# Tarentula Hispanica

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Chilly
- **Aggravation Time:** Morning

## Keynote Indications
Source: Derived from the live Lycosa tarantula (commonly known as the Spanish tarantula or wolf. spider), prepared for homeopathic use by triturating the whole spider and subjecting it to serial. dilution  and  succussion  to  enhance  therapeutic  action  while  eliminating  material  toxicity,  in. accordance with homeopathic pharmacopeia standards. Traditional  Context:  Historically  employed  in  homeopathy  for  neurological,  psychological,. musculoskeletal,  and  dermatological  disorders,  particularly  those  involving  restlessness,. hyperactivity, and rhythmic movements. It is noted for symptoms such as extreme restlessness,. sensitivity to music, and aggravation from touch, often worsened by touch, noise, or confinement,. and ameliorated by rhythmic motion, music, or open air. Modern Context : Indicated for  neurological conditions  (e.g., restless leg syndrome, chorea),. psychological  conditions  (e.g.,  attention-deficit/hyperactivity  disorder,  bipolar  disorder),. musculoskeletal conditions  (e.g., fibromyalgia, myalgia), and  dermatological conditions  (e.g.,. eczema, urticaria). It suits patients with acute or chronic symptoms characterized by  extreme. restlessness,  hyperactivity,  sensitivity  to  music,  rhythmic  movements,  or  touch  sensitivity,. typically  exacerbated  by  touch,  noise,  confinement,  or  emotional  stress,  and  often  seen  in. individuals with highly reactive, dynamic constitutions. The remedy is particularly relevant for. those  with  neurological  or  psychological  conditions,  often  presenting  with  symptoms  like. restlessness or impulsivity, commonly observed in patients with restless leg syndrome, ADHD, or. bipolar disorder triggered by touch, noise, or emotional stress.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Worse from: Touch,  noise,  confinement,  emotional  stress,  rest,  night,  heat  (weather,. rooms), scratching, cold (musculoskeletal symptoms), dampness, tight clothing, fasting.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Adroit.
- Crafty, sly, cunning.
- Instabil ity of intelligence.
- Obstinacy.
- Selfish and demanding.
- Very 
impatient and irritable with others.
- Hateful.
- Destructive impulses.
- Throws things away.
- Kleptomania.
- Desire 
to strike herself or others.
- Angry with despair.
- Discontented.
- Melancholy.
- Intolerant to any criticism.
- Averse to company, but wants someone present.
- Un grateful.
- Conceited and 
deceptive behavior.
- Feigns fainting, insensibility.
- When there are no observers, there is no hysteria, when 
attention is directed to her.
- she begins to twitch.
- Suddenly changing moods, fancies or strength.
- Lacks emotional control.
- Erratic.
- Impulsive.
- Fits of nervous 
laughter then screaming.
- Moral depravity.
- Restlessness and compelled to walk.
- Tormenting and in tense 
behavior.
- Anxious and full of fears.
- Erratic moods.
- Sometimes a sweet cheer fulness and gaiety, while at other times, anger, irritability.
- Quarrelsome, excitable, exhilarated or sad.
- Self-indulgence.
- Hysterical emotions.
- Intense sexual excitements, 
lasciviousness.
- Mania, very excitable.
- Sensitive to music.
- Dances up and down.
- Laughs, mocks, runs, dances, makes gestures and jokes.
- Cries 
and sings until hoarse or exhausted.
- Aversion to colors, black, red, yellow , green.
- Mental symptoms better in 
evening after eating.
- Refuses to eat.
- Delirium, mania, shrieking, singing, erotic mania.
- Stupefaction.
- Indisposed to talk.
- Sensation of being small 
 
 
(contrast to Aur., Plat., Stram.).
- Weeping, causeless, during sleep.
- Palliates the agony and pains of the dying 
process.
- Adroit.
- Crafty, sly, cunning.
- Instabil ity of intelligence.
- Obstinacy.
- Selfish and demanding.
- Very 
impatient and irritable with others.
- Hateful.
- Destructive impulses.
- Throws things away.
- Kleptomania.
- Desire 
to strike herself or others.
- Angry with despair.
- Discontented.
- Melancholy.
- Intolerant to any criticism.
- Averse to company, but wants someone present.
- Un grateful.
- Conceited and 
deceptive behavior.
- Feigns fainting, insensibility.
- When there are no observers, there is no hysteria, when 
attention is directed to her.
- she begins to twitch.
- Suddenly changing moods, fancies or strength.
- Lacks emotional control.
- Erratic.
- Impulsive.
- Fits of nervous 
laughter then screaming.
- Moral depravity.
- Restlessness and compelled to walk.
- Tormenting and in tense 
behavior.
- Anxious and full of fears.
- Erratic moods.
- Sometimes a sweet cheer fulness and gaiety, while at other times, anger, irritability.
- Quarrelsome, excitable, exhilarated or sad.
- Self-indulgence.
- Hysterical emotions.
- Intense sexual excitements, 
lasciviousness.
- Mania, very excitable.
- Sensitive to music.
- Dances up and down.
- Laughs, mocks, runs, dances, makes gestures and jokes.
- Cries 
and sings until hoarse or exhausted.
- Aversion to colors, black, red, yellow , green.
- Mental symptoms better in 
evening after eating.
- Refuses to eat.
- Delirium, mania, shrieking, singing, erotic mania.
- Stupefaction.
- Indisposed to talk.
- Sensation of being small 
 
 
(contrast to Aur., Plat., Stram.).
- Weeping, causeless, during sleep.
- Palliates the agony and pains of the dying 
process.

### Vertigo
- Vertigo after breakfast, with bad taste in mouth.
- Vertigo when fixing sight on any object.
- Vertigo at 
night, when descending stairs.
- Vertigo before or fol lowing epileptic attack.
- Vertigo, worse carrying burden on 
head, then spasms.
- Vision - Sees ghosts, faces, flashes.
- As if a cloud before left eye, before epileptiform fits.
- COMMENTS - Clarke recorded two cases of poisoning.
- The first was the case of a girl, three months old, who 
was bitten by a tarantula.
- She appeared at first uneasy, then exhibited dyspnea and complained.
- Showed 
signs of suffocation, vomited.
- She was agitated and convulsed.
- Music was played, movements of the limbs 
were set up, resulting in a profuse sweat, followed by sleep and complete recovery.
- Clarke also noted the case of Francis Mustek a peasant, who was bitten by a tarantula 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 a  stroke.
- Dyspnea fol lowed and his 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 labored 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 perspired 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.
- Hysterical hyperesthesia.
- The least excite ment irritates, followed by languid sadness.
- Great excitability of 
nerve endings.
- Finger tips are extremely se nsitive.
- Sore and bruised feeling all over, worse moving about.
- Spinal irritation, slightest touch along spine causes spasmodic pain in chest and heart regions.
- Hypersensitive 
to the least touch.
- Neuralgias, particularly in the head, “as if thousands of needles were pricking to the brain.” Worse by noise 
touch, strong light.
- Better by rubbing head against pillow.
- Keynote better by rubbing.
- “Ends of nerves become 
so irritated.
- That some kind of friction is necessary in order to obtain relief.” 
Chorea (Ign., Staph.), most marked on right side.
- Characteristic unceasing movements, twitching, jerking, and 
 
 
dancing.
- Restlessness, particularly in the lower limbs, with desire to cry.
- Must keep moving about though all 
symptoms are worse walking.
- Farrington noted that “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." 
Mental symptoms in connection with sexual disorders.
- Sighing, yawning, laugh ing and  crying.
- Joking and 
profound melancholy.
- Insanity.
- Better by music.
- Music at first excites then it subsequently relieves.
- Dark red or purplish coloration and swelling of skin and tissue.
- Septic boils that turn really blue and painful.
- Spider bites in general (Hyper., Led.).
- Periodicity, deep action returning annually on the date of the bite.
- Diphtheria tonsillitis, threatening suffoca tion.
- Apparent imminent choking.
- Cystitis.
- Septic and intermittent 
fevers.
- Constrictive headache with pain in uterus.
- P.
- C.
- Majumdar reported the case of a woman, 18, who had oppression of the chest, with a suffocating 
sensation.
- She had continuous jerking and movement of her hands.
- Foam at mouth.
- Complete insensi bility.
- Profuse and delaying menses.
- Very sleepy.
- Hysterical ep ilepsy was diagnosed.
- Ign.
- 30c did nothing.
- Tarent., 
200c, brought her out of the fit and restored her completely in a few minutes.
- C.
- M.
- Boger cured a case of irritative cough with Tarent.
- 30c.
- Mr.
- B..
- 41, was sore all over, throat felt dry.
- Coughed when lying down at night and in morning after rising.
- Dry with tearing pain in chest.
- Excited by 
pressure of phlegm in chest.
- Felt short of breath for at least an hour after each coughing attack.
- Only better 
from smoking.
- Bad taste in the evening.
- Three doses cured.
- In Med.
- Ad., a case of hyperesthesia of the fingertips was mentioned.
- The patient, a woman, 33, could not 
dress herself without gloves.
- The irritation caused a sensation in the teeth as if set on edge by a strong acid.
- The pain was not in the fingers.
- Tarent, gave relief after Asar., Gels, and Sul-ac.
- had failed.
- Farrington related a case of typhoid in a child cured by Tarent.
- The child rolled its head and bit its nightgown.
- Apis, and Agn.
- improved.
- Tarent, slightly aggravated at first, then rapidly improved.

### Head
- Intense pain, as if thousands of needles were pricking into brain.
- Heavy pain in temples, extending to 
face and neck with nausea and impatience.
- Violent crushing headaches.
- Migra ine, can’ topen eyes, with 
tendency of head to incline backward.
- Fullness in head with throbbing carotids, better nosebleed.
- Burning heat 
in occiput with pricking and itching over whole body.
- Neuralgia in temples.
- Meningitis.
- Wants hair, brushed, 
pulledor head rubbed.
- As if cold water were poured on head and body.
- Intense pain, as if thousands of needles were pricking into brain.
- Heavy pain in temples, extending to 
face and neck with nausea and impatience.
- Violent crushing headaches.
- Migra ine, can’ topen eyes, with 
tendency of head to incline backward.
- Fullness in head with throbbing carotids, better nosebleed.
- Burning heat 
in occiput with pricking and itching over whole body.
- Neuralgia in temples.
- Meningitis.
- Wants hair, brushed, 
pulledor head rubbed.
- As if cold water were poured on head and body.

### Eyes
- Itching of the eyes with thick tears.
- Stitching in eyes as sand or thorn.
- One pupil dilated, other 
contracted.
- Eyes are wide open spasmodically and staring.
- Photophobia.
- Squinting of eyes which remain open 
during epileptic attack.

### Ears
- Snapping, cracking in ears (right), with pain and hiccough.
- Noises, ringing as of bells, worse on waking 
in the morning.
- Singing, like a tea-kettle, in left ear.

### Face
- Acne in face since menopause.
- Fiery red, bloated.
- Expression of terror.
- Wrinkled.
- Pains in angles of 
lower jaw.

### Mouth
- Dry mouth and teeth.
- Tongue drawn backward, preventing speech.
- Pain in lower jaw, as if teeth would 
fall out.
- Grinding of teeth.
- Nose - Catarrh, dryness, burning, sneezing and bleeding, worse right side.
- Nosebleed better throbbing carotids 
and fullness in head.
- Perspiration - Profuse excoriating sweat.
- Copious perspiration, worse after excitement.

### Throat
- Tonsils greatly swollen, with offen sive odor.
- Dipht heria both tonsils covered by a firm membrane, 
color of pearl.

### Chest
- Panting with oppression of the chest.
- Sensations of oppression of chest when raising arms or lying on 
left side.
- Rheumatic pains in chest.
- Angina pectoris.
- Constitutions - Suited to nervous, hysteri cal patients subject to chorea disorders; to persons of foxy, 
mischievous and destructive tendency.
- Suited to chorea disorders when whole body or right arm and left leg 
are involved.
- Diseases of heart, worse by wetting hands in cold water.
- Angina pectoris.
- Pal pitations, precordial 
anguish.
- Trembling and thumping of heart as from bad news or fright.
- Sensations as if heart twisted and turned 
around.
- Heart takes sudden jumps.
- Pulse, hard infrequent, irregular.
- Heart suddenly ceases to beat, patient 
fears to die.
- Heart as if squeezed or compressed.
- Kidneys - Foul urine with sandy sediment.
- Incontinence on laughing, coughing etc.
- Diabetes mellitus.
- Polyuria 
with violent pains in lumbar region and paralysis of lower limbs.
- Attacks of suffocation,  with cry ing, screaming and restlessness, must have fresh air, worse 
coughing.
- Panting with oppression of the chest.
- Cough when expectorating, gagging, fatiguing.
- Cough worse 
after sex, noise, better smoking.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Gastric symptoms, worse at onset of fever.
- Gastric disturbances, ac companied by pains in head, 
face, teeth etc.
- Bitter belchings, hysterical.
- Vomits all food eaten.
- Vomiting during pregnancy.
- Stools - Stools oily, black offensive, worse by washing head.
- Very dark, fetid, partly formed stools, containing 
much mucus, expelled with difficulty.
- Stools followed by smarting and burning in anus, but no tenesmus.
- Temperature - Alternate chill and heat.
- General heat with cold feet.
- Septic fever.
- Sweat profuse, excoriating.
- Intense chill all over before convulsions.
- Violent burning in abdomen.
- Burning in hypogastrium with great weight, interferes with walking.
- Hepatic region painful to touch.
- Pain in 
hepatic region, with nausea and vomiting, worse before paroxysm of malaria.
- Sharp pain in umbilical region.
- Loss of appetite.
- Refuses to eat.
- Food tastes sour.
- Mental symptoms better evening, after eating.
- Craving for sand or raw food.
- Craving for raw food during pregnancy.
- Desires highly seasoned food, salty 
things.
- Desires ashes, cuttlefish, smoking.
- Aversion to meat , bread.
- Thirst for cold water.
- Thirst often and for 
large quantities.

### Urinary & Genital
- Sensitive genitals.
- Extreme sexual excitement.
- Lasciviousness almost to insanity, worse sex.
- Prostatic ailments after masturbation.
- Seminal emission hot, bloody.
- Indolent tumors of testicles.
- Menses early.
- Profuse menstruation with frequent erotic spasms.
- Dysmenorrhea with very sensitive 
ovaries.
- Dysmenorrhea better during warm weather, when outdoors, worse during cold weather.
- Pruritus 
vulvae after menses.
- Leucorrhea alternating with bloody  discharge.
- Leucorrhea of clear acrid, sticky lumps.
- Dry, hot raw, itching vulva and vagina, worse scratching.
- Great sexual desire.
- Violent nymphomania, worse 
sex.
- Sensation of motion in uterus like a fetus.
- Sensation of burning.
- Expulsion of gas from vagi na.
- Strong 
bearing-down pelvic pains.
- Displacement of uterus.
- Neuralgia of uterus, with sadness and  despair.
- Violent 
tearing pains in uterus.
- Fibroid tumors of uterus with bearingdown pains.
- Ovaries, sensitive to pressure.
- Cancer 
of cervix.

### Extremities
- Generalized aching or soreness, with a sensation of stiffness or fatigue, resembling.
- fibromyalgia,  worse  with  touch,  noise,  inactivity,  or  night,  often  with  muscle.
- tenderness or trigger points.
- Muscle spasms or cramps, with a tendency to twitching or tightness, resembling.
- myalgia, aggravated by touch, noise, or cold, often with restlessness or burning pain.
- Joint  pains  or  stiffness,  with  a  sensation  of  soreness  or  heaviness,  resembling.
- osteoarthritis, worse with touch, noise, or dampness, often with reduced mobility or.
- swelling.
- Tendency  to  musculoskeletal  hypersensitivity,  with  aggravation  in  touched  or.
- inactive states.
- Dermatological:.
- Itchy eruptions or burning, with a sensation of irritation or heat, resembling eczema,.
- worse with touch, scratching, heat, or night, often with redness, scaling, or oozing.
- Tarentula hispanica (Spanish Tarantula) 1940.
- Urticarial  rashes  or  welts,  with  a  tendency  to  swelling  or  stinging,  resembling.
- urticaria, aggravated by touch, heat, or emotional stress, often with sensitivity to.
- clothing or pressure.
- Scalp sensitivity or eruptions, with a sensation of soreness or crawling, resembling.
- seborrheic  dermatitis,  worse  with  touch,  noise,  or  heat,  often  with  flaking  or.
- tenderness.
- Tendency  to  dermatological  hypersensitivity,  with  aggravation  in  touched  or.
- scratched states.

### Neck & Back
- Painfully sensitive spine, touch excites pains in chest, heart etc.
- Coccy- 
Tarentula hispánica godynia, better standing, worse slightest movement, touch.
- Tumors around verte bral 
column.
- Painfully sensitive spine.
- Bladder - Bladder seems swollen and hard, during cystitis.
- Pains in region of bladder.
- Very painful, frequent 
urination, worse at night.
- Incontinence when coughing, laughing, or making any effort whatever.
- Urine foul, 
with sandy sediment.
- Causations - Ill effects of unrequited love, bad news, scolding, punishment, falls, sepsis.

### Skin
- Purplish skin.
- Ecchymosed spots.
- Cold spots or as of a cold matter flowing or dropping on part.
- Boils, 
burning and painful.
- Carbuncle.
- Deep abscesses.
- Helps evacuation of pus.
- Dry eczema (Ars., Sulph.).
- Miliary 
eruptions and furuncles, with diabetes.
- Itching, as of insects creeping and crawling.

### Sleep
- Sleepless before midnight from excitement.
- Sad dreams, with weeping.

### Generalities
- As if thousands of needles were pricking into brain.
- As of needles sticking into muscle of neck 
when touched.
- As of insects creeping and crawling.
- As if occiput were struck with a hammer.
- As  of a hair in 
eye.
- As if lower teeth were going to fall out.
- As if heart turned and twisted a round.