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Aranea diadema

Papal-cross spider

3 health issues Boericke 1927

Main symptoms

  • 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.
  • Patient feels cold to the very bones.
  • Coldness not relieved by anything.
  • Wake up at night with hands feeling twice their natural size.
  • Spleen swollen.

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What makes it better or worse

Worse

Damp weatherLate in afternoonAt midnight

Better

Smoking tobacco

Symptoms by body part

Head

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.

Female

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

Chest

Pain in intercostal nerve from nerve endings to spine. Bright red haemorrhage from lungs.

Stomach

Cramps after eating a little; epigastrium painful to pressure.

Abdomen

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

Extremities

Bone-pains in extremities. Pain in os calcis. Sensation of swelling, and of parts going to sleep.

Sleep

Restless and waking, as if hands and forearms were swollen and heavy.

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.

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