Theridion ther.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

C. M. Boger · Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica · A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1915 — the Materia Medica half

Region

NERVES. Spine. Bones. Left side; head, chest.

Worse

NOISE. Touch. CLOSING EYES. Least motion. Riding. Jar.

Better

Rest. Warmth.

General

Hypersensitive. NOISE IS INSUFFERABLY PENETRATING; affects the teeth; causes nausea, chills, and pains all over; strikes painful spots, etc. Water feels too cold. Bounding internally.

Particulars

Startled by the least thing. Fruitless activity. Sense of duality. Hysteria. Vertigo with nausea, on closing eyes. Headache felt during sleep, < jarring. Migraine. Glittering vision on stooping. Luminosities, then blurred vision. Pain over root of nose. Yellow-green, thick, foul nasal discharge. Ozœna. Post-nasal catarrh. Nausea, < least motion. Sea-sickness. Burning in liver. Pains at end of left floating ribs. Gonorrhœa. Cough; jerks body together. Too much air seems to enter chest. Stitch back through apex of left lung. Phthisis florida. Cardiac anxiety. Spine is sensitive to pressure or jar. Burning in upper arms. Restless feeling in hands; wrings them. Bones seem broken. Necrosis. Scrofula. Stinging thrusts in skin. Internal coldness. Cold sweat is easily excited.

Related

Related: Asar. Sil.

Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica

H. C. Allen · Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Medi-T HTML text; edition not stated by the mirror (first edition 1898, Allen d. 1909)

Keynote

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 the bones all over, as if broken. Great sensitiveness between vertebrae, sits sideways in the chair to avoid pressure against spine (Chin. s.); < by least nose and jar of foot on floor. For extreme nervous sensitiveness; of puberty, during pregnancy and climacteric years. "In rachitis, caries, necrosis, it apparently goes to the root of the evil and destroys the cause." - Dr. Baruch. Phthisis florida, often affects a cure if given in the early stages of disease. In scrofulosis where the best chosen remedies fail to relieve.

Relations

Follows well after, Cal. and Lyc.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Orange-spider (THERIDION)

General

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.

Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics

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Leaders

Vertigo, with nausea, on closing the eyes, or the least noise.

Over-sensitiveness of nerves; scratching on linen or silk, or crackling of paper is unbearable.

Pain running through upper left chest to shoulder.

Theridion curassavicum is another spider poison proven by Hering. There is one peculiar and characteristic symptom under this remedy, which has been verified by myself and others -"Vertigo with nausea especially on closing the eyes." Allen puts it -vertigo on closing the eyes (Lach., Thuja), on opening them, Tabacum; on looking upward (Puls., Sil.) from any even least noise; aural or labyrinthine (Menière's disease).

Again "every sound seems to penetrate through the whole body, causing nausea and vertigo" Asarum has a somewhat similar symptom which is worth remembering. "Over-Sensitiveness of nerves, scratching of linen or silk, crackling of paper is unbearable." (Ferr., Tarax.) The vertigo occurs in different affections of the head or stomach, and cures the whole trouble when it is present. It seems like a small thing to "go by," but no smaller than "vertigo, worse on lying down, and turning the head" (Conium), or "vertigo on looking upward" (Silicea, Pulsatilla) and many other symptoms of other remedies which have been verified many times. Another symptom which seems to be very valuable in chest affections is, "pains run through upper left chest to shoulder." (Phthisis florida has been cured on this symptom for a guide, if given early.) This is like Myrtus communis, with which I have helped many cases having that peculiar local symptom. (Sulphur, Pix liquida and Anisum stellatum also have it.) Dr. Baruch says: "In rachitis, caries and necrosis it apparently goes to the root of the evil and destroys the cause."

Text Book of Materia Medica

Adolph Lippe · Text Book of Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML text (Lippe d. 1888; public domain)

Mind and Disposition

Talkative, inclined to mental exertions ; hilarity. Disinclination to occupy oneself in any manner. The time passes too quick.

Head

Vertigo with nausea, worse on stooping ; from the least movement ; on closing the eyes ; from any noise ; with cold perspiration. The head feels thick, with nausea and vomiting from the least movement, and especially on closing the eyes. Headache as if it were behind the eyes. Sensation of heat in the head ; it feels heavy. Headache when he begins to move. Heavy, dull pressure behind the eyes. Violent pain deep in the brain, which compels him to sit or walk ; cannot lie down. The headache is aggravated if others walk over the floor, and from the least movement of the head. Sunstroke.

Eyes

Luminous vibrations before the eyes, (in hysterical persons). Sensitiveness to the light ; if looking into the light, dark vibrations ; and double vision.

Ears

Roaring in the ears, as from a waterfall. Every sound or shrill noise penetrates through the whole body especially into the teeth, causes vertigo, which produces nausea. Itching behind the ears, wants to scratch them of.

Nose

Much sneezing, with blowing of the nose.

Mouth and Throat

Foam at the mouth during the chill. Toothache from shrill noise ; cold water causes a sensation as if cold penetrated the teeth. Mouth and nose feel too dry. Salty taste in the mouth, and hawking of salty mucus.

Stomach and Abdomen

Desire for wine brandy and tobacco. Longing for a variety of things, but does not know for what. Much thirst. Nausea and vomiting when the eyes are closed. Burning in the region of the liver ; contact increases the pain. Pain in the groins, when moving, when drawing the leg up.

Stool and Anus

Constipation, the soft stool is expelled with difficulty. Prolapsus ani, especially painful when he sits down. Spasmodic constriction of the rectum. Heaviness in the peritoneum.

Sexual Organs

Women. Hysterical complaints in the years of puberty, and in the climacteric period, and thus also violent headache.

Respiratory Organs

Violent stitches in the upper part of the chest, below the left shoulder-blade, extending through to the neck. Anxious feeling on the heart.

Sleep

Sleepiness even in the morning ; all day ; before the chill. During sleep biting in the tip of the tongue. Wakens during the night with vertigo, in the morning with stiffness of the jaws.

Fever

Pulse slow (with vertigo). Pain in all the bones, as if they would fall to pieces, or as if they were broken from head to foot ; then violent chill without thirst. Icy-cold perspiration over the whole body, with faintish vertigo.

Conditions

The least noise or shrill sounds cause an aggravation. Motion aggravates the vertigo and nausea.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1st edition (1900-02, three volumes); homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML digitization

General

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 are two well-marked keynotes, one or other of which will be found in most cases calling for Therid . ( 1 ) Extreme sensitiveness to noise; < by least noise; " sounds penetrate the teeth ." The sensitiveness extends to vibrations of any kind, jar of a step, riding in a carriage or in a boat. The symptom also shows the relation Therid . has to bony structures as well as to the nervous organs they enclose: it meets cases of spinal irritation; and also cases of disease of the spinal and other bones. Caries, necrosis, and scrofulous disease of bones have all been cured with it. "In scrofulosis when the best remedies fail to relieve" (H. C. Allen). ( 2 ) " < Closing eyes." This applies to vertigo, and symptoms of the head and stomach. This forms the indication in many cases of seasickness, or sickness of pregnancy. The headaches are severe and affect the eyes, especially the left. The ears are highly sensitive. There are hallucinations of sight and hearing, luminous vibrations, and rushing sounds. Although there is " < closing eyes," there is also intolerance of light. A species of intoxication is induced, hilarity, talkativeness. "Time passes too slowly" is a well-marked symptom. Therid . has a peculiar cough: frequent, convulsive, head spasmodically jerked forward, knees jerked up to abdomen. Chackravanti ( H. W ., xxxvi. 345) relates a case of headache cured with Therid .: Mr. B., 35, well built, of bilious temperament, had for three months severe headache with nausea and vomiting, like sea-sickness, and shaking chills. Dulness and fulness in the head with throbbing beginning in occiput, preceded by flickering before the eyes. Head feels large and heavy. The pains begin in the morning, increase during the day, and last till evening. Excessive irritation, with loss of sustaining power. < From least overwork and motion; > by keeping quiet in horizontal position. Constipation, stools hard, small, dry. Therid . 3x was given, one drop in water twice daily. The pain was much better next day, and was gone in less than a week. Baruch ( H. P ., viii. 331) says of Therid . "In cases of scrofulosis, where the best chosen medicines do nothing, I always interpolate a dose of Therid ., which must act for eight days, and I have seen the most surprising results from it, particularly in caries and necrosis. For phthisis florida Therid . is indispensable, and effects a certain cure if given in the beginning of the disease. In cases of rachitis, caries, and necrosis I depend chiefly on Therid ., which, although it does not seem to affect the external scrofulous symptoms, apparently goes to the root of the evil and effectually destroys the cause of the disease." Peculiar Sensations are: As if her head was another strange head. As if vertex did not belong to her. Like a pressing pain 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 perinæal region. Like labour pains in lower abdomen. As if a child were bounding in body. As if something in œsophagus were slipping towards epigastrium. As if bones were broken and would fall asunder. As if dying. Burning pains and itching are common; and a stitch high up in apex of left chest has proved a guiding symptom for Therid . in the cure of cases of phthisis. "Burning in liver region" has led to the cure of abscess and even cancer of that organ. The symptoms are < by touch; pressure; on ship-board; riding in carriage; closing eyes; jar; least noise. Lying = pain deep in brain; > flickering before eyes. < Stooping; rising; motion; exertion, going up or down stairs; walking. After washing clothes, nausea and fainting. < Every night. Warm water > nausea and retching. Warmth > . Cold < ; cold water feels too cold. < By coitus (groin pains). < After stool (headache). Left side most affected.

Relations

Antidoted by: Acon. (sensitiveness to noises); Mosch. (nausea); Graph. (more chronic effects). Follows well: Sul., Calc., Lyc. (scrofula). Compare: Aran. d. and Spiders generally. Hemicrania < closing eyes, < noise, Sep. (but Sep. < from noise is less intense). Vertigo and faintness on closing eyes, Lach. Headache, nervousness, hysteria, Trn. Stooping down, violent stitch high up in l. chest, thence to back, Myrt. com. (through to l. scapula), Pix Ord. costal cartilage where it joins the rib). Illic. Ord rib, generally r. side). Time passes too quickly (too slowly Can. i., Arg. n., Nux m.). Vertigo on closing eyes, Lach., Thuj. (on opening them, Tab.; on looking up, Puls. Sil.). Headache < lying down, Lach. Nasal catarrh, thick yellow greenish discharge, Puls., Thuj. Spinal irritation, Chi. s. Bites tongue in sleep, Ph. ac. (Ph. ac. sides; Ther. tip). Effect of washing clothes, Pho. Lump in perinæum, Arg. n. (Sep. in anus). Scrofulosis; deep-in headache, Bac., Tub. As if a child bounding in body, Croc., Thuj.

Causation

Sea-travelling. Riding. Washing clothes.

Mind

Joyous; he sings, though the head is internally hot; oppressed and heavy. ─ Imaginative excitement in head at night with rushing in ears. ─ Talkative; after spirituous beverages. ─ Inclined to be startled. ─ Time appears to pass rapidly, although he does little. ─ Despair, want of self-confidence, he gives himself up. ─ Tries to occupy himself constantly, but finds pleasure in nothing. ─ Sluggishness, with disinclination to rising in morning. ─ Thinking is hard when it is of a comparative nature, but not when it is creative.

Head

Vertigo: on turning around; < stooping; with blindness caused by pain in eyes; with nausea increased to vomiting; in sleep, waking her at 11 p.m.; with slow pulse; from every noise; on board vessel. ─ Whenever she closes her eyes, nausea and vertigo < by noise and motion. ─ Headache,: at the beginning of every motion; evening when walking, with depression; deep in brain, so that she must sit up or walk, it is impossible to lie. ─ Thick feeling in head: with nausea and vomiting on least motion, < closing eyes; as if it were another head, or as if she had something else upon it. ─ Oppression and heaviness hindering his studies. ─ Painless, indescribable sensation. ─ Headache like a band in root of nose and around ears. ─ Violent frontal headache, with heavy, dull pressure behind eyes. ─ Headache on beginning to move. ─ Headache deep in sockets of eyes, < l. ─ Throbbing or pressive headache, sudden, over l. eye. ─ Aching behind eyes. ─ Stinging in l. temple. ─ Pressing together in temples. ─ Oppression behind ears, with fulness. ─ Itching on head and nape in evening. ─ Violent headache, with nausea, cannot bear the least noise; a feeling as if vertex were separated from rest of head, or as if she would like to lift it off. ─ Effects of sunstroke, with most intolerant headache, nausea and vomiting. ─ Itching on scalp; on head and nape, evening.

Eyes

Twitching in r. eye. ─ Burning pain internally above inner canthus on waking. ─ Sensitive to light, objects look double; fluttering, nausea, cold hands. ─ Hard, heavy, dull pressure behind eyes. ─ Closing eyes < ; = nausea, vomiting, vertigo. ─ Nausea while closing eyes; changed into nausea while opening eyes (which was > by Mosch .). ─ Vision lost, everything seemed very far, as if a veil were before her, with blazing and flickering, when closing eyes, then affection of head and weakness.

Ears

Least noise < ; every shrill sound and reverberation penetrates whole body, esp. teeth, < vertigo, = nausea. ─ Loud noises make too strong an impression ( > Acon .). ─ Pressure above ears; fulness behind ears. ─ Violent itching behind ears. ─ Roaring in ears. ─ Rushing in ears like a waterfall, with impaired hearing.

Nose

Nose dry, as if too much air passed in; itching in nose. ─ Sneezing: in evening, with running coryza; all day, with discharge of water from nose, but without coryza; violent, with frequent necessity to blow nose. ─ Pressure in root of nose and heaviness. ─ Chronic, offensive-smelling discharge, thick, yellow, or yellowish green; (nasal catarrh; chronic ozæna).

Face

Face pale. ─ Froth before mouth with shaking chill. ─ Jaw immovable in morning on waking and at other times of the day, then opening involuntarily.

Teeth

Teeth feel as if cool water were too cold. ─ Burning and tensive pain in teeth, gums and palate. ─ Every shrill sound penetrates the teeth. ─ Raging pain in all teeth in afternoon and evening, causing weeping, but drawing particularly in roots of sound eye-teeth.

Mouth

Gums, mouth and nose dry, and feeling as if too much air passed into mouth. ─ There is no proper taste, her mouth feels furred, benumbed. ─ Salty taste, hawking of salty mucus.

Throat

Sore throat; chilly; bones sore; difficult swallowing; constipation; urine scanty and high-coloured. ─ Pressure in lower part of œsophagus towards epigastrium, taking away the breath.

Appetite

Constant desire to eat and drink, he knows not what. ─ Appetite for acidulous fruit. ─ Craves oranges and bananas. ─ Increased desire to smoke tobacco. ─ Thirst: great after midday sleep; for wine and brandy.

Stomach

Nausea: in morning; on rising; from vertigo on least motion; on closing eyes; on opening eyes ( > Mosch .); like seasickness; when looking steadily at an object; on motion; on talking; from fast riding in a carriage. ─ Sensitiveness in region of stomach and epigastrium.

Abdomen

Violent burning pains in hepatic region < from touch; retching, bilious vomit. ─ Abscess of liver. ─ Anthrax of sheep. ─ Emission of more flatus than usual. ─ Pains in groins: after coition: in region of groin on motion, when she draws up her leg it seems as if some one tapped her hard on the groin.

Stool and Anus

Stool: papescent, scanty, urgent, next day thin and scanty, omitted on third day. ─ Stool difficult towards the end, though not hard. ─ Bowels open twice with colic and flatulency, after which headache is < . ─ Anus protrudes and is painful, < sitting. ─ Spasmodic contraction of rectum and anus. ─ Heaviness in perinæal region, which he has had for a very long time, is now felt at every step, with feeling of a lump there.

Urinary Organs

Urine increased. ─ Has to rise four or five times in night to micturate; does not pass much during day.

Male Sexual Organs

Red spots on glans. ─ Erections: strong, in morning, without desire; weak during coition; absent; desire vanished. ─ Scrotum shrivelled. ─ Violent and profuse emission during nap after dinner (had taken Anise during the day).

Female Sexual Organs

Hysteria, during puberty; at climaxis. ─ Menses omitted in a woman at climaxis; gave birth to a son the following year. ─ Bruised, sore pain in both ovarian regions; < motion and pressure; labour-like pain in lower abdomen, with sensation as if child bounding in body; tickling in both sides. ─ Dysmenorrhœa, intense, in l. ovary, with intense headache, extreme sensitiveness of the cervix, chilliness, &c.

Respiratory Organs

Cough at night. ─ Convulsive cough, with the peculiar vertigo. ─ Violent cough, with spasmodic jerking of head forward and knees upward. ─ Increased inclination to take a deep respiration, to sigh.

Chest

Violent stitches high in chest beneath l. shoulder, felt even in throat. ─ Pinching in l. pectoral muscle. ─ Pressure as if something in œsophagus were slipping towards epigastrium, taking away breath for a few moments.

Heart

Anxiety about heart, sharp pains radiate to arm and l. shoulder. ─ Pulse slow with vertigo.

Neck and Back

Itching on nape, at top of shoulder and on back. ─ Pain between the shoulders. ─ Spinal irritation; great sensitiveness between vertebræ. ─ Sits sideways in a chair to avoid pressure against spine. ─ Could not bear least noise, and jar of foot on floor was so aggravating it made her cry out. ─ Loins affected after vomiting.

Limbs

Heaviness in all limbs after breakfast, necessity to lie down, internal chill so that he trembles.

Upper Limbs

Stinging from elbow to shoulder.

Lower Limbs

Peculiar drawing in r. hip, passing down thigh in evening when sitting and afterwards, with internal coldness below knee; > external warmth. ─ Knees trouble her in afternoon. ─ Feet swollen. ─ Pain in little toe as if pressed in walking.

Generalities

Tetanus with trismus. ─ Every shrill sound and reverberation penetrates her whole body, < teeth, and increases the vertigo, which then causes nausea. ─ Pain in all bones, as if every part would fall asunder, feeling as if broken from head to foot, then coldness. ─ Weakness: in morning, with sleepiness; with tremulousness and perspiration. ─ The sudden, violent symptoms were > by Acon .; later symptoms were > by Graph .

Skin

Hard pimple beside ball of thumb. ─ Itching: on back; calf; nape; at edge of shoulder in morning; on nates with knots; burning, on inner and upper part of l. ring-finger, with redness.

Sleep

Sleepy in morning. ─ Sleeps all day. ─ Deep sleep at night. ─ He often bites tip of his tongue in sleep, so that it is sore next day. ─ Sleep long and dreamful at midday, dreams of journeys in distant regions and of riding on horses (in one who scarcely ever sat upon a horse). ─ Dreams that he broke off a tooth.

Fever

Shaking chill: with foam at mouth; with headache and vomiting. ─ Sweats easily after walking and driving. ─ Icy sweat covering body, with fainting and vertigo, and vomiting at night.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

Mind

Time passes too quickly.
Talkative, inclined to mental exertion ; hilarity.
Want of self-confidence. θ Hysteria.
Great aversion to work ; especially to his usual avocation.
Great depression during headache ; weeping during toothache.

Sensorium

Vertigo : with nausea even to vomiting ; < 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.
It feels so thick in her head as if it were another strange head ; nausea and vomiting on least movement, particularly on closing eyes.
Vertigo with blindness caused by pain in eyes.
Whenever she closes her eyes she is afflicted with nausea and vertigo, < by noise and motion.

Inner head

Violent frontal headache with throbbing extending into occiput.
Violent frontal headache with heavy dull pressure behind eyes.
Heavy pressure on head ; pressing downward. θ Hysteria.
Headache on beginning to move.
Headache which she cannot describe or make clear to herself.
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.
Headache deep in socket of eyes, < in left eye ; head feels thick. θ Hysteria.
Sunstroke.
It feels so thick in her head as if it were another strange head, or as if she had something else upon it.
Head very much oppressed and heavy.
Oppression and fulness behind ears.
Headache behind eyes.
Headache like a pressing band in root of nose and over and around ears.
Pressing together in temples.
Stinging in left temple.
Suddenly in morning pressing pain over left eye, < by slightest motion, talking ; sickness of stomach with retching ; > from drinking warm water ; bowels open twice with colic and flatulency, after which head is <.
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.
Head internally hot, oppressed and heavy ; at same time joyousness and singing.
Evenings while walking is attacked with general headache with great depression.
Owing to pains deep in brain she must sit or walk ; it is impossible to lie.
Headache with nausea and vomiting like seasickness, and shaking chills. θ Climacteric period.

Outer head

Itching on scalp.
Itching on head and nape of neck, in evening.

Sight and eyes

Flickering before eyes in frequent paroxysms, even when closing eyes ; like a veil before eyes ; she must lie down. θ Hysteria.
Sensitive to light ; things look double ; fluttering, nausea and cold hands.
Dizziness and confusion of vision, everything went together, and became indistinct. θ Hysteria.
Hard, heavy dull pressure behind eyes.
Twitching in right eye.
On awaking, burning pain, internally, above inner canthus.
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.
(In sick :) Nausea while closing eyes ; changed into nausea when opening eyes (relieved by Moschus).
On closing eyes nausea and vomiting.

Hearing and ears

Worse from least noise, every shrill sound and reverberation penetrates her whole body, especially teeth, makes vertigo <, and causes nausea.
Rushing in both ears like a waterfall ; roaring.
Itching behind ears ; would like to scratch them off.
Pressure above ears ; fulness behind ears.

Smell and nose

Sneezing ; watery discharge, < in evening.
Chronic, offensive-smelling discharge, thick, yellow or yellowish-green. θ Nasal catarrh. θ Scrofulous
ozæna.
Pressure in root of nose and heaviness.
Nose dry as if too much air passed in ; itching in nose.
Paroxysms of frequent violent sneezing, and frequent necessity of blowing nose ; heaviness deep in upper nose.

Upper face

Face pale.

Lower face

In morning on awaking and sometimes at other times of day, lower jaw is immovable. θ Tetanus.
Froth before mouth with shaking chill.

Teeth and gums

Cool water affects teeth as if too cold.
Every shrill sound penetrates teeth.
Toothache in afternoon and evening causes weeping.
Burning, tensive pain in teeth, gums and palate.
Soreness of gums.

Taste, speech, tongue

Mouth feels furred, benumbed ; no proper taste ; tongue as if burned.
Salty taste, hawking of salty mucus.

Inner mouth

Mouth feels numb or slimy.
Foam at mouth during chill.
Mouth and nose feel too dry ; as if too much air were passing into mouth.

Palate and throat

Sore throat ; chilly ; bones sore ; difficult swallowing ; constipation ; urine scanty and high-colored.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Desire for wine, brandy, tobacco and acidulous fruits and drinks.
Much thirst.
Desire for food, does not know what to eat ; craves oranges and bananas. θ Hysteria.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

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.
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.
Nausea increased to vomiting during vertigo.
Nausea and vomiting like seasickness, with headache.
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.
Nausea and retching > by drinking warm water.
Seasickness of nervous women ; they shut their eyes to get rid of motion of vessel, and grow deathly sick.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Sensitiveness of region of stomach and epigastrium.

Hypochondria

Violent burning pain in hepatic region < from touch ; retching, bilious vomit.
Abscess of liver ; vertigo and nausea.
Anthrax of sheep, with great tumefaction of hypogastrium and great thirst.

Abdomen and loins

Pain in groins, after coitus.
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

Small, soft stool daily, with much straining.
Diarrhœa without colic, with vomiting and vertigo at night.
Spasmodic contraction of rectum and anus.
Bowels open twice with colic and flatulency, after which headache is <.
Heaviness in perineal region noticeable at every step ; it seems to him as if a lump were lying there.

Urinary organs

Increased urination.
Has to get up four or five times at night to pass water, does not pass much during day.

Male sexual organs

Sexual desire lessened ; weak erection during coition ; after coitus, pain in groins.
Seminal emission during siesta, with great force.
Small red spots upon glans.
Scrotum very much shrivelled.

Female sexual organs

Hysteria : during puberty ; at climaxis.
Menses omitted more than ten weeks in a woman in climacteric years ; gave birth to a son in following year.
Bruised sore pain in both ovarian regions, < 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. θ Hysteria.

Respiration

Increased inclination to take deep breaths, to sigh.
Difficulty in breathing on going up and down stairs. θ Hysteria.

Cough

Night cough.

Inner chest and lungs

Violent stitches in chest beneath l. shoulder through to throat.
Phthisis florida, in beginning.
Pinching stitches in left pectoral muscle.
Pressure as if something in œsophagus were slipping toward epigastrium, taking away breath for a few moments.

Heart, pulse and circulation

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

Neck and back

Itching in nape of neck, at edge of shoulder and on back.
Pain between shoulders.
Spinal irritation ; great sensitiveness between vertebræ sits sideways in a chair to avoid pressure against spine.
Could not bear least noise, and jar of foot on floor was so aggravating that it made her cry out. θ Spinal irritation.

Upper limbs

Stinging pain from elbow to shoulder.
Violent burning itching on inner and upper part of left ringfinger ; spot becomes very red, soon disappears.
Small hard pimple beside ball of thumb.

Lower limbs

Itching and nodes on nates.
In evening, while sitting, and later, peculiar drawing in r. 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.
Little toe pains as if pressed in walking.
Violent itching on calf.
Swelling of feet.

Limbs in general

Pains in bones as if broken, as if they were about to fall asunder.
Heaviness in limbs before chill.

Rest. position. motion

Lying : impossible, pains deep in brain ; must lie down with flickering before eyes.
Sitting : drawing in right thigh.
Stooping : < vertigo.
On rising : sick stomach <.
Drawing up leg : as if some one tapped her on groin.
Motion : least, vertigo < ; < headache ; pain over left eye < ; nausea < ; vomiting < ; pains in groin ; pain in ovarian regions.
Walking : headache with depression ; little toe pains ; sweats easily.
After every exertion : fainting.
Going up and down stairs : dyspnœa.
After washing clothes : nausea and fainting.

Nerves

Every shrill sound and reverberation penetrates through her whole body, particularly through teeth, and increases vertigo, which causes nausea.
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 vertebræ, sits sideways in a chair to avoid pressure.
From washing clothes in third week after confinement, attack of fainting.
(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. θ Hysteria.
Great lassitude and debility as if from great losses of blood. θ Anemia.
Tetanus.

Sleep

Sleepy all morning.
Deep night sleep.
During sleep bites tip of tongue.
Long and dreamful midday sleep ; dreams of journeys in distant regions and riding on horses ; a person who scarcely ever sat upon a horse.
Dreams that he broke off a tooth.

Time

At 4 A. M. : vomiting of bile.
Morning : lower jaw immovable ; nausea ; vomiting of bile ; sleepy.
Midday : long and dreamful sleep.
Afternoon : toothache.
Evening : headache with depression ; itching on head and back of neck ; coryza < ; toothache ; drawing in right thigh.
At 11 P. M. : wakes with vertigo.
Night : cough ; deep sleep ; vomiting.

Temperature and weather

Temperature and Weather
Warm water : nausea and retching >.
Warmth : agreeable ; pain in right leg with cold sensation.

Fever

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.
Icy sweat covers body, with fainting and vertigo, and vomiting at night.

Attacks, periodicity

For more than ten weeks : menses omitted.
During puberty : hysteria.
At climaxis : hysteria ; suppression of menses.

Locality and direction

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.
Right : twitching in eye.

Sensations

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 œsophagus were slipping toward epigastrium ; as if bones were broken and
would fall asunder ; feels as if dying.
Pain : deep in brain ; in region of groin ; between shoulders.
Sharp pain : from heart to left shoulder and arm.
Stitches : beneath left shoulder through to throat.
Pinching stitches : in left pectoral muscle.
Stinging : in left temple ; from elbow to shoulder.
Burning : above inner canthus ; in teeth, gums and palate ; in hepatic region ; in left ring finger.
Bruised pain : in ovarian regions.
Soreness : in throat ; in bones.
Pressure : behind eyes ; on head ; in temples ; over left eye ; above ears ; in root of nose ; in little toe.
Drawing : in right thigh.
Throbbing : over left eye and across forehead ; in right eye.
Tensive pain : in teeth, gums and palate.
Fulness : in head ; behind ears.
Heaviness : in head ; in root of nose ; in perineal region ; in limbs.
Thickness : in head.
Numbness : in mouth.
Tickling : in both sides of abdomen.
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.
Dryness : in mouth and nose.
Coldness : below right knee.

Tissues

Hysteria ; spinal irritation.
Scrofula ; rachitis, caries, necrosis.
Bones pain as if they would fall asunder.
Chronic catarrh of nose, discharge offensive, thick, yellow or yellowish-green.
Phthisis florida.
Infantile atrophy, scrofulous enlargement of glands ; constant desire for food and drink, but does not know what.
Nodosities on various parts, especially buttocks ; scrofulosis.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Touch : pain in hepatic region <.
Pressure : pain in ovarian regions ; spine sensitive.
Closing eyes : vertigo.
On board a vessel : vertigo and seasickness.
Riding in a carriage : nausea.
From person walking over floor : headache < ; spine sensitive, must cry out.
From least noise : headache < ; vertigo < ; penetrates whole body, especially teeth.

Skin

Violent itching.
Itching of skin on various parts of body. θ Hysteria.
Itching : on head ; behind ears ; in nose ; on back of neck ; on edge of shoulders ; on back ; on nates ; on calf.
Pimples near ball of thumb.
Knots on nates.
Scrofula.

Stage of life, constitution

Mrs. S., æt. 38, rather fleshy, bilious temperament, suffering several weeks ; vertigo.
XX, in W., suffered for five years from painful pressure in region of liver, with periodical vomiting.
Mrs. ---, symptoms of spasms during labor ; second month after confinement hysteria.
A woman, æt. 70 ; sick headache.

Relations

Antidoted by : Acon . (sensitiveness to noises) ; Moschus (nausea) ; Graphit .
Compatible : after Calcar . and Lycop .
Compare : Aranea .

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

James Tyler Kent · Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Séror HTML text (Kent d. 1916; public domain)

Lecture

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.

Sadness and mental depression. Hysterical conduct, hilarity. Aversion to work, and to his business. joyousness and singing with headache.

Vertigo on closing the eyes, from motion, from stooping, on board a vessel, from every noise, with nausea, vomiting, and cold sweat. Awakens at 11 P.M. with vertigo and slow pulse. Vertigo with dim vision and pain in eyes. Vertigo and nausea from closing the eyes when kneeling in church. Vertigo like sea-sickness.

The headache is most violent, aggravated on motion, aggravated talking, aggravated from warm drinks, with nausea and vomiting. Sensitive to light and noise. Pain in forehead extending to occiput, aggravated from noise, motion, and cold air. Headache on beginning to move. Sensation as if vertex did not belong to her, as though she could lift it off.

Pain deep in eyes. Complaints from sunstroke. Pressing pain in temples. Pulsating pain over left eye and across forehead. Cannot lie down with the headache. Itching of scalp, and nape in evening.

This remedy cures many nervous eye symptoms. Flickering, even when eyes are closed. Like a veil before the eyes. Double vision. Sensitive to light. Diplopia. Fluttering. Nausea, and cold hands. Pressing pain behind eyes. On closing eyes, nausea and vomiting.

The hearing is very acute, Every least noise penetrates the whole body, especially the teeth, aggravates vertigo and causes nausea. Rushing noises in ears like a waterfall. Pressure about the ears.

Fullness behind the ears. It has cured most obstinate catarrh of nose with offensive thick yellow or greenish yellow discharges.

Pressing pain at root of nose, Dryness in nose. Paroxysms of violent sneezing.

The face is pale and sickly. Lockjaw in morning on waking. Foam at mouth with chill. Teeth sensitive to cold water and shrill sounds. Toothache causes weeping. Burning in teeth. Salty taste in mouth. The tongue feels as if burnt. Mouth feels numb, Taste impaired.

Desires wine and sour drinks. Much thirst. Desires food, but does not know what. Nausea with many complaints and from many causes. Nausea in the morning on rising, from noise, on closing the eyes, when looking too long at one object, on motion, from talking, from fast riding in a carriage, from riding on the cars or on a ship.

Nausea with headache, with vertigo; nausea aggravated from warm drinks. In seasickness of nervous women, when they close the eyes to get rid of the motion of the vessel they become deathly sick. Tenderness of stomach.

This is a useful remedy in many liver conditions, with burning pain, aggravated from touch, motion and noise, and bilious vomiting.

Pain in groin in a man after coitus; on motion, and on drawing up the limb. Constipation, with difficult, soft stool. Contraction of anus. Enlarged prostate gland with sensation of a lump in perineum,

Must arise several times during the night to pass urine. Copious urine during the night. Feeble erection and diminished desire. Seminal emissions during sleep in the afternoon. Sore bruised pain in the ovarian region, aggravated by motion. Menses suppressed. Sighing and short breath on ascending stairs.

Stitching in chest beneath left shoulder to throat. Quick consumption. Anxiety about heart. Very sensitive spine, aggravated from motion or, noise, a jar, stepping. Pain between scapula. Spinal anaemia. Itching of back and nape.

Drawing in thigh with a cold sensation, ameliorated by warmth. Violent itching of calf. Swelling of feet. Heaviness of the limbs. Pains in bones as if broken.

Shaking chill. Sweats easily. Icy cold perspiration with fainting, vertigo and vomiting at night.

Violent itching of skin.