Aranearum tela
Spider web · Animal
Aranearum Tela produces either a delicious tranquility like opium followed by sleep, or paradoxically markedly increased muscular energy with inability to remain in bed. It rapidly lowers the pulse rate and has been used for sleeplessness and asthma in elderly infirm patients.
Key symptoms
- Sleeplessness and insomnia
- Calm and delightful state of feeling followed by disposition to sleep
- Rapid lowering of pulse frequency
- Slight pleasant delirium in old infirm asthmatics
- Increased muscular energy with inability to keep still; danced and jumped about all night
Cobweb (of black spider found in barns, cellars, and dark places). Tincture or trituration.
Clinical
Sleeplessness.
Characteristics
Cobweb has been 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.
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