====== THERIDION CURASSAVICUM ====== {{anchor:s1}}Theridion Curassavicum. {{anchor:s2}}Orange Spider. {{anchor:s3}}Araneideae. {{anchor:s4}}A small spider known to people as very poisonous, chiefly found in the island of Uraoa. {{anchor:s5}}This spider, about the size of a cherry stone, is found upon orange trees in the West Indies. {{anchor:s6}}When young it is velvety-black in appearance, marked with antero-posterior lines composed of white dots; on posterior part of body there are three orange-red spots, while upon belly there is a large square yellow spot. {{anchor:s7}}--Am. Hom. Pharmacopoeia. {{anchor:s8}}The alcoholic tincture is prepared from the live spider crushed. {{anchor:s9}}Introduced and proved by Hering in 1832; symptoms printed in Stapf's Archives, vol. 14, p. 157. ====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ====== {{anchor:s11}}- Vertigo, Cochran, Hah. Mo., vol. 5, p. 24; Affection of head, Berridge, A. J. H. M. M., vol. 4, p. 84; Nasal catarrh, Korndoerfer, Hah. Mo., vol. 12, p. 36; Hepatic disorder, --- Hom. Cl., vol. 1, p. 31; Cough, Simmons, Hom. Phys., Dec., 1889; Clark, Hom. Phys., vol. 9, p. 135; Spinal irritation, Farley, Hom. Phys., vol. 9, p. 135; Hysteria, Mohr, Hah. Mo., vol. 24, p. 811; Korndoerfer, MSS.; Scrofulosis, Baruch, N. A. J. H., vol. 25, p. 444; Hom. Phys., vol. 8, p. 331; Scrofula, corroborations, C. Neidhard, Philadelphia. ====== MIND. [1] ====== {{anchor:s13}}Time passes too quickly.\\ {{anchor:s14}}Talkative, inclined to mental exertion; hilarity.\\ {{anchor:s15}}Want of self-confidence. {{anchor:s16}}~ Hysteria.\\ {{anchor:s17}}Great aversion to work; especially to his usual avocation.\\ {{anchor:s18}}Great depression during headache; weeping during toothache. ====== SENSORIUM. [2] ====== {{anchor:s20}}Vertigo: with nausea even to vomiting; agg. from stooping, from least movement; on closing eyes; on board a vessel; from every noise or sound; with cold sweat; awakes from sleep at night, at 11 o'clock; with slow pulse.\\ {{anchor:s21}}It feels so thick in her head as if it were another strange head; nausea and vomiting on least movement, particularly on closing eyes.\\ {{anchor:s22}}Vertigo with blindness caused by pain in eyes.\\ {{anchor:s23}}Whenever she closes her eyes she is afflicted with nausea and vertigo, agg. by noise and motion. ====== INNER HEAD. [3] ====== {{anchor:s25}}Violent frontal headache with throbbing extending into occiput.\\ {{anchor:s26}}Violent frontal headache with heavy dull pressure behind eyes.\\ {{anchor:s27}}Heavy pressure on head; pressing downward. {{anchor:s28}}~ Hysteria.\\ {{anchor:s29}}Headache on beginning to move.\\ {{anchor:s30}}Headache which she cannot describe or make clear to herself.\\ {{anchor:s31}}For fourteen days feeling as if vertex did not belong to her; it felt as if separated from rest of head, as if she could lift it off; felt she would like to remove it.\\ {{anchor:s32}}Headache deep in socket of eyes, agg. in left eye; head feels thick. {{anchor:s33}}~ Hysteria.\\ {{anchor:s34}}Sunstroke.\\ {{anchor:s35}}It feels so thick in her head as if it were another strange head, or as if she had something else upon it.\\ {{anchor:s36}}Head very much oppressed and heavy.\\ {{anchor:s37}}Oppression and fullness behind ears.\\ {{anchor:s38}}Headache behind eyes.\\ {{anchor:s39}}Headache like a pressing band in root of nose and over and around ears.\\ {{anchor:s40}}Pressing together in temples.\\ {{anchor:s41}}Stinging in left temple.\\ {{anchor:s42}}Suddenly in morning pressing pain over left eye, agg. by slightest motion, talking; sickness of stomach with retching; amel. from drinking warm water; bowels open twice with colic and flatulency, after which head is agg.\\ {{anchor:s43}}Throbbing over left eye and across forehead; also in a slight degree in right eye, with sick stomach, particularly on rising from a reclining position, like seasickness.\\ {{anchor:s44}}Head internally hot, oppressed and heavy; at same time joyousness and singing.\\ {{anchor:s45}}Evenings while walking is attacked with general headache with great depression.\\ {{anchor:s46}}Owing to pains deep in brain she must sit or walk; it is impossible to lie.\\ {{anchor:s47}}Headache with nausea and vomiting like seasickness, and shaking chills. {{anchor:s48}}~ Climacteric period. ====== OUTER HEAD. [4] ====== {{anchor:s50}}Itching on scalp.\\ {{anchor:s51}}Itching on head and nape of neck, in evening. ====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ====== {{anchor:s53}}Flickering before eyes in frequent paroxysms, even when closing eyes; like a veil before eyes; she must lie down. {{anchor:s54}}~ Hysteria.\\ {{anchor:s55}}Sensitive to light; things look double; fluttering, nausea and cold hands.\\ {{anchor:s56}}Dizziness and confusion of vision, everything went together, and became indistinct. {{anchor:s57}}~ Hysteria.\\ {{anchor:s58}}Hard, heavy dull pressure behind eyes.\\ {{anchor:s59}}Twitching in right eye.\\ {{anchor:s60}}On awaking, burning pain, internally, above inner canthus.\\ {{anchor:s61}}Sensitiveness to light; when in light she experiences a dark sparkling before eyes; everything appears double, and through this fluttering nausea is created; cold hands; long afterward dares not stoop.\\ {{anchor:s62}}(In sick:) Nausea while closing eyes; changed into nausea when opening eyes (relieved by Moschus).\\ {{anchor:s63}}On closing eyes nausea and vomiting. ====== HEARING AND EARS. [6] ====== {{anchor:s65}}Worse from least noise, every shrill sound and reverberation penetrates her whole body, especially teeth, makes vertigo agg., and causes nausea.\\ {{anchor:s66}}Rushing in both ears like a waterfall; roaring.\\ {{anchor:s67}}Itching behind ears; would like to scratch them off.\\ {{anchor:s68}}Pressure above ears; fullness behind ears. ====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ====== {{anchor:s70}}Sneezing; watery discharge, agg. in evening.\\ {{anchor:s71}}Chronic, offensive-smelling discharge, thick, yellow or yellowish-green. {{anchor:s72}}~ Nasal catarrh. {{anchor:s73}}~ Scrofulous ozaena.\\ {{anchor:s74}}Pressure in root of nose and heaviness.\\ {{anchor:s75}}Nose dry as if too much air passed in; itching in nose.\\ {{anchor:s76}}Paroxysms of frequent violent sneezing, and frequent necessity of blowing nose; heaviness deep in upper nose. ====== UPPER FACE. [8] ====== {{anchor:s78}}Face pale. ====== LOWER FACE. [9] ====== {{anchor:s80}}In morning on awaking and sometimes at other times of day, lower jaw is immovable. {{anchor:s81}}~ Tetanus.\\ {{anchor:s82}}Froth before mouth with shaking chill. ====== TEETH AND GUMS. [10] ====== {{anchor:s84}}Cool water affects teeth as if too cold.\\ {{anchor:s85}}Every shrill sound penetrates teeth.\\ {{anchor:s86}}Toothache in afternoon and evening causes weeping.\\ {{anchor:s87}}Burning, tensive pain in teeth, gums and palate.\\ {{anchor:s88}}Soreness of gums. ====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ====== {{anchor:s90}}Mouth feels furred, benumbed; no proper taste; tongue as if burned.\\ {{anchor:s91}}Salty taste, hawking of salty mucus. ====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ====== {{anchor:s93}}Mouth feels numb or slimy.\\ {{anchor:s94}}Foam at mouth during chill.\\ {{anchor:s95}}Mouth and nose feel too dry; as if too much air were passing into mouth. ====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ====== {{anchor:s97}}Sore throat; chilly; bones sore; difficult swallowing; constipation; urine scanty and high-colored. ====== APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] ====== {{anchor:s100}}Desire for wine, brandy, tobacco and acidulous fruits and drinks.\\ {{anchor:s101}}Much thirst.\\ {{anchor:s102}}Desire for food, does not know what to eat; craves oranges and bananas. {{anchor:s103}}~ Hysteria. ====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ====== {{anchor:s105}}Nausea: with headache; on rising in morning; from sounds; with vertigo; on closing eyes; like seasickness; from sparkling before eyes; when gazing steadfastly on an object; on motion; from talking; from fast riding in a carriage.\\ {{anchor:s106}}A woman having had in childbed a violent spell of sickness at end of first week and apparently recovered, was, in third week after washing clothes, suddenly attacked by nausea and vomiting; after it very pale and sick at stomach as soon as she closed her eyes, with vanishing of thoughts.\\ {{anchor:s107}}Nausea increased to vomiting during vertigo.\\ {{anchor:s108}}Nausea and vomiting like seasickness, with headache.\\ {{anchor:s109}}Vomiting: from vertigo, on least motion; first of slimy, acrid water, then ineffectual retching; of bile in morning; of bile at 4 A. M., chronic consumption, cough.\\ {{anchor:s110}}Nausea and retching amel. by drinking warm water.\\ {{anchor:s111}}Seasickness of nervous women; they shut their eyes to get rid of motion of vessel, and grow deathly sick. ====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ====== {{anchor:s113}}Sensitiveness of region of stomach and epigastrium. ====== HYPOCHONDRIA. [18] ====== {{anchor:s115}}Violent burning pain in hepatic region agg. from touch; retching, bilious vomit.\\ {{anchor:s116}}Abscess of liver; vertigo and nausea.\\ {{anchor:s117}}Anthrax of sheep, with great tumefaction of hypogastrium and great thirst. ====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ====== {{anchor:s119}}Pain in groins, after coitus.\\ {{anchor:s120}}Pains in region of groin on motion; when she draws up her leg it seems as if some one tapped her hard on groin. ====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ====== {{anchor:s122}}Small, soft stool daily, with much straining.\\ {{anchor:s123}}Diarrhea without colic, with vomiting and vertigo at night.\\ {{anchor:s124}}Spasmodic contraction of rectum and anus.\\ {{anchor:s125}}Bowels open twice with colic and flatulency, after which headache is agg.\\ {{anchor:s126}}Heaviness in perineal region noticeable at every step; it seems to him as if a lump were lying there. ====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ====== {{anchor:s128}}Increased urination.\\ {{anchor:s129}}Has to get up four or five times at night to pass water, does not pass much during day. ====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ====== {{anchor:s131}}Sexual desire lessened; weak erection during coition; after coitus, pain in groins.\\ {{anchor:s132}}Seminal emission during siesta, with great force.\\ {{anchor:s133}}Small red spots upon glans.\\ {{anchor:s134}}Scrotum very much shrivelled. ====== FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] ====== {{anchor:s136}}Hysteria: during puberty; at climaxis.\\ {{anchor:s137}}Menses omitted more than ten weeks in a woman in climacteric years; gave birth to a son in following year.\\ {{anchor:s138}}Bruised sore pain in both ovarian regions, agg. from motion and pressure; pain in lower part of abdomen, like labor pains, with sensation as if a child were bounding in body; tickling in both sides. {{anchor:s139}}~ Hysteria. ====== RESPIRATION. [26] ====== {{anchor:s141}}Increased inclination to take deep breaths, to sigh.\\ {{anchor:s142}}Difficulty in breathing on going up and down stairs. {{anchor:s143}}~ Hysteria. ====== COUGH. [27] ====== {{anchor:s145}}Night cough. ====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ====== {{anchor:s147}}Violent stitches in chest beneath left shoulder through to throat.\\ {{anchor:s148}}Phthisis florida, in beginning.\\ {{anchor:s149}}Pinching stitches in left pectoral muscle.\\ {{anchor:s150}}Pressure as if something in esophagus were slipping toward epigastrium, taking away breath for a few moments. ====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ====== {{anchor:s152}}Anxiety about heart; sharp pains radiate to arm and left shoulder. {{anchor:s153}}~ Climaxis.\\ {{anchor:s154}}Pulse slow with vertigo. ====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ====== {{anchor:s156}}Itching in nape of neck, at edge of shoulder and on back.\\ {{anchor:s157}}Pain between shoulders.\\ {{anchor:s158}}Spinal irritation; great sensitiveness between vertebrae sits sideways in a chair to avoid pressure against spine.\\ {{anchor:s159}}Could not bear least noise, and jar of foot on floor was so aggravating that it made her cry out. {{anchor:s160}}~ Spinal irritation. ====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ====== {{anchor:s162}}Stinging pain from elbow to shoulder.\\ {{anchor:s163}}Violent burning itching on inner and upper part of left ringfinger; spot becomes very red, soon disappears.\\ {{anchor:s164}}Small hard pimple beside ball of thumb. ====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ====== {{anchor:s166}}Itching and nodes on nates.\\ {{anchor:s167}}In evening, while sitting, and later, peculiar drawing in right thigh; it began in hip and passed downward with a cold sensation below knee; it felt everywhere cold, internally, but not to touch; external warmth was agreeable.\\ {{anchor:s168}}Little toe pains as if pressed in walking.\\ {{anchor:s169}}Violent itching on calf.\\ {{anchor:s170}}Swelling of feet. ====== LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] ====== {{anchor:s172}}Pains in bones as if broken, as if they were about to fall asunder.\\ {{anchor:s173}}Heaviness in limbs before chill. ====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ====== {{anchor:s177}}Lying: impossible, pains deep in brain; must lie down with flickering before eyes.\\ {{anchor:s178}}Sitting: drawing in right thigh.\\ {{anchor:s179}}Stooping: agg. vertigo.\\ {{anchor:s180}}On rising: sick stomach agg.\\ {{anchor:s181}}Drawing up leg: as if some one tapped her on groin.\\ {{anchor:s182}}Motion: least, vertigo agg.; agg. headache; pain over left eye agg.; nausea agg.; vomiting agg.; pains in groin; pain in ovarian regions.\\ {{anchor:s183}}Walking: headache with depression; little toe pains; sweats easily.\\ {{anchor:s184}}After every exertion: fainting.\\ {{anchor:s185}}Going up and down stairs: dyspnea.\\ {{anchor:s186}}After washing clothes: nausea and fainting. ====== NERVES. [36] ====== {{anchor:s188}}Every shrill sound and reverberation penetrates through her whole body, particularly through teeth, and increases vertigo, which causes nausea.\\ {{anchor:s189}}Hysteria during puberty and in climacteric years, and from spinal irritation; is sensitive to light, faints after every exertion, and has weakness, trembling, chilliness and anxiety; restless, must busy herself about something, though nothing gives her pleasure; great sensitiveness to noise and sensitiveness between vertebrae, sits sideways in a chair to avoid pressure.\\ {{anchor:s190}}From washing clothes in third week after confinement, attack of fainting.\\ {{anchor:s191}}(In sick:) Could not move hands or feet; sitting with feet crossed, could not uncross them; head bent down on chest; eyes partially closed, could not move any part of body; looks and feels as if dying, but hears and understands all that is said. {{anchor:s192}}~ Hysteria.\\ {{anchor:s193}}Great lassitude and debility as if from great losses of blood. {{anchor:s194}}~ Anemia.\\ {{anchor:s195}}Tetanus. ====== SLEEP. [37] ====== {{anchor:s197}}Sleepy all morning.\\ {{anchor:s198}}Deep night sleep.\\ {{anchor:s199}}During sleep bites tip of tongue.\\ {{anchor:s200}}Long and dreamful midday sleep; dreams of journeys in distant regions and riding on horses; a person who scarcely ever sat upon a horse.\\ {{anchor:s201}}Dreams that he broke off a tooth. ====== TIME. [38] ====== {{anchor:s203}}At 4 A. M.: vomiting of bile.\\ {{anchor:s204}}Morning: lower jaw immovable; nausea; vomiting of bile; sleepy.\\ {{anchor:s205}}Midday: long and dreamful sleep.\\ {{anchor:s206}}Afternoon: toothache.\\ {{anchor:s207}}Evening: headache with depression; itching on head and back of neck; coryza agg.; toothache; drawing in right thigh.\\ {{anchor:s208}}At 11 P. M.: wakes with vertigo.\\ {{anchor:s209}}Night: cough; deep sleep; vomiting. ====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ====== {{anchor:s211}}Temperature and Weather\\ {{anchor:s212}}Warm water: nausea and retching amel.\\ {{anchor:s213}}Warmth: agreeable; pain in right leg with cold sensation. ====== FEVER. [40] ====== {{anchor:s215}}Shaking chill; with foam at mouth; during headache with vomiting.\\ {{anchor:s216}}Bones pain as if they would fall asunder; coldness, cannot get warm.\\ {{anchor:s217}}Sweats easily after walking.\\ {{anchor:s218}}Icy sweat covers body, with fainting and vertigo, and vomiting at night. ====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ====== {{anchor:s220}}For more than ten weeks: menses omitted.\\ {{anchor:s221}}During puberty: hysteria.\\ {{anchor:s222}}At climaxis: hysteria; suppression of menses. ====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ====== {{anchor:s224}}Left: throbbing over eye and across forehead; pain in socket of eye; stinging in temple; pressing pain over eye; stitches from shoulder to throat; stitches in pectoral muscle; pains from heart to shoulder and arm; burning itching on ring finger.\\ {{anchor:s225}}Right: twitching in eye. ====== SENSATIONS. [43] ====== {{anchor:s227}}As if her head were another, strange head; as if vertex did not below to her; like a pressing band in root of nose and about ears; as of a veil before eyes; as if too much air passed into nose and mouth; mouth as if furred, benumbed; as if some one tapped her on groin when raising leg; as if a lump were lying in perineal region; like labor pains in lower part of abdomen; as if a child were bounding in body; as if something in esophagus were slipping toward epigastrium; as if bones were broken and would fall asunder; feels as if dying.\\ {{anchor:s228}}Pain: deep in brain; in region of groin; between shoulders.\\ {{anchor:s229}}Sharp pain: from heart to left shoulder and arm.\\ {{anchor:s230}}Stitches: beneath left shoulder through to throat.\\ {{anchor:s231}}Pinching stitches: in left pectoral muscle.\\ {{anchor:s232}}Stinging: in left temple; from elbow to shoulder.\\ {{anchor:s233}}Burning: above inner canthus; in teeth, gums and palate; in hepatic region; in left ring finger.\\ {{anchor:s234}}Bruised pain: in ovarian regions.\\ {{anchor:s235}}Soreness: in throat; in bones.\\ {{anchor:s236}}Pressure: behind eyes; on head; in temples; over left eye; above ears; in root of nose; in little toe.\\ {{anchor:s237}}Drawing: in right thigh.\\ {{anchor:s238}}Throbbing: over left eye and across forehead; in right eye.\\ {{anchor:s239}}Tensive pain: in teeth, gums and palate.\\ {{anchor:s240}}Fullness: in head; behind ears.\\ {{anchor:s241}}Heaviness: in head; in root of nose; in perineal region; in limbs.\\ {{anchor:s242}}Thickness: in head.\\ {{anchor:s243}}Numbness: in mouth.\\ {{anchor:s244}}Tickling: in both sides of abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s245}}Itching: in head; in nape of neck; behind ears; in nose; at edge of shoulder and on back; in left ring finger; on nates; on calf; of skin on various parts.\\ {{anchor:s246}}Dryness: in mouth and nose.\\ {{anchor:s247}}Coldness: below right knee. ====== TISSUES. [44] ====== {{anchor:s249}}Hysteria; spinal irritation.\\ {{anchor:s250}}Scrofula; rachitis, caries, necrosis.\\ {{anchor:s251}}Bones pain as if they would fall asunder.\\ {{anchor:s252}}Chronic catarrh of nose, discharge offensive, thick, yellow or yellowish-green.\\ {{anchor:s253}}Phthisis florida.\\ {{anchor:s254}}Infantile atrophy, scrofulous enlargement of glands; constant desire for food and drink, but does not know what.\\ {{anchor:s255}}Nodosities on various parts, especially buttocks; scrofulosis. ====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ====== {{anchor:s259}}Touch: pain in hepatic region agg.\\ {{anchor:s260}}Pressure: pain in ovarian regions; spine sensitive.\\ {{anchor:s261}}Closing eyes: vertigo.\\ {{anchor:s262}}On board a vessel: vertigo and seasickness.\\ {{anchor:s263}}Riding in a carriage: nausea.\\ {{anchor:s264}}From person walking over floor: headache agg.; spine sensitive, must cry out.\\ {{anchor:s265}}From least noise: headache agg.; vertigo agg.; penetrates whole body, especially teeth. ====== SKIN. [46] ====== {{anchor:s267}}Violent itching.\\ {{anchor:s268}}Itching of skin on various parts of body. {{anchor:s269}}~ Hysteria.\\ {{anchor:s270}}Itching: on head; behind ears; in nose; on back of neck; on edge of shoulders; on back; on nates; on calf.\\ {{anchor:s271}}Pimples near ball of thumb.\\ {{anchor:s272}}Knots on nates.\\ {{anchor:s273}}Scrofula. ====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ====== {{anchor:s275}}Mrs. S., aet. 38, rather fleshy, bilious temperament, suffering several weeks; vertigo.\\ {{anchor:s276}}XX, in W., suffered for five years from painful pressure in region of liver, with periodical vomiting.\\ {{anchor:s277}}Mrs. ---, symptoms of spasms during labor; second month after confinement hysteria.\\ {{anchor:s278}}A woman, aet. 70; sick headache. ====== RELATIONS. [48] ====== {{anchor:s280}}Antidoted by: Acon. (sensitiveness to noises); Moschus (nausea); Graphit.\\ {{anchor:s281}}Compatible: after Calcar. and Lycop.\\ {{anchor:s282}}Compare: Aranea. ---- ====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ====== ^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 10, 1891 | ^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r235|Theridion curassavicum]] | ^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r235|Theridion curassavicum]] | ^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. | ^ year: | 1891 | ^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting | ^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}