Tarentula Hispanica

• ▸Sudden alteration of mood.
• ▸Foxy.
• ▸Destructive impulses; moral relaxation.
• ▸Must constantly busy herself or walk.
• ▸Sensitive to music.
• ▸Averse to company, but wants some one present.
• ▸Ungrateful, discontented.
• ▸Guided by whims.

Intense pain, as if thousands of needles were pricking into brain. Vertigo. Wants hair brushed or head rubbed.

Vulva dry and hot, with much itching. Profuse menstruation, with frequent erotic spasms. Pruritus vulvae;

nymphomania. Dysmenorrhoea, with very sensitive ovaries.

Sexual excitement; lasciviousness reaching almost to insanity; seminal emissions.

Palpitation; praecordial anguish, sensation as if heart twisted and turned around.

• ▸Weakness of legs; choreic movements.
• ▸Numbness of legs.
• ▸Multiple sclerosis, with trembling.
• ▸Twitching and jerking.
• ▸Yawning with uneasiness of legs, must move them constantly.
• ▸Extraordinary contractions and movements.

Compare: Agar; Ars; Cupr; Mag phos.

Antidotes: Lach.

Sixth to thirtieth potency.

• ▸Impairment of memory.
• ▸Great irritability.
• ▸In the hysterical symptoms she is better from music.
• ▸Her motions arc ludicrous and she is

even lascivious in her conduct. Great excitement from music ; she

sings until she falls with exhaustion. Fox-like tunning and destructiveness. Paroxysms of insanity with restlessness of the legs and

• ▸threatening words.
• ▸When questioned she does not answer.
• ▸Frequently imagines that she has been insulted.
• ▸Dementia with great

sadness. Excitement with singing, dancing and weeping. She sees

monsters, animals, faces, insects and ghosts. She secs strangers in the

room. Tarentula patients feign all sorts of sickness, especially fainting. They not only imagine themselves sick, but they pretend to be

sick when they are not. Aversion to red, green and black and all

striking colors. She pulls her own hair and presses her hands upon

her head. Constantly complaining and threatening ; threatents her

nurse and her attendants ; she strikes her head with her hands ; she

strikes her body ; strikes her attendants and her best friends. Violence

is a strong feature of the remedy. Violence with anger. Tears his

clothing. Consolation causes weeping.

The mental symptoms are better in the evening after eating. Many

physical symptoms are worse in the evening, especially the febrile conditions.

A desire to lie down in the dark and not be talked to. She has many

insane ideas, one is that she wants to hide because she imagines that

she will be assaulted. Angered from contradiction.

Frequent attacks of dizziness, even so great that she falls to the

ground. Dizziness comes on in the night ; when descending stairs.

Dizziness with rush of blood to the head and dizziness when fixing the

eyes upon objects.

The head symptoms are also very numerous. Contortions and jerk*

ing of the head. Constantly rubs the head against something, some*

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times it is the pillow when in bed. Throws the head from side to

side, here and there. She has a sensation of hammers in the head.

Burning heat in the head. Headache in the evening ; in the morning

on waking. Cannot qpen the eyes. Bending head forward aggravates.

Pains are pressing and often wander around from place to place in the

head ; violent pain in the occiput and temples at the same time.

Eyes are staring, spasmodically wide open. Dim vision usually

worse in the right eye. Severe pain in the right eye. Sensation of

sand or splinters in the eyes. Itching in the eyes. Burning, worse in

the right eye. Photophobia is marked. It will therefore be seen that

the right eye is more affected. Many symptoms of the body are confined to the right side.

• ▸Discharge from the ears profuse.
• ▸Violent pains in the ear.
• ▸Stinging in the meatus.
• ▸Dullness of hearing.
• ▸Dull pains in the right ear :

tearing pains in the right ear. Buzzing and whizzing and dizziness.

Ringing as of bells in the ear on waking in the morning. The right

ear is most affected.

It has many catarrhal symptoms in the nose. Dryness and burning ;

sneezing with the coryza and bleeding from the nose. The acute and

chronic nasal symptoms arc worse on the right side.

The face looks sickly and has the appearance of terror.

Tearing pains in the teeth. Pain in the angle of the inferior maxilla as if the teeth would fall out.

There is inflammation of the thfoat and tonsils, worse on the right

side. Pain in the right tonsil ext€|iding to the ear. Shooting pain

in the throat. Pain and constriction on swallowing. It has cured

diphtheria. The throat is much swollen externally and there is high

fever.

Aversion to food ; aversion to meat especially, though craves raw

• ▸food.
• ▸Thirst for cold water.
• ▸Has nausea and vomiting.
• ▸Has bitter

leructations. Has an empty all-gone feeling in the stomach, an anxious

feeling in the stomach. Vomits all food taken. Burning pain in the

stomach.

There is burning in the abdomen that extends down through the

• ▸intestines.
• ▸Burning in the rectum.
• ▸Sharp pain in the spleen.
• ▸The

liver is painful to touch and is swollen. Pain in both sides of the

abdomen. The abdomen is distended with flatus. Subject to much

colic. Shooting pains in the abdomen, anus and vagina at the same

time. Women who have been poisoned by the Tarentula were found

to have fibroid tumors in the abdomen and uterus. Severe pains in

the lower abdomen.

It has cured most terrible and alarming constipation after cathartics

and injections failed to effect a movement. The symptoms that guide

to it are the continual tossing, anxiety, restlessness, rolling from side

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to side and rubbing the head against the pillow* There is no desire

for stool. With the stool there is much blood. In the rectum there

is pain, smarting, tenesmus and in the abdomen colic. Most difficult

stool. It also has diarrhoea with nausea and vomiting. Diarrhoea has

been brought on after washing the hair attended with dark foetid stool.

Many toxicological symptoms are found. Sugar in the urine and

it has cured diabetes ; diabetes with grief, anxiety, weakness and

bruised pain all through the body. There is involuntary urination

when coughing. Many pains in the kidneys. Most difficult urination

and it has cured renal colic. In the pathogenesis the symptoms are

much like cystitis and it has cured inflammation of the bladder. In

keeping with these general symptoms there is spasmodic action of the

bladder; spasmodic retention ot urine; copious urine with emaciation

and sugar. Pain in the urethra, drawing after urination. Copious

sand in the urine, and the urine is foetid.

There is uncontrollable sexual desire and he seems in a stale of mind,

wherein he has no desire to control himself and his sexual passions ;

lasciviousness almost to insanity. Onanism followed by prostatic

troubles. Seminal emissions ; semen is bloody ; pain in the genitals ;

testes relaxed and painful ; pain in the groin ; the penis is swollen ;

tumor in both testicles ; pains in the spermatic cords and testes with

swelling ; drawing pains in the spermatic cords.

In the female also there is violent, uncontrollable sexual erethism.

Menstrual flow too early and copious. Violent itching of the genitals

extending far up into the vagina, worse at night. Pain and violent

cramps in the uterus. Nymphomania has been cured by this remedy.

Coition intensifies the desire and is followed by no relief. Extreme

hyperaethesia of the genitals. Fibroid tumors have been cured.

Great relaxation of the muscles and displacement of the uterus.

Strong bearing down feeling in the pelvis. Burning in the uterus ;

swelling and induration of the uterus. Violent cramps with burning

in the uterus with nausea and vomiting. The uterus is extremely sensitive to pressure. Contracting pains of the uterus are labor-like and

such as are often found in abortion. Shooting pains in the genitals.

It has been a very useful remedy in complaints of the air passages,.

Constantly scraping of larynx and trachea to clear them of mucus.

Loss of voice and hoarseness ; loss of voice when talking. Dryness

in the larynx and trachea. Burning from the throat down into the chest.

It is very rich in cough symptoms. Dry frequqent cough, worse in

the evening dry spasmodic cough with retching, with gagging on

every effort to expectorate : cough with involuntary urination ; cough

wdth smarting in the larynx and bronchial tubes ; night cough. Again

idry cough in the morning. It has a loose cough with thick yellow

expectoration in the morning.

It has great difficulty in breathing very much like that which is

found in cardiac troubles, such a pressure upon the chest with panting

respiration and suffocative catarrh. Oppression in the chest when

raising the arms and when lying on the left side. Rheumatic pains.

Many pains through and in the chest.

It has numerous heart symptoms It has cured palpitation with

mitral murmurs and sensation of trembling in the heart with irregular

pulse ; extreme anxiety in the heart ; tumultuous beating of the heart ;

sudden thumping in the heart as from fright but when not frightened.

Constant want of air and desire for fresh air and sensation as it the

heart turned over ; a sensation as if the heart were sciueezed or compressed. It has cured angina pectoris and it has many symptoms of

the heart like angina pectoris.

Upon the back there are boils, abscesses and carbuncles, especially

on the back of the neck and between the shoulder blades. Violent pain

in the lumbar region. Violent pains under the scapulae, worse from

motion. Rheumatic pains in the whole back. Pain in the shoulder

blades. Neck is stiff and painful on motion. It is a great remedy

for soreness of the spinal column, or spinal irritation, pressure aggravates and touch aggravates.

The symptoms of the limbs are too numerous to mention ; only a

• ▸few can be spoken of.
• ▸Weakness, numbness and restlessness arc always present.
• ▸Rheumatic pains are numerous.
• ▸The pains of the

limbs are so great that he cannot stand the weight of the clothing.

Heaviness and numbness of the upper limbs. Pain in the arm as if

S([ueczed. Heart pains and many ^ains of the shoulders. Burning

pains are very numerous ; rheumatic tearing pains. Must move the.

hands constantly and pick the firtgers from nervousness. There is

numbness of the left upper extremity and right lower. Paralysis

of the low'er limbs with pain in the back on motion. Restlessness of the

lower limbs with constant desire to cry. (/Ir5.) Fatigue and pain

in the evening. In the lower limbs there is numbness which changes

to a drawing in the muscles. Restlessness in the lower limbs with

aching pain during the chill in ilermittent fever. Hard pain in the

hips during the night. Pain in the hips and coccyx in the evening

while sitting ; strong desire to jump. Pains in the nates beginning at

• ▸6 A.
• ▸M.
• ▸and lasting until evening.
• ▸Pain in the thighs as if bandaged

when walking ; shooting pains in the thighs. He is moving the legs

constantly ; heaviness in the legs ; bruised pains in the legs ; shooting

pains in the right tendo-Achilles ; he must walk the floor in the evening, like Ars, It is much like Ar$.^ from chair to chair and

from bed to bed, walking the floor.

Sleeplessness before midnight is very marked.

Itching, bitting and creeping all over the body, marked in the limbs.