Theridion Curassavicum

J. Balfour observed the effect of eating the seeds on two boys, 8 and 6 1/2.

This peculiar symptom was noted: "A tendency to sleep, disturbed every three to four minutes by

irritation in the throat, and the discharge of a mouthful of frothy mucus with a sort of gulp; then

the child would lie down and close his eyes until again disturbed."

Restless; finds pleasure in nothing. Time passes too quickly.

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.

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.

Pain worse anyone walking over floor. Vertigo, with nausea and vomiting on least motion, particularly when closing eyes.

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, < 1.—Throbbing or pressive headache, sudden, over |. eye-—Aching behind

• ▸eyes.
• ▸—Stinging in |.
• ▸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.

Luminous vibrations before eyes; sensitive to light. Pressure behind eyeballs. Throbbing over left eye.

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.

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.

Discharge yellowish, thick, offensive; ozaena (Puls; Thuja).

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 ozzena).

Face pale.—Froth before mouth with shaking chill—Jaw immovable in morning on

waking and at other times of the day, then opening involuntarily.

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.

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.

Tendency to sleep, disturbed every three to four minutes by irritation in the throat

and discharge of a mouthful of frothy mucus with a sort of gulp; then the child would lie down

and close his eyes again until again disturbed.

• ▸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.

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.

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: 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 perineal region, which he has had for a very long

time, is now felt at every step, with feeling of a lump there.

Urine increased.—Has to rise four or five times in night to micturate; does

not pass much during day.

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.—Dysmenorrheea, intense, in 1. ovary, with intense headache, extreme

sensitiveness of the cervix, chilliness, &c.

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).

Pain in upper left chest (Myrt; Pix; Anis). Pain in left floating ribs. Cardiac anxiety and pain. Pinching in left pectoral muscle.

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.

Violent stitches high in chest beneath 1. shoulder, felt even in throat.—Pinching in 1.

pectoral muscle.—Pressure as if something in cesophagus were slipping towards epigastrium,

taking away breath for a few moments.

Anxiety about heart, sharp pains radiate to arm and |. shoulder.—Pulse slow with

vertigo.

Sensitiveness between vertebrae; avoids pressure on spine. Stinging pains.

Itching on nape, at top of shoulder and on back.—Pain between the

shoulders.—Spinal irritation; great sensitiveness between vertebree.—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.

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.

Stinging thrusts everywhere. Sensitive skin in thighs. Itching sensations.

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 |. ring-finger, with redness.

• ▸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.

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.

Thevetia.

• ▸Thevetia nereifolia.
• ▸Cerbera thevetia.
• ▸Ahovai-baum (of the Antilles).
• ▸N.
• ▸O.
• ▸Apocynacez.

Tincture or trituration of the seeds.

Thirtieth potency.

Itching and burning. It h\s cured a dry itching eczema of the extremities and other parts of the skin after Afs, and Sulph. have failed.

It is a very deep acting, long acting remedy and a most useful remedy

in skin affections.

Hysterical sensitivity with extreme aggiavation 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 ii 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.

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

trembles.