Tarentula Hispanica - General symptoms

GENERAL

General

Paroxysm of insanity. she presses her head and pulls her hair.

rests about six minutes, and then she begins again, with restlessness, complaining, and threatening.

strikes her head with her hands, scratches herself, does not answer when questioned.

threatening manners and speech.

restlessness of the legs.

strikes her body, continues threatening.

deep anguish, her clothes annoy her.

she believes she is insulted.

general trembling. pain in abdomen, relieved by pressure with her hands.

she seems to listen, and answers with words and gesticulations.

a mocking laughter, and joy expressed in her countenance. She comes out of this attack with a severe headache, eyes staring and wide open.

she sees small figures hovering before her eyes, and moves her hands,.

From the first there was an indescribable melancholy, anguish, and restlessness.

peevishness, the attendants could do nothing to suit me.

great haste in whatever I under took, from a constant fear that something would happen to prevent my finishing it.

I would start up suddenly, and hastily change my position, through fear that something would fall on me.

when walking I would stop short or suddenly throw my head to one side, through fear of striking it against some imaginary object which appeared to be suspended a few inches above my head. Great fear of an imaginary impending calamity. Great desire to be alone, with fear of being alone, even during daylight. Frightful visions as soon as the eyes were closed, with inability to sleep,.

Complete loss of memory.

she does not understand the questions addressed to her.

she does not know the persons whom she sees every day.

cannot say her prayers. Afterwards she is cheerful, followed by deep sorrow.

feels like crying, sobbing, palpitation of the heart, oppression at the chest, headache, burning heat, and general perspiration,.

About 1 P.M., shooting, lancinating pains under the right eyebrow and right temple, with sensation as if cold water was poured on. These symptoms flew around from temples to eyes, or to sides of head, or from there to forehead or root of the nose, and vice versâ.

sometimes when the pain affected the forehead or sides of the head, it was not of a lancinating or shooting character, but there was a sensation of great internal noise,.

Forty-eight hours after inoculation there was intense burning of the scalp, speedily followed by a vesicular eruption, resembling Crusta lactea.

five ulcers formed on different parts of the scalp, which discharged a thin greenish ichorous pus, very offensive.

vesicles appeared on different parts of the body, soon becoming pustular and turning to ulcers.

the eruption on the scalp and body remained about three weeks before its final disappearance,.

Slight inflammation of the ball of the right thumb, which is hard and shiny, with lancinating pains. The inflammation lasted eight days, extending to the hand, with shooting and smarting pain all the time, and passed to suppuration. During these eight days there were observed as concomitant symptoms, a right-sided headache.

itching and smarting of the eyelids.

swelling of the right axillary glands, chills, etc. The suppuration lasted about fifteen days, and the ulceration healed,.

He felt a prick, similar to that of an ant or fly, and at the same time experienced pain in the joint of the left ring finger. The next day the affected part became red and surrounded by a livid areola of a golden color.

on the third day the golden areola was swollen, with continuance of the pain.

on the fourth day the swelling disappeared, the bitten part remained suffused with a red and livid color, but in the meantime the pain was hardly felt no new symptoms appeared for fifteen days. A black scab, which covered the spot, was removed, formed again and again, until on the fifteenth day the former yellow circle appeared,.

The finger became somewhat inflamed, with intolerable burning and itching in the vicinity of the scratch (after twenty-four hours).

the symptoms continued to increase from this time, and on the third day they became fully developed.

slight enlargement of the axillary glands, which were sensitive to touch.

submaxillary and cervical glands much swollen and very sensitive, the least pressure causing intense pain.

the neck was swollen anteriorly in a line from the chin to the sternum, and posteriorly in a line from the occipital protuberance to the scapulae, dark red, nearly purple. I can convey no better ideas of the rapidity with which the swelling progressed than by mentioning that on the morning of the third day after inoculation, I had on a fourteen and a half inch collar, my usual size.

at 10 A.M. I replaced it with one an inch larger.

at 12 M. I again changed for one still an inch larger, which I was obliged to remove at 3 P.M., as the neck was so swollen that I was in danger of choking.

the swelling continued to increase until evening, when it was much relieved by a profuse haemorrhage from the nose,.

Dry cough, in the morning (in a woman of twenty-six years).

in the evening it is more frequent and spasmodic.

hoarseness, roughness in the larynx and trachea, and pain in the front part of the chest.

frequent pulse, increased heat.

dizziness, pain in the whole head, and smarting in the eyes.

thirst, but water disagrees.

want of appetite. heat in the abdomen.

shaking chills in the back.

convulsive spasms in the posterior part of the trunk, thighs, and legs.

general lassitude, indifference, and poor memory. These symptoms, which lasted for several days, increased from 5 P.M. till 5 A.M., with sleeplessness and malaise, in bed. This woman experienced, at the same time, violent and constant sexual appetite,.

Gastric symptoms, with slight pains in the roots of the teeth, particularly when touching each other. (Many symptoms of the digestive symptom are peculiar, on account of the sympathetic pains which accompany them, or arise on the sides of the head, face, ears, teeth, and malar bones; these pains are of a neuralgic or congestive character),.

Chills and shivering during several hours.

gnawing stinging pains in the kidneys.

lancinating pains in the limbs.

headache, with buzzing in the ears.

at 7 P.M., severe chill, compelling to lie down, to get warm, getting warm with difficulty at the end of two hours.

fever during all night, and the next day feels chilly.

easy vomiting of bile, in the morning. This fever also appeared at the end of the proving,.

Constant chill and coldness during four days, except in the nights, when she sleeps.

feels broken down, as if bruised all over, particularly when moving.

the first two days, pains in the legs and head.

the second, bilious vomiting, in the morning.

the fourth day, at the same hour and lying down, slight sweat. This fever was complicated besides with coryza and cough, and repeated at the end of the proving.

after this fever, the woman felt heavy and dejected for eight days, during which time she had the eyes inflamed and the eyelids agglutinated, in the morning,.

When waking up, severe chill and general shaking, chattering of the teeth, bruised feeling all over, particularly in left side of chest, followed by a burning heat and sour perspiration afterwards.

then sleeps and dreams he was at a river border looking at the flowing water, but when looking up to the sky he became sad.

seminal emissions,.

Shivering, horripilation and general shaking, icy coldness, yawning, violent thirst, with need of stretching.

compressive headache. symptoms like the first stage of intermittent, lasting one hour, followed by pain in the heart, as if it would jump out of its place.

pain in the left arm, followed by muscular weakness, heat, and cough.

fever, with a scorching heat, intense thirst, pain in the left arm, dryness of the mouth, oppression, panting, and dyspnoea,.

Remarkable nervous phenomena; hysteria with chlorosis; CHOREA, dysmenorrhoea, spinal irritability. Bladder tenesmus. Constriction sensation. Formication. Extreme restlessness; must keep in constant motion even though walking aggravates. Hysterical epilepsy. Intense sexual excitement.

VIOLENCE; sudden

Restless, fidgety, hurried; in incessant motion, but walking worse

Rolls from side to side (Ammonium Carbonicum ^Am-c Arsenicum Album ^Ars Lachesis ^Lach---- ); worse head, and rubs it

Quivering

Numb prickling

Jerking Twitching Chorea

Synalgias; sexual (Ap)

Violent pain

Sepsis; deep

Emaciation; worse face

Averse to green colors

Dances up and down

Sensitive and nervous

Nervous laughter, then screams

Lacks control Erratic Impulsive

Selfish

Suddenly changing moods, fancies or strength

Hysteria

Hateful, adroit, crafty, cunning and destructive or depraved (Buf)

Throws things

Malingering

Kleptomania

Angry despair

Vertigo, then spasms

As of needles pricking brain

Heavy l

parietal ache to face and neck, with impatience and nausea

Sleepless; from excitement

Violent, crushing headache, as an accompaniment

Thick tears

Expression of horror

Face fiery red; bloated

Craves raw foods

Heaviness in pelvis

Stool; oily; excited by washing head

Foul urine, with sandy sediment

Sensitive genitals Sexual erethism

Hot semen

Dry, hot, raw, itching vulva and vagina, worse scratching

Motions or burning in uterus

Leucorrhoea of clear, acrid, sticky lumps

SUFFOCATION; must have fresh air; worse coughing

Cough, better smoking, worse noise

Heart, twists around; takes sudden jump

Chorea cordis, with arm symptoms; worse hands in cold water

Painfully sensitive spine; touch excites pains in heart, chest, etc

(Belladonna ^Bell)

Restless arms; keeps hands busy; picks fingers

Restless legs; impulse to walk

Festination

Cold, moist feet and hands

Itching soles

Sawing bone pains

Skin, purplish (Solanum Nigrum ^Sol-n---- ); ecchymotic; cold spots or as of cold water flowing or dropping on part

Suppuration; deep; evacuates pus rapidly

Noma

Alternate chill and heat General heat, with cold feet

Fever; septic

Sweat, profuse; excoriating

Lycosa tarentula. Tarantula. N. O. Araneideae. Tincture of the living spiders.

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.

neuralgia of. Vertebrae, tumours of.

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. ($51$) 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. ($51$) Dark red or purplish coloration and swelling of skin and tissue. (2) Apparent imminent choking. (3) Choreic movements.

restlessness. (4) amel. 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 agg. 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 agg. 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.

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, agg. 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 agg. by noise, touch, strong light, amel. by rubbing head against pillow. ("amel. 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 (Indium Metallicum ^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. Ignatia ^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 amel. 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 Asarum Europaeum ^Asar., Gelsemium Sempervirens ^Gels., and Sulphur ^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.

The child rolled its head and bit its nightgown. Apis Mel ^Apis. and Agnus Castus ^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 agg. By touch.

Rubbing amel. Pressure amel.

Music amel.; = excitement.

Rest agg. Must walk about but walking agg. all symptoms.

Can run better than walk.

Motion amel. headache, agg. uterine pains and pains in coccyx. agg.

At night. agg. Washing head. agg.

Wetting hands in cold water.

Fresh air amel. Warm water amel.

Coitus agg. Light agg.; = to scream.

Cough = headache; involuntary urination. agg.

After sleep. amel. Riding in carriage (pain in spermatic cords).

Epistaxis amel. throbbing in carotids, &c.

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.

Vertigo on walking. after breakfast, with bad taste in mouth.

sudden, in air, on coming downstairs.

transient during the night.

preceded by gastric symptoms, agg. 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.

Tarentula Hispanica terrible poison should never be used except in attenuations.

Anxiety and restlessness are words that prevail through all the conditions in it. It is much like Arsenicum Album ^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.

Emaciation is so marked that it may be said sometimes that the flesh falls off from him. Creeping and crawling in the skin all over the body. Paralysis of any part of the body, or of all the limbs.

Trembling and jerking convulsions. It has an appearance very much like St. Vitus' Dance and hence has cured chorea when it was better from music. But it will also cure when worse from music.

The extreme restlessness of the limbs is like Arsenicum Album ^Ars, and it is a deep acting medicine like Arsenicum Album ^Ars, and it sometimes has cured where Arsenicum Album ^Ars has failed, although it seemed well selected. Anxiety, restlessness, constant motion of the arms, legs, trunk and head. Restlessness of the limbs in the evening, in bed before going to sleep, like Arsenicum Album ^Ars and Lycopodium ^Lyc

It is full of pains in the body and limbs.

pains in the bones. pains in the. arms and in the joints. Periodicity is so well marked that it has been a marked curative remedy in intermittent fevers with restlessness of limbs, with aching of the bones, with stitching pains, with the anxiety, especially when these come in the evening and the fever lasts all night.

Modalities The patient himself is always sensitive to cold, so the pains in the limbs are worse in cold air and from becoming cold.

Cold damp weather aggravates all the symptoms. Walking in the open air when not cold ameliorates most of his symptoms. Open air ameliorates, rubbing ameliorates.

There is weakness of all the limbs. Violent pains in the bowels and in the bladder. Burning is a strong symptom, in many parts, but especially in the rectum; in the palms and soles and in the uterus. It is one of our high grade remedies for hysterical women.

He is inclined to walk in his sleep. Excessive hyperesthesia; all the symptoms are worse from grief and excitement. When choreic symptoms are present he can run better than he can walk.

Impairment of memory. Great irritability. In the hysterical symptoms she is better from music. Her motions are ludicrous and she is even lascivious in her conduct. Great excitement from music.

she sings until she falls with exhaustion. Fox-like cunning and destructiveness. Paroxysms of insanity with restlessness of the legs and threatening words.

When questioned she does not answer. Frequently imagines that she has been insulted. Dementia with great sadness. Excitement with singing, dancing and weeping. She sees monsters, animals, faces, insects and ghosts. She sees strangers in the room. Tarentula patients feign all sorts of sickness, especially fainting. They not only imagine themselves sick, but they pretend to be sick when they are not.

Aversion to red, green and black and all striking colors. She pulls her own hair and presses her hands upon her head. Constantly, complaining and threatening; threatens her nurse and her attendants; she strikes her head with her hands; she strikes her body; strikes her attendants and her best friends.

Violence is a strong feature of the remedy. Violence with anger. Tears his clothing. Consolation causes weeping.

The mental symptoms are better in the evening after eating. Many physical symptoms are worse in the evening, especially the febrile conditions.

A desire to lie down in the dark and not be talked to. She has many insane ideas, one is that she wants to hide because she imagines that she will be assaulted. Angered from contradiction.

Frequent attacks of dizziness, even so great that she falls to the ground. Dizziness comes on in the night; when descending stairs. Dizziness with rush of blood to the head and dizziness when fixing the eyes upon objects.

Contortions and jerking of the head. Constantly rubs the head against something, sometimes it is the pillow when in bed. Throws the head from side to side, here and there.

She has a sensation of hammers in the head. Burning heat in the head. Headache in the evening; in the morning on waking. Cannot open the eyes. Bending head forward aggravates. Pains are pressing and often wander around from place to place in the head; violent pain in the occiput and temples at the same time.

Dim vision usually worse in the right eye. Severe pain in the right eye. Sensation of sand or splinters in the eyes. Itching in the eyes. Burning, worse in the right eye.

Photophobia is marked. It will therefore be seen that the right eye is more affected. Many symptoms of the body are confined to the right side.

Violent pains in the ear. Stinging in the meatus. Dullness of hearing. Dull pains in the right ear; tearing pains in the right ear.

Buzzing and whizzing and dizziness. Ringing as of bells in the ear on waking in the morning. The right ear is most affected.

Dryness and burning; sneezing with the coryza and bleeding from the nose.

The acute and chronic nasal symptoms are worse on the right side.

Tearing pains in the teeth. Pain in the angle of the inferior maxilla as if the teeth would fall out.

There is inflammation of the throat and tonsils, worse on the right side.

Pain in the right tonsil extending to the ear.

Shooting pain in the throat. Pain and constriction on swallowing. It has cured Diphtheria. The throat is much swollen externally and there is high fever.

Thirst for cold water. Has nausea and vomiting. Has bitter eructations. Has an empty all-gone feeling in the stomach, an anxious feeling in the stomach. Vomits all food taken. Burning pain in the stomach.

There is burning in the abdomen that extends down through the intestines. Burning in the rectum. Sharp pain in the spleen.

The liver is painful to touch and is swollen. Pain in both sides of the abdomen. The abdomen is distended with flatus. Subject to much colic. Shooting pains in the abdomen, anus and vagina at the same time.

Women who have been poisoned by the Tarentula were found to have fibroid tumors in the abdomen and uterus. Severe pains in the lower abdomen.

It has cured most terrible and alarming constipation after cathartics and injections failed to effect a movement. The symptoms that guide to it are the continual tossing, anxiety, restlessness, rolling from side to side and rubbing the head against the pillow.

There is no desire for stool. With the stool there is much blood. In the rectum there is pain, smarting, tenesmus and in the abdomen colic. Most difficult stool. It also has diarrhoea with nausea and vomiting.

Diarrhoea has been brought on after washing the hair attended with dark foetid stool.

Kidneys and bladder There is involuntary urination when coughing.

Many pains in the kidneys. Most difficult urination and it has cured renal colic. In the pathogenesis the symptoms are much like cystitis and it has cured inflammation of the bladder.

In keeping with these general symptoms there is spasmodic action of the bladder; spasmodic retention of urine; copious urine with emaciation and sugar. Pain in the urethra, drawing after urination. Copious sand in the urine, and the urine is foetid.

There is uncontrollable sexual desire and he seems in a state of mind wherein he has no desire to control himself and his sexual passions; lasciviousness almost to insanity. Onanism followed by prostatic troubles.

Seminal emissions; semen is bloody; pain in the genitals; testes relaxed and painful; pain in the groin; the penis is swollen; tumor in both testicles; pains in the spermatic cords and testes, with swelling; drawing pains in the spermatic cords.

Women In the female also there is violent, uncontrollable sexual erethism.

Menstrual flow too early and copious. Violent itching of the genitals extending far up into the vagina, worse at night. Pain and violent cramps in the uterus. Nymphomania has been cured by Tarentula Hispanica.

Coition intensifies the desire and is followed by no relief. Extreme hyperesthesia of the genitals. Fibroid tumors have been cured. Great relaxation of the muscles and displacement of the uterus. Strong bearing down feeling in the pelvis. Burning in the uterus; swelling and induration of the uterus.

Violent cramps with burning in the uterus with nausea and vomiting. The uterus is extremely sensitive to pressure. Contracting pains of the uterus are labor-like and such as are often found in abortion. Shooting pains, in the genitals.

Air passages It has been a very useful remedy in complaints of the air passages.

Constantly scraping of larynx and trachea to clear them of MUCUS Loss of voice and hoarseness; loss of voice when talking. Dryness in the larynx and trachea. Burning from the throat down into the chest.

It is very rich in cough symptoms. Dry frequent cough, worse in the evening dry spasmodic cough with retching, with gagging, on every effort to expectorate; cough with involuntary urination; cough with smarting in the larynx and bronchial tubes; night cough.

Again dry cough in the morning. It has a loose cough with thick yellow expectoration in the morning.

It has great difficulty in breathing very much like that which is found in cardiac troubles, such a pressure upon the chest with panting respiration and suffocative catarrh. Oppression in the chest when raising the arms and when lying on the left side. Rheumatic pains. Many pains through and in the chest.

It has numerous heart symptoms. It has cured palpitation with mitral murmurs and sensation of trembling in the heart with irregular pulse; extreme anxiety. in the heart; tumultuous beating of the heart sudden thumping in the heart as from fright but when not frightened.

Constant want of air and desire for fresh air and sensation as if the heart turned over; a sensation as if the heart were squeezed or compressed. It has cured angina pectoris and it has many symptoms of the heart like angina pectoris.

Violent pain in the lumbar region. Violent pains under the scapula, worse from motion.

Rheumatic pains in the whole back. Pain in the shoulder blades. Neck is stiff and painful on motion. It is a great remedy for soreness of the spinal column, or spinal irritation, pressure aggravates and touch aggravates.

The symptoms of the limbs are too numerous to mention; only a few can be spoken of.

Weakness, numbness and restlessness are always present. Rheumatic pains are numerous. The pains of the limbs are so great that he cannot stand the weight of the clothing. Heaviness and numbness of the upper limbs.

Pain in the arm as if squeezed. Heart pains and many pains of the shoulders. Burning pains are very numerous; rheumatic tearing pains. Must move the hands constantly and pick the fingers from nervousness.

There is numbness of the left upper extremity and right lower. Paralysis of the lower limbs with pain in the back on motion. Restlessness of the lower limbs with constant desire to cry. (Arsenicum Album ^Ars).

Fatigue and pain in the evening. In the lower limbs there is numbness which changes to a drawing in the muscles. Restlessness in the lower limbs with aching pain during the chill in intermittent fever.

Hard pain in the hips during the night. Pain in the hips and coccyx in the evening while sitting; strong desire to jump. Pains in the nates beginning at 6 A.M. and lasting until evening. Pain in the thighs, as if bandaged when walking, shooting pains in the thighs.

He is moving the legs constantly; heaviness in the legs; bruised pains in the legs; shooting pains in the right tendon-Achilles, he must walk the floor in the evening, like Arsenicum Album ^Ars It is much like Arsenicum Album ^Ars, going from chair to chair and from bed to bed, walking the floor.

Itching, biting and creeping all over the body marked in the limbs.

Itching and burning. It has cured a dry itching eczema of the extremities and other parts of the skin after Arsenicum Album ^Ars and Sulphur ^Sulph have failed. It is a very deep acting, long acting remedy and a most useful remedy in skin affections.

Tarentula Hispanica spider poison has like other spider poisons very positive nervous symptoms. It acts upon the uterus and ovaries, and upon the female sexual organs generally. "In case of hyperaestesia or congestion of these organs, which set up a general hysterical condition, states simulating spinal neurasthenia, sensitive and painful back; excessive restlessness, and impressibility to excitements, music, especially, where there is constant inclination to keep the hands busy (Kali Bromatum ^{Kali bromatum}), and again especially if accompanied by sexual desire or pruritus of the genitals, Tarantula is able to accomplish much." Choreaic conditions, which are often the outcome of an advanced stage of the above described nervous condition, are peculiarly amenable to Tarentula Hispanica. Twitching or jerking of the muscles in conjunction with other troubles should always call to mind Tarentula Hispanica, with which such jerkings are so characteristic. It has a restlessness in women similar to the restlessness in men of Phosphorus ^Phosphorus, viz., cannot keep quiet in any position.

Dose

Sixth to thirtieth potency.

Region

NERVES

HEART

Spine

RESPIRATION

Generative sphere

Right side

Characteristics

twitching jerking, dancing