Apis



Eyes

Burning, stinging, shooting, piercing pains in and about the eyes. Aching over right eye extending to right eyeball. Twitching of eyeballs. Staphyloma. Cornea thick, having dark, smoky, spots, greyish, smoky, opaque. Keratitis. Conjunctiva reddened, chemosed, lids everted. Sensation of mucus in the eyes. Itching in eyes and lachrymation. Weakness of the eyes, with pain, photophobia, and increased secretions. Agglutination of the lids. oedematous swelling of eyelids, bags under eyes, upper lids hang over like sacs. Styes with stinging pains, smoky darkness before the eyes.

Ears

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

Nose

Swollen, red, oedematous. Coryza, worse from warmth, chronic catarrh with crusty nostrils, polypus.

Face

oedematous swelling of the face, red and hot, swollen so as to be unrecognisable, with piercing and burning pain, waxy, pale. Happy expression of face, or terror, or apathy. Burning, stinging heat in the face with purple colour. Erysipelas of the face. Erysipelas of the face, with fever, coated tongue. Erysipelas going right to left (Rhus left to right) Jaws stiff, with stiff tongue and impossibility of intelligible speech.

Teeth

Grinding of the teeth, sudden and involuntary biting them together, covered with yellow mucus or brown sordes.

Mouth

Lips oedematous, upper lip swollen, hot and red. Mouth red, burning, stinging, scalding. Dryness of tongue, mouth, and throat, fiery redness of buccal cavity, with painful tenderness.

Dry, swollen, inflamed tongue, with inability to swallow. White, dry tongue (with diarrhoea). Tongue: can hardly be protruded, hangs from the mouth, cancer of. Swollen tongue, shining. Borders blistered, feel as if scalded and quite raw. Ulcer in left border (right Silicea Thuja) Tongue swollen, dry, cracked, sore, ulcerated, or covered with vesicles. Viscid, tough, frothy, saliva. Gums sacculated and look watery. Fetor of breath, with headache.

Throat

Throat has appearance as if stung. Dryness in the throat with heat, without thirst.- Burning, stinging in throat. Erysipelatous. Glossy red varnish. -Inflammation of the throat, with swelling, redness, and stinging pains. Ulcerated sore throat (in scarlet fever, when the eruption does not come out). Diphtheritic sore throat gets well as a scarlatina rash develops. Throat swollen inside and outside, hoarse, sense of constriction, breathing and swallowing difficult.-Ulcers on the tonsils, palate, etc. Uvula long and dropsical. -Sensation of foreign body or fishbone in the throat, of constriction.- Paralysis. -Small, clear, watery blisters on the back part of the throat.

Stomach

No thirst with the heat. -Thirstlessness (with dropsy). Vomiting of bile. -Vomiting, with inflammation of the stomach. -Vomiting, with diarrhoea. Burning heat in the stomach.- Great soreness in pit of stomach when touched. Violent pain and sensitiveness in region of stomach.

Abdomen

Great sensitiveness of the abdomen to touch. Soreness of the bowels and abdominal walls, mornings when sneezing or pressing upon them. Sensitiveness of epigastrium and whole abdomen to touch, of right inguinal region, across hypogastrium from ilium to ilium. Pain in abdomen on pressure, touch and horizontal position, with sensitiveness. Peritonitis. Erysipelas from contusion. Rumbling and meteoric distension. Ascites and anasarca. Hard swelling in the right groin, oblong, as large as a cucumber. Long-standing inguinal hernia. Collapse of abdominal walls in meningitis infantum.

Stool and Anus

Sensation of rawness in the anus, with diarrhoea. Discharge of flatus before stool. Diarrhoea: during fevers, from heat, in debilitated children, from irritability of brain (hydrocephaloid). Diarrhoea, yellowish-green, with mucus, especially in the morning. Stool thin, watery, yellow, worse in morning, may or may not be offensive. Stools smelling very offensively. Diarrhoea and vomiting. Diarrhoea is copious, blackish-brown, green, or whitish, orange-coloured, greenish, yellow mucus, yellow watery, soft and pappy, mixed with serum, thin yellow. At every motion of body bowels act as though he had no power. Uncertain anus, constantly open (during urination), oozing of liquid (Phosphorus, Ph-ac.). Swelling of anus. Haemorrhoids, with stinging pains. Constipation, with feeling as if something would break if he continued to strain. 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 carrion, very offensive. Protruding varices, which sting, burn, and smart intolerably.

Urinary Organs

Burning soreness when urinating. Strangury. Pain in region of kidneys, soreness on pressure or when stooping. Frequent desire, with passage of only a few drops. Urine scanty and high-coloured, with thirstlessness. Incontinence of urine from coughing and other circumstances. Urine suppressed. Too profuse discharge of urine. Frequent and profuse urination. Albuminuria of scarlatina. (Increase of urine under Apis shows that the medicine is acting well.) Burning and stinging in the urethra. Burning and smarting in the urethra, as if it were scalded. Bladder very painful, often tenesmus after urinating. Urine often bloody, milky appearance, very dark and frothy, very foetid, sediment reddish- brown, like coffee grounds.

Male Sexual Organs.

Sexual desire increased. Chancre with stinging pains like bee- stings, and with a highly inflamed circumstances. Pains and swellings of testes and prostate. Dropsy of the scrotum and prepuce, hydrocele.

Female Sexual Organs.

Amenorrhoea or menorrhagia. Inflammation, induration, swelling, and dropsy of the ovaries (right) Weight and pain in either ovarian region, predominantly right side. The ovaries feel better by lying on right side. Enlargement of the right ovary with pain in the left pectoral region and cough. Sharp, cutting, stinging pain in the swollen (right) ovary, worse during menstruation. Ovarian tumors, with stinging pains like bee-stings. Metritis, peritonitis, with stinging, thrusting pains. Pressing-down pain in the uterus. Bearing-down, with sensation as before menses. Dropsy of the ovaries (right), dropsy of the uterus. Strained pain left ovary. Menstruation suppressed or diminished, with congestion to the head. Labor-like, bearing-down pains, followed by dark, bloody mucus. Threatened miscarriage in the early months, with heaviness of the abdomen, restlessness, and yawning. Abortion. Abortion during the early months. Dropsy in the latter part of pregnancy attended with puerperal convulsions. Ulceration and engorgement of os uteri. Large and painful swelling of the labia, with heat and stinging pains. Erysipelatous inflammation of the breasts. Swelling and hardness of the mammae threatening to ulcerate. Scirrhus or open cancer of the mammae, with stinging, burning pains.

Respiratory Organs

Irritation to cough in the supra-sternal fossa. Hoarseness. Hoarseness in the morning Respiration hurried and difficult (with fever and headache). oedema glottidis. Asthma, worse in cold weather. Croupy cough. Obstinate night cough from 9 p-m., to 4 a m. Cough which loosens with difficulty, rouses from sleep before midnight and ceases as soon as least particle is loosened, which is swallowed. Feeling of constriction causing a single, spasmodic, hacking cough at short intervals. Violent cough, deep, hard ringing, incessant for three hours, excited by constricted feeling in throat, but reaching down to lungs, the upper part of which are very sore and sensitive. Dyspnoea, especially difficult inspiration.

Chest

Hydrothorax. Sensation of soreness in the chest, as from a bruise. Oppression of the chest, shortness of breath, especially when ascending, inability to remain in a warm room. Dull, aching pain in the left side of the chest, near the middle of the sternum, with sensation of fullness in the chest and short breath. Expectoration of copious, transparent, frothy, bloody mucus. Stitches in left side of chest and through back. Burning, stinging pain through entire front of chest. Melting heat in region of diaphragm, as from running violently. Every shock from coughing gives pain in the head and some pain through the chest, as from the clavicle, better after loosening a small portion of mucus, or a large quantity of transparent, frothy, and bloody mucus is expectorated.

Heart

Sudden pain just below the heart, soon extending toward right chest, with suffocation. Very feeble action of the heart, violent beats, shaking the whole body, intermittent beats. -Region of heart sensitive to 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

Rheumatic pain in back and limbs. -Cerebrospinal meningitis.

Upper Limbs

Hands bluish, and inclined to be cold. oedema of the hands. Sensation of numbness in fingers, especially the tips about the roots of nails. Panaritium with burning, stinging, and throbbing, very sensitive to touch.

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