Tarentula Cubensis

Cuban Spider

by William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory

A toxæmic medicine, septic conditions. Diphtheria . Adapted to the most severe types of inflammation and pain, early and persistent prostration. Various forms of malignant suppuration. Purplish hue and burning, stinging pains. Bubo. It is the remedy for pain of death; soothes the last struggles. Pruritus, especially about genitals . Restless feet. Intermittent septic chills. Bubonic plague. As a curative and preventive remedy especially during the period of invasion.

Head

Dizziness after heat and hot perspiration. Dull ache on top of head. Shooting pain through left eye across frontal region.

Gastric

Stomach feels hard, sore. Loss of appetite, except for breakfast.

Back

Itches across kidney region.

Extremities

Hands tremble, turgid with blood.

Urinary

Retention. Cannot hold urine on coughing.

Skin

Red spots and pimples. Feels puffed all over. Carbuncles , burning, stinging pains. Purplish hue. Gangrene. Abscesses, where pain and inflammation predominate. Scirrhus of breasts. "Senile" ulcers.

Sleep

Drowsiness. Sleep restless. Sleep prevented by harsh cough.

Relationship

Compare: Ars; Pyrog; Crotal; Echin; Anthrac; Bellad; Apis .

Modalities

Better , smoking. Worse , night.

Dose

Sixth to thirtieth potency.

Tarentula Cubensis across the other classic books

Tarentula Cubensis appears in 6 of the 13 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“BLUISH, purple, livid, etc.”
Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“Cellular tissue. Cold drinks. Exertion. Spasmodic difficulty of breathing. Shattering cough; pertussis. Slow incubation, then rapid onset, with alarming prostration, atrocious burning or sharp stinging pains, board like HARDNESS OF PART and copious sweat. Intense diphtheritic fever. Malignancy. Sepsis. Carbuncle…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Mygale Cubensis. Arana peluda. Cuban Tarantula. N. O. Araneideæ. Tincture of whole spider. Carbuncle / Chorea / Intermittents "The Mygale Cubensis, which may be called the Cuban Tarentula, also found in South Carolina and Texas, is a larger spider, of a dark brown colour, less poisonous, and covered with more hairs…”
Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: cuban spider; large, dark-brown and hairy spider of cuba. This remedy is indicated in septic conditions, with great prostration (Ars., Bapt., Kali-P., Lach., Pyrog.) (Bl.). The affected parts are of a purplish colour (Apis, Lach.) and there are burning, stinging pains (Apis, Ars., Nit-Ac.) (Bl.). The…”
Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Or the hairy spider. It is one of the most efficacious remedies for boils, abscesses, felons, or swellings of any kind, where the tissues put on a bluish color, and there are intense burning pains. We used to think we had two great remedies in Arsenicum and Anthracinum for these swellings; but Tarentula Cubensis is…”

Tarentula Cubensis in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Tarentula Cubensis in 27 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in EXTREMITIES (8), SKIN (6), ABDOMEN (4), BACK (4), CHEST (2).

EXTREMITIES - FELON (Onychia,Paronychia,Panaritium,etc.)beginning in nail - malignant with burning
GENERALITIES - ABSCESSES - burning
SKIN - ERUPTIONS - carbuncle - burning
FEVER - SEPTIC fever
EXTREMITIES - FELON (Onychia,Paronychia,Panaritium,etc.)beginning in nail - panaritium
EXTREMITIES - ERUPTION - Leg - excoriations
ABDOMEN - BUBO - burning,with
BACK - ABSCESS - Cervical region
BACK - ABSCESS
SKIN - ERUPTIONS - pustules - malignant
SKIN - ERUPTIONS - carbuncle
GENERALITIES - ABSCESSES
SKIN - ERYSIPELAS
EXTREMITIES - ERUPTION - exuding - thin water
BACK - ERUPTIONS - boils - Shoulders between
EXTREMITIES - OOZING,from oedematous legs
EXTREMITIES - WATER sensation as if cold water were running from clavicle down to toes along a narrow line - Legoozing from the legs
ABDOMEN - PAIN - burning - Inguinal region - glands
EXTREMITIES - CARBUNCLES
EXTREMITIES - ERUPTION - Leg - moist

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