CASES

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

 

CASES