Theridion Curassavicum: Complete Homeopathic Remedy Guide for Vertigo & Noise Sensitivity

• Common Name: Orange spider of Curaçao
• Source: A small venomous spider found in Curaçao
• Family: Araneae (Spider)
• Preparation: Trituration of the entire live spider

Sphere of Action

• Profound action on the nervous system, especially the cerebro-spinal axis
• Acts on the auditory nerve, optic nerve, and general sensorium
• Produces great nervous sensitiveness, especially to sound and motion

Clinical Indications

• Vertigo, especially from least noise or motion
• Nervous headaches with nausea and extreme sensitiveness
• Auditory nerve hyperaesthesia (increased sensitivity to sound)
• Migraine with nausea and vomiting
• Nervous affections of women and children
• Motion sickness, seasickness

Mind Symptoms

• Great nervous irritability, especially from external impressions
• Easily startled, especially by noise or vibration
• Fearful and anxious, even from slight causes
• Cannot bear excitement or social interaction

Characteristic Symptoms

Head

• Violent headaches, especially over eyes and temples
• Pain worse from least noise, motion, or jar
• Nausea and vomiting accompany the headache
• Head feels full and throbbing
• < riding in a car or train, > lying still in a dark room

Vertigo

• From the least noise or motion
• < turning head, moving eyes, or slightest vibration
• Patient feels as if he would fall to the left

Ear

• Hyperesthesia of hearing: noise seems unbearable
• Craves quiet, every sound penetrates the brain
• Pain in ears from sounds

Nausea & Vomiting

• With headache or vertigo
• Cannot tolerate motion – seasickness-like feeling

Modalities

Worse From	Better From
Noise, motion, music	Lying still in dark room
Light, excitement, touch	Warmth, rest
Riding in vehicles, talking	Silence, solitude

Keynotes

• Oversensitiveness to noise and motion
• Vertigo with nausea, < by sound, > in quiet
• Headaches in nervous, sensitive women and children
• Useful in seasickness, motion sickness, or vertigo from auditory nerve disturbance

Potency & Dosage

• Frequently used in 6C, 30C, or 200C, especially for headaches, vertigo, and motion sickness
• Should be selected based on totality of nervous hypersensitiveness

Relationships

Compare With	Complementary / Related Remedies
Cocculus – vertigo with nausea, motion sickness	Tabacum – seasickness, nausea
Gelsemium – vertigo, dullness, nervousness	Nux vomica – oversensitive nervous system
Silicea, Natrum mur. – sensitive, delicate constitutions

One-Line Summary

Theridion curassavicum is a key remedy for vertigo and nervous headaches with extreme sensitivity to noise and motion, especially in delicate or sensitive individuals.