Latrodectus Mactans – Black Widow Spider

The attenuations are prepared from the triturated whole female spider, Latrodec- tus mactans mactans Levi. N.O. Theridiidae.

The main indications are:

Angina pectoris with anxiety, crying out, fear of suffocation and pains which ex- tend into the axilla and down the arms into the fingers. Paraesthesia of the extremi- ties. Lowered coagulability of blood. Watery haemorrhages.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Latrodectus mactans, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for latrodectus mactans: angina pectoris.