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Note: Wherever it is found,
"<" denotes aggravation (worse by) and ">" denotes
amelioration (better by) |
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| COMMON NAME |
: | Cuban
spider |
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| FAMILY |
: | Mygale
cubensis |
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| SOURCE |
: | It
is prepared from the rotten specimen of the
Cuban Tarentula. The pyogenic effect of Tarentula cubensis is the point
of differentiation between Cubensis and Hispania. |
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| MODALITIES |
: | < Touch < Cold < Noise < Damp < Hands in cold water < Periodicity - yearly, hourly < After menses, coitus < Evening, night < Bright colours < Washing head < Cold drinks < Seeing others in trouble < Music > Relaxation > Rubbing > Sweating > Smoking > Tobacco chewing > In the sun > Open air > Riding in carriage, horseback |
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| MIND |
: | -Restlessness
3, could not keep quiet in any
position 2, must keep in motion, though walking < all symptoms 2
(reverse-Rhus-t, Ruta). -Anxiety while walking, which makes him walk faster. -Delirium with pains or from sepsis. |
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| GUIDING INDICATIONS |
: | -Choric
affections-Constant movements of the legs,
arm, trunk, twitching and jerking of muscles. -Right arm, left leg affected. -Rolling from side to side to relieve the distress 3 (Am-c, Ars, Lach). -Atrocious burning pain 3, slightest touch provokes the pain Alarming prostration 3, hardness 3 of part. -G.I.T.-Desires Raw articles. -Aversion to bread, roasted meats. -Desire to eat with intense thirst, inextinguishable thirst for cold water. -Loss of appetite except for breakfast. -Respiratory system-Suffocation 3, must have fresh air < coughing, noise > smoking. -Cannot hold urine on coughing. -Sleep prevented by harsh cough. -Female genitalia-At every menstrual nisus, throat, mouth, tongue intolerably dry, especially when sleeping (Nux-m). -Dry, hot, raw itching of vulva and vagina < scratching. -Genitals sensitive, sexual excitement, even to mania. -Scirrhus of breast. -Skin-Carbuncles, even to sloughing, with great prostration and diarrhoea. -Abscess, boils, felons, affected part becomes dark red, purplish swelling of skin and tissue. -The agony of felon compelling patient to walk the floor for nights. -Malignant ulcers, anthrax, gangrene. -Senile ulcers. |
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| KEYNOTES |
: | -Atrocious
burning pain, hardness of part. |
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| NUCLEUS OF REMEDY |
: | -Atoxaemic
medicine, septic condition, various
forms of malignant suppuration, with atrocious pains. |
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| CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS |
: | -Terrible,
burning, stinging pain in all septic
states. |
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| CLINICAL |
: | -Abscess,
Bubo, Bubonic plague, Carbuncles,
Diphtrheria, Gangrene, Pimples, Prostration, Pruritus, Scirrhus,
Septicemia, Suppuration, Ulceration. -In pulmonary koch's, it soothes the dying suffers Dr.Kent. -According to Dr.Nacterlam it is more useful in whooping cough than Ipecac or Castanea to or any other remedy. |
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| REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS |
: | -Compare-Anthrac,
Apis, Ars, Bell, Crot, Echi,
Pyrog. -Complementary-Ars. -Antidotes-Bov, Carb-v, Cup, Lach. -Similar to-Apis, Crot, Lach, Platina, Mygale, Naja, Ther. |
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