Theridion curassavicum
Orange spider. · Animal
Sensitivity to noise may be so extreme in people who respond to Theridion that it causes pain and vibrations to penetrate through the body. There may be a feeling that time is passing too quickly, and a tendency to be chilly. Theridion is generally used for acute sensitivity of the bones, nerves, and spine. The spine tends to be so highly sensitive that the least jarring motion, such as walking, may be unbearable; on sitting, one buttock may be raised off the seat to ease the pressure on the lower spine. There may be accompanying vertigo, dizziness, or motion sickness. Theridion may also be used to treat diabetes.
Key symptoms
- Extreme sensitiveness to noise; vibrations penetrate body especially teeth
- Vertigo with nausea and vomiting on least motion or closing eyes
- Pain in upper left chest; stitch high up in left apex
- Cardiac anxiety and pain; pain in left floating ribs
- Sensitiveness between vertebrae; avoids pressure on spine
- Luminous vibrations before eyes; sensitive to light
- Seasickness; nausea and vomiting on closing eyes
- Tubercular diathesis; rachitis, caries, necrosis
Worse (aggravation)
Better (amelioration)
Orange-spider (THERIDION)
Nervous hyperæsthesia. Has affinity for the tubercular diathesis. Vertigo, sick headache, peculiar pain around heart region, phthisis florida, scrofula have all been treated successfully with this remedy. Sensitive to noise; it penetrates the body, especially teeth. Noises seem to strike on painful spots over the body. Rachitis, caries, necrosis. Phthisis, stitch high up in left apex (Anthrax). Where the indicated remedy does not hold long.
Mind
Restless; finds pleasure in nothing. Time passes too quickly.
Head
Pain worse anyone walking over floor. Vertigo, with nausea and vomiting on least motion, particularly when closing eyes.
Eyes
Luminous vibrations before eyes; sensitive to light. Pressure behind eyeballs. Throbbing over left eye.
Nose
Discharge yellowish, thick, offensive; ozæna (Puls; Thuja).
Stomach
Seasickness. Nausea and vomiting when closing eyes and on motion (Tabac). Stinging pain on left side over anterior aspect of spleen. Burning in liver region.
Respiratory
Pain in upper left chest (Myrt; Pix; Anis). Pain in left floating ribs. Cardiac anxiety and pain. Pinching in left pectoral muscle.
Back
Sensitiveness between vertebræ; avoids pressure on spine. Stinging pains.
Skin
Stinging thrusts everywhere. Sensitive skin in thighs. Itching sensations.
Modalities
Worse, touch; pressure; on shipboard; riding in carriage; closing eyes; jar; noise, coitus; left side.
Dose
Thirtieth potency.
Hysterical sensitivity with extreme aggravation from noise, motion and exertion marks this remedy as unique.
The pains are aggravated from noise, and motion, and the nerves are in such a state of sensitivity that a painful thrill passes over the body in waves and nausea follows. Nausea from noise is strikingly strange.
It cures the most stubborn cases of spinal irritation, when the symptoms agree. Chronic catarrh of the nose. Necrosis of bone. Quick consumption. Emaciation. Enlargement of glands. Constant hunger and thirst. It was a remedy with the old masters for scrofulous conditions. Great lassitude.
Complaints are ameliorated by warmth, and during rest. Fainting from least exertion, Chilliness, trembling and anxiety. So restless that she must keep busy, though she accomplishes nothing. The bones are sore.
Theridion curassavicum. Orange spider. N. O. Arachnida. Tincture of the living spider.
Clinical
Angina pectoris. Anthrax of sheep. Bone, affections of. Caries. Climaxis. Cough. Dysmenorrhœa. Eye-teeth, pains in. Fainting. Headache. Hysteria. Liver, disorder of; abscess of. Ménière's disease. Nausea. Necrosis. Nose, catarrh of. Ozæna. Photophobia. Phthisis florida. Pregnancy, sickness of. Rickets. Scrofulosis. Seasickness. Spinal irritation. Tetanus. Toothache. Vertigo.
Characteristics
Therid. was introduced and proved by Hering in 1832. The spider is found in the West Indies, chiefly in the island of Curaçoa. It is about the size of a cherry-stone, is found on orange-trees, velvety black when young, with antero-posterior lines composed of white dots; on posterior of body there are three orange-red spots, and on the belly a large square yellow spot. It is very poisonous. It produces a highly sensitive, nervous condition with weakness, trembling, coldness, anxiety, faintness, and easily excited cold sweat. There …
Orange Spider (Araneideae)
Time passes too quickly (too slowly, Arg. n., Can. I., Nux m.). Vertigo: on closing the eyes (Lach., Thuja - on opening them, Tab.; on looking upward, Puls, Sil.); from any, even the least noise; aural or labyrinthine (Meniere's disease). Nausea: from least motion, and especially on closing the eyes; from fast riding in a carriage. Headache: when beginning to move, as of a dull heavy pressure begin the eyes; violent, deep, in the brain; < lying down (Lach.); very much < from others walking on the floor, or from least motion of head. Every sound seems to penetrate through the whole body, causing nausea and vertigo. Chronic nasal catarrh; discharge thick, yellow, greenish, offensive (Puls., Thuja). 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 grown deathly sick. Violent stitches in upper left chest, below the scapula, extending to neck (Anis., Myr., Pix, Sulph.). Pains in …
Head
Vertigo, with nausea and vomiting; worse from stooping, least movement, or closing the eyes.
Mouth and Throat
Sounds penetrate the teeth.
Stomach
Nausea on closing the eyes.
Respiratory Organs
Cough frequent, convulsive, head spasmodically jerked forward, knees jerked up to abdomen.
Respiratory Organs
Stitch high up (apex) in left chest to back.
Respiratory Organs
Scrofulous when best remedies fail; also phthisis florida in the beginning (Baruch).
Bones
Scrofula when other remedies fail, rachitis, caries, necrosis, to reach the root of the evil and destroy the cause (Baruch).
Generalities
Extreme sensitiveness to noise; aggravated by least noise; sounds penetrate the teeth.
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