Theridion curassavicum

nausea, chills, and pains all over; strikes painful spots, etc. Water feels too cold. Bounding internally. .................... Startled by the least thing. Fruitless activity. Sense of duality. Hysteria. Vertigo with nausea, on closing eyes. Headache felt during sleep, < jarring. Migraine. Glittering vision on stooping. Luminosities, then blurred vision. Pain over root of nose. Yellow- green, thick, foul nasal discharge. Ozœna. Post-nasal catarrh. Nausea, < least motion. Sea- sickness. Burning in liver. Pains at end of left floating ribs. Gonorrhœa. Cough; jerks body together. Too much air seems to enter chest. Stitch back through apex of left lung. Phthisis florida. Cardiac anxiety. Spine is sensitive to pressure or jar. Burning in upper arms. Restless feeling in hands; wrings them. Bones seem broken. Necrosis. Scrofula. Stinging thrusts in skin. Internal coldness. Cold sweat is easily excited.

NOISE. Touch. CLOSING EYES. Least motion. Riding. Jar.

Rest. Warmth. Hypersensitive. NOISE IS INSUFFERABLY PENETRATING; affects the teeth; causes

NERVES. Spine. Bones. Left side; head, chest.

Related: Asar. Sil.

Theridion curassavicum

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.

Lecture VI — Arachnida — Mygale, Lycosa tarentula, Tarentula cubensis, Aranea diadema and Theridion curassavicum

Theridion Curassavicum.

Theridion compares with Tarentula in headache, nervousness and hysteria. According to the provings, there is a similar restless, busy state; he desires to occupy himself, though he finds pleasure in nothing. But there is a strong distinctive characteristic in the sensitiveness to noise. This qualifies the vertigo, headache, and even the gastric ailments. Vertigo and nausea, worse when the eyes are closed, from motion and from noise.* Every sound penetrates the teeth. Every penetrating sound and reverberation extends through the whole body. Headache worse if others walk over the floor. I have relieved most intense headache with Theridion when this hypersensitiveness was present, as well as nausea and aggravation from motion. The general accompaniments are true spider-effects: Weakness, trembling, coldness and anxiety. Hysteria, too, has yielded to Theridion. Time passes too quickly; hilarity; talkativeness; feels as if her head did not belong to her, as if she could lift it off. Luminous vibrations before the eyes. Sensitive to light; if she looks into the light, dark vibrations are produced; double vision. Faints after every exertion. An- % xiety about the heart, with sharp pains through the left chest, or to the left shoulder. Bites the point of the tongue during sleep—all with weakness, chilliness, or easily excited cold sweat. Nausea and vanishing of thoughts, greatly intensified by closing the eyes. Theridion is very similar to Spigelia, which has sharp neuralgic pains over the left eye. Under Spigelia, however, the pain comes up from the nape of the neck and over the head, settling above 4:he left eye. The Spigelia sick headache is very apt to follow the sun, beginning in the morning, reaching its acme at noon, and gradually subsiding at sunset. The antidote to Theridion when it causes, this headache is Moschus.

Bryonia is at times very similar in headache. I once treated a lady suffering from intense headache and nausea that were worse from the least motion. Bryonia was given, but failed. However, when the patient added the fact that noises made both headache and nausea worse, I found the similimum in Theridion.

In headaches worse from jarring the floor compare Belladomia and Sanguinaria.

Another use you may make of Theridion is in the sea-sickness of nervous women. They shut their eyes to get rid of the motion of the vessel, and they grow deathly sick.

The spine is very irritable. We have what is known as spinal irritation. Examination reveals great sensitiveness between the vertebrae. *In vertigo worse closing the eyes compare Lachesis, Apis, Arnica, Piper methysticum, Arsenicum, Thuja, Petroleum, Chelidonium, Sepia. So great is this hyperesthesia that the patient sits sideways in a chair in order to avoid pressure of the back of the chair against the spine. A rather peculiar employment of Theridion, but one which I have had occasion to confirm, is its use in phthisis florida. It is claimed that the drug tends to stay, and in some cases stop, the rapid progress of this fatal affection. One symptom I know is good, violent stitches high up in the left chest through to the back. Dr. Baruch succeeded in removing this symptom with Theridion after other physicians had utterly failed.

Myrtus communis and Pix liquida vie with Theridion in pains in the upper left chest. The first has pain through to the shoulder-blade, a symptom which it often relieves, even in consumptives. Pix selects a spot at the third left costal cartilage, where it joins with the rib. (If it fails, consult Anisum stellatum, which affects either side at the third rib.) Rales through the lungs and muco-purulent sputum are further symptoms of the tar.

Dr. Baruch has also made use of Theridion in scrofulous diseases of bones, particularly after Snlpimr, Calcarea, Lycopodium and the ordinary remedies have failed. I think that it may even cure ozsena with caries, since it attacks the bones and so often removes the j^ellowish or yellowish-green, thick and offensive discharge from the nose.

Restless; finds pleasure in nothing. Time passes too quickly.

Orange-spider Nervous hyperæsthesia. Has affinity for the tubercular diathesis. Vertigo, sick headache, peculiar pain around heart region, phthisis florida, scrofula have all been treated successfully with this remedy. Sensitive to noise; it penetrates the body, especially teeth. Noises seem to strike on painful spots over the body. Rachitis, caries, necrosis. Phthisis, stitch high up in left apex (Anthrax). Where the indicated remedy does not hold long.

Worse, touch; pressure; on shipboard; riding in carriage; closing eyes; jar; noise, coitus; left side.

Pain worse anyone walking over floor. Vertigo, with nausea and vomiting on least motion, particularly when closing eyes.

Luminous vibrations before eyes; sensitive to light. Pressure behind eyeballs. Throbbing over left eye.

Discharge yellowish, thick, offensive; ozæna (Puls; Thuja).

Seasickness. Nausea and vomiting when closing eyes and on motion (Tabac). Stinging pain on left side over anterior aspect of spleen. Burning in liver region.

Pain in upper left chest (Myrt; Pix; Anis). Pain in left floating ribs. Cardiac anxiety and pain. Pinching in left pectoral muscle.

Sensitiveness between vertebræ; avoids pressure on spine. Stinging pains.

Stinging thrusts everywhere. Sensitive skin in thighs. Itching sensations.

Thirtieth potency.

Theridion

Hysterical sensitivity with extreme aggravation from noise, motion and exertion marks this remedy as unique.

The pains are aggravated from noise, and motion, and the nerves are in such a state of sensitivity that a painful thrill passes over the body in waves and nausea follows. Nausea from noise is strikingly strange.

It cures the most stubborn cases of spinal irritation, when the symptoms agree. Chronic catarrh of the nose. Necrosis of bone. Quick consumption. Emaciation. Enlargement of glands. Constant hunger and thirst. It was a remedy with the old masters for scrofulous conditions. Great lassitude.

Complaints are ameliorated by warmth, and during rest. Fainting from least exertion, Chilliness, trembling and anxiety. So restless that she must keep busy, though she accomplishes nothing. The bones are sore.

Sadness and mental depression. Hysterical conduct, hilarity. Aversion to work, and to his business. joyousness and singing with headache. Vertigo on closing the eyes, from motion, from stooping, on board a vessel, from every noise, with nausea, vomiting, and cold sweat. Awakens at 11 P.M. with vertigo and slow pulse. Vertigo with dim vision and pain in eyes. Vertigo and nausea from closing the eyes when kneeling in church. Vertigo like sea-sickness.

The headache is most violent, aggravated on motion, aggravated talking, aggravated from warm drinks, with nausea and vomiting. Sensitive to light and noise. Pain in forehead extending to occiput, aggravated from noise, motion, and cold air. Headache on beginning to move. Sensation as if vertex did not belong to her, as though she could lift it off. Pain deep in eyes. Complaints from sunstroke. Pressing pain in temples. Pulsating pain over left eye and across forehead. Cannot lie down with the headache. Itching of scalp, and nape in evening.

This remedy cures many nervous eye symptoms. Flickering, even when eyes are closed. Like a veil before the eyes. Double vision. Sensitive to light. Diplopia. Fluttering. Nausea, and cold hands. Pressing pain behind eyes. On closing eyes, nausea and vomiting.

The hearing is very acute, Every least noise penetrates the whole body, especially the teeth, aggravates vertigo and causes nausea. Rushing noises in ears like a waterfall. Pressure about the ears.

Fullness behind the ears. It has cured most obstinate catarrh of nose with offensive thick yellow or greenish yellow discharges. Pressing pain at root of nose, Dryness in nose. Paroxysms of violent sneezing.

The face is pale and sickly. Lockjaw in morning on waking. Foam at mouth with chill. Teeth sensitive to cold water and shrill sounds. Toothache causes weeping. Burning in teeth. Salty taste in mouth. The tongue feels as if burnt. Mouth feels numb, Taste impaired. Desires wine and sour drinks. Much thirst. Desires food, but does not know what. Nausea with many complaints and from many causes. Nausea in the morning on rising, from noise, on closing the eyes, when looking too long at one object, on motion, from talking, from fast riding in a carriage, from riding on the cars or on a ship.

Nausea with headache, with vertigo; nausea aggravated from warm drinks. In seasickness of nervous women, when they close the eyes to get rid of the motion of the vessel they become deathly sick. Tenderness of stomach.

This is a useful remedy in many liver conditions, with burning pain, aggravated from touch, motion and noise, and bilious vomiting. Pain in groin in a man after coitus; on motion, and on drawing up the limb. Constipation, with difficult, soft stool. Contraction of anus. Enlarged prostate gland with sensation of a lump in perineum, Must arise several times during the night to pass urine. Copious urine during the night. Feeble erection and diminished desire. Seminal emissions during sleep in the afternoon. Sore bruised pain in the ovarian region, aggravated by motion. Menses suppressed. Sighing and short breath on ascending stairs.

Stitching in chest beneath left shoulder to throat. Quick consumption. Anxiety about heart. Very sensitive spine, aggravated from motion or, noise, a jar, stepping. Pain between scapula. Spinal anaemia. Itching of back and nape. Drawing in thigh with a cold sensation, ameliorated by warmth. Violent itching of calf. Swelling of feet. Heaviness of the limbs. Pains in bones as if broken.

Shaking chill. Sweats easily. Icy cold perspiration with fainting, vertigo and vomiting at night. Violent itching of skin.