Aranea Diadema
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General
Aranea Diadema.
The Cross Spider. N. O. Arachnida. Tincture.
Clinical
Bones, affections of. Catalepsy. Chills. Dysmenorrhoea. Dyspepsia. Haemorrhages. Haemorrhagic diathesis. Headache. Hydrogenoid constitution. Intermittents. Malarial cachexia. Menstruation, irregularities of. Neuralgia. Punctured wounds. Scorbutic affections. Scurvy rickets. Spleen, affections of. Toothache.
Characteristics
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. Haemorrhages 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.
Relations
Compare: Mygale, Theridion, Tarentula, Ipec., Nux v., Ars. (intermittents and bone affections); Cedron (intermittents of hot climates; Aran., of cold climates chiefly). It antidotes: Chi., Quinine, Merc. Antidoted by: Smoking tobacco.
Mind
Despondent; longs for death.
Head
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.
Eyes
Glimmering and glittering before eyes; preceding headache.—Burning; stinging; shooting in eyes.
Teeth
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.
Mouth
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.
Stomach
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.
Abdomen
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 epigastrium
Borborygmi in the abdomen, and heaviness in the thighs, every day at the same hour
Colic, with shuddering towards evening.
Stool
Diarrhoea; 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.
Female Sexual Organs
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 leucorrhoea.
Respiratory Organs
Haemoptysis.—Violent haemoptysis in anaemic and debilitated subjects.
Upper Limbs
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.
Lower Limbs
Boring and digging in the r. tibia and os calcis, continuing on moving the foot, and disappearing by continuing the motion.—Ulcer on the l. heel.
Generalities
Haemorrhages 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.
Sleep
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.
Fever
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
Afterwards: vomiting
During heat: headache (but less violent than during chill), with drowsiness
After heat: vomiting and prostration; lies as if dead; stinging in eyes
Sweat absent; sweat without thirst; sweat with thirst.