Apis


Apis signs and symptoms of the homeopathy medicine from the Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by J.H. Clarke. Find out for which conditions and symptoms Apis is used…


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

Clinical

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

Characteristics

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. *Medorrhinum *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, hacking 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 dyspnoea, 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 worse by heat. The stinging appears in many diseases and conditions, causing the *”crie cerebrale” in acute hydrocephalus and meningitis. Stinging pains in haemorrhoids. “Redness and swelling with stinging and burning pain in eyes, eyelids, ears, face, lips, tongue, throat, anus, testicles.” oedema 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. (*Baptisia has painlessness in throat affections but less oedema. 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 characterized 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 (*Lachesis) 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 Lachesis 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. Worse From touch or pressure (though the head is better by pressure). In this *Apis resembles the Antimonies, and it is like them in sensitiveness to heat, especially to heated rooms (*Pulsatilla, *Iodium, *Kali-iod., *Camph., *Secale., *Sulph.), worse by warmth of bed. Cold water amel. Many symptoms (eyes and chest) are worse in the night, and sleep is disturbed by piercing cries, or else by moaning and whining. Worse In morning: mucus in mouth, restlessness, diarrhoea. Worse In evening: erysipelas, giddiness, headache, chills, fever. Many symptoms are worse lying down, and better sitting.

Relations

*Compare: Vesp. and serpent poisons; Acet-ac. (dropsy), Aconite, Anacardium (urticaria), Apocynum can (dropsy); Arnica (bruised, sore conditions), Arsenicum (typhoid, gangrene, dropsies, scarlatina, urticaria, chills); Belladonna (meningitis, sore throat, erysipelas, scarlatina); Bromium (swelling of ovary during menses); Bryonia (meningitis, rheumatism), Cantharis (burns, erysipelas, urinary symptoms); Chi.; Colchicum; Crot-t. (urticaria), Euphr. (conjunctiva), Ferrum; Graphites; Hepar; Hyoscyamus; Iodium (synovitis), Lachesis, Lycopodium, Mercurius, Nat-a., Natrum mur. (chills, urticaria, tension in ovarian region), Pulsatilla, Rhus (eyes, but Apis has less tendency to suppuration, vesicular erysipelas but darker than Apis and spreading left to right=Apis right to left, typhoid, restlessness, but Apis is more fidgetiness), Rumex (painless, greenish-yellow morning diarrhoea), Sabina, Sepia, Silicea (ovarian

affections with inverted nipples, ulcer on tongue, vaccination effects), Urt-u., Zincum met. Antidotes: to medium doses and poisonings, Natrum mur. in all forms, sweet oil, onions, Ammonia, Ip., low. (also powdered Ip. applied locally), Lachesis, Ledum. It antidotes: Cantharis, Iodium, Chi., Digitalis It follows well: Bryonia (when cephalic cry appears), Helleborus (when torpor sets in ), Iodium, Hepar, Mercurius, Lycopodium, Sulphur Is followed well by: Graphites (tetter on ear lobe), Kali-bi. (scrofulous ophthalmia), Arsenicum, (hydrothorax), Phosphorus (diphtheria), Stramonium (mania), Lycopodium (staphyloma), Sulphur (hydrothorax, pleurisy, hydrocephalus), Iodium (swollen knee). Complementary: Natrum mur. (the “chronic” of Apis). Inimical: Rhus-t. in eruptive diseases.

Causation

Grief. Fright. Rage. Vexation. Jealousy. (The queen bee is the most jealous thing in nature.) Hearing bad news, mental shock. Suppressed eruptions.

Mind

The brain feels paralysed. Tubercular meningitis. Impaired memory.- Absent-minded. -Cannot concentrate thought. – Indifference. -Torpor and apathy. -Awkward, lets things fall and laughs sillily at the mishap. -(The mental symptoms are rich in unconsciousness, absentmindedness, impaired memory, and slow march of ideas.) Loss of consciousness.- Great tearfulness, cannot help crying. Children constantly whining.- Screaming, sudden outcry during sleep. Busy, restless, continually changing his occupation. -Cannot bear to be left alone. -Hysteria. -In women: jealousy, mania from sexual irritation. -Depression, feels as if about to die (without fear of death). -Delirium, low muttering. -Delirium, after suppressed scarlet eruption. Irritation. -Premonition of death, thinks it is about to transpire.- Dread of death, sensation as if he could not breathe again. Fear of being poisoned.

Head

Giddiness: when sitting, standing, lying, when closing the eyes, with nausea and headache. Congestion to the head, with suppressed menstruation. Pressing pain in forehead and temples, worse rising, in warm bed, better pressing the forehead together. The brain feels tired. Sudden stabbing and stinging pains. Aching in left temple. Hydrocephalus in children, and apoplexy in old persons. Hydrocephalus, scalp very sensitive, copious sweat of head, child lies in torpor, delirium interrupted by shrill cries, boring head deep in pillow, rolls it from side to side. Convulsed on one side of the body, paralysed the other, squinting, grinding of teeth, urine scanty (milky).

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica