Tarentula
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General EN
Tarentula.
Lycosa tarentula. Tarantula. N. O. Araneideae. Tincture of the living spiders.
Clinical EN
Angina pectoris. Callosities. Chorea. Coccygodynia. Cornea, opacity of. Cystitis. Depression of spirits. Diphtheria. Dysmenorrhoea. Epistaxis. Erotomania. Fibroma. Headache. Hiccough. Hysteria. Intermittents. Kleptomania. Levitation. Locomotor ataxy. Mania. Ménière's disease. Migraine. Onanism. Ovaries, enlargement of. Paralysis; agitans. Physometra. Proctalgia. Pruritus pudendi. Quinsy. Septic diseases. Spinal irritation. Spinal sclerosis. Tumours. Uterus, cancer of; neuralgia of. Vertebrae, tumours of.
Characteristics EN
The name Tarentula covers a number of poisonous spiders, but in homoeopathy, unless otherwise distinguished, it refers to Tarentula hispanica, Lycosa tarentula. Nunez is our chief authority. He instigated the proving and collected much outside information bearing on the action of the poison. "Tarantella" is a dance named from the city of Tarentum.
"Tarantism" is a dancing mania, set up in persons bitten by the Tarentula, or in those who imagine themselves bitten. The cure is music and dancing. Here are two illustrations from C. D.
P.: (1) Girl, three months old, was bitten by a tarentula. She appeared at first uneasy, then exhibited dyspnoea, and complained, showed signs of suffocation, vomited, was agitated and much convulsed. Music was played; movements of the limbs were set up, whence resulted profuse sweat, followed by sleep and complete recovery. (2) Francis Mustel, a peasant, was bitten by a tarentula on the left hand, about the middle of July, as he was gathering corn.
He went home with his companions but on the way fell as if struck by apoplexy. Dyspnoea followed, and face, hands, and feet became dark. Knowing the remedy, his companions fetched musicians. When the patient heard their playing he began to revive, to sigh, to move first his feet, then his hands, and then the whole body; at last getting on his feet he took to dancing violently, with sighing so laboured that the bystanders were almost frightened.
At times he rolled himself on the ground and struck it vehemently with his feet. Two hours after the music began the blackness of his face and hands went off, he sweated freely, and regained perfect health. Every succeeding year at the same season the pain and attending symptoms returned, but less violently; and they could always be averted by music. But if the imminent paroxysm was not averted in time, he was found by his friends struck down as at first and was restored in the same way.
These cases bring out some of the cardinal features of Trn. (1) Dark red or purplish coloration and swelling of skin and tissue. (2) Apparent imminent choking. (3) Choreic movements; restlessness.
(4) > By music: music at first excites and subsequently relieves. (5) Periodicity; deep action returning annually on the date of the bite. Trn. is a remedy of synalgias and concomitants: Neuralgia of inferior maxillary nerve accompanying pain with irritation in pit of stomach. Snapping and pain in ear associated with hiccough.
Throat and eye. Heat of face with heat of palms. Faint feeling in stomach with frontal headache. Many symptoms take their rise from the generative sphere, which is profoundly affected.
Desire is excited in both sexes to the point of mania. Coitus only < the sufferings of both. In one male prover the semen was bloody and caused a sensation of heat in its passage. The sexual desire was so excited in one woman that when playing or dancing with men she hugged them before everybody; and was angry when reproved, but did it again.
The periods were scanty and pale with severe pains in teeth and buttocks; at times she had a desire to take things which did not belong to her; the "Tarantella" played on the violin produced no effect on her, but as soon as she took in her arms a little girl, she began to cry until it was taken away. Cuttings and contractions in uterus; shootings in vagina; swelling and induration of uterus; expulsion of gas from uterus; pains in other parts associated with uterine pains; restlessness, hysteria.
The restlessness is particularly noted in the lower extremities, with desire to cry: must keep moving about though walking < all the symptoms. Many of the mental symptoms, which almost exhaust the protean range of hysteria, were in connection with sexual disorders; sighing, yawning; laughing and crying; joking and profound melancholy. The unceasing movements—twitching jerking, dancing—are the most constant features. There is hysterical hyperaesthesia: the least excitement irritates, followed by languid sadness; great excitability of nerve endings; tips of fingers extremely sensitive; feels sore and bruised all over, < moving about; spinal irritation, slightest touch along spine = spasmodic pain in chest and heart regions.
Farrington gives among the mental symptoms: "When there are no observers there is no hysteria; when attention is directed to her she begins to twitch"; and "cunning attempts to feign paroxysms of wild dancing." The chorea of Trn. is most marked on right side. The neuralgias of Trn. may be anywhere; in the head they are of great intensity: "as if thousands of needles were pricking to the brain. They are < by noise, touch, strong light, > by rubbing head against pillow. ("> By rubbing" is a keynote Condition of Trn." Termini of nerves become so irritated that some kind of friction is necessary in order to obtain relief.") Constrictive headache with pain in uterus.
P. C. Majumdar (Ind. H.
R., v. 43) reports this case: Girl, 18, had oppression of chest, suffocating sensation, continued jerking and movement of hands, foam at mouth, complete insensibility, profuse and delaying menses; very sleepy. Hystero-epilepsy was diagnosed. Ign. 30 did nothing. Trn., high, brought her out of the fit and restored her completely in a few minutes.
But Trn. is not a hysteric remedy only. C. M. Boger (Hahn.
Ad., xxxviii. 40) cured a case of irritative cough with Trn. 30: Mr. B., 41, sore all over, throat feels dry, cough lying down at night and in morning after rising; dry with tearing pain in chest; excited by pressure of phlegm in chest feels short of breath for at least an hour after each coughing attack only > from smoking. Bad taste evening. Three doses cured.
Diphtheria; tonsillitis of an intensity to threaten suffocation; cystitis; septic and intermittent fevers have been successfully met in Trn. on its indications. In M. A., xvii. 568 a case of hyperaesthesia of finger-tips is mentioned. The patient, a lady, 33, could not dress herself without gloves.
The irritation caused at once a sensation in the teeth as if set on edge by a strong acid. The pain was not in the fingers. Trn. gave relief after Asar., Gels., and Sul. ac. had failed. Among peculiarities of Trn. are: Stools occur immediately the head is washed.
Wetting hands in cold water = symptoms. Snapping and cracking in right ear with pain and hiccough. One pupil dilated, the other contracted. Farrington relates a case of typhoid in a child cured by Trn.
The child rolled its head and bit its nightgown. Apis. and Agn. improved. Trn. slightly aggravated at first, then rapidly improved. Peculiar Sensations are: As if head were knocked, in morning.
As if thousands of needles were pricking into brain. As if occiput were struck with a hammer (this sensation as if hammered occurs in many parts and may be considered a general indication). As of a hair in eye. Singing like a tea-kettle in left ear.
As if lower teeth were going to fall out. As if a living body in stomach rising to throat. As if body were bruised. As if there were not sufficient space in hypogastrium.
Painful uneasiness in coccyx. Motion in uterus as of a foetus. As of something crawling up legs under skin from feet to uterus. As if heart turned and twisted round.
Heart as if squeezed and compressed. As of needles sticking into muscle of neck when touched. As of insects creeping and crawling. Tickling, burning, scorching, and numbness are prominent sensations.
Trn. is suited to nervous, hysterical patients subject to choreic affections; to persons of foxy, mischievous, and destructive tendency; to choreic affections when whole body or right arm and left leg are involved. The symptoms are: < By touch. Rubbing >. Pressure >.
Music >; = excitement. Rest <. Must walk about but walking < all symptoms. Can run better than walk.
Motion > headache, < uterine pains and pains in coccyx. < At night. < Washing head. < Wetting hands in cold water.
Fresh air >. Warm water >. Coitus <. Light <; = to scream.
Cough = headache; involuntary urination. < After sleep. > Riding in carriage (pain in spermatic cords). Epistaxis > throbbing in carotids, &c.
Relations EN
Antidote to: Lach. (Hering). Partial antidotes: Puls., Mg. c., Mos., Cup., Chel., Gels., Bov., Carb. v. Compare: Irritation of periphery of nerves > exercising and rubbing, K. bro.
Chorea, Myg., Act. r., Agar., Stram. Desire to jump, Stram., Croc., Nat. m., Sticta., Asar., Agar., Hyo., Cic. Bores head in pillow, Bell. (Trn. is more rubbing).
Hysteria, alternation of moods, sensation of something alive, epistaxis black clots, Croc. As if occiput struck with a hammer, Naj. Deep-in headache, Bac. Extreme joy, Coff.
Unfortunate love, Ph. ac. Ménière's disease; ague, Chi. sul. Sees faces, Sul. Fidgety feet, Caust, Zn.
Satyriasis, Pic. ac. Bloody semen, Merc., Led. Angina pectoris, Lat. mac., < after coitus, K. ca., Stph. Physometra, Bro.
Crawling under skin, Coca. Callosities, Ant. c. Heart as from fright or bad news, Gels. Septicaemia, Pyro.
Causation EN
Fall. Unrequited love. Bad news. Scolding. Punishment. Sepsis.
Mind EN
Paroxysms of insanity; presses her head and pulls her hair; repeated after intermissions, threatening manners and speech; restlessness of the legs; mocking laughter and joy expressed in her face; comes out of the attack with severe headache, eyes staring and wide open, sees small figures hovering before her eyes, and moves her hands
Great excitement caused by music, one hour after it general and copious sweat
Hysteria: with bitter belching;
< by moaning, > by sighing, with repeated yawning; ludicrous and lascivious
Visions: monsters; animals; faces; insects; ghosts
The colours red, yellow, and green, and particularly black, produce heavy mist before the eyes
Sees strangers in the room
Great taciturnity and irritability; desire to strike himself and others
Excessive gaiety, laughs at slightest cause; maniacally happy mood
Joy and strong emotion with trembling when seeing beloved persons
Sings until hoarse and exhausted
Fits of nervous laughing; followed by screams
Profound grief and anxiety
Desire to take things which do not belong to her
Indifference, disgust, and sadness from morning to 3 p.m. were marked, < after midday; from 3 p.m. to evening the gay disposition returned
Wants to be without any light and without being spoken to
Irritability, rage, fury
Mischievous, destructive
Ennui
Fear of impending calamity
Little intelligence and poor memory.
Head EN
Vertigo: on walking; after breakfast, with bad taste in mouth; sudden, in air, on coming downstairs; transient during the night; preceded by gastric symptoms, < by carrying anything heavy on head; causing failing without loss of consciousness; when fixing sight on any object, with headache, severe pain in cerebellum, accompanied by incomplete erection of penis and formication of soft palate
Contortions and extraordinary movements of head and hands, with rage and nervous agitation
Must move head from r. to l. and hit it against some object, with crossness
Head heavy, difficult to open eyes; tendency to incline head backward
Headache on waking compels her to lie down again
Headache with giddiness when fixing the sight on any object
Pain in head and heart with cough and nausea, morning on waking
Deep, intense headache, with restlessness, compelling to move from place to place; the pain flies to forehead and occiput with photophobia; a strong light compels to complain and swear
Compression; hammering; lancinating; burning pains in head
Great burning in head, the hair troubles to the point of wanting to remove it; continually tossing head without finding a place where to rest it; uneasiness, impatience; ill-humour, oppressive breathing and desire to pull out her hair
Headache < by touch
Inclining head forward < frontal pain; inclining backward < occipital pain; inclining to either side < pain in that side
Frontal headache, pain in vertex and parietal bones, as if cold water was poured on the head, with great noise internally
From 3 to 7 p.m. pain in forehead, esp. r. side
Neuralgia of temples
Pain in upper and middle part of head extending to cheek-bones, with nausea and desire to vomit
Headache particularly affecting l. eye
Lancinating pain l. side of head; with itching of r. ear
Pains extending to occiput, with necessity of shutting the hands, which >
Headache on occiput and temples when coughing, as if striking it with a hammer
Pain in occiput: as if struck with a hammer; burning, scorching; with burning thirst; as if a nail driven in; compression, extending towards neck.
Eyes EN
Blue circles round eyes
Eyes glassy, red
R. pupil much dilated, l. contracted
Feeling of a hair in l. eye, which pricked it; pricking caused her to rub it, < on waking
Pain in l. eye as if cold water poured into it
Sensation: of splinter; sand; eye-lash; pin pricking eyes
Shooting, lancinating, stinging pains in eyes
Light irritates eyes; company annoys him
Itching of eyes and very thick tears
Pain in eyebrows
Lids agglutinated on waking
Itching of lids; herpes
Photophobia
Vision: weak, obscure; sees ghosts, faces, flashes.
Ears EN
Profuse mucous secretion from r. ear
Violent pain at external meatus, < by touch, which = sensation as if a nail were driven through head, or a general shaking
On rising snap in r. ear followed by thick, brownish discharge
Snapping cracking in r. ear with pain and hiccough
Deafness with buzzing, whizzing, and vertigo
Noise in ears: in night < waking; in r. with mucous discharge; in r. of clear bell on waking, vanishing on getting up
When a snapping or cracking is felt the hearing is >.
Nose EN
Sneezing and coryza (r.)
Profuse epistaxis, with a flow of black, quickly coagulating blood
Great itching in l. nostril and frequent sneezing
Epistaxis > throbbing carotids and fulness in head.
Face EN
Face: expression of terror; pale, earthy, strongly contrasting with purple neck; flushed with burning heat, also heat and sweat of palms
Burning and scorching sensating on lips as after a fever
Pain in angles of lower jaw, so severe he thinks he is going crazy
Pain in lower jaw as if all teeth going to fall out
Pain in direction of r. lower maxillary nerve, with a tickling sensation in stomach, dizziness, vanishing of sight, buzzing in ears.
Teeth EN
Toothache: with sense of formication; with hiccough; as if loose, and electric sparks passed through them; throbbing;
< coming in con I tact with the air
Great dryness of mouth and teeth
Painful aphthae on tongue; with fetid breath
Tongue drawn backward preventing speech
Patch of suspicious cancerous nature in mouth and on fauces
Palate feels scalded.
Throat EN
Sore throat: when swallowing, at same time shooting in l. eye; when coughing; talking; yawning; with painful constriction when smoking
Sensation when swallowing of constriction in throat
Throbbing sore throat
Sensation as if cold water continually dropping down throat
R. tonsil: painfully swollen; painful constriction, extending to ear, < by swallowing
Fauces inflamed purplish
External swelling of neck so great as to cause danger of choking
Constant throbbing pain In cervical and submaxillary glands, with occasional sharp stinging pains
Tonsillitis; high fever, delirium, red face, tonsils so swollen, suffocation feared.—(Diphtheria with same symptoms.)
Appetite EN
Loss of appetite, intense thirst; general prostration; vomiting after eating; and getting out of bed; craving for raw food; disgust for meat.—(Disorders of pregnancy.)
Opium habit
Taste of food: flat; bitter; salty: piquant
Flat or sweetish taste in mouth.
Stomach EN
Hiccough; with toothache
Nausea: with dizziness compelling to lie down
Vomiting: acid; mucous; with intense burning pains in stomach and oesophagus
Pain in stomach < by drinking water
Gastric symptoms with slight pains in roots of teeth, esp. when touching each other.—(Many digestive symptoms are peculiar on account of accompanying sympathetic neuralgic pains, in sides of head, face, ears, teeth, malar bones.)
Abdomen EN
Swelling of hypochondria
Lancinating pain in spleen, with pain in stomach and uterus
Hepatic region painful to touch
Sharp pain in umbilical region; violent burning in abdomen and rectum; stools profuse, dark, fetid, with violent urging; constipation
Bloating
Borborygmus
Fibrous tumour in hypogastrium compressing genitals, and causing uterine discharges
Burning in hypogastrium with great weight, interfering with walking and causing pruritus of vulva
Pain in hypogastrium, hips and uterus, as if these parts were compressed; at same time unconquerable drowsiness
Pain in groins; with relaxed sensation; as from rupture, esp. r., < by cold water.
Stool And Anus EN
Pain and burning in anus after stool
Repeated shooting in anus
Violent effort to have a passage; hard stool with blood
Tenesmus
Constipation; with involuntary passing of urine on coughing or any effort
Profuse diarrhoea with prostration, nausea, vomiting, fainting
Stools: three or four times daily, very dark, fetid, partly formed, containing much mucus, expelled with difficulty, and followed by smarting and burning in anus; stools occur immediately on having head washed
Weakness of sphincter, faeces appear natural but are passed as fast as accumulated.
Urinary Organs EN
Pain in kidneys; with prostration
Cystitis; with high fever, gastric derangement, excruciating pains and inability to pass a drop of urine; bladder seems swollen and hard; great tenderness and spasmodic action, debilitating patient, who passes only by drops a dark-red brown, fetid urine, with gravel-like sediment
Pain in region of bladder; urination frequent, very painful; extremely nervous; could get no relief in any position;
< night
Urine: hot, thick, much sediment; difficult micturition; incontinence and pain in kidneys
Diabetes
Incontinence when laughing, coughing, &c.
Male Sexual Organs EN
Extreme sexual excitement, lasciviousness almost to insanity
Onanism followed by prostatic ailments and hypochondriasis
Painfulness of genitals; testes relaxed, painful to touch; pain in groins and stricture of urethra
Erections
Emissions
Indolent tumour developed in each testicle
Heaviness, pain and great swelling of (r.) testicle and cord
Drawing pulling in left cord
During emission of semen a sensation of heat is felt in its passage, it is rose-coloured containing some blood
Difficult coitus, followed by fatigue and cough.
Female Sexual Organs EN
Extreme sexual excitement; menses too early and profuse; pains and spasm of uterus; pruritus vulvae; leucorrhoea
Violent nymphomania;
< from coitus
Nymphomania; reflex chorea; hyperaemia and hyperaesthesia of sexual organs
Sexual desire in a woman who had a shining callosity on l. index finger
Fibrous tumour of uterus with bearing-down pains
Discharge of blood alternately with leucorrhoea
Uterine discharge with pain in groins
Spasmodic pains < when trying to walk
Expulsion of gas from uterus
Anguish, malaise in sexual organs; impossible to walk; seems as if a living body moving or tingling in stomach with. tendency to rise to throat
Sensation as if uterus had not room enough and were pushing away intestines
Pain in uterus with constrictive headache
Shooting: in vagina; in genitals followed by leucorrhoea
Cutting in uterus or pain as if a heavy blow struck on it
Pruritus vulvae, after menses
Profuse menstruation: with erotic spasms; crossness; ennui, and deep dissatisfaction;
< after sleep
Menses seven days too early.—(Uterine neuralgia
Dysmenorrhoea.)
Sensation of motion in uterus, like a foetus
Disorders of pregnancy
Swelling of breasts with itching of nipples.
Respiratory Organs EN
Roughness in larynx and trachea with seine dry cough, and smarting in eyelids
Aphonia with increased difficulty of breathing
Hoarseness
Cough: painful; dry; gagging; fatiguing; = distensive pains in head, chest, and uterus with sadness and anxiety; but when walking in open air a sensation of happiness
Cough when getting out of bed, with vomiting and involuntary emissions of urine
Chronic suffocating catarrh
Loose cough followed by tickling in larynx and bronchial tubes which renews cough
Attacks of suffocation, with crying, screaming, and restlessness.
Chest EN
Great oppression in chest; panting respiration
Sensation as of a blow at base of l. lung
In chest, pains; stinging; pressive; cramp-like; shooting.
Heart And Pulse EN
Diseases of heart < by wetting hands in cold water
Praecordial anxiety, tremulous beating of heart
Pain in heart as if squeezed, also in aorta
Nervous spells with pain in l. ovary
Sensation as if heart turned or twisted round
Palpitation, stitches interfering with breathing
Painful throbbing of carotids, with fulness in head, esp. region of medulla, > by epistaxis
Trembling and thumping of heart as from fright or bad news
Pulse: hard, infrequent; irregular.
Neck And Back EN
Neck stiff; cannot move it without pain
Pain l. side of neck when turning head to r
Mole on neck with sensation as of needles sticking into it when touched
Pain in neck and back followed by general paralysis
Swelling (or tumour, or rheumatoid prominence) on spinal column with laboured breathing
Tabes dorsalis
Scapula: pain in; shooting pain under l
Shooting in l. loin above hip
Acute convulsive pains in l. lower part of vertebral column on appearance of menses, ceasing with them
Repeated lancinating, shooting pain in coccyx.—(Coccygodynia after confinement; burning, smarting leucorrhoea, painful uneasiness in coccyx > standing, < slightest movement, sitting, lying in bed, or least pressure).
Limbs EN
Rheumatism checked by putting extremities in cold water, panting respiration, anxiety, cramps in heart or twisting pains; arm feels tense, stretched; morning and night cold extremities
Weakness, numbness, and dulness
Necessity to move legs extends to hands with desire of taking something and throwing it away; to roll something between fingers; followed by general fatigue
Great pain in knuckles and toes, can scarcely bear the weight of lightest linen.
Upper Limbs EN
Heaviness in arms (soon)
Squeezed pain in l. arm and hand (forenoon)
Pain and swelling in wrists
Restlessness of hands
Unbearable pains in thumbs, esp. r., > pressure
Burning and sweating of palms.
Lower Limbs EN
Uneasiness of legs, must keep moving them
Weakness of legs, cannot plant them firmly; do not obey will
Numbness of legs followed by paralysis
Convulsive shaking and twitching in r. leg
Pain in r. internal malleolus
Shooting: in r. tendo Achillis; r. great toe; r. little toe
Painful cramp in r. sole
Itching in soles of feet.
Generalities EN
A state like apoplexy or asphyxia comes on; if music is brought the patient revives, sighs, commences to dance vigorously, and so the symptoms pass off with perspiration; but they are apt to be renewed the following year in the same season.—Trembling of all limbs.—Intense restlessness.
Skin EN
Ecchymosed spots
Hepatic spots
Furfuraceous spots
Miliary eruption
Indolent pimples
Vesicular eruption like crusta lactea
A small callosity, whitish, indolent, in r. palm between middle and index fingers, increased, with heat and pain, extended, broke, leaving an ulcer with callous edges, healed leaving a small scar
Painful callosity at end of r. thumb fell off
Callosity in l. index fell out
Every year intense pain in toes from re-opened wound
Formication; pricking; itching over whole body.
Sleep EN
Yawning
Sleeplessness
Dreams: of business; of drowning; sad with weeping
Wakes up cross.
Fever EN
Constant chill and coldness during four days
Scorching heat on whole body alternating with icy coldness
Intermittent febrile attacks; during heat continued coldness of feet
Chills and fever with choreic convulsions; shakes almost continuously with involuntary movements in limbs, abdomen, chest, back and face, < l. side; could not speak (after a severe scolding or punishment)
Toxaemic fevers of a typhoid or intermittent form; chilliness or burning heat, chilliness predominating
Scorching heat of skin, which is scarlet
Debilitating sweats
Night-sweats
Cold sweat.