Materia Medica de A a Z

TARENTULA (TARANTULA) CUBENSIS (tarent-c)

A toxaemic 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 (Crot-h); Echin; Anthraci; Bell; Apis.

Modalities

Better: smoking.

Worse: night.

Dose

Sixth to thirtieth potency.