Apis Mellifica

▲   GENERAL

General

Apis Mellifica acts on cellular tissues causing oedema 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, EDEMA, red rosy hue, stinging pains, soreness, intolerance of heat, and slightest touch, and afternoon worse are some of the general guiding symptoms. Erysipelatous inflammations, dropsical effusions and anasarca, acute, inflammation of kidneys, and other parenchymatous tissues are characteristic pathological states corresponding to Apis Mellifica. 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.

▲   MODALITIES ETC

Worse

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

Better

Better, In open air, uncovering, and cold bathing.

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

Compare

Compare: Apium virus (auto-toxaemia, with pus products); Zincum Metallicum ^Zinc.; Cantharis ^Canth.; Vespa Crabro ^Vespa; Lachesis ^Lachesis.

Complementary

Complementary; Nat, mur. The “chronic,” Apis Mellifica.; Also Baryta Carb ^{Baryta Carb}., if lymphatics are involved.

Inimical

Inimical. Rhus Tox ^Rhus.

▲   MIND

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

Jealous, fright, rage, vexation, grief

Cannot concentrate mind when attempting to read or study.

Behaviour

shrieking

shrieking; brain cry

Dazed

Death; presentiment of death

Delirium; during sleep

Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition

indifference, apathy, etc.

irritability

weeping, crying, tearful mood (lamenting)

causeless, groundless, with no reason

Intellectual faculties; impaired thinking; absent-minded (see forgetful)

Insanity

busy

erotic

Unconsciousness; during fever

▲   VERTIGO, DIZZINESS

Vertigo

Vertigo with sneezing, worse on lying or closing eyes

During headache

▲   HEAD

Head

Whole brain feels Very tired

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.

Bores head in pillow

Congestion (see pulsation)

Congestion (see pulsation); open air

fullness

before period

during period

warm room

Constriction, tension (see also pulling, pressing)

Hot

open air

in a warm room

forehead

cool air

Swollen, and feeling swollen

Headache

Heat, throbbing, distensive pains, better on pressure, and worse on motion

Sudden stabbing pains

Heaviness (see pain

pressing)

pressing); open air

pressing); warm room

Hydrocephalus (water on the brain: headache, drowsiness, vomiting)

Pain, headache

with high or low temperature

headache during the heat

walking; in open air

warm room

in forehead; when indoors; in a warm room

back of head (occiput)

top of head (vertex)

pressing (see bursting, pulling); when indoors; in a warm room

pressing (see bursting, pulling); forehead

open air

warm room

stitching, sudden, sharp; temples

Scalp

Skin and scalp; erysipelas (inflamed from infection, deep red colour)

▲   EYES

Eyes

Lids Swollen, red, Oedematous, everted, inflamed; burn and sting

Conjunctiva bright red, puffy

Lachrymation hot

Photophobia

Sudden piercing pains

Pain around orbits

Serous exudation, edema, and sharp pains

suppurative inflammation of eyes

Keratitis with Intense chemosis of ocular conjunction

Staphyloma of cornea following suppurative inflammation

STYES, also prevents their recurrence.

Conjunctiva (external lining of eye); swelling

Cornea (transparent part of eye); spots and specks, on cornea

Discoloration

redness

redness; lids

Inflammation

acute

erysipelas (inflamed from infection, deep red colour, see face)

heat

infants

wounds

conjunctiva (external lining of eye)

oozing pus (including cornea)

wounds; lids

Pain

burning, smarting, gnawing, biting

burning, smarting, gnawing, biting; warm room

as from something in eye

stitching, sudden, sharp

stinging

Stiffness; lids

Strabismus (eyes incorrectly aligned)

Swellings

lids

from fluid accumulation

under the lids

upper lids

Tears; burning

Ulceration; cornea (transparent part of eye)

Vision

Dim; evening; when reading

Weak (see eyes, weak); using eyes

Whirling

▲   EARS

Ear

External ear red, inflamed, sore; stinging pains.

Pain

with sore throat

on swallowing

Skin; discoloration; redness

▲   FACE

Face

Swollen, red, with piercing pain

Waxy, pale, oedematous

Erysipelas with stinging burning oedema

Extends from right to left.

Lips; turned out lips

Pain; stinging

Skin

discoloration; red

itching (see skin); stinging

out-breaks on skin; red; erysipelas (inflamed from infection, deep red colour)

fluid accumulation

periodic

recurrent

around eye

out-breaks on skin; like nettle rash

shiny skin

waxy

Stiffness, muscles; lips

Swelling

fluid accumulation

scarlet fever

around eyes

under eyes

lips

upper

▲   NOSE

Nose

Coldness of tip of nose

Red, swollen, inflamed, with sharp pains.

Coldness; tip of nose

Accumulation of fluid

Pain; stitching, sudden, sharp

Skin or lining of nose; discoloration; redness; skin erysipelas (inflamed from infection, deep red colour)

Swelling

▲   MOUTH

Mouth

Scalding in mouth and throat

Membrane of mouth and throat glossy, as if varnished

Red, shining, and puffy, like erysipelas

Growths, blisters, swellings; blisters; stitching, sudden, sharp, stinging

Lips

Lips swollen, especially upper

Gums and teeth

Gums swollen

Gums; watery-look

Teeth; grinding

Tongue

Tongue fiery red, swollen, sore, and raw, with vesicles

Tongue feels scalded, red hot, trembling

Discoloration

tongue; red

tongue; red; fiery-red

tongue; yellow; bright; shining

Dryness; tongue

Growths, blisters, swellings

blisters; tongue

blisters; tongue; burning

Inflammation; tongue

Swelling; tongue

Palate

Discoloration; palate (roof of mouth); red

▲   THROAT

Throat

Constricted, stinging pains

Uvula swollen, sac-like.

Larynx (voice box); bruised feeling

Discoloration; redness; throat

Glazed appearance

Inflammation

erysipelas (inflamed from infection, deep red colour)

uvula (lobe at back of mouth)

Membrane, exudation, diphtheria, etc.

Pain

stinging

stinging; when not swallowing

sudden, sharp; on swallowing

Swelling

uvula (lobe at back of mouth)

uvula (lobe at back of mouth); fluid accumulation

Tickling in the air passages; in throat-pit

Ulcers

▲   CHEST

Chest

Fullness

Heart; angina pectoris

Lungs; fluid build up in chest cavity (pulmonary oedema)

Oppressed feeling

during chill

warm room

Pain

heart

burning

front part

sore, bruised

from coughing

collar bone

above

stitching, sudden, sharp; breast

stitching, sudden, sharp; heart

Skin; out-breaks on skin; breast; inflammation from infection, deep red colour on breast

Respiration

Hoarseness; Dyspnea, breathing hurried and difficult

Oedema of larynx

Feels As if he could not draw another breath

Suffocation; short, dry cough, suprasternal

Hydrothorax.

Difficult (dyspnea)

open air

during chill

constriction of larynx

with skin diseases

suppressed out-breaks on skin

with heat

when overheated

lying down impossible

while lying down

while lying; lying with the head low

wants doors and windows open

from warmth; in a warm room

Gasping

Like deep snoring; daze and crying out as with a sharp pain

▲   COUGH

Cough

While lying down

night; midnight, cough wakens him

▲   SKIN

Skin

Swellings after bites; Sore, sensitive

Stinging

Erysipelas, with sensitiveness and swelling, rosy hue

Carbuncles, with burning, stinging pain ( Arsenicum Album ^Ars.; Anthracinum ^Anthrac) Sudden puffing up of whole body.

Discoloration

red

white

Abnormal growths; warts; waxy

Inflammation

skin erysipelas (inflamed from infection, deep red colour)

skin erysipelas (inflamed from infection, deep red colour); with swelling

Itching

stinging

Out-breaks on skin

boils; painful boil, shedding skin and tissues (carbuncle); stinging

burning

measles

scarlet fever

stinging

like nettle rash

night

during fever

nodular

while perspiring

Pain

burning

stinging

Prickling

Sensitive

Shining

Sticking

Swelling

pale

stinging

▲   BACK AND NECK

Neck

Pulsating

neck

neck; extending to shoulder

Back

Inflammation; with suffocation, worse in warm room

Pain; coccyx (bottom tip of spine)

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Stomach; Sore feeling

Thirstless

Craving for milk ( Rhus Tox ^Rhus.)

Sore, bruised on pressure, when sneezing

Extremely tender

Dropsy of abdomen

Peritonitis

Swelling in right groin.

Inflammation

neck of large intestine (right side, between hip and ribs. typhlitis)

Pain

sore, bruised, tenderness, etc.

sore, bruised, tenderness, etc.; behind lower ribs

sore, bruised, tenderness, etc.; right side, between ribs and hip

stinging

Swelling; from watery fluid; abdominal cavity

Bladder

inflammation

pain; pressing, pressure

retention of urine (see urination delayed)

in children

urging to urinate (unhealthy desire)

constant

during fever

frequent (see urination, frequent)

urination; painful or difficult urination; painful; dances around the room in agony

urination; frequent

urination; involuntary, incontinence

night, bed wetting

during cough

Kidneys

inflammation; acute (see albumen)

suppression of urine

Stomach

thirst; during chill

without thirst

during heat

Eating

Vomiting of food

Stomach

burping, belching; tasting like food; drinking water

Vomiting

vomiting

▲   RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Rectum

Constipation

during period

Diarrhoea

movement

Pain

soreness

soreness; after stool

urge to stool, or urinate, but producing nothing

during dysentery

Prolapse

Relaxed anus

Skin and lining; excoriated (as if grazed, chaffed); from stool

Stool

Involuntary on every motion; Anus seems open

Bloody, painless

Anus feels raw

Hemorrhoids, with stinging pain, after confinement

Diarrhoea watery, yellow; Cholera infantum type

Cannot urinate without a stool Dark, fetid, worse after eating

Constipation; feels as if something would break on straining.

Hard; during period

Watery

▲   GENITALS ETC

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.

Albuminous (white, thick)

during pregnancy

after scarlet fever

Bloody

Burning (includes hot)

Ejecting lumps; of tubes

Cloudy

Colour; dark

Milky

in hydrocephalus (water on the brain: headache, drowsiness, vomiting), very little but frequent discharges of milky urine with unconsciousness and delirium

Odour; offensive

Scanty

Sediment; like coffee beans

Male

Male

swelling; scrotum; fluid accumulation

testes and scrotum (balls); scrotum swollen by fluid accumulation

Womb

Great tenderness over abdomen and uterine region.

Female

inflammation; womb

Genitals

Oedema of labia; relieved by cold water

Soreness and stinging pains; ovaritis; worse in RIGHT ovary

Dysmenorrhoea, with severe ovarian pains

Metrorrhagia profuse, with heavy abdomen, faintness, stinging pain

Sense of tightness

Ovarian tumors, metritis with stinging pains

Male; prostate gland; inflammation

Female

congestion; ovaries

fluid build up (see swelling); ovaries

miscarriage

hardness; ovaries; right

heaviness; ovaries

inflammation; ovaries

pain; ovaries

pain; burning; ovaries

during miscarriage

after sexual intercourse

pain; piercing, stabbing; ovaries

pain; stinging; ovaries

sexual intercourse; desire increased; in widows

swollen; enlarged; ovaries

right

tumours; ovaries

Menses

Menses suppressed, with cerebral and head symptoms, especially in young girls

Bearing-down, as if menses were to appear

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Oedematous

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

Oedematous swellings.

Arthritic nodules

finger joints

Awkwardness

hands; drops things

Coldness

lower limbs; knee; during chill

lower limbs; foot

Sensation of enlargement; foot

Inflammation

joints

leg; skin erysipelas (inflamed from infection, deep red colour)

toes; skin erysipelas (inflamed from infection, deep red colour)

Numbness (see tingling); upper limbs

Pain; burning; foot; toes

Paralysis; on one side of body (hemiplegia); left

Skin

discoloration; hand; red

discoloration; knee; purple; spots

discoloration; foot; pale

felon (whitlow, onychia, paronychia, foot rot, etc.); itching

felon (whitlow, onychia, paronychia, foot rot, etc.); whitlow, foot rot

felon (whitlow, onychia, paronychia, foot rot, etc.); stinging pain

itching; lower limbs

Stiffness

foot

foot; night

toes

Swollen

fluid in tissues

hand

fluid accumulation

lower limbs; fluid in tissues

after scarlet fever

lower limbs; stinging

ankle

foot

night

fluid accumulation

sensation of

toes; not visible

▲   FEVER AND CHILL

Fever and chill

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.

Afternoon

Evening

Open air

Beginning in particular area

abdomen and extending from abdomen

chest

Internal

During movement

At certain time of day or night

from 3 p.m.

from 3 p.m.; to 4 p.m.; 5 p.m.

from 4 p.m.

to 5 p.m.

Warm room

In warmth

in warm room; not relieved in warm room, nor by a warm heater

in warm room; smothering in warm room

Warmth is unbearable

Morning

Morning; with chilliness

Afternoon

with chilliness

Localised; cerebro-spinal fever

Burning heat

afternoon

Fever without chill

afternoon; 3 p.m.; to 4 p.m.

With chilliness

Continued fever; with skin out-break

Fever with skin out-break

measles

scarlet fever

Desire to uncover

Warmth

covering

warm room

heat of the room is intolerable

Washing

▲   INJURIES AND ACCIDENTS

Injuries and accidents

Wounds; penetrating wounds

▲   GENERALITIES

Fatigue

Lethargic, tired

Sleep and dreams

Very Drowsy

Dreams full of care and toil

Screams and Sudden startling during sleep.

Symptoms during chill

Deep; during heat

Sleepiness, tiredness

Generalities

Fluid build up

external

internal

Inflammation; thin, watery membranes

Lying down; lying down

Pain; burning externally

Pressure

Pulse; frequent, accelerated, elevated, exalted, fast, innumerable, rapid

Sensitive

externally

excessive physical irritability

Suppression of sexual desire

Symptoms not symmetrical; right

Swelling

in general

puffy

Temperature (felt and effects of temperature); hot feeling; sensation of heat

warmth

warm room

warm bed

Touch

Warmth

warm room

warm bed

Wraps

Weakness (see lethargic, weariness)

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