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INDIVIDUAL MEDICINES IN DETAIL

ARANEA DIADEMA
Common name - papal cross spider. Proved by gravogl

Leading characteristics
 Periodicity and coldness
 Great tendency to coldness, hydrogenoid constitution of gravogl
 Feels as if parts were enlarged and heavier, wakes up at night with hand feeling twice their natural size
 Pain m right trifascial nerve revived by smoking in open sir
 Pain in os calcis, violent dull boring pains in bones due to simple periostitis or associated with caries
 Fever and coldness with pain In long bones and feeling of stone in abdomen at same hour daily
 Attacks are sudden and violent
 Right sided remedy General amelioration by lying down but foot achels aggravated by lying down

Constitution

Hydrogenoid remedy of gravogl , compliant are aggravated in damp wet weather or even taking food stuffs containing water or living in marshy places or near rivers or aggravation near damp dwellings. Malarial constitution, where every damp day or place favors chillness

Fever
Intermittent fever excessive chilliness, nothing relieves. Any amount of covering doss gives no warmth. Aggravated by every spell of damp weather, Chilliness as if bones were made of ice with bone pains. Chill occurring at the same hour every day, every other day of every week or at some regular periods Headache

Headache after hearing and is relieved by smoking in open air- Sudden violent pains in upper and lower jaws at night immediately after lying down. Right sided trigeminal neuralgia relieved by smoking in open air,

Extremities
Violent dull  boring pain in lower extremities especially   tendoachilis .Affections of os calcis, necrosis and caries. Bone feels as if made of ice. Numbness of parts supplied by ulnar nerve.

ARANEA SCINENCIA
Common name ;- grey spider. They do not spin a web and is found on walls.

Indications -
 Constant twitching of lower eyelids
 Eyes Inflamed, weak, watery and swollen
 Dull, stupid head ache in the postero inferior part of head,
 Sleepiness
 Intolerance of warm weather, all symptoms are <ed in a warm room

ARANEUM TELA
Source ; cobweb of black spider Found in cellars and dark spaces.

Leading indications
 Symptoms appear suddenly with cool clammy skin
 Disposition to sleep
 Lowers the frequency of pulse by acting on arterial system
 Numbness m hands and legs <ed by rest
 Continued chilliness
 Periodical diseases in broken down persons,
 Cardiac sleeplessness with increased muscular energy could not be kept in bed- Dances and jumps about the room att
night
 Dry spasmodic asthma, harassing irritating cough.
 Periodic head ache with extreme nervous erythism and obstinate intermittent

LATRODECTUS MACTANS

This medicine is prepared from a small female spider of arachnida family which is small and obese and black all over except for a red or orange marking in the shape of an hour glass on the ventral aspect of the belly. After mating the female eats the male which is much smaller than compared to the male. So this spider is called black widow spider. This spider prefers to reside m dim and remote haunts away from public notice. Tincture is prepared from the whole spider. Venom of this spider is the most poisonous and is about 15 times more poisonous than the venom of rattle snake.

The venom produces tetanic effects which lasts for several days, The symptoms of bite are pain in chest similar to angina pectoris, haemorrhage of black blood, noncoagulable, sensation of constriction and difficulty in breathing and talking with slow action of heart,

The venom causes interference with the passage of nerve impulses at the neuromuscular junction where normal response
depends upon release of acetyl choline thus delaying nerve impulses,

Appetence of patient
Patient has an expression of grave anxiety with fear of dying and has a characteristic gait, bending forward -with hands held against the abdomen.

Leading indications
 Picture of angina pectoris accompanied by restlessness and prostration
 Chilliness especially icy coldness of extremities
 Left sided remedy
 Severe prostration but patient cannot lie still due to great restlessness
 Constricting and cramping pains Heart

Violent pericardial pains extending to axilla down the left arms and forearms to the fingers with intense numbness of extremities and apnoea. Most violent precordial pains as if paralysed. Pulse too frequent that it cannot be counted and so feeble that it could scarcely be felt. Screams fearfully   that she will loss her breath and die. Intense numbness associated with nausea and vomiting of blood. Anxiety and sinking in stomach. Extreme apnoea with gasping respiration

Comparison
 Haematoxy lon -feels as if a bar placed upon chest
 Cereus bonplandii - convulsive pains in heart, patient cannot breathe, feel as if transfixed.
 Lachesis - pain shoots to the left elbow
 Actea racemosa - as if arm is bound to the body
 Crataegus --pain radiates beneath left scapula
 Magnolia grandifloria - angina, endo and pericarditis- Alternate pains between spleen and heart. Oppression of chest with
inability to expand lungs. Feels as if a large bolus of food distended stomach. Sensation as If heart had stopped beating
Cactus - feeing of constriction

Other features
Skin icy Cold marble even in fever.

LATERODCCTUS KALIPO
Common name - New Zealand spider

Leading indications
 Affected area scarlet red with burning and stinging pains
 lassitude and twitching
 Pulse slow scarcely more than 12-14/minute
 NERVOUS TWITCHING ALL OVER BODY
 Intermittent fever, extremities cold and flaccid with cold clammy skin
 Lymphangitis, whole area edematous and swollen

LATRODECTUS HASSELL

Common name - new saith water black spider

Leading indications
 Chronic blood poisoning, arrests the intense pain in pyeamia
 Great oedema of neighbor hood of wounds with paralysis of lower limbs
 Constant delusion of flying
 Vertigo with tendency to fall forward
 Sever violent burning pains/ malignant conditions with pyeamia. Septic states with pain and sleeplessness.

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