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Apis Mellifica
Apium virus · APIS
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Origin Animal · Insecta · Simple
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

By regionHering
Mind ► Loss of consciousness. ► Sopor interrupted by piercing shrieks. ► Impaired memory. ► Absent-mindedness. ► Awkwardness, lets everything fall from his hands. ► Dulness of head ; indifference. ► Could not bring his thoughts to bear on anything. ► Muttering delirium. ► Sudden shrill screams. θ Hydrocephalus, etc. ► Busy, restless, changing kind of work. ► Delusive idea that he must run or hop, that he cannot walk. ► Great tearfulness, cannot help crying. ► Dread of death. ► Apathy, hardness of hearing ; happy expression. ► Mood : irritable ; hard to please ; nervous. ► Violence amounting to frenzy. ► Jealousy (in women). ► Manias, especially proceeding from sexual cause in women.
Inner Head ► Brain feels tired ; as if "gone to sleep", tingling. ► Dull heavy, tensive headache over the eyes, with pain through the orbits. ► Chronic headache, violent pain in forehead and temples, at times involving the eyes, attended by vertigo, nausea, and vomiting, must hold the head and eyes down. ► Burning and throbbing in the head, worse by motion and stooping, temporarily better by pressing the head firmly with the hands ; occasional sweat. ► Aching in the occiput. ► Violent drawing from the back of neck, extending behind the left ear, spreading over let half of head. ► Neuralgic pain, like a bee-sting, in and about left temple. ► Congestion to the head and face ; fulness in the head. ► Child lies in torpor ; delirium, sudden shrieking cries, squinting, grinding teeth, boring head in pillow ; one side twitching, the other paralyzed ; head wet from sweating ; urine scanty, milky ; big toe turns up ; nausea while lying ; breath offensive ; tongue sore. θ Acute hydrocephalus. θ After erysipelatous eruptions. ► Pain in occiput, with occasional sharp shrieks. θ Hydrocephalus. ► Chronic meningitis, with considerable cephalic disturbance and symptoms indicating threatening if not actual effusion of serum in to the cavity of the arachnoid. ► Hydrocephaloid ; stupor ; eyes red, head hot, shrill shrieks ; tongue dry, skin, dry, hands colds cold and blue ; urine suppressed, abdomen tender ; diarrhoea mucous, offensive, involuntary, containing flakes of pus. ► Hydrocephalic enlargement of the head.
Eyes ► Squinting ; trembling of eyeball, worse at night. ► Rolling the eyes. ► Severe, darting, lancinating pains in the eyes. ► Burning, stinging, shooting pains. ► Conjunctiva injected, full of dark vessels ; chemosis. ► Cornea : thick, having dark, smoky spots ; greyish, smoky, opaque. ► Ulcers on cornea ; cicatrices ; staphyloma corneae. ► Conjunctivitis, photophobia, but cannot bear eyes covered. ► Scalding tears, profuse ; great sensitiveness to light. ► Lids : dark red, everted, swollen, excoriation of edges ; granulated ; swollen and very sensitive ; oedematous, with bag-like swelling under the eye ; non-inflammatory oedema (like Arsen.) ; feel stiff.
Stomach ► Burning heat in stomach. ► Pit of stomach sensitive ; burning as from acidity ; irritability of stomach ; fulness ; pressure aggravates the pains. ► Great soreness in the pit of stomach when touched.
Female Sexual Organs ► Sharp, cutting, lancinating pains in ovarian region, extending down thigh ; worse right side ; numbness in side and limb. θ Ovaritis. θ Ovarian tumor. ► Feeling of weight, heaviness in ovarian region. ► Right ovary enlarged, pain in left pectoral region, cough. ► Dropsy of the ovaries (right), or of the uterus. ► Great tenderness over the uterine region, with bearing down pain ; leucorrhoea and painful urination. ► Heat and fulness of uterine region. ► Burning or stinging pains in region of uterus or ovaries. ► Menorrhagia, with heaviness in the abdomen, faintness, uneasiness, restlessness, yawning ; may have red spots on body, stinging like bee-stings. ► Suppressed menses, with congested or inflamed ovaries. ► Amenorrhoea. ► Dysmenorrhoea, with scanty discharge of slimy blood. ► Oedema of the labia. ► Ovarian tumors. ► Leucorrhoea : profuse, acrid, green.
Lungs ► Sensation of soreness, as if bruised or beaten. ► Dull, aching pain in left side of chest, near the middle of sternum, with sensation of fullness in the chest and short breath. ► Hydrothorax. θ After pleurisy. ► Stitches in left side of chest. ► Burning, stinging pains throughout entire front of chest.
Neck And Back ► Stiffness in the back of neck. ► Rheumatic stitches in right side of neck. ► Tensive pain from left shoulder to back of neck. ► Burning and heat like "prickly heat", on the back. ► Lower posterior dorsal region, especially left, feels as if bruised. ► Burning, pressing in coccygeal region, worse from any attempt to sit down ; evening.
Limbs In General ► Trembling of hands and feet. ► Limbs numb ; cold.
Sleep ► Yawning. ► Great inclination to sleep, but cannot, from nervous restlessness. ► Continuous deep sleep. ► Restless sleep and incessant dreaming. ► Screams during sleep ; also sudden starting. ► Dreams : of journeying ; of flying ; of assembled people ; unpleasant.
Chill, Fever And Sweat ► Chill about 3 P.M. worse in warmth ; runs down the back, with great prostration. ► Chilliness from the slightest motion, with heat of face and hands ; towards evening. ► Sensation of coldness without coldness of the skin ; ague. ► Skin burning hot all over, or gradually grows cool in some places, hot in others. ► Heat, with inclination to uncover. ► Dry, hot skin, or alternate dry and moist skin. ► Sweat after trembling and fainting, then nettle-rash. ► During hot stage more or less violent headache, generally a continuous deep sleep. θ Intermittent. ► Sweating stage either absent or of a very light grade. θ Intermittent. ► Continuous low fever ; no thirst ; worse 3 P.M. is then very drowsy. ► Typhoid forms of fever, especially enteric, cerebral, exanthematic forms ; febris nervosa putrida. ► Thirst wanting during sweat ; may or may not be present during heat, always thirst during the chill. ► Apyrexia : pain under short ribs left side ; feet swollen ; urine scanty ; limbs and joints sore ; restless ; urticaria.
Skin ► Stinging, burning, prickling, smarting, or itching of the skin ; sensitiveness to the slightest touch. ► Skin very hot and red. ► Red spots on abdomen and other parts ; burning, stinging. ► Intensely deep red rash. ► Scarlatina. ► Measle-like eruption. ► Small pustules, with burning, smarting, stinging ; forming dry, scaly, laminated, brownish scabs. ► Body covered with large, while wheals, deep scarlet interspaces. ► Erysipelas, with bruised, sore pain and much swelling. ► White miliary eruption on chest and abdomen. ► Nettle-rash in warm weather, when one cannot sweat. ► Skin : pale, waxy, almost transparent ; dark blue, almost black. ► Carbuncles, with burning, stinging pains.

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
Compare Belladonna, Bryonia Alba, Apocynum Cannabinum +74

* 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.
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