Homeopathy Remedy Theridion


Theridion homeopathy drug symptoms from Handbook of Materia Medica and Homeopathic Therapeutics by T.F. Allen, of the homeopathic remedy Theridion…


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Generalities

      Tetanus, with trismus (?). Every penetrating sound and reverberation penetrates her whole body, (<) teeth, and increases the vertigo, which then causes nausea. Pain in all bones, as if very part would fall asunder, feeling as if broken from head to foot, then coldness. Weakness; in morning, with sleepiness; with tremulousness and perspiration. Sudden, violent symptoms, (>) Aconite, later symptoms (>) Graphites

Clinical Hysteria, with loquacity and feeling as though head did not belong to her or as if she could lift it off, great sensitiveness to light, etc. Scrofulous diseases of bones, rickets, caries and necrosis.

Mind

      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 talk and to occupy his mind, remains awake late in evening. 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. Aversion to work; to professional labor. Thinking is hard when it is of a comparative nature, but not when it is creative.

Head

      Aching at the beginning of every motion; evening when walking, with depression; deep in brain, so that she must sit or walk, it is impossible to lie. Thick feeling, with nausea and vomiting on least motion, (<) closing eyes; T. feeling, as if it were another head, or if she had something else upon it. Oppression and heaviness; O., hindering his studies. Painless, indescribable sensations. Vertigo on turning around; V. (<) stooping; with nausea increased to vomiting; in sleep, waking her at 11 P.M., she could not remain lying, feel as if in a swoon, straining to vomit until cold sweat broke out, repeated every quarter of an hour, with attacks of painless diarrhoea, at first vomiting of acrid, slimy water, almost arresting her breath, ineffectual retching, vertigo and vomiting on least motion, even vertigo and nausea on closing her eyes from weakness, sleep after Mentha pip., in morning on rising nausea and vomiting of bile, throat felt scalded, back was tired, pulse accelerated, head ached. Headache like a band in root of nose and around ears. Aching behind eyes. Stinging in l. temple. Pressing together in temples. Oppression behind ears, with fulness. Itching on head and nape in evening.

Clinical Violent headache, with nausea, cannot bear the least noise; a feeling as if the vertex was separated from the rest of the head, or as if she would like to lift it off. Effects of sunstroke, with most intolerant headache, nausea and vomiting.

Eyes, Ears and Nose

      Twitching in r. eye. Burning pain internally above inner canthus on waking. Vision lost, everything seemed very far, as if a veil were before her, with blazing and flickering, necessity to lie down, even flickering when closing eyes, then affection of head and weakness. Loud noises make too strong an impression, (>) Aconite roaring in ears. Rushing in ears, with impaired hearing. Nose dry, as if too much air passed in. Itching in nose. Sneezing in evening, with running coryza; S. all day, with discharge of water from nose, but without coryza; violent, with frequent necessity to blow the nose, then heaviness deep above nose.

Clinical Nasal catarrh, with offensive, greenish, yellow discharge.

Mouth and OEsophagus

      Jaw immovable in morning on waking and at other times of the day, then opening involuntarily. Teeth feel as if cool water were too cold. Burning and tensive pain in teeth, gums and palate. Raging pain in all teeth in afternoon and evening, causing weeping, but drawing particularly in roots of sound eye-teeth. Gums, mouth and nose dry, and feeling as if too much air passed into mouth. Gums sore. (Burnt and numb feeling in tongue.) Sliminess of mouth. There is no proper taste, her mouth feels furred (benumbed). Pressure in lower part of oesophagus towards epigastrium; as if something were slipping towards the epigastrium, taking away the breath.

Stomach and Abdomen

      Constant desire to eat and drink, he knows not what. Appetite for acidulous fruit. Increased desire to smoke tobacco. Thirst; after mid-day sleep; for wine and brandy. Nausea in morning; on rising; from vertigo on least motion; on opening eyes, (>) Mosch. Emission of flatus. Pain 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.

Clinical Seasickness in women, nausea (<) closing the eyes.

Anus and Stool

      Anus protrudes and is painful, (<) sitting. (Spasmodic contraction of rectum and anus returns again.) Heaviness in perineal region, which he has had for a long time, is now felt at every step, with feeling of a lump there. Stool papescent, scanty, urgent, next day thin and scanty, omitted on third day; scanty, with tenesmus; difficult towards the end, though not hard; delayed and less urgent than usual; once instead of twice as usual.

Urinary and Sexual Organs

      Urine increased. (Red spots on glans.) Erections strong in morning, without desire; weak E. during coition; no E., desire vanished. Scrotum shrivelled. Violent and profuse emission during nap after dinner (had taken anise during the day).

Clinical Dysmenorrhoea, intense, in l. ovary, with intense headache, extreme sensitiveness of the cervix, chilliness, etc. (compare Lilium). Syphilitic cases

Respiratory Organs and Chest

      Cough at night. Increased inclination to take a deep respiration, to sigh. Stitches in chest beneath l. shoulder, felt even in throat; pinching, in l. pectoral muscle.

Clinical It has been used in some form of phthisis, violent stitches in upper part of l. chest, extending to the back. Convulsive cough, with the peculiar vertigo. Violent cough, with spasmodic jerking of the head forward and the knees upward.

Back and Extremities

      Pain between shoulders. Loins affected after vomiting. Heaviness in all limbs after breakfast, necessity to lie down, sleepiness, internal chill so that he trembles. Stinging from elbow to shoulder. Peculiar drawing in r. hip, passing down thigh in evening when sitting and afterwards, with internal coldness below knees. Knees trouble her in afternoon. Feet swollen. Pain in little toe as if pressed in walking.

Skin, Etc.

      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 l. ring finger, with redness. Sleepy in morning. Sleeps all day. Deep sleep at night. He often bites the tip of his tongue in sleep, so that it is sore the next day (similar to Phosphorus ac., which, however, has it only laterally). 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). Dream that he broke off a tooth. Shaking chill, with foam at mouth; shaking chill, with headache and vomiting. Sweat after walking and driving.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.