The following drug picture has been extracted from Boericke’s Materia Medica. This is provided here for doctors’ and students’ easy and instantaneous reference.
ASTACUS FLUVIATILIS
Crawfish
(CANCER ASTACUS)
General.–Skin symptoms most important. Urticaria.
Skin.–Nettle-rash over whole body. Itching. Crusta lactea, with enlarged lymphatic glands. Erysipelas, and liver affections with nettle-rash. Swelling of cervical glands. Jaundice.
Fever.–Inward chilliness; very sensitive to air, worse uncovering; violent fever, with headache.
Relationship.–Compare: Bombyx-Caterpillar-Itching of whole body (Urticaria). Apis; Rhus; Nat m; Homar.
Dose.–Third to thirtieth potency.