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Brown Recluse Spider Proving.
I decided to prove this remedy after much prodding by many veterinarians and homeopathic practitioners. Brown Recluse spider bite are common in certain parts of North America and pose a particular problem in domesticated animals. The bite leads to serious life threatening problems and death.
The brown recluse spider was first described by Gertsch and Mulaik in 1940.
One study in Texas revealed the typical habitats of Loxosceles reclusa. This spider occupies almost any dry niche, indoors or outdoors, that can provide seclusion during daylight hours. Such locations include: inside walls of barns, around feed sacks, between and under hay bales, closets of dormitory rooms, garages and closets of homes, under miscellaneous rubbish in old barns and sheds, outdoors under rocks and in stacks of wood or posts, in decaying logs, and under corrugated metal. Large numbers of brown recluse spiders have been found during winter months in Arkansas. They take shelter between rocks that are protected by overhanging cliffs. The web of the brown recluse is spun for shelter, not for trapping food. It is irregular in shape and consists of a densely woven central retreat with loose silk threads surrounding in various directions.
The brown recluse spider forages moving about freely at night in search of its prey, primarily insects. Under natural conditions L. reclusa feeds on different species of isopods, spiders, mites, beetles, millipedes, earwigs, crickets, flies, wasps, ants, moths, firebrats and cockraches. This spider belongs to the Family Loxoscelidae (most closely related to the Scytodidae) and the Super Family, Plecteuroides. The Super Family is that of the 'primitive hunters.' These spiders are active ground vagrants, stalking the terrain as they hunt. Most retire to some sort of base during the day, such as a silken tube or a padded corner. Very few of the primitive hunters use silk with much proficiency and they do not rely upon it as a means of capturing their prey. All of them are shortsighted, and eyesight plays a small role in the success of their hunting since they are active at night.
Unlike most spiders, they are six-eyed (instead of the usual eight); in the brown recluse there are three pairs of eyes arranged in a semi-circle on the anterior portion of the cephalothroax.
These habits all support naming this brown spider, the recluse. It is thought to bite only in self-defense. Man is an unwanted intruder into this spider's habitat, but contact can occur when a foraging individual takes cover in bed clothes; the bed's occupant's subsequent movement of limbs or pressure of body weight would cause the spider to inflict a bite.
Numerous studies have been conducted into the action of the brown recluse spider venom. A wide variety of enzymatic activities have been reported.
The venom contains a phospholipase, sphingomyelinase D, and this component is believed to play a role in cell lysis. A study as recent as 1994 reports that the mechanism by which the venom causes necrotic lesions is currently unknown. Certainly though, envemonation by the brown recluse spider can result in an impressive dermonecrotic lesion. These lesions are remarkable given that the spider injects his victim with only a few tenths of a microliter of venom!.
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