Apis Mellifica

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General EN

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 EN

Abscess. Ankles, swelling of. Apoplexy. Asthma.

Bladder, affections of. Carbuncle. Chancre. Constipation; of sucklings.

Diarrhoea. 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, oedema of; ulceration of.

Trachea, irritation of. Tumours. Typhus. Urethritis.

Urine, abnormalities of. Vaccination. Varicose veins. Variola.

Wounds.

Characteristics EN

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 dyspnoea, 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 haemorrhoids. "Redness and swelling with stinging and burning pain in eyes, eyelids, ears, face, lips, tongue, throat, anus, testicles." Oedema 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 oedema 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, diarrhoea. < In evening: erysipelas, giddiness, headache, chills, fever. Many symptoms are < lying down, and > sitting.

Relations EN

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 diarrhoea);

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 EN

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

Mind EN

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.

Head EN

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).

Eyes EN

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

Oedematous swelling of eyelids; bags under eyes; upper lids hang over like sacs

Styes with stinging pains; smoky darkness before the eyes.

Ears EN

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

Nose EN

Swollen, red, oedematous.—Coryza, worse from warmth; chronic catarrh with crusty nostrils; polypus.

Face EN

Oedematous 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.

Teeth EN

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

Mouth EN

Lips oedematous; 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 diarrhoea)

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.

Throat EN

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.

Stomach EN

No thirst with the heat

Thirstlessness (with dropsy)

Vomiting of bile

Vomiting, with inflammation of the stomach

Vomiting, with diarrhoea

Burning heat in the stomach

Great soreness in pit of stomach when touched

Violent pain and sensitiveness in region of stomach.

Abdomen EN

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.

Stool And Anus EN

Sensation of rawness in the anus, with diarrhoea

Discharge of flatus before stool

Diarrhoea: during fevers; from heat; in debilitated children; from irritability of brain (hydrocephaloid)

Diarrhoea, yellowish-green, with mucus, esp. in the morning

Stool thin, watery, yellow, < in morning; may or may not be offensive

Stools smelling very offensively

Diarrhoea and vomiting

Diarrhoea 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

Haemorrhoids, 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.

Urinary Organs EN

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.

Male Sexual Organs EN

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.

Female Sexual Organs EN

Amenorrhoea 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 mammae threatening to ulcerate

Scirrhus or open cancer of the mammae, with stinging, burning pains.

Respiratory Organs EN

Irritation to cough in the supra-sternal fossa

Hoarseness

Hoarseness in the morning

Respiration hurried and difficult (with fever and headache)

Oedema 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

Dyspnoea; esp. difficult inspiration.

Chest EN

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.

Heart EN

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.

Back EN

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

Upper Limbs EN

Hands bluish, and inclined to be cold

Oedema 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.

Lower Limbs EN

Cold legs

Sensation in the toes and whole foot, as if too large; swollen and stiff

Legs (ankles) and feet waxy, pale, and oedematous

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.

Generalities EN

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 haemorrhages.

Skin EN

Oedematous 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.

Sleep EN

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).

Fever EN

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.