Acanthaster is a poisonous, voracious starfish with far more than the typical five
arms, which causes great epidemic damage to coral reefs worldwide.
The remedy was prepared from a part of a living animal taken from the shores of Bohol/Philippines
and was potentized to C30 and C200. 14 healthy provers between 21 and 50 years of
age and one patient provided symptoms. The double-blind proving took place from Oct.
1998 to Dec. 1999.
“Characteristic symptoms“ were very much those of the toxicology: tearing, stitching,
burning pain or sensation of heat, itching, local numbness, especially in the face.
A very prominent symptom was an eczema on the eyelids, which had to be antidoted in
one prover by Nat-m., and could be cured in one patient. Another focus lay on flu-like
and sinusitis-like symptoms (weakness in muscles in the afternoon, feeling of impending
illness, pain in head, eyes and teeth aggravated by bending forward).
The mind picture seems to reflect the tuberculine miasm: dreams of wandering, trains,
getting lost – comparable with the larval stage of the starfish. Themes of eroticism,
pregnancy, marriage are comparable with its tendency to rapid propagation. Illness,
disgust, necrosis are comparable with its poisonous slime and armoured appearance,
and itself being a plague to the coral reefs. An interesting delusion of being naked
or not properly dressed in one prover was repeated in a dream of another prover.
Keywords:
Acanthaster planci, COTS=Crown-of-Thorns-Starfish, Starfish, proving, tuberculine
miasm.
Schlüsselwörter:
Acanthaster planci, Dornenkronenseestern, Seestern, Arzneimittelprüfung, tuberkulinisches
Miasma.
Korrespondierender Autor: Dr. Jörg Hildebrandt, Feldmühlweg 103, A-3100 St. Pölten, Austria
E-Mail: j.hildebrandt@telering.at
