ARANEA DIADEMA
ARANEA DIADEMA
GENERALITIES.
• This spider poison is the remedy for the constitution, favourable to malarial poisoning.
• Patient feels cold to the very bones, can not get warm enough.
• There is abnormal susceptibility to damp and cold.
• Inability to live near fresh water, rivers, lakes etc. or in damp chilly places.
• It affects the nerves; causing neuralgic pain, which are violent and sudden and appear at
the same hour every day, every other day, week, month or at regular periods.
• Sensation AS OF enormous ENLARGEMENT; or numbness of parts agg. on waking or he
wakes with such a feeling.
ARANEA DIADEMA
GENERALITIES.
• It is haemorrhagic remedy.
• Punctured wounds.
• Many symptoms appear on right side.
• Pains are like electric shocks.
• Great desire to lie down.
• Creeping as of ants all over the body.
Hæmorrhages from all the organs.─
Neuralgic pains, most on r. side, > by hard pressure.
ARANEA DIADEMA
Dr BOERECK.
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.
ARANEA DIADEMA
Dr CLARK.
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.
─Chill with clock-like regularity; as clock strikes four daily.
─Chill every other day at precisely the same hour.
ARANEA DIADEMA
CAUSATIONS.
Damp and cold.
ARANEA DIADEMA
CAUSATIONS.
Quinine.
ARANEA DIADEMA
MIND
• Nervous.
• Despondent; longs for death.
ARANEA DIADEMA
KEY-NOTES AND RED LINE SYMPTOMS
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.
─Headache, with burning eyes and heat of face.
─Burning heat in forehead and face.
ARANEA DIADEMA
KEY-NOTES AND RED LINE SYMPTOMS
Face
• Trigeminal neuralgia.
• Cheeks feel as if swollen during toothache.
ARANEA DIADEMA
KEY-NOTES AND RED LINE SYMPTOMS
Mouth
─ Violent pain in all upper teeth.
─ Taste bitter amel. 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.
─Sudden violent pains in teeth of whole upper and lower jaw, at night, immediately
after lying down.
─Bitter taste, with coated tongue; relieved by smoking.
ARANEA DIADEMA
KEY-NOTES AND RED LINE SYMPTOMS
Stomach
─ Epigastrium painful to pressure.
─ Cramps, after eating a little.
─ Cramps after eating a little; epigastrium painful to pressure.
─ Thirst during the fever.
─ Coryza, with thirst.
─Eating causes headache and spasms.
─Vomiting, with fever.
─Epigastrium painful to pressure.
ARANEA DIADEMA
KEY-NOTES AND RED LINE SYMPTOMS
Abdomen
Swelling of the spleen (after intermittent fever was suppressed by Quinine).─Enlarged spleen
with chilliness.
Enlarged spleen. Colic returns same hours.
Heaviness in lower abdomen, as of a stone.
Diarrhœa. Arms and legs feel as if asleep.
Stool Diarrhœa; arms and legs as if asleep.─Stools watery, with great rumbling in bowels
as if of fermentation.
ARANEA DIADEMA
KEY-NOTES AND RED LINE SYMPTOMS
Female
─ Dysmenorrhoea, spasms commencing in stomach.
─ Menses too early; too copious.
─ Lumbo-abdominal neuralgia; with vomiting and yawning; during menstrual cycle.
─Catamenia too early, too frequent, too profuse, of too long duration.
─Periods eight days too early, too strong, and too copious.
ARANEA DIADEMA
KEY-NOTES AND RED LINE SYMPTOMS
Respiratory
• Haemoptysis, bright red.
• Violent hæmoptysis in anæmic and debilitated subjects.
• Inter-costal neuralgia extending to spine.
ARANEA DIADEMA
KEY-NOTES AND RED LINE SYMPTOMS
Extremities
• Bones painful. amel. continued motion.
• Arms and legs feel numb.
• Limbs feel heavy.
• Bones cold as if made of ice.
• Ulcer on heel.
ARANEA DIADEMA
KEY-NOTES AND RED LINE SYMPTOMS
Sleep
• Restless and waking, as if hands and forearms are swollen and heavy.
ARANEA DIADEMA
KEY-NOTES AND RED LINE SYMPTOMS
Fever
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.
• Chilliness, with pain in long bones, and feeling of a stone in abdomen.
• No sweat.
ARANEA DIADEMA
MODALETIES
Worse
• EXACT PERIODICITY.- Cold.
• DAMPNESS.
• Cold bathing.
• During rains.
ARANEA DIADEMA
MODALETIES
Better
• Tobacco smoking.
• In open air.
• Pressure.
• Summer.
