Aranea Diadema aran.

Nerves. Blood. Bones. Right side.

EXACT PERIODICITY. DAMPNESS: Cold. During rains. Bathing.

Smoking.

Cold to very bones (Calc-c.); can't get warm. Every damp day chills. AS OF ENORMOUS ENLARGEMENT or numbness of parts; on waking. Hæmorrhage. Periostitis.

Nervous temperament. Violent pain in all upper teeth at once, on retiring. Enlarged spleen. Malaria.

Complementary: Ced.

Papal-Cross Spider

All spider poisons powerfully affect the nervous system (See tarentula, Mygale, etc).

All symptoms of Aranea are characterized by 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 (Nat. Sulph. Thuja).

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.

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

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

Cramps after eating a little; epigastrium painful to pressure.

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

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.

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.

Worse, damp weather; late in afternoon, and at midnight. Better, 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.

Another spider which Grauvogl classed with his so-called hydrogenoid remedies, i. e., the patient always suffered, with whatever she had, most in wet weather. It is well to remember such positive modalities, for it may narrow down the case to a few remedies from which our curative must be chosen; for instance -Aranea, Natrum sulphuricum, Dulcamara, Nux moschata, Rhus toxicodendron, Rhododendron- all have these wet weather aggravations, and we will be apt to find our remedy there if the patient is characteristically worse in wet weather.

Headache, relieved by smoking tobacco and going out in the open air.

Painfulness of all the teeth as soon as he goes to bed in the evening. Bitter taste, with coated tongue ; relieved by smoking.

Swelling of the spleen (after intermittent fever was suppressed by Quinine).

Hæmoptysis.

Women. Catamenia too early, too profuse, of too duration. Metrorrhagia ; bright-colored blood.

Upper. Sensation on the ring and little fingers, as if they were asleep. Lower. Boring and digging in the os calcis, continuing on moving the foot, and disappearing by continuing the motion. Ulcer on the left heel.

As soon as he lies down at night a violent pain in all the teeth.

Hæmorrhages from all the organs.

Chilliness every day at the same hour (precisely), with sleeplessness, no heat or perspiration following. Chilliness day and night, even during the summer ; worse during rain. Chill and other symptoms are worse every other day, at precisely the same hours.

Aggravation in wet habitations and from being on the water. -Daily, at precisely the same hour.

The Cross Spider. N. O. Arachnida. Tincture.

Bones, affections of. Catalepsy. Chills. Dysmenorrhœa. Dyspepsia. Hæmorrhages. Hæmorrhagic diathesis. Headache. Hydrogenoid constitution. Intermittents. Malarial cachexia. Menstruation, irregularities of. Neuralgia. Punctured wounds. Scorbutic affections. Scurvy rickets. Spleen, affections of. Toothache.

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. Hæmorrhages 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.

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.

Despondent; longs for death.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Diarrhœa; 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.

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 leucorrhœa.

Hæmoptysis. — Violent hæmoptysis in anæmic and debilitated subjects.

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 l. heel.

Hæmorrhages 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.

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.

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.

Dejected, pale face ; dark circles under eyes ; melancholy, will not leave the bed.
Deep melancholy. θ Dysmenorrhoea.
Morose and despondent, longing for death. θ Intermittent.

Vertigo before headache ; when sitting up ; must lie down ; with weakness before eyes.
Confusion of head ; after eating ; with relaxation (lassitude).
Dulness and pressure in head, > when pillowing head.

Confusion of head ; with lassitude ; after eating ; evening, when studying, with pressive pains, as if on bones of right temple ; while resting head on hand.
Headache and confusion of head, both > by smoking and by going into open air.
Long-lasting confusion of head, with pressing pain in forehead and temples, > by pressure of hand, > in evening, after eating.
Headache in forehead, > by smoking.
Heat in forehead and eyes.
Headache, with burning in eyes and heat in head.
Pressing in temples ; vertigo on rising from a recumbent position ; head and hands feel swollen.
Continued headache spreading from forehead on vertex and occiput, only at times < on top of head ; cannot receive company because talking or listening produces vomiting ; she must lie quietly in bed for three or four days.
Chronic headache, preceded by flickering before eyes and vertigo, which forces her to lie down ; headache attended with dulness, cannot think well, great heat in forehead and face, weariness, loss of strength ; lasts one day.
Headache coming on at regular hours ; < by speaking, or when others speak ; > by less smoking, or going out into open air.
Stitching and shooting pains in head with chill. θ Intermittent.
Nervous headache ; periodical.

Unpleasant sensation as if head and hands were greatly swollen. θ Headache.
Dulness of head : with tightness ; after a meal ; during evening studies ; with pressure on right temporal bone, upper part of forehead, > on leaning head.
Drawing in head to lower jaw.

Glimmering and glittering before eyes when reading or writing, which < headache.
Flickering before eyes ; precedes attack of headache.
Thick mist before eyes ; so tired she thought she would drop.
Disagreeable trembling in eyes ; reading, writing, < headache, with heat in eyes and forehead.
Burning in eyes, with heat in face and headache.
Stinging in eyes after the heat. θ Intermittent.
Shooting in eyes. θ Intermittent.
Large black circles under eyes. θ Dysmenorrhoea.

Pinching pressure in right ear and parotid gland, shifting to right side, from up-down.
Affection of ears in dogs ; they shake their heads until the ears are bloody.

Coryza with thirst ; tertian coryza.
Epistaxis.

Dejected countenance and pale face ; dark circles under eyes ; lips blanched ; dull expression of eyes ; confusion of head ; deep melancholy ; malaise, with constant desire to lie down. θ Spasmodic
pains in stomach.
Face pale and sunken. θ Dysmenorrhoea.
Cheeks feel as if swollen. θ Toothache.
Heat in forehead and face. θ Headache.
Burning heat in face, forehead and eyes, with headache.

Lips colorless. θ Dysmenorrhoea.

Right lower incisors feel cold and are sensitive, especially on drawing in air ; returns each day at same hour.
Pinching, pressing pain in upper incisors, regularly from 9 A. M. to 7 P. M. ; leaving a sensitiveness and cold feeling on drawing in air ; sensation as if gum or cheek were swollen.
Sudden violent pains in teeth of upper and lower jaw at night, immediately after lying down.
Toothache > by smoking tobacco ; < by humidity, at night, and after lying down.

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Headache and confusion of the head, < by smoking, and ceases entirely in the open air (Tab.).

Sudden violent pains in the teeth of the whole upper and lower jaws, at night, immediately after lying down.

Toothache every day at same hour.

In cold rainy weather; damp dwellings; cold bathing; sleeping in damp wet rooms; lying down.

From tobacco smoke; in the open air.

Quotidian, tertian. Remarkable periodicity in every type. Paludal origin; pernicious; dengue.

At precisely same hour, every day, or every other day (Ced., Sabad.). Great regularity of paroxysm.

Rheumatic exposure: getting wet; working in the rain; working while standing in water (Ant. t., Cal., Led., Rhus); from living or working in basements; working in cellars or underground places (Ars.).

Long-lasting, often 24 hours; chill predominates. Constant chilly feeling, worse on rainy, cold days; from bathing with cold water; from damp dwellings. Chill as soon as he touches the cold sheets of the bed, followed by heat but no sweat. Chill violent, shaking; severe internal coldness as if frozen (Helod.). Chilly all the time, day and night, in midsummer. Bone pains for four weeks; fever attacks, consisting almost wholly of coldness. Chill without heat, sweat or thirst. Headache, which ceases entirely in the open air. Great exhaustion; lassitude. Painful feeling of coldness in lower incisors every day at same hour.

Slight, preceded by chill. Evening heat, with fullness and heaviness in epigastrium as from a stone; qualmishness in pit of stomach, and heaviness of the thighs so that she is scarcely able to drag her limbs along. Forearms and hands so heavy that he imagines he cannot lift them. This stage often wanting.

Wanting.

Slightly coated; taste, nauseous, bitter, > by smoking.

Clear. Spleen enlarged. Menses eight days too early, too strong and too copious.

The paroxysm of Aranea is often unattended by either heat or sweat consisting only of coldness, which is persistent and severe, and not > by anything. It is usually without thirst in any stage; if any thirst, usually during the heat.

A CASE.—A teamster 43 years old, 6 feet 2 inches in height, and well developed, never been sick before, slept on some straw on the bar-room floor in Frankfurt, on a winter night. In the morning felt stiff in his limbs, tired and sick. Chill began at 7 p. m., and lasted till precisely 8 in the morning, every day at same hour, without heat or sweat, with cough, loss of appetite, sleeplessness, and great exhaustion, which distressed him most because it interfered with his occupation. Being yet unskilled in Homeopathy, and not having the least confidence in it in fever and ague, I gave him two-grain doses of Quinine every two hours at first, then every hour during the day, until he had taken forty powders without the least improvement; on the contrary, his general weakness had increased. I now consulted the original provings, and found that according to the law of similarity Aranea diadema must be the remedy. He received five drops of second dec. attenuation every hour. Next day the patient exclaimed: "Now you have hit the right medicine; after the second hour I felt warmth again in my whole body, and the first time for three weeks I slept some hours at night again, without any chill." The cure was complete in six days, and for seventeen years he had no relapse.—GRAUVOGL, p. 204.

Like many of our colleagues of the present day, Grauvogl's lack of confidence in homeopathic treatment of fever and ague (in his early investigations) was only equaled by his imperfect knowl- edge (at that time) of the true curative sphere of Quinine in the same disease. Here was a fever with chill prolonged and pre- dominant; heat and sweat absent. It could never be cured by

Quinine, which has all three stages, but particularly heat and sweat, prominently developed. Possibly, owing to its rheumatic character, Quinine would not seem even to suppress it, and there certainly was enough given (80 grs.) to fairly test its suppressing power.

CASE NO. II.—A tall, robust, heavily bearded man who, from the nature of his business, was exposed to all sorts of weather. For weeks past, though feeling tolerably well throughout the day, attending regularly to his daily round of duties, every night, as soon as he stepped into bed, he was seized with a severe chill which lasted perhaps for two hours, followed by heat but no sweat. Thinking the cold sheets upon which he lay had some- thing to do with it he substituted blankets, but without improvement.

Aranea with its remarkable symptoms, "toothache every day at same hour" loomed up before me, and here was a similar one, "Chill as soon as he touches the bed," and Aranea 30, a dose night and morning for four days.

Chills ceased after the fourth dose, and no relapse.—C. C. SMITH, M. D.,

Hom. Phys., vol. 5, p. 236.

Rheumatic exposure.

Regularity of paroxysm.

Severe, long-lasting, bone searching chill; internal coldness as if frozen (Heloderma).

Heat and sweat slight or wanting.

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.

This spider has cured various troubles characterized by an exact periodicity and marked aggravation from dampness.
Extreme sensitiveness and nervous excitability.

Clinical:
Toothaches, hæmorrhages (uterine, pulmonary).
Neuralgia.
Asthma.
Intermittent fever (marked) consisting mostly of coldness, particularly useful for old people.