- Sensitive to slightest noise; it penetrates through the body, through painful spots
- Vertigo, nausea on closing the eyes
- Great sensitiveness between vertebrae, sits sideways on a chair to avoid pressure on the spine
Source: Animal kingdom
Synonyms: Orange spider. Black spider of Curacoa
Family: Araneideae
Prover: Dr C. Hering
Introduction and History: Theridion was introduced and proved by Hering in 1832. The spider is found in West Indies, chiefly in the island of Curacao. It is about the size of a cherry-stone, and is found on orange trees. It is velvety black when young, with antero-posterior lines composed of white dots; on the posterior side of the body there are three orange-red spots, and on the belly a large square yellow spot. It is very poisonous and produces a highly sensitive, nervous condition with weakness, trembling, coldness, anxiety, faintness, and is easily excited; cold sweat.
Preparation and Parts Used: Tincture of the living spider. Mother tincture
is prepared from the living spider in rectified spirit, from which higher potencies┬аare prepared.
Constitution and Physiognomy
- It is suits persons who are sensitive to noise; every shrill sound penetrates the teeth, the whole body; causing nausea and vertigo.
- Also suited to nervous women suffering from seasickness; they close their eyes to get rid of the motion of the vessel and grow deathly sick.
Ailments From: Sea travelling, riding, washing clothes.
Seat of Action (Pharmacodynamics): It mainly acts upon the central nervous system, nerves, bones, teeth, etc.
Characteristic Mental Symptoms (Psychology)
- Time passes too quickly.
- Patient is startled by the least thing.
- There is fruitless activity; finds pleasure in nothing.
- It is useful for hysteria, talkativeness and hilarity.
- Want of self-confidence.
Characteristic Physical Guiding Symptoms
Vertigo: Vertigo on closing the eyes, from any or even the least noise; aural or labyrinthine.
Nausea: Nausea from least motion, especially on closing the eyes; from fast riding in a carriage.
Headache: Headache when beginning to move, as of a dull heavy pressure behind the eyes; violent, deep in the brain; worse lying down, walking on the floor, or from least motion of the head.
Chronic nasal catarrh: Discharge of thick, yellow, greenish, offensive mucous.
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.
Stitching pain: There are violent stitches in upper left chest, below the scapula, extending to the neck.
Pains: Felt in the bones all over, as if broken.
Great sensitiveness: Between vertebrae, sits sideways in a chair to avoid pressure against spine, worse by least noise and jar of foot on floor. There is extreme nervous sensitiveness; of puberty, during pregnancy and climacteric years. Every sound seems to penetrate through the whole body, causing nausea and vertigo.
Bone: It is useful for rachitis, caries, necrosis; it apparently goes to the root of the evil and destroys the cause.
Important Characteristic Features
Headache: A useful medicine for headache felt during sleep, worse by jar; with nausea and vomiting, at climaxis. Head feels thick; thinks it belongs to another; that she can lift it off; or she would like to remove it. Migraine. Patient is joyous during headache. Patient cannot lie down with headache. Worse after stool.
General Modalities
Aggravation: Noise, touch, closing eyes, least motion, exertion, jar, riding, cold, washing clothes, coitus, sunstroke.
Amelioration: Rest – in horizontal position, warmth.
Remedy Relationships
Antidoted by: Acon.
Follows well: Sulph, Calc, Lyc.
Comparison
Hemicrania worse from closing eyes, worse from noise: Sep, Ther.
Vertigo and faintness on closing eyes: Lach, Ther, Thuj.
Time passes too quickly: Cocc, Ther.
Nasal catarrh – thick, yellow or greenish, offensive: Puls, Thuj, Ther.
Dosage: 3x to 200c potency,
Repetition
- 3x, one drop in water twice daily, in acute diseases.
- Higher potencies in chronic diseases. Single dose is enough for a week.
Therapeutic Value: Angina pectoris, Bone affections, Caries, Chronic nasal catarrh, Curvature of spine, Headache, Nausea, Necrosis, Phthisis, Rickets, Seasickness, Toothache.