Aranea Diadema

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A Text-Book of Materia Medica.

(Characteristic, Analytical, and Comparative.)

By Pr. Allen Corson Cowperthwaite, M. D., PH. D., LL. D.

ARANEA DIADEMA. (EPEIRA DIADEMA.)

Natural order.- Arachnida.

Common name.- Cross Spider.

General Analysis.-

Aranea is especially noted for its production of symptoms analogous to those resulting from, malarial poisoning, and has been chiefly used in such cases when the cold stage is the most pronounced, and when the symptoms return precisely at the same hour.

Aranea was selected by Dr. Von Grauvögl as typical of what he called a " hydrogenoid " constitution, where there is too much water in the system ; the patient being always deficient in warmth, and very susceptible to moisture or dampness, such a condition being especially favorable to malarial poisoning.

Characteristic symptoms.

(Aranea diadema)

Headache and confusion in the head ; relieved by smoking. ( Reverse , Ign.)

Headache continues till evening ; becomes milder, however, after a few hours, and ceases entirely in the open air.

Headache, with burning in the eyes and heat in the face.

(Aranea diadema)

Sudden violent pains in all the teeth at night, immediately after lying down.

(Aranea diadema)

Sensation of heaviness and fullness in the lower bowels ; it seems as if a stone lay there, with unpleasant feeling of faintness in pit of stomach, together with griping in abdomen ; sensation of heaviness in thighs, so that they can hardly be carried forward, with confusion of the bead ; returns the next day at the same hour ; last half an hour (5 P. M.)

Enlargement of the spleen.

(Aranea diadema)

Thin, fluid stool, with pain in abdomen.

Female Organs.- (Aranea diadema)

Periods eight days too early, too strong, and too copious.

(Aranea diadema)

Haemorrhage from the lungs.

(Aranea diadema)

Bone pains of a boring, digging character (Eupat., Merc .), particularly in the right tibia and os calcis, and in the right upper and forearm bones.

Sensation as if hands and arms were enormously swollen.

(Aranea diadema)

Great lassitude and weariness.

Restless sleep, with frequent waking.

Worse in damp, wet places, or in wet weather. (Rhus tox.)

Every damp day or place favors chilliness ; feels cold to the very bones.

Chilliness predominates ; no fever.

Symptoms return periodically at precisely the same hour. (Ced.)

Therapeutic Range.- (Aranea diadema)

Malarial fevers ; malarial conditions in general ; intermittents, checked by quinine ; haemorrhages ; enlarged spleen ; toothache.

(Aranea diadema)

Ars., Cinch., Ced., Euc., Eupat.

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