Apis Mellifica apis.

CELLULAR TISSUE: EYES. FACE. FAUCES. OVARIES. SEROUS CAVITIES. SKIN. KIDNEYS. BLADDER. Nerves. Respiration. Heart. Blood. Right side; right to left.

HEAT: ROOM. Weather. Drinks. Fire. Bed. Hot bath (Op.). Touch, even of hair. After sleep. 4 P.M. Pressure. Suppressed eruptions.

COOL: AIR. Bathing. Uncovering. Slight expectoration. Motion.

Stinging burning, prickling, smarting, like hot needles. Must lie down. Rapid onset. SUDDEN; SHRILL CRIES or pains, that extort cries; nervousness, swelling, effusion, etc. SENSITIVE; to pain. Sharp STINGING burning or bruised SORENESS; of brain, ABDOMEN, ovaries, bladder, etc. PUFFINESS, shiny redness. Œdema; of eyelids or lips; red; saccular. BURNING- itching. Infections. Inflammation. Stiffness. Numbness.

Childish. Irritable, excitable, jealous, fussy and fidgety or apathic. Foolishly suspicious. Nervous and awkward or absent-minded; drops things. SUDDEN, PIERCING SHRIEKS. Head pains; stabbing or as of a blow; < occiput. ROLLS THE HEAD. Numb, tired headache, > pressure. Painful hair. Musty head sweat. Cheeks hang down. Eyes puffy; conjunctiva or lids like water-bags; red; chemosed. Perforating corneal ulcer. Profuse hot tears. Photophobia; yet can't bear coverings. Squint. Blindness, > stool. Myosis. Face puffy or red, < about eyes; waxy pallor. Scarlatinal otitis. Red nose. Cold nose. Red mouth or tongue. Grinds teeth. Tongue: vesicles on edge; swelled; raw; as if burnt; sore. Sandy, glazed or translucent pharynx, > cold things. Œdema of uvula. Purpleness of throat. Meaty, red tonsils. Right tonsil, > cold drinks. Angina. Diphtheria; early prostration (Merc-cy.); dirty membrane. ADIPSIA; but thirst during chill. Ascites. Orange yellow or tomato-sauce stools; odorless; < motion. Anus sore, swelled; oozes blood or stands open (Pho.). Burning urination. Dysuria. Scant, foul urine; coffee-grounds sediment. Nephritis. Ovaries numb; tumor of r.; cystic. Amenorrhœa of puberty. Panting breathing; feels as if every breath would be his last. Air hunger. Larynx, drawn in. Thirstless and dropsical. Abdomen tight, as if to break, on straining at stool. Profuse urine, but drinks little. Ovaries congested, with suppressed menses. Heart, stitches backward from apex; beat shakes whole body. Hands and feet numb. Palms hot. Nails feel loose. Skin rosy red; sensitive; rough eruption on; sting-like spots on; pale. Large urticaria. Asthma from hives. Erysipelas. Scarlatina. Dry, hot skin, alternates with gushes of sweat. SLEEPY, but too nervous; when hot; and CRIES OUT. Kicks covers off. Weak, quick pulse. Chill: anticipates; with dyspnœa, urticaria, desire to uncover; alternates with heat; right side. BURNING HEAT; but chilly if moved; without thirst; at 4 P.M. Heat of one part, with coldness of another. Sweat in gushes; partial.

Complementary: Arn. Bar-c. Merc-cy. Mat-m. Antidote: Carb-ac. Related: Ars. Canth. Pul. Urt-ur.

Adapted to the strumous constitution; glands enlarged, indurated; scirrhus or open cancer. Women, specially widows; children and girls who, though generally careful, become awkward, and let things fall while handling them (Bov.). Bad effects of acute exanthema imperfectly developed or suppressed (Zinc.); measles, scarlatina, urticaria. Ailments from jealousy, fright, rage, vexation, bad news. Irritable; nervous; fidgety; hard to please. Weeping disposition; cannot help crying; discouraged, despondent (Puls.). Sudden shrill, piercing screams from children while waking or sleeping (Hellebore). Oedema; bag-like, puffy swelling under the eyes (over the eyes, Kali c.); of the hands and feet, dropsy, without thirst (with thirst, Acet. ac., Apoc.). Extreme sensitiveness to touch (Bell., Lach.). Pain: burning, stinging, sore; suddenly migrating from one part to another (Kali bi., Lac c., Puls.). Thirstlessness: in anasarca; acites (Acetic acid, but face more waxy and great thirst). Incontinence of urine, with great irritation of the parts; can scarcely retain the urine a moment, and when passed scalds severely; frequent, painful, scanty, bloody. Constipation: sensation in abdomen as if something tight would break if much effort were used. Diarrhoea: of drunkards; in eruptive diseases, especially if eruption be suppressed; involuntary from every motion, as though anus were wide open (Phos.). Affects right side; enlargement or dropsy of right ovary; right testicle. Intermittent fever; chill 3 p. m., with thirst, always (Ign.); < warm room and from external heat (Thuja, 3 a. m., and at 3 p. m.).

Complementary: Nat. mur. Disagrees, when used either before or after Rhus. Ars. and Puls. follow Apis well. Has cured scarlatina albuminuria after Canth., Dig., Hell. failed.

After sleeping (Lach.); closed, especially warmed and heated rooms are intolerable; from getting wet (Rhus), but better from washing or moistening the part in cold water.

Open air; cold water or cold bathing; uncovering; pains by coughing, walking or changing position; when sitting erect;

Pains like bee-stings, with the thrust and the burning following; absence of thirst; scanty urine: shrill, sudden, piercing screams while sleeping or waking, form invaluable key-notes to the use of this remedy.

The mental symptoms are rich in unconsciousness, absent-mindedness, impaired memory, and slow march of ideas. Dulness, stupor, stertor: sensitiveness. Lets things fall from the hands from inadvertency. Delirium with or without muttering. Shrill, sudden piercing screams, sleeping or waking. Great tearfulness, cannot help crying. Cannot bear to be left atone. Very irritable and fidgety about this or that; nothing seems to satisfy; all wrong and out of place. Very jealous. Vertigo on closing the eyes or when the sight is obscured. Premonition of death, thinks it is about to transpire. Dread of death, sensation as if could not breathe again.

The general character of pains in the head, aside from the stinging, thrusting pains, are an aching-like congestion, pressing or dull heavy headache. (See also mental symptoms.) Apoplexia, hydrocephalus and other disorders of the brain. Bending back and boring the head into the pillow; inability to hold it erect. Scalp very sensitive; copious sweat on the head, scalp, forehead. Confusion of the head with vertigo, worse while sitting and worse still on lying down and closing the eyes. Throbbing in the head. Brain feels very tired. The pains in the head are often relieved by pressure. Chronic headache.

Swelling about the eyes; much inflamed; sometimes entirely closed; very sensitive to the light; obscuration of sight often from opacity of the cornea; cannot look fixedly at any object; cannot read by artificial lights from pain in the eyes; boring, burning, stinging, itching, and shooting in the eyes, or aching extending into the forehead; squinting of one or both eyes; upper lids swell and hang like little sacks over the eyes; very much lachrymation, which feels hot and scalding; eyes are weak and cannot bear much use; chemosis; fistula lachrymalis; sleeps with the eyes wide open; paralysis of right side of the face with right eye closed; chronic inflammation of the conjunctiva, which has become thickened; eyelids everted, red and smarting; œdematous and bag-like under the lower lids; granulated, even on the edges; agglutination of at night; styes with stinging pains; smoky darkness before the eyes.

Redness and swelling of both; otitis after scarlatina, hardness of hearing.

Much swollen and œdematous; chronic catarrh with crusty nostrils; polypus.

Red and hot, swollen so as to be unrecognizable, with piercing and burning pain; pale and waxen face, sometimes. swollen, with puffiness about the eyelids; œdematous swelling of the face and puffed eyelids; erysipelas of the face and scalp, often beginning on right side and spreading to the left, or extending down the neck on to the body; lips much swollen and often everted.

The whole margin of the tongue feels as if scalded and quite raw; red fiery appearance of the buccal cavity, very tender dry tongue; on the left of tip of tongue a row of vesicles sore and raw. Can't protrude the tongue, it trembles and catches on the teeth, and inability to talk; tongue hangs from the mouth; red, hot, burning, particularly at tip; dry brown streak down the middle, sides being moist; inflamed and fearfully swollen; cracked, Bore, and ulcerated, or covered with vesicles; white, dry, or covered with white mucus; cancer of., Grinding of the teeth; sudden and involuntary biting them together; covered with yellow mucus or brown sordes. Gums sacculated and look watery. Viscid, tough, frothy saliva. Increased saliva. Fetor of breath.

Dryness in, without thirst; dry and burning; sensation of fulness, contraction and suffocation in, deglutition painful; stinging itching deep in; very sore, fiery red and shining; inability to swallow anything with swelling of the tongue; ulcerated Bore throat when rash does not come; diphtheritic Bore throat gets well as a scarlet-rash fever develops; diphtheria when the margins, and a little beyond the membrane, are fiery red and shining, this fiery margin moues on as the membrane increases; no thirst and scanty urine: troublesome tenacious mucus in the throat morning and evening; uvula long and dropsical; small, clear, watery blisters in the back part of the throat; tonsils and fauces highly inflamed and very red; hypertrophied tonsils when very red; stinging and darting in the throat; deep ulcers on tonsils and palate.

Burning heat in the stomach; soreness in the stomach and abdomen; thirst, absence of, insatiable, or for little and often; appetite, loss of, or voracious; bitter or acrid belching; rich in symptoms of nausea; retching, vomiting of food, mucus, even frothy, bile, and vomiting with diarrhœa; weak, faint sensation in stomach.

Much pain, soreness and sometimes enlargement of the splenic region, sometimes the pain extends upwards; soreness of the bowels or abdominal watts, when touched or pressed; fulness and sensation as if the abdomen were bloated or distended; burning, stinging, or thrusting in: traumatic erysipelas of: rumbling and meteoritic distension of; much distended by fluids; ascites and anasarca; ileo-cæcal region very sensitive on pressure; hard swelling on the right groin, oblong, as large as a cucumber; long-standing inguinal hernia; peritonitis; cannot bear the lightest touch.

Sensation of rawness in the anus, with diarrhœa. Passage of flatus before stool. Copious evacuations of blackish-brown, green or whitish, yellow, watery, mucus or pap-like stools, usually worse in the morning, sometimes occurring at every motion of the body, as if the anus were constantly open. 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 carrions; very offensive. Hæmorrhages from the bowels, with burning pain, excoriation of the anus, and constant tenesmus. Anus feels raw. Dysentery painless. Hard and costive stools with stinging pains. Protruding varices, which sting, burn, and smart intolerably.

Burning and soreness, agony, strangury, when urinating. Urine very scanty or profuse, usually the former; frequent emission. Pain in region of kidneys, soreness on pressure or when stooping. Frequent and sudden pain along the ureters. Bladder very painful, often tenesmus after urinating. Mach difficulty in voiding urine; must wait a long time before it flows, and then it flows slowly. Incontinence of urine from coughing and other circumstances. Burning and stitching pain in the urethra. Frequent desire day and night, passing but little at a time. Urine often bloody; milky appearance; very dark and frothy; very fetid; very albuminous, sometimes at least one-half; sediment reddish-brown; like coffee grounds.

Male: Chancre with stinging pains like bee-stings and with a highly inflamed circumference. Dropsy of the scrotum and prepuce; hydrocele. Female: Threatened abortion in the early months, with heaviness of the abdomen, restlessness, and yawning, or with stinging pains in ovarian regions. Much pain in the right ovarian region during or before menstruation. Stinging pains in ovaries, like bee-stings. Constant feeling of weight and heaviness in ovarian regions, and much tenderness in. The ovaries feel better to lie on right side. Pain in the right ovary, often with enlargement, with pain in the left pectoral region, with cough. Ovarian tumors with stinging pains like bee-stings. Metritis, peritonitis with stinging, thrusting pains. Labor-like, bearing down pains, followed by dark bloody mucus. Ulceration and engorgement of os uteri. Uterine dropsy. Menses too profuse or too scanty; metrorrhagia with red spots, stinging like bee-stings; irregular, lasting but a day or two, feeling very weak; copious, lumpy, with pain in the spleen; too soon; delayed or suppressed; a sensation as if they were coming on, but they don't come. Leucorrhœa acrid, profuse, green, or yellowish, Large and painful swelling of the labia, with heat and stinging pains. At the critical age, chronic diarrhœa of blond and mucus. Dropsy in the latter part of pregnancy attended with puerperal convulsions. Erysipelatous inflammation of the breasts. Swelling and hardness of the mammæ, threatening to ulcerate. Scirrhus or open cancer of the mammæ, with stinging, burning pains. Ovarian affections, with inverted nipples. The right ovary is most susceptible. Great sensitiveness to touch or lightest pressure a characteristic.

Considerable hoarseness. Irritation to cough felt deep down in back of the throat pit, and considerable coughing in the evening, and in the night preventing sleep; every shock from coughing gives pain in the head and some pain through the chest, as from the clavicle; relieved after loosening a small portion of mucus, or a large quantity of transparent, frothy and bloody mucus is expectorated. Great dyspnœa, as if every breath would be the last; wants to be fanned. Asthma, worse in cold weather; intense sensation of suffocation; throws the collar wide open, could bear nothing about the throat. Hurried and difficult respiration with fever and headache. Sensation of fulness, constriction, or suffocation in the throat, with difficult, anxious breathing. Œdema of glottis; of larynx; croup; chronic laryngitis.

Sharp pains, stitches, and stingings in; sensation of soreness, lame, bruised feeling in.

Sudden and acute pain just below the heart, extending diagonally towards the right chest. Very feeble action of the heart; violent beats, shaking the whole body; intermittent beats. Region of heart sensitive to the 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.

Back feels lame and bruised; stitches and stingings in. Stiff neck and back. Swelling of the glands of the neck. Cerebro-spinal meningitis.

Upper: The arms, hands, or fingers, one, both, or all, swell, become very tender, and remain so for several days. Numbness of the hands, or fingers, especially at their tips; burning like fine. One of the first remedies to give at the very beginning or threatening of a felon. Lower: Sore feelings and pains in. Burning, itching, and stinging in the swelling of the legs and feet, often white, waxy, and transparent. Soles of the feet feel when walking as if cushioned. Sensation of burning in the feet and toes. Reddish and bluish streaks; hard and painful spots, making them painful to moue. Œdematous swelling of lower extremities, Swelling of the knee. Numbness of the limb came side on which ovary is affected. Eczema. Foot-sweat checked by cold. Numbness and coldness of feet and in diphtheritic albuminuria. Puffy swelling of the knees.

Much yawning. Great inclination to sleep; anxious starting in; restless. Dreams much, of making long journeys; of flying through the air; of bot stones; of walking over bot floors; of walking a long way over wet roads. Disagreeable, unhappy dreams, Sudden waking with shrill, piercing screams.

Chill, with red face, and red spots all over the body; chills from 3 to 5 P.M.; often with racking pain all through the head; chills worse in warmth; run down the back; hands and feet feel as if dead. No thirst with the fever; hoarse cough often attends the fever; as fever subsides, great prostration comes on; heat with difficult breathing, as if every breath would be the last. Heat with thirst, wishes to uncover. Much burning of the skin on various parts of the body. Shuddering, then nettlerash. Sweat goes and comes alternately; breaks out and dries up continually. Sweat without thirst. Alter perspiration nettle-rash.

Erysipelatous inflammation and swelling, white and hard in the centre. White wales on different parts, itching fearfully. Red and white blotches, with itching. Appearance as of the bites of insects, Bore and painful. Burning, stinging, itching and prickling over the whole body, and painful to touch. Most violent itching all over the body or in any single part. Erysipelas with gangrenous spots. Boils and swellings of all descriptions with stinging pains.

Swelling or "puffing up" of the whole body. Complete anasarca, no thirst, pale, waxy, almost transparent. Twitching; trembling; jactitation of the muscles. Clonic and tonic spasms. Restless moving about. Tired as if bruised all over. General feeling of lassitude with trembling. Heavy and prostrate in fever. Faintness and fainting. Surface of body very sensitive to touch, even the moving of a hair. Great prostration, rapid sinking, rapid pulse, and fever. Dark hæmorrhages.

At night, particularly latter part of night; in cold weather; in warm room; lying down.

During the day when sitting erect.

Arsen., Pulsat.

Apis and Rhus tox.

Child lies in torpor; delirium; sudden shrilling cries; squinting; grinding teeth; boring head in pillow; one side twitching, the other paralyzed; head wet from sweating; urine scanty, milky. Redness and swelling, with stinging burning pain in the eyes, eyelids, ears, face, lips, tongue, throat, anus, testicles. Very busy, restless; changing kind of work, with awkwardness; breaking things. Enlargement of right ovary, with pain in pectoral region, and cough. Burning, stinging pains like bee stings, occurring occasionally. Great soreness when touched on pit of stomach, under the ribs, on the abdomen. Absence of thirst, with scanty urination. Oedema, or dropsy, without thirst. Skin usually white, almost transparent. (With ovarian dropsy.) Stinging and burning pains in the face, throat urethra, ovaries, piles, tumors, panaritium, carbuncles, indurations, schirrhus, open cancers, etc.

The Honey-Bee

Acts on cellular tissues causing œdema 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, œdema, 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.

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.

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.

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

External ear red, inflamed, sore; stinging pains.

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

Swollen, red, with piercing pain. Waxy, pale, œdematous. Erysipelas with stinging burning œdema. Extends from right to left.

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.

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).

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

Involuntary on every motion; anus seems open. Bloody, painless. Anus feels raw. Hæmorrhoids, with stinging pain, after confinement. Diarrhœa watery, yellow; cholera infantum type. Cannot urinate without a stool. Dark, fetid, worse after eating. Constipation; feels as if something would break on straining.

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.

Œdema 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. Dysmenorrhœa, 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.

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

Œdematous. 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. Œdematous 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.

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

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.

Worse, heat in any form; touch; pressure; late in afternoon; after sleeping; in closed and heated rooms. Right side. Better, in open air, uncovering, and cold bathing.

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

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

Tincture to thirtieth potency. In œdematous 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.

Burning, stinging pains (like bee stings); eyelids; throat, panaritium or felon, hæmorrhoids, ovaries, (especially right one), breasts (mastitis), skin (erysipelas, urticaria, carbuncles).

Great œdema; general or local (face, ears, eyelids, especially lower); throat (diphtheria); genitals (especially scrotum); skin (erysipelas and urticaria); everywhere; general anasarca, abdomen. These œdemas are accompanied with the characteristic pains, or no pain at all.

Stupor, with sharp, sudden, shrill cries in brain disease (crie encephalique).

Thirstlessness, especially in dropsies and during heat of intermittents.

Skin alternately dry and perspiring.

Suffocative; feels as if every breath would be his last, especially in dropsical conditions or hot stage of intermittents.

Bad effects from suppressed or retrocedent exanthemata; measles, scarlatina, urticaria.

Involuntary diarrhœa, with sensation as if anus were wide open.

It seems to me that in this remedy also the leading characteristic is to be found in its sensation-burning, stinging pains. They are sharp and quick, like the sting of the bee. These pains are as characteristic of this remedy as are the itching-like chilblains of Agaricus, or the burnings of Arsenicum and Sulphur; but the burning of Apis are relieved by cold, while those of Arsenic are relieved by heat. The stinging appears in many diseases, and kinds of tissue. In the serous membranes or the brain coverings, when we get those "shrill, sudden piercing screams"-"cri cerebrale," which attend such dangerous affections as hydrocephalus, cerebro-spinal meningitis and typhus cerebralis, Apis is the remedy. Again we get these pains in the mucous membranes, as in the throat and hæmorrhoids, and the burning is almost always more or less present at the same time. It is also found very prominent in the ovaries. It has proved a very valuable remedy in cancers, even open ones, when this stinging, burning pain was present; also in panaritium. I have seen rapid cures follow its exhibition in felon. Hering put it -"redness and swelling with stinging and burning pain in the eyes, eyelids, ears, face, lips, tongue, throat, anus, testicles." (> by cold applications ought to be added).

So we see how generally the system comes under the action of this remedy. In skin affections, especially the acute exanthems, this is the grand leading symptom, and is especially indicated in affections of the brain and meninges caused by a sudden suppression of skin diseases.

The next general condition for which this remedy seems to be as near specific as any remedy can be is an infiltrated cellular tissue; and œdematous or dropsical condition. This condition obtains almost from the beginning of inflammatory affections and extends to the stage of exudation, and even to chronic dropsical states. In those intensely violent and rapid cases of diphtheria in which the whole throat fills right up with œdematous swelling, the vulva hanging down like a transparent sac filed with water (Kali bichromicum, Rhus toxicod.), and the patient is in imminent danger of death by suffocation from actual closure of the throat and larynx, there is no remedy like Apis. The stinging, burning pains may be present in these cases; or what is more dangerous still, because there is no complaint until the case is far advanced, is an absolutely painless condition, Baptisia has painlessness in throat affections, but the swelling is not so rapid as Apis, and there is no œdema. A number of years ago I was called to Watkins Glen, N. Y., in consultation in a very bad case of diphtheria. One had already died in the family and four lay dead in the place that day. Over forty cases had died in the place and there was an exodus going on for fair. Her attending physician, a noble, white-haired old man, and withal a good and able man, said, when I looked up to him and remarked I was rather young to counsel him: "Doctor, I am on my knees to anybody, for every case has died that has been attacked." The patient was two rooms away from us, but I could hear her difficult breathing even then. Apis was comparatively a new remedy then for that disease, but as I looked into her throat I saw Apis in a moment, and a few questions confirmed it. I told the doctor what I thought and asked him if he had tried it. He said, no he had not thought of it, but it was a powerful blood poison; try it. It cured the case, and not one case that took this remedy from the beginning, and persistently, died. It was the remedy for the genus epidemicus. See my report of this in Vol. XII, Hahnemannian Monthly.

This œdematous condition of Apis may be found in almost any part of the body, but is especially prominent in mouth and throat, eyelids and face, around the eyes (Phosphorus, whole Face); lower lids hang down like bags of water. (Kali carb., upper lids). In erysipelas the swelling of the skin is of this œdematous appearance, and generally with stinging pains.

Sometimes the œdema increases until it forms large blister-like bags of water.

The dropsical effusion may be general or local. It is found in the thoracic cavity, in ovaries, in abdominal cavity, scrotum, and genitals of females. One peculiar symptoms which helps to choose between it and other remedies in dropsy is the almost absolute absence of thirst (with thirst, Acetic acid, Arsenic and Apocynum).

I will now, in addition to what I have written, call attention to some particular affections and symptoms in which Apis should be remembered. A very important symptom not yet mentioned is tenderness or sensitiveness to touch, as if bruised. This is particularly true in the abdominal, uterine, and ovarian regions, but is not by any means confined there, for we may find the whole surface of the body exceedingly sensitive to touch: even the hair seems sore (China officinalis). The condition is often found in cerebro-spinal meningitis and is a strong indication for Apis. In erysipelas this tenderness is often present, and is found under Hepar sulphur, as well as Apis.

The sleep of Apis is either very restless, or in brain diseases there is deep stupor, interrupted occasionally by piercing screams. Never forget Apis then. In all inflammatory affections and in intermittent fevers, if you find the patient alternately dry and hot, or perspiring, think again of Apis.

No remedy has this alternation so strong as Apis. Sensation as if every breath would be his last is very characteristic, and occurs not only in dropsical troubles of the chest, but seems also to be a nervous symptom. In scarlatina Apis is especially indicated if the eruption is retarded or retrocedent and serious brain troubles result, and it is no less efficacious in post-scarlatinal dropsies if the symptoms do not indicate some other remedies.

Modalities: < after sleep, on touch (very sensitive), from heat and warm room; > cold room or air and cold applications.

Restlessness, continually changing his occupation. Delirium, (after suppressed scarlet eruption). Awkwardness, he breaks every thing. Jealousy, (in women). Giddiness when sitting, standing, lying, when closing the eyes, with nausea and headache. Congestion to the head, with suppressed menstruation. Pressing pain in the forehead and temples ; worse when rising, and in a warm bed, relieved by pressing the forehead together. The brain feels tired. Hydrocephalus in children, and apoplexy in old persons. Hydrocephalus, with copious perspiration of the head, torpor, delirium interrupted by sudden shrill cries, boring of the head deep into the pillows, squinting, grinding of the teeth, urine scanty, (milky), twitching on one side of the body, while the other is paralyzed.

Sensation of mucus in the eyes. Twitching of the eyeballs. Inflammation of the eye, with intense photophobia and creased secretions. Staphyloma. Œdematous swelling of the eyelids.

Redness and swelling of both ears.

Burning, stinging heat in the face, with purple color. Erysipelas of the face. Œdematous swelling of the face.

Swelling of the lips, especially the upper lip. Dry, swollen, inflamed tongue, with inability to swallow. White, dry tongue, (with diarrhœa). Fetid breath, (with paroxysms of headache). Tough, frothy saliva. Dryness in the throat, without thirst. Burning, stinging in the throat. Inflammation of the throat, with swelling, redness, and stinging pains. Ulcerated sore throat, (in scarlet fever, when the eruption does not come out).

Thirstlessness, (with dropsy).

Vomiting of bile. Vomiting, with inflammation of the stomach. Vomiting, with diarrhœa. Sensitiveness of the pit of the stomach to touch. Violent pain and sensitiveness in the region of the stomach. Great sensitiveness of the abdomen to the touch. Sensation of fulness and distention of the abdomen.

Diarrhœa, yellowish-green, with mucus, especially in morning. Stools smelling very offensively. After stool, tenesmus and discharge of blood. Diarrhœa and vomiting. Swelling of the anus. Hæmorrhoids, with stinging pains.

Strangury. Urine scanty and high-colored. Too profuse discharge of urine. Burning and smarting in the urethra, as if it were scalded. Burning and stinging in the urethra.

Men. Sexual desire increased. Swelling of the testicles. Women. Inflammation, induration, swelling and dropsy of the ovaries (right). Sharp, cutting, stinging pain in the swollen ovary ; worse during menstruation. Pressing-down pain in the uterus. Dropsy of the uterus. Menstruation suppressed or diminished, with congestion to the head. Abortion.

Hoarseness, in the morning. Oppression of the chest, shortness of breath, especially when ascending ; inability to remain in a warm room. Asthma ; worse in cold weather. Sensation of soreness in the chest, as from a bruise. Hydrothorax. Cough, after lying down and sleeping.

Upper. Hands bluish, and inclined to be cold. Lower. Cold legs. Œdematous swelling of the feet, ankles and legs. Suppressed perspiration of the feet.

Great debility, as if he had worked hard ; he is obliged to lie down. Burning, stinging pains. Great sensitiveness to touch and pressure (abdomen). Tension (over the eyes in the left side of the head) behind ears, in the neck. Sensation of soreness under the ribs.

Sleep disturbed by many dreams. 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. Dry heat towards the evening, with sleepiness. The sensation of heat is more felt about the pit of the stomach and in the chest. Perspiration, alternating with dryness of the skin. After the fever paroxysm, sleep.

Œdematous swellings. Hives. Carbuncles, with burning, stinging pains. Erysipelas. Scarlet eruptions. Panaritium (burning, stinging).

Aggravation. In the morning (restlessness, mucus in the mouth, diarrhœa). In the evening (giddiness, headache, pain in the eyes, toothache, hoarseness, cough, chills and fever). At night (eyes and chest). From heat, especially in the warm room. Amelioration. Cold water relieves the pain, swelling and burning. Pressing together relieves the headache.

Apium virus. Honey-bee poison. N. O. Insecta. Tinctures are made of the whole bee; and of dilutions of the poison with alcohol.

Abscess. Ankles, swelling of . Apoplexy. Asthma. Bladder, affections of. Carbuncle. Chancre . Constipation; of sucklings. Diarrhœa. 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 . Panaritium. Pannus. Peritonitis . Phlebitis. Pleurisy . Prostatitis. Punctured wounds. Red-gum. Rheumatism. Scarlatina. Self-abuse . Suppressed eruptions, effects of. Sycosis. Syphilis. Throat, sore. Tongue, œdema of; ulceration of. Trachea, irritation of . Tumours. Typhus. Urethritis. Urine, abnormalities of. Vaccination . Varicose veins. Variola. Wounds.

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 ( Rhus 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 dyspnœa, 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 hæmorrhoids. "Redness and swelling with stinging and burning pain in eyes, eyelids, ears, face, lips, tongue, throat, anus, testicles." Œdema 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 œdema. — 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, diarrhœa. < In evening: erysipelas, giddiness, headache, chills, fever. Many symptoms are < lying down, and > sitting.

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Loss of consciousness.
Lost all consciousness of things around him, and sank into a state of insensibility.
Loss of consciousness in eruptive disease.
Loss of consciousness and delirium. θ Meningitis infantum. θ Scarlatina.
Unconsciousness, stupor, with muttering delirium. θ Typhus.
Sopor. θ Scarlatina.
Sopor, interrupted by piercing shrieks. θ Tubercular meningitis.
Child lies in torpor.
Impaired memory. θ Prosopalgia.
Absent-mindedness.
Lets everything fall out of her hand, or breaks things and laughs over it. θ Amenorrhœa.
Very busy ; restless, changing kind of work, with awkwardness, breaking things ; lets everything fall out of his hands.
Dulness of mind.
Difficulty of thinking.
Could not bring his thoughts to bear upon anything definite. θ Diarrhœa.
Cannot bring his thoughts to bear on any subject continuously.
Imbecility, more frequent than insanity.
Thinks he will die. θ Organic disease of heart.
A strange boy lying in bed with him prevents sleep. θ Typhus.
Anticipation of death.
After midnight, slightly delirious. θ Typhus.
Delirium : with congestion ; eruptions ; heat ; during sleep.
Slightly delirious. θ Diphtheria.
Muttering delirium. θ Measles.
Delirium. θ After suppressed scarlet eruption. θ Amenorrhœa.
Muttering delirium alternating with stupor. θ Cancer of mamma.
Violent delirium, amounting to frenzy. θ Paralysis.
Manias, especially proceeding from a sexual cause in women.
Insanity, particularly nymphomania and apathy depending on or alternating with sore throat, indigestion or bladder affections.
Loquacity.
Happy expression.
Acts foolishly or with a good deal of frivolous levity. θ Hysteria.
Busy, frivolous, disposed to laugh, excessively cheerful.
Muttering. θ Gastro-enteritis.
Continual moaning and screaming. θ Diarrhœa.
Sudden thrilling cries. θ Hydrocephalus.
Shrill screaming "oh my baby." θ Pneumonia.
Crying out and screaming loudly as from stabbing pain. θ Cerebro-spinal meningitis.
Screaming spells. θ Dysentery of infants.
Sudden sharp outcry during sleep. θ Scarlatina.
Children scream out suddenly and sharply during sleep, most at night ; if asked what hurt them, they reply "nothing." θ Dentition.
Single sharp shrill screams while sleeping or waking. θ Incipient meningitis.
Shrill, sudden piercing screams. θ Hydrocephalus, pneumonia, and many other complaints.
Scream out very sharply and shrilly during sleep or when awake, "crie cerebrale." θ Encephalitis.
Shrieking. θ Eclampsia.
Violent shrieking and screaming spells at longer or shorter intervals. θ Infantile marasmus.
Great tearfullness, cannot help crying.
Constantly busily engaged doing this or that, but do nothing right ; young girls. θ Amenorrhœa.
Cannot bear to be left alone. θ Organic disease of heart.
Dreamy and indolent. θ Acute Bright's disease.
Feels too lazy to get water, but thirsty. θ Catarrh of chest.
Exaggerated merriment ; less frequently despondency.
Eccentric cheerfulness, despondency, or hopelessness.
Mental depression.
Lachrymose disposition, discouraged, desponding mood. θ Tonsillitis. θ Angina.
Sensitiveness of disposition.
Anxious feeling in head.
Premonition of death arose after a few minutes ; "he believes he is going."
Dread of death or sensation as if he should not be able to breathe again.
Dread of apoplexy.
Will not take spirits of camphor, fears she will be poisoned. θ Nymphomania.
Anxiety.
Indifference.
Apathy, unconsciousness, lying in a soporous condition, with delirious muttering, hard hearing, inability to protrude tongue. θ Typhus.
Languid and listless. θ Diarrhœa.
When asked if sick, he says : "Nothing is the matter." θ Typhus.
Fickle and inconsistent behavior.
Discouraged, desponding humor. θ Angina.
Irritable, contradictory humor, nothing pleases him.
Irritable.
Irritable and irascible mood ; more rarely dejection.
Irritable disposition. θ Cerebro-spinal meningitis.
Is irritable ; hard to please ; nervous ; fidgety.
Very irritable and fidgety about the varices in anus. θ Hemorrhoids.
Violence, amounting to frenzy.
Jealousy (in women).
All her ideas turn around jealousy, very talkative, sometimes disgusting salacitas. θ Mania.
Uneasiness ; physical and mental.
Agitated, impatient, apprehensive. θ Organic disease of heart.
Mental excitement.
Ailments from fright, rage, vexation, jealousy, or hearing bad news.
After a severe mental shock, paralyzed on whole right side, with a swelling of right half of body, closing up right eye.

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This remedy has so many symptoms on the surface of the body we will study the outer aspect first. All over the body is found a thick rash, sometimes of a rose color.

It is rough and can be felt as a rough rash under the fingers. The patient at this time is greatly distressed by heat and the skin is sensitive to touch with the rash or without it. Nodular swellings here and there come and go.

Then comes an erysipelatous inflammatory condition, in patches, here and there, about the head, with great tumefaction about the face, eyes and eye-lids.

Erysipelas may occur anywhere, but it more commonly belongs to the face and runs to a high degree of inflammatory action, with stinging, burning and oedema. In the extremities we have a marked dropsy, swelling with pitting upon pressure.

A general anasarca may appear. The face is greatly swollen at times, the eyelids look like water bags, the uvula hangs down like a water bag, the abdominal walls are of great thickness and pit upon pressure, and the mucous membranes in any part look as if they would discharge water if they were punctured.

Puffing or oedema, with pitting upon pressure, is a general condition that may be present in any inflammatory state, There is a general amelioration from cold and aggravation from heat. The skin symptoms and the patient are aggravated from heat.

This prevails also in the mental state, in inflammatory conditions; in cardiac conditions, in dropsy, in sore throat, etc. Sometimes this aggravation amounts to aggravation from warm drinks, warm room, warm clothing, warmth of the fire, etc.,; if it is heat the patient is greatly disturbed.

In brain troubles, if you put an Apis patient with congestion of the brain into a warm bath he will go into convulsions, and consequently warm bathing is not always "good for fits."

It is taught in old school text-books so much that the old women and nurses know that a hot bath is good for fits, and before you get there just as like as not you will have a dead baby.

This congestion of the brain, with little twitchings and threatening convulsions, makes them put the baby in a hot bath, and it is in an awful state when you get there. If the baby needs Opium or Apis in congestion of the brain the fits become worse by bathing in hot water.

If the nurse has been doing that kind of business you have learned the remedy as soon as you enter the house, for she will say the child has been worse ever since the warm bath, has become pale as a ghost and she was afraid he was going to die.

There you have convulsions worse from heat, pointing especially to Opium and Apis. That is the way with Apis all through. It is not laid down in the books that Apis is worse in the throat symptoms from warm drinks and wants altogether cold things, and will not take warm things which aggravate, but one of our graduates wrote me that by making use simply of the generals, as he had been instructed, Apis conforming to all the rest of the case, he made a beautiful cure of a case of diphtheria which had the relief from cold, which shows how generals are continued into particulars and how they can be made use of.

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Adapted to the strumous constitution; glands enlarged, indurated; scirrhous or open cancer.

Women, especially widows; children and girls who, though generally careful, become awkward, and let things fall while handling them (Bov.).

Bad effects of acute exanthems imperfectly developed or suppressed (Zinc.); measles, scarlatina, urticaria.

Ailments from jealousy, fright, rage, vexation, bad news.

Irritable; nervous; fidgety; hard to please.

Weeping disposition; cannot help crying; discouraged, despondent (Ant. c., Puls.).

Sudden, shrill, piercing screams from children while waking or sleeping (Hellebore, Tuberculinum.)

Œdema: bag-like, puffy swelling under the eyes (over the eyes, Kali c.); of the hands and feet; dropsy, without thirst (Acet. ac., Apoc.).

Extreme sensitiveness to touch (Bell., Lach.).

Pain: burning, stinging, sore; suddenly migrating from one part to another (Kali bi., Lac c., Puls.).

Incontinence of urine, with great irritation of the parts; can scarcely retain the urine a moment, and when passed scalds severely; frequent, painful, scanty, bloody.

Constipation: sensation in abdomen as if something tight would break if much effort were used.

Diarrhœa: of drunkards; in eruptive diseases, especially if eruption be suppressed; involuntary from every motion, as though anus were wide open (Phos.).

Complementary: Nat. mur.

Disagrees, when used either before or after Rhus.

Ars. and Puls. follow Apis well.

In dyspnœa Natrum follows where Apis only partially cures.

After sleeping (Lach.); closed, especially warm or heated rooms are intolerable. Worse from getting wet (Ant. t., Cal., Rhus), but better from washing or moistening the part in cold water.

Open air; cold water or cold bathing; uncovering.

Quotidian or double quotidian. Tertian most common. Congestive, continued, remittent, typhoid, typhus, yellow.

3 P. M. and 3 to 4 P. M. (4 P. M., Lyc.); 4 P. M., fever, without chill; 5 P. M., rarely, then night and morning paroxysms.

3 P. M.; 3 to 4 P. M.

All periods.

Sudden vomiting.

Free from pain.

Sudden vomiting.

Stretching and draw- ing in the limbs; headache, vertigo, and great thirst.

With thirst, always (Alum., Arn., Ign., Carbo v., Caps.). Chill sudden, begins in front of chest, abdomen, knees, and runs down the back (reverse of Eup. purp.); chill worse in a warm room; from external heat (Ipec.). Cannot bear heat of stove (> by heat of stove, Ign.—> by external heat, Ars.); chilliness renewed from the slightest motion (chill increased by motion, Caps.—cannot bear to move or be uncovered in any stage, Nux). Chill, with cold feet and fingers, heat of face and hands, and oppressed breathing (during sweat, Anac.). Oppression of chest as though patient would smother. Falls into a deep sleep as the severity of the chill passes off, and breaks out with urticaria (urticaria before and during chill, Hep.—during heat and sweat, Rhus—during heat only, Ign.). Sensation of cold without external coldness of the skin; cold limbs and feet, with burning toes and burning cheeks.

With thirst always in chill, absent in heat and sweat. Be- gins in front of chest, abdomen, knees. Oppression of chest as though he would smother. Sleep and urti- caria as chill passes off.

Bryonia.

With great thirst in all stages. Begins in tips of fingers, toes and on the lips. Violent, dry, racking cough, with pleuritic stitches. Stitching pain in hypo- chondrium.

Apis.

Rarely with thirst; heat with inclination to uncover (Acon., Sec.); more or less violent headache and generally a continuous deep sleep (Op.); chilliness on moving or uncovering during heat (Arn., Nux). Burning, hot, dry skin all over, particularly felt in abdomen, epigastrium and chest and hands, with muttering and unconsciousness; alternate dry and hot skin, or ccol in some places and hot in others, with occasional spells of sweating.

Great oppression and burning in the chest, with smother- ing. Itching, burning nettle-rash, in this stage (Ign., Hep.).

The heat of the room is intolerable. Sensation of heat through whole body, especially on chest and region of stomach, without heat of skin.

Oppression of chest, with burning, smothering. Heat worse in the chest, abdomen, epigastrium. Urticaria. Sleep.

Cough, with pleuritic stitches. Heat as if blood in the veins was burning; headache and vertigo.

No thirst in sweating stage. Sweat after trembling and fainting, then nettle-rash. Perspiration may alternate with dryness of the skin. Sweating stage often absent, or of a light grade. Weak and trembling. Sleep, or sleepy.

‘‘This stage is usually wanting, and is characteristic of Apis fever in old protracted cases.’’—Carroll Dunham.

This stage is usually wanting. Sleepy. Urticaria.

Profuse, sour, easily excited by exercise. Thirsty. Irritable.

Clean in old cases. In acute attacks, dry, red, with a raw, sore, painful tenderness; does not care to talk or protrude it. Swelling and burning of lips during entire paroxysm. No appetite, nor desire for food; craves milk, which relieves.

Soreness and pain under ribs of left side, in region of spleen; great soreness of all the limbs and joints; feet swollen; urine scanty; restless; sleepless; urticaria and great debility. In old cases, badly treated by domestic and patent medicines.

Natrum mur. often indicated if Apis fails to permanently cure.

In either acute or chronic cases occurring as sequelæ of eruptive diseases.

‘‘Chills and fever in seasons when the flies sting with unusual vigor.’’—Hering.

Apis.

Soreness in spleen—in all limbs and joints; feet swollen; urine scanty; urticaria.

Bryonia.

Constipation of dry, hard, lumpy stools. Exceedingly irritable; everything makes him angry.

The time 3 P. M. is guiding.

Chill with thirst < in warm room, and from external heat. Chilliness with heat of hands and feet, the opposite of Belladonna, which has cold hands and feet and heat of head and face.

No thirst with heat or sweat.

Burning, oppression, smothering sensation in chest with chill and heat.

Sweat with urticaria.

Loss of consciousness.
Sopor interrupted by piercing shrieks.
Impaired memory.
Absent-mindedness.
Awkwardness, lets everything fall from his hands.
Dulness of head; indifference.
Could not bring his thoughts to bear on anything.
Muttering delirium.
Sudden shrill screams. θ Hydrocephalus, etc.
Busy, restless, changing kind of work.
Delusive idea that he must run or hop, that he cannot walk.
Great tearfulness, cannot help crying.
Dread of death.
Apathy, hardness of hearing; happy expression.
Mood: irritable; hard to please; nervous.
Violence amounting to frenzy.
Jealousy (in women).
Manias, especially proceeding from sexual cause in women.

Confused vertigo, worse sitting than when walking, extreme when lying and on closing the eyes; nausea and headache.

Brain feels tired; as if "gone to sleep", tingling.
Dull heavy, tensive headache over the eyes, with pain through the orbits.
Chronic headache, violent pain in forehead and temples, at times involving the eyes, attended by vertigo, nausea, and vomiting, must hold the head and eyes down.
Burning and throbbing in the head, worse by motion and stooping, temporarily better by pressing the head firmly with the hands; occasional sweat.
Aching in the occiput.
Violent drawing from the back of neck, extending behind the left ear, spreading over let half of head.
Neuralgic pain, like a bee-sting, in and about left temple.
Congestion to the head and face; fulness in the head.
Child lies in torpor; delirium, sudden shrieking cries, squinting, grinding teeth, boring head in pillow; one side twitching, the other paralyzed; head wet from sweating; urine scanty, milky; big toe turns up; nausea while lying; breath offensive; tongue sore. θ Acute hydrocephalus. θ After erysipelatous eruptions.
Pain in occiput, with occasional sharp shrieks. θ Hydrocephalus.
Chronic meningitis, with considerable cephalic disturbance and symptoms indicating threatening if not actual effusion of serum in to the cavity of the arachnoid.
Hydrocephaloid; stupor; eyes red, head hot, shrill shrieks; tongue dry, skin, dry, hands colds cold and blue; urine suppressed, abdomen tender; diarrhœa mucous, offensive, involuntary, containing flakes of pus.
Hydrocephalic enlargement of the head.

Head feels swollen; integuments feel swollen and stiff.
Hair falls out in spots.
Puffiness of scalp, forehead and around the eyes. θ Erysipelatous inflammation of scalp and face.
Boring (backward) the head in the pillow.
Fontanelle sunken. θ Cholera infantum.
Copious sweat of the head, of musk-like odor.

Squinting; trembling of eyeball, worse at night.
Rolling the eyes.
Severe, darting, lancinating pains in the eyes.
Burning, stinging, shooting pains.
Conjunctiva injected, full of dark vessels; chemosis.
Cornea: thick, having dark, smoky spots; greyish, smoky, opaque.
Ulcers on cornea; cicatrices; staphyloma corneæ.
Conjunctivitis, photophobia, but cannot bear eyes covered.
Scalding tears, profuse; great sensitiveness to light.
Lids: dark red, everted, swollen, excoriation of edges; granulated; swollen and very sensitive; œdematous, with bag-like swelling under the eye; non-inflammatory œdema (like Arsen.); feel stiff.

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Live bees (Apis mellifica) are shaken in a bottle, and then digested in dilute alcohol for several days.

Erysipelatous inflammation and destruction of tissue (of dermoid tissue), acute inflammation of kidneys and some other parenchymatous tissues.

Canth., Rhus t., Gelsem., Ledum, Secale corn., Lyc. , Phos., Mag. m. , Merc., Sulph.

▶ Swelling of whole body; with pallid, deathlike look of face; of whole side of body, first in joints; of face, neck, chest and limbs. ▶ Blood colorless and only red in the centre of the vessel. ▶ (No blood when venesection is attempted.). ▶ Failed to respond when spoken to. ▶ Falling to the ground. ▶ Twitching, burning, like a prickling contraction from without inward, in right thumb and other places. ▶ Convulsions; from the offer of water, which was desired, with expression of fear in face as in hydrophobia, also C. when touched on right index (the place of the sting); generally tonic, but in a measure clonic, with knees drawn up to breast and hands and arms moved convulsively, partially conscious and continually moaning. ▶ Electric shocks, thrilling ends of fingers and toes. ▶ Trembling.

Burning stitches here and there, especially on back, which itched. ▶ Neuralgic rheumatism. ▶ General bruised sensation. ▶ Prickling over whole body (Sec. corn.), externally and internally. ▶ General sensation of fulness and weakness of co-ordinating power, especially in hands. ▶ Malaise. ▶ Strange, indefinable feeling; with stinging feeling and white and red spots in palms on arms and feet. ▶ Sensation in whole body as if everything were too large. ▶ Restlessness; in afternoon, with weakness; alternating with depression approaching syncope; nervous, the latter half of the night. ▶ Necessity to lie down; sudden, without weakness or faintness. ▶ Sensation as if dying. ▶ Faintness; with nausea; faintness, with weakness, anxiety and distress at stomach, oppression of chest, dyspnœa, short, rapid breathing and rapid pulse. ▶ Weakness; evening, with vertigo; during diarrhœa; with trembling; with desire to be let alone; as if bruised in every limb, especially in back, agg. rising from a seat, with necessity to stretch. ▶ Sudden weakness; with coldness; with vomiting, profuse diarrhœa, cold limbs, pale face, griping in abdomen, pulse weak, after abatement of these symptoms redness of part stung. ▶ General sensation diminished. ▶ Numbness over whole body. ▶ Amelioration from sleep.

There is general aggravation of all symptoms about 5 P.M. ▶ The pains are always sudden, stinging. ▶ As a rule, the patients are not restless but in some cases of hydrocephalus there is great restlessness, with rolling of the head from side to side. ▶ The effects generally travel from right to left, pain, erysipelas, inflammations. ▶ In paralysis following diphtheria or typhoid fever it is sometimes indicated; sometimes but rarely, in rheumatic affections. ▶ Cases are reported in which there was diminished sensibility with paralysis, could not tell when the foot touched the ground, with soreness of the spine and pains. ▶ General inclination to dropsical effusions and anasarca, with stinging pains. ▶ General intolerance of the heat of the bed.

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The poison of the honey-bee produces varying degrees of cellulitis, not only under the skin, but in various parts of the body.
It also produces inflammations of serous membranes, particularly in the head, and parenchymatous inflammations of various organs, especially of the kidneys; in this latter property it exhibits many points of analogy with other insect poisons, Cantharis, Doryphora, etc. General œdema usually accompanies the nephritis of Apis.

The characteristic features of the Apis-disease are general drowsiness, even with high temperature, fever without thirst, afternoon aggravation, more or less profound apathy; and quick, stinging pains, which sometimes make the patient cry out.
Weakness.
Dropsical swellings.
Inflammatory swellings, erysipelas-like, bright red, puffy, with stinging pains.
Prostration.
Bruised sensations.
Pricking over the whole body.
Rarely paralysis; rarely convulsions.
Symptoms extend from right to left.
General aggravation about four to five P. M.
General intolerance of heat.

Stupor, sometimes amounting to unconsciousness.
Muttering delirium.
Stupor, interrupted by sudden sharp cries and startings.

Vertigo with confused headache, somewhat ameliorated by walking.
Head feels hot and heavy, ameliorated by external pressure.
Hot sweat of the head.

Stinging pains.
Lids swollen, red, hot, everted like a mass of red flesh.
Upper lids hang down like sacs.
Margins of lids inflamed, burning.
Conjunctiva bright red, puffy.
Lachrymation with burning and stinging.
Sharp pains on attempting to use the eyes.
Photophobia.
Pain around the orbits, ameliorated by pressure.

Swollen, red and hot.

Externally swollen, red and hot.
Tip of nose cold (preceding a sore throat).

Swollen, œdematous, red with piercing pains.
Œdematous, pale with dropsical troubles.

Gums swollen, bleed easily.
Tongue swollen.
Tongue raw on margins, with scalding.
Tongue dry and sore.
Vesicles on tip and margins of tongue.
Whole mouth sensitive as if scalded.

Swollen and puffy, bright red.
Constriction, difficult swallowing.
Hot and dry with stinging pains.
Uvula elongated, swollen like a sac.
Tonsils swollen, intensely inflamed.
Throat so swollen, internally and externally, that breathing is difficult.

No appetite.
No thirst (as a rule, though Apis patients are sometimes thirsty).
Vomiting of food, retching (associated with other symptoms).
Soreness.
Burning.

General soreness, aggravated by touch.
Distention.
Sharp, stinging pains, mostly extending upward.

Anus raw, during diarrhœa.
Seem relaxed, anus feels constantly open.
Piles protrude.

Diarrhœa, yellow watery painless, cannot be retained while urinating.
Olive-green stools.
Mucus, jelly-like stools, streaked with blood.

Urine scanty or suppressed.
Urine high colored.
Micturition frequent.
Burning and soreness when urinating.

Acute nephritis, urine scanty or suppressed, with general œdema sleepiness, lack of thirst, dry, irritable skin, suffocation on lying down, etc.

Male organs swollen, œdematous.
Swollen and inflamed (diffuse cellulitis).
Labia swollen, œdematous.
Inflamed.
Cutting pains in the ovarian region (left or right).
Ovary inflamed, great tenderness of abdomen.
Violent, sharp pains in ovarian region (not inflammatory).
Uterine hæmorrhage during pregnancy.
Heaviness in uterus, with faintness, etc.
Soreness over uterine region.
Dysmenorrhœa, with tenderness, ovarian pains, puffy face.

Hoarseness, rawness in larynx.
Cough aggravated after lying and sleeping.
(Œdema of epiglottis and larynx).
Expectorations bloody, frothy.
Dyspnœa, as if could not breathe again.
Sense of suffocation on lying down.
Bruised pain and soreness over the chest.
Occasional sharp stitches through the chest.

Distress in heart.
Heart's action feeble.
(Pericardial effusion.)
Pulse feeble, rarely full and strong.

Cervical glands swollen.
Neck stiff, lame.
Back lame.
Dragging in small of back (with ovarian and uterine diseases).
Soreness or bruised feeling over the region of the kidneys.
Neuralgia in coccyx and sacrum.

General œdema.
Inflammation of knee joint.

Urticaria.
Erysipelas.
Always great sensitiveness, stinging pains.
General anasarca, pale swellings.
Veins inflamed.

Sleepiness.
Startings in terror.

Chilliness (periodic at 3 P. M.).
Heat predominates, without thirst (usually), with drowsiness.
Heat of head with throbbing, ameliorated by pressure.
Sweat not marked, skin usually dry.

Apis. / (2nd Y.) / Apollis.

Apis stings, and burns and bloats,
Every itis chimes these notes,
In the ovary, and brain,
In the urinary lane,
In the fever's burning flame,
Piercing shrieks, in brain affections,
Tenderness in ailing sections,
Ague and chill at 3 p. m.,
Hives that to the chill lay claim,
Thirstless heat, and Burning, lowered,
By cold water on it poured,
These to Apis we accord.

Apollis,- Has stinging pains.

Apollis Theri, Is in a sinful mob, with Ham, the thug.

This Apollis,- Who is thirstless, tho' feverish,- Is at the Inn with Pattie the Negro.

Stinging Pains: Apis., Ther., Sil., Nat. m., Mer., Bell., Ham., Thuj.

Thirstless Heat: Apis, Nux. m., Pul., Tart. e., Hell.

Indicated in eruptive fevers, especially in scarlatina; in diphtheria; in inflammatory affections, particularly in those of erysipelatous tendency; in dropsies with absence of thirst and scanty urination; nephritis. Very important in the treatment of post-scarlatinal dropsy. Used in intermittent and other fevers; in ovarian diseases; in certain coughs, with much dyspnoea.

Stinging pains, like bee stings, followed by burning, changing from place to place; painful to touch.

Boils and swellings, with stinging pain.

Tired, as if bruised all over.

Bag-like swelling under the eyes.

Oedamatous swelling in different parts of the body.

Enlargement and induration of glands with stinging pain.

Tongue feels raw, sore, scalded; red and hot at the tip.

Dropsy without thirst; scanty urine.

Great dyspnoea, as if every breath would be the last.

Deep ulceration in the throat, with erysipelatous or oedematous borders.

Painful, scanty urination, with burning before and during micturition.

Fever without thirst.

Irritation in supra-sternal fossa, provoking cough.

Tickling in the little spot on the posterior pharynx, exciting cough which stops as soon as a bit of mucus is raised.

Severe concussive cough; it painfully jars the head, so he must bend the head back and hold it to relieve the severity of the shock.

Diarrhoea of yellow-green stools, in the morning, with abdominal soreness.

Enlargement and burning-stinging pain in the ovaries, especially right.

Bearing down as if menses would appear, followed by scanty discharge of black mucus.

Chill from 3 to 5 o'clock p. m.; it runs down the back and is worse in in a warm room and near the stove.

Worse on the right side; after sleeping; in a hot, close room; from getting drenched; at night, toward morning.

Better in the open air; form bathing parts in cold water; from uncovering; during the day, when sitting up.

Anxiety and premonition of death. Irritability and violent anger, every thing goes wrong. Extraordinary nervous restlessness, does not know what to do with herself, so that tears come to her eyes: over busy and inconstant. Screaming, or stupidity interrupted by sudden piercing shrieks. Unconsciousness. Absent - minded, impaired memory, indifferent. Suspicion and jealousy. Fidgetiness.

Bursting, expansive pain in, with vertigo and mental confusion. Brain feels tired, gone to sleep and crawling in. Headache better from pressure and diarrhoea. Scalp: Sensitive. Hot sweat on. Pain like a blow, swelling of.

Burning and itching of. Inflammatory or edematous swelling of lids. Lids averted. Stiff. Profuse lachrymation. Photophobia. Desire to rub. Better: Bathing in cold water. Profuse burning tears.

Purple. Swelling of lymphatic gland behind.

Cold tip. Itching and frequent sneezing.

Puffy. Erysipelatous redness of. Red stripes on. Lips greatly swollen.

Dry with burning raw feeling, as if scalded in, and in throat, followed by vesicles on edge of tongue, without thirst. Adhesive mucus in and in throat. Fiery redness and painful tenderness of buccal cavity and throat. Swelling, especially of tongue, Inflammation of and tongue.

Sense of constriction, soreness, stinging or itching in. Breathing and swallowing very difficult, every drop of liquid put upon the tongue nearly suffocates him. Swelling of, and of glands of, worse from hot drinks.

Hot vapor seems to rise from Prickling as from needles. Oppression at pit. Burning in. Sensitive to pressure.

Eructations: Tasting like yolk of egg during headache. Drinking water, on.

Nausea, etc. - Progressing to vomiting, with fainting. Vomiting with abdominal symptoms or diarrhoea.

Thirst: Generally absent, but occasionally it is intense.

Bruised soreness of, pressure, sneezing or touch. Inflated sensation in. Rumbling in Heaviness in. Sickly feeling in.

Anus, Rectum and stool. - Diarrhoea, with feeling of rawness in anus, with extreme weakness. Stools pass with every motion of the body, as if anus stool open (phos.) Stools contain lumps of bloody mucus. Dysentery. Tenesmus. Diarrhoea with profuse urine.

Burning and soreness when urinating Frequent, profuse urination. Suppressed or scanty. Strangury. Brick dust sediment. Agg. Exertion.

Sexual excitement. Uterine hemorrhage with yawning. Miscarriage. Flow of menses relieves burning in abdomen. Ovaries: Stinging, drawing, cutting or sore pains, more in right, worse from coition, standing or walking.

Suffocation. With a sensation that he would not be able to breathe again, can bear nothing about throat, wants to be fanned, worse lying down and in a warm room. Oppression of, with desire to take a deep breath. Respiration and cough are worse lying on left side.

Violent shocks of cough from a crawling irritation near the throat pit, increased headache at every shock. Worst: In a warm room, after lying and sleeping. Better: By little expectoration.

Hoarseness, in morning, with difficult breathing.

Stinging or stitches in. Bruised soreness, worse coughing. Fullness in. Heart: Feeble heart beat. Violent, audible palpitation. Acute pain below heart, extending towards right chest.

- Neck stiff. Nettlerash on. Bruised feeling in. Odor from axillae greatly intensified.

Upper Extremities.

Sensitiveness of. Painfulness of bones. Numb finger - tips. Sensation as if nails were loose. Blood settles under nails. Burning, pricking, especially in finger - tips. Swelling of.

Feel paralyzed. Sore pains. Sensation in feet and toes, as if too large, swollen and stiff. Painful fullness in soles, as if walking on cushions. Crawling in. Numb.

Swelling of affected parts, with burning itching, stinging or shooting pains, Edema, dropsy, anasarca, etc., puffing up of the whole body. Sense of tightness in many parts, especially abdomen. Bruised soreness all over. Sensitiveness of mind and body or apathy, numbness and anesthesia with awkwardness causing her to drop things. Lassitude, weakness and sudden prostration. Trembling. Sensation: Of sudden stinging or stabbing, of swelling, soreness, rawness, drawing, prickling, crawling or as if parts were going to sleep. Pain causes fainting. Symptoms often move from right to left. Want of thirst predominates.

Worse: Touch, heat. 3 PM

Better: Cold, open air.

Swelled. Redness of lymphatics.

Stinging, prickling, burning, smarting and itching all over. Exceedingly sensitive, even the hair is painful to touch. Red spots, like bee stings on. Swelling and erysipelatous redness of, then desquamation of whole surface. Pale red swellings. Appearance of a nettlerash like eruption better the other symptoms. Receding of suppressed eruptions. Wheels. Urticaria. Burning like fire in spots, altho's parts may be cold. Better: Rubbing.

Somnolency: With prostration, with nervous restlessness. Screaming out, or terrified starting during. Dreams, Full of laborious, of heat, of flying, quarrels, etc. Drowsy and thirstless.

Pulse: Full and accelerated, more seldom small and thready, occasionally intermittent and imperceptible. Chill, severest towards evening. Shivering c., in afternoon (3 or 4 o'clock) increased by warmth. Shivering from least motion, especially towards evening, with heat of head and hands. Heat: Without thirst. Sensation of heat. Dry, toward evening. The sensation of heat is greatest on the chest and epigastric region. Sweat: Alternating with dry skin.

Allied Remedies: Apoc., ARS., Bell., Canth., Chin., Coccl., Dulc., Ferr., Graph., Hell., Hep., Iod., Kali-c., Kali. iod., Lach., Lyc., Merc., Millef., NAT-M., PULS., Rhus-t., Sep., Sul., URT-U.

Antipsoric of Apis.: Bar-c. Nat-m.

Antidotes: Canth., Carb-v.

Burning and stinging pains.

Great debility, as if he had worked hard, he must lie down on the ground.

Great sensitiveness to the touch and to external pressure, especially on the abdomen.

Sensation of soreness, as if bruised.

Tension (over the eyes, behind the ears, in the neck, and a tension involving the head of the left side).

Heaviness and pressure in the head, especially when rising from a recumbent position or from a seat, worse in a warm room, and relieved by pressing the head with the hands.

Eruptions like hives.

Dropsical swellings without thirst.

Inflammation of the eyes with intense photophobia and increased secretions.

Pale red erysipelatous inflammations.

Aggravation in a warm room.