Aranea diadema
Remedy of chilliness and periodicity. Extreme sensitivity to dampness — bones feel cold and damp. Symptoms return at exactly the same hour. Numbness of affected parts. Heaviness and enlargement sensation.
Source
Prepared from the whole live spider Araneus diadematus (European garden spider).
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Keynote Symptoms
Chilly to the bone — sensitive to dampness. Symptoms return at exactly the same time daily or periodically with clock-like regularity. Bones feel as if made of ice. Numbness of parts with feeling of enlargement. Hydrogenoid constitution — worse from damp. Intermittent fevers. Spleen enlarged.
Mind & Emotional Symptoms
Despondent. Constant languor. Difficulty thinking. Listless.
General Symptoms
Extreme chilliness and damp sensitivity. Exact periodicity. Worse from dampness, cold, wet weather, living near water, rain, evening, night. Better from warmth, dry weather, smoking tobacco, open air.
Physical Symptoms
Head
Confusion. Headache recurring same hour. Heavy, dull.
Face
Neuralgia recurring at exactly the same time. Right side. Numbness.
Abdomen
Enlarged spleen. Heaviness in liver region. Flatulence.
Extremities
Bones feel like ice — cold, damp. Numbness with swelling sensation. Heaviness. Rheumatic pains worse from damp.
Skin
Chilliness. Numbness. Cold spots on body.
Fever / Chill / Perspiration
Intermittent fever with exact periodicity. Chill predominates. Sensation of cold water running through veins.
Modalities
Better From
Warmth, dry weather, smoking tobacco, open air, summer
Worse From
Dampness, cold, wet weather, living near water, rain, evening, night, same hour daily
Constitutional Type
Hydrogenoid constitution — worse from all damp. Chilly to the bone. Periodic, clock-like symptoms. Those living near water who are always cold.
Clinical Indications
Intermittent fever, neuralgia with clock-like periodicity, bone chilliness, splenomegaly, hydrogenoid constitution, dampness sensitivity
Comparative Materia Medica
China has periodicity and spleen enlargement but with debility from fluid loss. Cedron has clock-like periodicity of neuralgia. Natrum sulphuricum has hydrogenoid constitution but with more hepatic symptoms. Dulcamara is worse from damp but with more catarrhal symptoms.
Safety Information
Not well established.
Garden spider bites are harmless to humans. Use only potentised forms.
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