LATRODECTUS MACTANS
Source indications
Boericke's Materia Medica
- tetanic effects
- angina pectoris
- constriction of chest muscles
- radiation to shoulders and back
- lowered coagulability
- anxiety
- screams with pain
- pain in neck to back of head
- occipital pain
- extreme apnea
- gasping respiration
- fears losing breath
- violent precordial pain extending to the axilla and down the arm and forearm to fingers
- numbness of the extremity
- pulse feeble and rapid
- sinking sensation at the chest
- cramping pain from chest to abdomen
- pain in left arm
- feels paralyzed
- weakness of legs followed by cramps in the abdominal muscles
- paresthesia of lower limbs
- coldness of whole surface
- skin cold as marble