APIS
MELLIFICA
Common Name: The Honey-Bee
Mental:
Ailments from jealousy, rage, vexation.
Irritable; nervous; hard to please;
has a sharp tongue.
Weeping disposition; cannot help
crying; discouraged, despondent
Extreme sensitiveness to touch.
They sense of their own clumsiness
and awkwardness and admire how others can
express themselves so easily.
They get great pleasure from their
work (“busy insanity”)
Physical:
EDEMA of the extremities due
to disfunctioning of kidney or kidney disease.
Erysipelatous inflammation. Puffy swelling under the eyes, of hands and feet.
Pain is burning, stinging like a bee
sting.
Generally worse from heat and
better from cold applications.
Acute KIDNEY FAILURE. Swelling,
inflammation of joints, especially ankles.
Cystitis-burning pain. Quincke’s angioneurotic edema.
URTICARIA is worse at night.
Awkwardness, clumsiness, drops things easily.
Thirstless unless in states of
dehydration where there is insatiable thirst
Diarrhea, involuntary from every
motion, as though anus was wide open
Intermittent fever, chill 3 p.m. with thirst
Cysts of ovaries (esp. right) in
short time
Effects envelopes and coverings (e.g.
pericardium)
Aggravated by heat and touch (Lach.) and ameliorated by cold (Lach.)
Complementary to Natrum
muriaticum