ClarkePreparation Tinctures are made of the whole bee; and of dilutions of the poison with alcohol.
Sources 18 entries across 16 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Allen …
Dose Boericke
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Tincture to thirtieth potency. In oedematous 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
Reason for useGuernsey
Pains like bee-stings , with the thrust and the burning following; absence of thirst; scanty urine: shrill, sudden, piercing screams while sleeping or waking, form invaluable key-notes to the use of this remedy. Mental.-- The mental symptoms are rich in unconsciousness, absent-mindedness, impaired memory, and slow march of ideas. Dulness, stupor, stertor: sensitiveness. Lets things fall from the hands from inadvertency. Delirium with or without muttering. Shrill, sudden piercing screams, sleeping or waking. Great tearfulness, cannot help crying. Cannot bear to be left atone. Very irritable and fidgety about this or that; nothing seems to satisfy; all wrong and out of place. Very jealous. Vertigo on closing the eyes or when the sight is obscured. Premonition of death, thinks it is about to transpire. Dread of death, sensation as if could not breathe again.
By regionGuernsey
Head The general character of pains in the head, aside from the stinging, thrusting pains, are an aching-like congestion, pressing or dull heavy headache. …
Eyes Swelling about the eyes; much inflamed; sometimes entirely closed; very sensitive to the light; obscuration of sight often from opacity of the cornea; cannot look fixedly at any object; cannot read by artificial lights from pain in the eyes; boring, burning, stinging, itching, and shooting in the eyes, or aching extending into the forehead; squinting of one or both eyes; upper lids swell and hang like little sacks over the eyes; very much lachrymation, which feels hot and scalding; eyes are weak and cannot bear much use; chemosis; fistula lachrymalis; sleeps with the eyes wide open; paralysis of right side of the face with right eye closed; chronic inflammation of the conjunctiva, which has become thickened; eyelids everted, red and smarting; oedematous and bag-like under the lower lids; granulated, even on the edges; agglutination of at night; styes with stinging pains; smoky darkness before the eyes.
Stomach Burning heat in the stomach; soreness in the stomach and abdomen; thirst, absence of, insatiable, or for little and often; appetite, loss of, or voracious; bitter or acrid belching; rich in symptoms of nausea; retching, vomiting of food, mucus, even frothy, bile, and vomiting with diarrhoea; weak, faint sensation in stomach.
Chest Sharp pains, stitches, and stingings in; sensation of soreness, lame, bruised feeling in. …
Extremities Upper : The arms, hands, or fingers, one, both, or all, swell, become very tender, and remain so for several days. …
Fever Chill, with red face, and red spots all over the body; chills from 3 to 5 P.M.; often with racking pain all through the head; chills worse in warmth; run down the back; hands and feet feel as if dead. …
Skin Erysipelatous inflammation and swelling, white and hard in the centre. White wales on different parts, itching fearfully. …
Books*
Antidoted by Cantharis Vesicatoria 2, Ipecacuanha 2, Lachesis 2+11
Complementary Natrum Muriaticum, Rhus Toxicodendron, Arsenicum Album +12
Follows well Arsenicum Album, Graphites, Iodium +9
* Number of books that state the relation, where more than one. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works. homeopathylibrary.com/remedy/apis-mellifica
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