Apis mellifica
Keywords
-
Fruitlessly busy; jealous.
- Burning,
stinging pains.
- Worse
heat.
Synopsis
(identifying features)
- 1. Agg. from all forms of heat, even
heat of bed.
- 2. Pains
burning, stinging.
- 3. Oedematous swellings with waxy hue of skin.
- 4. Thirstlessness in nearly all complaints.
- 5.
Piercing shrieking in sleep (cri encephalic).
- 6. Side
right, or right to left.
- 7.
Restless and fidgety.
- 8.
Jealousy.
- 9. Scanty
urine.
- 10.
Bag-like swelling under the eyes.
- 11. Urticaria, large rose red, amel. cold applications.
- 12.
Awkwardness, drops things and laughs about it.
- 13.
Threatened miscarriage in the fourth month (from incompetent os).
Mind
- Jealous.
- Restless,
fruitlessly busy.
- Irritable,
fidgety; hard to please.
- Awkward
(drops things).
- Childish.
-
Indifferent.
- Says he is
well when very sick.
- Fear of
being poisoned.
- Foolishly
suspicious.
- Weeping,
causeless.
- Sudden
piercing shrieks; rolls the head (meningitis).
- Cannot
bear to be left alone.
- Nothing
satisfied him - everything wrong and out of place.
- Cannot
concentrate on reading (hysterical girls).
Objective
- Oedema; bag-like, puffy swelling under the eyes (over the
eyes, Kali-c); dropsy without thirst.
- Pains
(burning, stinging, sore) suddenly migrating from one part to another (Kali bi., Lac.c. , Puls.).
- Diarrhoea, involuntary from every movement, as though anus
was wide open (Phos.).
- Pains that
extort sudden, shrill cries.
- Puffiness,
shiny redness, oedema (of eyelids or lips).
- Face : puffy or red waxy pallor.
- Very busy,
restless, changing the work (like bees).
-
Awkwardness; breaks things.
- Eruptions
like hives.
- Declares
she is well during delirium (Arn., Ars.).
- Great
oppression and burning in chest with sensation as though he would not be able
to breathe again.
- Heat of
one part with coldness of another.
Causation (a.f. )
- Anger,
vexation; bad news; grief; fright; rage; jealousy; shock; suppressed eruptions;
sexual excesses.
Modalities
- Agg.
- Heat;
intolerance of heated rooms, even during chill of intermittent fever.
- Agg. hot bath, warm drinks; lying
down.
- Suppressed
or undeveloped eruptions (cerebral effusion).
- Touch,
pressure.
- After
sleep. 4 to 6 p.m.
- Amel.
- Cold bath;
cool air.
- Air
hunger.
- Increased
flow of urine after Apis is a curative sign.
Food &
drinks
- Thirst
during chill; thirstless during heat.
- Cravings
- Milk, sour
things.
- Aversion : to drinks; water.
Female
- Amenorrhoea (absence of mense)of puberty.
- Stinging,
burning pains in mammae, or ovaries or uterus.
- Pain in
ovaries agg. coition.
- Menses
last one day or appear at intervals of one day.
- Abortion
during early months.
- Childish behaviour in women after delivery.
- Sexual
mania alternating with stupor.
Child
- Very
restless.
- Jealous of
other children; will not share toys, or allow mother to be touched by other
children.
- Constant
whining, causeless weeping day and night.
- Retention
of urine in new-born; cries out in sleep and kicks the covers off.
- Diarrhoea during dentition.
- Ulceration
at navel of new-born.
Peculiar,
uncommon, grand characteristics
- 1. Mind
- Sudden
shrill shrieking in sleep or deep stupor (cry encephalic (high pitched
screaming)) as in hydrocephalus, or meningitis.
- 2. Head
- Bores head
into pillow (meningitis).
- 3. Head
- Dropsical swelling of lower limbs in albuminuria.
- 4. Throat
- Glazed or
translucent pharynx, amel. by
cold drinks.
- 5. Throat
- Uvula oedematous.
- 6. Stomach
- Thirst -
absent with heat.
- 7. Rectum
- Stools
occur with every motion of body, as if the anus was constantly open.
- 8. Stool
- Stool
involuntary; as though rectum is wide open.
- 9. Bladder
- Urine -
scanty, albuminous with thirstlessness.
- 10. Urine
- Milky in
hydrocephalus, with unconsciousness and delirium.
- 11.
Genitalia
- Ovaries
(right), hardness and heaviness.
- 12. Gen.
Fem.
- Tumour of right ovary.
- 13.
Respiration
- Asthma
from hives.
- 14.
Respiration
- Difficult
from suppressed eruption.
- 15.
Respiration
- Panting -
feels as if every breath would be his last.
- Difficult
inspiration.
- 16.
Extremities
- Paralysis
of the right side; twitching of the other half.
- 17.
Generalities
- Ailments
come with great rapidity and violence.
- 18.
Generalities
- Closed rooms
are intolerable.
- 19.
Generalities
- Pains
stinging, burning; suddenly migrate from one part to another.
- 20.
Generalities
- "Whenever you have swelling - oedema
- relief from cold - agg. from
heat - burning and stinging pains, consider APIS" - (Tyler).
- 21. Dreams
- Absurd;
anger; of business; busy; flying; full of inventions.
Cases
- 4. Apis 200 :
- Puffiness,
shiny redness, oedema (BSK).
- Bad
effects of acute exanthema imperfectly developed, or suppressed (Zinc) (Allen).
- Dysuria;
scanty foul urine (BSK).
- (Tas. B.
Bell - H.H. 4/84.)
- 30. Apis:
- Panting
breathing; feels as if every breath would be his last.
- Thirstlessness. (BSK)
- Urine
scanty, foul, high coloured (SRP) –
- (H.N.
Guernsey - HH. 1982/357)