Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Spiders contain potent neurotoxic components that profoundly affect the nervous system, circulation, and muscular coordination, producing restlessness, hypersensitivity, periodicity, and choreiform movements. In Homoeopathy, these toxic substances are transformed through potentization into remedies that retain therapeutic energy while eliminating harmful effects. Remedies such as Aranea, Latrodectus, Mygale, Tarentula, and Theridion are employed in conditions resembling venom action, including neuralgias, chorea, septic states, and periodic fevers —following the principle of “Similia similibus curentur” (like cures like). These remedies show deep miasmatic significance, especially within tubercular and syphilitic backgrounds, and are marked by characteristic mental restlessness and hypersensitivity. The transformation of spiders into therapeutic agents reflects the homeopathic ability to convert a source of violent toxicity into a means of healing, integrating biological insight with dynamic medicinal principles.
Institution: Indian Institute of Information Technology, Sonepat
Language: English
Subfield: Complementary and alternative medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W7166315286