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Aranea Diadema

30CAranea
Papal Cross Spider · Garden Spider · "The Periodical Neuralgia Remedy"
aran.AnimalUncommonPsoric
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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 byperiodicity, 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.
🔑 Modalities
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💊 Dosage & Potency
Tincture to 30th
Other
🕒As directed
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Arsenicum Album →Cedron →Heloderma →
📚 Sources & References

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