APIS MELLIFICA

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Clinical Keynotes Mind Head Eyes Ears Nose Face Mouth Throat Stomach Abdomen Stool Urine Female Respiratory Extremities Skin Sleep Fever Modalities
Remedy Origin / Source
Natural

Clinical Applications

Complementary.: Nat mur . The "chronic", Apis ; also Baryta carb , if lymphatics are involved. Inimical. Rhus.

Related Remedies
Apium virus (auto-toxæmia, with pus products) Zinc Canth Vespa Lachesis.

Key Symptoms & Indications

  • Acts on cellular tissues causing œdema of skin and mucous membranes.

  • The very characteristic effects of the sting of the bee furnish unerring indications for its employment in disease. Swelling or puffing up of various parts, œdema, red rosy hue, stinging pains, soreness, intolerance of heat, and slightest touch, and afternoon aggravation are some of the general guiding symptoms. Erysipelatous inflammations, dropsical effusions and anasarca, acute, inflammation of kidneys, and other perenchymatous tissues are characteristic pathological states corresponding to Apis. Apis acts especially on outer parts, skin, coatings of inner organs, serous membranes. It produces serous inflammation with effusion, membranes of brain, heart, pleuritic effusion, etc. Extreme sensitiveness to touch and general soreness is marked. Constricted sensations. Sensation of stiffness and as of something torn off in the interior of the body. Much prostration.

Mental & Emotional Symptoms

Apathy, indifference, and unconsciousness. Awkward; drops things readily . Stupor, with sudden sharp cries and startings. Stupor alternating with erotic mania. Sensation of dying. Listless; cannot think clearly. Jealous, fidgety, hard to please. Sudden shrill, piercing screams. Whining. Tearfulness . Jealously, fright, rage, vexation, grief. Cannot concentrate mind when attempting to read or study.

Physical Symptoms

Head

Whole brain feels very tired . Vertigo with sneezing, worse on lying or closing eyes. Heat, throbbing, distensive pains, better on pressure, and worse on motion. Sudden stabbing pains. Dull, heavy sensation in occiput, as from a blow, extending to neck (better on pressure), accompanied with sexual excitement. Bores head into pillow and screams out.

Eyes

Lids swollen , red, œdematous , everted, inflamed; burn and sting. Conjunctiva bright red, puffy. Lachrymation hot . Photophobia. Sudden piercing pains . Pain around orbits. Serous exudation, œdema, and sharp pains. Suppurative inflammation of eyes . Keratitis with intense chemosis of ocular conjunctiva . Staphyloma of cornea following suppurative inflammation. Styes , also prevents their recurrence.

Ears

External ear red, inflamed, sore; stinging pains.

Nose

Coldness of tips of nose. Red, swollen , inflamed, with sharp pains.

Face

Swollen, red, with piercing pain. Waxy, pale, œdematous. Erysipelas with stinging burning œdema. Extends from right to left.

Mouth

Tongue fiery red, swollen, sore, and raw, with vesicles. Scalding in mouth and throat. Tongue feels scalded, red hot, trembling. Gums swollen. Lips swollen, especially upper. Membrane of mouth and throat glossy, as if varnished. Red, shining, and puffy , like erysipelas. Cancer of the tongue.

Throat

Constricted, stinging pains. Uvula swollen , sac-like. Throat swollen, inside and out; tonsils swollen, puffy, fiery red . Ulcers on tonsils. Fiery red margin around leathery membrane. Sensation of fishbone in throat.

Stomach

Sore feeling. Thirstless . Vomiting of food. Craving for milk ( Rhus ).

Abdomen

Sore, bruised on pressure, when sneezing. Extremely tender . Dropsy of abdomen. Peritonitis. Swelling in right groin.

Stool

Involuntary on every motion; anus seems open . Bloody, painless. Anus feels raw. Hæmorrhoids, with stinging pain, after confinement. Diarrhœa watery, yellow; cholera infantum type . Cannot urinate without a stool. Dark, fetid, worse after eating. Constipation; feels as if something would break on straining.

Urine

Burning and soreness when urinating. Suppressed, loaded with casts; frequent and involuntary; stinging pain and strangury; scanty, high colored . Incontinence. Last drops burn and smart.

Female

Œdema of labia; relieved by cold water. Soreness and stinging pains; ovaritis; worse in right ovary. Menses suppressed, with cerebral and head symptoms, especially in young girls. Dysmenorrhœa, with severe ovarian pains. Metrorrhagia profuse, with heavy abdomen, faintness, stinging pain. Sense of tightness. Bearing-down, as if menses were to appear. Ovarian tumors, metritis with stinging pains. Great tenderness over abdomen and uterine region.

Respiratory

Hoarseness; dyspnœa , breathing hurried and difficult. Œdema of larynx. Feels as if he could not draw another breath . Suffocation; short, dry cough, suprasternal. Hydrothorax.

Extremities

Œdematous. Synovitis. Felon in beginning. Knee swollen, shiny, sensitive, sore, with stinging pain. Feet swollen and stiff. Feel too large. Rheumatic pain in back and limbs; Tired, bruised feeling. Numbness of hands and tips of fingers. Hives with intolerable itching. Œdematous swellings.

Skin

Swellings after bites; sore, sensitive . Stinging. Erysipelas, with sensitiveness and swelling, rosy hue. Carbuncles, with burning, stinging pain ( Ars; Anthrac ). Sudden puffing up of whole body.

Sleep

Very drowsy . Dreams full of care and toil. Screams and sudden starting during sleep .

Fever

Afternoon chill, with thirst; worse on motion and heat . External heat, with smothering feeling. Sweat slight, with sleepiness. Perspiration breaks out and dries up frequently. Sleeps after the fever paroxysm. After perspiration, nettle rash, also with shuddering.

Modalities (Better / Worse)

Worse (Aggravation)

, heat in any form; touch ; pressure; late in afternoon; after sleeping; in closed and heated rooms. Right side

Better (Amelioration)

, in open air, uncovering, and cold bathing

Remedy Relationships

Complementary

Nat-m.

Follows Well

Am., Ars., Graph., lod., Lyc., Puls., Nat-m., Stram., Sulph.

Inimicals (Incompatible)

Phos., Rhus-t.

Antidotes

Canth., Carb­ac., Ip., Lac-ac., Lach., Led., Nat-m., Plan.

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APIS MELLIFICA

The Honey-Bee

Acts on cellular tissues causing œdema of skin and mucous membranes.

The very characteristic effects of the sting of the bee furnish unerring indications for its employment in disease. Swelling or puffing up of various parts, œdema, red rosy hue, stinging pains, soreness, intolerance of heat, and slightest touch, and afternoon aggravation are some of the general guiding symptoms. Erysipelatous inflammations, dropsical effusions and anasarca, acute, inflammation of kidneys, and other perenchymatous tissues are characteristic pathological states corresponding to Apis. Apis acts especially on outer parts, skin, coatings of inner organs, serous membranes. It produces serous inflammation with effusion, membranes of brain, heart, pleuritic effusion, etc. Extreme sensitiveness to touch and general soreness is marked. Constricted sensations. Sensation of stiffness and as of something torn off in the interior of the body. Much prostration.

Mind

Apathy, indifference, and unconsciousness. Awkward; drops things readily. Stupor, with sudden sharp cries and startings. Stupor alternating with erotic mania. Sensation of dying. Listless; cannot think clearly. Jealous, fidgety, hard to please. Sudden shrill, piercing screams. Whining. Tearfulness. Jealously, fright, rage, vexation, grief. Cannot concentrate mind when attempting to read or study.

Head

Whole brain feels very tired. Vertigo with sneezing, worse on lying or closing eyes. Heat, throbbing, distensive pains, better on pressure, and worse on motion. Sudden stabbing pains. Dull, heavy sensation in occiput, as from a blow, extending to neck (better on pressure), accompanied with sexual excitement. Bores head into pillow and screams out.

Eyes

Lids swollen, red, œdematous, everted, inflamed; burn and sting. Conjunctiva bright red, puffy. Lachrymation hot. Photophobia. Sudden piercing pains. Pain around orbits. Serous exudation, œdema, and sharp pains. Suppurative inflammation of eyes. Keratitis with intense chemosis of ocular conjunctiva. Staphyloma of cornea following suppurative inflammation. Styes, also prevents their recurrence.

Ears

External ear red, inflamed, sore; stinging pains.

Nose

Coldness of tips of nose. Red, swollen, inflamed, with sharp pains.

Face

Swollen, red, with piercing pain. Waxy, pale, œdematous. Erysipelas with stinging burning œdema. Extends from right to left.

Mouth

Tongue fiery red, swollen, sore, and raw, with vesicles. Scalding in mouth and throat. Tongue feels scalded, red hot, trembling. Gums swollen. Lips swollen, especially upper. Membrane of mouth and throat glossy, as if varnished. Red, shining, and puffy, like erysipelas. Cancer of the tongue.

Throat

Constricted, stinging pains. Uvula swollen, sac-like. Throat swollen, inside and out; tonsils swollen, puffy, fiery red. Ulcers on tonsils. Fiery red margin around leathery membrane. Sensation of fishbone in throat.

Stomach

Sore feeling. Thirstless. Vomiting of food. Craving for milk (Rhus).

Abdomen

Sore, bruised on pressure, when sneezing. Extremely tender. Dropsy of abdomen. Peritonitis. Swelling in right groin.

Stool

Involuntary on every motion; anus seems open. Bloody, painless. Anus feels raw. Hæmorrhoids, with stinging pain, after confinement. Diarrhœa watery, yellow; cholera infantum type. Cannot urinate without a stool. Dark, fetid, worse after eating. Constipation; feels as if something would break on straining.

Urine

Burning and soreness when urinating. Suppressed, loaded with casts; frequent and involuntary; stinging pain and strangury; scanty, high colored. Incontinence. Last drops burn and smart.

Female

Œdema of labia; relieved by cold water. Soreness and stinging pains; ovaritis; worse in right ovary. Menses suppressed, with cerebral and head symptoms, especially in young girls. Dysmenorrhœa, with severe ovarian pains. Metrorrhagia profuse, with heavy abdomen, faintness, stinging pain. Sense of tightness. Bearing-down, as if menses were to appear. Ovarian tumors, metritis with stinging pains. Great tenderness over abdomen and uterine region.

Respiratory

Hoarseness; dyspnœa, breathing hurried and difficult. Œdema of larynx. Feels as if he could not draw another breath. Suffocation; short, dry cough, suprasternal. Hydrothorax.

Extremities

Œdematous. Synovitis. Felon in beginning. Knee swollen, shiny, sensitive, sore, with stinging pain. Feet swollen and stiff. Feel too large. Rheumatic pain in back and limbs; Tired, bruised feeling. Numbness of hands and tips of fingers. Hives with intolerable itching. Œdematous swellings.

Skin

Swellings after bites; sore, sensitive. Stinging. Erysipelas, with sensitiveness and swelling, rosy hue. Carbuncles, with burning, stinging pain (Ars; Anthrac). Sudden puffing up of whole body.

Sleep

Very drowsy. Dreams full of care and toil. Screams and sudden starting during sleep.

Fever

Afternoon chill, with thirst; worse on motion and heat. External heat, with smothering feeling. Sweat slight, with sleepiness. Perspiration breaks out and dries up frequently. Sleeps after the fever paroxysm. After perspiration, nettle rash, also with shuddering.

Modalities

Worse, heat in any form; touch; pressure; late in afternoon; after sleeping; in closed and heated rooms. Right side. Better, in open air, uncovering, and cold bathing.

Relationship

Complementary.: Nat mur. The "chronic", Apis; also Baryta carb, if lymphatics are involved. Inimical. Rhus.

Compare: Apium virus (auto-toxæmia, with pus products); Zinc; Canth; Vespa; Lachesis.

Dose

Tincture to thirtieth potency. In œdematous conditions the lower potencies. Sometimes action is slow; so several days elapse before it is seen to act, and then urine is increased. Apium virus, sixth trituration.

Apis.

Apium virus. Honey-bee poison. N. O. Insecta. Tinctures are made of the whole bee; and of dilutions of the poison with alcohol.
Clinical

Abscess. Ankles, swelling of. Apoplexy. Asthma. Bladder, affections of. Carbuncle. Chancre. Constipation; of sucklings. Diarrhœa. Diphtheria. Dissection wounds. Dropsy. Ear, erysipelas of. Erysipelas. Erythema nodosum. Eyes, affections of; optic neuritis. Feet, burning of. Gangrene. Gout. Hands, swelling of. Heart, affections of. Heat-spots. Housemaid's knee. Hydrocephalus. Hydrothorax. Injuries. Intermittent fever. Irritation. Jealousy, effects of. Joints, synovitis. Kidney, Bright's disease of. Labia, inflammation of. Laryngitis. Lichen. Meningitis. Menstruation, derangements of. Nettle-rash. Nose, redness of. Operations, effects of. Ovaries pain in; inflammation of; tumours of. Panaritium. Pannus. Peritonitis. Phlebitis. Pleurisy. Prostatitis. Punctured wounds. Red-gum. Rheumatism. Scarlatina. Self-abuse. Suppressed eruptions, effects of. Sycosis. Syphilis. Throat, sore. Tongue, œdema of; ulceration of. Trachea, irritation of. Tumours. Typhus. Urethritis. Urine, abnormalities of. Vaccination. Varicose veins. Variola. Wounds.

Characteristics

The well-known effects of a bee's sting─burning, stinging, lancinating pain with excessive swelling─give leading keynotes for its employment in a great variety of conditions. In addition to these there is great sensitiveness of the surface to touch. General soreness: "every hair is painful to contact." Great debility as if he had worked hard; is compelled to lie down. Tired and bruised feeling. Great restlessness and fidgetiness (the Arsen. restlessness is more from mental anxiety). Trembling, jerking, and twitching. One half of the body twitching, the other lame or paralysed. Hemiplegia. Apis is more a right-side medicine; symptoms proceed from right to left (Rhus left to right) and from above downwards. In an involuntary proving of Apis in a woman (of forty, strong, florid, of full habit) Who kept bees and was frequently stung without constitutional effect, the following marked and peculiar symptoms were occasionally noted in addition to the better known ones (New. Eng. Med. Gaz., Nov., 1887): Stiffness of lower jaw, soon amounting to a sense of complete fixation. This stiffness extended to tongue and throat, rendering speech difficult and unintelligible, and causing a condition of extreme discomfort, the stiffness being accompanied by a feeling of constriction, which excited a single, spasmodic, backing cough at short intervals. Some difficulty in breathing, especially in inspiration. These symptoms were accompanied by a terrible restlessness. On a later occasion there was dyspnœa, face purple, head thrown back. The same symptoms as above recurred, but the throat was more swollen and the distress extended below the larynx to the upper part of the lung, which soon became very sore and sensitive. An hour after the sting on this occasion a violent cough came on. It seemed to be excited by the constrictive feeling in the throat, but it reached down to the sore place in the lungs, causing great distress. It was a deep, hard, ringing cough, lasting without intermission for three hours. Traces of the cough and soreness lasted for months. Another symptom was an ominous twitching of muscles of extremities controlled by hot foot and hand baths. Ledum gave almost instantaneous relief to the graver symptoms.

The burning symptoms of Apis are distinguished from those of Arsen. in being < by heat. The stinging appears in many diseases and conditions, causing the "crie cérébrale" in acute hydrocephalus and meningitis. Stinging pains in hæmorrhoids. "Redness and swelling with stinging and burning pain in eyes, eyelids, ears, face, lips, tongue, throat, anus, testicles." Œdema of the throat may be accompanied with stinging pains, but if the case is more advanced it may be absolutely painless, and then it is more dangerous. (Bapt. has painlessness in throat affections but less œdema.─Nash.)

Apis has slow action and must not be changed too soon. Increased flow of urine shows it is having a favourable effect. The dropsies of Apis are characterised by a waxy hue of skin, whitish or yellowish; transparent swelling of eyelids; bag-like swelling under eyes; surface of body sore, bruised, or burning. In cardiac dropsy the feet swell after walking, and are intolerably sore and burning. In chest affections there is sensation of contraction (Lach.) and inability to lie down. Tension, swelling, and stiffness of limbs. This tight sensation is manifested in another symptom: sensation in abdomen as if something tight would break if too much effort was made to void a constipated stool. Aversion to tight things like Lach. Prostration even to faintness. Paralytic weakness. Paralysis (after diphtheria and other severe diseases). Nervous, restless, over-sensitive; or hot and drowsy, with or without thirst. < From touch or pressure (though the head is > by pressure). In this Apis resembles the Antimonies, and it is like them in sensitiveness to heat, especially to heated rooms (Puls., Iod., Kali iod., Camph., Secale, Sulph.); < by warmth of bed. Cold water >. Many symptoms (eyes and chest) are < in the night, and sleep is disturbed by piercing cries, or else by moaning and whining. < In morning: mucus in mouth, restlessness, diarrhœa. < In evening: erysipelas, giddiness, headache, chills, fever. Many symptoms are < lying down, and > sitting.

Relations

Compare: Vespa and serpent poisons. Acet. ac. (dropsy); Aco.; Anac. (urticaria); Apoc. can. (dropsy); Arn. (bruised, sore conditions); Ars. (typhoid, gangrene, dropsies, scarlatina, urticaria, chills); Bell. (meningitis, sore throat, erysipelas, scarlatina); Brom. (swelling of ovary during menses); Bry. (meningitis, rheumatism); Canth. (burns, erysipelas, urinary symptoms); Chi.; Colch.; Crot. t. (urticaria); Euphras. (conjunctiva); Fer.; Graph.; Hep.; Hyo.; Iod. (synovitis); Lach.; Lyc.; Merc. Nat. ars.; Nat. mur. (chills, urticaria, tension in ovarian region) Puls.; Rhus (eyes; but Apis has less tendency to suppuration; vesicular erysipelas but darker than Apis and spreading left to right─Apis right to left; typhoid, restlessness, but Apis is more fidgetiness); Rumex (painless, greenish-yellow morning diarrhœa); Sabi.; Sep.; Silic. (ovarian affections with inverted nipples; ulcer on tongue; vaccination effects); Urt. ur.; Zn. Antidotes: to medium doses and poisonings; Nat. mur. in all forms; sweet oil; onions; Ammonia; Ipec., low. (also powdered Ipec. applied locally) Lach.; Ledum. It antidotes: Canth., Iod., Chi., Dig. It follows well: Bry. (when cephalic cry appears); Helleb. (when torpor sets in); Iod., Hep., Merc., Lyc., Sul. Is followed well by: Graph. (tetter on ear lobe); Kali bi. (scrofulous ophthalmia); Arsen. (hydro-thorax); Phos. (diphtheria); Stram. (mania); Lyc. (staphyloma); Sul. (hydrothorax, pleurisy, hydrocephalus); Iod. (swollen knee). Complementary: Nat. mur. (the "chronic" of Apis). Inimical: Rhus in eruptive diseases.

Causation

Grief. Fright. Rage. Vexation. Jealousy. (The queen bee is the most jealous thing in nature.) Hearing bad news, mental shock. Suppressed eruptions.

1. Mind

The brain feels paralysed.─Tubercular meningitis.─Impaired memory.─Absent-minded.─Cannot concentrate thought.─Indifference.─Torpor and apathy.─Awkward, lets things fall and laughs sillily at the mishap.─(The mental symptoms are rich in unconsciousness, absent-mindedness, impaired memory, and slow march of ideas.).─Loss of consciousness.─Great tearfulness; cannot help crying.─Children constantly whining.─Screaming, sudden outcry during sleep.─Busy, restless, continually changing his occupation.─Cannot bear to be left alone.─Hysteria.─In women: jealousy; mania from sexual irritation.─Depression, feels as if about to die (without fear of death).─Delirium, low muttering.─Delirium, after suppressed scarlet eruption.─Irritation.─Premonition of death, thinks it is about to transpire.─Dread of death; sensation as if he could not breathe again.─Fear of being poisoned.

2. Head

Giddiness: when sitting, standing, lying, when closing the eyes; with nausea and headache.─Congestion to the head, with suppressed menstruation.─Pressing pain in forehead and temples; < rising; in warm bed; > pressing, the forehead together.─The brain feels tired.─Sudden stabbing and stinging pains.─Aching in l. temple.─Hydrocephalus in children, and apoplexy in old persons.─Hydrocephalus; scalp very sensitive; copious sweat of head; child lies in torpor, delirium interrupted by shrill cries, boring head deep in pillow, rolls it from side to side.─Convulsed on one side of the body, paralysed the other; squinting, grinding of teeth, urine scanty (milky).

3. Eyes

Burning, stinging, shooting, piercing pains in and about the eyes.─Aching over r. eye extending to r. eyeball.─Twitching of eyeballs.─Staphyloma.─Cornea thick, having dark, smoky, spots; greyish, smoky, opaque.─Keratitis.─Conjunctiva reddened, chemosed, lids everted.─Sensation of mucus in the eyes.─Itching in eyes and lachrymation.─Weakness of the eyes, with pain, photophobia, and increased secretions.─Agglutination of the lids.─Œdematous swelling of eyelids; bags under eyes; upper lids hang over like sacs.─Styes with stinging pains; smoky darkness before the eyes.

4. Ears

Redness and swelling of both ears.─Erysipelas; otitis after scarlatina; hardness of hearing.

5. Nose

Swollen, red, œdematous.─Coryza, worse from warmth; chronic catarrh with crusty nostrils; polypus.

6. Face

Œdematous swelling of the face; red and hot, swollen so as to be unrecognisable, with piercing and burning pain; waxy, pale.─Happy expression of face; or terror; or apathy.─Burning, stinging heat in the face with purple colour.─Erysipelas of the face.─Erysipelas of the face, with fever, coated tongue.─Erysipelas going r. to l. (Rhus l. to r.).─Jaws stiff, with stiff tongue and impossibility of intelligible speech.

7. Teeth

Grinding of the teeth; sudden and involuntary biting them together; covered with yellow mucus or brown sordes.

8. Mouth

Lips œdematous; upper lip swollen, hot and red.─Mouth red, burning, stinging, scalding.─Dryness of tongue, mouth, and throat; fiery redness of buccal cavity, with painful tenderness.─Dry, swollen, inflamed tongue, with inability to swallow.─White, dry tongue (with diarrhœa).─Tongue: can hardly be protruded; hangs from the mouth; cancer of.─Swollen tongue; shining.─Borders blistered; feel as if scalded and quite raw.─Ulcer in l. border (r. Silic., Thuj.).─Tongue swollen, dry, cracked, sore, ulcerated, or covered with vesicles.─Viscid, tough, frothy, saliva.─Gums sacculated and look watery.─Fetor of breath, with headache.

9. Throat

Throat has appearance as if stung.─Dryness in the throat with heat, without thirst.─Burning, stinging in throat.─Erysipelatous.─Glossy red varnish.─Inflammation of the throat, with swelling, redness, and stinging pains.─Ulcerated sore throat (in scarlet fever, when the eruption does not come out).─Diphtheritic sore throat gets well as a scarlatina rash develops.─Throat swollen inside and outside; hoarse, sense of constriction; breathing and swallowing difficult.─Ulcers on the tonsils, palate, &c.─Uvula long and dropsical.─Sensation of foreign body or fishbone in the throat; of constriction.─Paralysis.─Small, clear, watery blisters on the back part of the throat.

11. Stomach

No thirst with the heat.─Thirstlessness (with dropsy).─Vomiting of bile.─Vomiting, with inflammation of the stomach.─Vomiting, with diarrhœa.─Burning heat in the stomach.─Great soreness in pit of stomach when touched.─Violent pain and sensitiveness in region of stomach.

12. Abdomen

Great sensitiveness of the abdomen to touch.─Soreness of the bowels and abdominal walls; mornings when sneezing or pressing upon them.─Sensitiveness of epigastrium and whole abdomen to touch; of r. inguinal region; across hypogastrium from ilium to ilium.─Pain in abdomen on pressure, touch and horizontal position, with sensitiveness.─Peritonitis.─Erysipelas from contusion.─Rumbling and meteoric distension.─Ascites and anasarca.─Hard swelling in the r. groin, oblong, as large as a cucumber.─Long-standing inguinal hernia.─Collapse of abdominal walls in meningitis infantum.

13. Stool and Anus

Sensation of rawness in the anus, with diarrhœa.─Discharge of flatus before stool.─Diarrhœa: during fevers; from heat; in debilitated children; from irritability of brain (hydrocephaloid).─Diarrhœa, yellowish-green, with mucus, esp. in the morning.─Stool thin, watery, yellow, < in morning; may or may not be offensive.─Stools smelling very offensively.─Diarrhœa and vomiting.─Diarrhœa is copious, blackish-brown, green, or whitish; orange-coloured; greenish, yellow mucus; yellow watery; soft and pappy, mixed with serum; thin yellow.─At every motion of body bowels act as though he had no power.─Uncertain anus; constantly open (during urination), oozing of liquid (Phos., Phos. ac.).─Swelling of anus.─Hæmorrhoids, with stinging pains.─Constipation, with feeling as if something would break if he continued to strain.─Stools involuntary and painless, or painful and urging, olive-green, profuse, and full of red lumps, like chopped beets; bloody, painless; smell brassy or like carrion; very offensive.─Protruding varices, which sting, burn, and smart intolerably.

14. Urinary Organs

Burning soreness when urinating.─Strangury.─Pain in region of kidneys; soreness on pressure or when stooping.─Frequent desire, with passage of only a few drops.─Urine scanty and high-coloured; with thirstlessness.─Incontinence of urine from coughing and other circumstances.─Urine suppressed.─Too profuse discharge of urine.─Frequent and profuse urination.─Albuminuria of scarlatina.─(Increase of urine under Apis shows that the medicine is acting well.).─Burning and stinging in the urethra.─Burning and smarting in the urethra, as if it were scalded.─Bladder very painful, often tenesmus after urinating.─Urine often bloody, milky appearance; very dark and frothy; very fetid; sediment reddish-brown, like coffee grounds.

15. Male Sexual Organs

Sexual desire increased.─Chancre with stinging pains like bee-stings, and with a highly inflamed circumference.─Pains and swellings of testes and prostate.─Dropsy of the scrotum and prepuce; hydrocele.

16. Female Sexual Organs

Amenorrhœa or menorrhagia.─Inflammation, induration, swelling, and dropsy of the ovaries (r.).─Weight and pain in either ovarian region, predominantly r. side.─The ovaries feel better by lying on r. side.─Enlargement of the r. ovary with pain in the l. pectoral region and cough.─Sharp, cutting, stinging pain in the swollen (r.) ovary; worse during menstruation.─Ovarian tumours, with stinging pains like bee-stings.─Metritis, peritonitis, with stinging, thrusting pains.─Pressing-down pain in the uterus.─Bearing-down, with sensation as before menses.─Dropsy of the ovaries (r.); dropsy of the uterus.─Strained pain l. ovary.─Menstruation suppressed or diminished, with congestion to the head.─Labour-like, bearing-down pains, followed by dark, bloody mucus.─Threatened miscarriage in the early months, with heaviness of the abdomen, restlessness, and yawning.─Abortion.─Abortion during the early months.─Dropsy in the latter part of pregnancy attended with puerperal convulsions.─Ulceration and engorgement of os uteri.─Large and painful swelling of the labia, with heat and stinging pains.─Erysipelatous inflammation of the breasts.─Swelling and hardness of the mammæ threatening to ulcerate.─Scirrhus or open cancer of the mammæ, with stinging, burning pains.

17. Respiratory Organs

Irritation to cough in the supra-sternal fossa.─Hoarseness.─Hoarseness in the morning.─Respiration hurried and difficult (with fever and headache).─Œdema glottidis.─Asthma; worse in cold weather.─Croupy cough.─Obstinate night cough from 9 p.m., to 4 a.m.─Cough which loosens with difficulty, rouses from sleep before midnight and ceases as soon as least particle is loosened, which is swallowed.─Feeling of constriction causing a single, spasmodic, hacking cough at short intervals.─Violent cough, deep, hard ringing; incessant for three hours; excited by constricted feeling in throat, but reaching down to lungs, the upper part of which are very sore and sensitive.─Dyspnœa; esp. difficult inspiration.

18. Chest

Hydrothorax.─Sensation of soreness in the chest, as from a bruise.─Oppression of the chest, shortness of breath, esp. when ascending; inability to remain in a warm room.─Dull, aching pain in the l. side of the chest, near the middle of the sternum, with sensation of fulness in the chest and short breath.─Expectoration of copious, transparent, frothy, bloody mucus.─Stitches in l. side of chest and through back.─Burning, stinging pain through entire front of chest.─Melting in region of diaphragm, as from running violently.─Every shock from coughing gives pain in the head and some pain through the chest, as from the clavicle; > after loosening a small portion of mucus, or a large quantity of transparent: frothy, and bloody mucus is expectorated.

19. Heart

Sudden pain just below the heart, soon extending toward r. chest, with suffocation.─Very feeble action of the heart; violent beats, shaking the whole body; intermittent beats.─Region of heart sensitive to least pressure; rasping sounds of systole and diastole unmistakably audible.─Palpitation of heart from scanty secretion of urine, perfectly cured by establishing the natural quantity.─Pulse: almost imperceptible at wrist; accelerated and full; very frequent and hard; wiry; irregular and slow pulse; intermittent.

20. Back

Rheumatic pain in back and limbs.─Cerebro-spinal meningitis.

22. Upper Limbs

Hands bluish, and inclined to be cold.─Œdema of the hands.─Sensation of numbness in fingers, esp. the tips about the roots of nails.─Panaritium with burning, stinging, and throbbing, very sensitive to touch.

23. Lower Limbs

Cold legs.─Sensation in the toes and whole foot, as if too large; swollen and stiff.─Legs (ankles) and feet waxy, pale, and œdematous.─Burning in the toes with redness; feet cold.─Suppressed perspiration of the feet.─Numbness and coldness of feet, even paralysis.─Dropsy of limbs in diphtheritic albuminuria.─Puffy swelling of the knees.

24. Generalities

Great debility, as if he had worked hard; he is obliged to lie down.─Sudden "puffing up" of the whole body.─Tired, as if bruised in every limb, and esp. in the back, as after exertion; worse on rising after sitting.─Complete anasarca, no thirst, pale, waxy, almost transparent.─Burning, stinging pains, like bee-stings, occurring occasionally.─Great sensitiveness to touch and pressure (abdomen).─Clonic and tonic spasms.─Sudden weakness with coldness.─Tension (over the eyes in the l. side of head) behind the ears, in the neck.─Dark hæmorrhages.

25. Skin

Œdematous swellings.─Skin usually white, almost transparent (ovarian dropsy).─Hives.─Urticaria like bee-stings, or stings from other insects, with intolerable itching at night.─Carbuncles, with burning, stinging pains.─Eruption like nettle-rash over the whole body.─Erysipelas; with gangrenous spots.─Swelling and dry erysipelatous redness.─Scarlet eruptions.─Body covered with large, elevated, white wheals.─Panaritium (burning, stinging).─Boils and swellings of all descriptions with stinging pains.

26. Sleep

Much yawning.─Great desire to sleep; extreme sleepiness.─Sleep disturbed by many dreams.─Dreams full of care and toil; of making long journeys; of flying through the air; of hot stones; of walking over hot floors; of walking a long way over wet roads.─Sleep, late in the morning.─Awakens from sleep with a shrill shriek (child suffering from hydrocephalus).

27. Fever

Pulse full and rapid; small and trembling; intermitting.─Chill, mostly towards the evening (3-4 p.m.).─Chilliness from the least movement, with heat of the face and hands; runs down the back with great prostration.─During hot stage more or less violent headache; generally a continuous deep sleep.─Heat with thirst, wishes to uncover.─Dry heat towards evening with sleepiness.─Sweating stage either absent or of a very light grade.─The sensation of heat is more felt about the pit of the stomach and in the chest.─Perspiration, alternating with dryness of the skin.─Much burning of the skin on various parts of the body.─Thirst wanting during sweat; may or may not be present during heat; always thirst during chill.─Sweat after trembling and fainting, then nettlerash.─After the fever paroxysm, sleep.─Apyrexia: urine scanty; feet swollen; limbs sore; restless; urticaria.

Apis mellifica

Apis mellifica

Generalities

• The well known effects of a bee sting; burning, stinging, smarting, prickling, lancinating pain, with excessive swelling; are the leading symptoms for the selection of this remedy.

• It acts on Cellular Tissue esp. of eyes, face, throat, ovaries, causing oedema of skin and mucus membranes.

• In the SEROUS MEMBRANES of heart, brain, pleura etc. it produces inflammation with effusio n.

• Various parts are swollen, PUFFED UP; become oedematous and of shiny, red-rosy colour.

• The burning is like hot needles.

• There is great debility, as if he had worked hard; is compelled to lie down.

• Symptoms develop rapidly.

• The pains are sudden that extort cries.

• Sudden shrill Cries in hydrocephalus and meningitis.

• Extreme sensitiveness to touch and general bruised SORENESS is marked; of brain; ABDOMEN; ovaries; bladder.

• Sensation of constriction.

• Sensaiton of stiffness and as of something torn off the interior part of the body.

• Great restlessness and fidgetiness.

• Trembling, jerking and twitching.

• One half of the body twitching, the other, lame or paralyzed.

• Neuralgia of lips, tongue, gums.

• Great prostration even to faintness.

• Infections.

• Ill effects of grief; fright; rage; jealousy; hearing bad news; mental shock; suppressed eruptions.

• Right side is affected more.

• Symptoms go from right to left.

• Numbness.

• Thrombosis.

• Lymphangitis.

• Inflammation of kidneys, bladder.

• Oedema; of eyelids, of lips; red, succular.

• BURNING - itching.

• Paralysis after dipheria and toher severe diseases.

Worse

• Heat of room; of weather; of fire; hot drinks, bath, bed.

• Touch, even of hair.

• Pressure.

• After sleep.

• Lying down.

• Suppressed eurptions.

• 4 p.m.

Better

• COOL AIR; cool bathing; uncovering.

• Slight expectoration.

• Motion.

• Sitting erect.

Mind

• Jealous, with lewd talk.

• Fussy and fidgety; hard to please.

• Awkward - drops things and laughs either due to nervousness, or absent mindedness.

• Foolishly suspicious.

• Childish, silly behaviour in women, after delivery.

• Irritable, excitable.

• Fruitless activity.

• frivolous, cheerful.

• Constant whining in children.

• Great tearfulness, can not help crying, weeps day and night without any cause.

• Sexual mania alternating with stupor (in women).

• Indifference, says nothing ails him.

• Can not concentrate mind on attempting to read and write.

• (Hysterical girls at puberty).

• Can not bear to be left alone.

• Nothing seems to satisfy; all wrong and out of place.

• Premonition of death.

• Borrows trouble about everything.

• Fear of being poisoned.

Head

• Brain feels very tired.

• Vertigo, with sneezing agg. lying or closing eyes.

• Sudden stabbing in head, or as of a blow agg. occiput, with occasional Sharp Shrieks.

• Numb, tired headache amel. pressure.

• Flow of tears, with headache.

• Rolling Of The Head from side to side in hydrocephalus; boring of the head backward in pillow in meningitis.

• fontanelle sunken.

• Painful hair.

• Musty head sweat.

• Inability to hold the head, in meningitis.

• Head feels swollen.

• Hair fall out; bald spots.

Eyes

• Puffy; lids or conjunctiva red; oedematous like waterbags, red chemosed.

• Hot lachrymation.

• Eyes brilliant.

• Burning, stinging, shooting pain in.

• Staphyloma of cornea.

• Bag like swelling under eyes.

• Photophobia, yet covering intolerable.

• Blindness amel. stool.

• Squint.

• Myopia.

• Puffy or red about eyes.

• Cannot look fixedly at any object; or can not read in artificial light.

• Cornea opaque.

• Styes - prevents their recurrence.

• Perforating corneal ulcer.

Ears

• External ear red and inflamed.

• Raises the hand to the back of ear with each scream.

• Scarlatinal otitis.

Nose

• Swollen, red and oedematous.

• Nose and tip cold.

• Boils in nostril amel. cold.

• Coryza, with feeling of swelling in nose.

Face

• Expression; happy, terror stricken or apathetic.

• Face red, hot, swollen and oedematous with piercing pains; or waxy pale and oedematous.

• Lips; bluish, oedematous, upper.

• Jaws stiff, with stiffness of tongue.

• Paralysis of right side, with right eye closed.

• Desire for washing face with cold water.

• Formication and prickling in face.

Mouth

• Tongue; red or vesicles on edge; swelled, raw; feels, as if burnt; as if wooden; sore; stiff.

• Grinding of the teeth.

• Mouth glossy as if varnished.

• Tongue hangs out; or can not be protruded.

• Sudden involuntary biting teeth together.

Throat

• Sandy, glossy or translucent amel. cold, swollen inside and outside, Throat purple.

• Tonsils; swollen, fiery red, stinging pain, while swallowing, amel. cold drinks.

• Angina.

• Diphtheria with early prostration; dirty membrane, oedema of uvula.

• Throat sore, swallowing painful agg. solids, sour or hot substances.

Stomach

• THRISTLESS, with dropsy, Craving; from sour things, for milk, which amel.

• Child nurses by day, refuses at night.

• Nausea.

• Vomiting.

• Soreness in the pit of stomach when touched.

• Neither eats nor drinks; for weeks.

• Eructations; tasting of ingesta agg. drinking water; flow of water.

Abdomen

• Feels tight as if to break, straining at stool.

• Sore; bruised on pressure, when sneezing.

• Dropsy.

• Peritonitis.

• Diarrhoea; watery yellow, orange yellow or tomato-sauce like stools.

• Stools; odourless, or offensive, involuntary agg. motion.

• Anus; sore, swelled, profuse haemorrhage from; remains open; prolapsus ani.

• Electric shocks in rectum before urging to stool.

• Burning, pain and tenderness in epigastrium.

• Pains from below ribs going upwards.

• Burning or soreness below ribs.

Urinary

• Burning urination.

• Dysuria with stinging pains.

• Urine; scanty, foul, high coloured; last drops burn and smart; milky in hydrocephalus.

• Albuminuria.

• Urine profuse, more than he drinks.

• Coffee ground sediment.

• Incontinence of urine agg. night, coughing.

• Can not urinate without a stool.

• Nephritis.

• Cystitis.

• Retention of urine in new born.

• Difficult, frequent or slow urinaiton, must press to pass urine, in prostatic affections.

Male

• Dropsy of the scrotum.

• Hydrocele, in multilocular cysts.

• Affections of prostate gland.

Female

• Amenorrhoea of puberty.

• Ovaries; numb, or congested, with suppressed menses.

• Ovarian cysts.

• Oedema of labia.

• Burning, stinging pains in ovaries or uterus.

• Dysmenorrhoea, with scanty discharge of slimy blood or with ovarian pains.

• Menorrhagia, with abortion.

• Leucorrhoea; profuse, acrid, green.

• Stinging burning pains in mammae.

• Tumour or open cancer of mammae.

• Abortion, during early months.

• Dropsy in later parts of pregnancy, with puerperal convulsions.

• Mania in women from sexual excesses or suppressed menses.

• Pain in ovaries agg. coition.

• Menses last a day or appear at intervals of one day.

• Ulceration of navel in new born.

Heart

• Beats, shake the whole body.

• Heart stitches backward from apex.

• Palpitation of heart from scanty secretion of urine.

• Pulse; hard small, intermittent, and quick, weak.

• Insufficient of mitral vales.

• Organic heart disease.

Respiratory

• Panting breathing, feels every breath would be his last.

• Air hunger.

• Oedema of larynx.

• Burning stinging pains throughout entire front of the chest.

• Hydrothorax, after pleurisy.

• Chest feels as if beaten or bruised.

• Painful shock in head and chest from every cough.

• Asthma, from hives amel. small quantity of expectoration.

• Larynx drawn in.

• Hoarseness.

• Expectoration sweetish.

Neck and back

• Back of the neck stiff.

• Rheumatic pain in back.

• Burning pressing in coccyx agg. when sitting down.

• Back tired and bruised.

• Vascular goitre.

Extremities

• Numbness of hands and tips of fingers.

• Palms hot.

• Oedema of hands.

• Felon in the beginning, with burning - stinging throbbing pains.

• Limbs; immovable, heavy, numb.

• Feet numb and stiff.

• Legs and feet waxy, pale, swollen oedematous.

• Trembling of hands and feet.

• Nails feel loose.

• Hemiplegia from severe mental shcok.

• Staggers when eyes are shut.

Skin

• Rosy red, sensitive, sore.

• Rough eruptions or stinging-like spots on skin.

• Large urticaria.

• Skin dry; hot, alternating with gushes of sweat.

• Oedematous swellings

• Erysipelas.

• Scarlatina.

• Carbuncles.

Sleep

• Great Inclination To Sleep; but can not sleep from nervous restlessness.

• Drowsiness during fever.

• Dreams, during sleep and suddenly starts from sleep.

• Kicks off covers during sleep.

• Dreams full of care and toil.

Fever

• Chill; anticipating, with dyspnoea, urticaria, desire to uncover; alternate with heat.

• Burning Heat, but chilly when moved.

• Thirstless during fever.

• Heat of one part with coldness of another.

• Sweat in gushes, partial.

• Sweat breaks out and dries frequently.

• Thirst during chill.

Complementary

• Arn; Ars; Hell; Mer-cy; Nat-m; Puls.

Related

• Ars; Canth; Graph; Iod; Lyc; Puls; Stram; Sulph; Urt-u.

APIS

  1. Child lies in torpor; delirium; sudden shrilling cries; squinting; grinding teeth; boring head in pillow; one side twitching, the other paralyzed; head wet from sweating; urine scanty, milky.
  2. Redness and swelling, with stinging burning pain in the eyes, eyelids, ears, face, lips, tongue, throat, anus, testicles.
  3. Very busy, restless; changing kind of work, with awkwardness; breaking things.
  4. Enlargement of right ovary, with pain in pectoral region, and cough.
  5. Burning, stinging pains like bee stings, occurring occasionally.
  6. Great soreness when touched on pit of stomach, under the ribs, on the abdomen.
  7. Absence of thirst, with scanty urination.
  8. Oedema, or dropsy, without thirst.
  9. Skin usually white, almost transparent. (With ovarian dropsy.)
  10. Stinging and burning pains in the face, throat urethra, ovaries, piles, tumors, panaritium, carbuncles, indurations, schirrhus, open cancers, etc.

Apis mellifica

Mind:

Sudden, shrill, piercing screams (awake or sleeping).

Mind:

Very busy; restless; changing the kind of work with awkwardness, dropping and breaking things.

Head:

Child lies in a torpor; delirium; sudden, shrill cries, squinting, grinding teeth, boring head in pillows; on half of body twitching, the other, lame; head wet from sweating; urine scanty.

General Face:

Oedema of the face; eyelids puffed, feel stiff.

General Face:

Erysipelas, face intensely red and hot, or only pink, puffy shining; either sore to touch or stinging pains.

Sight and Eyes:

Keratitis with dreadful pains shooting through the eye, with swollen lids and conjunctiva, but lachrymation gushing out on opening the eyes, photophobia.

Hearing and Ears:

Redness and swelling of both ears, stinging pains.

Nose:

Nose swollen,red, and oedematous.

Mouth and Throat:

Oedematous swelling of the throat; uvula hangs down and looks like a transparent bag filled with water.

Mouth and Throat:

Burning stinging like bee stings, sometimes up into ears.

Stomach:

Absence of thirst with scanty urination.

Stomach:

Great soreness when touched in the pit of the stomach, under the ribs, abdomen.

Stomach:

Thirstlessness in many complaints. Especially dropsy.

Abdomen:

Soreness of the bowels and abdominal walls, < when pressing upon them, or sneezing.

Anus and Stool:

Involuntary stools with every motion, as though the anus stood open; constant oozing of which the patient is unconscious.

Urinary Organs:

Urine scanty, dark sediment like coffee grounds.

Urinary Organs:

Scanty urination with absence of thirst (dropsy).

Urinary Organs:

Incontinenece of urine with great irritation of the parts, < at night and when coughing.

Female Sexual Organs:

Enlargement of the right ovary, with pain in the left pectoral region, with cough.

Respiratory Organs:

Frequent involuntary deep breathing; long and sighing respirations.

Respiratory Organs:

Gaping after coughing.

Respiratory Organs:

Great suffocation; feels as though every breath would be his last.

Heart and Pulse:

With heart troubles great feeling of suffocation, as if he could never breathe again.

Extremities:

Oedema of hands, legs, feet; pale, waxy.

Extremities:

Panaritium or felon, with burning, stinging, and throbbing; very sensitive to touch.

Sleep and Dreams:

Sleep, with sudden starting and sudden screams.

Chill, Fever, and Sweat:

Alternate sweat and dryness of the skin.

Chill, Fever, and Sweat:

During fever great oppression, with sensation of smothering; feels as if every breath would be the last.

Skin:

Urticaria like bee stings or stings of other insects, with intolerable itching at night.

Skin:

Skin usually white and almost transparent (ovarian dropsy).

Skin:

Carbuncles with burning, stinging pains.

Generalities:

Stinging pains like bee stings occurring occasionally.

Generalities:

Stinging and burning pains in the face, throat, urethra, ovaries, piles, panaritium, carbuncles, indurations. schirrus, or open cancers.

Generalities:

Oedema or dropsy without thirst.

Apis Mellifica

Skin

: This remedy has so many symptoms on the surface of the body we will study the outer aspect first. All over the body is found a thick rash, sometimes of a rose color.

It is rough and can be felt as a rough rash under the fingers. The patient at this time is greatly distressed by heat and the skin is sensitive to touch with the rash or without it. Nodular swellings here and there come and go.

Then comes an erysipelatous inflammatory condition, in patches, here and there, about the head, with great tumefaction about the face, eyes and eye-lids.

Erysipelas may occur anywhere, but it more commonly belongs to the face and runs to a high degree of inflammatory action, with stinging, burning and oedema. In the extremities we have a marked dropsy, swelling with pitting upon pressure.

A general anasarca may appear. The face is greatly swollen at times, the eyelids look like water bags, the uvula hangs down like a water bag, the abdominal walls are of great thickness and pit upon pressure, and the mucous membranes in any part look as if they would discharge water if they were punctured.

Puffing or oedema, with pitting upon pressure, is a general condition that may be present in any inflammatory state, There is a general amelioration from cold and aggravation from heat. The skin symptoms and the patient are aggravated from heat.

This prevails also in the mental state, in inflammatory conditions; in cardiac conditions, in dropsy, in sore throat, etc. Sometimes this aggravation amounts to aggravation from warm drinks, warm room, warm clothing, warmth of the fire, etc.,; if it is heat the patient is greatly disturbed.

Brain

: In brain troubles, if you put an Apis patient with congestion of the brain into a warm bath he will go into convulsions, and consequently warm bathing is not always "good for fits."

It is taught in old school text-books so much that the old women and nurses know that a hot bath is good for fits, and before you get there just as like as not you will have a dead baby.

This congestion of the brain, with little twitchings and threatening convulsions, makes them put the baby in a hot bath, and it is in an awful state when you get there. If the baby needs Opium or Apis in congestion of the brain the fits become worse by bathing in hot water.

If the nurse has been doing that kind of business you have learned the remedy as soon as you enter the house, for she will say the child has been worse ever since the warm bath, has become pale as a ghost and she was afraid he was going to die.

There you have convulsions worse from heat, pointing especially to Opium and Apis. That is the way with Apis all through. It is not laid down in the books that Apis is worse in the throat symptoms from warm drinks and wants altogether cold things, and will not take warm things which aggravate, but one of our graduates wrote me that by making use simply of the generals, as he had been instructed, Apis conforming to all the rest of the case, he made a beautiful cure of a case of diphtheria which had the relief from cold, which shows how generals are continued into particulars and how they can be made use of.

The generals continue to build and enlarge our Materia Medica. Upon the outer surface then we see that Apis is full of dropsy, red rash, eruptions, urticaria, erysipelas, which inflammations extend to the mucous membranes.

The outer part of man is his skin and mucous membrane. When we are dealing with man from centre to circumference, we think of the innermost as the brain and heart and internal organs that are vital, while their coatings and coverings are external.

Apis affects the things that are external; it affects the envelopes, the coverings. You notice how frequently it affects the skin and the tissues near the skin, and it also affects the envelopes or coverings of organs; for example, the pericardium. It establishes serous inflammations with effusion. Apis produces an inflammation of the membranes of the brain. In the serous sac which encloses the heart, pericardium, and also in the peritoneum it produces the same kind of inflammation.

Thus we see that the coverings are especially affected by Apis, viz., the skin and mucous membranes and the coverings of organs; and with these we get dropsy, catarrh and erysipelas.

In all of these inflammatory conditions there is stinging and burning; burning like coals of fire at times, and stinging as if needles or small splinters were sticking in.

Mind

: The mental symptoms of Apis are very striking, and the most striking thing throughout the mental state is the aggravation from heat and from a warm room,

The symptoms themselves are great sadness, constant tearfulness without any cause, weeping night and day; cannot sleep from tantalizing thoughts and worrying about everything.

Depression of spirits with constant weeping. Sadness and melancholy; extreme irritability; borrowing trouble about everything. Foolishly suspicious and jealous. Absolutely joyless. Absolutely indifferent to everything that would make her happy or joyful.

No ability to apply things that would make her happy to herself, they must mean someone else. Foolish, silly, childish behavior in a woman in confinement, in a woman in advanced years; talking foolish twaddle, such as a child would talk, on serious, occasions.

Another aspect of the mental state is the delirium, which comes on in serious forms of brain affections in children. The child gradually goes into a state of unconsciousness.

Lies in a stupor, one side of the body twitching the other side motion less, rolling head from side to side; head drawn -back rigidly; pupils contracted or dilated, eyes very red, face flushed, a stupid state or state of semi-consciousness. Child lying with the eyes partly, closed, as if benumbed.

It is suitable in congestion of the brain, meningitis or cerebro-spinal meningitis with opisthotonos when all the symptoms are aggravated from heat.

Child

: The child puts on a more dreadful state if the room becomes overheated; become extremely death-like or pale if the room becomes overheated.

If the child is able to do so it kicks the covers off. If it is in a position where it can look into a large open grate it will be much aggravated. I have seen Apis children who had to be removed from near an open fire.

They will cry, to get away from the heat that comes upon them from the register or open fire. The heat increases every symptom, and sometimes causes them to break out in a cold sweat all over the body, which does not ameliorate their fever nor the burning heat.

Very often the head is rolling and tossing, the teeth gnashing, and the eyes flashing with threatening convulsions, the child carrying the hand to the head at times, a state of semi-consciousness, and the child screams out with that peculiar scream which is known to mean congestion of the brain - cri encéphalique - the brain cry.

The shriek is a very strong Apis feature. The child cries out with this shriek in sleep when going into brain troubles. It says in the text:

"Sopor interrupted by piercing shrieks."

We must be able to see in the general beginning of provings the disease which they resemble, for we do not always see the remedy in the advanced state.

We see the diseases in a state of progress, and must be able to see it in its beginning. As was the disease in the beginning so was the remedy in the beginning. Things that have similar beginnings may have similar endings.

Apis also has muttering, delirium and loquacity. All kinds of screaming and shrieking, shrill and otherwise, violent and less violent. Premonition of death, dread of death, fear of apoplexy.

"Very busy, restless, changing kind of work, with awkwardness."

Awkwardness is especially found under the fingers, toes and limbs in Apis. The whole nervous system shows a disturbance in co-ordination. This disturbance in co-ordination runs through the remedy, awkwardness, staggering with the eyes shut.

Dizziness when the eyes are shut.

"Ailments from fright, rage, vexation, jealousy or hearing bad news."

"After severe mental shock paralyzed on the whole right side."

Violence and rapidity

: The complaints of Apis are attended with violence and rapidity. They come on with great rapidity, rush on with violence, until unconsciousness is reached. It has been my fortune to see many violent cases of poisoning from the sting of the honey-bee.

When the over sensitive patient is poisoned by the sting he is dreadfully sick. The majority of people in the course of their life have been stung by the honey-bee and a mere little swelling occurs in the region of the sting, a swelling as big as a robin's egg or 4 hen's egg at most, without constitutional states; that is, when the individual is not sensitive to Apis.

He may have been stung in half a dozen places, and each one gives him a little lump.

But you meet one who is sensitive to the sting of the honey-bee, and if he gets one little sting on any place in his body, he comes down with nausea and anxiety that makes him feel that he is dying, and in about ten minutes he is covered with urticaria from head to foot; he stings and burns and wants to be bathed in cold water; he fears that he will die if something is not done to mitigate his suffering, rolls and tosses as if he would tear himself to pieces.

I have seen all these symptoms come on after Apis. The antidote for that is Carbolic acid. I have seen Carbolicacidadministered in that state, and the patient described the sensation of the Carbolic acidgoing down his throat as a cooling comfort.

He says:

"Why, doctor, I can feel that dose go to the ends of my fingers."

When you administer an antidote under such circumstances listen to what your patient says. When you get the true natural antidote, and, at times, when you get the true curative medicine in a case, no matter how high the potency is, the patient will say:

"I feel that to the roots of my hair and to the ends of my toes."

Such is the feeling it gives when the true antidotal medicine goes to the innermost portions of his economy, and that is the way we want to get our medicines always, to be guided by the symptoms of our patient that they will tell us what medicine to administer, and when the medicine is administered its highest reaction is of that sort.

Eyes

: If we are well acquainted with the symptoms of Apis we can many times get along without having a specialist to treat the eyes. They make more people blind with their lotions, caustic solutions, etc., than they benefit.

The old-fashioned way was to cauterize with copper and silver nitrate solution, and the modern things are not much better. At the present day, the homoeopathic physician who is not capable of taking eye symptoms as well as lung symptoms and symptoms of any part of the body is not competent to practice medicine.

Eye cases can be prescribed for by the physician. In Homoeopathy there is no such thing as treating the eye and other organs of the body, but the patient with all his organs, not the patient with one or two organs.

Apis is a great remedy for the eyes. It has deep-seated inflammatory complaints of the eyes as a result of disease. Inflammations that are erysipelatous in character, that leave thickening of the mucous membrane and lids, and white spots over the eye; opacities.

Inflammation with opacities very extensive or in patches. Enlarged blood vessels.

Face

: When the inflammatory condition is active it is attended with oedema of the lids, both upper and lower, and the whole face is sometimes in a state of oedema, such as you would expect to see after a bee sting.

The swelling of the mucous membranes of the lids is so enormous that they roll out, looking like pieces of raw beef. The fluid will run out over the cheeks in great abundance. Burning and stinging like fire, better from washing, from cold applications, worse from heat.

Chronic eye troubles that are worse from looking into an open fire, worse from radiated heat; wants something cold applied. Chronic granular lids. The results of chronic inflammation are numerous and extensive. Worse from looking at white things, worse from looking at the snow.

Pain in the eyeballs, pain deep in the eyeballs, stitches, burning, stinging and shooting. Chemosis. Apis is often suitable for old scrofulous affections of the eyes. Vascular. affections, the veins are enlarged.

"Iritis."

"Congestion to the eyes, blood-vessels injected;" whole conjunctiva inflamed.

Photophobia. Rheumatic ophthalmia, that is, a high grade of inflammation of the eyes in rheumatic subjects. Catarrhal inflammation of the eyes; scrofulous inflammation of the eyes. Hot tears gush out of the eyes; burning in the eyes.

Erysipelas of the eyes and sides of the face, extending from the right to the left. This direction is an Apis feature in many other respects.

Erysipelas commences on the right side of the face, extends over the nose to the left side.

Inflammation commences in the right side of the abdominal viscera and extends over to the left. In inflammation of the ovary the right is preferred to the left. The right side of the uterus is preferred. Pains in the whole right side of the pelvis extending over towards the left. Burning stinging here and there extending from right to left.

Inflammation of the middle ear in connection with or after scarlet fever.

Throat

: Now we come to the throat troubles of Apis. We have much throat trouble.

Apis cures diphtheria, especially when there is a high grade of inflammation and the membrane is scanty or comes slowly or insidiously, and it is somewhat of a surprise the gradual progress it makes; the parts are oedematous and the soft palate is puffed like a water-bag, and the uvula hangs down with a semi-transparent appearance like a bag of water.

All around the throat and mouth there is an oedematous condition looking as if it would flow water if pricked. Burning, stinging pains in the throat ameliorated by cold and aggravated by heat. Aversion to all warm substances and drinks.

The tongue swells until it fills the mouth, worse on the right half of the tongue, or involving the right side first. Raw beef appearance, denuded appearance of the tongue and buccal cavity and throat.

Various kinds of swelling in the throat; benign swellings, with burning, stinging and redness. Ulcers in the throat that come as a result of this inflammation. Apis is suitable in the severest forms of sore throat accompanying scarlet fever.

Scarlet fever

: It cures scarlet fever when the symptoms agree, and it is not an uncommon thing for Apis to be suited to scarlet fever, though the rash is sometimes rough.

The scarlet fever rash is not always smooth and shiny. When the rash does not come out at all the face is very pallid, with a high grade of inflammation of the throat; the scarlet fever is in the family, and the skin is red without any rash; in those cases that are worse from heat, want the covers off, and are sensitive to the heat of the room.

The patient desires a low temperature in the room, is worse from heat, wants cool things, worse from radiated heat especially, or hot air that comes from a register or fire.

He suffocates when a little warm air is radiating over the body. He is disturbed from heat even in the chill of an intermittent fever; if in a warm room when having a chill, he suffocates. So it is with the scarlet fever, with the sore throat, and in diphtheria; from the least whiff of radiated heat he suffocates.

He wants the doors and windows open, wants something cold. Sometimes the scarlet fever patient will go into convulsions because the rash fails to come out.

Apis is sometimes a suit able remedy and must be compared with Cuprum, Zincum and Bryonia. A warm bath will intensify the convulsion.

"Sensation of constriction and erosion in the throat in the morning."

Throat sore and swollen; stinging pains.

"Could not shallow solid food."

With these complaints there is often shivering, shuddering, little chills intermingled with the febrile state. Many times you will think to comfort him by covering him up with a warm blanket, but it will make him worse, he will throw it off.

A child will kick off the covert an adult who is shivering while covered up will kick off the covers. These strange and peculiar things are guiding features, things that cannot be accounted for.

Stomach and abdomen

: In Apis there is vomiting, nausea, retching and vomiting, with great anxiety. Vomiting of bile and everything eaten. Vomiting of bitter and sour fluids

Apis causes soreness and tightness throughout the abdomen and hypochondria. Sensation of tightness runs through many of the complaints of Apis. The abdomen is distended with gas.

Meteoritic condition, great tension and fullness, hard and drum-like. In all inflammatory complaints, in peritonitis, inflammation of the liver, inflammation of the pelvis, there is great tension, tightness; but this tightness is not always general, sometimes it is local; sometimes it is with little congestion, but tightness prevails throughout the abdomen, and this tightness makes it impossible for the patient to cough for fear something will burst.

The cough makes him feel as if something would be torn. Cannot strain at stool. This is common in the abdominal and pelvic complaints of women. The woman will say she cannot strain at stool, because of the feeling that if she strains something will break loose.

The same state exists in the chest It seems that on coughing something will tear loose, as if the fibres are in a state of tension or stretching.

Hypersensitive state of the liver; inflammation of the liver and spleen. Pain under the short ribs, worse on the left side.

"Pains from below the ribs spreading upward. Obliged to bend forward from a painful contracted feeling in the hypochondria."

All the complaints are likely to make the patient bend forward and flex the limbs, because the state of tension is painful.

Sensitiveness of the stomach to touch. Over the whole abdomen she is so sore that touch is extremely painful; in all the inflammatory complaints of women the abdomen is very sore and painful. Soreness, distension and stinging burning pains through the abdomen. Burning beat in the stomach.

In the external abdomen there is an oedematous state. Dropsy, sometimes alone, sometimes with anasarca. Limbs swollen to the full extent, pitting upon pressure, the feet and limbs swollen, with burning, stinging and numbness in the limbs.

Feeling as if the intestines were bruised. Watery diarrhea is common in Apis; yellow stools, green stools, olive green stools, watery stools, etc.

Every day six to eight diarrheic stools, which smell like carrion. It is especially useful in a peculiar kind of stool occurring in children and infants, and intermingling of blood, mucus and food, giving the stool an appearance like tomato sauce.

The anus protrudes with stool and seems to remain open, an open anus like Phosph, and Puls. Chronic diarrhea dysentery, haemorrhage from the bowels.

In its constipation it is related more commonly to head troubles. He goes many days without a stool. The bowels seem to be perfectly paralyzed, with congestion of the brain and acute hydrocephalus.

Urines

: The urinary troubles are numerous in Apis.

The urine is scanty, coming only in drops. Much straining before the urine will start, and then only a few drops; dribbling a little hot urine, burning urine, bloody urine. As soon as a few drops collect in the bladder the urging comes, constant, ineffectual urging.

Later the urine is almost suppressed. Infants go a long time without passing urine screeching and carrying the hand to the head, crying out in sleep, kicking off the covers. Very often a dose of Apis will be found useful.

It is often called for in scarlet fever when the urine is loaded with albumen. Urinary troubles, with swelling of the genitals, and the swelling is oedematous

Scanty urine in little boys, with the foreskin enormously distended, or in hydrocele. Every time the call to urinate comes he will shriek, because he remembers the pain he had the last time. Inflammatory complaints of the kidneys and ureters, bladder and urethra.

The whole urinary tract is irritated, very much like Cantharis, and these two medicines antidote each other. If you are called to a child that has been drugged with crude Apis you can generally antidote it with Cantharis. If you go to a woman who has taken Cantharisfor vicious purposes, you can very often overcome it with Apis. The violent frenzy that has been brought on by Cantharis will be overcome by Apis.

The smarting, burning and stinging along the urinary tract will be found under Apis.

"Flow of urine, unconscious."

Stitching pain in the urethra with enuresis. Morbid irritability of the urinary organs.

"Strangury. Agony in voiding urine. Retention of urine in nursing infants."

It is queer how the old women knew, long before Apis was proved, that when the little new-born baby did not pass its water they could find a cure by going out to the bee-hive and catching a few bees, over which they poured hot water, and of which they gave the baby a teaspoonful.

Some domestic things like that have been known among families and among nurses, and it is consistent because it is just like what we give Apis for.

"Urine scanty and foetid, containing albumen and blood corpuscles."

Especially in acute albuminuria. The acute inflammatory affection of the kidney with albuminuria, such as occurs in scarlet fever or diphtheria, or after these, such as occurs as a sequel of acute disease.

Inflammation of the kidney closes up the case and kills off a good many in allopathic hands, never in homoeopathic hands. It is closely related to the genital organs of both male and female. Swelling and oedematous state of the genitals. Apis is a great friend of the woman. It cures all of her inflammatory complaints it seems, when the symptoms agree.

That is to say, it produces inflammation of the uterus and ovaries and dreadful sufferings in the external and internal parts, and we have only to discover when the symptoms agree to cure most of these inflammatory troubles.

It even stops abortion. It will stop abortion after some miserable scoundrel has attempted to get rid of the offspring, and she has taken drugs and brought on pains, pains strong enough to expel the contents of the uterus, especially in the first, second and third months.

A little haemorrhage has come on, a mere threatening, the membranes are not yet ruptured, but they soon will be, and she has stinging, burning pains, and lies uncovered and suffers from the heat, probably from the overdose of Ergot.

Apis will overcome this greatly to her regret. This kind of villainy prevails. But women have accidents and weakness. whereby, in spite of the fact that they desire to hold their offspring, they are threatened with abortion, and Apis is a great friend to the prospective mother.

Burning and stinging pains in the ovaries, especially the right; when greatly enlarged and even cystic, Apis has proved a curative remedy, has often cured tumors, and has caused cystic formations to stop growing or to disappear.

The right ovarian region is very sensitive. Pain in the uterus and ovaries before and during menstruation. Stinging, rending, tearing pains cutting like knives, worse from heat.

It is a very easily got symptom, because in most painful symptoms heat or the hot water bag are tried with the natural hope of relief, but with this remedy it aggravates. She throws it aside, for the pain is worse from heat.

"Ovaries enlarged", etc Dropsy of right ovary. Ovarian tumor.

Apis Mellifica.

Poison of the Honey Bee (Apium virus.)

Adapted to the strumous constitution; glands enlarged, indurated; scirrhus or open cancer. Women, specially widows; children and girls who, though generally careful, become awkward, and let things fall while handling them (Bov.). Bad effects of acute exanthema imperfectly developed or suppressed (Zinc.); measles, scarlatina, urticaria. Ailments from jealousy, fright, rage, vexation, bad news. Irritable; nervous; fidgety; hard to please. Weeping disposition; cannot help crying; discouraged, despondent (Puls.). Sudden shrill, piercing screams from children while waking or sleeping (Hellebore). Oedema; bag-like, puffy swelling under the eyes (over the eyes, Kali c.); of the hands and feet, dropsy, without thirst (with thirst, Acet. ac., Apoc.). Extreme sensitiveness to touch (Bell., Lach.). Pain: burning, stinging, sore; suddenly migrating from one part to another (Kali bi., Lac c., Puls.). Thirstlessness: in anasarca; acites (Acetic acid, but face more waxy and great thirst). Incontinence of urine, with great irritation of the parts; can scarcely retain the urine a moment, and when passed scalds severely; frequent, painful, scanty, bloody. Constipation: sensation in abdomen as if something tight would break if much effort were used. Diarrhoea: of drunkards; in eruptive diseases, especially if eruption be suppressed; involuntary from every motion, as though anus were wide open (Phos.). Affects right side; enlargement or dropsy of right ovary; right testicle. Intermittent fever; chill 3 p. m., with thirst, always (Ign.); < warm room and from external heat (Thuja, 3 a. m., and at 3 p. m.).

Relations

. - Complementary: Nat. mur. Disagrees, when used either before or after Rhus. Ars. and Puls. follow Apis well. Has cured scarlatina albuminuria after Canth., Dig., Hell. failed.

Aggravation

. - After sleeping (Lach.); closed, especially warmed and heated rooms are intolerable; from getting wet (Rhus), but better from washing or moistening the part in cold water.

Amelioration

. - Open air; cold water or cold bathing; uncovering; pains by coughing, walking or changing position; when sitting erect;

Apis Mellifica.

Mind and Disposition.

Restlessness, continually changing his occupation.

Delirium, (after suppressed scarlet eruption).

Awkwardness, he breaks every thing.

Jealousy, (in women).

[5] Giddiness when sitting, standing, lying, when closing the eyes, with nausea and headache.

Congestion to the head, with suppressed menstruation.

Pressing pain in the forehead and temples ; worse when rising, and in a warm bed, relieved by pressing the forehead together.

The brain feels tired.

Hydrocephalus in children, and apoplexy in old persons.

[10] Hydrocephalus, with copious perspiration of the head, torpor, delirium interrupted by sudden shrill cries, boring of the head deep into the pillows, squinting, grinding of the teeth, urine scanty, (milky), twitching on one side of the body, while the other is paralyzed.

Eyes.

Sensation of mucus in the eyes.

Twitching of the eyeballs.

Inflammation of the eye, with intense photophobia and creased secretions.

Staphyloma.

[15] Å’dematous swelling of the eyelids.

Ears.

Redness and swelling of both ears.

Face.

Burning, stinging heat in the face, with purple color.

Erysipelas of the face.

Å’dematous swelling of the face.

Mouth and Throat.

[20] Swelling of the lips, especially the upper lip.

Dry, swollen, inflamed tongue, with inability to swallow.

White, dry tongue, (with diarrhoea).

Fetid breath, (with paroxysms of headache).

Tough, frothy saliva.

[25] Dryness in the throat, without thirst.

Burning, stinging in the throat.

Inflammation of the throat, with swelling, redness, and stinging pains.

Ulcerated sore throat, (in scarlet fever, when the eruption does not come out).

Appetite and Taste.

Thirstlessness, (with dropsy).

Stomach and Abdomen.

[30] Vomiting of bile.

Vomiting, with inflammation of the stomach.

Vomiting, with diarrhoea.

Sensitiveness of the pit of the stomach to touch.

Violent pain and sensitiveness in the region of the stomach.

[35] Great sensitiveness of the abdomen to the touch.

Sensation of fulness and distention of the abdomen.

Stool and Anus.

Diarrhoea, yellowish-green, with mucus, especially in morning.

Stools smelling very offensively.

After stool, tenesmus and discharge of blood.

[40] Diarrhoea and vomiting.

Swelling of the anus.

Haemorrhoids, with stinging pains.

Urinary Organs.

Strangury.

Urine scanty and high-colored.

[45] Too profuse discharge of urine.

Burning and smarting in the urethra, as if it were scalded.

Burning and stinging in the urethra.

Sexual Organs.

Men. Sexual desire increased.

Swelling of the testicles.

[50] Women. Inflammation, induration, swelling and dropsy of the ovaries (right).

Sharp, cutting, stinging pain in the swollen ovary ; worse during menstruation.

Pressing-down pain in the uterus.

Dropsy of the uterus.

Menstruation suppressed or diminished, with congestion to the head.

[55] Abortion.

Respiratory Organs.

Hoarseness, in the morning.

Oppression of the chest, shortness of breath, especially when ascending ; inability to remain in a warm room.

Asthma ; worse in cold weather.

Sensation of soreness in the chest, as from a bruise.

[60] Hydrothorax.

Cough, after lying down and sleeping.

Extremities.

Upper. Hands bluish, and inclined to be cold.

Lower. Cold legs.

Å’dematous swelling of the feet, ankles and legs.

Suppressed perspiration of the feet.

Generalities.

[65] Great debility, as if he had worked hard ; he is obliged to lie down.

Burning, stinging pains.

Great sensitiveness to touch and pressure (abdomen).

Tension (over the eyes in the left side of the head) behind ears, in the neck.

Sensation of soreness under the ribs.

Sleep.

[70] Sleep disturbed by many dreams.

Sleep, late in the morning.

Awakens from sleep with a shrill shriek (child suffering from hydrocephalus).

Fever.

Pulse full and rapid -small and trembling- intermitting.

Chill, mostly towards the evening (3-4 P.M.).

[75] Chilliness from the least movement, with heat of the face and hands.

Dry heat towards the evening, with sleepiness.

The sensation of heat is more felt about the pit of the stomach and in the chest.

Perspiration, alternating with dryness of the skin.

After the fever paroxysm, sleep.

Skin.

[80] Å’dematous swellings.

Hives.

Carbuncles, with burning, stinging pains.

Erysipelas.

Scarlet eruptions.

[85] Panaritium (burning, stinging).

Conditions.

Aggravation. In the morning (restlessness, mucus in the mouth, diarrhoea).

In the evening (giddiness, headache, pain in the eyes, toothache, hoarseness, cough, chills and fever).

At night (eyes and chest).

From heat, especially in the warm room.

Amelioration. Cold water relieves the pain, swelling and burning.

Pressing together relieves the headache.

APIS MELLIFICA

REGION:
CELLULAR TISSUE: EYES. FACE. FAUCES. OVARIES.
SEROUS CAVITIES.
SKIN.
KIDNEYS.
BLADDER.
Nerves.
Respiration.
Heart.
Blood.
Right side; right to left.

WORSE:
HEAT: ROOM. Weather. Drinks. Fire. Bed. Hot bath (Op.).
Touch, even of hair.
After sleep.
4 P.M.
Pressure.
Suppressed eruptions.

BETTER:
COOL: AIR. Bathing. Uncovering.
Slight expectoration.
Motion.

Stinging burning, prickling, smarting, like hot needles. Must lie down. Rapid onset. SUDDEN; SHRILL CRIES or pains, that extort cries; nervousness, swelling, effusion, etc. SENSITIVE; to pain. Sharp STINGING burning or bruised SORENESS; of brain, ABDOMEN, ovaries, bladder, etc. PUFFINESS, shiny redness. Œdema; of eyelids or lips; red; saccular. BURNING-itching. Infections. Inflammation. Stiffness. Numbness. .................... Childish. Irritable, excitable, jealous, fussy and fidgety or apathic. Foolishly suspicious. Nervous and awkward or absent-minded; drops things. SUDDEN, PIERCING SHRIEKS. Head pains; stabbing or as of a blow; < occiput. ROLLS THE HEAD. Numb, tired headache, > pressure. Painful hair. Musty head sweat. Cheeks hang down. Eyes puffy; conjunctiva or lids like water-bags; red; chemosed. Perforating corneal ulcer. Profuse hot tears. Photophobia; yet can't bear coverings. Squint. Blindness, > stool. Myosis. Face puffy or red, < about eyes; waxy pallor. Scarlatinal otitis. Red nose. Cold nose. Red mouth or tongue. Grinds teeth. Tongue: vesicles on edge; swelled; raw; as if burnt; sore. Sandy, glazed or translucent pharynx, > cold things. Œdema of uvula. Purpleness of throat. Meaty, red tonsils. Right tonsil, > cold drinks. Angina. Diphtheria; early prostration (Merc-cy.); dirty membrane. ADIPSIA; but thirst during chill. Ascites. Orange yellow or tomato-sauce stools; odorless; < motion. Anus sore, swelled; oozes blood or stands open (Pho.). Burning urination. Dysuria. Scant, foul urine; coffee-grounds sediment. Nephritis. Ovaries numb; tumor of r.; cystic. Amenorrhœa of puberty. Panting breathing; feels as if every breath would be his last. Air hunger. Larynx, drawn in. Thirstless and dropsical. Abdomen tight, as if to break, on straining at stool. Profuse urine, but drinks little. Ovaries congested, with suppressed menses. Heart, stitches backward from apex; beat shakes whole body. Hands and feet numb. Palms hot. Nails feel loose. Skin rosy red; sensitive; rough eruption on; sting-like spots on; pale. Large urticaria. Asthma from hives. Erysipelas. Scarlatina. Dry, hot skin, alternates with gushes of sweat. SLEEPY, but too nervous; when hot; and CRIES OUT. Kicks covers off. Weak, quick pulse. Chill: anticipates; with dyspnœa, urticaria, desire to uncover; alternates with heat; right side. BURNING HEAT; but chilly if moved; without thirst; at 4 P.M. Heat of one part, with coldness of another. Sweat in gushes; partial.

 

REMEDY RELATION

Complementary: Arn. Bar-c. Merc-cy. Mat-m.
Antidote: Carb-ac.
Related: Ars. Canth. Pul. Urt-ur.

Apis mellifica

[Apis]

Mind.-- Anxiety and premonition of death. Irritability and violent anger, every thing goes wrong. Extraordinary nervous restlessness, does not know what to do with herself, so that tears come to her eyes: over busy and inconstant. Screaming, or stupidity interrupted by sudden piercing shrieks. Unconsciousness. Absent - minded, impaired memory, indifferent. Suspicion and jealousy. Fidgetiness.

Head.-- Bursting, expansive pain in, with vertigo and mental confusion. Brain feels tired, gone to sleep and crawling in. Headache better from pressure and diarrhoea. Scalp: Sensitive. Hot sweat on. Pain like a blow, swelling of.

Eyes.-- Burning and itching of. Inflammatory or edematous swelling of lids. Lids averted. Stiff. Profuse lachrymation. Photophobia. Desire to rub. Better: Bathing in cold water. Profuse burning tears.

Ears.-- Purple. Swelling of lymphatic gland behind.

Nose.-- Cold tip. Itching and frequent sneezing.

Face.-- Puffy. Erysipelatous redness of. Red stripes on. Lips greatly swollen.

Mouth.-- Dry with burning raw feeling, as if scalded in, and in throat, followed by vesicles on edge of tongue, without thirst. Adhesive mucus in and in throat. Fiery redness and painful tenderness of buccal cavity and throat. Swelling, especially of tongue, Inflammation of and tongue.

Throat.-- Sense of constriction, soreness, stinging or itching in. Breathing and swallowing very difficult, every drop of liquid put upon the tongue nearly suffocates him. Swelling of, and of glands of, worse from hot drinks.

Stomach.-- Hot vapor seems to rise from Prickling as from needles. Oppression at pit. Burning in. Sensitive to pressure.

Eructations: Tasting like yolk of egg during headache. Drinking water, on.

Nausea, etc. - Progressing to vomiting, with fainting. Vomiting with abdominal symptoms or diarrhoea.

Thirst: Generally absent, but occasionally it is intense.

Abdomen.-- Bruised soreness of, pressure, sneezing or touch. Inflated sensation in. Rumbling in Heaviness in. Sickly feeling in.

Anus, Rectum and stool. - Diarrhoea, with feeling of rawness in anus, with extreme weakness. Stools pass with every motion of the body, as if anus stool open (phos.) Stools contain lumps of bloody mucus. Dysentery. Tenesmus. Diarrhoea with profuse urine.

Urine.-- Burning and soreness when urinating Frequent, profuse urination. Suppressed or scanty. Strangury. Brick dust sediment. Agg. Exertion.

Sexual Organs.-- Sexual excitement. Uterine hemorrhage with yawning. Miscarriage. Flow of menses relieves burning in abdomen. Ovaries: Stinging, drawing, cutting or sore pains, more in right, worse from coition, standing or walking.

Respiration.-- Suffocation. With a sensation that he would not be able to breathe again, can bear nothing about throat, wants to be fanned, worse lying down and in a warm room. Oppression of, with desire to take a deep breath. Respiration and cough are worse lying on left side.

Cough.-- Violent shocks of cough from a crawling irritation near the throat pit, increased headache at every shock. Worst: In a warm room, after lying and sleeping. Better: By little expectoration.

Larynx, etc.-- Hoarseness, in morning, with difficult breathing.

Chest.-- Stinging or stitches in. Bruised soreness, worse coughing. Fullness in. Heart: Feeble heart beat. Violent, audible palpitation. Acute pain below heart, extending towards right chest.

Neck and Back.-- - Neck stiff. Nettlerash on. Bruised feeling in. Odor from axillae greatly intensified.

Upper Extremities.

Sensitiveness of. Painfulness of bones. Numb finger - tips. Sensation as if nails were loose. Blood settles under nails. Burning, pricking, especially in finger - tips. Swelling of.

Lower Extremities.-- Feel paralyzed. Sore pains. Sensation in feet and toes, as if too large, swollen and stiff. Painful fullness in soles, as if walking on cushions. Crawling in. Numb.

Generalities.-- Swelling of affected parts, with burning itching, stinging or shooting pains, Edema, dropsy, anasarca, etc., puffing up of the whole body. Sense of tightness in many parts, especially abdomen. Bruised soreness all over. Sensitiveness of mind and body or apathy, numbness and anesthesia with awkwardness causing her to drop things. Lassitude, weakness and sudden prostration. Trembling. Sensation: Of sudden stinging or stabbing, of swelling, soreness, rawness, drawing, prickling, crawling or as if parts were going to sleep. Pain causes fainting. Symptoms often move from right to left. Want of thirst predominates.

Worse: Touch, heat. 3 PM

Better: Cold, open air.

Tissues.-- Swelled. Redness of lymphatics.

Skin.-- Stinging, prickling, burning, smarting and itching all over. Exceedingly sensitive, even the hair is painful to touch. Red spots, like bee stings on. Swelling and erysipelatous redness of, then desquamation of whole surface. Pale red swellings. Appearance of a nettlerash like eruption better the other symptoms. Receding of suppressed eruptions. Wheels. Urticaria. Burning like fire in spots, altho's parts may be cold. Better: Rubbing.

Sleep.-- Somnolency: With prostration, with nervous restlessness. Screaming out, or terrified starting during. Dreams, Full of laborious, of heat, of flying, quarrels, etc. Drowsy and thirstless.

Fever.-- Pulse: Full and accelerated, more seldom small and thready, occasionally intermittent and imperceptible. Chill, severest towards evening. Shivering c., in afternoon (3 or 4 o'clock) increased by warmth. Shivering from least motion, especially towards evening, with heat of head and hands. Heat: Without thirst. Sensation of heat. Dry, toward evening. The sensation of heat is greatest on the chest and epigastric region. Sweat: Alternating with dry skin.

Relationship.-- Allied Remedies: Apoc., ARS., Bell., Canth., Chin., Coccl., Dulc., Ferr., Graph., Hell., Hep., Iod., Kali-c., Kali. iod., Lach., Lyc., Merc., Millef., NAT-M., PULS., Rhus-t., Sep., Sul., URT-U.

Antipsoric of Apis.: Bar-c. Nat-m.

Antidotes: Canth., Carb-v.

Apis mellifica

(Honey Bee)

PHARMACY - apis.Apis mellifica. honey bee.

N. 0. I.nsecta. Hymenoptera. Apium virus is honey-bee venom. Tinctures are made of the whole bee and of dilutions of the poison with alcohol.

Historical dose: All potencies.

CLINICAL

  • Abscess
  • Albuminuria
  • Allergic shock
  • Allergies
  • Amenorrhea
  • Ankles, swelling
  • Asthma
  • Bee stings
  • Bladder disorders
  • Carbuncle
  • Chronic
  • Constipation
  • Cystitis
  • Diarrhea
  • Diphtheria
  • Dissection wounds
  • Dropsy
  • Dysmenorrhea
  • Edema
  • Erysipelas
  • Erythema nodosum
  • Eyes, disorders
  • Gangrene
  • Goiter
  • Gout
  • Hands, swelling
  • Heart, disorders
  • Hives
  • Housemaid's knee
  • Hydrocephalus
  • Hydrothorax
  • Injuries
  • Intermittent fever
  • Itching
  • Joints, edema
  • Kidney diseases
  • Laryngitis
  • Lymphangitis
  • Meningitis
  • Menstruation, disorders
  • Metrorrhagia
  • Miscarriage
  • Nephritis
  • Nephrotic syndrome
  • Nettle rash
  • Otitis
  • Ovaries, cysts
  • Ovarian tumors
  • Panaritium
  • Pannus
  • Peritonitis
  • Phlebitis
  • Photophobia
  • Pleurisy
  • Premenstrual syndrome
  • Prostatitis
  • Puberty
  • Punctured wounds
  • Rashes
  • Rheumatic pains
  • Scarlatina
  • Self-abuse
  • Staphyloma
  • Stinging pains
  • Strokes
  • Suppressed eruptions
  • Surgery effects
  • Swellings
  • Sycosis
  • Synovitis
  • Syphilis
  • Throat, sore
  • Thrombosis
  • Tongue, edema, ulceration
  • Toxemia
  • Throat swollen
  • Tumors
  • Typhus
  • Urticaria
  • Urethritis
  • Vaccination
  • Varicose veins
  • Variola
  • Wounds

HOMEOPATHIC

Apis acts on cellular tissue of eyes, face, throat, ovaries, causing edema of skin and mucus membranes. In the serous membranes of heart, brain, pleura, etc., it produces inflammation with effusion.

Allergic reactions to bee or wasp stings. The effects of a bee sting, burning, stinging, smarting, prickling, sharp pain with excessive swelling, are the leading symptoms for the selection of this remedy.

The well-known effects of a bee's sting: burning, stinging, sharp pains with excessive swelling, give leading keynotes for its employment in a great variety of conditions. Allergic edema of face, eyelids, lips, mouth, and throat. Burning, stinging itching. Redness and swelling with stinging and burning pain in eyes, eyelids, ears, face, lips, tongue, throat, anus, testicles.

The stinging pains appear in many diseases and conditions, causing the "cry cerebral" in acute hydrocephalus and meningitis. Sudden shrill cries in hydrocephalus and meningitis. Extreme sensitivity to touch. General bruised, sore pains is marked of brain, abdomen, ovaries, bladder. Stinging pains in hemorrhoids. Edema of the throat may be accompanied with stinging pains. Burning symptoms (Ars.), worse by heat.

Apis produces serous inflammation with effusion, membranes of brain, heart, and pleuritic effusion. Swelling or puffing up of various parts, edema, red rosy hue, stinging pains, soreness, intolerance of heat and from the slightest touch. Afternoon aggravation are some of the general guiding symptoms. The pains are sudden that extort cries.

Acute inflammation of kidneys and other parenchymatous tissues are characteristic pathological states corresponding to Apis. Constricted sensations. Sensation of stiffness and as of something torn off in the interior of the body. Prostration even to faintness.

Trembling, jerking, and twitching. Symptoms go from right to left. Numbness. Thrombosis. Lymphangitis. Inflammation of kidneys, bladder. Paralysis after diphtheria and other severe diseases.

MIND

Great anxiety, restlessness, and fidgety. Fussy and hard to please. Fear of being poisoned. Dread of apoplexy. Constant whining in children. Cannot bear to be left alone. Restlessness and constantly busy. Ailments from hearing bad news. Weeping, cannot help crying, all day and night without any cause.

Absent-minded with impaired memory. Cannot concentrate mind on attempting to read and write. Stupor with sudden sharp cries and startings. Awkward, drops things readily. Listless, cannot think clearly. Couldn't bring his thoughts to bear on anything.

Apathy and indifference. Indifference, says nothing about him. Indifference with dullness of head. Nothing seems to satisfy, all wrong and out of place. Fruitless activity. Irritable, excitable, and sensitive. Fickle and inconsistent behavior. Childish, silly behavior in women after delivery. Hysterical girls at puberty. Borrows trouble about everything. Jealous, fidgety, hard to please. Jealous, fright, rage, vexation, grief. Foolishly suspicious. Whining.

Muttering delirium alternating with stupor. Declares she is well, during delirium. Sudden shrill, piercing screams. Mania from sexual irritation. Sexual mania alternating with stupor in women. Premonition of death. Sensation of dying. Loss of consciousness.

ABDOMEN

Dropsy of abdomen. Burning, pain, and tenderness in epigastrium. Sore, bruised pain, on pressure, when sneezing. Extremely tender. Rumbling in abdomen. Violent cutting pains. Peritonitis. Swelling in right groin. Ulceration of navel in newborn. Inguinal hernia. Sensitivity of ileocecal region.

BACK

Back of the neck stiff. Back as if tired and bruised. Rheumatic pain in back. Burning pressing in coccyx worse when sitting down. Back tired and bruised. Scapulae as if lame. Cervical glands swollen. Violent pain in sacrum, could not sit. Dragging pain in lumbar region with ovarian and uterine diseases.

BLADDER

Great irritation at neck of bladder with frequent and burning urination. Burning and soreness when urinating. Cystitis. Dysuria with stinging pains. Last drops burn and smart. Incontinence of urine worsens at night, coughing. Retention of urine in newborn. Stitching in urethra, with bedwetting. Suppressed urine. Tenesmus during and after urination. Cannot urinate without a stool. Difficult, frequent, or slow urination, must press to pass urine, in prostatic affections.

BREASTS

Breasts swollen and hard. Child nurses by day, refuses at night. Milk diminished. Stinging burning pains in breasts. Breast tumors. Cancer of breasts. Breast burning, stinging, swelling, hardness, and suppuration. Erysipelas of breast.

CAUSATIONS

  • Allergens
  • Grief
  • Fright
  • Rage
  • Vexation
  • Jealousy, the queen bee is the most jealous thing in nature
  • Hearing bad news
  • Mental shock
  • Suppressed eruptions

CHEST

Pains from below ribs going upwards. Burning or soreness below ribs. Hydrothorax. Burning stinging pains throughout entire front of the chest. Hydrothorax after pleurisy. Chest feels as if beaten or bruised.

CONSTITUTIONS

Psoric and allergic constitutions.

COUGH

Severe cough before midnight. Croupy cough with ringing sound. Dry cough with gagging. Cough with soreness of upper part of chest. Very dry cough. Spasmodic cough morning and evening. Dry cough with gagging, worse lying on left side. Cough with tickling behind pit of throat.

EARS

Redness and swelling of both ears. External ear red inflamed, sore. Stinging pains. Raises the hand to the back of ear with each scream. Scarlatina, otitis. Tension about ears. Violent pain in left ear, when chewing. Shooting, burning pain. Pain in ears, when swallowing. Impaired hearing. Deafness.

EYES

Allergic puffy eyelids, swollen, red, and edematous like water bags. Burning, stinging, and shooting pain in eyes. Conjunctiva is bright red, puffy. Lachrymation hot. Photophobia, yet covering intolerable. Evened lids. Sudden piercing pains. Pain around orbits. Serous exudation, edema, and sharp pains. Keratitis with intense chemosis of ocular conjunctiva. Cornea opaque. Perforating corneal ulcer. Staphyloma of cornea. Suppurative inflammation of eyes. Cannot look fixedly at any object or cannot read in artificial light. Fistula lachrymalis. Squinting.

EYES

  • Myopia
  • Styes
  • Asthenopia during eruptive fevers
  • Ophthalmia

FACE

Red, hot, swollen with piercing pains. Waxy pale and edematous. Lips bluish, edematous, upper. Bee stings. Erysipelas with stinging burning edema. Extends from right to left. Expression happy, terror-stricken, or apathetic. Jaws stiff, with stiffness of tongue. Paralysis of right side with right eye closed. Desire for washing face with cold water. Formication and prickling in face.

FEMALE

Amenorrhea of puberty. Premenstrual syndrome with water retention. Menses suppressed with mental and head symptoms, especially in young girls. Hysterical girls at puberty. Menses last a day or appear at intervals of one day. Dysmenorrhea with scanty discharge of slimy blood or with ovarian pains. Dysmenorrhea, with severe ovarian pains. Bearing down, as if menses were to appear. Great tenderness over abdomen and uterine region. Metritis. Metrorrhagia profuse with heavy abdomen, faintness, stinging pain. Menorrhagia with the miscarriage. Leucorrhea, profuse, acrid, green. Edema of labia, relieved by cold water. Ovarian cysts. Soreness and stinging pains. Ovaritis, worse in right ovary. Ovarian tumors, with stinging pains. Ovaries numb or congested with suppressed menses. Pains in ovaries, worse sex. Toxemia. Miscarriage during early months. Uterine hemorrhage during pregnancy. Dropsy in later parts of pregnancy with puerperal convulsions. Mania in women from sexual excesses or suppressed menses.

FOOD

Thirstless with edema, dropsy. Craving for milk (Rhus-t.). Better from milk. Craving for sour things. Child nurses by day, refuses at night.

HEAD

Chronic sick headache. Sudden stabbing in head. Sharp shrieks. Bores head into pillow and screams out. Hydrocephalus enlargement of head. Rolling of the head from side to side in hydrocephalus. Boring of the head backward in pillow in meningitis. Inability to hold the head up in meningitis. Stinging pains. Numb, tired headache, better pressure. Flow of tears with headache. Fontanelles sunken. Fontanels reopen. Brain feels very tired. Heat, throbbing, pains, better on pressure and worse on motion. Aching in forehead and temples. Dull, heavy sensation in occiput, as from a blow. Erysipelas of scalp. Painful hair. Musty head sweat. Head feels swollen. Hair falls out, bald spots. Apoplexy.

HEART

Heart troubles with great feeling of suffocation. Heart stitches backward from apex. Violent palpitations shake the whole body. Palpitations of heart from scanty secretion of urine. Insufficiency of mitral valves. Organic heart disease. Blowing sound with the diastole. Pericarditis. Pulse is hard, small, intermittent, and quick, weak.

KIDNEYS

Sore or bruised feeling over region of kidneys. Nephritis. Acute nephritis, urine scanty or suppressed. Hyperemic state of kidneys. Burning and soreness when urinating. Frequent and involuntary urine. Stinging pain and strangury. Scanty, high-colored urine. Urine loaded with casts. Urine milky in hydrocephalus. Albuminuria. Urine profuse, more than he drinks. Urine turbid after standing. Coffee ground sediment. Urine clear and colorless during dentition. Urine of greenish hue. Urethra as if scalded.

LIMBS

Edematous. Synovitis. Felon in the beginning with burning, stinging throbbing pains. Knees would shine, sensitive, sore with stinging pain. Feet swollen and stiff. Feel too large. Rheumatic pain in back and limbs. Tired, bruised feeling. Numbness of hands and fingertips. Hives with intolerable itching. Palms hot. Edema of hands. Limbs immovable, heavy, numb. Feet numb and stiff. Legs and feet waxy, pale, swollen, and edematous. Trembling of hands and feet. Nails feel loose. Hemiplegia from severe mental shock. Staggers when eyes are shut.

LUNGS

Asthma with hives. Dyspnea from allergic reactions. Breathing hurried and difficult. Panting breathing, feels every breath would be his last. Air hunger. Edema of larynx. Feels as if he could not draw another breath. Suffocation, short, dry cough, supra-sternal. Painful shock in head and chest from every cough. Larynx drawn in. Hoarseness. Expectoration sweetish.

MALE

Affectations of prostate gland. Dropsy of the scrotum. Hydrocele and cysts. Testicles painful when touched. Frequent and long-lasting erections. Swelling of testicles, worse right. Violent itching and redness of scrotum, sore to touch. Sexual desire increased or diminished. Discharge of prostatic fluid. Gonorrhea, copious secretion of thin, ichorous discharge. Gonorrhea with burning, stinging pain. Large boils on pubes. Swelling of foreskin.

MODALITIES

Better from cool air. Better cold applications. Better cool bathing. Better uncovering. Better slight expectoration. Better motion. Better sitting erect. Worse from heat in any form. Worse hot weather. Worse heat of room. Worse heat of fire. Worse hot drinks. Worse hot bath. Worse warm bed. Worse pressure. Worse touch, even of hair. Worse in late afternoon. Worse after sleeping in closed and heated rooms. Worse right side. Worse pressure. Worse after sleep. Worse lying down. Worse from suppressed eruptions. Worse at 4 p.m.

MOUTH

Scalding in mouth and throat. Bitter taste. Fetid breath. Viscid, tough, frothy saliva. Gums swollen. Lips swollen, especially upper. Membrane of mouth and throat glossy, as if varnished. Red, shining, and puffy like erysipelas. Vesicles. Raw, burning, and painful stinging blisters. Dryness of mouth.

NOSE

Red, swollen inflamed nose with sharp pains. Coldness of tip of nose. Boils in nostril, better cold. Nostrils red and burning. Bridge of nose puffy. Coryza, worse warmth. Coryza with feeling of swelling in nose. Thick, white, fetid mucus discharge, mixed with blood. Copious nosebleed towards morning.

PERSpIRATION

Sweat slight with sleepiness. Perspiration breaks out and dries up frequently. After perspiration, nettle rash, also with shuddering.

RECTUM

Anus seems open. Anus is sore, swollen with profuse hemorrhage. Anus feels raw, remains open. Prolapsed anus. Hemorrhoids with stinging pain after confinement. Cholera infantum. Cannot urinate without a stool. Constipation, feels as if something would break on straining. Feels tight as if to break, on straining at stool. Electric shocks in rectum before urging to stool.

SENSATIONS

The burning is like hot needles. Sensation of constriction. Sensation of stiffness and as of something torn off the interior part of the body.

SKIN

Bee stings, insect bites. Swellings after bites or stings. Nettle rash. Edematous swellings. Allergic dermatitis. Sudden puffing up of whole body. Hives, burning, stinging, and itching. Rosy red, sensitive, sore skin. Stinging pains. Scarlatina. Erysipelas with sensitiveness and swelling, rosy hue. Urticaria like bee stings, or stings from other insects, with intolerable itching at night. Boils. Carbuncles with burning, stinging pain (Ars., Anthr.). Rough eruptions or stinging-like spots on skin. Large urticaria. Skin dry, hot, alternating with gushes of sweat. Nettle rash in warm weather, when one can't sweat.

SLEEP

Very drowsy. Great inclination to sleep but cannot from nervous restlessness. Drowsiness during fever. Screams and sudden starting during sleep. Kicks off covers during sleep. Yawning after coughing. Dreams full of care and toil. Dreams of being busy going from place to place. Traveling dreams. Flying dreams. Unpleasant dreams.

Stomach

  • Belchings that taste of ingesta, worse drinking water or flow of water.
  • Bitter or acrid belching.
  • Soreness in the pit of the stomach when touched.
  • Gastroenteritis.
  • Nausea and vomiting.
  • Neither eats nor drinks for weeks.
  • Vomiting of frothy mucus.
  • Vomiting with diarrhea.
  • Vomiting of food, bile.

Stool

  • Profuse hemorrhage from anus.
  • Dark, fetid stool, worse after eating.
  • Bloody, painless stools.
  • Stools odorless.
  • Stools blackish-brown, green, or whitish.
  • Stools odorless or offensive involuntary, worse motion.
  • Diarrhea, watery yellow, orange-yellow, or tomato-sauce-like stools.
  • Stools olive-green, slimy.

Teeth

  • Sudden involuntary biting teeth together.
  • Grinding of the teeth.
  • Gums as if numb.
  • Gums swollen.
  • Gums bleed easily.
  • Swelling and redness of gums and cheek.
  • Sore and stinging pain in teeth.
  • Dentition.
  • Teeth covered with yellow mucus or brown sordes.

Temperature

  • Chill, anticipating with dyspnea, urticaria, desire to uncover, alternate with heat.
  • Heat of one part, coldness of another.
  • Thirstless during fever.
  • Thirst during chill.
  • Burning heat, but chilly when moved.
  • Afternoon chill with thirst, worse on motion and heat.
  • Worse from heat with smothering feeling.
  • Sleeps after the fever paroxysm.

Throat

  • Tonsillitis with skin eruptions.
  • Tonsils are swollen, fiery red, stinging pain while swallowing, better cold drinks.
  • Ulcers on tonsils.
  • Swollen throat from allergic reaction.
  • Constricted, stinging pains.
  • Uvula swollen, sac-like.
  • Sandy, glossy, or translucent, better cold, swollen inside and outside.
  • Throat purple.
  • Angina.
  • Diphtheria with early prostration, dirty membrane, edema of uvula.
  • Throat sore, swallowing painful, worse solids, sour or hot substances.
  • Sensation as if fishbone in throat.
  • Vascular goitre.

Tongue

  • Tongue as if scalded, red hot, trembling.
  • Cancer of the tongue.
  • Tongue fiery red, swollen, sore, and raw with vesicles.
  • Tongue feels raw.
  • Tongue hangs out or cannot be protruded.
  • Tongue as if wooden.
  • Stinging blisters along edge of tongue.
  • Dryness of tongue.
  • Tongue red at tip.
  • Tongue coated white.
  • Tongue trembles, catches in teeth.
  • Tongue first covered thickly white, later covered with a brown crust.

Vertigo

  • Vertigo with sneezing, worse lying or closing eyes.
  • Vertigo with nausea and headache.
  • Vertigo as if she would fall.
  • Vertigo with obscuration of sight, nausea, and disgust for food.

Vision

  • Obscured vision in meningitis cerebrospinalis.
  • Could only observe light coming in at window when turning herself towards it.
  • Whitish grey mist.
  • Weak vision, with feeling of fullness in eyes.
  • Blindness better stool.
  • Myopia.
  • Objects appear too large.
  • Could see better at night than in daytime.
  • Diplopia after meningitis.
  • Whirling.
  • Indistinct vision, as if a skin were drawn over eye.

Comments

Acute remedy for anaphylactic shock from bee stings, jellyfish, nettles, scorpions, from drugs, from allergic reactions especially to strawberries and to certain foods.

In a severe case, their face swells, first the eyes swell, then the face swells, and then the throat swells. It's also for hives, itching, burning, stinging hives from insect bites, from certain foods, severe allergies. Chronic treatment can lessen sensitivity (Vesp., Carb-ac.).

Burns or sunburns with stinging pain, worse heat, or burns with water-filled blisters.

Has been used for eczema, skin cracked and painful, burning, swollen, suppurating, worse water. PMS with acute, severe edema, water retention, irritability, emotional sensitivity. Right-sided ovarian cysts, especially if so painful it's about to burst. Appendicitis. Acute nephritis with stinging pains. Good for urinary retention, cystitis, bladder infections (Canth.). Bladder feels full and urethra is swollen so urine comes out in painful drops. Pelvis feels full. For puncture wounds when the arm swells, vaccinations.

Joint pain from arthritis or injury, the joint swells up:

Toxemia in pregnancy, women have protein in the urine and high blood pressure. Inflammation of the body cavity like peritonitis or fluid collecting around the heart, for meningitis, for hydrocephalic children, for painful inflammation of the scrotum. Brain cry, high pitch shrill, due to inflammation and water on the brain. Never well since meningitis (Bell.).

Originally used for edema. Often edema from the immune system or the kidneys, the histamine is released, the tissues swell. Better heat, look for the stinging pains and worse heat in some type of allergic reaction or bite or sting or some kidney failure type of problem.

Apis has great sensitiveness of the surface to touch. General soreness, every hair is painful to contact. Great debility as if he had worked hard is compelled to lie down. Tired and bruised feeling. Great restlessness and lidgetiness (the Ars. restlessness is more from mental anxiety).

Trembling, jerking, and twitching. One half of the body twitching, the other lame or paralyzed. Hemiplegia. Apis is more a right-sided medicine, symptoms proceed from right to left (Rhus-L left to right) and from above downwards.

Stiffness of lower jaw, soon amounting to a sense of complete fixation. This stiffness extended to tongue and throat, rendering speech difficult and unintelligible and causing a condition of extreme discomfort. The stiffness being accompanied by a feeling of constriction, which excited a single spasmodic, hacking cough at short intervals.

Some difficulty in breathing, especially in inspiration. "These symptoms were accompanied by a terrible restlessness.

On a later occasion there was dyspnea, face purple, head thrown back. The same symptoms as above recurred, but the throat was more swollen and the distress extended below the larynx to the upper part of the lung, which soon became very sore and sensitive. An hour after the sting on this occasion a violent cough came on.

It seemed to be excited by the constrictive feeling in the throat, but it reached down to the sore place in the lungs, causing great distress. It was a deep, hard, ringing cough, lasting without intermission for three hours. Traces of the cough and soreness lasted for months.

Apis has slow action and must not be changed too soon. Increased flow of urine shows it is having a favorable effect. The dropsies of Apis are characterized by a waxy hue of skin, whitish or yellowish, transparent swelling of eyelids, bag-like swelling under eyes, surface of body sore, bruised or burning. In cardiac dropsy the feet swell after walking and are intolerably sore and burning.

In chest disorders there is sensation of contraction (Lach.) and inability to lie down. Tension, swelling, and stiffness of limbs. This tight sensation is manifested in another symptom: sensation in abdomen as if something tight would break if too much effort was made to void a constipated stool. Aversion to tight things like Lach. Prostration even to faintness. Paralytic weakness. Paralysis after diphtheria and other severe diseases.

Nervous, restless, oversensitive or hot and drowsy with or without thirst. Worse from touch or pressure (though the head is better by pressure). Apis has a sensitiveness to heat, especially to heated rooms (Puls., Lod., Kali-i., Sec., Sulph.), worse by warmth of bed. Cold water better. Thirstlessness, there's no desire to drink. Can have fever with thirstlessness.

A keynote is the eyes swell from allergic reactions. The person feels hot, the area is swollen. Sensation as though it would burst, skin becomes very sensitive. Dry skin. Wandering pains. Described as a red-hot needle stuck in and moved around. Shrieking out with pain, keynote. The eyes are glassy, the face is hot and puffy. Bobs head back and forth.

Worse bathing, better cold applications. Fears suffocation. Aggravated by heat, congestion, and stuffy room (Puls.). Often has a choking feeling because the throat swells up. Dreams of flying from place to place. Induced jealousy. Arching back of neck.

Relations

Antidotes: to medium doses and poisonings, Nat-m. in all forms, sweet oil, onions, Ammonia, Lach., Ledum, also powdered Ip. applied locally.

It antidotes: Canth., Lod., Chin., Dig.

Compare:

(1) Apium virus - auto-toxemia with pus products.

(2) Puls., Zinc., Canth., Lach.

(3) Vespa and snake venoms.

(4) Apoc., etc. - dropsy.

(5) Aeon., Urt-u. Anac. - urticaria.

(6) Am. - bruised, sore conditions.

(7) Ars. - typhoid, gangrene, dropsies, scarlatina, urticaria, chills.

(8) Bell. - meningitis, sore throat, erysipelas, scarlatina.

(9) Brom. - swelling of ovary during menses.

(10) Bry. - meningitis, rheumatism.

(11) Canth. - burns, erysipelas, urinary symptoms.

(12) Euphrasia - conjunctiva.

(13) Ferr., Graph., Hep., Hyos., Loci. - synovitis.

(14) Lach., Lye., Mere., Nat-a., Nat-rn. - chills, urticaria, tension in ovarian region.

(15) Rhus-t. - eyes, but Apis has less tendency to suppuration, vesicular erysipelas but darker than Apis and spreading left to right Apis right to left, typhoid, restlessness, but Apis is more fidgetiness. Complementary: Nat-m. the chronic of Apis, Am., Ars., Hell., Merc-cy., Puls. Inimical: Rhus-t. in eruptive diseases. It follows well: Bry. when a phrenic cry appears. Hell. when torpor sets in, Loci., Hep., Mere., Lye., Sulph. Is followed well by: Graph., letter on ear lobe. Kali-bi., scrofulous ophthalmia. Ars., hydrothorax. Phos. diphtheria. Stram., mania. Lye., staphyloma, Sulph., hydrothorax, pleurisy, hydrocephalus. Loci., swollen knee.

References

Boericke. Clarke. Murphy.

Burning and stinging pains.
Great debility, as if he had worked hard, he must lie down on the ground.
Great sensitiveness to the touch and to external pressure, especially on the abdomen.
Sensation of soreness, as if bruised.
Tension (over the eyes, behind the ears, in the neck, and a tension involving the head of the left side).
Heaviness and pressure in the head, especially when rising from a recumbent position or from a seat, worse in a warm room, and relieved by pressing the head with the hands.
Eruptions like hives.
Dropsical swellings without thirst.
Inflammation of the eyes with intense photophobia and increased secretions.
Pale red erysipelatous inflammations.
Aggravation in a warm room.

Clinical Tips & Practitioner Insights

"I esteem APIS MELLIFICA specific against erysipelas of all kinds and suggest it in that fatal form of the malady which attacks new born children, spreading from the umbilical cord."

By Dr. Wolf Erysipelas

"In hydrocephalus, cerebrospinal meningitis and typhus cerebralis, with the hydrocephalic cry - APIS MEL. is the remedy."

By Dr. Nash, M.D. Hydrocephalus

"Should oedema glottis supervene, repeated doses of APIS MEL would give the best chance of averting tracheostomy."

By Dr. Hughes, L.R.C.P. Oedema of Glottis

"The great prostration, faintness and even tendency to death by syncope, noticed in those stung by bees, show that APIS MEL. has more than local homoeopathicity here."

By Dr. Hughes, L.R.C.P. Syncope after Bee Sting

"APIS MELLIFICA should be cautiously given during the first three months of pregnancy in low potencies, as it is liable to produce miscarriage."

By Dr. Cowperthwaite, M.D. Miscarriage

"In pleuritic exudation, APIS stands next to SULPHUR as a remedy to cause absorption."

By Dr. Cowperthwaite, M.D. Pleuritic Exudation

"APIS MELLIFICA has been successfully employed in paralysis following devitalising affections such as diphtheria or typhoid."

By Dr. Farrington, M.D. Paralysis

Remedy Profile

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  • Common Name N/A
  • Origin Source Natural
Dosage & Potency

Tincture to thirtieth potency. In œdematous conditions the lower potencies. Sometimes action is slow; so several days elapse before it is seen to act, and then urine is increased. Apium virus , sixth trituration.

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