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Aranea Diadema

30CAranea

Papal Cross Spider · Garden Spider · "The Periodical Neuralgia Remedy"

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🎯 It acts powerfully on the nervous system, specifically addressing periodic conditions and extreme sensitivity to damp, cold environments.

📖 Boericke writes:

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).

👤 Constitution

•Individuals with a 'hydrogenoid' constitution who cannot tolerate living near water or in damp, chilly climates; they often feel cold to the bones regardless of external warmth.

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

All symptoms of Aranea are characterized by periodicity, and coldness, and great susceptibility to dampness.

introduction

Feeling as if parts were enlarged and heavier.

introduction

Confusion; better by smoking in open air.

head

Menses too early, too copious.

female

Sensation of swelling, and of parts going to sleep.

extremities

Coldness, with pain in long bones, and feeling of stone in abdomen at the same hour daily.

fever

🩺 Systems & Indications

👤HEAD

Used for periodic facial nerve pain and headaches that are sensitive to weather changes.

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.

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💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

Tincture to 30th

Other

Primary Dosage

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🔄 Compare With

Arsenicum Album →Cedron →Heloderma →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Aranea Diadema is listed in 57 rubrics across 13 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 14 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Fever14 Modalities8 Locomotor System7 Nervous System6 Teeth5 Generalities4 Abdomen3 Female Sexual System3 Head2 Face2 Eyes1 Mind1 Respiratory System1

See all 57 rubrics for Aranea Diadema →