2013 November

Comparing Insect remedy and Spider remedy themes

by Carolyn Burdet

Animal Kingdom theme	Insect theme	Spider theme
Competitive	Ambitious, hard working, work for the corporation. Striving, need to achieve goals for validation and material gain.	Ambition to be someone big or to do something big. Ambitious to become bigger. Attention seeking
Competition with a Winner/Loser	Ambitious to do better, improve, get ahead, make something of their life,	Competitive power struggle. Wants to get one over someone else. Victory! Must win, must come out on top
Power struggle - Me vs You	Domination, submissive, enslave, inferiority complex, downtrodden, want to be seen as an individual but feel like nothing	Exert their will over others. Overpowering, or wants to overcome an oppressor. Head belongs to another - personality sublimated into another person’s identity
Bigger than me / smaller than me	Feel small, belittled, humiliated, feel as if people demean them and treat them like dirt	Won’t tolerate disrespect. Feels a need to be bigger in order to defend oneself from a bigger oppressor
Animal kingdom has hierarchy issues	Insects colonise. Feel as if they are working within a structure of control that is abusing them.	No fear, no intimidation, or feels manipulated and overpowered by someone. Big difference in power in a partnership (she is stronger)
Key themes:	Change, Transition, Transformation are key themes for insect remedies	Vindictive, possessiveness, won’t let go, manipulative relationship, female revenge
Tubercular miasm	Trapped, suffocated, fly away, restless activity,	Embroiled, entangled, can’t escape from a situation
Attack / defence is a survival issue	Violent impulses: ruthless, quick attack, fear of sudden death, incandescent rage, feels harrassed, fights back	Violent outbursts: pounces suddenly, premeditated impulse for revenge, spiders wait for prey to get caught up
Activity	Team sport, running around, one team wins; eg football	Likes violent sport, sadistic, brutal: boxing, kick boxing
Ruthless	Can be unfeeling, lack of empathy for others feelings, may ruthlessly exploit others	Cruelty, sadism, deceit, lies, trickster, plot to hurt, ‘take him for everything he’s got’
Teasing	Cutting, stinging comments, gossip, unfeeling, abrupt	Joke, tricks, pranks, teasing, mockery, teasing, jibes, sly
Irritating	Irritating, harassing, feels bullied (malarial miasm)	Annoying, trapped, stuck, under someone’s power
Sensitivity to environment	Over sensitive, irritable, buzzing, humming, wired	Sensitive to noise, vibration, rhythm, pulse, sound
Restless	Internal / physical restless - suffocated, restricted, tubercular miasm	Internal restlessness, physical restlessness and nervy, jerky movements
Impatience	Impatient, in a hurry, rushing around, speedy, fidgeting, frenetic or fruitless activity	Impatient to have it, wants it now, can’t stand being kept waiting, demanding
Energetic	High energy, restless, fidgety, energy buzzing in their body, can’t relax	Highly strung nervy energy - noise /vibration reverberates in their whole body
Sexual desire	High sex drive, itching for sex, urgent desire, dispassionate, fickle, casual fling. Apis is an exception - sex is suppressed	Passionate, high sexual energy, one partner has the upper hand, can be deceitful
Animated Movement	Run, hop, fidgety, ADHD, itchy, scratchy, insect bites cause itchiness, restlessness	Jump out at someone, booby trap, climb, ropes, swings, spin, trapeze, ticklishness
Productive	Must keep busy, structured, organised, productive work to do goals or fruitless activity	Creativity, knitting, craft, art, textiles, handicraft, or there may be a desire to lie down
Energy	High energy, excitement, erratic, never stops moving, inexhaustible energy, or tired out. Keep busy even when ill	Rhythm, drumming, dance, Lassitude, lie down. Feels vibrations in body, noise sets their teeth on edge.
Animal kingdom is social, issues about their interaction with others	Social. Conform to society, corporate, follows orders. Insect remedy children may feel overlooked, ignored	Nonconformist, individual, committed to their family and children, spiders show parental care to their young
Delusions	Insect delusions: feels used + abused, exploited, tormented, harassed, humiliated, small	Spider delusions: caught in a web, can’t leave a bad relationship, overpowered
Sensations	Squished, squashed, bugged, demeaned, dirty, stepped on, despised, downtrodden, small	Crushed, crunched, kicked, smashed, tortured, distortion of size, enlargement of parts
Jealousy	Apis is jealous, there is a saying “jealous as lice”	Can be vindictive, revenge, turn tables, lies web of deceit
Attractive appearance	Materialistic, consumer, look good, fashion trends, brands, shiny colours, nail bar	Prefer black, red, green colours, individual style,
Consumption	Consume stimulants, drugs, caffeine, to stay wired	Craving: to smoke tobacco or marijuana to relax
Animal species in relation to humankind	Insects are stepped on, low, crushed, exterminated, dirty, treated as an infestation (fleas, flies, lice, mosquitoes)	Spiders make people jump, elicit fear + phobias, spider remedies treat panic, heart arrhythmia + palpitations
Compensations	An insect remedy feel small, treated like dirt, filthy, dirty, to overcompensate, they clean, tidy, wash compulsively	Spider cases want to appear bigger and stronger to overcome their oppressor, so plot to get the upper hand
Symptoms + Sensations	Burning, itching, pricking pain, swelling, allergic reaction	Lassitude, enlargement, vibration, nervous conditions
Temperature	Hot, red, burning	Cold, chilly to the bones
Modalities	Hot, itchy, Worse from heat, Better for cold applications (Apis)	Palpitations Better for warm showers (Lactrodectus mactans)
Affinity / pathology symptoms	Urinary tract infection, rash, allergic reactions, sore throat, with swelling constriction	Heart palpitations, angina, fatigue, hysteria, nerves, jerky, injury, blood platelets
Appetite / Desires	Big appetite, constant hunger, feels starved, appetite for sugar	Juice, liquidised food Can go for long periods without eating, indigestion

INSECTS

Themes Common in Insect Remedies

Busy, active, restless, industrious, organised

Ambitious to be better, acquisitive, materialistic, showy, wealth and status

Change, improvement, develop, to make something of themselves

Feeling small, powerless, helpless, insulted, humiliated, belittled, used, taken advantage of

Squished, crushed, stepped on, squashed, trampled, downtrodden

Dirty, ugly, repulsive, disgusting, no good, cheap, low, degraded

Desire for a more elevated less lowly existence, dreams of taking flight

Symptoms Common in Insect Remedies

Suffocated, constricted, oppressed in the throat or chest

Itching, crawling, prickling skin

Buzzing, vibrating in the body

Urinary tract symptoms, irritation of genitals

Burning, stinging, stabbing pain

Hoarseness of voice, aversion to fluids

Appetite, hunger,

Worse from heat, better in the open air, better from cold applications

Insect classifications

Coleoptera - beetles

Dictyoptera - cockroach, praying mantis

Diptera - housefly, mosquitoes

Hymenoptera - ants, bees, wasps

Lepidoptera - butterfly, moths

Orthoptera - locusts, crickets

Pterygota Phthiraptera anoplura - lice, blood sucking, wingless parasites

Siphonatpera - fleas

Zygoptera Odonata - dragonfly, damselfly

Characteristics of Insect groups

Hymenoptera - highly organised social structures
Ants, bees, wasps: Busy activity, home, family, social duty, bossy, organised
Vespa: home life feels unstable, fragile, sarcasm, stinging repeatedly
Apis: organised, industrious, bossy, home loving, fastidious, inflammation amel cold water
Ants: industrious, tireless activity, unemotional, dreams aliens, robots

Diptera - housefly, mosquitoes
Musca Domestica: dirty, low, worthless, ‘rubbish’, belittled, confusion, perversion, porn
Mosquitoes: harassing, malarial miasm

Coleoptera
Cantharis: frenzy, activity, overreaction, mania, stabbing pain, burning pain, cystitis, burns

Coleoptera
Beetles: hard shell, fragile inside, feels vulnerable, bullied, feels used, feels guilty, stability
Doryphora (potato beetle feeds on solanaceae): allergy, addiction, loquacity, bloating, red

Dictyoptera
Cockroach: numb, indifference, crushed, ambition for status, to be polished, successful
Preying mantis: brutality, cursing, anger, thinks others are victimising them

Hemiptera
Lice, fleas: Parastic, greedy, needy, clingy, get too close, talk about themselves

Lepidoptera
Butterfly, moths: Restless, flitting, lack concentration, confusion, fickle, change to survive

Orthoptera
Locusts, crickets: irritability, ambition to be the best, hunger, emptiness, cold, fear of attack

Zygoptera Odonata
Dragonfly, damselfly: Floating, meditative, attacking, responsibility vs irresponsibility

SPIDERS

Themes Common in Spider Remedies
- enervation, sensitivity to noise, sound, vibrations felt in the body, noise
- dancing, music, beat, rhythm, drumming
- restlessness, activity, restless legs, busy hands
- joking, pranks, teasing, tricks, trickery, flattery, risk taking, defiant, outspoken
- jumping, hiding, jumping out, pouncing, climbing, ropes
- tubercular miasm – in a hurry, on the lookout for new and interesting
- deceit, sly, cunning, plotting, conniving
- reclusive, individual (not social like insects, but spiders are close to children)
- power struggle, jealousy, revenge, feel small, powerless, female dominance
- fear of spiders or fascination with spiders
- issues of being trapped or caught, paralysis symptoms
- palpitations, cramping pains, breathing difficulty, feels cold to the bones
- fear of illness, death, hypochondria, psychosomatic, depressed by illness
- inflammation, swelling of wound, oedema, abdominal pain, delirium
- jerky movements, chorea, cannot sit still, vertigo
- nervous exhaustion, weariness, lassitude, wants to lie down, prostration
- attractiveness, sexuality, adornment
- dyslexia, poor memory

Arachnida Remedies

Aranomorpha: eg Aranea
Spin cobwebs in the air.

Mygalomorpha: eg Atrax, Mygale, Tarentula cubensis
Live in funnel hole in the ground. Camouflage the entrance with a twig or leaf like a trap door.

Aranea diadema – papal-cross spider – garden spider (spins a fresh web daily and lives suspended in the air)

Aranea ixobola – the cross spider (larger than diadema)

Aranea scinenencia – grey spider

Atrax robusta – trap-door spider (lives in a hole in the ground)

Latrodectus hasseltii – redback spider

Latrodectus katipo – New Zealand spider

Latrodectus mactans – black widow spider (has a messy funnel-shaped web)

Loxosceles reclusa – brown recluse spider (isolation, sudden attack)

Mygale – black Cuban spider, bird spider (vigorous sexual urge)

Tarentula cubensis – decomposed Cuban spider (known as a remedy for boils)

Tarentula hispanica – tarantula (benchmark of spider characteristics)

Tegenaria domestica – house spider

Tela arnaea – spider’s web

Theridion – orange spider (keynote: hands busy, knitting, craves oranges, bananas, sensitive to noise)

Scorpion remedies Androctonos and Buthus australis are also arachnids but they have different characteristics and modalities. For this reason the scorpion remedies are not included in this comparison chart or general summary of spider symptoms. Instead of spiders’ teasing and joking there is isolation, cold blooded violence, the ‘lone fighter in the desert’.

Symptoms in Specific Spider Remedies

Sensitive to music, noise, vibration, light Aranea diadema Tarantula Theridion Lat-m

Teasing, Witty Aranea Ixobola, Tarantula

Cunning, Sly, Deceitful, Plotting Tarantula, Latrodectus mactans, Aranea, Ixobola, Loxosceles reclusa

Restless, active, compelled to move Aranea diad, Mygale, Tarantula, Theridion

Restless yet worse from least motion Latrodectus mactans

Nervous Theridion

Sense of danger, threat Latrodectus mactans, Mygale

Concern for family’s health Aranea Ixobola

Wants to fight, boxing Aranea Ixobola, Tarantula,

Twitching, jerking Mygale, Tarantula

Cramping pain Aranea Ixobola, Latrodectrus mactans

Tension, constriction, angina Latrodectus mactans

Abdominal pain, back pain Latrodectus mactans, Loxosceles reclusa

Cardiovascular disorders, heart palpitation Aranea Ixobola, Latrodectus mact, Mygale

Inflammation, lymph, cellulitis, oedema Latrodectus katipo

Nerve pain Aranea diadema, Aranea Ixobola

Sensation of swollen enlargement Aranea diadema

Violent (troublesome) sexual passion Mygale, Latrodectus hasselti

Crave coffee, tobacco, smoking Aranea diadema, Aranea Ixobola,

Icy coldness hands + feet, chilliness Aranea diadema, Aranea Ixobola, Mygale, Tarantula, Theridion

Burning pains Latrodectus hasselti

Chilly but flushes of heat Latrodectus mactans

Head belongs to another Theridion, Latrodectus mactans

Flying, floating in the air, vertigo Latrodectus hasselti

Crying in fully grown men Latrodectus mactans

Better open air Aranea diadema, Aranea Ixobola, Tarantula

Worse, cold, damp Araena diad, Latrodectus mactan, Tarantula

Better warm bathing Latrodectus mactans

Periodicity Aranea diadema, Mygale, Tarantula

Sensation hollow, emptiness Loxosceles reclusa

Books and Further Reading

Frans Vermeulen - The New Synoptic One - (Apis, Aranea Diadema, Tarantula, Theridion)
Frans Vermeulen - Synoptic Materia Medica 2 - (Aranea Ixobola, Mygale, Androctonus (scorpion), Buthus Australis (scorpion))
Frans Vermeulen - Prisma - (Apis, Aranea Diadema, Latrodectus mactans, Tarantula, Theridion)
Peter Fraser - Insects - Escaping the Earth
Massimo Mangialavori - Milk and Bugs
Roger Morrison - Desktop Guide
Patricia Le Roux - Butterflies
Alize Timmerman - The Family Factor in the Treatment of Children – the book is available at her seminars, and an article on The Family Factor in the Treatment of Children was published in Homeopathic LINKS 2010 vol 23:30-35
Farokh Master - Spider group remedies
Jenni Tree - Owning the Earth - article in Homeopathic Links Volume 23 4/10
Misha Norland and Peter Fraser - proving of schistocerca gregaria
Jeremy Sherr - proving of damselfly Calopteryx splendens
Louis Klein - proving of Loxosceles reclusa http://www.homeopathycourses.com/pdf/Loxosceles_Reclusa_Complete.pdf
Jonathan Hardy - masterclass and seminar notes
David Mundy - seminar notes

Photos: Wikimedia Commons
Dragonfly in morning dew; ArvindSureh; Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license
Honey bee swarm; Mark Osgatharp; Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license
Pumpkin spider, Araneus trifolium and its web with fog droplets; Broken Inaglory; Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license

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Markus Lange
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Phoneutria Fera
Reply #8 on : Sun August 07, 2016, 00:38:55

Hello,

you might be interested to get to know that a homeopathic remedy from the above mentioned spider is available from Zwitserse Pharmacy in Belgium.
What makes this remedy very interesting is that Phoneutria spiders are very aggressive and venomous. Therefore the homeopathic remedy prepared from the venom should have very interesting features.

kalpana
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Reply #7 on : Fri May 06, 2016, 17:40:08

was exactly searching for this fr such a long time,thanks a lot

Madhavi kankal
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Insect vs spiders
Reply #6 on : Fri October 16, 2015, 11:38:47

Informative....and clearing all doubts....thanks for great article

Sheila Cooper
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Homeopathy Insect v spider themes
Reply #5 on : Mon January 05, 2015, 15:24:08

Great resource thank you so much for preparing this. Very helpful.

Susan Terry
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Reply #4 on : Sat January 04, 2014, 20:27:28

Thankyou so much for putting together such a great resource in this comparison chart.

RAJESH MALAVIYA
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this article
Reply #3 on : Tue November 19, 2013, 11:57:15

Till now I found best article on the subject at one place,CONGRATS to writer for taking so much valuable efforts.
Rajesh

Dr Balvinder singh
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Reply #2 on : Fri November 15, 2013, 02:34:43

Very interesting and informative

Monica Rigney
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Spiders and Insects
Reply #1 on : Fri November 01, 2013, 14:56:26

Love this article, have not read it fully, but am feeling excited already and dying to really get down and read it in earnest. I will be saving this for future use. But what really interested me for now is that fact that I have just prescribed Scorpion as a remedy and I like your comparison between spiders and the scorpion. Many thanks for the great lay out and information!

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