Latrodectus mactans
by C.M. Boger — General Analysis
- ANGINA PECTORIS
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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.
“Spider Anxiety. Screams with pain. Pain in neck to back of head. Occipital pain. Extreme apnœa. Gasping respiration. Fears losing breath. 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…”
“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…”
“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…”
“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…”
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).