ASTACUS FLUVIATILIS

Astacus fluviatilis is a valuable and important homoeopathic medicine prepared from the Crawfish or River Crab, scientifically known as Cancer fluviatilis, belonging to the Crustaceæ family. The medicine is derived from the whole animal, and it exerts a marked action on the liver, lymphatic glands, digestive organs, and skin. It is particularly suited to conditions with glandular swellings, jaundice, intermittent fevers, and nervous irritability, especially when associated with skin eruptions, colic, or neuralgic pains. Its broad spectrum includes utility in liver inflammation, toothache, respiratory distress, and skin eruptions resembling erysipelas or nettle-rash, especially when heat and chill alternate.

Common Name: River Crab / Crawfish

SBL’s Astacus fluviatilis can be helpful in the following conditions:

Liver Disorders and Jaundice

• Assists in inflammation of the liver, with marked sensitivity to pressure.
• Manages jaundice, particularly in children, with accompanying digestive disturbances.
• Astacus fluviatilis relieves pressure in the spleen and pain in the liver associated with pipe-clay colored stools.
• Useful in skin symptoms secondary to liver dysfunction, such as nettle-rash and yellow conjunctiva.

Skin Eruptions and Glandular Affections

• Aids in nettle-rash, erysipelas, and crusty eruptions, especially on scalp, neck, and chest, often associated with enlarged lymphatic glands.
• Relieves itching on various parts, particularly when worse at night or linked to internal organ involvement.
• Supports in skin conditions presenting with fetid discharge, & serous blisters.

Digestive Disturbances and Colicky Pain

• Manages colicky abdominal pain with tenesmus and prostration, better when sitting, worse on walking.
• Assists in nausea, vomiting, and burning in the epigastrium, especially with pressure in the stomach.
• Relieves fullness, empty eructations, and digestive complaints associated with fishy taste and nausea in chest.

Fever States and Chill Sensitivity

• Assists in violent fevers with glowing red face, headache, swollen eyelids, and mild delirium.
• Relieves inward chilliness and hypersensitivity to air, even during warmth or fever.
• Manages nervous crawling sensations, shivering, and alternating chills and heat.

Respiratory Discomfort and Cough

• Manages cough from laryngeal tickling, worse during the day, and dyspnœa with anxiety and mucus rattling.
• Relieves paradoxical cough that subsides during walking but returns when sitting down.

Relieves Facial and Head Neuralgia

• Assists in lightning-like neuralgic pains, darting from temple to cheek, and face redness during fever.
• Manages head dullness, scalp eruptions, and thick crusts with associated glandular swelling.

Dental Pain and Mouth Affections

• Relieves toothache, especially in lower right jaw, with cold sensation in an eyetooth.
• Aids in drawing pain, as if tooth were being pulled out, occurring in intervals.
• Assists in mouth ulcers, canker spots, and scorbutic symptoms.

Urinary Tract Irritation

• Relieves burning during and after urination, with scanty flow, fishy odor, and reddish sediment.
• Astacus fluviatilis supports in cases with albumin in pale, acidic urine, and night-time stinging kidney pain, worse on inhalation.

Male Sexual Disturbance and Sleep Issues

• Supports in restless sleep due to sexual excitement, and aversion to coition.
• Relieves relaxed scrotum and diminished sexual power in nervous or depleted individuals.