Materia Medica
Tarentula Hispania
Spanish Spider
Remarkable nervous phenomena; hysteria with chlorosis; chorea, dysmenorrhcea, spinal irritability. Extreme restlessness; must keep in constant motion. Hysterical epilepsy.
Mind
Sudden alteration of mood. Foxy. De- structive impulses; moral relaxation. Must constantly busy herself or walk.
Head
Intense pain, as if thousands of needles were pricking into brain. Vertigo. [Granatum.]
Male
Sexual excitement; lasciviousness reaching almost to insanity; seminal emissions.
Female
Vulva dry and hot, with much itching. Profuse menstruation, with frequent erotic spasms. Pruritus vulva; nymphomania. Dysmenorrhoea, with very sensitive ovaries.
Heart
Palpitation; pracordial anguish, sensation as if heart twisted and turned around.
Extremities
Weakness of legs ; choreic movements. Numbness of legs. Multiple sclerosis, with trembling. Turitching and jerking.
Modalities
Worse, motion, contact, noise. Bette', in open air, music, bright colors, rubbing affected parts. H'orse, seeing others in trouble.
Relationships
Compare: Agar.; Cimicif.; Cupr.: Mag. phos. Antidote: Lach.
Dose
Sixth to thirtieth potency.