"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

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classic. Sea Remedies, Evolution of the Senses
expands one's understanding of these valuable
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stimulating the imagination through an intimate
understanding of the substance and its role
in mythology."
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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 homeo-
pathic knowledge-base, comes together in a coherent
presentation of sensations and functions, valuable
polarities, and common themes of groups and sub-
groups. The beautiful design and pictures bring you,
like a dive, face to face with the colourful sea realm
and its remedies."
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Norwegian Academy of Natural Medicine, Oslo.

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 Ÿ 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.

Ÿ 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
brates, with the natural,
appendices on biological and
the sensory evolutionary
symptoms history
of the of the marine
corresponding inverte-
remedies.
There are individual chapters and appendices of symptoms for the Senses of
Hearing, Smell and Taste, Touch and Vision.
Ÿ 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 surround-
ing the source substance.
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shared the cases
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medica is new.
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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

CORRESPONDENCES 14
lution
Evo and the Unity of the Senses 14
Myth, Mirror and Healing 17
Alienation and Inner Spae 19

ASE & SMELL ~ HE CHEMICAL SENSES 23

Te Nose Knows 25
Fantasti Voyage 27
Smell: A Sense Base or Sublime? 29
Alhemy of the Sperm Whale 32
Smelling and asting in the Oeans 37
Sensations and Symptoms: Smell, aste, Chemial Messaging 41

HE SENSE OF VISION 47

In Darkness 49
Inner Spae: As Above, So Below 51
Feeling Light 53
Waterolours and riks of the Light 55
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
6 Sensations and Symptoms: Vision 75

HE SENSE OF OUCH 83

Te Paradox of ouh 85
Of Life and Limb 87
Te Language of the Skin 99
Sensitivity and Numbness 101
On Having a Shell 102
On Being Armoured or Disrobed 103
Sensations and Symptoms: ouh 105
 Introducion Contents

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 129
ree of Life 130
Natural History 131
Spongia tosta (roasted sea sponge) 133

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 255

ree of Life 256
Ehinoderm Remedies 257
Natural History 258
Acanthaster planci (rown of thorns starfish) Asteroidea 261
Asterias rubens
(red starfish) Asteroidea 275
7
Toxopneustes pileolus (flower urhin) Ehinoidea 291

MARINE ARHROPODS : lobster and horseshoe crab 301

ree of Life 302
Natural History 303
Limulus cyclops (horseshoe rab) Chelieramorpha 305
Homarus gammarus
(European lobster) Crustaea 325

MARINE MOLLUSCS, GASROPODS AND BIVALVES : sea shells 341

ree of Life 342
Natural History 345
Gastropods Natural History 344
 Sea Remedies: Evolution of the Senses

Marine Mollus Remedies: the shells 346

Cypraea eglantina(dog rose owrie ) Gastropod 349
Murex
(yrian purple dye) Gastropod 365
Marine molluss: bivalves 380
Pecten (sallop)
jacobaeusBivalve 383
Venus mercenaria
(lam) Bivalve 391
Calcarea carbonica
(oyster shell) Bivalve 417

Summary Conchiolinum
(mother
of Pearl of pearl)
Remedies 441
461
Mytilus edulis pearl
(pearl of blue mussel) Bivalve 463
(pearl
Pearl
of oyster) Bivalve 467
Pearl Signature and Symbol 477

MARINE MOLLUSCS, CEPHALOPODS : 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

SPIRAL JOURNEY : Part I: Te Homeopathic Process 541

Spiral as Symbol 543
Non-Dual Duality 546
Spirit and Sensibility 548
A Remembered Present 552

SPIRAL JOURNEY : Part II: Spirals and Shell remedies 556

Te Spiral and the Goddess 559
Left and Right Handed Shells 562
Whih Way to urn? 563
Sexuality and the Shell Remedies 564
8 Anima and Animus: Reiproal Spirals 567
Uroboros: Cyles and Spirals 568
Tree in One 570
I Rise Again 571
Polarity and Duality 572
Darkness and Light 575
Into the Labyrinth 579
Shadow and Sex 580
Shells and Moon 586
Te Sinistral Way: Te Copper Breathers 587
Life Breath: From Gills to Lungs 591
Air and Soul 594
 Introducion Remedy Index

Te Shell in the Desert: Assigning Value 595

Summary of Shell Symbolism 599
Material to Spiritual: Te Journey 600
Spiral Chambers 603
ion 605

IMAGE CREDIS 607

BIBLIOGRAPHY 608
GLOSSARY 613
HEMAIC INDEX OF SEA REMEDIES 617
INDEX 639

Remedy Index
R EMEDY NAME COMMON NAME A BBREV. PAGE

Aanthaster plani Crown of Torns Starfish Aan-p. 261

Anthopleura xanthogrammia Giant Green Sea Anemone Anthop-x. 191
Asterias rubens Red Starfish Aster. 275
Calarea arbonia Middle layer of oyster shell Cal. 417
Chironex flekeri Box Jellyfish Chir-fl. 243
Conhiolinum Mother of Pearl Conh. 441
Corallium rubrum Red Gorgonian Coral Cor-r. 169
Cypraea eglantina Dog Rose Cowrie Cypra-e. 349
Eledone irrhosa Lesser Ocopus Eled-. 521
Homarus gammarus European Lobster Hom. 325
Limulus ylops Horseshoe Crab Lim. 305
Medusa or Aurelia aurita Moon Jellyfish Medus. 231
Murex yrian Purple Dye Murx. 365
Mytilus edulis pearl Pearl from Blue Mussel shell Myt-e-p. 463
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Nautilus Nautilus Naut. 493
Onyhoteuthis banksii Clubhook Squid Onyh. 533
Pearl Pearl of Oyster Pearl 467
Pecen jaobaeus Sallop Pec. 383
Physalia pelagia Portuguese Man of War Physala-p. 221
Sepia offiinalis Sepia/Cuttlefish Ink Sep. 503
Spongia tosta Roasted Sea Sponge Spong. 133
Stihodacyla haddoni Haddon’s Sea Anemone Stih-h. 211
oxopneustes pileolus Flower Urhin oxopn. 291
Venus merenaria Clam Ven-m. 391
Sample Chapter
 ECHIN ODERMS T REE OF LIFE

Crinoidea
Pelmatozoa (sea lilies and
feather stars)

Ophiuroidea
(brittle stars and
Echinoderms basket stars)
Asterozoa Asterias rubens
(common red
Asteroidea starfish)
(star fish and
cushion stars) Acanthaster planci
(crown of
Eleutherozoa thorns starfish)

Holothuroidea
(sea cucum
bers)

Echinozoa
Echinoidea Toxopneustes

(sea
and sandurchins
dol
lars) pileolus
(flower urchin)
Echinoderm Remedies
he ore sensation of these intense and passionate remedies is that of being

T
under
at risk pressure, held
of bursting bak,
with fullfeelings,
these of suppressed emotions
 feelings and sensations,
ompletely and
and frustrat-
ingly 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
Mental/Emotional: Intense and passionate, but suppressed or restriced. A feeling N
I
H
of being under pressure. ouhy, reacs strongly to ontradicion. Ailments from C
R
mortifiation. Argumentative and impatient. May either over-reac  ompletely U
A
suppress emotional responses. Indifferene and depression alternates with anger and E
S
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 H
S
I
and imaginary). Infestation: insecs, parasites and bloodsukers. Dreams of sinking, F
R
being trapped, stuk in the mud (see also the empty, sinking stomah sensation in A
oxop-p). Children and family issues: aversion to hildren, anxiety about hildren, T
S
the demands of nurturing. Pressure to give, are or nurture, at the expense of emo-
tional freedom. Highly sexual. Dreams of fire, sex, death, wild animals.
S
M
Desires: Stimulation, strongly flavoured food, sex, musi with a strong rhythm R
E
(haikovsky and Wagner). trong sexual element: eroti dreams, strong sexual D
O
desire, problems of a sexual nature and of the reproducive system and glands, espe- N
I
H
ially the breasts. C
E
Aversion to hildren (DD edusa, epia).

Sensation
~ Expansion, Bursting, Splitting  Contrac ion. Hollow  Full. 257
~ 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.
 Ehinoderms ~ starfish & sea urhins

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).

ECHINODERMS NAURAL HISORY

What’s included?
E
C
Crinoids (feather stars and sea lilies); Asteroidea (starfish or sea stars); Ophiuroidea
H
IN
O
D (brittle stars and basket stars); Holothuroidea (sea uumbers); Ehinoidea (sea
E
R urhins and sand dollars).
M
S
Echinoderms in homeopathy

S
T
o sterias rubens (ommon red starfish) Asteroidea.
A
R
F o anthaster plani (rown of thorns starfish) Asteroidea.
IS
oxopneustes pileolus (flower urhin) Ehinoidea.
H
& o

S
E Evolutionary history
Ehinoderms first appear in the fossil reord during the mid-Cambrian period.
A
U
R
C 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
H
IN
S Preambrian era. Tis is the largest phylum without any freshwater or terrestrial
forms, although some an live in brakish water.
258
Features common to Echinoderms
o Radial symmetry.
o Ehinoderm means spiny skin. Calareous plates, alled ossiles, are on-
neced by ollagen-based ligaments, under nervous ontrol.
o 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

o A water-vasular system: water pressure reates hydrauli power for move-

ment, respiration and feeding. In starfish, anals radiating out from a en-
tral 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 tis-
sue, 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 S
N
I
system takes over some of the funcions of these systems, as there is no heart to ac as H
C
a pump. Ehinoderms are apable of body regeneration, regrowing arms in the ase R
U
of starfish, but the powers of regeneration in this group go well beyond regeneration A
E
of arms. Tis is explored in more detail in the hapter on the Sense of ouh, under S
the heading Of Life and Limb. &
H
S
I
F
Senses: Communiation takes plae by means of hemials a nd pheromones. Tere R
A
are light-sensing organs in the skin . Te non-entralised nervous system allows T
S
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.
S
M
R
E
D
O
N
I
H
C
E

259
 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
S
dissolving or nerosing. Delusions of insecs, slugs or snails infesting the skin. N
I
Delusions naked. Eroti dreams. Irritability and anger. H
C
SENSAION : Burning, heat, flushing. Stabbing, stithing, priking. Pulling, R
U
drawing. Numbness. Pulsating. Pressure. Congestion. Falling, flying. Expansion. A
E
Ithing. As if broken apart. As of a stone. S
DREAMS : Disease, nerosis, infestation. Eroti. Wild animals. Insets. &
H
Competitions and ontests. Inadequately dressed. Danger, fire, explosion. Lost, S
I
F
searhing. Late. Flying. Falling. Daning. alking with the dead. Water, sea, R
A
swimming. Subways, buildings. Money, disputes over money. T
S
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. S
Palpitations. Tromboytopenia.* Leuopenia.** Peripheral numbness. M
R
GENERALS : Weakness. Sensation of impending influenza. Burning, flush- E
D
ing. Numbness. Stabbing or priking pains. Pulsating. rembling. Nervous O
N
I
restlessness. H
C
* Trombocytopenia: low blood platelet ount; inreased haemorrhagi tendeny. E
** Leucopenia : low white blood ell ount; inreased risk of infecion.

Classification 261
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Ehinoderm Class: Asteroidea Order: Valvatida
Family: Aanthasteridae Genus: Aanthaster Species: Plani.
Homeopathic name: anthaster plani Abbreviation: Aan-p.
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

fish. star
Acanthaster planci, the crown of thorns
Aan-p. Ehinoderms ~ starfish & sea urhins

Remedy Source
Dr med Jörg Hildebrandt1 olleced a rown of thorns starfish on a diving expedi-
tion 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 [[Link]@[Link]].

Proving
Double-blind proving of anthaster plani by Dr. med. Jörg Hildebrandt. Fourteen healthy prov-
ers (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.

Compare
Ehinoderms: sterias rubens, oxop
neustes piloleus. Cnidarians.
E
C
H
IN

Generalities
O
D
Swelling, oedema. Burning, heat. Numbness. Stithing. Pressing.
E
R
M SENSAION:
S 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
S
T liver. Tromboytopenia. Leuopenia .
A
R

Mind
F
IS
H
& POLARIIES : Despair. Peaeful.
S 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
E
A

snails in the skin. Hypohondria: aner, disease. Of being naked while in publi;
U
R
being inadequately dressed. He has fallen off a wall.
C
H
FUNCION : Ailments from mortifiation (ezema). Mental exhaustion. Mistakes in
IN
S
speeh and writing. Diffiulty onentrating. alks to himself when alone. Nervous
irritability from slight auses (musi aggravates). Angry.
262 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
old for hildren now. (DD Aversion to hildren sterias rubens , edusa, epia. )
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. [[Link]@[Link]] [ww w.
[Link] ] 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 look-
ing 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. S
eelings: Danger. Eroti. Competition. Disgusted after dreams. N
I
H
ensory: Colours. C
R
uality of dreams: Pleasant, anxious, terrifying, angry, irritable, ontinue after waking, U
A
heavy and oppressive. E
S
&
Sleep H
S
I
SENSAION: Sleepiness. F
R
A
FUNCION : Waking with T
restlessness. Disturbed by headahe.
[Link]. Snoring.
Sleepless though Disturbed through physial
sleepy. S

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

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. 263
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.
Aan-p. Ehinoderms ~ starfish & sea urhins

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 of the ears. Ithing eruptions
beome painful. Hearing loss.

aste
E
C
H
IN Metalli taste af ter eating.
O
D

Appetite
E
R
M
S
Strong, ravenous (with flushes of heat).
DESIRE : Eggs.
AVERSION : Salad. Sweets. ea.
S
T

ongue
A
R
F
SENSAION: Burning, heat.
IS
H
& FUNCION : Blisters (edges, under tongue) < touh.
S
E
Mouth and Lips
A
U
R
C SENSAION: Ithing and Numbness of lips. Sensation as if overed. Dry.
FUNCION : Swollen lips. Herpes around the mouth. White fever blisters. Watery
H
IN
S saliva. Inreased salivation < night. Inlination to swallow onstantly.

264 eeth and Gums

EEH SENSAION: Burningasand heat. As ifareloose. Stithing.
pulling. Pulsating. Sensation if new teeth growing. Pain <Ithing.
pressure,Drawing,
stooping,
jarring, walking. > 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 S
N
I
ODOUR : Smells imaginary and real: rotten apples in the house, sweet smells. H
C
R
U
Nose A
E
SENSAION: Numbness. Cold. As if dripping water. S
FUNCION : Bloked. &
DISCHARGE : Tin, lear, watery. H
S
I
F
R
A

Respiratory System T
S
HROA SENSAION: Burning, heat. Priking and stithing. ikling. As if oated.
HROA FUNCION : Hawking onstantly.
VOICE: Hoarse. S
CHES SENSAION: Oppression with trembling. Pulsating. Stabbing (sides). M
R
E
Paroxysmal stabbing. Pulling, drawing (sides). D
O
CHES FUNCION : Palpitations (< bending forwa rds). rembling. Perspiration N
I
in the axi llae. H
C
COUGH SENSAION:Ie-old air in passages. Srathing behind sternum. ikly. Dry. E
COUGH SOUND: Dry.

Heart a nd Blood
FUNCION : Audible, irregular palpitations. Palpitations with trembling hands. 265
[Link]ytopenia [Redued platelet (thromboyte) ount, resulting in
redued ability to lot blood, inreased hemorrhagi tendeny. Initial signs: bleed-
ing 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.
Aan-p. Ehinoderms ~ starfish & sea urhins

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
aggravates.

Pains
~ Burning, hot
~ Stabbing, darting, stithing
~ Pulling, drawing
~ Expanding/pulsating
~ Contracion/ramps
~ Crushing/as if broken apart

E HEA/COLD SENSAION: Cold hands and feet. General burning. Skin flushes. Fever.
Chill in waves, > external warmth. Chill not > from warmth of bed.
C
H
IN
O HEA/COLD FUNCION : Cold hands during hill.
D
E
BALANCE : Vertigo as if the floor gave way.
R
M
AGGRAVAIONS: Afternoon, evening.
S

SKIN SENSAION: Burning. Numbness. Ithing.

SKIN FUNCION : Goosebumps. Ezema (ezema from mortifiation and emotional
S
T
A
R
F auses). Dry and rough. Craked. Exfoliating. Ulers. Blisters. Vesiles. Oedema.
IS
H
& BACK and SPINE SENSAION: Drawing. Pressing. Heat (as if sunburnt).
S < Bending over, forwards, strething. Heat in dorsal region.
BACK and SPINE FUNCION : Perspiration. withing (shoulder blades).
E
A
U
R
MUSCULOSKELEAL SENSAION: Stithing, stabbing. Stabbing pain in elbow.
C
H
Numbness. Drawing, pulling. Drawing in elbow, thigh. Heavy, tired. Burning of heel.
IN
S
MUSCULOSKELEAL FUNCION : Pains in thighs, alves, buttok musles.

266 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
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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 [Link] 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
 Aanthaster plani Aan-p.

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.

On the third day after taking anthaster plani 200C, she reported: “On the first
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.
anthaster SheAfter
plani 200C. feels that
hopeful. woshe
she says months later she
is “unusually relapses.
alm Repeat of
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 S
got the job she had been hoping for. Te seond was that a rival was appointed to N
I
H
be the offi ial deputy to the boss. Tirdly, her professional rival had hildren and C
R
this didn’t seem to ause her any professional problems. Te patient had put off her U
own desire to have hildren beause of her areer goals; she felt she had to give her A
E
areer one hundred perent. Now she had neither areer suess nor hildren. In S
&
the meantime she felt she had “strethed out too many legs” to gain a broad (finanial) H
S
I
basis to live on, osting a lot of energy, dispersing energy.” And that this was not F
R
onduive to family life. A
T
S
She loves musi with a strong rhythm: Latin Amerian, jazz and Cuban: not roon-
ers. haikovsky and Wagner: not Mahler and Shubert.
S
M
Proving symptom (in a male prover): “Musi irritated me. I was at the musi soiety R
E
today and ould not bear Shubert. I hated the sound of it; it was almost “homo- D
O
sexual” for me. haikovsky was good. Te power, the battle, the fore, destrucion. N
I
H
Tat was great.” C
E
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. 267

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Other Medical Uses

Te venom has been found to be antihypertensive.2 Te thorn poison has been studied
and found to ause hypotension, thromboytopenia and leuopenia.3 It has also been

found to ontain liver damaging substanes. Enhaned vasular permeability.5

4

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 rown-
of-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 andi- S
N
dates for suh effecs have been identified (Shiomi et al. 1985, 1988; Mebs 1989).” 7 I
H
C
R
Muscles, contraction: One study found that venom of the rown of thorns starfish U
A
aused ontracions of the uterus in rats and enhaned vasular permeability in rabbits. E
S
It acs to ontrac smooth musle.8 &
H
S
I
Poisonings F
R
9 A
Symptoms T
~ Severe after contactseveral
pain (lasting with the poisonous
hours or days), venom
ithing, of Acanthaster
swelling, planci
heat and redness may S
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,
S
weakness, paralysis, nausea, vomiting, headahes and ough. Swollen tender lymph M
R
glands in groin or armpit. E
D
~ A spine tip in the finger an result in swelling and stiffness aused by the growth of O
N
I
granulation tissue typial of a foreign body reacion. In severe ases bone-destroying H
C
(osteolyti) proesses may ause narrowing of a joint by destrucion of artilage, E
whih requires surgery.

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 . 269
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. [Link] (Ed.), Ehinodermata, © Springer-Verlag Berlin
Heidelberg 2005.
8 Ibid.
9 Ibid.
Aan-p. Ehinoderms ~ starfish & sea urhins

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

in olour aording to loation; on the Great Barrier Reef theyanthaster plani

predator, but limbs an be regenerated within six months. vary
are normally brown
or reddish-grey with red-tipped spines, while in Tailand luminous purple varieties
an be seen.

Torns: “Te dis and arms are overed with a soft skin and stout, hinged spines
two to three entimetres long, eah with a three-sided blade at the tip. Te spines
E are overed by a thin skin ontaining two types of glands, whih produe venom
and muus. Te tissues of an . plani ontain toxi saponins, whih are not only
C
H
IN
O poisonous to humans but also to insecs and soil organisms by their suppression of
D
E plant growth. Te starfish therefore annot be used either for food or fertilizer.”10
R
M
S
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 under-
water. Te non-entralized nervous system allows ehinoderms to sense their envi-
ronment from all sides. Sensory ells on the skin sense light, ontac, hemials and
S
T
A
R
F water urrents. Higher densities of sensory ells are found in the tube feet and along
IS
H feeding anal margins. Red pigmented eye-spots are found at the end of eah arm.
& Tese funcion as photoreeptors.
S
Feeding: Large numbers of rown of thorns starfish may gather to eat their way
E
A

through a oral reef, but they are generally onsidered solitary, nocurnal feeders,
U
R
maintaining distane from one another even when moving over a reef in numbers.
C
H
Adult starfish normally feed on oral polyps. Tey extrude their stomahs and digest
IN
S
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,
270 lams, enrusting organisms, ga stropods, gorgonians, hydrozoans and sea anemo-
nes. 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hro-
nised 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 [[Link].a.at/ipk/avstudio/pi erofun/plani/plan[Link]] Last aessed Ocober 2008.

 Aanthaster plani Aan-p.

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 situ-
ated in the grooves running along the underside of their arms. Tese ac like hydrau-
li 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 S
arms independently (Perrins and Middleton, 1985). N
I
H
C
R
Defending: Crown of thorns starfish are armoured with impressive spines, offering U
a strong deterrent to attakers. However, a number of animals are known to attak A
E
and prey on rown of thorns starfish, notably the giant triton, and also ertain mol- S
&
luss, fish, rustaeans a nd the fireworm. H
S
I
F
R
Senses : Chemial messaging (smelling and tasting). ouh. Photoreeptors. A
Balane.11 T
S

Signature a nd Symbol S
Te rown of thorns starfish is spiky, sinister-looking and venomous; its threatening M
R
image provokes an immediate sense of danger. Tey are known as the plague of the E
D
oral reefs, systematially eating their way through large areas of reef, destroying O
N
I
everything in their wake. Tis not only kills the living oral polyps but the infra- H
C
strucure of vast numbers of reef speies that depend on the oral for their habitat. E
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.
271
Signature
o Poisoning symptoms were borne out by the proving: ithing, swelling, heat,
oedema, reddening, numbness, stiffness of musles and inflammation of
lymph glands.
o Te ‘thorns’: stabbing, stithing, priking pains.
o Destruciveness of oral reefs, digesting the polyps alive: the delusions of nero-
sis, nerosis of the brain, of the brain dissolving. Fear of disease, aner.

11 [[Link]/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. [[Link] aounts/
information/Aanthaster_plan[Link]] Last aessed Ocober 2008.
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o Dark and sinister: Nocurnal feeder, dark spines: nerosis features in dreams
and delusions.
o 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
part of the starfish body. (Cross referene sterias rubens for this affi nity
with toes and fingers).
o Tere were delusions and dreams of insecs, ants, and spiders; this starfish
bears a resemblane to ertain arthropods. Te theme of infestation by in-
secs and parasites also ours in the linial data of sterias rubens .
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