Fever.- In the intermittent fevers for which apis is indicated the chill commences usually about 3 p.m. and is accompanied by thirst and a dead feeling in the hands; the heat which is the most prolonged stage and in which there is not thirst, is accompanied with a violent headache or continuous deep sleep; the sweating stage is very short or absent and here also there is no thirst External heat aggravates all the stages, even the chill. In the apyrexia there are pains in the splenic region, the feet are swollen the urine scanty, the limbs and joints sore the patient is restless and there is urticaria.
Some apis symptoms e.g., vertigo, muscular soreness (legs) are relieved by walking or movement, while others are aggravated, such as headache, sickly feeling subscapular pain.
Apis is useful in other kinds of fever, such as enteric, continued low fevers and the exanthematic fevers, provided the general characteristics are present; the patient is alternately perspiring or hot and dry.
The same indications are necessary for this drug to the suitable for the ailments from fright rage, vexation, jealousy or hearing bad news, for which it is sometimes prescribed.
Carbolic acid is an antidote to bee stings.
LEADING INDICATIONS
(1) Aggravation from heat in any form.
(2) Over-sensitiveness; of skin, of mind, of organs.
(3) Sadness indifference, suspicion, jealousy.
(4) Foolish or childish behaviors.
(5) Stinging, burning pains, with rapid change of site.
(6) Violence and rapidity of complaints.
(7) Right sided symptoms go from right to left.
(8) Absence of thirst where it is expected, i.e., during heat, and also generally.
(9) Tight constrictive sensation in throat larynx, chest, abdomen.
(10) Restlessness.
(11) Inflammation and oedema: of skin, mucous membranes, serous membranes, synovial membranes, subcutaneous tissues.
(12) Urticaria and erysipelas.
(13) Cerebral affections, especially in children; meningitis, cri cerebral.
(14) Morning diarrhoea.
(15) Prostration faintness.
AGGRAVATION:
From heat close rooms, especially if warm (puls., iod., kali., iod., camph., secale., sulph.); from touch and pressure (except headache); in the morning (restlessness, diarrhoea); 3.p.m (chills) evening (erysipelas, vertigo, headache, fever); night; lying down (most symptoms), radiant heat (eyes,&c.), getting wet.
AMELIORATION:
From cold, cold washing, expectoration (cough and dyspnoea), sitting, changing position.
Edwin Awdas Neatby founded the Missionary School of Homeopathy and the London Homeopathic Hospital in 1903, and run by the British Homeopathic Association. He died in East Grinstead, Sussex, on the 1st December 1933. Edwin Awdas Neatby wrote The place of operation in the treatment of uterine fibroids, Modern developments in medicine, Pleural effusions in children, Manual of Homoeo Therapeutics,