Aranea Diadema aran.

The papal-cross Spider (Aranea Diadema), Linn. A tincture is prepared by crushing the live spider and digesting with alcohol.

The most characteristic feature of this drug is the tendency to a periodic recurrence of the symptoms at exactly the same hour. ▶ Continued coldness without reaction characterizes the attack.

(Tarentula), Camphora (not periodic), Argent. met., Arnica., Cedron, Secale corn.

Weakness; with confusion of head.

Aching; till evening, amel. in open air; amel. smoking in open air; amel. walking, with burning in eyes and heat in face; especially in forehead, amel. smoking; with confusion, both amel. by smoking. ▶ Drawing extending down lower jaw. ▶ Confusion in evening when studying, and pressive pain, as if on bones of right temple and upper part of forehead, amel. resting head on hand; after eating; with weakness. ▶ Heat in forehead and eyes, a flickering in them on reading or writing, which aggravated the headache.

Twinging pain in ear and parotid gland, right, then left. ▶ Coryza; with thirst.

▶ Sudden violent pain in all teeth at night after lying down. ▶ Sensitive cold sensation in right lower incisor, at the same hour two days, agg. drawing in air. ▶ Sticking in palate and larynx. ▶ Taste bitter, amel. smoking; nauseous bitter, with coated tongue; unpleasant taste of milk after drinking it.

Thirst. ▶ Heaviness and fulness in lower abdomen, as from a stone, at the same time two days, with nausea in pit of stomach, gripping in abdomen, heaviness in thighs and confusion in head. ▶ Stool fluid, passed only a part at a time and with straining, with pain in abdomen, which is amel. by rubbing, fermenting in abdomen after the stool.

▶ Menses too early, too strong and too copious. ▶ Hæmorrhage from the lungs.

▶ Dull, burrowing bone-pain, in right arm and tibia in morning in bed and at intervals through the day. ▶ Twitching in muscles of left upper arm in afternoon. ▶ In ring and little fingers a feeling as if they had gone to sleep and of formation. ▶ Dull, burrowing bone pain in right os calcis on motion, amel. continued motion.

▶ Sleep restless, with frequent waking, and always with a sensation as if hands and forearms were swollen and heavy. ▶ (Feverish attacks, consisting mostly on coldness, with pain in long bones, troubles in the abdomen, which are usually accompanied by a chill, and mostly come on towards evening, and pimples here and there.). ▶ Heat in face; especially in eyes.

Tremulous, sensitive, nervous exhaustion, nightly sensation as if her hands and arms were enormously enlarged, often causing her to strike a light to see if it were really so. ▶ In headache, continuous for fifteen months, at base of brain, agg. in damp weather. ▶ Toothache, agg. in damp weather and as soon as the patient gets into bed. ▶ Lumbar abdominal neuralgia, intermittent, from being uncovered at night, agg. from 8 to 11 A.M., with yawning or vomiting. ▶ Enlarged spleen, always agg. in damp weather. ▶ Diarrhœa, great loss of appetite and sleep. ▶ Bronchitis, cough agg. on lying down at night, tickling in throat brought on cough. ▶ Asthma, unable to lie down day or night, white, frothy expectoration, nausea and disgust for food. ▶ Diseases of os calcis, with boring; digging in that bone; this may be due to simple periostitis or may be associated with caries; sometimes bones feel like ice. ▶ Sleeplessness in subjects suffering from asthma; nervous cough. ▶ Chronic intermittent fever, with swelling of spleen, living in a damp place, patient chilly day and night, always agg. during a rain. ▶ Quotidian fever. ▶ The attacks recur at the same hour and consist mostly coldness, which lasts a long time and is not followed by heat or sweat. ▶ The patient is exceedingly weak, but while thirsty has none of the restlessness of Arsenic. ▶ These conditions have been found mostly in old people.