- Grauvogl is our chief authority for the use of Aranea.
- The spider poisons powerfully affect the nervous system (Tarent., Mygal.).
- It is one of the leading remedies for the hydrogenoid constitution as described by him and for intermittent fevers and other intermittent disorders.
- By hydrogenoid constitution, Grauvogl meant an abnormal sensitiveness to damp and cold and inability to live near fresh water, either rivers or lakes, or in damp, chillyHypersensitive to cold temperaturesA constitutional state of feeling exceptionally cold, lacking vital heat, and needing warmth or heavy blankets. places.
- This gives the worse from bathing, from the damp weather, localities or habitations, worse drawing in cold air.
- Aran, is the remedy for the constitution favorable to malarial poisoning, where every damp day or place favors chilliness.
- There i s abnormal susceptibility to dampness and cold.
- Patient feels cold to the very bones, cannot get warm enough.
- Coldness not relieved by anything.
- Inability to live near fresh water, rivers, lakes or in damp chilly places (Dulc., Nat-s.).
- Characteristic periodicity, coldness, and great susceptibility to dampness.
- Feeling of faintness with nausea, vertigoSensation of dizziness or spinningA feeling of movement or spinning of oneself or the surroundings when there is no actual movement., trembling and cold sweating.
- Chilliness followed by little or no fever.
- Chill not better by external warmth, no sweat with fevers.
- Shivering, cold sweats.
- PalpitationsSensation of rapid or irregular heartbeatA noticeably rapid, strong, or irregular heartbeat due to agitation, exertion, or physical conditions..
- Head and feet cold.
- Face congested and burning.
- Rush of blood to the head.
- Chill and neuralgicRelating to sharp nerve painDescribe symptoms or pain that radiates along the path of one or more nerves. attacks at the same hour every day, every other day, week, month or regular period.
- Attacks are violent and sudden.
- Loquacious with painful attacks beginning and ending abruptly.
- AggravationWorsening of symptomsAn increase in severity or intensity of symptoms, often caused by environmental factors or after taking a remedy. from mental exertion, ameliorationImprovement or relief of symptomsA change or modification that results in feeling better, or a decrease in symptom severity. from pressure on head.
- Periostitis.
- Punctured wounds.
- Feelingas if parts were enlarged an d heavier.
- Wake up at night with hands feeling twice their natural size.
- Exhaustion, must lie down.
- Swelling of the spleen after malaria suppressed by quinine, malarial attacks worse in wet rainy weather, severe attacks of neuralgiaSharp nerve pain along a nerve pathIntense, shooting, or burning pain that radiates along the course of one or more nerves. after malaria suppressed by quinine.
- Neurosis.
- Periodic neuralgia.
- Parkinson's syndrome.
- Acroparesthesia at night.
- Radicular neuritisInflammation of a nerveInflammation of one or more nerves, causing pain, tenderness, numbness, or tingling in the affected area..
- Toxic or viral polyneuritis.
- Facial neuralgia.
- Obesity with fat and water retention.
- HemorrhageProfuse bleeding from a ruptured blood vesselAn escape of blood from a ruptured blood vessel, especially when profuse..
- Violent hemoptysisCoughing up blood from lungsThe spitting or coughing up of blood or blood-stained mucus originating from the respiratory tract. of bright red blood in debil itated subjects, bathing and damp places aggravate, coldness as if the bones were made of ice.
- Pains are like electric shocks.
- Headache relieved by smoking tobacco.
- Toothache after lying down at night.
- Creeping as of ants all over the body.
- Many symptoms occur on the right side