Tarantula; Cuban and Spanish (Araneideae)
- Adapted to highly nervous organisms, especially choreic affections where whole body, or right arm and left leg are affected (left arm and right leg, Agar.).
- Constant movement of the legs, arms, trunk, with inability to do anything; twitching and jerking of muscles.
- Restlessness, could not keep quiet in any position; must keep in motion, though walking < all symptoms (rev. of Rhus, Ruta).
- Hyperesthesia: least excitement irritates, followed by languid sadness; extreme of tips of fingers.
- Slight touch along the spine provokes spasmodic pain in chest and cardiac region.
- Headache: intense, as if thousands of needles were pricking the brain.
- Abscesses, boils, felons, affected parts of a bluish color (Lach.), and atrocious burning pain (Anth., Ars.); the agony of a felon, compelling patient to walk the floor for nights.
- Malignant ulcers; carbuncle, anthrax; gangrene.
- Symptoms appear periodically.
- Headache, neuralgic < by noise, touch, strong light, > by rubbing head against pillow.
- At every menstrual nisus, throat, mouth and tongue intolerably dry, specially when sleeping (Nux m.).
- Sexual excitement extreme even to mania; spasms of uterus pruritis vulva becomes intolerable.
Relations
- Similar: to, Apis, Crot., Lach., Plat., Mygale, Naja, Ther.
Aggravation
- Motion; contact; touch of affected parts; noise; change of weather.
Amelioration
- In open air; music; rubbing affected parts.
- Termini of nerves becomes so irritated and sensitive that some kind of friction was necessary to obtain relief.
