Tarentula hispanica

VIOLENCE; sudden. Restless, fidgety, hurried; in incessant motion, but walking <. Rolls from side to side (Am-c. Ars. Lach.); < head, and rubs it. Quivering. Numb prickling. Jerking. Twitching. Chorea. Synalgias; sexual (Ap.). Violent pain. Sepsis; deep. Emaciation; < 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. Death agony. 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. Meningitis. 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, < scratching. Motions or burning in uterus. Cancer of cervix. Leucorrhœa of clear, acrid, sticky lumps. SUFFOCATION; must have fresh air; < coughing. Cough, > smoking, < noise. Heart, twists around; takes sudden jump. Chorea cordis, with arm symptoms; < hands in cold water. Painfully sensitive spine; touch excites pains in heart, chest, etc. (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 (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.

TOUCH. Cold. Noise. Damp. Periodically: Same hour. Yearly. After menses. Evening.

Relaxation: Rubbing. Sweating. Smoking. Open air. Music. Riding horseback. In the sun.

NERVES. HEART. Spine. RESPIRATION. Generative sphere. Right side.

Complementary: Ars. Related: Agar. Ars. Mygal.

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.

Lecture VI — Arachnida — Mygale, Lycosa tarentula, Tarentula cubensis, Aranea diadema and Theridion curassavicum

IyYCOSA TARENTULA.

In poisoning by the bite of the Tarentula, the symptoms are strikingly similar to those of the Ophidia. The bitten part becomes swollen and discolored, and the lymphatic glands are enlarged. By conveyance of the poison to the neck the cellular tissue there is affected, giving rise to swelling of a dark red or purplish hue. Choking seems imminent, when epistaxis, with discharge of dark clots, appears and relieves the symptoms. Evidence of cerebral congestion is given by the violently throbbing carotid arteries. But with all these symptoms there is a pale, earthy hue to the face. The fauces appear swollen and purplish, and there is a difficulty of swallowing which is of paralytic origin. The patient has burning thirst for large draughts of water. The stools are dark and foetid, and the urine scant} 7 and voided with difficulty. Thus far, there is but little to aid us in distinguishing this condition from a Lachesis case. But there are other symptoms—nervous phenomena—which typify the drug. Nervous symptoms are present in all the spider-poisons, but Tarentula applies, more than other members of the group, to hysteria. There is marked spinal irritation, and what I have found to be very characteristic is great excitability of the terminations of the nerves. The patient keeps the hands in constant motion, trying to work off this overexcitability. The playing of a lively piece of music excites her and starts her to acting like one crazy. When there are no observers she has no hysterical attacks. As soon as attention is directed to her she begins to twitch, etc. When she has headache it is better from rubbing the head against the pillow. Rubbing seems to relieve. Tarentala acts on the uterus and ovaries. It is palliative in enlargement of these organs. There is pain in the uterine region associated with constrictive headache. There is also burning pain in the hypogastrium and hips, with sensation as of a great weight in the pelvis. The menses are profuse and are followed by pruritus vulvae. The patient feels sore and bruised all over, particularly when moving about. She longs for sleep, but is so nervous that she cannot sleep. Now let us study for a moment the concordant remedies of Tarentula, taking up first Kali bromatum. We have no remedy in the Materia Medica which has so many reflex symptoms as Kali bromatum. Any little irritation, such, as dentition or indigestion in children, may bring on convulsions. The symptom, however, which I wish particularly to emphasize is peripheral irritation, with relief from motion or using the part affected.

Crocus deserves mention because of the hysterical state it is capable of exciting, together with choreic symptoms. It causes jumping, dancing, laughing, desire to kiss everybody, contractions of single groups of muscles. She is angry, and then suddenly repents; or angry and talkative, laughing alternately. As in Tarentula, music affects her. Hearing one sing, she begins involuntarily to join in; but there is not the subsequent relief from music which is noticed in the spider-poison.

Actea racemosa resembles the spiders in producing sleeplessness, restlessness, trembling and fear of death; and, too, these evidences of nervousness are often, in Actea as in Tarentula, reflex from uterine affections. The former has, after going to bed, jerking, commencing on the side on which she is lying, compelling change of position, nervous shuddering and nervous chills. Mentally the two drugs differ. Actea causes nervousness; she feels as if the top of the head would fly off; delirium with jumping from subject to subject; sees strange objects; great apprehensiveness, as a concomitant of uterine irritation; pains darting into the eye-ball, through to the occiput. Feels grieved, troubled, with sighing; next day, tremulous joy, mirth and playfulness.

This head symptom of Actea is not quite the same as that of Theridion, under which remedy the patient's head feels as if she could lift it off.

Hyoscyanius is useful in well-marked local jerkings and twitehings of groups of muscles. The patient is sleepless and nervous, or sobs and cries in sleep. The head falls from side to side. She laughs at everything in a silly manner. Stuttering. Mental excitement; talkativeness; she is nervous, suspicious, troublesome, but not maniacal. Causticum bears some resemblance in causing restless moving at night; she can find no quiet position. Intolerable uneasiness in the limbs in the evening. Anxiety and timidity in the evening. Trembling. Uneasy at night; she awakes from a short sleep with anxiety, which scarcely allows her to remain in one place ten minutes; she is obliged to turn her head involuntarily from one side to the other, until, exhausted, she falls asleep. During sleep frequent motions with her arms and legs. She jerks, mostly the right side of the body. Convulsive motions of mouth and eyes, with sleeplessness and restlessness, after repercussed eruptions. It is especially suited to rheumatic patients, or to those who suffer from paretic affections, especially of one side of the face or of the tongue; the mouth, in consequence, is distorted.

Belladonna produces a bodily inquietude, as in chorea. The patient is obliged to move to and fro, especially to move the hands and feet; he cannot stay long in any position. The predominant jerking is backwards, although this may alternate with a forward bending. There is a boring of the head into the pillow, not mere rubbing against the pillow as in Tarentula. Belladonna also has constrictions, hyperaesthesia, mania, with laughing, dancing, wild crying, etc. But it is distinguished by the intensity of its symptoms; there are violent congestions throbbing of the carotids, wild look, dilated pupils and injected eyes.

In hysterical states Ignatia, though agreeing in many respects with Tarentula, has a w 7ell-defined individuality of its own. The nervous system is over-impressionable, incoordinate in function and contradictory in action. The patient is extremely susceptible to emotional influences. Fear and grief affect her seriously; the least contradiction offends; she is readily chagrined, and is thus often reduced to grief and tears by the slightest causes. Her mental states, however, are not usually exhibited in violence and rage. On the contrary, she nurses her troubles in seclusion and silence, and broods over them until they prey upon her whole system. She thus grows more and more nervous, and, at the same time, more and more weakened. The heart beats nervously, with variable pulse; she frequently sighs heavily and deeply; suffers from goneness at the stomach, with qualmishness and flat taste in the mouth; feeling of a lump in the throat, swelling sympathetically with the intensity of her mental disturbances. Sleeplessness or violent startings of the limbs. Grief, fright, disappointed love or some other similar cause may develop hysterical or choreic paroxysms. The moods change with wonderful rapidity; now she laughs and jokes, then, quickly, she bursts into tears. Her manner becomes hurried, so that everything is performed hastily, and hence imperfectly and awkwardly. She is afflicted with intense headaches. These are characterized by the predominance of a sensation of pressure; the pain goes to the eye, which feels as if pressed out, or to the root of the nose, or, again, it is confined to one small spot, like a nail pressing; hence the name, clavus hystericus. At the height of the paroxysm she becomes restless and chilly, and often describes a peculiar perversion of vision; she sees fiery zigzags when looking out of the line of vision (see Theridio?i} . Finally, a profuse flow of colorless urine terminates the attack.

While, then, both remedies induce sadness, indifference, profound melancholy and hysterical states, only Ignatia has the introverted state of mind; only Tarentula, the cunning attempts to feign paroxysms and wild dancing.

Platina should not be confounded with the spider-poisons here, because ii develops a different form of hysteria. True, there are present deranged coordination of functions, anxiety, trembling, fear of death, which seems to the patient to be imminent; also alternation of depression with gayety and laughter; sexual excitement and convulsions. But the patient assumes a hauteur, a self-exaltation, which is foreign to the other drugs considered. Her mental disturbances develop into a condition of self-esteem, during which she looks disdainfully down on all around her. Her paroxysms of laughter are not only loud and boisterous, but ill-timed, occurring even under circumstances of a sad nature. The headaches are of constrictive character, as in Tarentula y but there is, in addition, a squeezing, cramplike pain, with numbness, and the pains gradually increase and as gradually decrease. Indurated uterus belongs to the symptoms of both remedies. Palladium is readily distinguished by its unique mental phenomena. The patient is not haughty, but she is irritable, and is, unfortunately, given to strong and violent language. Music, society or animated conversation excites her and produces pains in the right ovary; the following day she feels correspondingly exhausted. Her egotism is displayed in a fondness for the good opinion of others, hence she is continually being "slighted." The uterine symptoms are characterized by a weakness, as if the womb were sinking; an empty feeling in the groins, as if eviscerated.

Moschus repeats the scolding of Palladium, but the patient keeps it up until her lips turn blue, her eyes stare and she falls to the floor in a swoon. She suffers from sudden suffocation from closure of the glottis or cramp of the chest. She also has faint spells: palpitation; tremulousness of the whole body; coldness of the body; hysterical headache, with fainting spells; copious pale urine; fear of death, like Platina and Tarentula, but with pale face and fainting; she talks only of approaching death. Vertigo, nausea, dim vision. Vertigo, objects turn in a circle. (Musk relieves when Theridion produces vertigo; worse when the eyes are closed.) Headache, as from a weight pressing here or there on the head. An oft-observed symptom with the nervous is fidgetiness of the legs, at times preventing sleep. In addition to Tarentula the following remedies may be studied in this relation: Zincum induces moving of the feet for hours after retiring; even continuing in sleep.

Asafcetida has several times relieved restlessness, as has also Ammonium carb.; Adea racemosa has already been mentioned.

Arsenicum, so useful in stubborn cases of chorea, has the following: Uneasiness in the legs, must change the position of his feet all the time or walk about for relief.

Mephitis has relieved uneasiness in the legs, as if they would become insensible.

Sticta pulmonaria has produced a sensation as though the legs were floating in the air. One prover became so lively that she lay down on a lounge and began to kick, exclaiming that she felt as if she wanted to fly away. This excitability reminds us of the desire to jump which Tarentula causes. (Compare Stramonium, Agaricus, Cicuta, Hyoscyamus, Crocus and Natrum mur., which latter has jumping high up, regardless of near objects.)

Asaruvi induces a feeling as if the body were hovering in the air; it also causes shivering and coldness from any emotion. But it offers no essential similarities to Tarentula, though it has some slight resemblance to Theridion, in that noises become intolerable. The distinction is evident. Asarum is so sensitive that a thrill runs through the patient on merely thinking of the scratching of silk, which she is continually impelled to do.

Although I have tabulated several drugs as bearing symptomatic resemblance to the Spiders, only the following hold any intimate relationship:

Ignatia, Mosckus, Actea racemosa, Agaricus, Stramonium, Belladonna, Magnesia mur. (the latter in uterine cramps).

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.

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.

Worse, motion, contract, noise. Better, in open air, music, bright colors, rubbing affected parts. Worse, seeming others in trouble.

Intense pain, as if thousands of needles were pricking into brain. Vertigo. Wants hair brushed or head rubbed.

Sexual excitement; lasciviousness reaching almost to insanity; seminal emissions.

Vulva dry and hot, with much itching. Profuse menstruation, with frequent erotic spasms. Pruritus vulvæ; nymphomania. Dysmenorrhœa, with very sensitive ovaries.

Palpitation; præcordial anguish, sensation as if heart twisted and turned around.

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.

Compare: Agar; Ars; Cupr; Mag phos. Antidotes: Lach.

Sixth to thirtieth potency.

Tarentula Hispanica

This terrible poison should never be used except in attenuations.

Mind and nervous: The nervous manifestations of this remedy are almost indescribable and too numerous to mention.

Anxiety and restlessness are words that prevail through all the conditions in it. It is much like 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 Ars., and it is a deep acting medicine like Ars., and it sometimes has cured where 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 Ars. and 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.

Chill in the evening followed by fever without sweat is a marked feature.

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.

Head: The head symptoms are also very numerous.

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.

Eyes: Eyes are staring, spasmodically wide open. 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.

Ears: Discharge from the cars profuse. 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.

Nose: It has many catarrhal symptoms in the nose.

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

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

Face, mouth and throat: The face looks sickly and has the appearance of terror.

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.

Stomach: Aversion to food; aversion to meat especially, though craves raw food.

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. Many toxicological symptoms are found. Sugar in the urine and it has cured diabetes; diabetes with grief, anxiety, weakness and bruised pain all through the body.

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 this remedy.

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.

Back and limbs: Upon the back there are boils, abscesses and carbuncles, especially on the back of the neck and between the shoulder blades. 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. (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 Ars. It is much like Ars., going from chair to chair and from bed to bed, walking the floor.

Sleeplessness before midnight is very marked. 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 Ars. and Sulph. have failed. It is a very deep acting, long acting remedy and a most useful remedy in skin affections.