• Apis Mellifica acts on cellular tissues causing edema of skin and mucous membranes.

• Its characteristic effects resemble bee stings, providing accurate indications.

• It causes swelling or puffing up of various parts, edema with a red, rosy hue.

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• Symptoms experience afternoon aggravation.

• It causes Erysipelatous inflammations, dropsical effusions, and anasarca.

• It causes Acute inflammation of kidneys and other parenchymatous tissues.

• Apis Mellifica acts especially on outer parts, skin, coatings of inner organs, and serous membranes.

• It produces serous inflammation with effusion: membranes of brain, heart, pleuritic effusion.

• It causes Extreme sensitiveness to touch and general soreness.

• It causes Constricted sensations.

• It causes Sensation of stiffness and as if something torn off in the interior of the body.

• It causes Much prostration.

• It causes Thirstlessness, even in dropsical conditions.

• Symptoms often alternate.

• It causes Great lassitude and weariness.

• It causes Puffiness under the eyes.

• Complaints are often right-sided.

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• Shining tearfulness is present.

• Jealously is present.

• Fright is present.

• Rage is present.

• Vexation is present.

• Grief is present.

• The patient cannot concentrate mind when attempting to read or study.

• Irritability and crossness are present; the patient is easily offended.

• Indifference and apathy towards usual occupations are present.

• Restlessness is present; the patient cannot remain in one place.

• Sudden, shrill cries are present, especially in children (cerebral irritation).

• Delirium with muttering is present.

• Fear of death is present.

• Forgetfulness and difficulty remembering recent events are present.

• Suicidal thoughts are present, but the patient fears to carry them out.

• The patient feels unfortunate and hopeless.

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• Headache is relieved by pressure.

• Throbbing headache with heat and redness of the face is present.

• Headache is better with cold applications.

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• Vertigo is present, especially on closing eyes.

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• Conjunctivitis with intense photophobia is present.

• Lachrymation, hot and burning, is present.

• Styes on the eyelids are present.

• Dim vision is present.

• Stinging pains in the ears are present.

• Redness and swelling of the ears are present.

• Otitis media, especially right-sided, is present.

• Humming and buzzing in the ears are present.

• Swelling and redness of the nose are present.

• Stinging pains in the nose are present.

• Coryza with watery discharge is present.

• Nosebleeds are present.

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• Uvula is elongated and edematous.

• Difficulty swallowing is present.

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• Difficult breathing and dyspnea are present.

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• Dry, hacking cough is present.

• Pleurisy with effusion is present.

• Sensation of suffocation is present.

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• Palpitation of the heart is present.

• Weakness and irregularity of the pulse are present.

• Oppression of the chest is present.

• Thirstlessness.

• Nausea and vomiting are present.

• Ascites is present.

• Ovaries are enlarged and sensitive.

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• Diarrhea, watery and involuntary, is present.

• Hemorrhoids, swollen and painful, are present.

• Scanty, dark-colored urine is present.

• Albuminuria is present.

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• Burning pain on urination is present.

• Frequent urging to urinate is present.

• Involuntary urination is present.

• Ovaries are swollen and sensitive to touch.

• Ovarian cysts are present.

• Stinging pains in the ovaries are present.

• Menses are suppressed.

• Metritis with stinging pains is present.

• Leucorrhea, acrid and burning, is present.

• Erysipelas of the genitals is present.

• Edema of the extremities is present.

• Stinging pains in the joints are present.

• Rheumatism with swelling and redness is present.

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• Skin eruptions that sting are present.

• Carbuncles are present.

• Restless sleep is present.

• Sleeplessness with mental activity is present.

• Heat in any form; warm room; touch; pressure; afternoon; lying down; right side.

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• Heat (burning symptoms)

• Touch or pressure (though head is > by pressure)

• Heated rooms

• Warmth of bed

• Night (eyes and chest)

• Lying down

• Morning (mucus in mouth, restlessness, diarrhea)

• Evening (erysipelas, giddiness, headache, chills, fever)

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• Open air; cold applications; uncovering; motion.

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• Compare: Apium virus (auto-toxemia, with pus products); Zinc; Cantharis; Vespa; Lachesis; Natrum muriaticum; Urtica urens; Belladonna.

• Antidotes: Vinegar, Ledum, Natrum muriaticum, Camphor.

• Complementary: Natrum muriaticum, Calcarea carbonica.

• Useful in: Allergies, angioedema, bee stings, burns, cystitis, diphtheria, erysipelas, glomerulonephritis, hives, insect bites, mastitis, meningitis, ovarian cysts, pericarditis, pharyngitis, pleurisy, rheumatism, tonsillitis, urticaria.

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• 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 diarrhea); Sabi.; Sep.; Silic. (ovarian affections with inverted nipples; ulcer on tongue; vaccination effects); Urt. ur.; Zn.

• Antidotes: Nat. mur. in all forms; sweet oil; onions; Ammonia; Ipec., low. (also powdered Ipec. applied locally) Lach.; Ledum.

• It antidotes: Canth., Iod., Chi., Dig.

• It follows well: Bry. (when cephalic cry appears); Helleb. (when torpor sets in); Iod., Hep., Merc., Lyc., Sul.

• Is 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).

• Inimical: Rhus in eruptive diseases.

• _Apium virus. Honey-bee poison. N. O. Insecta._

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• Tinctures are made of the whole bee and of dilutions of the poison with alcohol.

• Great sensitiveness of the surface to touch.

• General soreness: "every hair is painful to contact."

• Great debility as if he had worked hard; compelled to lie down.

• Tired and bruised feeling.

• Great restlessness and fidgetiness.

• Trembling, jerking, and twitching.

• One half of the body twitching, the other lame or paralyzed. Hemiplegia.

• More a right-side medicine; symptoms proceed from right to left (Rhus left to right) and from above downwards.

• Stiffness of lower jaw, extending to tongue and throat, rendering speech difficult, with constriction.

• Difficulty in breathing, especially inspiration.

• Terrible restlessness.

• Dyspnea, face purple, head thrown back.

• Violent, deep, hard, ringing cough, excited by constrictive feeling in the throat, reaching down to sore place in the lungs.

• Slow action, do not change too soon. Increased flow of urine shows favorable effect.

• Dropsies characterized 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.

• Cardiac dropsy: feet swell after walking, intolerably sore and burning.

• Chest affections: sensation of contraction and inability to lie down.

• Tension, swelling, and stiffness of limbs.

• Sensation in abdomen as if something tight would break if too much effort was made to void a constipated stool.

• Aversion to tight things.

• 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.

• Sudden "puffing up" of the whole body.

• 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 left side of head) behind the ears, in the neck.

• Dark hemorrhages.

• Tired, as if bruised in every limb, and esp. in the back, as after exertion; worse on rising after sitting.

• Brain feels paralyzed.

• Impaired memory.

• Absent-minded.

• Cannot concentrate thought.

• Indifference.

• Torpor and apathy.

• Awkward, lets things fall and laughs sillily at the mishap.

• 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; after suppressed scarlet eruption.

• Irritation.

• Premonition of death.

• Dread of death; sensation as if he could not breathe again.

• Fear of being poisoned.

• 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.

• Brain feels tired.

• Sudden stabbing and stinging pains.

• Aching in left 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.

• Convulsions on one side of the body, paralyzed the other; squinting, grinding of teeth, urine scanty.

• Burning, stinging, shooting, piercing pains in and about the eyes.

• Aching over right eye extending to right 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.

• Styes with stinging pains; smoky darkness before the eyes.

• Redness and swelling of both ears.

• Erysipelas; otitis after scarlatina; hardness of hearing.

• Swollen, red, edematous.

• Coryza, worse from warmth; chronic catarrh with crusty nostrils; polypus.

• Edematous swelling of the face; red and hot, swollen so as to be unrecognizable, with piercing and burning pain; waxy, pale.

• Happy expression of face; or terror; or apathy.

• Burning, stinging heat in the face with purple color.

• Erysipelas of the face.

• Erysipelas of the face, with fever, coated tongue.

• Erysipelas going right to left.

• Jaws stiff, with stiff tongue and impossibility of intelligible speech.

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• Grinding of the teeth; sudden and involuntary biting them together; covered with yellow mucus or brown sordes.

• Lips edematous; 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 diarrhea).

• 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 left border.

• Tongue swollen, dry, cracked, sore, ulcerated, or covered with vesicles.

• Viscid, tough, frothy, saliva.

• Gums sacculated and look watery.

• Fetor of breath, with headache.

• 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, etc.

• Uvula long and dropsical.

• Sensation of foreign body or fishbone in the throat; of constriction.

• Paralysis.

• Irritation to cough in the supra-sternal fossa.

• Hoarseness.

• Hoarseness in the morning.

• Respiration hurried and difficult (with fever and headache).

• Edema 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.

• Dyspnea; especially 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 left side of the chest, near the middle of the sternum, with sensation of fullness in the chest and short breath.

• Expectoration of copious, transparent, frothy, bloody mucus.

• Stitches in left 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 right 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.

• No thirst with the heat.

• Thirstlessness (with dropsy).

• Vomiting of bile.

• Vomiting, with inflammation of the stomach.

• Vomiting, with diarrhea.

• Burning heat in the stomach.

• Great soreness in pit of stomach when touched.

• Violent pain and sensitiveness in region of stomach.

• 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 right 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 right groin, oblong, as large as a cucumber.

• Long-standing inguinal hernia.

• Collapse of abdominal walls in meningitis infantum.

• Sensation of rawness in the anus, with diarrhea.

• Discharge of flatus before stool.

• Diarrhea: during fevers; from heat; in debilitated children; from irritability of brain (hydrocephaloid).

• Diarrhea, yellowish-green, with mucus, especially in the morning.

• Stool thin, watery, yellow, < in morning; may or may not be offensive.

• Stools smelling very offensively.

• Diarrhea and vomiting.

• Diarrhea is copious, blackish-brown, green, or whitish; orange-colored; 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.

• Swelling of anus.

• Hemorrhoids, 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.

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• 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-colored; 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.

• 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.

• Amenorrhea or menorrhagia.

• Inflammation, induration, swelling, and dropsy of the ovaries (right).

• Weight and pain in either ovarian region, predominantly right side.

• Ovaries feel better by lying on right side.

• Enlargement of the right ovary with pain in the left pectoral region and cough.

• Sharp, cutting, stinging pain in the swollen (right) ovary; worse during menstruation.

• Ovarian tumors, 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 (right); dropsy of the uterus.

• Strained pain left ovary.

• Menstruation suppressed or diminished, with congestion to the head.

• Labor-like, bearing-down pains, followed by dark, bloody mucus.

• Threatened miscarriage in the early months, with heaviness of the abdomen, restlessness, and yawning.

• 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 mammae threatening to ulcerate.

• Scirrhus or open cancer of the mammae, with stinging, burning pains.

• Rheumatic pain in back and limbs.

• Cerebro-spinal meningitis.

• Tired, as if bruised in the back, as after exertion; worse on rising after sitting.

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• Hands bluish, and inclined to be cold.

• Edema of the hands.

• Sensation of numbness in fingers, especially the tips about the roots of nails.

• Panaritium with burning, stinging, and throbbing, very sensitive to touch.

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• Cold legs.

• Sensation in the toes and whole foot, as if too large; swollen and stiff.

• Legs (ankles) and feet waxy, pale, and edematous.

• 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.

• Edematous swellings.

• Skin usually white, almost transparent (ovarian dropsy).

• Hives.

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• 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.

• 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).

• 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.

• 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.

• Grief.

• Fright.

• Rage.

• Vexation.

• Jealousy. (The queen bee is the most jealous thing in nature.)

• Hearing bad news, mental shock.

• Suppressed eruptions.

• Abscess

• Ankles, swelling of

• Apoplexy

• Asthma

• Bladder affections

• Bright's disease

• Carbuncle

• Chancre

• Constipation (especially in sucklings)

• Diarrhea

• 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

• Heat-spots

• Housemaid's knee

• Hydrocephalus

• Hydrothorax

• Injuries

• Intermittent fever

• Irritation

• Jealousy, effects of

• Joints, synovitis

• Kidney affections

• Labia, inflammation of

• Laryngitis

• Lichen

• Meningitis

• Menstruation, derangements of

• Nettle-rash

• Nose, redness of

• Operations, effects of

• Ovaries, pain in; inflammation of; tumors of

• Panaritium

• Pannus

• Peritonitis

• Phlebitis

• Pleurisy

• Prostatitis

• Punctured wounds

• Red-gum

• Rheumatism

• Scarlatina

• Self-abuse

• Suppressed eruptions, effects of

• Sycosis

• Syphilis

• Throat, sore

• Tongue, edema of; ulceration of

• Trachea, irritation of

• Tumors

• Typhus

• Urethritis

• Urine, abnormalities of

• Vaccination

• Varicose veins

• Variola

• Wounds