Tarentula hispanica
as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927
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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.
General
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.
Modalities
Worse, motion, contract, noise. Better, in open air, music, bright colors, rubbing affected parts. Worse, seeming others in trouble.
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.
Female
Vulva dry and hot, with much itching. Profuse menstruation, with frequent erotic spasms. Pruritus vulvæ; nymphomania. Dysmenorrhœa, with very sensitive ovaries.
Heart
Palpitation; præcordial anguish, sensation as if heart twisted and turned around.
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.
Relationships
Compare: Agar; Ars; Cupr; Mag phos. Antidotes: Lach.
Dose
Sixth to thirtieth potency.
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 Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- 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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Create a free accountCite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Tarentula hispanica — Mind. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/tarentula-hispanica. Published 1927: public domain in the US (since 2023) and in India (author died 1929). Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.