Tarentula hispanica
as H.C. Allen recorded it in Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 1899
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Keynotes
Tarentula
Tarantula; Cuban and Spanish. Araneidecc.
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 zvalkmg < all symptoms (rev. of, Rhus, Ruta).
Hypersesthesia : 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 in the brain.
Abscesses, 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 against the pillow.
At every menstrual nisus, throat, mouth and tongue intolerably dry, especially when sleeping (Nux m.).
Sexual excitement extreme even to mania; spasms of uterus; pruritus vulva becomes intolerable.
Relations. — Similar: to, Apis, Crot., Lach., Plat., My gale, Naja, Ther.
Aggravation. — Motion; contact; touch of affected parts ; noise ; change of weather.
Amelioration. — In open air; music; rubbing affected parts.
Termini of nerves became so irritated and sensitive that some kind of friction was necessary to obtain relief.
What the other books say about Tarentula hispanica
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Tarentula hispanica in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Tarentula hispanica in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
- Tarentula hispanica in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
- Tarentula hispanica in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Cite this page. H.C. Allen. Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica. 3rd edition (1910). Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. Tarentula hispanica — Keynotes, pp. 286–288. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/tarentula-hispanica. Published 1910: public domain in the US (before 1931) and in India (author died 1909). Replaces B. Jain's 2005 "rearranged and classified" edition (© the publisher), per the owner's decision of 13 Sep 2026. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.