# Aranea Diadema ## Remedy Classification - **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy - **Miasm:** Tubercular Miasm - **Temperament:** Chilly - **Aggravation Time:** Morning ## Keynote Indications Grauvogl is our chief authority for the use of Aranea. The spider poisons powerfully affect the nervous system (Tarent., Mygal.). It is one of the leading remedies for the hydrogenoid constitution as described by him and for intermittent fevers and other intermittent disorders. By hydrogenoid constitution, Grauvogl meant an 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 worse from bathing, from the damp weather, localities or habitations, worse drawing in cold air. Aran, is the remedy for the constitution favorable to malarial poisoning, where every damp day or place favors chilliness. There i s abnormal susceptibility to dampness and cold. Patient feels cold to the very bones, cannot get warm enough. Coldness not relieved by anything. Inability to live near fresh water, rivers, lakes or in damp chilly places (Dulc., Nat-s.). Characteristic periodicity, coldness, and great susceptibility to dampness. Feeling of faintness with nausea, vertigo, trembling and cold sweating. Chilliness followed by little or no fever. Chill not better by external warmth, no sweat with fevers. Shivering, cold sweats. Palpitations. Head and feet cold. Face congested and burning. Rush of blood to the head. Chill and neuralgic attacks at the same hour every day, every other day, week, month or regular period. Attacks are violent and sudden. Loquacious with painful attacks beginning and ending abruptly. Aggravation from mental exertion, amelioration from pressure on head. Periostitis. Punctured wounds. Feelingas if parts were enlarged an d heavier. Wake up at night with hands feeling twice their natural size. Exhaustion, must lie down. Swelling of the spleen after malaria suppressed by quinine, malarial attacks worse in wet rainy weather, severe attacks of neuralgia after malaria suppressed by quinine. Neurosis. Periodic neuralgia. Parkinson's syndrome. Acroparesthesia at night. Radicular neuritis. Toxic or viral polyneuritis. Facial neuralgia. Obesity with fat and water retention. Hemorrhage. Violent hemoptysis of bright red blood in debil itated subjects, bathing and damp places aggravate, coldness as if the bones were made of ice. Pains are like electric shocks. Headache relieved by smoking tobacco. Toothache after lying down at night. Creeping as of ants all over the body. Many symptoms occur on the right side. COMMENTS - Grimmer said cancer of lungs with hemorrhage, cases based on the tubercular miasm. Hydrogenoid constitution. Abnormal sensitiveness to damp and cold, inability to live near fresh water, l akes, rivers, etc. or in damp, chilly places (Nat -s.. Thuj.). Very sensitive to dampness and rainy weather. Marked periodicity of symptoms, clock-like regularity, annual recurrence of symptoms and conditions. Vascular and cerebral tension with insomnia, fe verish agitation, clouding of consciousness. Neuralgia at regular intervals, especially of the trigeminal region, occipital nerve and of the limbs. Gastric and intestinal complaints, as well as genital and urinary complaints, mostly cramping pains. The patient thinks his illness is improved by smoking, but the symptoms always recur at the same hour. Hemorrhages from many parts, from wounds. Punctured wounds. Exhaustion. Pains like electric currents. Great desire to lie down, many symptoms better lying down . Sensation of swelling in many parts, head, face, hands of numbness of coldness as if bones were made of ice. Temperature - 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. No sweat. Heaviness and sensation of repletion in the intestines with rumbling, repeated at the same hour each day. Shooting pains going from the gallbladder towards the appendix. Desire for milk and feeling of being soothed greatly. Thirsty. ## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations) Better smoking tobacco. Better in open air. Better movement. Better in the fresh air. Better summer and pressure. Worse from cold, damp weather. Worse cold bathing. Worse late in afternoon. Worse at midnight. Exact periodicity. Periodic recurrence at the same time of neuralgic pains and cold shivers. Worse from mental strain, especially of head pains. ## Symptoms by System ### Mind - Nervous. - Great inner unrest, irritabil ity, fear of death. - Stays awake late, uneasi ness and the need to move about. - Confusion of mind, better by smoking in open air. - People and objects seem unreal. - Speech is perceived as if far away. - Alternately, happy and depressed. - Despondent, longs for death. - Claustrophobia. - Nervous. - Great inner unrest, irritabil ity, fear of death. - Stays awake late, uneasi ness and the need to move about. - Confusion of mind, better by smoking in open air. - People and objects seem unreal. - Speech is perceived as if far away. - Alternately, happy and depressed. - Despondent, longs for death. - Claustrophobia. ### Vertigo - Vertigo, even when in bed. - Vertigo with flickering before the eyes. ### Head - Head numbed, head pains, improved by smoking. - Daily headaches, improved by fresh air. - Feeling of ants on the nape of the neck. - Pain in the trigeminal nerve and occipital nerve. - Head numbed, head pains, improved by smoking. - Daily headaches, improved by fresh air. - Feeling of ants on the nape of the neck. - Pain in the trigeminal nerve and occipital nerve. ### Eyes - Double vision. - Heat and glittering before eyes, before headache. - White is perceived as yellow. ### Ears - Pricking pain in the right ear and Eustachian tube, spreading towards the left ear. - Buzzing in the ears. ### Face - Face pale, yellowish color. - Pain in right trifacial nerve from periphery inwards. - Cheeks feel as if swollen during toothache. ### Mouth - Sudden violent pain in teeth at night immediately after lying down. - Feeling of cold toothache (incisors) in the cold air, pains recur at the same time each day. - Bitter taste, better smoking. - Nose - Nose red, copper color. ### Throat - Throat painful, red and swollen. - Prickling, burning pains in the throat. ### Chest - Pain in intercostal nerve from nerv e endings to spine. - Bright red hemorrhage from lungs (Mill.. - Ferr - p.). - Constitutions - Hydrogenoid constitution, subject to neuralgia as a result of humid cold. - Hemorrhagic diathesis. - Palpitations. - Hemoptysis, bright red. - Irritated cough with huskiness. ### Stomach & Abdomen - Cramps after eating a little, epigastrium painful to pressure. - Nausea. - Stomach pains, as though it would burst. - Noisy eructation, either tasteless or tasting rotten and repulsive. ### Urinary & Genital - Kidneys - Acute glomerulonephritis. - Nephrotic syndrome. - Urine strongly yellow in color. - Polyuria. - Strong smell of ammonia in the urine. - Proteinuria. - Oxalate, urate and phosphate crystals. - Urochrome and guanidin e present. - Menstrual blood has a smell of ammonia. - Menses, too early, too copious, accompanied by pain in the lumbar and sacral regions, which is aggravated at the end of the period. - Lumbar, abdominal neuralgia with vomiting and yawning during menstrual cycle. ### Extremities - Stinging pains in all the joints. - Arms and legs feel as if asleep. - Bone pains in limbs. - Pain in os calcis, better continued motion. - Sensation of swelling and of parts going to sleep. - Numbness of parts supp lied by ulnar nerve. - Arms and legs feel numb. - Bones cold, as if made of ice. - Ulcer on heel. - Limbs feel heavy. - Dull, gnawing aching in the bones of the limbs, on the right side. - Pain in the right hip and right knee. - Arthritis. - Arthrosis. ### Neck & Back - Back icy. - Blood - Polycythemia. - Leucocytosis. ### Skin - Yellow color of the face. - Small fis sures and cracks. - Small vesicles which burst easily and dry immediately. - Formation of abscesses. - Slow healing of small wounds. ### Sleep - Sleep disturbed, waking often and feeling that the hands and forearms are fat and swollen, as if enlarged. - Anxious dreams, painful awakening. - Restless an d waking, as if hands and forearms were swollen and heavy. ### Generalities - As if enormous enlargement or numbness of parts, worse on waking or he wakes with such a feeling.