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Overstimulation of the nervous system. Overactivity.
Industriousness.
Intense hurriedness and impatience. Hyperactive.
Love of music, wild dancing.
Destruction, violence, rage, cunning, deceitful, manipulative.
Hyper-sexual.
Twitches, chorea, jerking.
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COMMON NAME
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Spanish Spider
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A/F
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| - | Ill effects of unrequited love |
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MODALITIES
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| < | Periodicity, yearly at same hour
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| < | Seeing others in troubles
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MIND
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| - | Aversion to strong colours - black, red, yellow,
green.
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| - | Dances up and down, erratic impulsive.
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| - | Fits of nervous laughter, then screaming.
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| - | Moral depravity. Lacks control.
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| - | Suddenly changing moods, fancies, or strength.
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| - | Crafty, cunning, dishonest, selfish, destructive, destroys whatever she can
lay hand on, tears her clothes, etc.
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| - | Hateful, throws things away. Malingering.
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| - | When attention is directed to her, she begins to twitch, feigns, fainting.
Sensibility, but looks sideways to observe the effect on those around her.
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| - | Desires to strike herself or others.
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| - | Aversion to being touched.
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| - | Kleptomania, laughs, mocks run, dances, gesticulates, jokes, cries, sings
till hoarse or exhausted.
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| - | Death agony. Angry, despair, melancholy, discontented.
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| - | Mental symptoms > p.m. after eating.
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| - | Rolls on ground from side to side or strikes vehemently or rolls the head
and rubs it to relieve her distress.
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| - | Hurried, intense, excited and restless. Impatient.
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| - | Can run better than walk.
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| - | Increased strength during the manic episode.
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| - | Sensitive to music. Loves music and dancing.
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| - | Aversion to company, but wants someone present.
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| - | Industrious. Works at a very good pace.
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| - | Tremendous restlessness, better from exertion. |
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GUIDING INDICATIONS
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| - | "Tarantism" is the term applied to the
dancing mania set up in a person bitten by the tarentula; the cure is music
and dancing.
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| - | Adapted to highly nervous organisms, especially choleric affections, where
whole body or right arm and left leg are affected.
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| - | Restlessness, could not keep quiet in any position, must keep in motion
though walking < all symptoms.
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| - | Constant movement of the legs, arm, trunk, with inability to do anything.
Twitching and jerking of muscles.
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| - | Symptoms appear suddenly with violence.
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| - | Violent pains, neuralgias, as if thousands of needles were pricking.
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| - | At every menstrual cycle, throat, mouth and tongue intolerably dry,
especially when sleeping.
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| - | Symptoms appear periodically.
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| - | Head - Headache neuralgic < by noise touch, strong light > by rubbing
head against the pillow.
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| - | Headache intense, as if thousands of needles were pricking, wants hair
pulled or head rubbed.
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| - | G.I.T. - Craving for sand or raw food, salt, spicy.
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| - | Aversion to meat, bread.
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| - | Respiratory system - Attacks of suffocation with crying, screaming and
restlessness, must have fresh air.
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| - | Coughing < after coition noise > smoking.
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| - | Male genitalia - Hyper-sexual patients, promiscuity.
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| - | Female genitalia - Sexual excitement extreme, even to mania.
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| - | Pruritus vulvae become intolerable, especially after menses.
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| - | At every menstrual cycle, throat, mouth and tongue intolerably dry.
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| - | Profuse menses with erotic spasms.
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| - | Sensation of motion in uterus like a foetus or burning.
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| - | Tumours and diseases of the ovaries.
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| - | C.V.S. - Palpitations. Precordial anguish.
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| - | Sensation as if heart were twisted and turned around.
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| - | C.N.S. - Twitches and jerks. Chorea.
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| - | Hyperaesthesia. Formication.
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| - | Pins and needles sensation.
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| - | Back - Painfully sensitive spine, touch excites pain in chest, heart, etc.
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| - | Coccygodynia > standing < slightest movement < touch.
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| - | Extremities - Weakness of legs. Restless legs.
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| - | Multiple sclerosis with trembling.
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| - | Yawning with uneasiness of legs, must move them constantly.
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| - | Extraordinary contraction and movements.
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| - | Restless arms, must keep hands busy.
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| - | Sleep - Sleepless before midnight, from excitement.
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| - | Dreams sad, with weeping.
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| - | Skin - Purplish ecchymosed spots.
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| - | Affected parts of bluish colour and atrocious burning pain. The agony of
pain compelling patient to walk the floor for nights.
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| - | Itching as of insects creeping crawling. |
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KEYNOTES
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- Restlessness, cannot keep quiet in any position.
- At every menstrual cycle, throat, mouth and tongue intolerably dry,
especially when sleeping.
- When there is no one observing, there is no hysteria.
- Painfully sensitive spine, touch excites pains in heart and chest.
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NUCLEUS OF REMEDY
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| - | Restlessness, must keep in motion, though walking < all symptoms.
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| - | Pains neuralgic, as if thousands of needles were pricking < noise, touch,
strong light > rubbing > music.
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| - | Painfully sensitive spine, touch excites pains in chest and heart. |
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CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS
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- Periodicity every year, same hour.
- Restlessness, constantly moves, though walking aggravates all symptoms.
- At every menstrual cycle, throat, mouth and tongue intolerably dry.
- Pain neuralgic, as if thousands as needles were pricking.
- Purplish-bluish spots of affected part, with atrocious burning pain. The
agony of pain compelling patient to walk the floor for nights.
- Great relief from rubbing the part.
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CLINICAL
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| - | Angina, Arrhythmia, Behaviour disorders, Chorea,
Diabetes, Eczema, Hyperactivity, Mania, Metrorrhagia, Mitral valve disease,
Restless leg syndrome, Sexual disorders, Skin ulcers, Tumours of testes,
Vaginitis, Valvular disease. |
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REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS
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Compare: Agar, Ant-c, Asar, Bac, Bell, Brom, Chin-s, Cic,
Cimic, Coca, Coff, Croc, Gels, Hyos, Kali-br, Kali-c, Lach, Lat-m, Led, Merc,
Mygal, Naja, Nat-m, Ph-ac, Phys, Pic-ac, Pyrog, Staph, Stict, Stram, Sulph,
Zinc
Antidoted By: Bov, Carb-v, Chel, Cupr, Gels, Mag-c, Mosch, Puls
It Antidotes: Lach
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