# Latrodectus Mactans

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
S.A. Jones and A. J. Tafel introduced Lat -m. into the Materia Medica. The bite produces 
tetanic effects that last several days. From the time a man was bitten he took 3 1/2 quart bottles of the best 
rectified whisky without any sign of intoxication. 
Affects the heart, producing angina pectoris. Heart attacks. The precordial region seems to be the center 
of attack. Restless with heart pains and prostration. Constriction of chest muscles with radiation to shoulders 
and back. Fear of suffocating or dying. 
Blood becomes thin, watery. Lowered coagulab ility. Inflammation of the coronary arteries. Pain in the solar 
plexus. Infectious purpura. Chronic hemorrhaging endothelial plasmatic condition. Chronic idiopathic 
thrombocytopenia. 
Itching and redness of the part bitten, at first without pain, but violent pain soon commenced there (back of left 
hand), and extended in a short time up forearm and arm to shoulder and then to precordial region. Painful 
sensations extended up arm to shoul der, along neck to back of head, later, pain in précordia and apnea, 
screaming fearfully. Nervous tremors.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better by sitting quietly. Worse from the slightest movement, even of the hands, exertion.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Speech hesitant with tears.
- Apparently moribund.
- Depression.
- Mental fatigue.
- Amnesia.
- Memory gives 
 
 
no answer to logical deduction.
- Reading impossible.
- Staring up at ceiling, vague, in a stupor.
- Emotional 
disturbances.
- Very nervous.
- Acute and enormous anxiety, with sensa tion of imminent death.
- Anxiety about the heart.
- Intense anguish 
with the sensation of severe thoracic constriction.
- Screams fearfully with pain, exclaiming that she would lose 
her breath and die.
- Thinks he will suffocate.
- Fear of dying.
- Lamenting helplessly.
- Wailing.
- Agitation.
- Mental irritability and restlessness.
- Sensitive to noise.
- Writhing and rolling in pain.
- Extreme state of 
nervous irritation with fear of going mad.
- Psychosis, becomes mad and psychotic, with hallucinations.
- Speech hesitant with tears.
- Apparently moribund.
- Depression.
- Mental fatigue.
- Amnesia.
- Memory gives 
 
 
no answer to logical deduction.
- Reading impossible.
- Staring up at ceiling, vague, in a stupor.
- Emotional 
disturbances.
- Very nervous.
- Acute and enormous anxiety, with sensa tion of imminent death.
- Anxiety about the heart.
- Intense anguish 
with the sensation of severe thoracic constriction.
- Screams fearfully with pain, exclaiming that she would lose 
her breath and die.
- Thinks he will suffocate.
- Fear of dying.
- Lamenting helplessly.
- Wailing.
- Agitation.
- Mental irritability and restlessness.
- Sensitive to noise.
- Writhing and rolling in pain.
- Extreme state of 
nervous irritation with fear of going mad.
- Psychosis, becomes mad and psychotic, with hallucinations.

### Vertigo
- Vertigo and constrictive headache.
- COMMENTS - Heart attack (Cact.), with sharp, shooting pains.
- Chest pain.
- Gasping for breath, difficulty 
breathing with a fear of dying.
- Semple recorded a case of a man bitten on the prepuce.
- At first there was itching, in less than half an hour 
nausea, followed by severe abdominal pains.
- Soon after, violent precordial pains, extending to axilla and down 
left arm and forearm to fingers with numbnes s of the limbs and apnea.
- Dry cupping was resorted to and the 
blood that flowed was thin, florid and un-coagulable.
- When Semple arrived, he found violent precordial pains, the left arm almost paralyzed, pulse 130, very feeble, 
Skin cold as marble, countenance expressive of deep anxiety.
- At eight the next morning, in spite of stimulants, 
the symptoms were worse and continued to increase until 2:30 p.m.
- The pulse was uncountable and scarcely felt.
- Vomited black vomit, a quart or more.
- Soon after, reaction set in 
and the man gradually recovered.
- He had two copious stools like the black matter vomited earlier, and after 
that felt quite well.
- Jones noted that the precordial region is the chief locus of attack.
- He considered the order of the occurrence 
of these symptoms of great importance.
- Linnell recorded a case of angina pecto ris, pain in precordial region and left arm, brought on by the slightest 
exertion, that was cured with Lat-m.
- 3c.

### Head
- Pain in neck to back of head.
- Occipital pain.
- Headache, aggravated between 2 p.m.
- and 3 p.m.
- Pain in neck to back of head.
- Occipital pain.
- Headache, aggravated between 2 p.m.
- and 3 p.m.

### Eyes
- Constant pulsating pain in the eyes.

### Ears
- Pain in the right middle ear.

### Face
- Expression of deep anxiety.

### Mouth
- Labial fissure.
- Copious salivation.
- Trembling of the tongue.
- White coloring of the tongue.
- Hypertrophy 
of the lingual papillae.
- Nose - Nose blocked, thick, yellow discharge.
- Pulse - Pulse, feeble and rapid.
- Puls e so frequent it could not be counted and so feeble it could scarcely be 
felt.
- Left pulse extinct, right pulse doubtful.

### Throat
- Throat red, dry.
- Tonsillitis with glairy deposit on tonsils.
- Pain on swallowing.

### Chest
- Angina pectoris.
- Violent, precordial pain extending to the axilla and down the arm and forearm to 
fingers, with numbness of the extremity.
- Sinking sensation.
- Cramping pain from chest to abdomen.
- Precordial anxiety.
- Angina pec toris.
- Pain in précordia with a loss of breath, screaming fearfully, 
exclaiming that she would lose her breath and die.
- Violent heart pains, sharp, extending to shoulders or 
both arms to fingers with numbness.
- Restless with cardiac pain and prostration.
- Pulse feeble and rapid.
- Bronchial rales.
- Cough with hawking, yellow, thick, acrid sputum.
- Pulmonary edema.
- Gasping for 
breath.
- Extreme apnea.
- Respiration only occasional, gasping.
- Respiration very slow, thinks he will suffocate.
- Fear of losing breath and dying.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Eructation and loss of appetite.
- Nausea, then abdominal pains.
- Vomiting of black blood, which 
soothes the condition.
- Transfixation of pain or sinking at epigastrium.
- Feeling of weakness in epigastric region.
- Severe abdominal pain with nausea and a sinking sensation at epigas trium.
- Colic and hardness 
of the abdominal wall.
- Chronic cramp of the abdominal muscles without painful tenderness on palpation.
- Extreme thirst, vomits what he drinks.

### Urinary & Genital
- Frequent erections.
- Testicularpains, aggravated by movement.
- Very acute pains in the right testicle.
- Perspiration in the genital regions.
- Itching of prepuce with a little redness of the part.

### Extremities
- Left arm partially paralyzed, or feels paralyzed, with pain.
- Hard, aching pain in axilla.
- Stinging in right 
wrist with itching and redness of bitten spot.
- Paresthesia of lower limbs.
- Weakness of legs followed by cramps 
in the abdominal muscles.
- Kidneys - Burning pains on urinating in the urethra.
- Urine red, albuminous with casts.
- Proteinuria, hematuria, 
glycosuria, diminution in the level of nitrogen eliminated through the urine.

### Neck & Back
- Dorsal and lumbar cramps, going from the nape to the loins.

### Skin
- Skin cold like ice, marble-white.
- Blue coloring.
- Heavy, cold perspiration.
- Skin very painful at the slightest 
touch.
- Burning of the soles of the feet.
- Eruption, 
which itches.
- Formication and extreme sensitivity.
- Loss of hair.

### Sleep
- Insomnia.
- Sleep disturbed, anxious.
- Dreams of flying.