Light aggravates; wants to scream.
Noise aggravates.
Smoking ameliorates; cough.
Touch aggravates; finger-tips.
Water on the body excites some symptoms. Ailments from washing hair; from wetting the fingers. Yet the entire condition may be held in abeyance and positively ameliorated through persistent and habitual bathing. Spray baths, continued immersion, neutral baths, cold compresses properly applied will subdue some of the mental conditions and bodily distresses after the aversion and avoidance of water in overcome.
Awaking from sleep, especially in morning, symptoms are worse; weeping, sadness, vertigo; head symptoms, constriction, heaviness, heat, pain, noise in ear, nausea, sour eructations; pain in stomach, kidney pain, cough, oppression of chest, chills, sleepiness, yawning.
Tarantula has also: Cheerfulness especially in morning, when waking; cheerful gaiety alternating with sadness.
Symptoms worse during menses; cheerfulness, excitability, irritability, restless tossing in bed, vertigo, pain in head, pulsating in head; nausea, abdominal distention, pain in sides of abdomen, BLADDER TENESMUS (the only remedy given in the Repertory for this particular), desire for coition, burning pain in female genitals, pain in back, pain in hip, convulsions, general weakness.
Before menses: Heaviness in stomach, pain in stomach and abdomen, dragging-pain in abdomen, and rumbling, itching in female genitals, bearing-down in uterus.
After menses: Itching of genitals and uterine bearing-down.
Symptoms aggravated from coughing; pain in head, occiput and temples; bruised pain in occiput, head and temples; heaviness in head; swelling in neck; retching, vomiting; oppression in chest; pain in chest; abdominal pain; cramping, tearing involuntary urination.
REFUSES TO EAT–while manifesting need of nourishment.
Symptoms worse after eating; vertigo ; hiccough (after breakfast); nausea; pain in stomach (after breakfast), burning in stomach; vomiting; abdominal distention.
Symptoms in evening: Mental ; vertigo; some head pains; sore stomach and abdominal features; cough.
At night: Some head pains; stomach and abdominal symptoms: some kidney pain; genital itching; cough; pain in extremities; chill, fever, perspiration; general weakness.
At specific times: 4 a. m., 9 a. m., 9-11 a. m., 2 p. m., 3-7 p. m., 3-9 p. m., 7 p. m.
Constriction sensation in head, chest, genitals, thigh.
Congestion and pulsation in head, eyes, throat, pelvis.
DESIRES SAND to eat.
HYSTERIA, “positive nervous systems”, “semblance to spinal neurasthenia”.
ITCHING, FORMICATION, especially after menses.
Numbness and heaviness.
Motions irregular in extremities:
Gestures ; as if knitting.
Disposed to keep hands busy.
Pains are burning, stitching, lancinating, cutting, shooting; sore, bruised, cramping, rheumatic.
The sensations and the behaviour of provers and patients are the strongest characteristics. More accurately than functional actual disorder of organs or than tissue alterations in the body they manifest the influence of Tarantula. Influence of the nature which modern observation and classification have termed hypnotic temporarily usurps the normal intelligence and desires, and mental domination by the spider is shown through the substituted sensations and behaviour. Eventually depleted nutrition and depleted vitality result from the discordant activities. Yet the functional and tissue changes are not the characteristics which indicated the specific influence manifesting in the persons affected. The individualizing characteristics will be found in the mental attitudes and subjective features.
RELATIONSHIP OF REMEDIES AND SPIRITUAL FORCES.
In many instances after attaining a measure of success with Arsenicum album, in acute or recent disorders or for repeatedly recurrent distresses, the prescriber is led to explore this subtle constitutional background, Tarantula. Arsenicum “covers the case” to a limited degree. The symptoms and the characteristics shown before Arsenicum was called out, together with the tendencies, the lowered resistance and the frailties which feature the patients experience after Arsenicum has canceled the acute disturbances, display a total condition frequently recognizable as Tarantula. This relation is similar to that exhibited between Medorrhinum and Cina, between Calcarea and Belladonna, and among other coupled remedies: The mere superficial exciter acts as a contributing influence to rouse the sometime latent “sleeping dog” or resident tenant.
While the aim and mission of the physician is “to restore the sick to health” and toward this function he requires primarily knowledge of “what is curative in medicine” with “what is undoubtedly morbid in the patient”, since man is a spiritual being and mental influences subject him to persisting disorder, it will then be evident that the patient (as in Tarantula) needs something more than a physician –more than the most similar medication–again to stabilize a mental equilibrium.
Metaphysical culture is laying the avenues and providing guides toward a dispelling or deep-seated mental discords, as well as for resisting their too-oft neglected onset. May we not assume to guide our patients to such methodic resistance and sustentation, while campaigning by the indicated similar to its further horizon: Thence to retain them newly erect in this life, and not too soon beyond? Shall we as physicians fail them in this guidance we need not be surprised that they turn to other leaders equipped of the later psychology. Patients whose disorders recur within the range of Tarantula are notably of a type accessible to the new healers.
BODILY DISORDERS DISPELLED OR RELIEVED.
Whatever the bodily derangements, where this remedy (Tarantula) will prove beneficial, some of the characteristics aforementioned will be noted. Bodily conditions in which the remedy has proven useful when the characteristics agree include:
Paralysis agitans Convulsions Suppuration
Zymotic fevers and Pimples on face and Opacity of cornea
general sepsis head Swelling of
Aural discharge Lockjaw submaxillary
Aphthae and ulcers Inflammation, tonsil Quinsy
on tongue Disturbed digestion,
Diphtheria Abdominal oedema gastric and.
Hepatic cancer intestinal with
Constipation RECTAL INACTIVITY distressing flatulence.
accompanied by
AWFUL ANXIETY, Diarrhoea.
rolling side to side
Renal inflammation Inflammation of RETENTION OF URINE.
bladder
Dribbling TENESMUS DURING Gonorrhoeal
MENSES in this discharge
Stricture of urethra alone
Gangrene from Swelling of male
phimosis genitals
Indolent tumor of Inflammation of Condyloma of
testes genitals vagina; of uterus
Uterine cancer Induration of cervix Leucorrhoea.
uteri; of ovary
Metrorrhagia and Loss of voice Angina pectoris
protracted menses
Gangrene of lungs Endocarditis Cardiac murmurs
Mammary cancer Mammary swelling Carbuncle, dorsal
followed by sarcoma
in stomach
Spinal sclerosis Cramps in legs Pustules on legs
Inflammation of Paralysis; motive, Foot perspiration
fingers; of toes power lost,
numbness
Swollen joints Chills, fever, Stings on insects.
perspiration
Lack of reaction Complaints from grief, unrequited love,
contradiction, reprimands, punishment,
sepsis, fall.
DETAILED SYMPTOMATOLOGY
Arranged according to schematic form of Kents Repertory.
MIND Sees faces.
Absent-minded diabolical faces around.
Anger, rage, fury him; hideous faces ;
Anguish figures, frightful; ghosts,
Anxiety to black; to sombre spectres, spirits;
things; to green, red, horrible visions ; monsters on
yellow closing eyes; legs cut off.
Clairvoyance (Bar. carb., Stram.).
Death, thoughts of strangers in room (Thuja).
Delirium ; during headache; Destructive.
almost hysterical; maniacal; Discontented.
muttering nonsense during menses.
with eyes open; raging Discouraged.
Delusions, imaginations; evening, eating amel.
absurd figures present; animals; Dullness sluggish,
frightful; fears being difficult thinking.
assaulted Ennui
Excitable sardonic; mirth;
during heat hilarity, loud; alternating
from menses with sadness.
from music Loathing, general
nervous Loquacity
Fears Moaning, groaning.
being alone night (Ars., Cupr., Hep.,
death Sec., Zinc.).
impending disease when contradicted.
typhus fever Mocking.
insanity Mood alternating
Feigning sick changeable
Ideas deficient Nymphomania
Impatience Playful
Indifference, apathy to pull ones hair, desires.
external things to (Bell., Lach., Lil. tig.)
Indolence, aversion to work Shrieking
Insanity Singing.
mania Starting from sleep.
periodical (Plat.) Striking.
paroxysmal (Bell., Dig., himself (Ars., Bell., Cur.,
Gels., Kali carb., Nat. Camph., Verat. vir.).
sulph., Phos.) Stupefaction
Irresolution between convulsions (Aur.,
in ideas (Nat. mur., Bufo., Cic., Hell., Hyos.,
Sulph.) Lach., OEna., OPIUM, Plb.,
Irritable Sec.).
during menses Suicidal disposition
Jesting Thoughts persistent
Kicks (Bell., Carbo. veg., Throws things away.
Lyc., Stram., Stry., Verat. Violent, vehement. vir.)
VERTIGO
Kleptomania morning, waking
Kneeling, unable after breakfast
Lamenting evening
Lascivious, lewd night
Laughing descending stairs.
immoderately; involuntary- during erections
