Tarentula Hispanica
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General
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; praecordial 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.