Tarentula Cubensis

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

• ▸Blue circles round eyes.
• ▸—Eyes glassy, red.
• ▸—R.
• ▸pupil much dilated, 1.

contracted.—Feeling of a hair in 1. eye, which pricked it; pricking caused her to rub it, < on

• ▸waking.
• ▸—Pain in |.
• ▸eye as if cold water poured into it.
• ▸—Sensation: of splinter; sand; eye-lash; pin

pricking eyes.—Shooting, lancinating, stinging pains in eyes.—Light irritates eyes; company

• ▸annoys him.
• ▸—Itching of eyes and very thick tears.
• ▸—Pain in eyebrows.
• ▸—Lids agglutinated on

• ▸waking.
• ▸—Itching of lids; herpes.
• ▸—Photophobia.
• ▸— Vision: weak, obscure; sees ghosts, faces,

flashes.

Profuse mucous secretion from r. ear.—Violent pain at external meatus, < by touch,

which = sensation as if a nail were driven through head, or a general shaking.—On rising snap in

r. ear followed by thick, brownish discharge —Snapping cracking in r. ear with pain and

hiccough.—Deafness with buzzing, whizzing, and vertigo.—Noise in ears: in night < waking; in r.

with mucous discharge; in r. of clear bell on waking, vanishing on getting up.—When a snapping

or cracking is felt the hearing is >.

Sneezing and coryza (r.).—Profuse epistaxis, with a flow of black, quickly coagulating

• ▸blood.
• ▸—Great itching in |.
• ▸nostril and frequent sneezing.
• ▸—Epistaxis > throbbing carotids and

fulness in head.

Face: expression of terror; pale, earthy, strongly contrasting with purple neck; flushed

with burning heat, also heat and sweat of palms.—Burning and scorching sensating on lips as

after a fever—Pain in angles of lower jaw, so severe he thinks he is going crazy.—Pain in lower

jaw as if all teeth going to fall out—Pain in direction of r. lower maxillary nerve, with a tickling

sensation in stomach, dizziness, vanishing of sight, buzzing in ears.

Toothache: with sense of formication; with hiccough; as if loose, and electric sparks

passed through them; throbbing; < coming in con I tact with the air—Great dryness of mouth and

teeth.—Painful aphthz on tongue; with fetid breath —Tongue drawn backward preventing

speech.—Patch of suspicious cancerous nature in mouth and on fauces.—Palate feels scalded.

Sore throat: when swallowing, at same time shooting in |. eye; when coughing;

talking; yawning; with painful constriction when smoking.—Sensation when swallowing of

constriction in throat—Throbbing sore throat.—Sensation as if cold water continually dropping

down throat.—R. tonsil: painfully swollen; painful constriction, extending to ear, < by

swallowing.—Fauces inflamed purplish.—External swelling of neck so great as to cause danger of

choking.—Constant throbbing pain In cervical and submaxillary glands, with occasional sharp

stinging pains.—Tonsillitis; high fever, delirtum, red face, tonsils so swollen, suffocation

feared.—(Diphtheria with same symptoms.)

Loss of appetite, intense thirst; general prostration; vomiting after eating; and

• ▸getting out of bed; craving for raw food; disgust for meat.
• ▸—(Disorders of pregnancy.
• ▸).
• ▸—Opium

habit.—Taste of food: flat; bitter; salty: piquant.—Flat or sweetish taste in mouth.

Hiccough; with toothache.—Nausea: with dizziness compelling to lie

down.—Vomiting: acid; mucous; with intense burning pains in stomach and cesophagus.—Pain in

stomach < by drinking water—Gastric symptoms with slight pains in roots of teeth, esp. when

touching each other.—(Many digestive symptoms are peculiar on account of accompanying

sympathetic neuralgic pains, in sides of head, face, ears, teeth, malar bones.)

Swelling of hypochondria.—Lancinating pain in spleen, with pain in stomach

and uterus.—Hepatic region painful to touch.—Sharp pain in umbilical region; violent burning in

abdomen and rectum; stools profuse, dark, fetid, with violent urging;

• ▸constipation.
• ▸—Bloating.
• ▸—Borborygmus.
• ▸—Fibrous tumour in hypogastrium compressing genitals,

and causing uterine discharges —Burning in hypogastrium with great weight, interfering with

walking and causing pruritus of vulva—Pain in hypogastrium, hips and uterus, as if these parts

were compressed; at same time unconquerable drowsiness.—Pain in groins; with relaxed

sensation; as from rupture, esp. r., < by cold water.

Pain and burning in anus after stool.—Repeated shooting in anus.—Violent

effort to have a passage; hard stool with blood.—Tenesmus.—Constipation; with involuntary

passing of urine on coughing or any effort.—Profuse diarrhoea with prostration, nausea, vomiting,

fainting.—Stools: three or four times daily, very dark, fetid, partly formed, containing much

mucus, expelled with difficulty, and followed by smarting and burning in anus; stools occur

immediately on having head washed.—Weakness of sphincter, faeces appear natural but are

passed as fast as accumulated.

Retention. Cannot hold urine on coughing.

Extreme sexual excitement; menses too early and profuse; pains

and spasm of uterus; pruritus vulvee; leucorrhcea.—Violent nymphomania; < from

coitus.—Nymphomania; reflex chorea; hypereemia and hypereesthesia of sexual organs.—Sexual

desire in a woman who had a shining callosity on |. index finger.—Fibrous tumour of uterus with

bearing-down pains.—Discharge of blood alternately with leucorrhcea.—Uterine discharge with

pain in groins.—Spasmodic pains < when trying to walk.—Expulsion of gas from

uterus.—Anguish, malaise in sexual organs; impossible to walk; seems as if a living body moving

or tingling in stomach with. tendency to rise to throat.—Sensation as if uterus had not room

enough and were pushing away intestines.—Pain in uterus with constrictive headache.—Shooting:

in vagina; in genitals followed by leucorrhcea.—Cutting in uterus or pain as if a heavy blow

struck on it.—Pruritus vulvee, after menses.—Profuse menstruation: with erotic spasms; crossness;

ennui, and deep dissatisfaction; < after sleep.—Menses seven days too early.—(Uterine

• ▸neuralgia.
• ▸—Dysmenorrhcea.
• ▸).
• ▸—Sensation of motion in uterus, like a foetus.
• ▸—Disorders of

pregnancy.—Swelling of breasts with itching of nipples.

Extreme sexual excitement, lasciviousness almost to

insanity —Onanism followed by prostatic ailments and hypochondriasis.—Painfulness of genitals;

testes relaxed, painful to touch; pain in groins and stricture of

• ▸urethra.
• ▸—Erections.
• ▸—Emissions.
• ▸—Indolent tumour developed in each testicle-——Heaviness, pain

• ▸and great swelling of (r.
• ▸) testicle and cord.
• ▸—Drawing pulling in left cord.
• ▸—During emission of

semen a sensation of heat is felt in its passage, it is rose-coloured containing some

blood.—Difficult coitus, followed by fatigue and cough.

Roughness in larynx and trachea with seine dry cough, and smarting

• ▸in eyelids.
• ▸—Aphonia with increased difficulty of breathing.
• ▸—Hoarseness.
• ▸—Cough: painful; dry;

gagging; fatiguing; = distensive pains in head, chest, and uterus with sadness and anxiety; but

when walking in open air a sensation of happiness.—Cough when getting out of bed, with

vomiting and involuntary emissions of urine.—Chronic suffocating catarrh.—Loose cough

followed by tickling in larynx and bronchial tubes which renews cough.—Attacks of suffocation,

with crying, screaming, and restlessness.

Great oppression in chest; panting respiration.—Sensation as of a blow at base of 1.

lung.—In chest, pains; stinging; pressive; cramp-like; shooting.

Diseases of heart < by wetting hands in cold water.—Preecordial anxiety,

tremulous beating of heart.—Pain in heart as if squeezed, also in aorta.—Nervous spells with pain

• ▸in |.
• ▸ovary.
• ▸—Sensation as if heart turned or twisted round.
• ▸—Palpitation, stitches interfering with

breathing.—Painful throbbing of carotids, with fulness in head, esp. region of medulla, > by

epistaxis.—Trembling and thumping of heart as from fright or bad news.—Pulse: hard, infrequent;

irregular.

Itches across kidney region.

Neck stiff; cannot move it without pain —Pain |. side of neck when turning

head to r—Mole on neck with sensation as of needles sticking into it when touched.—Pain in

neck and back followed by general paralysis.—Swelling (or tumour, or rheumatoid prominence)

on spinal column with laboured breathing.—Tabes dorsalis.—Scapula: pain in; shooting pain

• ▸under 1.
• ▸—Shooting in 1.
• ▸loin above hip——Acute convulsive pains in |.
• ▸lower part of vertebral

column on appearance of menses, ceasing with them.—Repeated lancinating, shooting pain in

coccyx.—(Coccygodynia after confinement; burning, smarting leucorrhoea, painful uneasiness in

coccyx > standing, < slightest movement, sitting, lying in bed, or least pressure).

Heaviness in arms (soon).—Squeezed pain in 1. arm and hand

• ▸(forenoon).
• ▸—Pain and swelling in wrists.
• ▸—Restlessness of hands.
• ▸—Unbearable pains in thumbs,

• ▸esp.
• ▸r.
• ▸, > pressure.
• ▸—Burning and sweating of palms.

Uneasiness of legs, must keep moving them.—Weakness of legs, cannot

plant them firmly; do not obey will—Numbness of legs followed by paralysis.—Convulsive

• ▸shaking and twitching in r.
• ▸leg —Pain in r.
• ▸internal malleolus.
• ▸—Shooting: in r.
• ▸tendo Achillis; r.

• ▸great toe; r.
• ▸little toe —Painful cramp in r.
• ▸sole.
• ▸—Itching in soles of feet.

Hands tremble, turgid with blood.

• ▸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.

The bite is painless; the person is not sensible of it till next day, when an inflamed

pimple is found surrounded by a scarlet areola; from the pimple to some other part of the body a

red erysipelatous line is seen, marking the line followed by the spider over the skin after

biting. —This pimple swells, the inflamed areola spreads, chills and fever set in with copious

sweat and retention of urine; the pimple becomes a hard, large, exceedingly painful abscess,

ending by mortification of the integuments over it, and having several small openings,

discharging a thick, sanious matter containing pieces of mortified cellular tissue, fasciz, and

tendons; the openings by growing run into one another, forming a large cavity; at this period the

fever takes the intermittent type with evening exacerbations.—In two cases, in delicate children,

the bite proved fatal; but the majority recover in from three to six weeks.

Drowsiness. Sleep restless. Sleep prevented by harsh cough.

Yawning.—Sleeplessness.—Dreams: of business; of drowning; sad with

weeping.—Wakes up cross.

Chills followed by intense burning fever supervene on second or third day; with

great thirst, anxiety, restlessness, headache, delirium, copious perspiration and retention of

urine.—Later the fever takes the intermittent type, with evening paroxysms, accompanied by

diarrhoea and great prostration.

Carbuncle. Chorea. Intermittents.

Characteristics——"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 than the Tarentula Hispanica" (Hering). The chief uses to which 7rn. c.

has been put are: (/) Carbuncle, even to sloughing; with great prostration and diarrhoea. (2)

Intermittent fever, with evening exacerbation. A keynote symptom is "atrocious pains." A case of

• ▸chorea in a girl of twelve is reported (H.
• ▸M.
• ▸, March, 1901) cured with 7rn.
• ▸c.
• ▸6.
• ▸The movements

were confined to the left side, and occurred chiefly at night, when 7rn. c. was prescribed.

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

Sixth to thirtieth potency.

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

Rheumatism checked by putting extremities in cold water, panting respiration,

anxiety, cramps in heart or twisting pains; arm feels tense, stretched; morning and night cold

extremities—Weakness, numbness, and dulness.—Necessity to move legs extends to hands with

desire of taking something and throwing it away; to roll something between fingers; followed by

general fatigue.—Great pain in knuckles and toes, can scarcely bear the weight of lightest linen.