TARENTULA HISPANICA

Spanish Spider


  • Remarkable nervous phenomena; hysteria with chlorosis; chorea, dysmenorrhoea, spinal irritability. 
  • Bladder tenesmus. 
  • Constriction sensations. 
  • Formication. 
  • Extreme restlessness; must keep in constant motion even though walking aggravates. 
  • Hysterical epilepsy. 
  • Intense sexual excitement.

Mind

  • 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.

Head

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

Male

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

Heart

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

Female

  • Vulva dry and hot, with much itching. 
  • Profuse menstruation, with frequent erotic spasms. 
  • Pruritus vulvae; nymphomania. 
  • Dysmenorrhoea, with very sensitive ovaries.

Extremities

  • 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.

Modalities

  • Worse, motion, contract, noise. 
  • Better, in open air, music, bright colors, rubbing affected parts. 
  • Worse, seeming others in trouble.

Relationship

  • Compare: Agar; Ars; Cupr; Mag phos.
  • Antidotes: Lach.

Dose

  • Sixth to thirtieth potency.