THERIDION.
Animal kingdom.
Class
, Arachnida.
Order
, Araneideæ.
Theridion curassavicum, Walk.
A small spider inhabiting the West Indies frequently
found on orange trees.
Preparation
, Tincture.
Authority.
C. Hering, M.D., provings on
himself and others, Monograph, Appendix to Hahnemannian Monthly, and in
Materia Medica, Vol. 1.
MIND.
►
Very joyous; he sings although the head is internally hot; oppressed and
heavy. ► At night an imaginative
excitement in the head and rushing in the ears. ►
Time appears to him to pass more rapidly, although he does
very little. ► Much inclined to talk
and to occupy his mind; remains awake late in the evening. ► After spirituous beverages unusually
talkative. ► He constantly tries to
occupy himself, but finds pleasure in nothing. ►
Despair; want of self-confidence; he gives himself up. ► Great inclination to be startled,
with many provers. ► When there is
cause to be startled he is startled inordinately. [10.] ► Great
aversion to work. ►
Aversion to professional labor. ►
Every occupation tires him at once; is sick of everything, and what he
ought to do is most disagreeable to him. ►
Great sluggishness; he is disinclined to rise in the morning, and after
rising is indolent. ► Thinking is
hard for him when it is of a comparative nature, but not when it is
creative, e. g., he can easily write
out a case or problem, but finds it difficult to select remedies; writes
treatises with facility, but finds it hard to classify and determine
places in systems.
HEAD.
►
Vertigo. ► Vertigo and nausea
increased to vomiting. ►
Vertigo renewed from the least motion, during nocturnal paroxysm. ► Vertigo increased by every noise or
sound. ► Vertigo and nausea when her
eyes are closing from weariness. ►
Vertigo; awakes from sleep at night, at 11 o’clock. [20.] ►
Much vertigo on every occasion, particularly on stooping. ► On turning round, her head is dizzy. ► General Head. ►
*It feels as thick in her head as if it where
another, strange head, or as if she had something else upon
it. ► *”So thick in her head,”
with nausea and vomiting on the least motion, particularly when closing
the eyes. ► Head very much
oppressed and heavy. ► Oppression of
head, hindering his studies. ►
Headache in the morning after the nocturnal paroxysm. ► *Headache in the beginning of every motion.
► Evenings, while walking, he is
attacked by general headache, with great depression. ► Head much affected after the flickering
before the eyes. [30.] ► Owing to pains deep in the brain she must
sit or walk; it is impossible to lie. ►
Headache like a pressing band in the root of the nose and over and
around the ears. ► Oppression and
fulness behind the ears. ► Headache
behind the eyes. ►
Pressing together in the temples. ►
Stinging in left temple. ► In the
evening itching on the head and nape of neck.
EYE.
►
On awaking, burning pain internally above inner canthus. ► (The flickering used to be followed by
headache; after remedy the flickering appeared alone). ► She lost her vision; everything seemed
very far, as if a veil were drawn before her; it blazed and flickered
before her eyes; she was obliged to lie down; even when closing the eyes
flickering continued; thereupon very weak, and the head much affected.
EAR.
[40.]
► During the rushing sound her
hearing is not so good as formerly, notwithstanding the rushing. ► Roaring in the ears. ► All loud noises make too strong an
impression on her; Aconite relieved.
NOSE.
►
Paroxysm of frequent, violent sneezing, and frequent necessity of
blowing the nose, thereupon heaviness deep above the nose. ► Much sneezing all day and discharge of
water from her nose, however, without development of coryza. ► In the evening, running coryza, with much
sneezing (fifth day). ► Nose dry, as
if too much air passed in. ► More
itching in the nose.
FACE.
►
In the morning on awaking, and sometimes at other times of the day the
lower jaw is immovable; but then opens, as it were, of its own accord.
MOUTH.
►
Teeth. ► (Toothache in the
afternoon and evening, causing weeping; it rages everywhere, but drawing
particularly in the roots of the sound eyeteeth). [50.] ►
Teeth, gums, and palate affected by burning and tensive pain. ► When ordinary cool water is taken into
the mouth it affects his teeth as if it were
too cold. ► Every sound
penetrates the teeth, e. g., crowing
of cocks. ► Gum. ► Gums, mouth, and nose appear to be dry;
at the same time he feels as if too much air were passing into the
mouth. ► Gums become sore. ► Tongue. ►
(The tongue seems as if burnt; it is so numb that she can tell nothing
properly.) ► General Mouth. ► Froth before the mouth, with the shaking
chill. ► His mouth has become as
impure as if the teeth were full of slime; must rinse his mouth
frequently. ► Sliminess in the mouth.
► Taste. ►
There is no proper taste; her mouth feels furred (benumbed).
THROAT.
[60.]
► Little pressure, as if something
deep below in the œsophagus were slipping towards the epigastrium,
taking away the breath for a few moments. ►
Throat as if scalded, after vomiting. ►
Throat felt scalded in the morning, after the nocturnal paroxysm. ► Deep down in the œsophagus it presses
towards the epigastrium.
STOMACH.
►
Appetite and Thirst. ►
Constant desire for food and drink, he knows not what. ► Much increased desire to smoke tobacco. ► Appetite for acidulous fruits. ► Much thirst. ►
After midday sleep, thirst. ►
Inclination to drink wine and brandy. ►
Nausea and Vomiting. [70.]
► *Nausea caused by the
vertigo, after every loud sound. ►
Nausea from vertigo on the least motion. ►
Nausea increased to vomiting, during the vertigo. ►
Nausea on rising in the morning. ►
Moschus relieved the nausea, appearing after it on opening the eyes. ► Qualmishness in the morning. ► Retching and vomiting, with icy
perspiration during the nocturnal paroxysm. ►
Vomiting of bile, in the morning. ►
Vomiting, first of slimy acrid water, the ineffectual retching during
nocturnal paroxysm. ► Stomach.
► Pressure on the epigastrium causes
pain (of which, however, the prover had often complained).
ABDOMEN.
[80.]
► More discharge of flatus than
usual. ► Pain in the groins after
coitus. ► Pains in the region of the
groin on motion; when she draws up her leg it seems as if some one
tapped her hard on the groin.
RECTUM AND ANUS.
►
(A spasmodic contraction of the rectum and anus returns again). ► The anus protrudes and is painful,
especially while sitting, without hæmorrhoidal bunches, which he
usually has frequently; this passes off, returns again later, and then
hæmorrhoidal tumors appear. ► A
heaviness in the perineal region, which he has had for a long time, now
becomes noticeable at every step; it seems to him as if a lump were
lying there. ► Desire to go to stool
appears later and less urgent than usual.
STOOL.
►
Diarrhœa without colic with the vomiting and vertigo at night. ► After a long time he has a little scanty
discharge, with much urging (tenesmus). ►
Instead of two stools as usual, she now has only one. [90.] ►
Stool is not hard, still the discharge becomes more difficult towards
the end. ► No stool for several days
(after first dose of 30th). ► Not
until the third day there was a scanty papescent stool, with much urgent
desire; the next day it was still thinner and scanty; then for one day
there was no stool, and after that as usual.
URINARY ORGANS.
►
Increased urination with an elderly woman not disposed to it. ► Much urination with a young man disposed
to it.
SEXUAL ORGANS.
►
Male. ► Strong erections
in the morning without desire (sixth day). ►
Weak erection during coition (third day). ►
(Upon the glans, little red spots.) ►
Scrotum very much shrivelled. ► The
excessive sexual desire is immediately lessened, but the usual morning
erections remain. [100.] ► Sexual desire appears to have vanished,
nor will erections take place (fourth day). ►
Less sexual desire, he is more able to control it. ►
During the nap after dinner, a seminal emission so inordinately violent
and profuse as to penetrate three feet upward beneath the clothing
(eighth day); had been obliged to take some tincture of anise during the
day. ► Female. ► Menses omitted after the proving more
than ten weeks, in a woman in the climacteric years, but who, in the
following year, gave birth to a son as unexpectedly as Sarah.
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
►
Night cough. ► Increased inclination
to take deep respiration, to sigh.
CHEST.
►
Violent stitches up high in the chest, beneath the left
shoulder; are perceived even up in throat. ►
Pinching stitches in left pectoral muscle.
PULSE.
►
Pulse accelerated in the morning after the nocturnal paroxysm.
BACK.
►
Her back was tired in the morning after the nocturnal paroxysm. [110.] ►
Pain between the shoulders. ► Loins
affected after vomiting.
EXTREMITIES.
►
Heaviness in all limbs before the chill. ►
After breakfast, heaviness in every limb; he must lie down; grows
sleepy; he is attacked by a severe internal chill so that he trembles (a
few hours after globules of the 30th cent.)
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Stinging pain from elbow to shoulder.
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► In the evening while sitting, and later,
peculiar drawing in the right thigh; it began in the hip and passed
downward, with a cold sensation below the knee; it felt everywhere cold
internally, but not to the touch; still external warmth was agreeable. ► Being internally cold; it draws from the
hip to below the knee without external coldness; warmth is agreeable. ► In the afternoon her knees trouble her. ► Swelling of the feet (secondary effect of
the bite). ► The little toe pains as
if pressed in walking.
GENERALITIES.
[120.]
► Paroxysm; she awakes, after a short
sleep, at 11 o’clock; already in sleeping she felt the vertigo, and was
awakened thereby; could not remain lying; tried to reach the chamberpot,
but fell down as in a swoon; cold sweat broke out; she strains to vomit
till this takes place, and is repeated every quarter of an hour, during
which icy perspiration breaks out all over her; at the same time she has
several attacks of diarrhœa without abdominal pain; at first she
vomited acrid slimy water, almost preventing her from regaining her
breath; at length she felt entirely empty at the stomach; the least
motion again brought on vertigo and vomiting; she dares not stir, and
when her eyes closed, the lids falling, as it were, from being tried,
vertigo and nausea immediately returned; after taking Mentha pip. she
had some hours of sleep; in the morning on rising, the nausea came again
and she vomited bile; her throat felt as if scalded; her back was tired,
pulse accelerated, together with headache. ►
She is so weak that she cannot stand long: she becomes tremulous and
perspires. ► Very weak after the
flickering before the eyes. ► He
feels exhausted and tremulous, but without feeling trembling. ► Every penetrating sound and reverberation
penetrates through her whole body, particularly through the teeth, and
increases the vertigo, which then causes nausea. ► Great exhaustion; he is quite unable to
work. ► Without feeling pain, she has
such a queer sensation in her whole head that she cannot describe it. ► Pains in all the bones, as if every part
would fall asunder; feels as if broken from head to foot; thereupon
violent coldness so that nothing would warm her; without thirst (after
the bite). ► If violent symptoms
sprang up suddenly, Aconite relieved. ►
Later symptoms, and those remaining long after proving several times,
demanded Graphites.
SKIN.
[130.]
► Small hard pimple beside the ball
of the thumb. ► Itching in the nape
of the neck. ► Itching in the back. ► In the morning, itching at the edge of
the shoulder. ► Violent burning
itching on inner and upper part of left ring finger; the spot becomes
very red; soon disappears. ► Itching and
knots on the nates. ►
Violent itching on the calf.
SLEEP.
►
She is very sleepy in the morning early. ►
Sleepy after breakfast, before the chill. ►
Long and dreamful midday sleep; dreams of journeys in distant regions,
and riding on horses; a person who scarcely ever sat upon a horse. [140.] ►
She sleeps throughout the whole day. ►
Remains sleepy and tired all the morning. ►
Very deep night-sleep. ► While
sleeping, he often bites into the point of his tongue, so that it is
sore the following day; this occurs frequently, even after the lapse of
weeks (similar to Phosph. acid, which, however, has it only laterally). ► Dreams that he broke off a tooth.
FEVER.
►
Violent shaking chill, during which foam appears at the mouth (after the
bite). ► Sweating and tremulous. ► Light perspiration after walking out. ► More perspiration after walking and
driving. ► Icy sweat covers the body,
with faintness and vertigo, and vomiting at night.
CONDITIONS.
►
Aggravation. ► (Morning), Qualmishness; vomiting. ► (Afternoon),
Toothache. ► (Evening), Toothache. ►
(After coition), Pain in groins. ► (Motion),
Vertigo; headache; nausea; pain in groin. ►
(Noise), Vertigo. ► (Stooping),
Vertigo. ► (Loud
sound), Vertigo.® 2000
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