Apis Mellifica

General

APIS MELLIFICA. [Apis] Poison of the Honey bee. Brauns, 1835. Apium virus.

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.

Sensorium

► Confused vertigo, worse sitting than when walking, extreme when lying and on closing the eyes ; nausea and headache.

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.

Outer Head

► Head feels swollen ; integuments feel swollen and stiff. ► Hair falls out in spots. ► Puffiness of scalp, forehead and around the eyes. θ Erysipelatous inflammation of scalp and face. ► Boring (backward) the head in the pillow. ► Fontanelle sunken. θ Cholera infantum. ► Copious sweat of the head, of musk-like odor.

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.

Ears

► Hardness of hearing. ► Redness and swelling of both ears. ► Raises the hand to the back of the ears with each scream.

Nose

► Thick, white, fetid, mucous discharge, mixed with blood. ► Nose swollen, red and oedematous. ► Boils in nostrils, better from cold.

Face

► Expression : happy, pleasant ; of terror ; apathetic ; features distorted, face dark and much swollen ; sunken, pale, sickly. ► Face : pale ; sallow ; dark red ; swollen, red and hot, with burning and piercing, more right side ; oedematous, waxy, pale. ► Burning cheeks, with cold feet. ► Erysipelas of the face. ► Stinging pain in left malar bone.

Lower Face

► Lips oedematous. ► Raging, violent pains in the lips, extending to gums and head, finally to the whole body. ► Roughness and tension in lips, especially upper. ► Upper lip swollen, hot and red. ► Lower lip chapped. ► Burning : in the lips ; on the chin. ► Bluish lips from asphyxia ; constriction of the throat.

Teeth

► Jumping pain in left upper molars. ► Sudden involuntary biting the teeth together. ► Gums bleed easily. ► Violent pain in gums. ► Swelling and redness of gums and cheek, with sore pain and stinging in the teeth. ► Dentition : gums sacculated, look watery, child awakens with screams ; red spots here and there on the skin.

Tongue, Etc

► Bitter taste. ► Inability to talk, or put the tongue out. ► Dryness of tongue ; fiery redness of buccal cavity, with painful tenderness. ► Rawness, burning and painful stinging blisters along the edge of the tongue. ► Tongue : red at the tip ; swollen, looks dry, glossy ; cracked, sore, ulcerated, or covered with vesicles ; coated white ; glossitis.

Mouth

► Dryness of mouth and fauces. ► Scalding in the mouth and throat. ► Fetid breath. ► Viscid, tough, frothy saliva.

Throat

► Tonsils swollen, bright red, stinging when swallowing. ► Deep ulcers on tonsils or palate ; erysipelatous and oedematous appearance around ulcers. ► Oedema of the glottis. ► Mucous membrane covered with dirty, greyish deposit. ► Tenacious mucus in the throat. ► Throat swollen, inside and outside ; hoarse ; breathing and swallowing difficult. ► Small blisters filled with clear lymph, in clusters, on back part of throat.

Desires And Aversions

► No appetite, nor desire for food. ► Insatiable thirst ; drinks often but little at a time. ► In catarrh of chest, diarrhoea, diphtheria and some dropsies. ► Thirstless. θ In cerebro-spinal meningitis, ovarian dropsy, ascites and pregnancy. ► No thirst with the heat ; mouth dry. ► Craves milk, which relieves. ► Appetite for sour things. ► Child nurses by day, refuses at night. θ After vaccination.

Eating And Drinking

► Continued swallowing relieves soreness and cough. ► Vomits the food as soon as taken, followed by retching. ► After eating : heaviness at stomach ; diarrhoeic discharge renewed.

Nausea And Vomiting

► Bitter or acrid belching ; heart-burn up into throat ; water brash. ► Nausea with inclination to vomit. ► Vomiting : of bile ; of mucus, with red specks ; of ingesta and slime ; and diarrhoea.

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.

Hypochondria

► Violent burning pain under short ribs on both sides. ► Sensation of soreness under the ribs. ► Obliged to bend forward from a painful contractive feeling in the hypochondria. ► Pain in hypochondriac regions, extending upwards.

Abdomen

► Fulness and enlargement of abdomen. ► Rumbling in abdomen. ► Sickly feeling in abdomen, inclines him to sit quiet. ► Violent cutting pains in the abdomen. ► Soreness of the bowels and abdominal walls felt when pressing upon them, or sneezing. ► Feeling as if intestines were bruised. θ Dysentery. θ Ascites. ► Aching, pressive pain in the hypogastrium, with bearing down in the uterus. ► Burning, stinging in the bowels. ► Peritonitis, with exudation ; often with metritis ; urine scanty, dark. ► Walls of abdomen tense ; sensitiveness of ileo-coecal region. θ Typhus.

Stool, Etc

► Throbbing in the rectum, with sensation in the anus as if stuffed full ; tenesmus. ► Diarrhoea : watery ; yellow, with griping ; watery and foul smelling ; watery, copious, black ; greenish-yellow, mucous, worse morning ; slimy mucus and blood, painless ; olive-green, slimy, profuse, full of bright red lumps ; thin, yellow with extreme weakness, stool with every motion of body, as if anus were constantly open. ► Costive, with large, hard, difficult stool ; stinging pains, and sensation in abdomen as from something tight, which would break if much effort were used. ► Hemorrhage from bowels, with burning pains, excoriation of anus, constant tenesmus. θ Prolapsus ani.

Urine

► Renal pains, soreness on pressure or when stooping. ► Frequent sudden attacks of pain along the ureters. ► Great irritation of neck at bladder, with frequent and burning urination. ► Frequent desire, with passage of only a few drops. ► Strangury, stricture, retained urine or inflamed bladder after abuse of cantharides. ► Difficult urination, with children. ► Incontinence, with great irritation of the parts. ► Urine : scanty, high-colored ; red, bloody hot and scanty ; scanty, fetid ; scanty, reddish-brown ; after standing, turbid ; scanty, milky, albuminous ; dark, with sediment like coffee-grounds ; containing uriniferous tubules and epithelium.

Male Sexual Organs

► Frequent and long-lasting erections. ► Swelling of testicles, more the right ; violent itching and redness of scrotum, sore to touch. ► Dropsy of the scrotum ; hydrocele.

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.

Pregnancy

► Abortion during the early months. ► Mammae : burning, stinging, swelling, hardness and suppuration. ► Erysipelas of mammae. ► Stinging, burning in scirrhus tumors of the mammae, or in open cancer. ► Menorrhagia accompanying pelvic peritonitis. ► Ulceration of the navel in the newborn.

Larynx

► Hoarseness morning, dryness, burning of larynx. ► Speaking is painful ; feels as if it wearied the pharynx in which there is drawing pain. ► Weak feeling in larynx. ► Oedema glottidis.

Breathing

► Breathing : hurried and difficult, with fever and headache ; short, quick ; difficult, worse bending forwards or backwards ; worse lying on the left side. ► Great feeling of suffocation ; cannot bear anything about the throat. ► Oppression, worse ascending ; worse in a warm room.

Cough

► Irritation to cough in the suprasternal fossa. ► Severe cough, especially after lying and sleeping. ► Cough : croupy, with ringing sound ; dry, with gagging ; with soreness of upper part of chest ; with painful concussion of head. ► Expectoration : seldom ; sweetish or tasteless.

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.

Heart And Pulse

► Sudden attack of acute pain just below the heart, soon extending diagonally toward the right chest. ► Blowing sound with the diastole. ► Pulse : accelerated, full and strong ; feeble, scarcely perceptible at wrist ; at times intermittent and imperceptible ; wiry and frequent ; hard, small and quick.

Outer Chest

► Chest feels as if beaten or bruised.

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.

Upper Limbs

► Violent rheumatism in right latter in left shoulder. ► Lame feeling in the scapulae. ► Pressure under the scapulae, painful when moving. ► Drawing pains in the arms. ► Oedema of the hands. ► Sensation of numbness in fingers, especially the tips about the roots of the nails. ► Panaritium, with burning, stinging and throbbing ; very sensitive to touch ; especially in "runrounds", after abuse of Sulphur.

Lower Limbs

► Sore pain about left hip-joint ; later, weakness unsteadiness, trembling in the joint. ► Violent pain in left knee, more outside and to the front. ► Sensation in the toes, with redness ; feet cold. ► Swollen and stiff ; also at night on removing the boots. ► Burning in the toes, with redness ; feet cold. ► Legs and feet waxy, pale, swollen, oedematous.

Limbs In General

► Trembling of hands and feet. ► Limbs numb ; cold.

Position, Etc

► Inclined to sit quiet : 19. Lying : 2 ; on left side : 26, 27. Sitting : 2, 31. Rising : 36 Motion : 3, 20, 32, 40. Walking : 2. Holds head and eyes down : 3. Stooping : 3, 21. Bending forwards or backwards : 26. ► Better by changing position of painful parts, which were worse by lying down. ► Pains are better while moving or walking.

Nerves

► Trembling ; nervous restlessness. ► Tired, as if bruised in every limb and especially in the back, like after exertion ; worse on rising after sitting. ► Great prostration. ► Left side motionless ; now and then moves the right arm ; convulsions, trembling and jerking of the limbs.

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.

Time

► Morning : 20, 25. 3 P.M. : 40. 4 P.M. : 1. Evening : 31, 40. Night : 5, 14, 33. Day : 14.

Temperature And Weather

► Closed rooms, especially if overheated, are insupportable. ► Inclination for open air. ► Cold weather aggravates weakness and chest troubles. ► Worse getting wet through, but better from washing or moistening the part in cold water.

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.

Attacks

► Pains return periodically in diphtheria. ► Sudden sharp paroxysms of pain. ► Pains suddenly migrating from one part to another.

Sides

► Right : 8, 22, 23, 31, 36. Left : 3, 8, 10, 18, 23, 29, 31, 33, 36, 40. Left to right : 29, 31. Right to left : 32. Below upwards : 18. Above downwards : 23.

Sensations

► Burning, stinging like bee-stings, and soreness, seem to be the predominating painful sensations -while itching, tension and throbbing may be or may not be painful. ► Numbness of external parts.

Tissues

► Affections of circulatory apparatus and fluid, dropsies, phlebitis, varicose veins, ecchymosed spots gangrene, unhealthy suppuration. ► Periosteum inflamed. ► Serous membranes : inflamed ; effusions ; synovitis. ► Mucous membranes inflamed and catarrhal. ► Glands enlarged, inflamed. ► Muscles stiff, tender on pressure, somewhat swollen ; rigid rheumatic inflammation. ► Indurations : scirrhus, or open cancer.

Contact, Injuries, Etc

► Touch : 17, 19, 22, 26, 32, 46. ► Pressure : 3, 17, 19, 21. Cannot bear covering : 5.

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.

Stages And States

► Strumous diathesis. ► Bilious, nervous temperament ; women and children ; especially widows ; girls, who though generally careful, become awkward, and let things fall while handling them. ► Old people, asthma. ► Those predisposed to miscarry should not receive Apis except in high potencies.

Relationship

► Antidotes to massive doses and in poisonning : Natr. mur., the substance, the solution, the potencies ; sweet oil, as it contains table salt ; onions ; bleeding is decidedly a bad palliative, and is in most cases injurious. ► Antidotes to potencies : after overdosing, Ipec., low, relieved much ; to drink coffee, seems indifferent ; some have given Apis, high, Laches., and Lact. ac. (has been given in ailments from stings, and from anthrax infection). ► It is an antidote to Canthar. (ischuria, inflammation of bladder, acute Bright's disease) ; abuse of Iodium, Cinchon., Digit. ► It follows well after vaccination (erysipelas, painless diarrhoea) ; after Sulphur, in panaritium. ► After it follows well : Graphit. (tetter on ear-lobe) ; Arsen. (hydrothorax) ; phosphor. (absorption of the false membrane in diphtheria) : Stramon. after Apis has removed the jealousy in mania ; Lycop. (in staphyloma) ; Sulphur (in hydrothorax, pleuritic effusion, hydrocephalus) ; Iodium (in puffy, swollen knee). ► Complementary : Natr. mur. ► Has been given in alternation in cases when the change of symptoms indicated it with : Iodium in swelling of knee ; Sulphur in swollen eyes ; Hepar in urticaria ; Mercur. in ascites with peritonitis ; Lycop. in staphyloma. ► It often disagrees after Rhus tox. in eruptive diseases ; and Rhus tox. given after Apis has often disagreed. ► Collateral relation (belonging to the same family) ; Bombus, Crabro, Vespa. ► It has cured where Bellad. failed in cough of horses ; where Bryon., Canthar., Digit., Helleb., etc., had failed in albuminuria after scarlatina ; cases in which Pulsat., seemingly indicated, failed, especially in uterine complaints ; when Thuja, Phosphor., Canthar., etc., had failed in affections of the prostate gland. ► Concordances : Acet. ac. (dropsy) ; Acon., Anac. (urticaria) ; Apocyn. cannab. (dropsy) ; Arnic. (bruised sore) ; Arsen. (typhoid forms ; gangrene ; dropsies : scarlatina ; urticaria ; chills) ; Bellad. (meningitis, especially of cerebral meninges ; faucitis ; erysipelas ; scarlatina ; glandular organs, etc.) ; Bromin. (swelling of ovary during menses) ; Bryon., Cantharides (erysipelas, urinary symptoms) ; Cinchon., Colchic. (rheumatism, etc.) ; Crot. tig. (urticaria) ; Euphr. (conjunctiva) ; Ferrum ; Graphit., Hepar ; Iodium (swollen knee) ; Laches. typhoid states ; gangrene) ; Lycop. Mercur. ; Natr. ars. ; Natr. mur. (chills ; urticaria ; tension in ovarian region, etc.) ; Pulsat. ; Rhus tox. (eyes, but Apis has less suppuration ; vesicular erysipelas, but darker than in Apis, and spreading left to right ; typhoid states ; restlessness, but, in Apis more fidgetiness, etc.) ; Rumex crisp. (painless, greenish-yellow diarrhoea) ; Sabin. (ovarian and uterine symptoms) ; Sepia ; Silic. (ovary and inverted nipple) ; Sulphur (tubercular meningitis ; cheeked eruption, especially urticaria ; asthma ; hydrothorax) ; Tereb. (urinary symptoms) ; Therid. (vertigo) ; Thuja (sycosis, evils of vaccination) ; Urt. ur. ; Zincum ; Calc. iod. (which has relieved conical cornea and staphyloma) ; Guarea (has cured conjunctivitis with marked chemosis).