Latrodectus Mactans

Spider

by William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory

Head

Anxiety. Screams with pain. Pain in neck to back of head. Occipital pain.

Respiratory

Extreme apnœa. Gasping respiration. Fears losing breath.

Chest

Violent, præcordial pain extending to the axilla and down the arm and forearm to fingers, with numbness of the extremity. Pulse feeble and rapid. Sinking sensation at the Cramping pain from chest to abdomen.

Extremities

Pain in left arm, feels paralyzed. Weakness of legs followed by cramps in the abdominal muscles. Paræsthesia of lower limbs.

Skin

Coldness of whole surface. Skin cold as marble.

Relationship

Compare: Latrodectus Hasselti -New South Wales Black Spider--(Long lasting effects seem to indicate it as a " chronic " blood poisoning. Arrests intense pain in pyæmia. Great œdema in neighborhood of wound; paralysis of limbs, with great wasting of muscles. Violent, darting, burning pains preceding paralysis; vertigo, tendency to fall forward; septicæmic conditions; constant delusion of flying . Loss of memory. Roaring noises). Araena; Mygale; Theridion; Latrodectus Kalipo -New Zealand spider--(lymphangitis and nervous twitchings, scarlet burning eruption). Triatema -Kissing bug --(Swelling with violent itching of fingers and toes. Smothering sensation and difficult breathing succeeded by fainting and rapid pulse).

Dose

Sixth potency.

Latrodectus Mactans across the other classic books

Latrodectus Mactans appears in 5 of the 13 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“ANGINA PECTORIS”
Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“HEART. Vaso-motors. Blood. Least motion; even of hands. Exertion. Nausea, then abdominal pain. Transfixation of pain or sinking at epigastrium. .................... Gasps, fears to lose breath and die. Restless; with cardiac pains; and prostrated. Precordial anxiety. Apnœa. CARDIAC PAIN; violent; sharp to shoulder or…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“N. O. Arachnida. Tincture of living spider. Angina pectoris / Hæmorrhages, watery To the ready pen and luminous insight of S. A. Jones, and to the labours of A. J. Tafel, who furnished data and materials, we owe the introduction of this remedy into the materia medica. In a most interesting article communicated to the…”
Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: spider. The præcordial region seems to be centre of the attack (Br.). Præcordial anxiety (Acon., Cact., Lach., Naja, Spig., Verat.) (B.). GASPS, FEARS TO LOSE BREATH AND DIE (Ars., Dig., Lach.) (B.). Screams with pain (Br.). ANGINA PECTORIS (Ars., Spig., Verat.) (Bl.). PAIN IN THE REGION OF THE HEART…”

Latrodectus Mactans in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Latrodectus Mactans in 35 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in EXTREMITIES (17), CHEST (8), RESPIRATION (3), GENERALITIES (2), MIND (2).

CHEST - PAIN - Heart - region of - extending to left arm
CHEST - PAIN - tearing - Heart,region of
CHEST - PAIN - Heart - region of
CHEST - ANGINA pectoris
CHEST - PAIN - Heart - extending - to axilla
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Upper Limbs - left - pectoris,in angina
EXTREMITIES - PARALYSIS - Upper Limbs - pain in heart,with
CHEST - PAIN - tearing - Heart,region of - extending to - left arm
EXTREMITIES - PARALYSIS - Upper Limbs - partial
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - paralyzed parts
CHEST - PAIN - Heart - extending - to - left hand
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Upper Limbs - left - heart symptoms,with
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Upper Limbs - left
EXTREMITIES - NUMBNESS - Hand - left
FACE - EXPRESSION, - anxious
RESPIRATION - ARRESTED
CHEST - PAIN - Heart
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - tearing - Hand - extending - to - shoulder
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - tearing - Hand - extending - to upper arm

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