Acanthaster planci (Acan-p) = Dornenkronenseestern
[Jörg
Hildebrandt]
Poisening: Causes hypotension, thrombocytopenia (low blood
platelet count; increased haemorrhagic tendency)/leucopenia (low white blood
cell count; increased risk of infection.).
Contains
liver damaging substances. Enhances vascular permeability.
Hypotension:
low blood pressure
Muscles, destruction: A rich source of useful venoms has been found in Acan-p. One of its deadly venoms has been identified as a myotoxic (muscle destroying) phospholipase A.
Muscles,
contraction: One study found that venom of the crown of thorns starfish
caused
contractions of the uterus in rats and enhanced vascular permeability in
rabbits. It acts contracting smooth muscle.
Poisoning:
PAIN (lasting several hours or days), itching, swelling, heat and redness may
occur by contact. The puncture site turns blue (erythema) and swells (oedema).
~ More
severe reactions: stiffening of the joints with aching, numbness, tingling,
weakness, paralysis, nausea, vomiting, headaches and cough. Swollen tender
lymph
glands in
groin or armpit.
~ A spine
tip of Acan-p. in the finger: swelling and stiffness caused by the growth of
granulation tissue typical of a foreign body reaction. In severe cases
bone-destroying
(osteolytic)
processes may cause narrowing of a joint by destruction of cartilage, which
requires surgery;
Negativ: Immunsystem.
Nervous system. Skin. Eczema. Herpes.
Ulceration. Oedema. Sinusitis. Migraine. Influenza. Haemorrhage. Complaints of
the liver. Travel sickness.
Palpitations.
Thrombocyto-/Leucopenia. Peripheral numbness;
Polarities: Despair or Peacefulness. Expansion or Contraction.
Berührung: Übelkeit/Lähmungen/SCHMERZ/ronde
wond, donkerblauw van kleur en zwelling;
Proving:
It is an
extraordinary member of the family of starfish for it is poisonous, voracious,
has far more than the typical five arms/causes great epidemic damage to coral
reefs almost worldwide.
The
symptoms were similar to the toxicology of its poison, its epidemic infestation
on reefs, and its circle of life (mind/dreams).
Burning/stitching/weak/eczema/sinusitis
Eruptions
of LIDs/face/ear
clinically
verified:
itching, numb, swollen, hot, (scaly)
Sinusitis
pain in head, eyes, teeth < bending forward
Influenza -
weakness - necrosis
partially
clinically verified:
feeling ill, „As if flue impending“/fever/weak
sleepy/leucopoenia (toxicol), dreams of
necrosis (of liver toxicol)
Teeth: pain, itching, „As if loose“
characteristic:
burning, heat in lids/teeth/tongue/neck/throat/inguinal/heel/skin/flushes/fever
characteristic:
itching of teeth/rectum/lip/lids
Numb:
nose/lips/lids/hands
characteristic:
stitching eyeball/temple/cheek/teeth/pharynx/stomach/abdomen/mamma
characteristic:
Drawing in eyeball/head/teeth/stomach/mamma/thigh/back/elbow
Dreams: ocean/water/larvae/plankton/train,
subway/„infection“ of the reefs/„outbreaks“/disease (abscess of brain/necrosis
on legs/pustule with parasites on hand/ill relative)/armed
adult/pregnancy/marriage/erotic
Delusions:
being naked and waiting for the tram I felt people looking at me, as if I still
wore my nightshirt. Looking down I was glad to wear street clothes. (Didn’t
feel them, so I felt naked).
Patient:
„for me the train for children has left“ = I’m too old for children now.
A patient
healed from chronic eczema of the lids admitted: „I realised that I had
suffered 3 severe mortifications (business and private) when
the eczema
started. Meanwhile I “stretched out many legs” to gain a broad (financial)
basis to live on, costing a lot of energy.
Repertorium:
Mind: Dazed, intoxicated, fear of disease
(cancer/necrosis). Delusions brain is dissolving or necrosing. Delusions of
insects, slugs or snails infesting the skin.
Delusions
naked. Erotic dreams. Irritability and anger.
Sensation: Burning, heat, flushing. Stabbing,
stitching, pricking. Pulling, drawing. Numbness. Pulsating. Pressure.
Congestion. Falling, flying. Expansion.
Itching.
„As if broken apart“, „As of a stone“.
Face: Itching, numb, swollen, hot.
Stitching. Expansion, tension. Pressing pain in cheekbones.
Herpes.
Perspiration. Scaly skin eruptions at the margins of the hair
(cured
symptom), eyelids, ear and face in general. Painful sinusitis in head, eyes and
teeth, <
bending forwards.
Vertigo: „As if the floor gave way“
Head: „As if there is an abscess on the
brain“. Pulsating, throbbing. Stitching,
stabbing.
Drawing. Congestion of blood. Waves of heat.
Pressing -
above eyes/inwards.
Crushing
„As if broken into pieces“.
Migraine.
Perspiration of head and brow.
Headache -
appears suddenly/from the slightest touch to the nape. forehead, above eyes,
temples, back of head
>:
Coffee/warmth; <: afternoon/midnight/rising/after breakfast/stooping/bending
forward/laughing/fast movement;
Skin
eruptions at the margins of the hair (cured symptom). Sweating.
Eyes: and Vision Burning and heat
(lids). Stitching (in eyeball), pricking, stabbing.
Numbness.
Drawing (as if pulled). Pressure and „As if expansion in the forehead“. Of
expansion with waves of heat in the head. Heat and itching of eyelids.
Swelling.
„As if the l. eye smaller“.
Eyeballs
rolling.
Lids -
itching/red/scaly eruptions
Vision: Focal length changed when reading.
<:
Rubbing/bending forwards, bending over;
Ears: Numb/Pulsating/blocked.
Eczema of
the ears. Itching eruptions become painful.
Hearing: loss.
Noises in
ears (with headache).
Nose: Discharge; Thin/clear/watery.
Numb. Cold.
As if dripping water.
Blocked.
Smell: imaginary and real odors: rotten
apples in the house, sweet smells.
Mouth: Taste metallic after eating.
Tongue -
burning, heat.
Blisters
(edges/under tongue) < touch.
Lips -
itching/numb/swollen. „As if covered“. Dry.
Herpes
around the mouth. White fever blisters.
Saliva -
watery/increased < night. Inclined to swallow constantly.
Teeth: Burning and heat. „As if loose“.
Stitching. Itching. Drawing, pulling. Pulsating. „As if new teeth are growing“.
Pain < pressure/stooping/jarring/walking. > Fresh air. Pain in healthy
teeth.
Swollen
gums. Affects molars.
Tooth pain
with common cold.
Throat: Burning, heat. Pricking and
stitching. Tickling. „As if coated“
Hawking
constantly.
Magen: Appetite - strong, ravenous (with
flushes of heat).
Abdomen: Stitching, pointed. Drawing,
pulling. Contraction, cramps (> crouching). Heat. Pain „like stones“
Hiccoughs.
Travel sickness.
Headache
with complaints
Rectum: Violent itching. Pain during
stool.
Diarrhoea.
Bleeding fi ssure. Constipation (chronic).
Stool: Light brown. Yellow. Light.
Odourless.
Half
formed. Hard. Like sheep-dung, agglutinated balls. Soft.
Urinary
organs: Pain in
abdomen before urination.
Female
organs: Pain with
menses, cramps, contract ions: ext. like a belt to the lumbar/sacral region.
Larynx: Voice - hoarse.
Cough: Ice-cold air in passages.
Scratching behind sternum. Tickly. Dry.
Chest: Stitching. drawing, pulling in
breasts
Eruptions
under the arms: axillae.
Heart and
Blood: Audible, irregular palpitations. Palpitations with trembling hands.
Haemorrhage.
Thrombocytopenia [Reduced platelet (thrombocyte) count, resulting in
reduced
ability to clot blood, increased hemorrhagic tendency.
Initial
signs: bleeding gums, nosebleeds and increased bruising.] Hypertension.
Leucopenia [low white blood cell count].
Oppression
with trembling. Pulsating. Stabbing (sides/paroxysmal).
Pulling,
drawing (sides).
Palpitations
(< bending forwards). Trembling. Perspiration in the axillae.
Touch,
Movement and Temperature
Back: Back and spine: drawing/pressing.
Heat (as if sunburnt).
<
Bending over/bending forwards/stretching. Heat in dorsal region.
Perspiration.
Twitching (shoulder blades).
Extremities: Cold hands during chill.
Pain -
thighs/calves/buttock muscles/bones of fingers
Fingers and
toes: Dry, rough, exfoliating, cracked: soles of feet and fingertips.
Blistered/vesicles
on feet < walking. Infected/ulcerated. Numbness of finger(tipps),
around the
toes and fingers (eruptions/ulceration/numbness).
Perception
of body: Brain is dissolving/rotting away. Expansion. Tension.
Stitching,
stabbing. Stabbing pain in elbow. Numbness. Drawing, pulling. Drawing in elbow,
thigh. Heavy, tired. Burning of heel.
Pains
~ Burning, hot
~ Stabbing, darting, stitching
~ Pulling, drawing
~ Expanding/pulsating
~ Contraction/cramps
~ Crushing/“As if broken apart“
Cold: Cold hands and feet. General
burning. Skin flushes. Fever.
Chill in
waves, > external warmth (not >
from warmth of bed).
<:
Afternoon/evening;
Generals: Weakness. „As if influenza coming
on“. Burning, flushing. Numbness. Stabbing or pricking pains. Pulsating.
Trembling. nervous restlessness.
Labor test:
Thrombocytopenia: low blood platelet count; increased haemorrhagic tendency.
Leucopenia: low white blood cell count;
increased risk of infection.
Skin: Burning. Numbness. Itching.
Goosebumps.
Eczema (eczema from mortification and emotional causes). Dry and rough.
Cracked. Exfoliating. Ulcers. Blisters. Vesicles. Oedema.
Sleep: Sleepy (and sleepless)/waking with
headache. Comatose. Snoring. Disturbed through
Dreams: Dreams: Disease, necrosis
(liver/legs), infestation. Wild animals. Insects.
Competitions/contests.
Inadequately dressed. Danger, fire, explosion. Lost, searching. Late. Flying.
Falling. Dancing. Talking with the dead. Water, sea, swimming. Subways,
buildings. (disputes over) money. abscess of brain (a black and crumbling mass
which can be pressed out like a boil); cerebellum missing. Blisters on the skin
with ants/slugs/snails/spiders inside.
relative.
Pregnancy. Marriage. Erotic. Naked. Underdressed for the occasion.
People:
Relatives, friends, neighbours. A deceased acquaintance is standing and talking
thim. being late, arriving home to late.
Pigs.
pleasant, anxious, terrifying, angry, irritable, continue after waking, heavy
and oppressive.
Generalities: Swelling, oedema. Burning, heat.
Numbness. Stitching. Pressing.
Tearing.
Itching. Of impending influenza.
Weakness. Trembling. Eczema. Oedema. Sinusitis. Migraine. Influenza.
Haemorrhage.
Chill. Weak and heavy extremities. restless. Liver complaints.
Thrombocytopenia. Leucopenia.
Ailments
from mortification (eczema). Mental exhaustion. Mistakes in
speech and
writing. Difficulty concentrating. Talks thimself when alone. Nervous
irritability
from slight causes (< music). Angry.
Poisoning
symptoms were borne out by the proving: itching, swelling, heat, oedema,
reddening, numbness, stiffness of muscles and inflammation of lymph glands.
The
‘thorns’: stabbing, stitching, pricking pains.
Quotations:
“Meanwhile I stretched out many legs to gain a broad (financial) basis
to live on,
costing a lot of energy.” “For me, the train for children has left” (= I’m too
old for
children now). (DD Aversion to children Aster. Medus. Sep.)
Desires
powerful, strong music (Tchaikovsky). Business activity; Aversed to: Company;
<: Soft
music (Schubert), > strongly rhythmic music (Tchaikovsky/Latin Jazz);
Food and
drink: Desires: Eggs; Aversed to: Salad/sweets/tea.
Sensation
of pressure, expansion and crushing; < touch.
Ungewöhnliche Prüfungssymptomen: “As if”
Necrosis,
Dissolving, Insects infesting the skin
Dreams of
being inadeqately dressed in public
Desires
powerful strong music but is aggravated by soft music
Ameliorated
by strongly rhythmic music
“As if” an
abscess in the brain
“As if” the
head is crushed and broken to pieces
Sensations
of waves of heat and expansion
Metallic
taste after eating
“As if” a
new tooth is growing. Tooth pain + common cold
Pain like
stones in the GIT
Imaginary
smells of rotten apples
General
picture is one of Itching, Swelling, Heat, Oedema, Redness, Numbness, Stiffness
of muscles, Inflammation of lymph glands
Strong
affinity for the fingers and toes (proposed for all starfish)
Allerlei:
Acan-p. able to sense predators as well as prey by means of chemoreception, a
means of smelling and tasting underwater.
Feeding:
Large numbers of crown of thorns starfish may gather to eat their way
through a
coral reef, but they are generally considered solitary, nocturnal feeders,
maintaining
distance from one another even when moving over a reef in numbers.
Adult
starfish normally feed on coral polyps. They extrude their stomachs and digest
the coral polyps by releasing digestive enzymes to then absorb the liquefied
tissue.
When live
hard corals are not available, alternative foods include soft corals, algae,
clams, encrusting organisms, gastropods, gorgonians, hydrozoans and sea
anemones.
They can
live for 6 - 9 months without food.
Reproducing:
Acan-p. reproduces sexually. Females shed eggs into the water and these are
subsequently fertilised by sperm released from nearby males. They typically
assume a bell-shape when spawning. Fertilisation is synchronised through
chemical signalling (= Pheromonen?). There is no parental care of offspring.
Larvae settle on the sea floor and continue developming here, ending the
swimming phase.
Initially
the juvenile starfish has only 5 rudimentary arms but extra arms develop
rapidly as the starfish begins to feed on encrusting algae. Within 6 months the
starfish is about one centimetre in size and begins to feed on corals. It
becomes sexually mature at the end of its 2nd year, by which time it has grown
tabout 20 centimetres in diameter.
It is not
known how long this species lives, but they have been kept in aquaria for as
long as 8 years. Growth rate and reproduct ion rates decline after 3 - 4 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. These act like hydraulic
suckers, operating by means of water pressure in the central cavity and tubes.
The arms are muscular and strong, allowing the starfish twalk across the sea
floor, as well as navigate the reef;
they can move in reverse, turn around and move individual arms independently.
Defending:
Crown of thorns starfish are armoured with impressive spines, offering a strong
deterrent tattackers. However, a number of animals are known to attack and prey
on Acan-p.
Senses:
Chemical messaging (smelling and tasting). Touch. Photoreceptors.
Signature
and Symbol
Acan-p. is
spiky, sinister-looking and venomous; its threatening image provokes an
immediate sense of danger. They are known as the plague of the coral reefs,
systematically eating their way through large areas of reef, destroying
everything in their wake. This not only kills the living coral polyps but the
infrastructure of vast numbers of reef species that depend on the coral for
their habitat. Reefs can take up to two decades to regenerate. The imbalance is
thought thave
occurred
largely as a result of over-harvesting the triton shell (= main predator).
Destructiveness
of coral reefs, digesting the polyps alive: the delusions of necrosis (of the
brain: dissolving). Fear of disease (cancer).
As well as
obviously having many arms/legs, is this an area of great sensitivity
for
echinoderms, with a higher density of sensory cells here than any other
part of the
starfish body. (Aster. has affinity with toes and fingers).
The theme
of infestation by insects and parasites occurs in the clinical data of Aster.
Vergleich: Siehe: Meeresgruppe + Molluscae
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