Polychrest & Less Used Remedies

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Mind: Extremist restlessness constantly tossing around, fear, depression, hysteria, unrestrained and causeless crying in usually emotionally stable strong men.

General: Extremist prostration, ever effort is too much. Perhaps ill effects of overwork etc. Muscle spasms with twitching, knotting, tremor, hyperactive reflexes and excruciating cramplike unbearable pains, coming and going in waves like labor pains. Muscles sore to the touch. Worse motion, yet patient so restless that he cannot lie still.

Chest: Angina pectoris; constrictive pain spreading to left shoulder and back; feeling of oppression; laboured respiration with an uncontrollable expiratory grunt. Palpitations of heart.

Abdomen: Rigid as a board (defense musculaire?); distended like a drum. The distension is only slightly relieved by passing flatus. The whole picture most closely simulates an acute surgical emergency like perforated gastric ulcer, ruptured appendix and incipient peritonitis. (The temperature is subfebrile in the poisonings).

Spine and back: The lumbar area shows the greatest degree of constriction; shooting cramping pains; feeling as if the back were broken. Feeling of icy coldness from the hips downward. Paralysis of all function associated with the lumbosacral nerve plexus (genitals, urinary, rectum, lower extremities).

Extremities: Paralysis, increased reflexes, spasticity, inability to lift legs because of spasm of the extensor muscles of the hips. Tenderness of the calf muscles upon palpation, tingling sensation and numbness in hands and feet. Burning and stinging of the soles of the feet, as if they were on fire. Swelling of ankles.

Head: Headache (worse lying, better sitting?) probably congestive; tendency to apoplexy. Stuffiness of the nose.

Digestive: Dry mouth, sore throat, great thirst for cold water which betters the throat, continuously drinking. Loss of appetite to ravenous hunger. Vomiting of bitter brown matter. Extreme gaseous distension. Absolute inactivity of the rectum.

Female: Menses suppressed, scanty, delayed.

Urinary: Retention of urine, paralysis of the bladder, better warm application and pouring warm water over perineum.

Circulatory: Flushes of heat followed by chilliness; apoplectic tendency, elevation of blood pressure; heavy perspiration. Temperature subfebrile.

The restlessness and constriction is shared with Tarentula; the coldness worse from dampness, worse night and the neuralgic tendency with Aranea. However, Aranea has diarrhoea and profuse menses; Latrodectus has suppressed menstruation and constipation.

Latrodectus presents itself as a medicine with very characteristic symptoms of broad range and deep effect upon the vital force. It probably deserves an important place in our therapeutic armamentarium. We should consider it in acutest emergencies of surgical as well as of circulatory nature, as well as in the spastic paralytic and neuralgic syndromes which conform with the mental and general symptoms thus far elicited.

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Edward C. Whitmont
Edward Whitmont graduated from the Vienna University Medical School in 1936 and had early training in Adlerian psychology. He studied Rudulf Steiner's work with Karl Konig, later founder of the Camphill Movement. He researched naturopathy, nutrition, yoga and astrology. Whitmont studied Homeopathy with Elizabeth Wright Hubbard. His interest in Analytical Psychology led to his meeting with Carl G. Jung and training in Jungian therapy. He was in private practice of Analytical Psychology in New York and taught at the C. G. Jung Training Center, of which he is was a founding member and chairman. E. C. Whitmont died in September, 1998.
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