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Homeopathy At Home with Melissa
I am a Registered Homeopath and Lactation Consultant who loves Jesus and believes in the power of prayer in healing and restoration. God designed our bodies to heal themselves. We interfere with the body’s abilities by introducing medications which stop the action our bodies were made to do - heal! Homeopathy comes in and stimulates the immune system to help the body remember how to heal itself. ALL people are welcomed here, no matter your beliefs! I discuss mostly homeopathy here, but also I bring an encouraging word from the Lord and touch on the topics of parenting, homeschooling, marriage, and nutrition. Welcome to my world! It’s a beautiful, healthy life!
Homeopathy At Home with Melissa
Diving into the Spider Remedies: Materia Medica Monday
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Can homeopathy truly transform your pregnancy journey and provide unparalleled support during labor and delivery? In this emotionally charged episode of Homeopathy at Home with Melissa, we begin with an inspiring testimonial from Treasure Chris, who shares how our podcast has made a remarkable difference in her life. We then address a crucial fan mail question from Front Royal, Virginia, about a pregnancy protocol using homeopathy. You'll learn an updated, simplified approach to incorporating the 12 cell salt combo twice daily throughout pregnancy and postpartum. For those with unique health concerns or past complications, we stress the importance of a customized chronic plan and invite you to visit MelissaCrenshaw.com for specialized appointments tailored to your needs.
This Materia Medica Monday, prepare to uncover the enigmatic world of spider remedies. We spotlight the extraordinary Tarantula Hispanica, a game-changer for severe septic conditions and palliative care, and examine its shared traits with remedies like Arsenicum album and Pyrogenium. We also explore Theridion and its distinctive symptoms of vertigo, dizziness, and noise sensitivity, providing insights on how it can help with ADHD and hypersensitivity, particularly during life's transformative stages. Lastly, we introduce Latrodectus Mactans, the Black Widow spider remedy, renowned for its effectiveness in treating severe angina and heart spasms. Tune in to discover how these potent remedies can address various health challenges and improve overall well-being.
Welcome back to Homeopathy at Home with Melissa. Hey, Melissa.
Speaker 2:Hey Brie, I'm super excited for Materia Medica. Monday.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's been a while. So today we're going to cover a group of remedies. So before we get to that, I would like to read a testimony. Somebody left about the podcast, so this one is from Treasure Chris. She said this podcast is an answer to my prayers. Thank you, melissa, for putting this wealth of information out here. You are spreading joy and hope in so many ways and it's our faith that really cemented homeopathy as a wonderful answer for me and my family. I'm just starting and my kids are grown, but the plan is just like the gospel, to live it out day by day and offer to help whenever it's needed. You are a blessing. Thank you again.
Speaker 2:Oh, thank you so much, treasure, chris. I really, really love that. It's so encouraging, right, bree, when we know, when we find out, when we are able to read that we are actually helping people and they're being blessed.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because we just sit here and record in our house, have our conversation. It's so funny to me to hear it go out into the world, or people tell me that they've listened to it. Yeah, it is really encouraging, it's really cool.
Speaker 2:Very cool. Thank you so much for for taking time to type that up. Very cool. Thank you so much for taking time to type that up. And that was a recent one, you know, just very recent. So thank you for that. Also.
Speaker 2:Before we jump into our group of remedies, which is very interesting, if you haven't already noticed by the title of this podcast, I want to answer a fan mail question. So when you listen to this podcast on Buzzsprout so on my Buzzsprout um, on that that platform, then you can you can type in a question, um, through the fan mail. There's a link in the description of the podcast on Buzzsprout and so you can type that in and I'll answer it. So let me. I want to. I want to answer this one question that was from there. Um, it's from Front Royal Virginia and the question is I was listening to your amazing podcast and you kept referring to a pregnancy protocol that women take during their entire pregnancy.
Speaker 2:Can you point me to the right place to a pregnancy protocol that women take during their entire pregnancy? Can you point me to the right place to find information on that protocol? My husband and I are getting ready to try for baby number two and I would love to use homeopathy for this pregnancy. Thanks for all you do. So we used to follow a really specific pregnancy protocol.
Speaker 2:A lot of homeopaths follow a really specific. You know, on this month you take this cell salt, this month you take this cell salt and um or these couple of cell salts, and what I found is that it can be tedious, it can be hard to follow, especially um, you know, if you're, if you've got other children and you're busy and you're a wife and a mom and you know all the things that we do. So we decided to make it really simple. But also it was confirmed through another homeopath that I value and I trust and so once she kind of and she does a lot with women, so once she kind of confirmed that's what she's been doing too, then I decided just to change. So bioplasma or the 12 cell salt combo, take that now because it sounds like you are getting ready to try for baby number two. Go ahead and start it now twice per day and take it through. What do you think, brie, six weeks after.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I would say, and, depending on how you feel, I took it for a long time after my third because I was really tired and a really stressful period of time. So yeah, but at least I would say I would agree six weeks.
Speaker 2:Okay so so just take the 12 cell salts in combination makes makes life easy, rather than trying to do certain cell salts you have to buy them individually. Then you're buying 12 different bottles of remedy and keeping up with which one is when to start. Yeah, it was very complicated. I mean it wasn't very complicated, but it was more complicated than just take the combo. You're good, it works. So, thanks for the question.
Speaker 1:Um, what'd you say to throw this in there? I know you say this in um classes and things, that if you have any other things going on if you have in your first pregnancy you had problems. If you have hormone things going on if you have in your first pregnancy you had problems if you have hormone things going on, you also likely need a personalized chronic plan that could help change a lot of this second pregnancy.
Speaker 2:Absolutely. Oh, I'm so glad you reminded me of that. That is absolutely true. But also, even if it's just your first baby, if you're right now pregnant or or if you're planning to get pregnant soon, I want to encourage you to go to my website, melissa Crenshaw dot com. Make appointment tab Right, brie. I think they can just scroll down and see what is it called. Is it called pregnancy, labor delivery, pregnancy or labor and delivery? You, you'll see the appointment. Anybody can make it. You don't have to. You know you don't have to to be. You don't have to do the free 15 minute phone call. Skip that. You go straight in If you are pregnant or planning to get pregnant and you can schedule that appointment so that we can help you through now. Um, uh, what did you? What do you see there?
Speaker 1:Yep Pregnancy, labor and delivery planning Awesome, yep, yep.
Speaker 2:Do that and, um, you're going to find, do you want to do you want to speak to that? I know I'm putting you on this spot, but do you want to speak to the two different options that you have, or do you just want to talk to each individual? Okay, good, Do it?
Speaker 1:Yeah, so, um, we recently started this where we do, obviously, homeopathic consults, so these are chronic. No matter what you choose, you will get a remedy care plan. Recently, I've started the option of a coaching combo where we do homeopathic remedies but also some coaching. So that's just something I'm really passionate about. I put a lot of time, years of research into and my heart behind those is really just to educate moms and families to take responsibility, have autonomy and whatever kind of prenatal care, birth, postpartum experience you want.
Speaker 1:There are a lot of options, lots of, especially in America. There are options, but you don't always know. I would not have known what questions to ask going in until I have some negative experiences and then I want to avoid them. So really, my goal is to there's lots of options. No one is always better than the other, but if you know what to ask, know what to expect, you can I mean, advocate for yourself and go and educated, empowered. I mean advocate for yourself and go in educated, empowered and have your best shot, in my opinion, and get the best kind of care. So that's an option. I love it so much. I'm going to do one tonight. I'm really excited. So if you would like that option. That's something we'll talk about when you schedule that consult.
Speaker 2:Love it, I love it. So you just schedule it and then you can talk about it and you can decide. You know what that will look like for you. Love it. I love it so much, so, really personalized and um so. So, as tonight we are in Materia Medica, monday, we're going to go from beautiful blessings to beautiful birth, and we're going to now talk about spiders.
Speaker 1:What an entry to these remedies. Well, let's.
Speaker 2:we just set you up to be beautiful and calm, and now we're going to listen. If you're afraid of spiders, you need to hear about this.
Speaker 1:It's true. Ironically, you probably could use one of these.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, the spider remedies are really, um, really awesome remedies. And so, you know, did we do the snakes before? Have we done the snake? No, we did the milks. We did the milks, yeah. So we need, we're going to do the snakes at some point, you know, and just the group, these groups of remedies are really awesome. So, um, the tarantula.
Speaker 2:Tarantula is pretty much the template for the spider remedies in general, so kind of like lachesis is the template, so to speak, for the snake remedies. It's like the, the main one. Tarantula is the template for the spider remedies and so all of the spiders will always have a slight connection to the tarantula Hispanica picture. So the animal kingdom remedy themes are survival, competition, aggression, aggressor versus victim, predator and prey right this makes sense in the animal kingdom Dominance and its opposite, the persecutor and the persecuted. Sexuality, powerful, aggressive, forceful. You know how animals behave, and I'm just really thinking of a funny chicken story that I'm just not going to tell right now, I'm going to stay on task. So, individuality, so those are the are the common themes of the animal kingdom remedies, and some other characteristics of spider remedies in general are the tendency to be cold, even though they're hyperactive, chilly. They're very chilly remedies and strong relationship to vibration, music, rhythm, noise they love all of that stuff. Distortion of time, tend to be solitary creatures. They can be restless, active, aggressive and tend also to be solitary creatures. They can be restless, active, aggressive and tend also to be solitary. So an interesting modality of the spider remedies in general is not just craving but better for cigarettes and tobacco. So right now, on the heels of my whole addictions I guess campaign is what you could call it I did a couple of weeks of addictions themed reels on my social media and so these remedies can kind of speak to that. So it's not, it's not just, it's very odd not just a craving for, but actually better for cigarettes and tobacco. It calms them down and they feel better. Well, of course it calms them down, they feel better. That's why they become addicted to it. So not just that they, they crave it, but the modality is that they're, they're actually better for it. And so all the spiders to a certain extent have got neurological symptoms, brain, spine, nervous symptoms, system sorry, and especially the tarantula hispanica picture. So there can be jerking, twitching, nervous spasms, constant motion, and they love to smoke. So that's the generality of the spiders. So tarantula in you know specifically it's the Cuban spider and they don't have it doesn't have many symptoms.
Speaker 2:But what we do have is a very interesting and clear picture and it's actually underrepresented in homeopathy, in the world of homeopathy. So there's not a single mental symptom of this remedy in Kent's repertory and it's not very well proven. But certain characteristics of the spider tendency with the added factor of pyrogenium, so abscesses, boils, carbuncles, agonizing pains, septicemia, septic states in general, agony, that goes along with that. So it's kind of like hepersulf with the pain and the agony and the septicemia. Along with arsenicum album it is one of those remedies that is considered to be the remedy where the person is just at the point of death and they're in agony. So that septic state, poisonous state, necrotic, facing death, with all the horror, fear, restlessness and the septic state that goes along with all of that. This is one of our great near-death remedies.
Speaker 2:Tarantula All of the general characteristics of spider remedies would be there, like all the necrotic dying death of pyrogenium as well. So pyrogenium is a little more passive in the sense that it doesn't have the spider element there. So it doesn't have quite tendency of the tarantula cubensis. Tarantula is with another remedy would probably. Let's see, the nearest equivalent to tarantula is arsenicum album. So it's got the anxiety, fear, pain, suffering, near death and possibly something like hepersulf for the actual septic state, pus, rotting, necrotic, gangrenous state. So you can kind of see, you know, because most people know arsenicum album, a lot of people know pyrogenium, and so when you look at and hepersulf, so when you look at those remedies, that's kind of like what tarantula can look like.
Speaker 1:Okay, so can I clarify if I'm understanding correctly? Okay, you know, as I do from an outside perspective, you know these remedies better than I do. Um, it sounds like so. Pyrogenium has the rotting, that kind of gross stuff like um necrosis, that kind of gross stuff like um necrosis, literally sometimes your flesh, but internally dying infection. But arsenicum has the, that anxiety, restlessness, the fear. So those pictures kind of together would be maybe when you would consider if you have both elements, like somebody who's really, really sick, like a heparsulfur pyrogenium infection, the restlessness I like that.
Speaker 1:Some people peaceful like their bodies aren't? I mean, they're maybe dying, and maybe an elderly person who has some fear but doesn't have anything serious going on physically Wouldn't think one of these remedies Is that.
Speaker 2:Right, right so there's the fear of dying. You're dying and you're afraid and you've got some anxiety with it. Then arsenicum album If there's some necrotic sepsis. So pyrogenium is great for sepsis and gangrene and so you could just use pyrogenium. But I think what the Materia Medica says is that pyrot, that tarantula, is worse with the necrotic state, the septic state, and that it's a lot like. So it's worse than pyrogenium and it's a lot like arsenicum album and hepersulf.
Speaker 1:Okay, okay, yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2:You're welcome, thank you. So this tarantula is number one for easing through the death process, but arsenicum album is high up there too. So I would actually say arsenicum album is number one, and then tarantula would be very close second, if it fits. So going through the death process as painlessly, as anxiety free as possible, with as much dignity and self-awareness as you possibly can, palliatively, it's going to be great, you know, at the end of in death and and then there may be a syphilitic component as a possibility. But spider remedies tend to be tubercular in nature. So the next remedy. So this is tarantula cubensis. So let's see, let me this is Cuban tarantula right, not Hispanic.
Speaker 2:So I did say Hispanic earlier and that's two different.
Speaker 1:Huh yeah, there are two different ones in Materia Medica, but you said it right. The Hispanic is that almost like the umbrella remedy. It sounds like of the spiders, where most of them maybe not umbrella is not the right term, but they most. Most of the other ones connect somewhat to the Hispanic picture.
Speaker 2:Okay, yes, and then what we? What I just described? The keynotes I just went through are for Cubensis. Okay, okay, all right, do the next one.
Speaker 1:And I think I'm pronouncing this right, you guys. Theridian Yep, it's a little orange spider. I have not ever heard of this remedy, so this is why I love these. This is fun.
Speaker 1:The major keynotes for theridian are incredible sensitivity to noise, so very deeply, noise that has felt almost in the teeth and the bones and the nervous system. Everything is intensely on edge as a result of that sensitivity to noise, almost like the nervous system is in a constant state of excitement. There are other remedies similar, like coffea asarum, I think nuxvomica, that hypersensitivity to noise, but this is very extreme, literally like the noise goes into the nerves, into the teeth, into the bones, which might cause clenching of the jaw, very intense. So the noise and agitation of the world going on around them all the time, even subliminally sometimes it pushes them into that state of maybe a nervous destructive breakdown. So this may affect your balance. In our ear it could create a vertigo. That's very extreme. It is George Vltuk Vytulka. He has, he has a materia medica right. Um, he made a connection after a number of years of this type of agitation. Sorry, going backwards a little bit to that. That noise, that destructive picture, um, it's similar to an alzheimer's state. It's not immediately like that, but that destructive process to the central nervous system can look like Alzheimer's is what he said. So sorry, I'm going to jump back to now the inner ear stuff. It can affect the balance, inner ear vertigo. So you might see dizziness, a dizzy vertigo state. They might even be almost hysterical, but quiet, agitated because there's a constant underlying irritation of the nervous system. Might be very dissociated. You might have tinnitus Meniere's disease, might have tinnitus Meniere's disease. Theridion has a nasty catarrhal picture, so thick, yellow, offensive catarrh, chronic nasal catarrh. It may follow or be similar to the cocculus picture with that inner ear problem.
Speaker 1:The imbalance, vertigo, dizziness, seasickness, a good travel remedy, those are all calculus keynotes. But this can, maybe it can mimic some of those things. It can be related to that this remedy. So theridine could develop where somebody has been under the same stress that the calculus person is under, so like night watching, caring for somebody through the night, really just that constant taxing of the nervous system, somebody that is pushed to their limit, to a breaking point, until they're so tired, so dizzy, with the extreme racket noise, that agitation that it drives them to despair. So that's what they mean by it can look like calculus in that way where you have the night watching that exhaustion, where you're pushed to despair. So vertigo is a big picture. A big part of Theridian is a big picture, a big part of theridium. So vertigo, with that sound, noise, agitation, it is part of the tubercular miasm. So there's a lot of restless discontentment. They're constantly moving from place to place, constantly on the go, can't sit still. That's also that spider picture. Constantly on the go, can't sit still, that's also that spider picture. This could be a good remedy for Ritalin pictures. So ADHD, which I have seen a lot in the other spider remedies too, is ADHD, that agitated, restless child or adult.
Speaker 1:This remedy is different from tarantula. Tarantula I said that so weird and that it doesn't have quite the strength and power. That tarantula has, not that same sensitivity or, I'm sorry, the same energy, but its sensitivity to noise is a very negative sensitivity where tarantula is sensitive to the sound and vibration, to music, but in a positive way. So that was interesting. I reading over that they turn tarantula. I keep saying that differently every single time and the Materia Medica is spelled tarantula, but sometimes I see tarantula, either one. Yeah, they like to dance, they like the music where the Ridian is irritated and agitated by that noise. Music. Where the Ritian is irritated and agitated by that noise.
Speaker 1:Um, this can be good for necrosis of the teeth, of the bones. Um, maybe somebody who's prematurely aged. That noise bothers them so much that they are just, um, they have a hard time making decisions about anything. They're very frazzled. They completely lack self-confidence. All those typically aggressive, forceful, animalistic spider qualities are mostly deficient now because they are so frazzled by the noise.
Speaker 1:So you keep hearing me say that the noise agitation is huge for this picture. They'll completely lose their libido where the other remedies spider remedies don't have that. That's different. They still have that restlessness, agitation of the other spider remedies. But it's really the big thing is noise. They may crave oranges and bananas. Time feels like it goes really fast.
Speaker 1:It's a great migraine remedy, can be good for puberty, pregnancy and menopause. They may have an incredibly sensitive spine. It's good for sunstroke with incredible agitation, can be good for cardiac pains and angina, which the Black Widow Spider remedy can also be good for. It can be used for hallucinations, for sight and hearing, where they are hallucinating either of those things and tends to be more left-sided the one thing that I said probably 1000 times and that remedy was noise. So the Ritian is hyper, hyper sensitive to noise but has the restlessness that goes along with the other spider remedies, has really intense vertigo that can go, feels like it's going into the teeth and bones and think that destructive state. They're completely disoriented, they're frazzled, they're almost like that Alzheimer's state, out of control. I think that is the wrapping up. The keynotes are all of those things I just read for Theridian.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I just want to say, since so many people are hypersensitive to noise these days, nux Vomica is my number one go-to. So I would you know, if you're sitting here thinking, oh my gosh, I'm so hypersensitive, or my son is, or my daughter, or whatever, thinking, oh my gosh, I'm so hypersensitive, or my son is, or my daughter, or whatever you know, to noise, I would. I would go with Nuxvomica, first, nuxvomica 30, once or twice per day, you know, do that for eight weeks and then, because you know I would, I would only go with the Iridian, if, if the whole, if it fit my whole picture, not just for that one specific thing. I just want to say that, because it's really a really prominent thing that a lot of people are struggling with is hypersensitive, um, hypersensitive, yeah, okay, so, um.
Speaker 2:Next is lack lactodectus Mac tans. You know I'm saying that, right, latrodectus mactans. I don't even know if I'm saying that, right, latrodectus mactans. This is a black widow spider. So this will have all of the spider symptoms aggression, predator versus prey, dominator, dominated and so it has arguably the most severe angina, spasms and pains of any remedy in our books. So we can compare for that angina. We can compare cactus, um, lillium, Lillium, tig, uh, calmia, magfos, and this is like a clutching and clutching over the heart. That's your, your, um, lactodectus mactans. So, um, this is so. The pain of lactodectus is absolutely crippling, painful, angina spasm. It's as if it takes all of those neurological symptoms that we see in the spiders and actually condenses them into this cramping around the heart. That is life-threatening and really serious. And so you know, I mean, we have to say sure, if you have a tendency to this or you've had this before, you want to be ready, get your lactodectus but get to the hospital. If you need to take it on the way to the hospital, you know, be be smart. So this is agonizingly painful and, um, you know the again the heart symptoms to a major degree.
Speaker 2:Um, this remedy can also have increased appetite, excruciation with constipation, so they seize up like a drum. Nothing moves inside, no peristalsis. It's as if there's a complete paralysis in that particular area, so similar to the tarantula hispanica, hispania picture. So it's absolutely inactivity of the rectum and they have fight, flight or fright, and all the kingdom remedies, animal kingdom remedies, do this. So there's stiffness, paralysis of the muscles and they, their fears, are of bats, death, dying, and um, they have anxiety over just the complete loss of control and over over anything. So, um, there is a heart combo. So get your pen and paper If you don't already have it out taking notes from, from these remedies.
Speaker 2:There's a heart combo. Um, for that, you can combine cactus china out, also known as cinchona bark and cratagus and low potencies like 3x or 6x, that can tone up the heart for people who have heart pathologies and, um, or slight heart weakness, and so it. It can really firm up the arteries and this can be given like a tonic that you use just to tone up the heart and carry around. You can carry around lactodectus with you. So if you ever get the spasm, then you take it as needed. Magphos is great for people who just get a little bit of a heart twinge, a little bit of angina. You can sip it in warm water or you know. But if it's really serious and painful, then lactodectus is going to be a better remedy. So, bree, take us to the last remedy.
Speaker 1:This great one that I don't even know how to say. I'm going to think Mygal, lassie, odora, yep, perfect, it is the black Cuban spider or the bird spider, and I have seen pictures of these and they are unbelievable. I mean, if this is what I'm thinking of, it's the bird spider that has a reputation of eating birds and small rodents. So imagine the spider. The size of it is enormous. It's like you should look, look up a picture real quick, show our YouTube friends. Um, it's hairy and black and leaps like it can jump. So don't want to be near this one. It does not live in a web. It weaves its own little cone in the ground and it sits there and waits to pounce on whatever creepy crawler comes its way. So now that you know a lot about this bird spider, the remedy made from this spider has a very strong tendency for jerking and twitching, has a very strong tendency for jerking and twitching, particularly in the upper part of the body. So maybe twitching and jerking in the jaw, it can be anywhere in the body, but it has a particular bias for upper extremities, like the top half of the body. So, like the other spider remedies, it has restlessness, but you might see in this picture, fidgety hands Could be. Also, if there's been a suppression of gonorrhea that leads to some of the neurological symptoms, this could be a good remedy. It is also good for dyskinesia, which is involuntary, erratic movements of the face, arms, legs or trunk. So think somebody with tics could fit this picture in the upper part of their body, which I feel like that's more common.
Speaker 1:Do we want to do any brief overview of tarantula hispanica? Is that in your notes? It is not in here because it's the big over remedy. So do we want to just touch on some of the keynotes? Yeah, you mean from the Materia Medica. Yeah, I have mine open. So I mean, I feel like we did cover a lot of the overall picture. So hyperactivity, add, angina can be good for autism, hysteria, nervous disorders, numbness, ms. What else? Restlessness, twitching, sepsis, suffocation, violent pains, vertigo and, if any of you know, there was this dance called the Tarantella. It's actually a song I played at one of my piano recitals and it's a really fast, crazy in your hands Now that I think of it I didn't know this at the time Like you're bouncing around like a very bouncy happy dance and so, anyway, tidbit, yep. Do you see anything specific you want to go over for this one? No, okay, I mean, it doesn't feel like anything different. So I think the reason we covered the other ones because they're more specific keynotes.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:If you need a different one besides Hispanica, so yeah. Yeah, if you need a different one besides Hispanica.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, okay. So there you go, the spiders, the spider family or spider remedies Again. Maybe someday we'll do the snakes and that's. These remedies are really useful, I mean especially. I mean you heard about the lactodectus and the tarantula cubensis and the Hispanic one, and even the, you know, I guess, the little orange, the theridian. I think they're really useful. I don't, you know, I don't know if everybody has to have those remedies, but you should know about them, so you know, if it fits, then maybe you could use it. Thank you, thanks for being here. We'll look forward to seeing you all next time.
