Aranea Diadema

Grauvogl is our chief authority for the use of Aranea. It is one of the leading

remedies for the hydrogenoid constitution as described by him, and for intermittent fevers and

other intermittent affections. By hydrogenoid constitution he meant abnormal sensitiveness to

damp and cold; and inability to live near fresh water, either rivers or lakes, or in damp, chilly

places. This gives the < from bathing; from damp weather; damp localities, or habitations; <

drawing in cold air. Chilliness followed by little or no fever. Chill and neuralgic attacks at the

same hour every day, every other day, week, month, or regular period. Attacks are violent and

sudden. Sensation of swelling in many parts, head, face, hands; of numbness; of coldness as if

bones were made of ice. Heemorrhages from many parts; from wounds. Punctured wounds.

Exhaustion. Pains like electric currents. Great desire to lie down; many symptoms > lying down.

Toothache < night after lying down. On lying down in bed and touching bed-clothes, whether

linen or wool, has a chill. Many symptoms occur on the right side. Chill not > by external

warmth; no sweat with fevers.

• ▸Pain in right trifacial nerve from periphery inwards.
• ▸Confusion; better by smoking in open air.
• ▸Heat and flickering in eyes; worse in damp weather.
• ▸Sudden violent pain in teeth at night immediately after lying down.

Headache (in the forehead), relieved by smoking tobacco and going out into the open

air.—Confusion and pressure in the head, mitigated by supporting the head.—Vertigo and

flickering before eyes, before headache; when sitting up; must lie down.—Confusion of head;

after retiring; evening when studying; with pressure as if in bones of r. temple, > by pressure and

sweating.—Headache > entirely in open air.—Headache, with burning eyes and heat of

face.—Burning heat in forehead and face.

Glimmering and glittering before eyes; preceding headache —Burning; stinging;

shooting in eyes.

Instantly a painful sensation, as though arising from several points, darted along the

tongue, painfully affecting tongue, jaws, and head; the effect was instantaneous, like a shock

from an electric battery.—Tongue seemed almost paralysed, utterance thick and heavy, and the

pains at root of tongue and in lower jaw, esp. at joint, most excruciating.—Bitter taste, with

coated tongue; relieved by smoking.

Painfulness of all the teeth as soon as he goes to bed in the evening.—Sharp sensation

of cold in the teeth (incisive) every day at the same hour.—Sensitive, cold sensation in r. lower

incisors, esp. on drawing in air; came on again next day at same hour.—Sudden violent pains in

teeth of whole upper and lower jaw, at night, immediately after lying down.

Cramps after eating a little; epigastrium painful to pressure.

Thirst during the fever and during the greater part of the other

sufferings.—Dejection and lassitude, with thirst—Coryza, with thirst—Eating causes headache

and spasms.—Vomiting, with fever.—Epigastrium painful to pressure.

• ▸Enlarged spleen.
• ▸Colic returns same hours.
• ▸Heaviness in lower abdomen, as of a stone.
• ▸Diarrhoea.
• ▸Arms and legs feel as if asleep.

Swelling of the spleen (after intermittent fever was suppressed by

Quinine).—Enlarged spleen with chilliness.—Fulness and heaviness in the abdomen as from a

stone, with sensation of sinking in the epigastr'um.—Borborygmi in the abdomen, and heaviness

in the thighs, every day at the same hour.—Colic, with shuddering towards evening.

Diarrhcea; arms and legs as if asleep.—Stools watery, with great rumbling in bowels

as if of fermentation.—Liquid, difficult evacuation, with colic, which is ameliorated by friction

on the abdomen.

Menses too early, too copious. Distention of abdomen. Lumbo-abdominal neuralgia.

Dysmenia, spasms commencing in stomach.—Catamenia too early,

too frequent, too profuse, of too long duration —Periods eight days too early, too strong, and too

copious.—Metrorrhagia; bright-coloured blood.—Discharge of viscid mucus from the

vagina.—Viscous leucorrheea.

Pain in intercostal nerve from nerve endings to spine. Bright red haemorrhage from lungs (Millefol; Ferr phos).

Numbness of parts supplied by ulnar nerve.—Dull, penetrating pains in the

bones and in all parts of the body, esp. in the humerus and the forearm.—At night a sensation as

if the hands and forearms were larger and heavier.—Sensation on the ring and little fingers as if

they were asleep.

Boring and digging in the r. tibia and os calcis, continuing on moving the

foot, and disappearing by continuing the motion.—Ulcer on the 1. heel.

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• ▸Generalities—Heemorrhages from all the organs.
• ▸—Neuralgic pains, most on r.
• ▸side, > by

hard pressure, < at menstrual period, esp. before, but still during whole cycle; < 12 at night,

unbearable, driving her out of bed; < 3 to 8 p.m.; aggravations recurring like clockwork; menses

every three weeks.—Great exhaustion and lassitude—Desires to keep constantly moving when

sitting.—Subsultus tendinum.—Catalepsy; periodic headache; < in damp weather.

Bone-pains in extremities. Pain in os calcis. Sensation of swelling, and of parts going to sleep.

Restless and waking, as if hands and forearms were swollen and heavy.

As soon as he lies down at night a violent pain in all his teeth.—Restless sleep with

frequent waking.—Restless; on awaking, some part of the body feels as if it were swollen.

Coldness, with pain in long bones, and feeling of stone in abdomen at the same hour daily. Chilly day and night; always worse during rain.

Before chill: cutting cramp in stomach; vomiting; backache.—Cold all the time,

cannot get warm; chilly as if bones made of ice even in summer; < during rain.—Chilliness after

being in water —Chill with clock-like regularity; as clock strikes four daily.—Thirst, fever and

sweat may be absent.—Chill every other day at precisely the same hour.—During chill: pains in

head, stomach, knees.—A fterwards: vomiting. —During heat: headache (but less violent than

during chill), with drowsiness.—A fter heat: vomiting and prostration; lies as if dead; stinging in

eyes.—Sweat absent; sweat without thirst; sweat with thirst.

Aranearum Tela.

Cobweb (of black spider found in barns, cellars, and dark places). Tincture or trituration.

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.

• ▸Compare: Mygale, Theridion, Tarentula, Ipec.
• ▸, Nux v.
• ▸, Ars.
• ▸(intermittents and bone

affections); Cedron (intermittents of hot climates; Aran., of cold climates chiefly). /t antidotes:

Chi., Quinine, Merc. Antidoted by: Smoking tobacco.

• ▸Tela aranearum-Spider's web.
• ▸--Cardiac sleeplessness, increased muscular energy.
• ▸Excitement and nervous agitation in febrile states.
• ▸Dry asthma, harassing coughs; periodic headaches with extreme nervous erethism.
• ▸Obstinate intermittents.
• ▸Acts immediately on arterial system, pulse full, strong, compressible.

• ▸Lowers pulse rate frequency.
• ▸Masked periodical diseases, hectic, broken down patients.
• ▸Symptoms come on suddenly with cool, clammy skin.
• ▸Numbness of hands and legs when at rest.
• ▸Continued chilliness.

Aranea Scinencia-Grey Spider--(constant twitching of under eyelids. Sleepiness. Worse in warm room).

Heloderma; Cedron; Arsenic.

Tincture to thirtieth potency.