Apis Mellifera

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 (RAus 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 dyspnsa, 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 h¢morrhoids. "Redness and swelling with

stinging and burning pain in eyes, eyelids, ears, face, lips, tongue, throat, anus, testicles." Sdema

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 Sdema.—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,

diarrhsa. < In evening: erysipelas, giddiness, headache, chills, fever. Many symptoms are < lying

down, and > sitting.

• ▸Grief.
• ▸Fright.
• ▸Rage.
• ▸Vexation.
• ▸Jealousy.
• ▸(The queen bee is the most jealous thing in

nature.) Hearing bad news, mental shock. Suppressed eruptions.

• ▸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.
• ▸Jealously, fright, rage, vexation, grief.
• ▸Cannot concentrate mind when attempting to read or study.

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.

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 |.
• ▸side of head) behind the ears, in the neck.
• ▸—Dark

hémorrhages.

• ▸Whole brain feels very tired.
• ▸Vertigo with sneezing, worse on lying or closing eyes.
• ▸Heat, throbbing, distensive pains, better on pressure, and worse on motion.
• ▸Sudden stabbing pains.
• ▸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.

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 |.
• ▸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).

• ▸Lids swollen, red, oedematous, everted, inflamed; burn and sting.
• ▸Conjunctiva bright red, puffy.
• ▸Lachrymation hot.
• ▸Photophobia.
• ▸Sudden piercing pains.
• ▸Pain around orbits.
• ▸Serous exudation, oedema, and sharppains.
• ▸Suppurative inflammation of eyes.
• ▸Keratitis with intense chemosis of ocular conjunctiva.
• ▸Staphyloma of cornea following suppurative inflammation.
• ▸Styes, also prevents their recurrence.

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.—Sdematous

swelling of eyelids; bags under eyes; upper lids hang over like sacs.—Styes with stinging pains;

smoky darkness before the eyes.

External ear red, inflamed, sore; stinging pains.

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

hearing.

Coldness of tips of nose. Red, swollen, inflamed, with sharp pains.

Swollen, red, Sdematous.—Coryza, worse from warmth; chronic catarrh with crusty

nostrils; polypus.

• ▸Swollen, red, with piercing pain.
• ▸Waxy, pale, oedematous.
• ▸Erysipelas with stinging burning oedema.
• ▸Extends from right to left.

Sdematous 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 1.
• ▸(Rhus |.
• ▸to r.
• ▸).
• ▸—Jaws stiff, with stiff tongue and

impossibility of intelligible speech.

• ▸Tongue fiery red, swollen, sore, and raw, with vesicles.
• ▸Scalding in mouth and throat.
• ▸Tongue feels scalded, red hot, trembling.
• ▸Gums swollen.
• ▸Lips swollen, especially upper.
• ▸Membrane of mouth and throat glossy, as if varnished.
• ▸Red, shining, and puffy, like erysipelas.
• ▸Cancer of the tongue.

Lips sdematous; 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

diarrhsa).—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 1.
• ▸border (r.
• ▸Silic.
• ▸,

• ▸Thuj.
• ▸).
• ▸—Tongue swollen, dry, cracked, sore, ulcerated, or covered with vesicles.
• ▸—Viscid, tough,

frothy, saltva—Gums sacculated and look watery.—Fetor of breath, with headache.

Grinding of the teeth; sudden and involuntary biting them together; covered with

yellow mucus or brown sordes.

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.

• ▸Constricted, stinging pains.
• ▸Uvula swollen, sac-like.
• ▸Throat swollen, inside and out; tonsils swollen, puffy, fiery red.
• ▸Ulcers on tonsils.
• ▸Fiery red margin around leathery membrane.
• ▸Sensation of fishbone in throat.

• ▸Sore feeling.
• ▸Thirstless.
• ▸Vomiting of food.
• ▸Craving for milk (Rhus).

No thirst with the heat —Thirstlessness (with dropsy).—Vomiting of

bile—Vomiting, with inflammation of the stomach.—Vomiting, with diarrhsa—Burning heat in

the stomach.—Great soreness in pit of stomach when touched.—Violent pain and sensitiveness in

region of stomach.

• ▸Sore, bruised on pressure, when sneezing.
• ▸Extremely tender.
• ▸Dropsy of abdomen.
• ▸Peritonitis.
• ▸Swelling in right groin.

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.

• ▸Involuntary on every motion; anus seems open.
• ▸Bloody, painless.
• ▸Anus feels raw.
• ▸Haemorrhoids, 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.

Sensation of rawness in the anus, with diarrhSa.—Discharge of flatus

before stool.—DiarrhSa: during fevers; from heat; in debilitated children; from irritability of brain

• ▸(hydrocephaloid).
• ▸—Diarrhsa, yellowish-green, with mucus, esp.
• ▸in the morning.
• ▸—Stool thin,

watery, yellow, < in morning; may or may not be offensive —Stools smelling very

offensively.—Diarrhsa and vomiting.—DiarrhSa 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.—Hémorrhoids, 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.

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.

• ▸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.

• ▸OEdema of labia; relieved by cold water.
• ▸Soreness and stinging pains; ovaritis; worse in right ovary.
• ▸Menses suppressed, with cerebral and head symptoms, especially in young girls.
• ▸Dysmenorrhoea, with severe ovarian pains.
• ▸Metrorrhagia profuse, with heavy abdomen, faintness, stinging pain.
• ▸Sense of tightness.
• ▸Bearing-down, as if menses were to appear.
• ▸Ovarian tumors, metritis with stinging pains.
• ▸Great tenderness over abdomen and uterine region.

AmenorrhSa 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 I.

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 I.

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 mamm¢ threatening to ulcerate.—Scirrhus or open cancer of the mamm¢é, with stinging,

burning pains.

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.

• ▸Hoarseness; dyspnoea, breathing hurried and difficult.
• ▸OEdema of larynx.
• ▸Feels as if he could not draw another breath.
• ▸Suffocation; short, dry cough, suprasternal.
• ▸Hydrothorax.

Irritation to cough in the supra-sternal

• ▸fossa.
• ▸—Hoarseness.
• ▸—Hoarseness in the morning.
• ▸—Respiration hurried and difficult (with fever

• ▸and headache).
• ▸—Sdema 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.—Dyspnsa; esp. difficult

inspiration.

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 |. 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 1.
• ▸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.

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.

Hands bluish, and inclined to be cold.—Sdema 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.

Cold legs.—Sensation in the toes and whole foot, as if too large; swollen and

stiff—Legs (ankles) and feet waxy, pale, and Sdematous.—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.

• ▸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.

• ▸Swellings after bites; sore, sensitive.
• ▸Stinging.
• ▸Erysipelas, with sensitiveness and swelling, rosy hue.
• ▸Carbuncles, with burning, stinging pain (Ars; Anthrac).
• ▸Sudden puffing up of whole body.

Sdematous 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.

Very drowsy. Dreams full of care and toil. Screams and sudden starting during sleep.

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).

• ▸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.

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.

• ▸Abscess.
• ▸Ankles, swelling of.
• ▸Apoplexy.
• ▸Asthma.
• ▸Bladder, affections of.
• ▸Carbuncle.

• ▸Chancre.
• ▸Constipation; of sucklings.
• ▸Diarrhsa.
• ▸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.
• ▸Panarittum.
• ▸Pannus.
• ▸Peritonitis.
• ▸Phlebitis.
• ▸Pleurisy.

• ▸Prostatitis.
• ▸Punctured wounds.
• ▸Red-gum.
• ▸Rheumatism.
• ▸Scarlatina.
• ▸Self-abuse.
• ▸Suppressed

• ▸eruptions, effects of.
• ▸Sycosis.
• ▸Syphilis.
• ▸Throat, sore.
• ▸Tongue, sdema of; ulceration of.
• ▸Trachea,

• ▸irritation of.
• ▸Tumours.
• ▸Typhus.
• ▸Urethritis.
• ▸Urine, abnormalities of.
• ▸Vaccination.
• ▸Varicose veins.

Variola. Wounds.

• ▸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 diarrhSa); 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.
• ▸/t antidotes: Canth.
• ▸, Iod.
• ▸, Chi.
• ▸,

• ▸Dig.
• ▸[t follows well: Bry.
• ▸(when cephalic cry appears); Helleb.
• ▸(when torpor sets in); Iod.
• ▸, Hep.
• ▸,

• ▸Merc.
• ▸, Lyc.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸[s 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). /nimical: Rhus in eruptive diseases.

• ▸Complementary.
• ▸: Nat mur.
• ▸The "chronic", Apis; also Baryta carb, if lymphatics are involved.
• ▸Inimical.
• ▸Rhus.

Compare: Apium virus (auto-toxaemia, with pus products); Zinc; Canth; Vespa; Lachesis.

• ▸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.

him a little lump. But you meet one who is sensitive to the sting of

the honey-bee, and if he gets one little sting on any place in his body,

he comes down with nausea and anxiety that makes him feel that he

is dying, and in about ten minutes he is covered with urticaria from

head to foot ; he stings and burns and wants to be bathed in cold

water ; he fears that he will die if something is not done to mitigate his

suffering, rolls and tosses as if he would tear himself to pieces. I have

seen all these symptoms come on after Apis. The antidote for that

is Carbolic acid. I have seen Carbolic acid administered in that state,

and the patient described the sensation of the Carbolic acid going

down his throat as a cooling comfort. He says ‘‘Why, doctor, I carl

feel that dose go to the ends of my fingers.*’ When you administer

an antidote under such circumstances listen to what your patient says.

When you get the true natural antidote, and, at times, when you get

the true curative medicine in a case, no matter how high the potency

is, the patient will say : “I feel that to the roots of my hair and to the

ends of my toes.” Such is the feeling it gives when the true antidotal

medicine goes to the innermost portions of his economy, and that is

the way we want to get our medicines always, to be guided by the

symptoms of our patient that they will tell us what medicine to administer, and when the medicine is administered its highest reaction

is of that sort.

If we are well acquainted with the symptoms of Apis we can many

times get along without having a specialist to treat the eyes. They

make more people blind with their lotions, caustic solutions, etc., than

they benefit. The old-fashioned way was to cauterize with copper and

silver nitrate solution, and the modern things are not much better.

At the present day the homeopathic physician who is not capable of

taking eye symptoms as well as lung symptoms and symptoms of any

part of the body is not competent to practice medicine. Eye cases can

be prescribed for by the physician. In Homeopathy there is no such

thing as treating the eye and other organs of the body, but the patient

with all his organs, not the patient with one or two organs.

Apis is a great remedy for the eyes. It has deep-seated inflammatory complaints of the eyes as a result of disease. Inflammations

that are erysipelatous in character, that leave thickening of the mucous

• ▸membrane and lids, and white spots over the eye ; opacities.
• ▸Inflammation with opacities very extensive or in patches.
• ▸Enlarged bloodvessels.
• ▸When the inflammatory condition is active it is attended with

oedema of the lids, both upper and lower, and the whole face is sometimes in a state of oedema, such as you would expect to sec after a bee

sting. The swelling of the mucous membranes of the lids is so enormous that they roll out, looking like pieces of raw beef. The fluid

will run out over the cheeks in great abundance. Burning and stinglOO

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ing like fire, better from washing, from cold applications, worse from

heat. Chronic eye troubles that are worse from looking into an open

fire, worse from radiated heat ; wants something cold applied. Chronic

granular lids. The results of chronic inflammation are numerous and

extensive. Worse from looking at white things, worse from looking

at the snow. Pain in the eyeballs, pain deep in the eyeballs, stitches,

burning, stinging and shooting. Chemosis. Apis is often suitable

for old scrofulous affections of the eyes. Vascular affections, the

veins are enlarged. ‘‘Iritis.” “Congestion to the eyes, blood-vessels

injected whole conjunctiva inflamed. Photophobia. Rheumatic

opthalmia, that is, a high grade of inflammation of the eyes in rheumatic subjects. Catarrhal inflammation of the eyes ; scrofulous inflammation of the eyes. Hot tears gush out of the eyes ; burning in the

eyes. Erysipelas of the eyes and sides of the face, extending from

the right to the left. This direction is an Apis feature in many other

respects. Erysipelas commences on the right side of the face, extends

over the nose to the left side. Inflammation commences in the right

side of the abdominal viscera and extends over to the left. In inflammation of the ovary the right is preferred to the left. The right side

of the uterus is preferred. Pains in the whole right side of the pelvis

extending over towards the left. Burning stinging here and there

extending from right to left.

Inflammation of the middle ear in connection with or after scarlet

fever.

Now wc come to the throat troubles of Apis. Wc have much throat

trouble. Apis cures diphtheria, especially when there is a high grade

of inflammation and the membrane is scanty or comes slowly or insidiously, and it is somewhat of a surprise the gradual progress it makes ;

the parts are oedematous and the soft palate is puffed like a water-bag,

and the uvula hangs down with a semi-transparent appearance like a

bag of water. All around the throat and mouth there is an oedematous

condition looking as if it would flow water if pricked. Burning, stinging pains in the throat ameliorated by cold and aggravated by heat.

Aversion to all warm substances and drinks. The tongue swells until

it fills the mouth, worse on the right half of the tongue, or involving

the right side first. Raw beef appearance, denuded appearance of the

tongue and buccal cavity and throat. Various kinds of swelling in

the throat ; benign swellings, with burning, stinging and redness. Ulcers in the throat that come as a result of this inflammation. Apis is

suitable in the severest forms of sore throat accompanying scarlet

fever. It cures scarlet fever when the symptoms agree, and it is not

an uncommon thing for Apis to be suited to scarlet fever, though the

rash is sometimes rough. The scarlet fever rash is not always smooth

Wt|d shiny. When the rash does not come out at all the face is very

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pallid, with a high grade of inflammation of the throat ; the scarlet

fever is in the family, and the skin is red without any rash ; in those

cases that are worse from heat, want the covers off, and are sensitive

to the heat of the room. The patient desires a low temperature in the

room, is worse from heat, w^ants cool things, worse from radiated heat

especially, or hot air that comes from a register or fire. He suffocates

when a little warm air is radiating over the body. He is disturbed

from heat even in the chill of an intermittent fever ; if in a warm room

when having a chill, he suffocates. So it is with the scarlet fever, with

the sore throat, and in diphtheria ; from the least whiff of radiated

heat he suffocates. He wants the doors and windows open, wants

something cold. Sometimes the scarlet fever patient will go into convulsions because the rash fails to come out. Apis is sometimes a suitable remedy and must be compared with Cuprum, Zincum and Bryonia, A warm bath will intensify the convulsion.

‘‘Sensation of constriction and erosion in the throat in the morning.’’

Throat sore and swollen ; stinging pains. “Could not shallow solid

food.” With these complaints there is often shivering, shuddering,

little chills intermingled with the febrile state. Many times you will

think to comfort him by covering him up with a warm blanket, but it

will make him worse, he will throw it off. A child will kick off the

covers. An adult who is shivering while covered up will kick off the

covers. These strange and peculiar things are guiding features, things

that cannot be accounted for..

In Apis there is vomiting,' nausea, retching and vomiting, with great

anxiety. Vomiting of bile and everything eaten. Vomiting of bitter

and sour fluids.

Apis causes soreness and tightness throughout the abdomen ^ind

• ▸hypochondria.
• ▸Sensation of tightness runs through many of the complaints of Apis.
• ▸The abdomen is distended with gas.
• ▸Meteoritic condition, great tension and fulness, hard and drum-like.
• ▸In all inflammatory complaints, in peritonitis, inflammation of the liver, inflammation of the pelvis, there is great tension, tightness ; but this tightness

is not always general, sometimes it is local ; sometimes it is with little

congestion, but tightness prevails throughout the abdomen, and this

tightness makes it impossible for the patient to cough for fear something will burst. The cough makes him feel as if something would be

torn. Cannot strain at stool. This is common in the abdominal and

pelvic complaints of women. The woman will say she cannot strain at

stool, because of the feeling that if she strains something will break loose.

The same state exists in the chest. It seems that on coughing something

will tear loose, as if the fibres are in a state of tension or stretching.

Hypersensitive state of the liver ; inflammation of the liver and

spleen. Pain under the short ribs, worse on the left side. “Pains

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from below the ribs spreading upward. Obliged to bend forward

from a painful contracted feeling in the hypochondria.” All the complaints are likely to make the patient bend forward and flex the limbs,

because the state of tension is painful. Sensitiveness of the stomach

to touch. Over the whole abdomen .she is so sore that touch is extremely painful; in all the inflammatory complaints of women the

abdomen is very sore and painful. Soreness, distension and stinging

burning pains through the abdomen Burning heat in the stomach.

In the external abdomen there is an cedamatous state. Dropsy,

sometimes alone, sometimes with anasarca. Limbs swollen to the full

extent, pitting upon pressure, the feet and limbs swollen, with burning,

stinging and numbness in the limbs.

Feeling as if the intestines were bruised. Watery diarrhaa is common in Apis ; yellow stools, green stools, olive green stools, watery

stools, etc. Every day six to eight diarrhoeic stools, which smell like

carrion. It is especially useful in a peculiar kind of stool occurring

in children and infants, and intermingling of blood, mucus and food,

giving the stool an appearance like tomato sause. The anus protrudes

with stool and seems to remain open, an open anus like Phosph, and

Puls. Chronic diarrhoea, dysentery, haemorrhage from the bowels.

In its constipation it is related more commonly to head troubles. He

goes many days without a stool. The bowels seem to be perfectly

paralyzed, with congestion of the brain and acute hydrocephalus.

The urinary troubles arc numerous in Apis. The urine is scanty,

coming only in drops. Much straining before the urine will start, and

then only a few drops ; dribbling a little hot urine, burning urine,

• ▸bloody urine.
• ▸As soon as a few drops collect in the bladder the urging comes, constant, ineffectual urging.
• ▸Later the urine is almost suppressed.
• ▸Infants go a long time without passing urine, screeching and

carrying the hand to the head, crying out in sleep, kicking off the

covers. Very often a dose of Apis will be found useful. It is often

called for in scarlet fever when the urine is loaded with albumen.

Urinary troubles, with swelling of the genitals, and the swelling is

(Edematous. Scanty urine in little boys, with the foreskin enormously

distended, or in hydrocele. Every time the call to urinate comes ho

will shriek, because he remembers the pain he had the last time. Inflammatory complaints of the kidneys and ureters, bladder and urethra.

The whole urinary tract is irritated, very much like Cantharis, and

these two medicines antidote each other. If you are called to a child

that has been drugged with crude Apis you can generally antidote it

with Cantharis. If you go to a woman who has taken Cantharis for

vicious purposes, you can very often overcome it with Apis. The

violent frenzy that has been brought on by Cantharis will be overcome

by Apis. The smarting, burning and stinging along the urinary tract

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will be found under Apis. “Flow of urine unconscious.'' Stitching

pain in the urethra with enuresis. Morbid irritability of the urinary

• ▸organs.
• ▸“Strangury.
• ▸Agony in voiding urine.
• ▸Retention of urine

in nursing infants." It is queer how the old women knew, long before

Apis was proved, that when the little new-born baby did not pass its

water they could find a cure by going out to the bee-hive and catching

a few bees, over which they poured hot water, and of which they gave

the baby a teaspoonful. Some domestic things like that have been

known among families and among nurses, and it is consistent because

• ▸it is just like what we give Apis for.
• ▸“Urine scanty and foetid, containing albumen and blood corpuscles.
• ▸" Especially in acute albuminuria.
• ▸The acute inflammatory affection of the kidney with albuminuria, such as occurs in scarlet fever or diphtheria, or after these,

such as occurs as a sequel of acute disease. Inflammation of the kidney closes up the case and kills off a good many in allopathic hands,

never in homoeopathic hands. It is closely related to the genital organs of both male and female. Swelling and oedematous state of the

genitals. Apis is a great friend of the woman. It cures all of her

inflammatory complaints it seems, when the symptoms agree. That

is to say, it produces inflammation of the uterus and ovaries and dreadful sufferings in the external and internal parts, and we have only to

discover when the symptoms agree to cure most of these inflammatory

troubles. It even stops aboition. It will stop abortion after some

miserable scoundrel has attempted to get rid of the offspring, and she

has taken drugs and brought on pains, pains strong enough to expel

the contents of the uterus, especially in the first, second and third

months. A little hccmorrhagc has come on, a mere threatening, the

membranes are not yet ruptured, but they soon will be, and she has

stinging, burning pains, and lies uncovered and suffers from the heat,

probably from the overdose of Ergot, Apis will overcome this greatly

• ▸to her regret.
• ▸This kind of villainy prevails.
• ▸But women have accidents and weakness.
• ▸whcrel)y, in .
• ▸spite of the fact that they desire to

hold their offspring, they are threatened with abortion, and Apis is a

great friend to the prospective mother. Burning and stinging pains

in the ovaries, especially the right ; when greatly enlarged and even

cystic, Apis has proved a curative remedy, has often cured tumors, and

has caused cystic formations to stop growing or to disappear. The

right ovarian region is very sensitive. Pain in the uterus and ovaries

before and during menstruation. Stinging, rending, tearing pains

cutting like knives, worse from heat. It is a very easily got symptom,

because in most painful symptoms heat or the hot water bag are tried

with the natural hope of relief, but with this remedy it aggravates.

She throws it aside, for the pain is worse from heat. “Ovaries

enlarged," etc. Dropsy of right ovary. Ovarian tumor.

The Honey-Bee

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, oedema, red rosy hue, stinging pains, soreness, intolerance of heat, and slightest touch, and afternoon aggravation are some of the general guiding symptoms.
• ▸Erysipelatous inflammations, dropsical effusions and anasarca, acute, inflammation of kidneys, and other perenchymatous tissues are characteristic pathological states corresponding to Apis.
• ▸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.