Tarantula Hispanica – Spanish Spider

The attenuations are prepared from the following mediterranean Tarentula spiders: Lycosa fasciiventris Duf., Lycosa hispanica Walck. or Lycosa tarentula L./Lycosidae.

The main indications are:

Motor restlessness. Trembling and jerking of the extremities. Hysteria, hysterical epilepsy. Hyperaesthesia. Melancholia. Parkinson’s disease. Carbuncles with bluish appearance. Painful tumours. Dysmenorrhoea. Restlessness of the legs.

In many cases of Parkinson’s disease (paralysis agitans) it can act outstandingly, even when the cause is encephalitic.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Tarantula hispanica, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for tarantula: acute skin inflammations; general blood poisoning; headaches, angina pectoris; hyperexcitability; hypersensitivity.