ARANEA IXOBOLA

Aranea Ixobola

(Cross-spider)

Pharmacy

aran-ix. Aranea ixobola. Cross-spider. America. Tincture of the whole animal. Historical dose: All potencies.

Clinical

Alcoholic polyneuritis. Facial neuralgia. Goiter. Hashimoto's disease. Muscle pain. Neurasthenia. Neuritis. Psychosis. Thyroiditis.

Homeopathic

Aranea Ixobola is a Cross-spider which lives in Europe, but was imported from America. Pooch examined the venom, which comes from the Chelicerae. The dried venom represents 30% of the original poison.

J. Mezger undertook a homeopathic proving in 1952 at the Robert Bosch Hospital in Stuttgart, at the time when Dr. Otto Leeser was director there. Thirty-two provers, of whom seven were women and all were doctors, participated.

Action was directed to the digestive system, principally the liver and gallbladder. Neurotropic and vascular action, both central and peripheral. Extreme inner disquiet. Euphoria, depression. Overwhelming need to smoke. Hypersensitive senses of smell and hearing. General and localized feeling of coldness.

Shaking, sensation of inner trembling, need to move about. Spasmodic contracture of the unstriped muscles. Arterial congestion, spasms of the digestive passages. Spasms of the striped muscles. Cramps, tremors, and clonic spasms.

Rheumatic pains. Neuritis with abnormality of cerebrospinal fluid. Painful pulsations of the head and large vessels. Pain in the liver and gallbladder. Thyroid complaints. Spasmodic instability of the nerves, vessels, and muscles. Parathyroid deficiency and tetany. Toxic adenoma of the thyroid. Hashimoto's disease, sub-acute thyroiditis with goiter. Spasmodic cardiovascular complaints. Psychotic, digestive, and hepatic disorders.

Mind

Absent-minded. Mental exertion aggravates. Answer. Answers snappishly. Snappish. Impolite. Hurried. Restlessness, better in open air (Arg-n.). Witty talk. Delusions, everything seems unreal. Delusions of being smaller. Time passes too slowly. Appears longer.

Euphoric state, as if he had drunk wine. Teasing disposition and the need to speak. Melancholy. Weariness of life. Irritable. Must make a great effort not to be impolite or rude.

Incapable of mental concentration, inattentive, wants to do nothing. Must make an effort to set to work. Need to move about. Feels better in the fresh air. Inner disquiet and hastiness. Nothing is finished quickly enough for him. Neurosis from anguish. Mania and depression.

Abdomen

Distension of right hypochondrium. Pain better bending backward. Immediately after meals, nausea with feeling of repletion and heaviness in the hepatic region. Pain in gall bladder. Biliary colic. Sharp, shooting pains in the gallbladder.

Back

Stiffness at the nape of the neck, occurring suddenly and spreading towards the trapezius muscles and the shoulders. Acute pain in the lumbar region, requiring him to stop work for several days.

Chest

Angina pectoris.

Constitutions

Tubercular condition in phosphoric, nervous subjects.

Ears

Hypersensitive to noise.

Female

Menses 100 early by a week, preceded by blood-streaked leucorrhea. Disorders of libido.

Food

Aversion to fats and rich food. Desires cheese, meat. Strong desire for sugary foods, which are easily digested. Desires sweet food, tobacco. Worse alcohol, fats, and rich food. Worse wine. Better coffee, tobacco. Worse by fatty foods, especially pork fat, and alcohol.

Head

Hot feeling in the head and vertigo. Deafening or stinging headache, especially right-sided, worse when bending down or after alcohol. Better in fresh air or smoking a cigarette. Headache after mental effort. After copious urination, headache disappears.

Heart

Palpitations of heart immediately after lying. Palpitations extending to epigastrium. Strong palpitations and squeezing feeling. Pressure and tingling in the precordial region. Tachycardia and neurosis with strain in those who worry. Aortic deficiency of arterial origin. Pulse is felt in the carotid artery and abdominal aorta, worse when lying down and resting, better when moving and after drinking coffee. Acceleration of the pulse.

Kidneys

Overpowering need to urinate and increased or reduced volume of urine. Polyuria.

Limbs

Numbness of single parts. Coldness of painful parts. Pain in left leg, sciatica, better motion. Trembling of hands increased. Rheumatic pains in all the joints, especially in the arms, legs, and shoulders. Left-sided sciatic pain after standing for a long time, better by moving the legs. Heavy feeling in the arms, especially the right arm and swollen feeling with clumsiness of the right hand. Numb feeling in the forearm and left hand.

Lungs

Persistent, irritating cough and feeling of soreness in the respiratory passages, every breath is painful. Dry feeling in the trachea and intense thirst after cold drinks. Chronic tracheitis. Chronic asthma. Miller's asthma (false croup).

Male

Low libido with cold genital organs. Increased libido with insufficient erection.

Modalities

Better from drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes. Better motion. Better in fresh air. Better walking. Better getting up. Better leaning backwards. Better lying down and stretching out fully. Better after expelling gas and going to stool. Worse from rest. Worse cold. Worse alcohol. Worse in the morning. Worse warm and wet weather.

Mouth

Dry feeling in the mouth and pharynx, sometimes localized on one side only. Bleeding gingiva, cracking of the lips, aphthae.

Nose

Sharpened, perverted sense of smell. Irritation of the mucus membranes in the nose. Watery discharge. Hypertrophic rhinitis.

Rectum

Sometimes constipation, but more often pale yellow diarrhea with a repulsive odor. Explosive evacuation and immediately the feeling of not quite having emptied the intestines.

Skin

Cracked lips. Chapped fingers. Acne of the scalp, at the hairline. Desquamation of the hands and nose like that following scarlet fever. Seborrhea of the nose. General itching worse when scratched or from pressure. Erythema like fleabites. Varieties of lupus erythematosus, simple or exanthematic. Eczema treated by inoculation of impetigo. Psoriasis of the scalp and hair. Rosy pityriasis. Pityriasis characterized by pimples with a hair in the center.

Sleep

Sleep long in coming, followed by a rush of thoughts and inner unrest. Remains awake for several hours during the night. Sleep disturbed by worrying or frightening dreams. Dreams of quarrel with a friend. Dreams of the death of a close relation or husband. Dreams of violence.

Stomach

Vomiting after drinking alcohol. Vomiting, worse wine (Ant-c.).

Temperature

Constant chilliness, despite staying in a warm room, but no sign of catarrh. Feet cold, not gaining heat when moving. Sweating over the whole body, especially after eating soup. Sudden flushes of heat with headaches and sweating on the forehead. Sweating at night, which wakes him.

Throat

Itching of the throat and difficulty swallowing, as if he had an inflammation, ameliorated by hot drinks. Constant need to scratch the throat and occasional grayish-white sputum. Pulsating in throat with palpitations.

Vertigo

Vertigo with a hot feeling. Vertigo with nausea.

Comments

Hypertrophic cholecystitis without jaundice. Viral hepatitis. Atony of the gallbladder. Acute inflammation of the gallbladder. Gallstones. Chronic cholecystitis without the formation of stones. Cirrhosis of the bladder and enlargement of the spleen. Fibrocystic disease of the pancreas. Chronic pancreatitis. Cystic fibrosis of the pancreas.

Relations

Compare: (1) Viscum Album. (2) Tarentula - Nervous complaints with restlessness, anxiety, need to run, palpitations, and suffocation, sexual excitement. (3) Theridion - Nervous hypersensitivity and intolerance of the slightest sound. Left-sided thoracic pain, nausea, and vertigo from closing eyes.

References

Julian.