Kent writes “Anxiety and restlessness are words that prevail through all the conditions in it. It is much like Arsenicum album. 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.Great fantastic dancing. Sometimes, music ameliorates all the symptoms and in other times it aggravates them. He becomes violently excited 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 seems 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.

   This remedy has action on central nervous system, affecting spinal cord motor neurons. Thus producing lack of motor control of the body and manifesting chorea, that is involuntary movements of right arm and left leg. These are the symptoms of attention seeking which leads to the symptoms like hysteria, mania, restlessness & nervous excitement which strongly indicate predominant hyperactive type of ADHD. Considering this symptom similarity between the remedy & the disorder which is explained through the symptoms of proving, Tarantula Hispanica is a simillimum for ADHD.

   Great excitement caused by music, one hour after there is more sweat all over the body. Aversion to colors such as green red and black. Paroxysms starts as striking head and pulling hairs. She scratches herself and become restless. Her clothes annoy her and threatens on destruction and death.
Hysteria with bitter belchings. She sings, dances, cries with extreme gaiety, ludicrous and lascivious hysteria and had to be restrained by force, visions of monsters, animals, frighten him; of different things not present , faces, insects, ghosts, laughs, runs, dances, gesticulates, sings till hoarse & exhausted .Suddenly spring away from attendants, swept ornaments from mantelpiece, says she was sorry but could not help it, very mischievous, destructive, amusing and cheerful. Jumps from bed, destroying whatever she could get hold of so quickly that she could not be prevented.

   Tarentula Hispanica is also a remedy for Headache . The peculiar symptom is “ As if thousands of needles were pricking in the brain” <slightest noise > rubbing head in pillow. Headache is seen with uterine complaints. The patient can not keep quite in any position must keep in motion. It is also a remedy for neuralgia of inferior maxillary nerve with irritation in pit of stomach.