Ingredients
Papal-Cross Spider
Product Description
used as a remedy from ancient times. It has also been experimented with on healthy persons. It very rapidly lowers the frequency of the pulse rate. In some it has produced “a calm and delightful state of feeling, followed by a disposition to sleep.” “The most delicious tranquillity, resembling the action of opium, and followed by no bad effects.” Twenty grains given to an old and infirm asthmatic produced “slight but pleasant delirium.” Muscular energy is increased, could not be kept in bed, but danced and jumped about the room all night.
Symptoms/Indications
During proving it was observed that this drug lowers the frequency of the pulse rate in healthy human beings. In some provers it produced a calm state of feeling, followed by a dis- position to sleep.
Cardia sleeplessness, increased muscular energy.
Dry asthma, harassing cough.
Periodic headaches with extreme nervous erethism.
Obstinate intermittents.
Tela aranea was successfully used in a case of a middle aged woman who was diagnosed as a case of Supra Ventricular Tachycardia. Her constitutional remedy was selected as Calcarea ars. During the acute phase Digitalis, Gelsemium failed. Later Tela aranea was given on the following indications and she improved considerably
Rapid pulse rate.
Weakness, want of energy.
It also calmed the patient with a feeling of tranquility, periodicity, and coldness, and great susceptibility to dampness. It is the remedy for the constitution favorable to malarial poisoning, where every damp day or place favors chilliness. Patient feels cold to the very bones. Coldness not relieved by anything. Feeling as if parts were enlarged and heavier. Wake up at night with hands feeling twice their natural size. Spleen swollen. Hydrogenoid Constitution, i.e, Abnormal sensitiveness to damp and cold, inability to live near fresh water, lakes, rivers, etc, or in damp, chilly places
