Tarentula hispanica

Lycosa tarantula · Tarentula, wolf spider, Spanish spider, hunting spider. · Animal

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Those who respond best to Tarentula often exhibit signs of hyperactivity, overstimulation, and extreme sensitivity to music. They are full of energy, with a constant sense of hurry, impatience, and physical and mental restlessness. A classic symptom is mood swings, where laughter and happiness are rapidly replaced by violent, destructive rage and a marked tendency to be manipulative.

When ill, these people tend to roll from side to side in an attempt to ease their symptoms. Their constant restlessness makes them unable to remain still for any length of time. They often crave salty or spicy foods, and may have a strong aversion to meat.

Tarentula is most commonly prescribed to treat extreme anger and mood swings, restless limbs and chorea (also called St. Vitus’ dance), and certain heart problems. It is also given for some ailments affecting women’s health and hyperactivity, particularly in children.

Key symptoms

sensitivity to music
mood swings
extreme restlessness
rolling from side to side
promiscuity and heightened libido
craving for spicy foods

Worse (aggravation)

Touch
Cold air
Noise
Motion and exertion

Better (amelioration)

Music
Rubbing the head; brushing the hair
Open air
Constant motion

William Boericke

Homoeopathic Materia Medica · 1901

Spanish Spider

Remarkable nervous phenomena; hysteria with chlorosis; chorea, dysmenorrhœa, 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; præcordial anguish, sensation as if heart twisted and turned around.

Female

Vulva dry and hot, with much itching. Profuse menstruation, with frequent erotic spasms. Pruritus vulvæ; nymphomania. Dysmenorrhœa, 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.

James Tyler Kent

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica · 1905

This terrible poison should never be used except in attenuations.

Mind and nervous

The nervous manifestations of this remedy are almost indescribable and too numerous to mention.

Anxiety and restlessness are words that prevail through all the conditions in it. It is much like Ars. The anxiety is felt sometimes in the mind, sometimes in the whole body, sometimes in the limbs and in the stomach.

Cardiac anxiety is a strong feature. A strong aversion to colors, such as green, red and black. Depraved imaginations prevail through all the proving. Loss of all shame.

Desire to run about, to dance and jump up and down. Great fantastic dancing. Sometimes, music ameliorates all the symptoms and it other times it aggravates them. He becomes violently excited from music.

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