.

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Senses: Communiation takes plae by means of hemials a nd pheromones. Tere are light-sensing organs in the skin . Te non-entralised nervous system allows ehinoderms to sense the environment from all sides and provides them with their sense of touh: nerves are more onentrated in the tips of the ‘arms’ in starfish.

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ACANHASER PLANCI Crown of thorns starfish

Summary MAIN POLARIIES : Despair OR Peaefulness. Expansion OR Contracion. MIND : Dazed, intoxiated, fear of disease (aner, nerosis). Delusions brain

is dissolving or nerosing. Delusions of insecs, slugs or snails infesting the skin. Delusions naked. Eroti dreams. Irritability and anger. SENSAION : Burning, heat, flushing. Stabbing, stithing, priking. Pulling, drawing. Numbness. Pulsating. Pressure. Congestion. Falling, flying. Expansion. Ithing. As if broken apart. As of a stone. DREAMS : Disease, nerosis, infestation. Eroti. Wild animals. Insets. Competitions and ontests. Inadequately dressed. Danger, fire, explosion. Lost, searhing. Late. Flying. Falling. Daning. alking with the dead. Water, sea,

S N I H C R

U A E

S & H S I F R A T S

swimming. Subways, buildings. Money, disputes over money. SYSEM AFFINIIES: Immune. Nervous. Skin. CLINICAL AFFINIIE S : Ezema. Herpes. Uleration. Oedema. Sinusitis. Migraine. Influenza. Haemorrhage. Complaints of the liver. ravel sikness. Palpitations. Tromboytopenia.* Leuopenia.** Peripheral numbness. GENERALS : Weakness. Sensation of impending influenza. Burning, flushing. Numbness. Stabbing or priking pains. Pulsating. rembling. Nervous restlessness.

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* Trombocytopenia: low blood platelet ount; inreased haemorrhagi tendeny. ** Leucopenia : low white blood ell ount; inreased risk of infecion.

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Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Ehinoderm Class: Asteroidea Order: Valvatida Family: Aanthasteridae Genus: Aanthaster Species: Plani. anthaster plani Abbreviation: Aan-p. Homeopathic name: Common names: Crown of thorns starfish; oral-eating star fish. Etymology: Latin: aantha (s); aanthae (pl.): spine, spiny.

AC AN HASE R P L AN C I

Acanthaster planci, the crown of thorns fish. star

Aan-p.

Ehinoderms ~ starfish & sea urhins

Remedy Source Dr med Jörg Hildebrandt1 olleced a rown of thorns starfish on a diving expedition to the island Bohol in the Philippines in Marh 1998. Part of its stomah and a tip of an arm were taken and immediately triturated to the first C poteny. Later it was potentised to 30C and 200C by Mag. Robert Müntz, Salvator Pharmay, Eisenstadt, where the remedy an be obtained [[email protected]].

Proving Double-blind proving of

anthaster plani by Dr. med. Jörg Hildebrandt. Fourteen healthy provers (13 verum 30C or 200C, one plaebo) between 21 and 50 years of age; one patient also provided symptoms. Te double blind proving took plae from Ocober 1998 to Deember 1999, with the provers starting on different dates.

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Ehinoderms:

sterias rubens, oxop neustes piloleus. Cnidarians.

Generalities Swelling, oedema. Burning, heat. Numbness. Stithing. Pressing. earing. Ithing. Of impending influenza. FUNCION : Weakness. rembling. Ezema. Oedema. Sinusitis. Migraine. Influenza. Haemorrhage. Chill. Weak and heavy extremities. Restlessness. Complaints of the liver. Tromboytopenia. Leuopenia . SENSAION:

Mind POLARIIES : Despair. Peaeful. SENSAION: Dazed with sleepiness.

Dazed, with intoxiated feeling after sleep.

elusions: Brain is dissolving. A neroti absess of the brain. Insecs, spiders and snails in the skin. Hypohondria: aner, disease. Of being naked while in publi; being inadequately dressed. He has fallen off a wall. FUNCION : Ailments from mortifiation (ezema). Mental exhaustion. Mistakes in speeh and writing. Diffiulty onentrating. alks to himself when alone. Nervous irritability from slight auses (musi aggravates). Angry. LANGUAGE : “Meanwhile I strethed out many legs to gain a broad (finanial) basis to live on, osting a lot of energy.” “For me, the train for hildren has left” = I’m too sterias rubens , edusa, epia. ) old for hildren now. (DD Aversion to hildren DESIRES : Powerful, strong musi (e.g. haikovsky). Business acivity. AVERSION : Company. AGGR AVAION : Soft musi (soft musi e.g. Shubert aggravates, while strongly rhythmi musi like haikovsky or Latin/Jazz ameliorates).

1 Dr. med. Jörg Hildebrandt, Feldmühlweg 103, A-3 100 St. Pölten, Austria. [[email protected]] [ww w. dr-hildebrandt.at ] Last a essed Ocober 2008. I would like to tha nk Jörg Hildebrandt for his invaluable help in the preparation of the materia medi a secion of th is remedy.

Aanthaster plani

Aan-p.

Dreams

civities: Daning. Of falling from high plaes. Of flying. Of wandering. Of looking for something lost. Of being lost. Arriving home too late. Disputes over money. Contests, ompetitions. irumstanes: Disease: nerosis, nerosis of the liver, legs; absess of brain (brain is a blak and rumbling mass whih an be pressed out like a boil); the erebellum is missing. Dreams of blisters on the skin with ants, slugs, snails and spiders inside. Ill relative. Pregnany. Marriage. Eroti. Naked. Underdressed for the oasion. eople: Relatives, friends, neighbours. A deeased aquaintane is standing and talking to him. nimals: Wild animals. Ants, flies, insecs, spiders, slugs and snails. Pigs. bjecs: Of trains and subways. Of buildings. Of omputer. henomena and elements: Explosion. Fire. Water, oean. Swimming in the sea. eelings: Danger. Eroti. Competition. Disgusted after dreams. ensory: Colours. uality of dreams: Pleasant, anxious, terrifying, angry, irritable, ontinue after waking, heavy and oppressive.

Sleep SENSAION: Sleepiness. FUNCION : Waking

with Snoring. Disturbed through physial restlessness. Disturbed by headahe. salivation.Comatose. Sleepless though sleepy.

Face SENSAION:

Ithing, numb, swollen, hot. Stithing. Expansion, tension. Pressing pain in heekbones. FUNCION : Herpes. Perspiration. Saly skin eruptions at the margins of the hair (ured symptom), eyelids, ear and fae in general. Painful sinusitis in head, eyes and teeth, bending forwards agg ravates.

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Head and Headache SENSAION: As

if there is an absess on the brain. Pulsating, throbbing. Stithing, stabbing. Drawing. Congestion of blood. Waves of heat. Pressing, above eyes. Pressing inwards. Crushing, as if broken into piees. FUNCION : Migraine. Perspiration of head and brow. Headahe appears suddenly. Headahe from the slightest touh to the nape. LOCAION : Forehead, above eyes, temples, bak of head HEADACHE AMELIOR AION: Coffee. Warmth. HEADACHE AGGR AVAION : On rising. After breakfast. Afternoon. Midnight. Stooping. Bending forwards. Laughing. Fast movement.

Hair and Scalp FUNCION :

Skin eruptions at the margins of the hair (ured symptom). Sweating.

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Eyes and Vision SENSAION :

Burning and heat (lids). Stithing (in eyeball), priking, stabbing. Numbness. Drawing (as if pulled). Pressure, with sensation of expansion in the forehead. Of expansion with waves of heat in the head. Heat and ithing of eyelids. Swelling. Sensation as if the left eye is smaller. FUNCION : Eyeballs rolling. Ithing, red, saly eruptions on lids. Foal length hanged when reading. AGGRAVAION:

Rubbing. Bending forwards, bending over.

Ears and Hearing SENSAION: Numbness. Pulsating. Bloked. FUNCION : Noises in ears (with headahe). Ezema

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aste Metalli taste af ter eating.

Appetite Strong, ravenous (with flushes of heat). DESIRE : Eggs. AVERSION : Salad. Sweets. ea.

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ongue SENSAION: Burning, heat. FUNCION : Blisters (edges, under tongue) < touh.

Mouth and Lips SENSAION: Ithing and Numbness of lips. Sensation as if overed. Dry. FUNCION : Swollen lips. Herpes around the mouth. White fever blisters.

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saliva. Inreased salivation < night. Inlination to swallow onstantly.

eeth and Gums EEH SENSAION:

Burningasand heat. As ifareloose. Stithing. pulling. Pulsating. Sensation if new teeth growing. Pain Fresh air. Pain in healthy teeth. FUNCION : Swollen gums. Affecs molars. CONCOMIANS : ooth pain with ommon old.

Gastrointestinal SENSAION: Stithing, pointed. Drawing, pulling. Contracion, ramps (rouhing

ameliorates). Heat. Pain like stones. FUNCION : Hioughs. ravel sikness. CONCOMIANS : Headahe.

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Rectum SENSAION: Violent ithing. Pain during stool. FUNCION : Diarrhoea. Bleeding fissure. Constipation

(hroni).

Stool Light brown. Yellow. Light. Odourless. Half formed. Hard. Like sheep-dung, agglutinated balls. Soft.

Urinary SENSAION: Pain

in abdomen before urination.

Sense of Smell ODOUR :

Smells imaginary and real: rotten apples in the house, sweet smells.

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Nose SENSAION: Numbness. Cold. As if dripping water. FUNCION : Bloked. DISCHARGE : Tin, lear, watery.

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HROA SENSAION: Burning, heat. Priking and stithing. ikling. As if oated. HROA FUNCION : Hawking onstantly. VOICE: Hoarse. CHES SENSAION: Oppression with trembling. Pulsating. Stabbing (sides).

Paroxysmal stabbing. Pulling, drawing (sides). CHES FUNCION : Palpitations (< bending forwa rds). rembling. Perspiration in the axi llae. COUGH SENSAION:Ie-old air in passages. Srathing behind sternum. ikly. Dry.

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COUGH SOUND: Dry.

Heart a nd Blood FUNCION :

Audible, irregular palpitations. Palpitations with trembling hands.

Haemorrhage.Tromboytopenia [Redued platelet (thromboyte) ount, resulting in redued ability to lot blood, inreased hemorrhagi tendeny. Initial signs: bleeding gums, nosebleeds and inreased bruising.] Hypertension. Leuopenia [low white blood ell ount].

Sex, female UERUS SENSAION: Pain with menses, ramps, ontracions: extending like a belt

to the lumbar/saral region. BREASS SENSAION: Stithing. Drawing, pulling. BREASS FUNCION : Eruptions under the arms: axillae.

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ouch, Movement and emperature PERCEPION OF BODY: Brain is dissolving/rotting away. Expansion. ension. PERCEPION OF IME : Dreams of being late, arriving home too late. PERCEPION OF PRESSUR E : Sensation of pressure, expansion and rushing; touh

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HEA/COLD SENSAION: Cold hands and feet. General burning. Skin flushes. Fever.

Chill in waves, > external warmth. Chill not > from warmth of bed. HEA/COLD FUNCION : Cold hands during hill. BALANCE : Vertigo as if the floor gave way. AGGRAVAIONS: Afternoon, evening. SKIN SENSAION: Burning. Numbness. Ithing. SKIN FUNCION : Goosebumps. Ezema (ezema from mortifiation and emotional

auses). Dry and rough. Craked. Exfoliating. Ulers. Blisters. Vesiles. Oedema. BACK and SPINE SENSAION: Drawing. Pressing.

Heat (as if sunburnt). < Bending over, forwards, strething. Heat in dorsal region. BACK and SPINE FUNCION : Perspiration. withing (shoulder blades).

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SENSAION: Stithing, stabbing. Stabbing pain in elbow. Numbness. Drawing, pulling. Drawing in elbow, thigh. Heavy, tired. Burning of heel. MUSCULOSKELEAL FUNCION : Pains in thighs, alves, buttok musles. MUSCULOSKELEAL

Fingers and oes: Dry, rough, exfoliating, raked: soles of feet and fingertips. Blistered/vesiles on feet < walking. Infeced. Ulerated. Numbness of fingertips, fingers. Pains in bones of fingers.

Clinical Data ase from r. med. örg ildebrand t , ustr ia Mrs H, born in 1958, is a blonde, slim, acive, sensitive 42 year-old woman, previously presribed ilia. Her presenting problem isa troublesome, itching, therapy-resistant eczema of the eyelids and ears, worse on the right side.It started after a holiday in Malaysia in 2000. On the day that she got home, a thumbnail-size path of ezema appeared first on the right upper eyelid and left lower eyelids, with reddening and

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saling, later with extreme ithiness and swelling. It got worse that week, first on both upper eyelids and lower eyelids, later on the heeks and at the side of the lower jaw.

anthaster plani 200C, she reported: “On the first On the third day after taking day, I got red, saly spots all over my fae, but they did not ith”. On the seond and third day: “Te eruption on the upper eyelids and lower eyelids is still there a bit, not swelling, the intolerable ith has gone, no numbness.” She had previously stopped using topial ortisone. SheAfter feels that hopeful. woshe months later she relapses. Repeat of anthaster plani 200C. she says is “unusually alm and omposed, in spite of very many emotional and organisational problems.” At the follow-up she realises that, before the ezema started, she had been through three experienes that had left her feeling mortified. Te first was that a ompetitor got the job she had been hoping for. Te seond was that a rival was appointed to be the offi ial deputy to the boss. Tirdly, her professional rival had hildren and this didn’t seem to ause her any professional problems. Te patient had put off her own desire to have hildren beause of her areer goals; she felt she had to give her areer one hundred perent. Now she had neither areer suess nor hildren. In the meantime she felt she had “strethed out too many legs” to gain a broad (finanial) basis to live on, osting a lot of energy, dispersing energy.” And that this was not onduive to family life.

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She loves musi with a strong rhythm: Latin Amerian, jazz and Cuban: not rooners. haikovsky and Wagner: not Mahler and Shubert. Proving symptom (in a male prover): “Musi irritated me. I was at the musi soiety today and ould not bear Shubert. I hated the sound of it; it was almost “homosexual” for me. haikovsky was good. Te power, the battle, the fore, destrucion. Tat was great.”

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Te patient said: “I love new experienes. I’m not omplaent. I always want to be hallenged and try new things, so I don’t get bored.” Six years later the patient remains well.

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Other Medical Uses Te venom has been found to be antihypertensive.2 Te thorn poison has been studied 3 It has also been and found to ause hypotension, thromboytopenia and leuopenia. 4 found to ontain liver damaging substanes. Enhaned vasular permeability.5 Hypotension: low blood pressure Trombocytopenia : low blood platelet ount; inreased haemorrhagi

tendeny. Leucopenia : low white blood ell ount; inreased risk of infecion.

Muscles, destruction 6 : “A rih soure of useful venoms has been found in the rownof-thorns starfish anthaster plani. One of its deadly venoms has been identified as a myotoxi (musle destroying) phospholipase A (Mebs 1991), and several other andi7 dates for suh effecs have been identified (Shiomi et al. 1985, 1988; Mebs 1989).” Muscles, contraction: One study found that venom of the rown of thorns starfish aused ontracions of the uterus in rats and enhaned vasular permeability in rabbits. It acs to ontrac smooth musle.8

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our with ontac. Te puncure site turns blue (erythema) and swells (oedema). ~ More severe reacions inlude stiffening of the joints with ahing, numbness, tingling, weakness, paralysis, nausea, vomiting, headahes and ough. Swollen tender lymph glands in groin or armpit. ~ A spine tip in the finger an result in swelling and stiffness aused by the growth of granulation tissue typial of a foreign body reacion. In severe ases bone-destroying (osteolyti) proesses may ause narrowing of a joint by destrucion of artilage, whih requires surgery.

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2 Chai Yoke Chin, Kim Kah Hwi, Johgaling am V, nti-hypertensive effecs of a novel polypeptide isolated from rown of Torns tarfish ( anthaster lani) , 4th National Symposium on Health Sienes: Harmonisation of Researh and Pracie in Healt h Sienes, Kuala Lumpur, April 2002, pp. 76-81 . 3 Shiroma N. et al., aemodynami and haematologi effecs of anthaster plani venom in dogs . Department of Pharmaology, Shool of Mediine, University of the Ry ukyu s, Okinawa, Japan. oxion, Ocober 1, 1 994; 32(10): 1217-25. 4 Shiomi K., et al . iver damage by the rown-of-thorns starfish ( anthaster plani) lethal facor , Department of Food Siene and ehnology, okyo University of Fisheries , Japan. oxion, January 1, 1990; 28(5): 469-75. 5 Ibid. 6 Karasud ani I., Omija, M., and Aniya, Y., mooth musle ontracile acion of the venom from the rown-of-thorns starfish, anthaster plani , Laboratory of Physiology and Pharmaology, Unive rsity of the Ryuky us, Okinawa, Japan. J oxiol Si, February 1, 1996; 21(1): 11-7. 7 Petzelt, C., re hinoderms of nterest to iotehnology? Progress in Moleular and Subellular Biology, Subseries Marine Moleular Biotehnology. V.Matranga (Ed.), Ehinodermata, © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005. 8 Ibid. 9 Ibid.

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In Nature Te rown of thorns starfish was first desribed in 1705 by Georg Rumphius. Linnaeus named it in 1758. Tis is the only known venomous starfish. Although lassed as an asteroidean, or sea star, for its many arms, it is also similar to the ehinoids or urhins, beause of its spines; sea urhins are also ehinoderms. Adult rown of thorns starfish are usually about 30m in diameter but an reah as muh as half a metre. Tey will lose a limb when under stress, or in defene against a predator, but limbs an be regenerated within six months. vary plani in olour aording to loation; on the Great Barrier Reef theyanthaster are normally brown or reddish-grey with red-tipped spines, while in Tailand luminous purple varieties an be seen.

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Communication and perception: anthaster plani is able to sense predators as well as prey by means of hemoreeption, a means of smelling and tasting underwater. Te non-entralized nervous system allows ehinoderms to sense their environment from all sides. Sensory ells on the skin sense light, ontac, hemials and water urrents. Higher densities of sensory ells are found in the tube feet and along feeding anal margins. Red pigmented eye-spots are found at the end of eah arm. Tese funcion as photoreeptors.

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Feeding: Large numbers of rown of thorns starfish may gather to eat their way through a oral reef, but they are generally onsidered solitary, nocurnal feeders, maintaining distane from one another even when moving over a reef in numbers. Adult starfish normally feed on oral polyps. Tey extrude their stomahs and digest the oral polyps by releasing digestive enzymes to then absorb the liquefied tissue. When live hard orals are not available, alternative foods inlude soft orals, algae, lams, enrusting organisms, ga stropods, gorgonians, hydrozoans and sea anemones. Tey an live for six to nine months without food. Reproducing: Te rown of thorns starfish reprodues sexually. Females shed eggs into the water and these are subsequently fertilised by sperm released from nearby males. Tey typially assume a bell-shape when spawning. Fertilisation is synhronised through hemial signalling. Tere is no parental are of offspring. Larvae settle on the sea floor and ontinue development there, ending the swimming phase. Initially the juvenile starfish has only five rudimentary arms but extra arms develop rapidly as the starfish begins to feed on enrusting algae. Within six months the 10 [www.sbg.a.at/ipk/avstudio/pi erofun/plani/plani.htm] Last aessed Ocober 2008.

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starfish is about one entimetre in size and begins to feed on orals. It beomes sexually mature at the end of its seond year, by whih time it has grown to about twenty entimetres in diameter. It is not known how long this speies lives, but they have been kept in aquaria for as long as eight years. Growth rate and reproducion rates deline after three to four years. Movement: Crown of thorns starfish walk on large numbers of tiny tube feet situated in the grooves running along the underside of their arms. Tese ac like hydrauli sukers, operating by means of water pressure in the entral avity and tubes. Te arms are musular a nd strong, allowing the starfish to walk aross the sea floor , as well as navigate the reef; they an move in reverse, turn around and move individual arms independently (Perrins and Middleton, 1985). Defending: Crown of thorns starfish are armoured with impressive spines, offering a strong deterrent to attakers. However, a number of animals are known to attak and prey on rown of thorns starfish, notably the giant triton, and also ertain molluss, fish, rustaeans a nd the fireworm. Senses : Chemial messaging (smelling and tasting). ouh. Photoreeptors. Balane.11

Signature a nd Symbol Te rown of thorns starfish is spiky, sinister-looking and venomous; its threatening image provokes an immediate sense of danger. Tey are known as the plague of the oral reefs, systematially eating their way through large areas of reef, destroying everything in their wake. Tis not only kills the living oral polyps but the infrastrucure of vast numbers of reef speies that depend on the oral for their habitat. Reefs an take up to two deades to regenerate. Te imbalane is thought to have ourred largely as a result of over-harvesting the triton shell; the triton is the main predator of the rown of thorns starfish.

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Destruciveness of oral reefs, digesting the polyps alive: the delusions of nerosis, nerosis of the brain, of the brain dissolving. Fear of disease, aner.

11 [www.aims.gov.au/pages/reflib/ot-starfish/pages/] Last aessed Ocober 2008, and Kosarek, N. 2000. “Aanthas ter plani” (On-line), Anima l Diversity Web. [http://animaldiversity.ummz.umih.edu/site/ aounts/ information/Aanthaster_plani.html] Last aessed Ocober 2008.

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Te proving brought out lusters of symptoms in theextremities, partiularly around the toes and fingers, inluding eruptions, uleration and numbness. As well as obviously having many arms/legs, this an area of great sensitivity for ehinoderms, with a higher density of sensory ells here than any other sterias rubens for this affi nity part of the starfish body. (Cross referene with toes and fingers).

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Credits Dr. med. Jörg Hildebrandt, Feldmühlweg 103, A-3100 St. Pölten, Austria. [email protected]; www.dr-hildebrandt.at ~ Hildebrandt J: Dornenkronenseestern Aanthaster plani. ZKH 2006; 50:35 – 48 ~ Hildebrandt J: Aanthaster plani: Arzneimittelselbtserfahrung mit dem Dornen kronenseestern. Doumenta Homoeopathia 2006; 26: 277-293 (ershienen anfangs 2007) ~ Hildebrandt J: Aanthaster plani, der Dornenkronenseestern (Fallberihte). HIOe 2007; 18/2, 8-11

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