Theridion curassavicum

as H.C. Allen recorded it in Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 1899

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Keynotes

Orange Spider. Araneidece.

Time passes too quickly (too slowly, Arg. n.. Can. I., Nux m.).

Vertigo: on closing the eyes (Lach., Thuja — on opening them. Tab.; on looking upward. Puls., Sil.) ; from any, even least noise; aural or labyrinthine (Meniere’s disease).

Nausea: from least motion, and especially on closing the eyes; from fast riding in a carriage.

Headache : when beginning to move, as of a dull heavy pressure behind the eyes; violent, deep, in the brain; < lying down (Lach.); very much < from others walking on the floor, or from least motion of head.

Every sound seems to penetrate through the whole body, causing nausea and vertigo.

TMHRIDION CURASSATICIJM— (Cbwi'W).

Chronic nasal catarrh; discharge thick, yellow, greenish, offensive (Puls., Thuja).

Toothache; every shrill sound penetrates the teeth.

Seasickness of nervous women; they close their eyes to get rid of the motion of the vessel and grow deathly sick.

Violent stitches in upper left chest, below the scapula, extending to neck (Anis., Myr., Pix, Sulph.).

Pains in the bones all over, as if broken.

Great sensitiveness between vertebrae, sits sideways in a chair to avoid pressure against spine (Chin, s.) ; '< by least noise and jar of foot on floor.

For extreme nervous sensitiveness ; of puberty, during pregnancy and climacteric years.

“In rachitis, caries, necrosis, it apparently goes to the root of the evil and destroys the cause.” — Dr. Baruch.

Phthisis florida, often effects a cure if given in the early stages of disease.

In scrofulosis where the best chosen remedies fail to relieve.

Relations. — Follows well after. Cal. and Lyc.

What the other books say about Theridion curassavicum

The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.

Theridion curassavicum in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
Theridion curassavicum in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
Theridion curassavicum in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
Theridion curassavicum in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.

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Cite this page. H.C. Allen. Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica. 3rd edition (1910). Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. Theridion curassavicum — Keynotes, pp. 289–290. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/theridion-curassavicum. Published 1910: public domain in the US (before 1931) and in India (author died 1909). Replaces B. Jain's 2005 "rearranged and classified" edition (© the publisher), per the owner's decision of 13 Sep 2026. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.