# Tarentula Cubensis

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Chilly
- **Aggravation Time:** Night

## Keynote Indications
Tarent-c. affects the cellular tissues. It is useful in septic condi tions, when incubation is 
slow, but further progre ss is rapid with alarming prostration, atrocious burning or sharp stinging pains, board 
like hardness of affected part and copious sweat. 
Intermittent septic chills. Severe types of inflammation and pain. Purplish hue and burning, stinging pains. 
Itching, especially about genitals. Diphtheria with intense fever and numb aching pains. 
Various forms of malignant suppuration. Gangrene. Bluish abscesses,painful.  Felon. Carbuncles. Bubo. 
Bubonic plague, as a curative and preventive remedy especially during the period of invasion. 
Early and persistent prostration. Restless feet. Paralysis then convulsions. Tarent-c. is a remedy for the pain 
of death, soothes the last agony.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better from tobacco smoking. Worse from cold drinks. Worse exertion. Worse at night.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Nervous restlessness.
- Sensitive to others.
- Anxiety.
- Excessive hyperesthesia.
- Hysteria.
- Lacks 
emotional control.
- Delirium due to pains.
- Agony of pains, compels the patient to walk on the floor for nights 
Keeps hands busy, picks fingers.
- Nervous restlessness.
- Sensitive to others.
- Anxiety.
- Excessive hyperesthesia.
- Hysteria.
- Lacks 
emotional control.
- Delirium due to pains.
- Agony of pains, compels the patient to walk on the floor for nights 
Keeps hands busy, picks fingers.

### Vertigo
- Dizziness after heat and hot perspiration.
- COMMENTS - Hering stated “The Mygale Cubensis, which may be called the Cuban Tarentula, also found in 
South Carolina and Texas is a larger spider of a dark brown color, less poisonous and covered with more hairs 
than the Tarentula Hispánica.” 
Tarent-c.
- seems to be a toxemic remedy, acting directly on the blood, and is in this way an analogue of Crot -
h., Apis, Ars., etc.
- The bite is painless.
- The person is not sensible of it until next day.
- Then an inflamed pimple is found surrounded 
by a scarlet areola.
- From the pimple to some other part of the body a red erysipelatous line is seen, which 
marks the line followed by the spider over the skin after biting.
- The pimple swells, the inflamed areola spreads, chills and fever set in with copious sweat and retention of 
urine, the pimple becomes a hard, large.
- Exceedingly pain ful abscess, ending by mortification of the tissu es 
over it and having several small openings.
- Discharging a thick, bloody matter con taining pieces of tissue, fascia and tendons.
- The openings grow, run 
into one another, forming a large cavity.
- At this period the fever takes the intermittent type with ev ening 
exacerbations.
- In two cases in delicate children, the bite proved fatal, but the majority recover in from three to six weeks.
- A case of chorea in a girl of twelve was reported cured with Tarent-c.
- 6c.
- The movements were confined to the 
left side and occurred chiefly at night, when Tarent-c.
- was prescribed.
- Dr.
- Burt related the case of Don M.
- B.
- Aet.
- 72, good constitution, with an abscess in the back of his neck, 
whose burning, excruciating pain had completely banished sleep for six or seven nights.
- Fever, with great thirst and prostration.
- On examination, it was found to be anthrax, with all the accompanying 
train of symptoms.
- Burt gave Tarent -c., 6c one dose every two hours; after the second dose, the pain was 
 
 
greatly relieved, and that very night th e patient was able to sleep through the whole night.
- Under the use of 
this remedy, the patient recovered without using any other, except Sil.
- to aid cicatrization.
- Carbuncle, even to sloughing with great prostration and diarrhea.
- Intermittent fever with evening exacerbation.
- Atrocious pains.

### Head
- Dull ache on top of head.
- Fullness in head.
- Headaches.
- Shooting pain through left eye across frontal 
region.
- Meningitis.
- Kidneys - Retention of urine.
- Urine hot, thick.
- Cannot hold urine on coughing.
- Dull ache on top of head.
- Fullness in head.
- Headaches.
- Shooting pain through left eye across frontal 
region.
- Meningitis.
- Kidneys - Retention of urine.
- Urine hot, thick.
- Cannot hold urine on coughing.

### Chest
- Spasmodic difficulty of breathing.
- Shattering cough, whooping cough.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Feels hard, sore.
- Loss of appetite, except for breakfast.
- Tendency to vomit.
- Temperature - Pungent heat of surface.

### Extremities
- Hands tremble, turgid with blood.
- Fidgety feet.
- Unsteady gait.

### Neck & Back
- Itches across kidney region.
- Female - Pruritus vulvae.

### Skin
- Feels puffed all over.
- Pungent burn ing, stinging pains.
- Red spot s and pimples.
- Purple discoloration.
- Carbuncles.
- Abscesses, where pain and inflammation predominate.
- “Senile ulcers.” Gangrene.
- Anthrax.
- Scirrhous of breasts.

### Sleep
- Drowsiness.
- Sleep restless, prevented by harsh cough.