Spiders form the largest and most widely distributed order of class of animals called Arachnida. There are thousands of different species of spiders. The common classification is as follows: 1. ARANOMORPHAE or DIPNEUMONES, with one pair of lungs. 2. MYGALOMORPHAE or TETRAPNEUMONES, with two pairs of lungs.

1. SPIDER GROUP
BY
DR PREETHI JAMES P
MD PART -1

2.  Spider belongs to
 Class : Arachnida
 Phylum: Arthopoda
 Kingdom: Animalia.
 Arachnida bodies are segmented with well developed heads and hard external
skeletons. They have a pair of pincer claws and 4 pairs of legs, all attached to the
Cephalothorax.
 LIFE SPAN: Spider lives up to one year. Tarentula lives up to 15 years.
 Body of animals belonging to class Arachnida consist of two parts:
1.Front part-head and chest closely joined forming cephalothorax.
2.Back-the abdomen.
 Class Arachnida is divided into three types:
1.Acaridae[Mites]
2.Aranidae[Spiders]
3.Scorpoidae[Scorpions]

3. CLASSIFICATION:
ARANOMORPHAE/DIPNEUMONES:
1. one pair of lungs.
2. They spin cobwebs in the air.
3. The poison glands and ducts
are elongated and the claws
move horizontally like drill
pin.
E.g. Tarentula hispanica
MYGALOMORPHAE/TETRAPNEUMONES:
1. Two pairs of lungs.
2. Many camouflage the hole with a
twig or a leaf of the tree like a
mouse trap mechanism. Always
live in funnels and tubular holes in
the ground.
3. They have short glands and ducts
and their fangs move vertically.
E.g. Mygale, Tarentula cubensis

4. GREEK MYTHOLOGY:
 In ancient Greece there lived a woman called Arachne who was
famous for her skill in weaving. Her art skills made her very
conceited, thinking that there was none better than her.
 She challenged the Goddess Athene to a weaving contest.
Arachne’s effort was very beautiful and it aroused jealousy in
Athene was felt threatened by Arachne. Athene was the
goddess of all weaving.
 In her fit of rage she tore Arachne’s wearing to pieces.
 Arachne was very upset and she hung herself, where upon
Athene changed her into a spider and condemned her to go
on weaving forever.
 Hence, the name Arachnida which really means “Children of
Arachne.”

5. SPIDER POISON:
 Poisons are one of the defensive mechanisms exhibited by
animals.
 When spiders bite:
 They PARALYZE their victims with poison SECRETED FROM
GLAND in their jaws.
 The venom are poisonous to such an animal like mouse,
sparrow, but only are few poisonous to Human.
 It poisons the blood. The poison decomposes the blood. It
has paralyzing action on nerves and irritates the peripheral
nerves.

6. PATHO-PHYSIOLOGICAL CHANGES:
 Severe pain and burning sensation in extremities, lumbar region and severe
backache.
 Increased or decreased arterial pressure is seen.
 Skin - Cutaneous and mucosal findings, roselous, vesicular papule. Pustular
rashes on body with intense itching.
 GI findings- acute abdominal pain with rigidity of abdominal muscle.
 Urinary findings- Moderate albuminuria and Haematuria.
 C.N.S Findings- Frequent psychomotor excitation, occasional delirium, rarely
meningeal symptoms with contraction of extremities, paralysis of facial muscles
and widening of pupils.
 Blood findings- Moderate leucocytosis with raised E.S.R, increased neutrophil
count.

7. SPHERES OF ACTION:

8. DOCTRINE OF SIGNATURE:
 1. Spider has eight legs surrounding the whole body and in
constant motion; THE PATIENTS ARE ALWAYS RESTLESS.
 2. The spider captures its prey in a very cunning and
deceptively woven web. THE PATIENTS ARE CUNNING AND
DECEPTIVE IN THEIR BEHAVIOUR
 3. The action of the poison of the spider is very violent. THE
COMPLAINTS OF THE PATIENTS ARE ALSO VIOLENT
 4. The male spider is known to dance during the
mating season to attract the females. THE
PATIENT DESIRES TO DANCE WHICH RELIEVES HIS
COMPLAINTS

9. REMEDIES:
1. ARANEA DIADEM – Spider papal cross
2. ARANEA SCIENCIA – Gray spider
3. TARENTULA HISPANICA – Spanish spider
4. TARANTULA CUBENSIS – Cuban spider
5. THERIDION CURASSAVICUM – West Indian orange spider
6. LATRODECTUS MACTANS – American black widow
7. LATRODECTUS HESSELTI – New South Wales spider
8. LATRODECTUS KAPILO– New Zealand spider
9. MYGALE LASIODORA – Black Cuban spider
10. TELA ARNEARUM – Spider’s spider web

10. CHARACTERISTICS:
 Constitution: Restless and nervous hypersensitive
people. Suited for those who are quick and agile,
having colorful personalities. People with artistic traits
and very active.
 Miasm: Tubercular & Syphilitic
 Temperament: Restless, nervous and irritable.
 Diathesis: Tubercular
 Thermal relationship: Chilly, very sensitive to cold.
 Ailments from: Noise, motion, grief, stooping, closing
eyes, sound, riding, washing, sea-traveling, fright,
sepsis, disappointed love.

11. PERIODICITY:
 Produce marked periodicity of complaints, INTERMITTENT.
 TARENTULA HISP – complaints recur at the same period annually
or at the same hour every day or every other day
 TARENT CUB – intermittent fever agg evening troubles occur at
the same hour every day
 ARANEA DIADEMA– chill occurring at same hour every day or
every other day
 ARANEARUM TELA – periodical disease in broken down persons.
Periodic headache with extreme nervous erythrism and obstinate
intermittent.

12. SIDE AFFINITY:
LEFT:
 THERIDION
 TAR CUB
 LATERO MACT
 LATERODACTUS KALIPO
 TAR-HISP – symptoms alternate
to right and then to back
RIGHT:
 ARAENEA DIADEMA (right
trifascia)
 MYGATE LASI

13. CHILLINESS:-Almost alt spider remedies are chilly.
 ARANEA DIADEMA – great sensitiveness to cold or damp air. Extreme
chilliness, chill as if bones are made of ice. Coldness with pain in long bones
, any amount of covering gives no warmth.
 ARANEARUM TELA- obstinate and continuous chillness with intermittent
fever
 LAT-MACTANS- chilliness with icy coldness of extremities, skin icy cold like
marble even in fever
 TARENTULA-HISP – chilly yet desire for and is ameliorated in open air
 Exception:
 ARANEA SCINENCIA – intolerance of warm weather, all symptoms are
aggravated in warm weather. Indolence, weakness and prostration
 LAT MACTANS – severe prostration ,but patient cannot lie still due to
restlessness
 TARENTUIA CUB – easy and persistent prostration in septic conditions and
diphtheria

14. SEXUAL COMPLAINTS -
 Increased desire nymphomania and chordee
 TAR-HISP- nymphomania and increased desire in
both sexes.
 MYGALE- violent painful erection and chordee
 THERIDION – sexual desire decreased, weak
erection during coition, hysteria during puberty
and climaxis
 LATER-KATTPO- itching of perpuce

15. ANGINA PECTORIS:
 LATER-MACTANS
- violent pains in chest radiating to neck and
shoulders and to left arm and fingers
- Screams with pains as if he will lose his breath
and die
 TARENT-HISP:
- angina pectoris ameliorated in open air,
constrictive feeling in chest

16. CHOREA AND CONVULSIONS.
 MYGALE LASSIDORA- twitching of fascial muscles with hot and
flushed face. Constant motion of whole body,
uncontrollable movements of hands and legs which stops only
during sleep
 TARENT HISP- violent involuntary movements of different parts of
body, chorea of right arm and left leg.
 TARENTULA CUB – left sided chorea.

17. LYMPHANGITIS:
 LAT-HASSEILI - malignant conditions with
pyeamia. Great edema of the neighbor hood of
wound
 LAFCERO-KALIPO -affected area is scarlet red
with stinging and burning pains
 MYGALE – redness along the course of
lymphatics. Local inflammation from foot to knee
leaving large violet spot which changed hi a few
hours to green, red to blue discoloration along
the course of lymphatics.
 TAR-HISP – affects the lymphatic leading to
congestion cellulites and lymphadenitis

18. SLEEP DISORDERS:
 Almost all spiders disturbs sleep except Aranea scinencia and Aranearum tela
which has very much disposition to sleep
 ARANEA DIADEMA – restlessness and frequent waking with sensation of
enlargement and heaviness as if arms and hands were swollen.
 LAT-HASSELTT – sleeplessness in malignant septic conditions.
 TAR CUB- sleep prevented by harsh cough
 TAR-HISP-sleeplessness awakens with weeping .
 THEHDION – late sleep in morning; bites tongue in sleep

19. PALPITATION:
 Almost all spiders produces rapidity of pulse rate
 THERIDION - rapid pulse in morning
 MYGALE - palpitation and rapid pulse
 LATRODUCTUS MACTANS- very rapid pulse 130-140/min too rapid
to count and too thready to be felt especially in angina
 TARENTULA HISP- trembling and tremulousness of hearts from a
bad news- Pulse hard and irregular
 Exception :
 ARANEARUM TEIA – reduces pulse rate
LATERODACTAS KATIPO -almost pulse less/ very slow about 12-
14/min

20. FEAR APPREHENSION AND ANXIETY:
 Almost all spiders have great fear of death
 LAT-MACT – extreme anxiety, fear of death especially in
angina.
 LACT KALIPO – Anxious and extreme pallor
 MYGALE - fear of death
 THERIDION - despondent want of self confidence,
great inclination to be startled
 TAREN-HISP – fear when outside her usual
surroundings. Fear of death and of impending calamity.
 ARANEA DIADEMA- fear of death

21. RESTLESSNESS:
 TAREN.HISP – never sits at one place, always in motion
although motion does not relieve.
 LAT.MACT - restlessness and prostration with angina
pectoris
 MYGALE - restlessness, constant motion of hands and feet.
 TARENTULA CUB – restless feet
 THERIDION - restless/ busy starts, desire to occupy himself

22. NERVOUS SYMPTOMS:
 ARANEA DIAD -numbness of parts supplied by ulnar nerve
 ARANEA SCINENCIA – constant twitching of tower eyelids
 ARANEARUM TELA - numbness of hands and legs
 LAT-KATIPO – twitching of muscles ,nervous twitching all over with
spasm of masseeter muscles
 TAN HISP – twitching of muscles/ nerves highly strung restless and
hyperesthesia of skin eye and fingertips
 THERIDION -hypersensitiveness, every shrill sound penetrates the
whole body especially teeth
 MYGALE- twitching and contraction of fascia.

23. SEPTIC CONDITIONS:
 TARENTULA.CUBEN - malignant septic conditions/
carbuncles, boils/anthrax, abscess etc with atrocious
burning pains. A good remedy for plague.
 TAT. HASSELI - septic states with pain and pyeamia
INTERCOSTALS NEURALGIA:
 ARANEA DIADEMA – sever intractable pains along nerves
aggravated m damp weather and has marked periodicity
 THERIDION – pain in upper part of chest and apex of right
lung with tendency to pthisis

24. DEPRESSION AND SADNESS:
 TAR.HISP -depression with prostration. Melancholy with quick change
of mood and becomes cheerful Longs for death.
 MYGALE -sad alternate day, depressed with anxious expression
 THERIDION – depression with headache and weeping.
 LAT-KATIPO -nervous depression
IRRITABILITY, ANGER AND EXCITEMENT:
 Tar.hisp – irritable and anger from contradiction
 Mygale-excitement about business
 TheRIdion-excitement aggravated at night
 Lat mactans-screams with excitement

25. BONES CARIES AND NECROSIS:
 THERIDION- caries and necrosis of bones. Pain In
all bones as if broken
 ARANEA DIADEMA – pain in tendoachilles,
periostitis of os calcis, necrosis and bones feels
as if made of ice
HAEMORRHAGIC TENDENCY:
 ARANEA DIADEMA – haemoptysis in anemic
subjects. Hemorrhage from uterus and lungs.
 LAT MACTANS – haemorrhage, black blood, non
coagulable

26. DESIRES:
 Alcoholic drinks- Ther +
 Ashes – Tarentula hi +
 Bananas – Theridion +
 Cold drinks - Tarentula his
++
 Seasoned food- Tarentula
h ++
 Raw food- tarentula h +
 Tobacco- ther+
AVERSIONS:
 Bread – Tarentula h +
 Meat – Ther +
Tarentula h ++
 Chocolate –
Tarentula h +
 Desire – Tarentula h +

27. DREAMS:
(1) Tarentula hispanica
 Animals, Business, Danger, Dead bodies, Insults (abused),Misfortune
(accidents, disaster, events, unfortunate, loss),Pleasant (joyous,
peaceful, quiet, wonderful).
(2) Theridion
 Disease teeth breaking off, Horse riding, Journeys (difficulties, foreign
country)
(3) Mygale
 Absurd (strange),Ridiculous
(4) Aranea Diadema
 Frightful (anxious)

28. CLINICAL CONDITIONS:
 Anthrax
 Abscess
 Carbuncles
 Chorea
 Epilepsy
 Fever
 Felon
 Gangrene
 Hysteria
 Multiple Sclerosis
 Nymphomania
 Menierre’s Disease
 Paralysis Agitans
 Pruritus Vulvae
 Septic Fever
 Spinal Irritation
 Tabes Dorsalis
 Ulcers
 Vertigo

29. ARANEA DIADEMA:
 PERIODICITY, COLDNESS AND GREAT
SUSCEPTIBILITY TO DAMPNESS.
 Malarial poisoning, where every damp day or place
favors chilliness.
 Patient feels cold to the very bones. Coldness not
relieved by anything. Feeling as if parts were
enlarged and heavier. Wake up at night with hands
feeling twice their natural size. Spleen swollen.
 Hydrogenoid Constitution, i.e, Abnormal
sensitiveness to damp and cold, inability to live near
fresh water, lakes, rivers, etc, or in damp, chilly places
(Nat. Sulph. Thuja).

30. Head:
 Pain in right trifacial nerve from periphery inwards.
 Confusion; better by smoking in open air.
 Heat and flickering in eyes; worse in damp weather.
 Sudden violent pain in teeth at night immediately after lying down.
Female:
 Menses too early, too copious. Distention of abdomen.
 Lumbo-abdominal neuralgia.
Chest:
 Pain in intercostal nerve from nerve endings to spine.
 Bright red haemorrhage from lungs (Millefol; Ferr phos).
Stomach: Cramps after eating a little; epigastrium painful to pressure.

31. Abdomen:
 Enlarged spleen. Colic returns same hours.
 Heaviness in lower abdomen, as of a stone.
Sleep: Restless and waking, as if hands and forearms were swollen
and heavy.
Fever:
 Coldness, with pain in long bones, and feeling of stone in
abdomen at the same hour daily.
 Chilly day and night; always worse during rain.
Modalities:
 Worse, damp weather; late in afternoon, and at midnight.
Better, smoking tobacco.

32. ARANEA SCINENCIA:
 Clinical: Debility. Headache.
 "Constant twitching of under eyelids,".
 Eyes inflamed, weak, watery, lids swollen.
 Profuse flow of saliva; sweet taste in mouth.
 Much dull, stupid headache of considerable intensity,
especially in postero-superior part of head; unable to rest
for it; could not collect thoughts with it.
 Felt as if he had been drinking. Sleepiness.
 All symptoms < in warm room.

33. LATRODECTUS MACTANS:
 The bite produces tetanic effects, last for several days.
 A picture of Angina pectoris is presented by the action of
the drug.
 Constriction of chest muscles, with radiation to shoulders
and back. Lowered coagulability.
Relationship:
 Compare: Latrodectus Hasselti- "chronic" blood poisoning.
Arrests intense pain in pyaemia.
 Araena; Mygale; Theridion; Latrodectus Kalipo -
(lymphangitis and nervous twitchings, scarlet burning
eruption).
 Triatema-Kissing bug (Swelling with violent itching of
fingers and toes. Smothering sensation and difficult
breathing succeeded by fainting and rapid pulse).

34. Head:
 Pain in neck to back of head, Occipital pain.
 Screams with pain & Anxiety.
Respiratory:
 Extreme apnoea. Gasping respiration. Fears losing breath.
 Violent, precordial pain extending to the axilla and down the arm and
forearm to fingers, with numbness of the extremity.
 Pulse feeble and rapid.
Extremities:
 Pain in left arm, feels paralyzed.
 Weakness of legs followed by cramps in the abdominal muscles.
 Paresthesia of lower limbs.
Skin: Coldness of whole surface. Skin cold as marble.

35. LATRODECTUS KATIPO:
 The seat of a bite becomes immediately
painful and swelling occurs, does not come
on until some days after the bite.
 After the bite, a scarlet papulous rash
appeared on both extremities, burning like
fire. Lassitude, faintness, twitchings, trismus
were noted. The symptoms were slow in
evolution.
 In a fatal case, that of a girl bitten on the
abdomen, death did not occur until six weeks
after the bite.

36. Face:
 Extreme pallor changing to blue tint, of face and body.
 Jaws stiff very soon, could not open mouth to eat.
Mind:
 Delirium, half smothered by imperfect intoxication.
 Nervous depression with Anxious expression.
Lower Limbs:
 Severe shaking, burning pains ran from the bite on the foot up the limbs to
back, accompanied by nervous twitching all over body soon; pain felt
almost equally in both limbs, and seemed to centre about heel.
 Feet felt as if rudely lacerated by dull instrument, waking him from sleep
(immediately).
 Nervous twitching all over body.

37. Heart:
 Almost pulseless.Pulse slow, scarcely more than twelve or fourteen beats to the
minute.
 Respirations almost ceased.
Skin:
 Small, red spot like flea-bite.
 Bitten surface raised white with red halo; with pain > by spirits of Ammonia and
swelling, remained a small purple point for nine days, on the tenth began to
swell and turn white like a bee-sting; pain and swelling rapidly increased.
 A bright scarlet, papular eruption on both lower limbs, which stung and burned
like fire.
Fever:
 Extremities cold and flaccid.-A cold, clammy sweat covered l. lower extremity; in
morning sweat covered both limbs.

38. TARENTULA HISPANICA
 It belongs to the tubercular miasm.
 Tarentula is industrious, busy, has high energy, and a love for
music, dancing and colours.
 They wear bright-coloured clothes, singing and dancing, as in
a discotheque to be attracted.
 Tarentula patient is compelled to be busy, to act, to move
constantly without ceasing.
(Occupations - such as air traffic controllers or news journalists
confronted with deadlines with great pressure and responsibility.)

39. MIND:
 There is also the fear of being assaulted, injured, and of getting trapped -
attacks of suffocation, must have fresh air.
 Feeling of unreciprocated love or affection. The person has the feeling that he
is not attractive enough and therefore does not get the attention he craves for.
 The situation of Tarentula is that of a person who wants to be noticed but is
not, such as could happen when a person tries unsuccessfully to attract the
attention of another especially from the opposite sex.
 This is not a situation of disappointed love, but one of unrequited love.
Phatak - "Ill effects of unrequited love".
 The kind of music that Tarentula likes is hard, fast and rythmic.
(young Sepia can often seem like Tarentula, R/O - contradiction of will
found in Sepia ).

40.  Compulsive worker -compelled to work day and night without sleep for weeks.
(Nux vomica which is driven by a mental ambition and competitiveness
Tarentula is driven by the nervous tension, compulsion to move and to keep busy).
 THE MOST HURRIED OF ALL THE REMEDIES - TARENTULA AND SULPHURIC
 Patient will spend the whole night tossing and turning in bed until he finds himself
with his head at the foot of the bed and the sheets tied in knots.
 RESTLESSNESS AND NERVOUS TENSION AFFECTS PRIMARILY THE NERVOUS
SYSTEM FROM THE CEREBELLUM AND DOWNWARD INTO THE SPINE.
(Arsenicum restlessness arises from the mental/emotional plane
Veratrum is also very hyperactive, but from an overactive mind.)
 The restless hands are often put to creative use, as in painting, which involves
colour as well.

41.  Impatient with slowness in other people; if someone is walking slowly on the
street, the Tarentula patient may become angry and urge the person to move
along more quickly.
 The person begins to lose control and becomes destructive. Initialy it is
done in secret, hidden as much as possible from the knowledge of others.
( FOX-LIKE CUNNING, AND THE FOX-LIKE LOOK IN THE EYES).
 Later becomes more uncontrolled and publicly evident
- may tear his clothes or break things. Violence is directed at himself - self-injury,
injury, banging the head, etc
 On the one hand, there may be severe violence similar to Stramonium - desire to
to strike and to kill, and destructive violence with superhuman strength and
stamina.
 On the other hand, there is an erotic mania - sexual advances to other people,
even to strangers like Hyoscyamus it is more of a passive shamelessness, rather
rather than the active and aggressive.

42. PHYSICAL GENERALS:
 The nervous system in Tarentula seems wound up
tight like a coiled spring, tense with boundless
energy which must be expended to prevent it from
breaking.
 On the physical level, Tarentula is very much like
Arsenicum in its symptomatology and modalities on
the physical level.
 There is chilliness and great emaciation.
 There is also periodicity and-paroxysmal ailments.

43. Head:
 Intense pain, as if thousands of needles were pricking into brain.
 Wants hair brushed or head rubbed.
Heart:
 Palpitation; precordial anguish, sensation as if heart twisted and
turned around.
Male:
 Sexual excitement; lasciviousness reaching almost to insanity.
 Seminal emissions.
Female:
 Vulva dry and hot, with much itching.
 Profuse menstruation, with frequent erotic spasms.
 Pruritus vulvæ; nymphomania.
 Dysmenorrhœa, with very sensitive ovaries.

44. Extremities:
 Weakness and Numbness of legs; choreic movements.
 Multiple sclerosis, with trembling,Twitching and jerking.
 Yawning with uneasiness of legs, must move them constantly.
 Extraordinary contractions and movements.
Modalities:
 Worse: motion, contract, noise, seeing others in trouble.
 Better: in open air, music, bright colors, rubbing affected parts.
Relationship:
 Compare: Agar; Ars; Cupr; Mag phos.
 Antidotes: Lach.

45. TARENTULA CUBENSIS
 A toxaemic medicine, septic conditions.
 Adapted to the most severe types of inflammation and pain,
early and persistent prostration.
 Malignant suppuration.
 Remedy for pain of death; soothes the last struggles.
 Intermittent septic chills. Bubonic plague.
 As a curative and preventive remedy especially during the
period of invasion.
Sleep: Drowsiness. Sleep restless. Sleep prevented by harsh
cough.
Relationship: Compare: Ars; Pyrog; Crotal; Echin; Anthrac; Bellad;
Apis.
Modalities: Better, smoking. Worse, night.

46. Head:
 Dizziness after heat and hot perspiration.
 Shooting pain through left eye across frontal region.
Gastric: Loss of appetite, except for breakfast.
Back: Itches across kidney region.
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.
 Pruritus, especially about genitals.
 Scirrhus of breasts. "Senile" ulcers.

47. TARENTULA HISPANICA
TARENTULA CUBENSIS

48. THERIDION CURASSAVICUM :
 It is tubercular miasm.
 Highly sensitive nervous system and prominent features
such as hyperactivity, sexuality, colours, music, dancing
and high energy.
 Intense aggravation from noise, nausea from noise.
 Strong craving for bananas and oranges.
 Nervous hyperaesthesia.
 Sensitive to noise; it penetrates the body, especially
teeth.
 Noises seem to strike on painful spots over the body.
 Rachitis, caries, necrosis.

49. MIND:
 Hurried and hectic activity, Time passes too quickly,
fruitlessly busy.
 Intense Restless; finds pleasure in nothing.
 Theridion woman seems to be the need to find a mate,
because she feels that if she doesn't have a mate, she will
have to face the danger of the outside world, which is too
threatening. So there is a need to be attractive and a lot of
hectic activity to find, attract and keep her mate.
 Music, dancing and colours are a part of this attractiveness,
whereas
Fear and impulsive violence are a part of the threat.

50.  "dissolve" her identity into that of her partner - thinking
and seeing as her partner does, living completely
through the eyes and mind of this other person.
 Hence, in the event of her partner leaving her, she feels a
tremendous emptiness, and it takes time for her to know
her real self again.
 Theridion has the delusion that her head belongs to
another.
 Fear of people, especially when they are alone. When
approached by people they feel threatened and want to
strike or kill, and they have to control themselves so that
they do not.

51. Head:
 Pain worse anyone walking over floor.
 Vertigo, with nausea and vomiting on least motion (Tabac),when
closing eyes.
Eyes:
 Luminous vibrations before eyes; sensitive to light.
 Pressure behind eyeballs. Throbbing over left eye.
Nose: Discharge yellowish, thick, offensive (Puls; Thuja).
Stomach:
 Seasickness.
 Stinging pain on left side over anterior aspect of spleen.
Back: Sensitiveness between vertebræ; avoids pressure on spine.

52. Respiratory:
 Pain in upper left chest (Myrt; Pix; Anis) in left floating ribs.
 Cardiac anxiety and pain. Pinching in left pectoral muscle.
 "Cough, violent, jerking of the head forward and the knees
upwards" and "Cough, jerking the body together".
 Phthisis, stitch high up in left apex (Anthrax)
(Where the indicated remedy does not hold long.)
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.

53. MYGALE LASIODORA:
 Mind: Delirious, restless, sad; fears
death; despondent.
Face:
 Twitching of facial muscles. Mouth and
eyes open in rapid succession.
 Tongue dry and parched; put out with
difficulty.
 Head jerked to one side. Grating of
teeth at night.

54. Stomach: Aversion to food. Excessive thirst.
Male: Violent erections. Chordee (Kali brom; Camph).
Extremities:
 Unsteady gait. Constant motion of whole body. Tremulous.
 Twitching of limbs. Restless hands. Limbs drag while
walking.
 Convulsive, uncontrollable movements of arms and legs.
Relationship.--Compare: Agar; Tarant; Cupr, Zizia.
Modalities:
 Better, during sleep. Worse, in morning.

55. ARANEARUM TELA:
 Clinical : Sleeplessness.
 Cobweb has been used as a remedy from
ancient times.
 Rapidly lowers the frequency of the pulse rate.
 It produces "a calm and delightful state of
feeling, followed by a disposition to sleep."

56. REMEDY RELATIONSHIP:
 LEDUM PAL – General antidote for spider group of
remedies.

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