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Indian Journal of Research in Homoeopathy
Vol. 3, No. 4, October-December 2009
CLINICAL VERIFICATION
TARENTULA HISPANICA - A Multicentric Clinical Verification Study conducted by CCRH
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P.S.Chakraborty, Anil Khurana , J.P.Singh , M.K.Rai , Pramodji Singh , A.K.Vichitra , A.K.N.Singh , Deepa
Chakraborty1, D.K.Singh6, Hari Singh2, Mohan Singh5, M.N.Sinha6, Rajpal1, R.K.Rai5, S.Prakash5, S.D.Pathak6,
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S.R.Bhagat , Vikram Singh , Vijay K. Paul , V.K.Singh , Yogendar Rai
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1. Homoeopathic Drug Research Institute, Lucknow (U.P.)
2. Regional Research Institute (H), New Delhi
3. Homoeopathic Research Institute, Jaipur (Rajasthan)
4. Clinical Research Unit, Jammu (J & K)
5. Clinical Verification Unit, Ghaziabad (U.P.)
6. Clinical Verification Unit, Patna (Bihar)
7. Clinical Verification Unit, Vrindaban (U.P.)
8. Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy. New Delhi
Tarentula hispanica is a known drug in Homoeopathy but it has not been used extensively. Its
use has been reported in homoeopathic literature for various clinical conditions like depression,
headache, hiccough, quinsy, cystitis, vertigo, otorrhoea, pyrosis, constipation, seminal
emission, neuralgia of legs, cough, dyspnoea and fever. Most of these symptoms have been
reconfirmed in the study conducted by Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy (CCRH).
Besides these, in conditions like conjunctivitis, dyspepsia, flatulence, loose stool, pain in
deltoid region, pain in shoulder joints and in pimple-like eruptions it is also found useful. A total
of 2794 patients were studied in this multicentric clinical verification trial under CCRH to confirm
the symptoms of Tarentula hispanica, as mentioned in the homoeopathic materia medica.
Keywords: homoeopathy; clinical verification; tarentula hispanica; dyspepsia; constipation; intermittent
fever; tonsillitis; depression; dry cough
INTRODUCTION
royal residence of Pardo, Spain, in the month of
3
July, during which time the poison is stronger . The
medicine was prepared from the live spider, all its
parts triturated in sugar of milk to complete dryness
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and from this the alcoholic dilution was prepared .
Tarentula covers a number of poisonous spiders, but
in homoeopathy, unless otherwise distinguished, it
refers to Tarentula hispanica. Nunez is the chief
authority of this drug. He conducted the proving and
collected much outside information bearing on the
action of the poison. Provings conducted by Monge,
del Rio, Tejero, Fejedor, Cuesta, Dubost, Perry,
Ros, Ituttalde, Gonzales and Chategnier, were
reported by Nunez, translated by Terry and were
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published in American Journal of Homeopathy.
“Tarantella” is a dance named from the city of
Tarento in Southern Italy. “Tarantism” is a dancing
mania, set up in persons bitten by the Tarentula
spider, or in those who imagine themselves bitten.
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The cure is through music and dancing.
Clarke has illustrated some cases where it has been
mentioned that the toxicological symptoms developed
after the bite of Tarentula were completely recovered
by hearing music and it also can alleviate the periodical
recurrence of complaints.2
Many stalwarts in Homoeopathy like C.M. Boger,
Hering, Farrington, Kent and P. C. Majumdar have
mentioned their experiences with Tarentula for
different
clinical
conditions.
These
include
suffocative feeling, constant jerking of limbs, rolling
of head in night gowns, tonsillitis and cystitis. Its
prominent sensations are tickling, burning, scorching
and numbness and it is suited to nervous, hysterical
2
patients subject to choreic affections and tickling . It
is also suited to the persons of foxy, mischievous
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nature with destructive tendency .
The male and female Tarentula used in the provings
were collected by Dr. Mariano de la Paz Graells, at the
* Address for Correspondence:
Director General
Central Council for Research in Homeopathy
61-65, Institutional Area, Janakpuri, New Delhi- 110
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depression, choreic phenomena of a marked
character, being more severe and terrible in their
manifestations than are those produced by any other
poison. It is said that the patients will cause their
bodies to move to the measure of the music and are
often led to execute a kind of a dance. The chief
characteristic is that the paroxysms are quieted,
sometimes entirely removed, through the influence
of music, a cure sometimes resulting there from. The
attacks are often accompanied by great sexual
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excitement .
Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy
reproved the drug Tarentula hispanica between
1985-1987 and more than 40 symptoms were found
to have reappeared when compared with original
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proving . This demonstrated the validity of earlier
provings. Many new symptoms were also proved in
this proving and which required clinical verification
for their professional use.
Tarentula hispanica
P. C. Majumdar reports a case of a girl of 18 years,
diagnosed as hystero-epilepsy and Ignatia 30 as a first
prescription did nothing to the patient but Tarentula in
high potency brought her out of the fit and restored her
completely in a few minutes. C. M. Boger cured a male
patient complaining of irritative cough with soreness all
over the body and with dryness of throat, cough
aggravation by lying down, at night and in morning after
rising and amelioration from smoking. There was
tearing pain in chest with shortness of breath for at
least an hour after each attack of cough. Three doses
of Tarentula cured the case.2
Materials and Methods
Participants for the study were drawn from the OPDs of
the respective Institutes / Units of the Council. Patients
who presented with the indications of the drug were
enrolled in the study. Details of the presenting
symptoms and signs were recorded in the predefined
case recording proforma and the patient was
prescribed Tarentula hispanica (if indicated) in 6c
potency. If there was no change in symptoms and signs
for a significant period, next higher potencies like 30c
and 200c were prescribed and in case no change was
observed, even after change of potencies, the case
was dropped from the study and those cases were
treated in the O.P.D. of the concerned Institute/ Unit
with other indicated medicine(s).
It has been reported in literature that Tarentula
hispanica is capable of relieving a number of clinical
conditions when indicated homoeopathically and
these include Angina pectoris, Callosities, Chorea,
Coccygodynia, Corneal opacity, Cystitis, Depression
of spirits, Insanity, Dysmenorrhoea, Epistaxis,
Fibroma, Headache, Hiccough, Hysteria, Intermittent
fever, Kleptomania, Nymphomania, Levitation,
Locomotor ataxia, Mania, Migraine, Pruritus
pudenda, Gonorrhoea, Weakness in sphincter ani,
Quinsy, Diphtheria, Septic diseases, Spinal irritation,
Spinal sclerosis, Tumours, Cancer, neuralgia of
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Uterus, & Tumours of vertebrae.
In this multicentric trial of Tarentula hispanica, 2794
patients (1348 males and 1446 females) were
prescribed trial drug during the period. The medicine
was procured from the licensed pharmacy in various
potencies viz. 6c, 30c and 200c. Caution has been
given not to prescribe this medicine below 3x potency.3
The scientific name of this spider is Tarentula
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hispanica and its natural order is Araneideae .
Study settings
The study was carried out at Regional Research
Institute (H), New Delhi, Homoeopathic Drug
Research Institute, Lucknow (U.P.), Homoeopathic
Research Institute, Jaipur (Rajasthan), Clinical
Research Unit, Jammu (J & K), Clinical Verification
Unit, Ghaziabad (U.P.), Clinical Verification Unit,
Patna (Bihar) and Clinical Verification Unit,
Vrindaban (U.P.), from April 1982 to March 2004.
It is distributed over South America and South of
Europe especially Spain 3. This spider venom contains
an active principle known as Arachnolysin3 which is
haemolytic. The action of this poison differs only from
other spider poisons in that it is more persistent. The
cerebro-spinal system being the seat of its primary
effects, through which it causes, together with
restlessness, and great mental and physical
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Results
(character, modalities, concomitants etc.) have also
been found to be relieved in patients which are not
mentioned in the literature and have been kept along
with the main symptom in italics. In the column
'Improvement observed' the first figure denotes the
number of patients who had the symptom and to
whom the medicine was prescribed and the second
figure denotes the number of patients who got relief
of the same symptom; this is followed by the
percentage of improvement given in parenthesis.
The data of all the cases were collected, compiled and
analyzed. The clinically verified symptoms are given in
Table-1 along with the number of patients prescribed
on the basis of symptoms available in literature and
also the number of patients who got relieved after
application of medicine. Numericals super scribed
along with the symptoms denote the literature cited.
Moreover during the study, part of the main symptom
Table 1: Symptoms verified clinically during the study
Location
Symptom(s)
Mind
Aversion for company but wants someone to be present
Depression
Improvement
observed
1,5
with aversion to talk
Mental depression
Irritability
Vertigo
?
7
worse on talking, better after sleep
2/2 (100%)
49/35 (71.42%)
worse on changing position
4/4 (100%)
5, 7
Vertigo with giddiness
1, 2, 4, 5
Vertigo
1, 2, 4, 5
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Head
22/18 (81.81%)
with heaviness in head
7
8/2 (25%)
with sensation of falling down
worse on standing
Headache
7
36/27(75%)
7
14/9 (64.28%)
1,2, 4,7
2/1 (50%)
1,2
Intense headache better by rubbing
Headache better by rubbing
1,2
6/4 (66.66%)
and motion
4/4 (100%)
1
Frontal headache worse from noise
1, 5
Frontal headache with nausea
Heaviness of head
2/2 (100%)
and heaviness of eyes
5, 7
Throbbing pain in head worse from warmth better in open air
Headache, dull aching
Dull aching headache
2/2 (100%)
8/7 (87.5%)
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7
7
worse in sun
Conjunctivitis with redness of eyes
7
7
and whitish mucopurulent discharge
7
7
Conjunctivitis with itching in eyes
27/14 (51.85%)
73/48 (65.75%)
5/5 (100%)
7
Swelling of lower eyelid, worse on reading, better by cold application
Redness of conjunctiva
42/23 (54.76%)
8/1 (12.5%)
Conjunctivitis with redness of eyes, itching and lachrymation
5
10/7 (70%)
39/26 (66.66%)
worse from sun , better by pressure
Headache better by cold application
Eye
9/5 (55.55%)
6/4(66.6%)
5, 7
1, 2, 4,5,7
Vertigo
20/17 (85%)
9/4 (44.44%)
7
1, 2, 5, 7
Forgetfulness
Vertigo
1
4
with swelling of lids
27
7
and itching
3/3 (100%)
67/48 (71.64%)
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Ear
Otorrhoea
Nose
Coryza
2,5
thin, sticky, offensive
, thin, watery nasal discharge
?
worse in closed room, better in open air
49/31 (63.26%)
?
copious discharge
7
with sneezing
66/49 (74.24%)
2, 7
61/42 (68.85%)
7
29/22(75.86%)
?
with dry cough
?
with heaviness in head
Aphthae, tongue painful
Pain and swelling
7
1/1 (100%)
1
4/3 (75%)
1, 7
1/1 (100%)
of tonsils
2,7
Soreness in throat,
?
1,2
7
2/2 (100%)
7
with rawness in throat
1/1 (100%)
7
rawness and worse on swallowing
7
better by hot fomentation
Tonsils inflamed
2
11/10 (90.90%)
7/7 (100%)
1,2,7
23/17(73.91%)
7
?
with rawness
?
worse at night
?
worse on swallowing
1/1 (100%)
?
painful
3/2 (66.66%)
3/3 (100%)
7
3/2 (66.66%)
2, 7
Hoarseness of voice
?
with soreness, worse in morning
Pain in throat, worse on swallowing
Tonsils swollen, inflamed
Hiccough
1
Heartburn
Dyspepsia
7/5 (71.42%)
7
with acidity
155/125 (80.64%)
with anorexia
Pain in epigastrium
1, 7
and sour eructation
and heaviness
2, 5, 7
12/9 (75%)
7
6/5(83.33% )
with flatulence
with pain in abdomen,
5, 7
with rumbling in abdomen
worse after eating
7
7
32/28 (87.5%)
better by passing flatus
2, 5, 7
1/1(100%)
worse after breakfast
Flatulence with dyspepsia
3/3 (100%)
5/5 (100%)
7
Abdomen distended with heaviness, worse after eating
?
45/36(80%)
26/23 (88.46%)
5, 7
worse after breakfast
Bloated abdomen
?
12/11 (91.66%)
1, 7
?
?
17/13(76.47)
34/24 (70.58%)
with heartburn
?
4/3 (75%)
1/1 (100%)
1, 2, 7
2
?
?
5, 7
2, 4
Pain in stomach
Abdomen
154/106 (68.83%)
54/35(64.81%)
Lips dry and red, worse in morning
Stomach
7
worse in evening
Bleeding from gums
Throat
39/31 (79.48%)
?
?
Mouth
5
7
14/11 (78.57%)
6/5 (83.33%)
7
9/7 (77.77%)
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with rumbling
Rectum
7
3/2 (66.66%)
2, 7
Constipation
109/75 (68.80%)
2
Burning in anus, worse after stool
2
Constipation with difficult,
Stool-hard, constipated
Stool
1
7
2/2 (100%)
hard, scanty and insufficient stool
7
34/26 (76.47%)
1,7
53/35 (66.03%)
?
with difficulty in passing stool
?
unsatisfactory stool
1, 7
10/5 (50%)
3/2 (66.66%)
Burning in anus after passing stool
Stool-scanty, mixed with mucus
1,2, 7
with pain in abdomen
1
1, 2, 7
3/2 (66.66%)
7
Stool loose watery
?
12/10 (83.33%)
with pain in lower abdomen
7
10/8 (80%)
Urinary organs Dribbling of urine1
2/1(50%)
Frequent urination at night
Retention of urine
1,2, 7
13/11 (84.61%)
1
1/1 (100%)
1, 5
Urine scanty, frequent,
yellowish
?
7
with burning in urethra
7
21/17 (80.95%)
8/5 (62.5%)
7
Urine yellowish with burning
Male sexual
organs
Seminal emission
15/11 (73.33%)
1,2,4, 7
Seminal emission
18/13 (72.22%)
1,2,4, 7
worse after urination
Swelling of spermatic cord with pain on pressure
Pain and swelling of spermatic cord
?
Female sexual
organs
worse on walking
Leucorrhoea
2
Back
7
2/2 (100%)
Extremities
2, 7
with pain
5
2/1 (50%)
2/2 (100%)
with inability to move
7
Pain in deltoid region
7
Pain in knee joints,
Numbness of legs
1/1 (100%)
with stiffness of shoulder joint
4/4 (100%)
with loss of power to write and to hold anything
4/4 (100%)
worse on movement
2/2 (100%)
worse after motion, better on sitting
1/1 (100%)
5, 7
5, 7
7
5, 7
Pain in knee joints,
Pain in knees,
3/2 (66.66%)
1/1 (100%)
2, 5, 7
5, 7
Cramps in hands
Larynx
1
16/12 (75%)
Stiffness in nape of neck
?
8/5 (62.5%)
3/3 (100%)
1,2, 4
Stiffness of neck
Backache
1/1 (100%)
2, 7
2, 7
profuse, worse on walking
Itching of vulvae
7/6 (85.71%)
with stiffness
2/2 (100%)
1,2, 4
25/25 (100%)
2, 7
Hoarseness of voice
24/14 (58.33%)
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Cough
Cough with thick, whitish expectoration
?
5,7
5
with dyspnoea
9/9(100%)
Cough with whitish mucoid expectoration,
7
morning and at night
Dry cough
5, 7
worse in early
42/25 (59.52%)
2, 5, 7
89/61 (68.53%)
2, 5
?
with dyspnoea
?
paroxysmal
4/4 (100%)
6/6 (100%)
?
with tingling in throat
?
worse in morning
7
17/11 (64.70%)
5,7
63/41 (65.07%)
2,5
?
with hoarseness of voice
?
worse in morning and evening
14/13 (92.85%)
5, 7
Cough worse in morning and evening
Skin
16/12 (75%)
Vesicular eruptions with itching
8/7 (87.5%)
7
15/9 (60%)
4,7
7/4 (57.14%)
1, 5
Pustular eruptions
?
7/6 (85.71%)
1
with itching
5/4 (80%)
5, 7
Pimples with itching
4/2 (50%)
5
Pimples on face
9/7 (77.77%)
Small, dry, reddish eruptions with itching,
7
worse from cold
24/17 (70.83%)
7
Small, reddish eruptions with itching, worse from heat of sun ,
better from cold application
Fever
7
3/3 (100%)
Fever with heaviness of whole body
17/14 (82.35%)
?
worse by 5 p.m.
3/2 (66.66%)
?
with restlessness
Fever with chill
1,2,5 7
Fever with chill
1,2,5, 7
7
6/4 (66.66%)
, worse in evening
16/9 (56.25%)
and restlessness
Intermittent fever with chill
6/2 (33.33%)
1,2,5
75/64 (85.33%)
?
with headache and bodyache
29/28 (96.55%)
?
with profuse thirst
27/26 (96.29%)
?
with restlessness
14/12 (85.71%)
?
worse at night
6/6(100%)
?
worse 5-8 p.m. with bodyache
1/1 (100%)
Fever with chill
5, 7
Fever with cough
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and cold
5
5/3 (60%)
21/20 (95.23%)
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Table : 2 Clinical symptoms
During the study, a group of symptoms were also found
to be relieved which are new and not found in the
referred literature, although they may be present in
other text books of Materia Medica. These are the
additional symptoms of the medicine that were relieved
either fully or partially. These, therefore, emerged as
clinical symptoms of Tarentula hispanica.
Location
Symptom(s)
Improvement
observed
Nose
Coryza with thick, yellowish discharge
3/2 (66.66%)
Stomach
Thirstlessness
7/7 (100%)
Sour eructation
18/13 (72.22%)
?
5/4 (80%)
Abdomen
worse after eating
Flatulence with heaviness in abdomen, worse sitting and on exertion
4/4 (100%)
?
2/2(100%)
worse in morning and after eating and better after passing stool
Urinary organs Retention of urine
1/1 (100%)
Male sexual
organs
Sexual weakness
2/2 (100%)
Extremities
Pricking pain in hand, worse on motion, noise and amel. by rubbing
64/47 (73.43%)
Pain in shoulder joint, worse on raising the arm
5/4 (80%)
Pain in sacral region, worse on movement and on lying down and
better on sitting
1/1 (100%)
Pain in heels, worse on sitting and on movement
13/8 (61.53%)
Aching pain in legs
18/14 (77.77%)
Pain in calf muscles, better by tight bandage
11/7 (63.63%)
Bruised pain in calf muscles better by tight bandage
2/1 (50%)
?
pain from hips to heels
20/11 (55%)
?
worse on movement, better by lying down
5/3 (60%)
Skin
Pain in deltoid region, worse on raising the hand
18/14 (77.77%)
Small papular eruptions with itching of legs and knees, worse on scratching,
better in open air
3/1 (33.33%)
REPERTORY
A concise repertory of the verified symptoms,
according to the structure of Kent's Repertory of the
Homoeopathic Materia Medica has been compiled
for the purpose of quick reference. Rubrics / sub
rubrics in italics are new rubrics, i.e., not mentioned
in the above referred repertory while rubrics / sub
rubrics in roman letters are the existing rubrics of the
said repertory which were reconfirmed through
verification in this study.
The physicians may include these rubrics in their
personal repertories for their day to day reference in
practice.
MIND
COMPANY, aversion to
but wants some one to be present
FORGETFUL
IRRITABILITY
RESTLESSNESS
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reading agg.
chill during the
5 p.m.
SADNESS, mental depression
REDNESS
SWOLLEN, lids
sleep after amel.
ITCHING
TALK, indisposed to
EAR
VERTIGO
DISCHARGES
FALL, tendency to
gluey, sticky
GIDDINESS, with
offensive
HEAVINESS, in head with
thin
POSITION, change from
NOSE
STANDING, while
CORYZA
HEAD
air, open, amel.
HEAVINESS
chill, during
chill, during
4-8 p.m
cough, dry with
vertigo, with
discharge, with (fluent)
inside closed room agg.
heaviness in head, with
PAIN
DISCHARGE
cold applications
amel. motion, amel.
evening
rubbing, amel.
Forehead, in
copious
thick
heaviness of eyes,
thin
with nausea, with
watery
noise
yellow
SNEEZING
dull pain
pressure amel.
sun, from exposure to
PULSATING, throbbing
FACE
DISCOLORATION, red
air, in open, amel.
morning
warmth from
lips
DRYNESS
EYE
lips
ERUPTIONS
INFLAMMATION
pimples
conjunctiva
DISCHARGES of mucus or pus
MOUTH
white
ITCHING
APHTHAE
LACHRYMATION
Tongue
SWOLLEN
sensitive
lower lids
BLEEDING
cold amel.
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THROAT
eating, after
INFLAMMATION
stool, after amel.
indigestion in stomach,
Tonsils
with rumbling
night
HEAVINESS
PAIN
swallowing,
eating, after
on rawness
exersion, on
swallowing, when
hot fomentation, amel.
Tonsils
sitting, while
PAIN
flatus, passing, amel.
stool, after amel.
sore
Hypogastrium
morning
swallowing
hot fomentation, amel.
stool, during
RUMBLING
hoarseness of voice, with
SWELLING
Tonsils
RECTUM
CONSTIPATION
night
difficult stool
PAIN
STOMACH
burning in anus
APPETITE
stool, after
wanting
ERUCTATIONS
sour
eating, after
HEARTBURN
acidity, with
HEAVINESS
STOOL
HARD
INSUFFICIENT
MUCOUS, slimy
SCANTY
WATERY
breakfast, after
pain in lower abdomen, with
HICCOUGH
INDIGESTION
BLADDER
NAUSEA
RETENTION
headache during
URINATION, dribbling
PAIN
frequent
THIRSTLESS
night
ABDOMEN
DISTENSION
eating, after
URETHRA
PAIN
flatus passing amel.
burning
FLATULENCE
morning
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BURNING
tickling in larynx, from
PAROXYSMAL
COLOR, yellow
SCANTY
EXPECTORATION
GENITALIA
MORNING
PAIN
NIGHT
MUCOUS
Spermatic cords
pressure, from
THICK
walking, while
WHITE
SEMINAL
emissions night
BACK
urinating, after
SEXUAL PASSION diminished
PAIN
SWELLING
STIFFNESS
Cervical region
Spermatic cords
Cervical region
GENITALIA- FEMALE
EXTREMITIES
ITCHING
CRAMPS
LEUCORRHOEA
Upper Limbs
copious
walking, while
Upper Arm
Hand
loss of power to write and to hold anything, with
LARYNX ANDTRACHEA
ERUPTION
VOICE
papular
hoarseness
itching
morning
air open amel.
evening
scratching, from
cough, during
soreness in throat, with
Lower Limbs
Knee
Leg
RESPIRATION
PAIN
DIFFICULT
stitching (pricking)
cough, with
Upper Limbs
Upper Arm
COUGH
deltoid region raising
MORNING
arm agg.
EVENING
stiffness of shoulder, with
Hand
DRY
motion, on
noise, from
morning
evening
rubbing amel.
coryza, during
Lower Limbs
fever, during
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TARENTULA HISPANICA - A Multicentric Clinical Verification Study conducted by CCRH
P.S.Chakraborty et al
Nates
red
motion, on
vesicular
lying, on
ITCHING
sitting, amel.
cold application, from
motion, on
heat of sun, from
Hip
amel.
lying amel.
extending to heel
Knee
GENERALITIES
HEAVINESS, externally
motion sitting,
amel.
stiffness, with
Leg
calf
tight bandage, amel.
heel
sitting
walking
aching (bruised)
STIFFNESS, joints
Upper Limbs
Shoulder
raising arm agg.
Lower Limbs
Knee
FEVER
AFTERNOON
5 p.m.
EVENING
5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
bodyache, with
CHILL, with
extreme thirst, with
INTERMITTENT
Night
SKIN
ERUPTION
dry
papular
pustules
pimples
chill, during
Discussion
The medicine was found useful to relieve depressive
state of mind or sadness. Out of 20 patients, 17
were improved after intake of this medicine and
which is the re-confirmation of symptoms mentioned
1
2
5
by Hering , Clarke & Allen in their Materia Medica.
Tarentula hispanica was prescribed to 49 patients
suffering from vertigo and 35 were improved after
treatment. Out of these participants, 27 who were
having the sensation of falling down were improved
after taking the medicine.
It is also found to be a very useful medicine to treat
headache as mentioned in Homoeopathic Materia
Medica but the modality verified in this trial was 'worse
from sun and better by pressure' in 23 of such patients
and they were relieved after taking medicine. In
conjunctivitis its application was also found helpful to
the participants with itching of eyes and lachrymation.
Similarly in otorrhoea, the character of discharge
was verified as thin, sticky and offensive. In coryza,
Tarentula is found useful in thin, watery discharge,
aggravation in closed room and better in open air.
Dyspepsia (heart burn, sour eructation) and
hiccough have also improved clinically by using
Tarentula in a good number of patients(Table 1).
Its action on gastro-intestinal tract is further verified
through clinical improvement in bloating of abdomen
and constipation especially in cases of hard, scanty
and insufficient stool.
Its urinary symptoms are marked with frequent scanty
urination at night and is verified in lines with symptoms
mentioned in the Materia Medica of Hering and Allen's
Encyclopaedia. Pricking pain in hand agg. from motion,
noise and amel. by rubbing emerged as a new
symptom which was an associated symptom in 64
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