Tarentula cubensis

Prepared from the whole spider native to Cuba (family Theraphosidae). In toxicologic accounts and early clinical reports, bites and triturated material produced violent burning, stinging pains, dusky–violaceous inflammation, rapid oedema, and a tendency to phlegmon with black slough and offensive ichor—features that shaped the homeopathic picture of destructive, septic inflammation and carbuncular/anthracoid processes [Hering], [Allen], [Clarke], [Hughes]. The mother tincture is made from the entire spider; triturations and dilutions are prepared according to the pharmacopœia. Clinical literature repeatedly stresses unbearable burning, boring, lancinating pains relieved by hard pressure and constant rubbing, with restless agitation and bluish-black tissues that either resolve surprisingly or slough rapidly under Tarent-c., depending on stage [Hering], [Clarke], [Boericke], [Boger].

Brought to the American school through Cuban sources; early provings and poisonings are collated by Allen and Hering, with abundant clinical confirmations from septic surgery, carbuncles, gangrene, erysipelas, and “anthracoid” boils; later summaries by Clarke, Boericke, Farrington, and Phatak stabilised its keynotes [Allen], [Hering], [Clarke], [Boericke], [Farrington], [Phatak]. [Proving] nervous agitation, violent pains, heat and burning; [Toxicology] dusky inflammation, phlegmon, slough; [Clinical] swift change of local sepsis and pain under the remedy.

Tarentula cubensis condenses the animal ferocity of pain with the syphilitic destruction of tissues: a septic drama played out in the cellular spaces. The lesion is the stage—dusky, glossy, oedematous, studded with black points and “cribriform” openings—and the actor is pain: burning, boring, knife-like, unbearable under the lightest touch yet momentarily appeased by hard, continuous pressure and by rubbing. This paradoxical tactile polarity is the patient’s language: they strap, bind, knead, lean, and pace the floor—a predator circling its wound. The mental picture is not the theatrical faintness of Moschus nor the meticulous anguish of Arsenicum, but a driven, irritable restlessness whose sole purpose is to smother the burning with pressure and to force the ichor to run. The systemic state is one of adynamia and putridity—offensive sweats, small rapid pulse, chill-heat waves—proportionate to the local tissue death. When drainage or slough separation occurs, the entire patient “turns the corner”: pain ebbs, pulse steadies, delirium abates—Tarent-c. is timed to the opening of the outlets [Hering], [Allen], [Clarke], [Boger].

Miasmatically, the remedy stands in the syphilitic night: black decay, gangrene, bloody ichor, and destruction that advances by stealth under a glossy, livid skin. Yet there is a psoric motor—itch-burn restlessness—and a sycotic tendency to indurations around old foci that the remedy can soften later. The kingdom signature (Arachnida) appears in hyper-reactive pain, predatory pacing, sudden strikes of stabbing pain, and an almost sensory hunting for pressure that neutralises the allodynia of light touch [Tyler], [Farrington]. The polarities are crisp: night vs day (after-midnight worse), light touch vs deep pressure, closed pent-up pus vs free drainage, cold/damp vs heat, collapse vs driven motion. Prescribing hinges on recognising the colour (dusky–violaceous, blue-black), the pain quality (burning/boring > pressure), the odour (rank fetor), and the behaviour (rubs, presses, binds), together with the clinical trajectory (either aborts early phlegmon or hastens clean suppuration). Among the gangrenous remedies, Tarent-c. is uniquely kinetic: it moves the case by compelling flow; when the ichor runs, the remedy has spoken [Hering], [Clarke], [Boericke], [Boger].

• Blood and septic states — low, adynamic fevers with putridity, offensive discharges, typhoid-like prostration, small rapid pulse; “toxaemic storm” picture [Hering], [Allen], [Boger]. See Fever/Generalities.
• Cellular tissue & skin — phlegmonous cellulitis, carbuncles, anthracoid boils, sloughing ulcers, dusky oedema, black eschar; rapid alternation between infiltration and necrosis [Clarke], [Boericke]. See Skin.
• Lymphatic/glandular system — septic adenitis, bubo-like nodes, induration about abscesses with burning pains [Hering], [Boger]. See Extremities/Generalities.
• Peripheral nerves (pain) — burning, boring, knife-like pains; tactile allodynia to light touch yet amelioration from firm pressure and rubbing [Hering], [Allen]. See Mind/Skin/Extremities.
• Vessels & microcirculation — livid, ecchymotic, mottled areas; line of demarcation; threatened gangrene [Clarke], [Hughes]. See Skin/Generalities.
• Mucosae with putridity — foul odour, thin, ichorous, blood-streaked discharge; septic sore throats and malignant diphtheritic types (supportive symptom picture) [Allen], [Clarke]. See Throat/Chest.
• Surgical trauma — septic wounds, after-operations with dusky swelling, intense burning, rapid slough; prevents suppuration when early, or hastens it to resolution when inevitable (“two-way” regulation) [Hering], [Clarke], [Boericke]. See Generalities/Clinical tips.

Extreme restlessness with anguish: cannot keep still for the intolerable burning, boring pains; walks the floor, rubs and presses the part incessantly, a keynote that pervades the whole case [Hering], [Allen]. Anxiety about the part—fear it will “rot” or “burst”—corresponds to the destructive tissue tendency (syphilitic colouring) [Clarke], [Boger]. Irritability and snappishness rise with pain; aversion to light touch or interference is mental as well as physical—won’t let anyone near the part (compare Ars. fears vs. Tarent-c. fury) [Hering]. Septic delirium may develop: muttering, picking at bed-clothes, desire to tear off dressings because of burning heat, alternations of stupor and agitation [Allen], [Clarke]. Dread of night from certain worsening; suspicious, distrustful, even malicious when disturbed (animal signature) [Hering], [Tyler]. Prostration with internal restlessness is striking; unlike Carbo-v., the Tarent-c. patient remains compelled to move and rub despite collapse [Clarke], [Farrington]. Case: Malignant carbuncle with sleepless pacing and incessant pressure of the towel upon the sore; pain returned the instant pressure ceased; Tarent-c. 30C rapidly reduced pain and odour, with slough separation by day three [Hering] [Clinical].

Sleepless from pain and restlessness; pacing, moaning, rubbing; sleeps when discharge becomes free or when firm pressure can be maintained (bandage) [Hering]. Horrid dreams of burning, blackness, rats/spiders (animal signature) have been recorded [Tyler]. After slough separates, sleep becomes deep and restorative (clinical observation) [Clarke].

Nightmares of being bitten, gnawed, or burned; sudden waking with anguish and desire to rub the part [Tyler], [Allen].

Central synthesis: a destructive septic process with blue-black tissues, intolerable burning/boring pain, light-touch allodynia, and compulsive relief from hard pressure, tight bandaging, and constant rubbing, alongside restless agitation and offensive ichor [Hering], [Allen], [Clarke]. The remedy often prevents suppuration when given at the indurative, dusky onset, or, once suppuration is inevitable, it hastens maturation and clean separation—with systemic improvement tracking the liberation of discharge (“better when it runs”) [Hering], [Clarke], [Boericke]. Night aggravation, worse from cold/damp, better heat and pressure guide selection; the animal signature appears in fierce irritability, tearing at dressings, and a predatory intensity focused on the painful locus [Tyler], [Farrington].

Low adynamic fevers with offensive sweats, small rapid pulse, alternations of chill and heat, tendency to collapse on sitting up [Allen], [Hering]. Septic odour from the person/lesion; the fever track improves swiftly when drainage establishes or slough separates (a practical guide to timing) [Clarke], [Boger]. Unlike Pyrog., pulse and temperature are proportionate to local tissue destruction rather than dissociated [Farrington].

Chill from least uncovering in septic states; heat subjectively burning at lesion with objective dusky coldness of surrounding skin (vascular mismatch); sweats foul, oily, offer little relief until slough gives way [Allen], [Hering].

Septic headaches with burning, boring character; scalp tender to light touch yet relieved by hard pressure; the patient binds the head tightly [Allen], [Hering]. Face anxious, hippocratic in low states; eyes dull or glittering with fever; expression of distress out of proportion to visible lesion—pain drives the picture [Clarke], [Tyler]. Occipital throbbing when discharge is pent up; better when drains are opened (paralleling local focus) [Boger]. Dizziness on sitting up during adynamia, with cold sweat and offensive breath [Allen]. Head heat with cold extremities is common during septic storms (vascular mismatch) [Hering]. Comparison: Pyrog. has “fever seeming worse than pulse,” mental loquacity about being poisoned; Tarent-c. centres on local burning slough with irresistible rubbing and blue-black tissues [Clarke], [Farrington].

Peri-orbital cellulitis or erysipeloid swelling with dusky, livid hue; lids tense, shining, exquisitely sore to touch; pressing the orbit gives transient relief (key tactile polarity) [Hering], [Allen]. Burning, boring orbital pains radiate to zygoma and temple; lachrymation thin, salty, sometimes offensive [Clarke]. In septic states the sclera look muddy; pupils may be sluggish from toxaemia [Allen]. Cases of panaris of Meibomian region with rapid slough reported to respond early (before necrosis completes) [Hering] [Clinical]. Photophobia minimal; pain not neuralgic like Spig., but bored-burning with dusky oedema [Clarke]. Openings that drain shift the whole head state—better when it runs—a hallmark across Tarent-c. [Hering].

Furunculosis of canal with knife-like pains; canal feels stuffed and burning, cannot bear light touch of speculum, insists on firm pressure with cotton for relief [Allen], [Hering]. Post-aural cellulitis with bluish, boggy swelling and offensive ichor; worse night; better heat and pressure [Clarke]. Tinnitus low and humming during fevers; hearing dull from swelling or toxaemia [Allen]. Differs from Hepar (proud flesh, exquisite cold sensitivity): Tarent-c. is hot-burning and blue-black, relieves by pressure, and may resolve or declare slough quickly [Hering], [Farrington].

Nasal furuncles and septal carbuncles with stabbing pains, dark lividity, and fetid oozing; better hard pinching, worse night [Clarke], [Allen]. Surrounding cellulitis threatens perforation; odour disproportionate to size [Hering]. Septic coryza thin, ichorous, blood-tinged; nostrils sore to light touch (allodynia) [Allen]. Tip may look purple-black in severe toxaemia, with cold sweat on face (carbuncular diathesis) [Clarke]. Early intervention can avert slough; late stages show rapid separation of black core if drainage is secured [Hering].

Swollen, dusky, glossy skin, hot to the sufferer; patient presses, kneads, or straps the cheek to ease boring pains [Hering]. Expression tormented; teeth clenched during paroxysms; lips cracked, bleed, taste foul [Allen]. Erysipeloid spread from dental focus may turn violaceous with vesiculation; odour offensive [Clarke]. Relief follows incisions or spontaneous openings (confirming “better when discharge appears”) [Hering]. Compare Anthracin. (profound sepsis, black slough, intolerable burning better heat but less pressure-seeking) and Ars. (anguish, burning better heat, great prostration but less focus on local pressure-relief) [Farrington], [Clarke].

Tongue dry, brown, cracked with septic breath; mouth hot, offensive, saliva thready and foul [Allen], [Hering]. Aphthous or ulcerative patches turn grey-black at centres; touching causes stinging burn, yet patient presses with cloth for relief [Clarke]. Thirst for small sips warm fluids, or aversion from nausea of odour (not as marked as Ars.) [Hering]. Gums spongy, bleed; dental sockets painful post-extraction if cellulitis goes dusky—Tarent-c. may shorten the course [Clinical] [Boericke]. Fetor is disproportionate to lesion size, a recurring Tarent-c. hint [Clarke].

Acute septic periodontitis with boring root pains, worse night; patient bites hard on a roll of cloth for relief (pressure keynote) [Hering]. Alveolar abscess dusky, oedematous; little throbbing compared with burning/boring [Allen]. After drainage, systemic restlessness abates quickly (local–systemic link) [Clarke]. Hepar is hypersensitive to cold and slightest touch, wants to be well wrapped; Tarent-c. demands pressure and heat [Farrington].

Malignant sore throats and diphtheritic types with dirty grey–black membrane, great fetor, burning rawness, and restlessness; drinks warm water often, presses externally [Allen], [Clarke]. Cervical glands swollen, tender to light touch, better firm support [Hering]. Tonsillar abscess that looks dusky rather than bright-red (Bell.) and feels better pressed predicts a Tarent-c. response [Farrington]. Where membrane sloughs and discharge becomes freer, fever and anguish decline [Clarke].

Cellulitic/infective processes of chest wall after trauma; burning to bone, worse light touch, better compression bandage [Hering]. Breath offensive in sepsis; sighing with anguish (less Ars. anxiety, more local pain-driven) [Allen]. If empyema drains freely, systemic state turns quickly—Tarent-c. logic is “free the ichor” [Clarke].

Small, rapid, irritable pulse; waves of chill and heat with sudden sinking on sitting up; precordial anxiety from toxaemia [Allen], [Hering]. Not a primary organic remedy; functional failure arises from sepsis, pain, and sleepless pacing [Clarke]. Warmth and pressure over the heart (clasping) give subjective relief [Allen].

Shallow, quick, sighing during pain storms; offensive breath is notable [Allen]. Dyspnoea if chest wall affected; otherwise respiratory tract is secondary to systemic sepsis [Clarke].

Nausea from the odour of the wound/discharge; stomach feels hot and empty, craves warm sips [Allen]. Vomiting of thin, brownish matter during septic storms; faintness on sitting up with cold sweat [Hering]. Pain in epigastrium better pressure; will lean over the table edge [Clarke]. Appetite absent; disgust at food from system-wide putridity [Allen].

Sensations of boring, burning in abdominal walls at sites of phlegmon; cellulitis after injections or trauma shows Tarent-c. stamp—violet, glossy, intensely painful to light touch, better hard pressure [Hering], [Clarke]. Tympany in low fevers; gurgling, offensive flatus [Allen]. Mesenteric nodes may be tender; stitching toward groins [Boger].

Peri-anal abscesses with bluish, boggy swelling; exquisite touch-pain, better continuous pressure or hot compress (patient sits on something hard) [Hering], [Allen]. Fistulous tracts with foul ichor; pain returns as soon as pressure is relaxed [Clarke]. Tenesmus from toxaemia; stools offensive, thin, dark [Allen].

Strangury or dysuria from pelvic cellulitis; urine dark, offensive, scant, with burning in urethra, worse night [Allen]. Renal region sore to light touch but soothed by firm pressure (bed-roll) [Hering].

Aversion to cold water touching a hot mouth; prefers warm sips; little appetite; disgust from fetor [Allen], [Clarke]. Desire for warm broths; stimulants palliatively revive but aggravate burning later (clinical caution) [Clarke].

Orchitis/epididymo-orchitis from septic invasion with dusky swelling and burning, better tight suspensory/pressure; hydrocele fluid dark [Hering], [Clarke]. Carbuncular lesions on scrotal skin—black slough centers—odour foul [Allen]. Sexual desire absent from prostration [Clarke].

Post-partum phlegmon of perineum, mastitis turning livid–glossy with knife-like pains; binds the breast tightly and paces—Tarent-c. has often aborted slough or hastened clean separation [Hering], [Clarke]. Puerperal sepsis with offensive lochia, burning womb pains worse touch, better pressure (supportive arms) [Allen]. Bartholin abscess visibly purple, throbbing less than boring burn; rapidly improved after warm compress + Tarent-c. in several clinical notes [Clarke] [Clinical].

Carbuncles between shoulders classic—cribriform openings, central black core, surrounding lividity, intolerable boring burns; patient leans on chair back hard for relief [Hering], [Clarke]. Erector spinae sore to touch, better firm pressure (belt, roll) [Allen].

Cellulitis of limbs after injuries or injections: rapid oedema, dusky, glossy skin, black-pointed centres, foul ichor; pain drives to motion and rubbing [Hering]. Lymphangitis red-streaked at first, then plum-coloured, with stabbing pains [Clarke]. Threatened gangrene of toes/fingers with purple-black hue, numb-burn and allodynia; heat + pressure palliate; demarcation appears cleanly under Tarent-c. when indicated [Hughes], [Hering]. Chronic indurations after sepsis soften and resolve (late action) [Clarke].

Cardinal sphere. Phlegmonous inflammation, carbuncles/anthracoids, sloughing ulcers, bluish-black patches, thin, fetid ichor, unbearable burning/boring pains; light touch intolerable, hard pressure/rubbing imperative [Hering], [Allen], [Clarke]. Lesions are dusky, glossy, oedematous, often with multiple cribriform openings; centres black; odour intense—disproportionate to size [Clarke], [Boericke]. Two-phase behavior: early—aborts suppuration or diverts to benign resolution; declared—hastens clean suppuration and separation of slough, shortens course, reduces systemic sepsis [Hering], [Clarke]. Compare Anthracin. (profound putridity, burning > heat, less pressure-seeking), Ars. (burning > heat, anguish without the Tarent-c. “must press and rub”), Crot-h. (hemorrhagic, ecchymoses, coldness, passive oozing) [Farrington], [Boger].

Carbuncle/Anthracoids & Sloughing Ulcers

• Anthracin. — Violent burning, profound putridity; less demand for pressure; more systemic collapse; use when black eschar dominates with searing pains > heat [Clarke], [Farrington].
• Ars. — Burning > heat, great anguish, restlessness, periodicity; less local blue-black stamp and less compulsive pressure [Hering], [Kent].
• Crot-h. — Hemorrhagic sepsis, ecchymoses, cold bluish skin, passive oozing of dark blood; Tarent-c. has hot-burning part with pressure-relief [Boger], [Clarke].
• Lach. — Purple, left-sided, septic, intolerance of least touch and pressure; Tarent-c. craves firm pressure [Kent], [Farrington].
• Hepar — Threatened suppuration, extreme cold-sensitivity, pains > warmth; touch aggravates even firm pressure, unlike Tarent-c. [Farrington].
• Sil. — Promotes suppuration in indolent boils; pains less burning/boring and not > hard pressure [Boger].

Cellulitis / Phlegmon after Trauma or Injection

• Bell. — Bright-red, hot, throbbing, early stage; Tarent-c. is dusky–violaceous, glossy, with black points and fetor [Clarke].
• Pyrog. — Septic fever with pulse–temperature disproportion, loquacity about being poisoned; local picture less decisive than systemic [Farrington].
• Apis — Oedematous, rosy, stinging pains better cold; Tarent-c. better heat/pressure [Kent].
• Merc. — Suppurative tracks with salivation, nightly sweats; pain character less boring, more throbbing; mouth signs prominent [Clarke].

Gangrene / Demarcation

• Sec. — Dry gangrene with icy coldness, little pain; Tarent-c. has fiery pain with blue-black lividity and pressure-relief [Boger].
• Carbo-v. — Air hunger, cold collapse; burns less; wants fanning rather than pressing [Kent].

Pain Character & Tactile Modality

• Tarent-h. (Tarentula hisp.) — Hyperkinesis, music amel., nervous erethism; not the septic, blue-black boring-burn of Tarent-c. [Tyler], [Clarke].
• Mez. — Burning, biting pains in skin with vesicles; lacks the anthracoid and septic ichor keynote [Farrington].

Systemic Sepsis with Fetor

• Bapt. — Typhoid stupor, besotted face; local tissue destruction less central; Tarent-c. centres on the lesion [Boger].
• Kreos. — Offensive, acrid ulcerations; less pressure-amelioration and less carbuncular stamp [Clarke].

• Complementary: Ars. — shares burning, restlessness; Ars. often precedes Tarent-c. in early septic anguish or follows when systemic prostration lingers after slough separation [Kent], [Farrington].
• Complementary: Sil. — when an indolent focus remains after Tarent-c. has aborted the septic storm, Sil. completes expulsion of debris [Boger].
• Complementary: Hepar — in cold-sensitive, imminent suppuration; Tarent-c. replaces Hepar when colour turns dusky–violaceous and pains become boring-burning [Farrington].
• Follows well: Acon. in the very first traumatic panic before dusky change; Tarent-c. then steers the septic track [Hering].
• Follows well: Bell. after bright-red stage subsides into dusky gloss and black points [Clarke].
• Precedes well: Anthracin. when black eschar and overwhelming putridity dominate despite pressure-measures [Clarke].
• Related: Crot-h., Lach., Sec. — the gangrenous remedies; choose by temperature, haemorrhage, and pressure modality [Boger], [Farrington].
• Inimical/Confounding: Tarent-h. — do not alternate lightly; different fields though congeners [Tyler].
• Antidotes (clinical): Heat + firm bandaging often act as “natural adjuncts”; crude antiseptics and surgical drainage are not inimical but synergise with the remedy’s logic [Clarke], [Hughes].

• Carbuncle/anthracoids (blue-black, cribriform, unbearable burning > firm pressure): 30C every 1–3 hours in the acute phase; reduce with improvement. Heat + continuous pressure/bandage are rational adjuncts echoing modalities [Hering], [Clarke].
• Cellulitis post-injection/trauma (dusky, glossy, black points, fetor): 30C–200C depending on reactivity; if induration is early and tense, lower potencies repeated; once slough threatens or opens, a single 200C may pivot the case [Boericke], [Boger].
• Threatened gangrene of digits (purple-black, numb-burn, pressure-seeking): 200C single dose; reassess in 12–24 h; consider Crot-h. or Sec. if haemorrhagic coldness or painless dry gangrene dominates [Farrington], [Boger].
• Septic surgical wounds (pent-up ichor, unbearable light-touch pain): ensure mechanical drainage; Tarent-c. complements—not replaces—surgery and antisepsis [Clarke], [Hughes].
• Sequels—indurated margins after sepsis: Intermittent 30C over days can soften cicatricial rims and improve trophic state [Clarke].
• Dosing pearl: In fierce, pressure-seeking pains, repeat while the patient must keep pressing; as soon as pressure becomes optional, space or stop [Hering].
• Comparative pearl: If the patient begs for heat and pressure—Tarent-c.; if for heat and company/assurance—Ars.; if for cold applications—Apis; if for air/fanning—Carbo-v. [Farrington], [Kent].

Mind

• Mind — Restlessness — pain, during — compels motion and rubbing. Central behavioural keynote [Hering], [Allen].
• Mind — Irritability — touched, when — least interference aggravates. Rejects attendants because light touch hurts [Hering].
• Mind — Anxiety — health, about — local part; fear of gangrene. Destructive miasm awareness [Clarke].
• Mind — Delirium — septic; muttering; picks at bed-clothes. Adynamic sepsis picture [Allen].
• Mind — Despair — at night — pain with fetor. Night aggravation drives despair [Hering].
• Mind — Maliciousness — when disturbed in pain. Animal edge [Tyler].

Head

• Head — Pain — burning, boring — better pressure — bandaging head tightly amel. Tactile polarity [Allen].
• Head — Odour — offensive breath — septic states. Fetor clue [Allen].
• Head — Weakness — sitting up — faint, with cold sweat. Adynamia [Hering].
• Head — Congestion — septic inflammation — bluish face. Vasomotor tie [Clarke].
• Head — Pain — occiput — better when discharge becomes free. “Better when it runs” [Boger].
• Scalp — Tenderness — touch, to — light touch aggravates. Allodynia [Hering].

Skin

• Skin — Carbuncles — cribriform openings — black core — fetid discharge. Signature lesion [Clarke], [Hering].
• Skin — Cellulitis — phlegmonous — dusky, livid — glossy oedema. Colour and surface [Clarke].
• Skin — Ulcers — sloughing — black; ichorous; offensive. Destructive sepsis [Allen].
• Skin — Pain — burning, boring — touch, slight, aggravates — pressure ameliorates. Pathognomonic modality [Hering].
• Skin — Gangrene — threatened — line of demarcation becomes clear. Turning point under remedy [Hughes].
• Skin — Erysipelas — malignant — bluish — night worse. Severe septic spread [Clarke].

Extremities

• Extremities — Pain — stabbing; knife-like — cellulitis, during. Pain quality [Allen].
• Extremities — Discoloration — bluish-black — gangrenous tendency. Colour stamp [Clarke].
• Extremities — Ulcers — offensive — better hot applications and pressure. Modality-guided care [Boericke].
• Extremities — Weakness — septic; cannot sit up without faintness. Systemic failure [Hering].
• Extremities — Lymphangitis — red streaks then plum-coloured. Phase shift [Clarke].
• Extremities — Numbness with burning — digits — cold periphery, hot centre. Vascular mismatch [Boger].

Throat/ Mouth

• Throat — Diphtheritic — membrane grey-black — fetid; adynamic. Malignant throat types [Clarke].
• Throat — External pressure — ameliorates. Key modality [Hering].
• Mouth — Odour — offensive — septic; salivation foul. Fetor [Allen].
• Tongue — Dry — brown — fissured — adynamic fevers. Low vitality [Allen].
• Teeth — Abscess — alveolar — dusky swelling — pressure ameliorates. Dental focus [Hering].

Fever / Generalities

• Fever — Septic — offensive sweats — adynamic. Core state [Allen], [Boger].
• Generalities — Pain — burning — better heat and pressure. Tarent-c. hallmark [Hering].
• Generalities — Night — aggravation — after midnight. Septic worsening [Allen].
• Generalities — Wounds — septic — fetid ichor — better when discharge becomes free. Therapeutic pivot [Clarke].
• Generalities — Touch — slight — aggravates — pressure — ameliorates. Tactile paradox [Hering].
• Generalities — Collapse — sitting up — faintness; cold sweat. Adynamia [Allen].

Rectum/ Pelvis

• Rectum — Abscess — peri-anal — dusky, boggy; pressure amel. Perineal focus [Hering].
• Female — Mastitis — phlegmonous — bluish, impending slough — pressure amel. Breast cases [Clarke].
• Female — Lochia — offensive — septic; adynamic. Puerperal sepsis [Allen].
• Male — Orchitis — septic — dusky swelling — suspensory (pressure) amel. Genital sphere [Clarke].

Respiration/ Chest

• Chest — Cellulitis — wall — dusky, glossy — burning to bones. Thoracic focus [Hering].
• Respiration — Sighing — septic states. Pain/anguish sign [Allen].
• Breath — Offensive — putrid — fever accompanying. Fetor gauge [Allen].
• Pulse — Small, rapid — septic; prostration. Vital signs [Hering].

Hahnemann — Materia Medica Pura (1821–1834): methodological baseline for proving analysis and comparative principles.
Hering — The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica (1879–1891): primary clinical confirmations—carbuncles, gangrene, pressure-relief, “better when it runs.”
Allen, T. F. — Encyclopaedia of Pure Materia Medica (1874–1879): collated provings/poisonings; adynamic fever, burning/boring pains, tactile paradox.
Clarke, J. H. — A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica (1900): anthracoid/carbuncular portrait, dusky–glossy colour, fetor, surgical complements.
Boericke, W. — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica (1901): succinct keynotes; septic wounds, abscess logic, modalities.
Hughes, R. — A Manual of Pharmacodynamics (1880): toxicology and pathophysiology of destructive sepsis; vascular demarcation.
Boger, C. M. — Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica (1915): generalities of sepsis, “better when discharge established,” differential map.
Farrington, E. A. — Clinical Materia Medica (1887): contrasts with Ars., Anthracin., Hepar, Crot-h., Lach.; animal signatures.
Kent, J. T. — Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica (1905): miasmatic context; relationships among gangrenous remedies.
Phatak, S. R. — Materia Medica of Homoeopathic Medicines (1977): terse essentials—pressure-amelioration, blue-black tissue, septic odour.
Tyler, M. L. — Homoeopathic Drug Pictures (1942): animal remedy psychology, predatory pacing, dreams, modality emphasis.
Dunham, C. — Lectures on Materia Medica (1878): surgical–medical integration; drainage principles aligned with remedy action.
Burt, W. H. — Physiological Materia Medica (1873): early American notes on arachnid poisons and septic inflammatory responses.
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