Selections from Dr
M. Tyler’s Homœopathy.
Tarentula Cubensis.
by Dr. Margaret Lucy Tyler
Presented by Sylvain Cazalet
Dr E. B. NashWhen many years ago Dr.
Nash was in England lecturing to us, he did not meet a great deal of
warmth or sympathy from the powers that were ; anyway that was his
feeling. His high potencies had not yet penetrated the mentality of our
leading homœopaths.But, finding an eager
appetite for picking brains in one of the juniors, he was, perhaps,
somewhat comforted.His pocket case
contained only “CM potencies” CMs were at that time unknown to
our homœopathic chemists.One day in the
children’s clinic, a child came with warts large and flat-on the tongue,
besides warts inside the cheeks and elsewhere. The child had been given Thuja
30 without effect. Then whooping cough and other treatment
had intervened ; but always the warts persisted. They had been
previously operated on in an adjacent hospital-cauterized and cut away
but had recurred.Dr. Nash got out his
pocket case and put a few tiniest globules of Thuja CM on the child’s
tongue. A month later, all the warts had disappeared except a very small
excrescence, which a dose of Thuja 10M
(the highest potency then procurable) finally caused to disappear.Dr. Nash on his return
to America sent back a wonderful gift to his disciple 144CM
potencies ; grafts “from his own case remedies proved and
found invaluable by himself.”Among these was Tarentula
cubensis CM. thereafter the idea rankled, “Why did Dr.
Nash include that little known drug as one of his most precious 144
remedies ?”
Dr M. L. TYLERBut in his Leaders, he
tells us a little about it :
“Tarentula
Cubensis.Or the hairy spider, It is one of the most
efficacious remedies for boils, abscesses, felons or swellings of any
kind where the tissues put on a bluish color, and there are intense
burning pains.“We used to think
that we had two great remedies in Arsenicum
and Anthracinum : but Tarentula
cubensis is simply wonderful. I have seen felons which had
kept patients awake night after night, walking the floor in agony, from
the terrible pains, so relieved in a very short time that they could
sleep in perfect comfort until the swellings spontaneously discharged
and progressed to a rapid cure. This remedy should receive a thorough
proving. It is a gem.”So far Nash. Of late
one had several remarkable experiences with Tarent. cub. The last (last
week) I will relate.January 3rd, a woman 55,
came to Hospital because of an abscess in left axilla ; just
starting to discharge. She was given Tarentula
cub. C. M. three doses and a compress of Hypericum.
And two days later it was well. No pain ; no discomfort. No
induration, a slight redness round, and a scrap of dressing adhering to
the actual spot where it had discharged. People seemed rather surprised.Seen again January
19th. Slight recurrence three days ago and very slight discharge. Dry
now, but a tiny area of induration, and two reddish Spots that might be
a threat of more, so Tarentula-cub
was repeated.
Source :
Homœopathy Feb. 1933.
Copyright ©
Sylvain Cazalet 1999
