Condensed Materia Medica

Theridion ther.

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Mind

Time passes too quickly.
Talkative, inclined to mental exertion; hilarity.
Want of self-confidence; hysteria: 36.
Great aversion to work; especially to his usual avocation.

Sensorium

Vertigo: with nausea, even to vomiting; worse from stooping, from least movement; on closing eyes; on board a vessel; with cold sweat.

Inner Head

Violent frontal headache, with throbbing, extending to occiput.
Headache, on beginning to move.
Headache which she cannot describe nor even make clear to herself.
Throbbing over left eye and across forehead; sick stomach, worse on rising from lying; worse from persons walking over the floor; from least noise.
Head feels thick, thinks it belongs to another; that she can lift it off.
Sunstroke.

Outer Head

Itching on scalp.

Eyes

Flickering before eyes in frequent paroxysms, even when closing the eyes; like a veil before eyes; she must lie down; also in hysteria.
Sensitive to light; things look double; fluttering, nausea and cold hands.
Hard, heavy, dull pressure behind eyes.

Ears

Worse from least noise, every sound penetrates her whole body, especially the teeth, makes vertigo worse.
Rushing in both ears like a water-fall.
Itching behind ears, she would like to scratch them off.

Nose

Sneezing; watery discharge, worse evening.
Chronic catarrh, discharge, offensive-smelling, thick, yellow, or yellowish-green.

Face

Pale.

Lower Face

Feels immovable in morning when awaking.

Tongue, etc

Salty taste; or, mouth feels furred, benumbed.

Mouth

Feels numb; or slimy.

Desires and Aversions

Desire for wine, brandy or tobacco.
Appetite for acidulous drinks.
Constant desire for food or drink, but he knows not for what.
Much thirst.

Nausea and Vomiting

Nausea: or rising in morning; from sounds; with vertigo; on closing eyes; like seasickness; from sparkling before eyes; on motion; from talking; from fast riding in a carriage.

Hypochondria

Violent burning pain in hepatic region, worse from touch; retching, bilious vomit.
Abscess of liver; relieved vertigo and nausea.

Abdomen

Pain in groins; after coitus; in groin on motion.

Stool, etc

Small soft stool, daily, with much straining.

Urine

Increased urination.
Seminal emission during siesta.

Male Sexual Organs

Desire lessened.

Female Sexual Organs

Hysteria: during puberty; at climaxis.

Breathing

Increased inclination to take deep breaths, to sigh.

Lungs

Violent stitches up high in chest beneath left shoulder through into throat.
Phthisis florida, in beginning.

Heart and Pulse

Anxiety about heart; sharp pains radiate to arm and left shoulder. θ Climaxis.
Pulse slow, with vertigo.

Lower limbs

Itching and nodes on nates.
Feet swell.

Position, etc

Motion: 2, 3, 16, 19. Exertion: 36. Walking: 40. Must lie down: 5. Stooping: 2. Rising: 3, 16.

Nerves

Weak, limbs tremble, sweating.
Faints after every exertion.

Sleep

Sleepy all morning.
Deep night sleep.
During sleep, bites point of tongue.

Time

Morning: 9, 16, 37. Evening: 7. Night: 39.

Temperature and Weather

Sun: 3. Cannot get warm: 40.

Chill, Fever and Sweat

Shaking chill: with foam at mouth; during headache, with vomiting.
Bones pain, as if they would fall asunder; coldness, cannot get warm.
Sweats easily, after walking.

Sides

Right: 18. Left: 3, 28, 29.

Tissues

Scrofula when other remedies fail: rachitis; caries, necrosis, "to reach the root of the evil and destroy cause".

Contact, Injuries, etc

Touch: 18. Jar of persons walking on floor: 3. Motion of vessel: 2. Riding in a carriage: 16.

Skin

Skin: 4, 6, 33.

Relationship

Therid. following well after Calcar. and Lycop.
Antidotes to Therid.: Acon. against sensitiveness to noises and violent paroxysms; Moschus, nausea; Graphit.