Tarentula cubensis
as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927
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General
Cuban Spider A toxæmic medicine, septic conditions. Diphtheria. Adapted to the most severe types of inflammation and pain, early and persistent prostration. Various forms of malignant suppuration. Purplish hue and burning, stinging pains. Bubo. It is the remedy for pain of death; soothes the last struggles. Pruritus, especially about genitals. Restless feet. Intermittent septic chills. Bubonic plague. As a curative and preventive remedy especially during the period of invasion.
Modalities
Better, smoking. Worse, night.
Head
Dizziness after heat and hot perspiration. Dull ache on top of head. Shooting pain through left eye across frontal region.
Gastric.––Stomach feels hard, sore. Loss of appetite, except for breakfast.
Urinary
Retention. Cannot hold urine on coughing.
Back
Itches across kidney region.
Extremities
Hands tremble, turgid with blood.
Skin
Red spots and pimples. Feels puffed all over. Carbuncles, burning, stinging pains. Purplish hue. Gangrene. Abscesses, where pain and inflammation predominate. Scirrhus of breasts. "Senile" ulcers.
Sleep
Drowsiness. Sleep restless. Sleep prevented by harsh cough.
Relationships
Compare: Ars; Pyrog; Crotal; Echin; Anthrac; Bellad; Apis.
Dose
Sixth to thirtieth potency.
What the other books say about Tarentula cubensis
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Tarentula cubensis in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
- Tarentula cubensis in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Create a free accountCite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Tarentula cubensis — General. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/tarentula-cubensis. Published 1927: public domain in the US (since 2023) and in India (author died 1929). Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.