Tarentula
Tarentula hispanica (Lycosa tarantula) · Animal
Tarentula is adapted to highly nervous organisms, especially choleric constitutions where the whole body, or right arm and left leg, are affected by choreic movements. The patient cannot keep still in any position and must keep in motion, though walking worsens all symptoms.
Key symptoms
- Constant movement of legs, arms, and trunk with inability to accomplish anything
- Restlessness — cannot keep quiet in any position, must keep moving
- Intense headache as if thousands of needles pricking the brain
- Abscesses and boils with bluish discoloration and atrocious burning pain
- Sexual excitement extreme, even to mania
- Throat, mouth, and tongue intolerably dry at every menstrual period
- Spasms of uterus with intolerable pruritus vulvae
- Headache worse from noise, touch, and strong light; better from rubbing head on pillow
Worse (aggravation)
- From motion
- From contact and touch of affected parts
- From noise
- From change of weather
Better (amelioration)
- In open air
- From music
- From rubbing affected parts
Tarantula; Cuban and Spanish. (Araneideae)
Adapted to highly nervous organisms, especially choleric 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). Hyperaesthesia: 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. Absceses, 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 …
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