Pathogénésies de l'an 1900
New, Old And Forgotten Remedies
By Edward Pollock Anshutz
Presented by Dr Robert Séror
(Dr. Donald Macfarlan)
The following proving of this drug was conducted by Dr. Donald Macfarlan of Philadelphia.:
TheTarantula Cubensis is found in Cuba and Mexico. It belongs to the same family as the Tarantula Hispana.
It was with this singular virus that the following provings were made In the preparation the live spiders were placed in a glass jar, and by a process of irritation or enragement, virus was caused to flow upon the sides of the jar.
Strong alcohol was poured in, and from this tincture potencies were made. In the following proving the tooth hand dynamization was utilized.
There were ten provers in all, and nearly all the observations were made with medicine taken every hour. Both male and female provers underwent the ordeal of the proving.
Mind And Sensorium
When she walks rapidly she gets frightened - at no other time.
The medicine made him dizzy.
She is drowsy but cannot sleep ; a condition greatly removed by the proving.
Her head became light and she nearly flopped over.
Before dizziness felt hot all over-in a hot perspiration.
Restless at night.
Twisting about at night.
Felt puffed all over as if the skin would burst. It seemed as if the body was expanding and the skin had to give way from this factor.
The woman feels drowsy.
"She would rather sleep than eat."
The proving of much benefit in relieving nonsensical dreams which
the woman had for a year every night.
Hard to concentrate the mind.
No ambition to do anything.
(The two great polychrests,Aconite and Belladonna, have remarkable analogies towards this remedy in the sphere of the mind and sensorium.)
A heavy feeling of weight on the top of the head is removed by proving.
Shooting pain through the left eye and head is also better.
Headache all night until 10 o'clock the next day.
The headache was dull and the prover was prevented from sleeping.
Produced a hot head.
Caused him to lie down and made him dizzy.
Head gets light and she nearly flopped over ; dizzy with it and before the dizziness felt hot all over ; in a hot perspiration.
Headache ; a dull pain.
Cough with pain in the ear.
Shooting headache through the left eye-like pins and needles going up into the head cross-wise.
Dull frontal headache continuously.
Dullness on the top of the head all the time.
Dull ache constant on top of the head.
A nasty shooting pain ; comes and goes ; goes from the left eye across the frontal region.
The pain is shooting, severe, short-lived and superficial in character.
Slight headache in the forehead ; this is unusual normally (usually affected in the eyes before the proving).
A dull headache, and it was hard for him to concentrate.
Headache in the right eye, aggravated very much by the use of the microscope (uses only left eye with the microscope always).
Slight headache in the afternoon after 2 o'clock.
It was rather violent later in the proving after 2 o'clock, and in the right eye, as though the eye had been poked severely with a finger.
Still later, more headache in the afternoon.
The same thing is repeated.
Another prover experiences pains in the head from the anterior to the posterior part in line with the left eye-the pain is near the surface.
Removed in the prover a taste in the mouth like ink. In same prover it helped a little the white expectoration, and a harsh cold was much bettered.
In another prover it helped a cough which was whooping in character.
By taking theTarantula she did not cough so often either.
This person complained of cough with pain in the ear-this was bettered also.
Loose cough made dry.
On pushing theTarantula it hurt her when she breathed, and made her sore all through the chest as well.
The remedy caused an inability to hold her urine when she coughed.
It caused more difficulty in the raising of mucus in the same person. In another person it helped the hoarseness, but the benefit was not marked at all.
In a male prover a slight cold was developed and the lips were very dry (?).
Pains develop in the throat.
This throat condition was upon the left side and it hurt him in the act of swallowing.
Helped, in a prover, yellowish expectoration and cough at night.
Stomach And Abdomen
In a female prover, taking the Tarantula every hour, the following resulted on the fourth day : When she drank water a pain developed below the epigastric angle, and the same condition ensued after any water, ice water or otherwise.
The pain developed was stinging, and after the pain the stomach was sore.
In another female a catching pain around the area of the appendix was noted, which was sometimes sharp and sometimes dull.
In another woman she noticed in the proving that she could eat more than before the cold.
At times the stomach swelled after eating during the cold before she began on the Tarantula.
She stated that the medicine helped this remarkably.
Developed in a woman a disposition to strain at stool with costiveness.
In another prover of the same sex, who also took the medicine every hour, there was developed a peculiar stomach condition ; it caused it to feel like a stone ; it was hard if she pressed at it ; it felt she said as if there were no soft spots in it.
This condition with her lasted about three days running.
Tarantula has helped slight stomach cramps, a woman thinks.
These cramps put in their appearance after eating, and it is a condition which she has complained of for eight or nine years.
Later on, in pushing this potency the remedy actually provoked pain in the stomach after eating, which seems, she states, as if there were too much gas in the stomach itself.
The proving seemed to improve this prover's appetite somewhat.
In a male student developed no appetite at noon.
This was on the second day of the proving. At the time there was noticed slight indigestion. Three days after this he became hungry before meals, but upon going to the table one or two bites quite sufficed him as far as the satiation of the hunger went. This condition doubtless would have been denominated "easy satiety" by the early Hahnemannians. Still later, in this same person, the same experience recurs in the proving, the identical sensation of false hunger before meals.
There was developed late in the proving practically complete loss of appetite except for breakfast.
A feeling of vomiting, noted at times during the day, but this was not very pronounced.
A medical student on the fourth day felt as if his belly were dilated. The same man complained of the voiding of gas. Like the above female prover he developed a difficulty in voiding stool. His condition resembled by another change-the bowels became inactive.
Back And Body
Felt hot all over.
Another felt hot all over, a condition which was preceded by dizziness.
This prover developed a hot perspiration.
Feels sore all through the chest, hurting her when she breathes.
Twisting about at night and restless at night.
The muscles of both sides of the chest, anteriorly, are painful to the touch somewhat ; when drawing the breath, however, a stitching pain, like that of a pleurisy, is developed.
Felt puffed all over as if the skin would burst, as if in fact the body was expanding and the skin had to give way from this factor.
This is a most singular symptom and one highly characteristic of theTarantula Cubensis.
Backache across the kidneys ; sharp pains like those of a confinement. It catches her now and then in the back.
A prover reported with the pectoral muscles sore to the touch.
The medicine had a remarkably rapid and beneficial action upon this condition, especially as regards the pain. Later on, by pushing the proving a bad pain in the chest develops (it does not hurt to breathe, in this instance). The chest in this case at this time was awfully sore to the touch.
The condition was peculiar-it was intermittent in type - the pain at times would go away and the suffering would cease entirely -then after a time it became awfully sore to the touch.
Another man prover-a phlegmatic type temperamentally-became tired all over and sitting or lying had no effect on the condition. The same person developed pain across the small of his back (a very noticeable symptom in the proving in this particular case).
Later on there was very pronounced pain across the small of his back. Still later his backache developed in the evening-it was still across the small of the back.
The hands feel shaky.
When she picks up anything the hands tremble.
When she walks rapidly she gets frightened-at no other time.
The hands alone shake.
She cannot write because of this peculiar state ; never been a afflicted in her life before. Even when sitting, in fact all the time, her hands shake ; nothing else shakes.
A sharp pain, running down the left arm when she coughs, is dissipated by taking the Tarantula.
The proving develops a peculiar condition with a female-for the first time in a long while the blood was so determined into her hands, that when they were shown to me they were actually turgid from this cause. In no diseased state beyond this proving have I seen anything of the kind before.
Another prover left foot nearly pains her. Is a soreness with the pain-it comes and goes.
In the case of a medical student, on about the fourth day, taking theTarantula every two hours, it produced pimples which broke out on the front of the leg at the shoe top, on the left leg. A couple were developed at the same location on the right leg.
Another student in the medical school developed in the fifth day red spots on the right leg, above the knee, which were scaly in character - they were about three-eighths of an inch in diameter, and were stinging in character. Altogether there were eight or ten of them. The next day red spots appeared on the left leg.
(Nervous movements of the members, shaky or trembling in character, afford a wide field for the exhibition of this remedy. In this connection will well serve in removing many of the troublesome symptoms of chorea and Parkinson’s disease.)
The prover, a young lad, who reported with irregular breathing, was forced to take a deep breath at times. Within twenty four hours about, taking the remedy every hour, the breathing is made better during the day.
That night, however, he could hardly fall asleep for a couple of hours-he could not catch his breath-when he lay down he could not get his wind. He declares he has never been just that way before.
Another case was helped as regards the yellowish expectoration. Helped cough at night-made him sleep better and this possibly because of the relief in the cough.
On the second night of the proving could hardly fall asleep for a couple of hours. He could not catch his breath. When he lay down he could not get his wind. He declares he has never been just that way before.
Developed in a woman a dull headache and she was prevented from sleeping. The sleep was restless ; there was only sleep for five minutes in all during the night.
Caused a man to sleep better and this possibly because of effect in the relief of a serious night cough.
In a phlegmatic nurse the medicine affected her in such a manner that she could not sleep at night. It was a long time before she could go to sleep, but when she does drop off, she does sleep soundly.
A woman, on reporting, stated Mat she could not sleep because of serious cough and nervousness. At that time she was drowsy but could not sleep. Upon proving the harsh cold and the breathing became much better and she slept better than for five months (own statement)
In this last case the drowsiness was removed when she took theTarantula.
In another woman, of a nervous bent, who complained on the first reporting of a kind of whooping cough and sleeplessness to boot, the proving rapidly improved these unpleasant symptoms. On pushing the remedy, moreover, the sleeplessness again returns. Later still, the proving induced nightly restlessness and twisting about in bed.
Caused drowsiness in a woman. "She would rather sleep than eat." At that time sleep was much better than before. Later still, sleeping is much better and she sleeps longer at a time.
(The Tarantula Cubensis has great virtue in the relief of harsh cough preventing sleep. It must be held in reserve as regards whooping cough, but if the latter is at all harsh, and if there is much catching for breath, with an accompanying nervous irritability it must suit admirably)
Flushing is noted in the face.
Felt puffed all over as if the skin would burst, as if the body was expanding and the skin had to give way from this factor.
Six red pimples broke out on the front of the leg, at the shoe top on the left leg.
A couple break out on the right leg at the same location.
Another prover noticed red spots on the right leg above the knee.
These were scaly and stinging.
They were three-eighths of an inch in diameter and about eight or ten in number.
Later, red spots appeared on the left leg.
This same prover developed profuse sweating between the thighs, but he was uncertain that this was surely due to the proving.
When she coughs she cannot hold her urine.
This has occurred twice.
Removed the habit of nocturna quickly in a woman accustomed to void two or three times at night, when she reported.
On pushing the proving, the nocturna again returned.
On pushing still farther no nocturna in evidence.
In my provings no characteristic female symptoms were elicited.
There is a nightly aggravation with the remedy.
There is an aggravation of the cystic state and of the sleep from cough.
Numérisation, vérification, illustrations, restructuration et mise en page par le Dr. R. S.
Copyright © Robert Séror 2002