Apis



The face is red and hot; pain, burning and piercing, and swollen so as to be unrecognizable (not gone after eighteen hours).

The face becomes purple. (Bell).

Face livid.

Livid, blue-reddish color of face (two weeks). (Color of face very dark, almost blue-black, after death).

The face is swollen to blindness, and, for a week, he goes about blinking like an owl.

The face swelled so that he could hardly see (after a sting in the face).

Inflammatory swelling of the face; the right eye completely closed, the left eye almost; the cheeks hand down to the breast (after being stung in the right corner of the mouth).

Nose and face swell immediately after being stung in the tip of nose; continues several days.

Face inflamed.

Erysipelas of the face; over the whole face light redness, swelling, heat, with burning fever, coated tongue and thirst (in a girl of nine; sixth dilution every two hours).

Nettle-rash in the face.

Burning in the face, with sensation of fullness, as if the blood vessels were overfilled; very much aggravated when stooping.

Peculiar burning and a heat in the face which he cannot describe; it lasted twenty-four hours, and for more than two weeks left behind a livid, bluish-red color of the face.

Heat of the face, with chilliness.

Sensation as if face would swell, left side, especially about the eye (after one hour).

Tension in the face waked him at 1 o’clock at night; the nose was swollen and the right eye and cheek; stinging pain when touched; under the right eye, beginning at the top of the nose, red stripes crossed the cheeks, lasted till 4 o’clock; the following day, again, after midnight, rapid swelling of the upper lip, with heat and burning redness, lasting till toward morning; third night, a sudden running across the right cheek, like a little insect, and stung him beside the nose, upon which the cheek and upper lip swelled.

Prickling in the face.

Burning cheeks, with cold feet.

Red stripes down from the nose across the cheeks.

Ulcer on the cheek, lasting three months.

Heat of the cheeks and hands.

Stinging pain in the left malar bone (fourth week).

Running as of an insect over the cheek.

Dark streak along the vermilion border of the lips; they are rough, cracked, and peel off (second day), (sixth dilution), (etc)..

Swelling of the lips, and sensation as of swelling for several days; then a fine eruption about the lips, and dryness and desquamation of the lower lip (sixth dilution), (and others).

Lips swollen and everted.

Swelling of the lips and tongue, after being stung in the temples.

The upper lip as much swollen as if it were turned inside out (after being stung on the neck).

The lips are dry, with a black stripe in the red portion.

Lips cold (after eight to ten minutes).

Raging violent pains in the lips, then extending into the gums and head, and finally over the whole body (directly after taking, in a woman).

Burning in the lips, with catarrh.

Roughness and sensation of tension in the lips, especially the upper one (sixth dilution), (and others).

Roughness and tension in the lips, especially the upper one.

Prickling in the lips, and sensation as if they had received a severe contusion, with swollen feeling (after a few hours).

Sensation as if the lips would chap, in catarrh.

Upper lip swollen; grew red and hot, almost brown.

Chapping of the lower lip.

Burning on the chin.

Burning stinging, as of fire, on the chin and malar bones.

Drawing in the lower jaw, extending from the chest.

Mouth.

When biting the teeth together, in swallowing, after yawning, and otherwise, a kind of grinding the teeth, only a single, involuntary jerk; is repeated very often (seventh and following days).

Toothache.

Toothache with headache.

Twitching toothache in the left upper back teeth.

Jumping pain the left upper molar teeth.

Toothache in the upper jaws, right side, during which she feels the biting together of her teeth in her head; with chilliness, evenings (second day).

Violent pain in the first left upper molar; seems connected with the headache (after five hours).

Heat, with toothache.

Easy bleeding of the gums (sixth day).

Very troublesome pains in the gums.

Violent pains spreading through the gums.

Swelling of the tongue, then of the whole body, after a sting in the vertex; he could neither speak, nor move his tongue, nor swallow the least morsel.

Swelling of the tongue and lips (after a sting in the temples).

Burning from the tongue down the whole throat into the stomach, and eructation every four to five minutes, with gathering of tasteless water in the mouth; the eructations increased very much after drinking water, it almost suffocated her.

Burning stinging on the tongue.

Prickling heat on the tongue.

Tongue very painful, after seven hours; the burning rawness increases; vesicles rise along the edge;stings with the pain.

Rawness, burning, and blisters, along the edge of the tongue, which are very painful, with stinging (after eight hours).

Extremes sensation of the rawness and scalding, all around the margin of the tongue; little pimples on the edge (after four hours).

The whole margin of the tongue feels as if scalded, as if quite raw; little papular elevations appear along the edge of the tongue (after two hours).

Tongue as if burnt.

Mouth very dry.

Dryness in the mouth and throat; the tongue feels as if burnt (second day).

Dryness under the tongue, disappears after moving the tongue a great deal (6 o’clock, evenings, after ten hours).

Dryness of the tongue; red, fiery appearance of the buccal cavity, with painful tenderness.

Tongue and palate sore.

Sore pain of the palate and tongue.

On the tip of the tongue, somewhat to the left, a row of small vesicles, painfully sore and raw.

A number of vesicles and redder spots on the tip of the tongue, and on the left edge of the tongue.

In the mouth, on the inner cheeks, fiery redness.

Dryness in the mouth and fauces.

Sensation of dryness in the mouth and throat (second day).

Burning in the mouth, as if the whole mouth were hot inside on the lips and palate; she has more thirst during this than usual, and drinks frequently (forenoons in the fourth week).

Scalding in the mouth and throat (for two days).

Painful sensitiveness of buccal cavity.

Inflammation and swelling of the palate, that obstructed breathing, so that he died (wasp).

Dryness of the palate, which, when touched by the tongue, feels rough and scratchy (early the second day).

Flow of saliva ( Swammerdam).

Copious accumulation of soapy saliva, in the mouth and throat, mornings (second day).

Tough, frothy saliva.

Stringy saliva adhering to the tongue.

Thick, tough, adhesive mucus in the mouth and fauces.

Bitter taste in fauces.

Took the poison of the queen bee; first, I had a bitterish taste, which afterwards became more sharp and pungent, spreading over the whole fauces to the jaws, forcing the saliva from its channels.

The tongue was affected as after chewing the Spanish Bertram root, but in a less degree. There was at the same time great activity in every part of the mouth, as if I had taken ten to twelve drops of the strongest alcohol.

Emboldened by this I tasted the poison of the common working bees, and that of wasps.

It was the same, only that of the working bees was milder and less than that of the wasps (Swammerdam).

Bitterish taste at the back of the tongue and in the fauces (after two minutes).

Lost his taste.

Throat.

The glands of the throat swollen on the injured side.

Great accumulation of viscid mucus deep in the throat, compelling frequent hawking (mornings, eleventh day).

Dryness in the throat without thirst.

Dryness in the throat; in the fauces; of the palate.

Dryness and heat in the throat (first day).

Burning in the throat, extending to the stomach.

Sensation of rawness in the throat, with viscid saliva, that adheres to the hard palate, velum, and tongue.

Sensation of rawness in the throat, with inclination to frequent hawking.

Frequent inclination to clear the throat.

Sore throat, accompanied by a hoarse, hard, spasmodic, and somewhat hollow cough, caused by a sensation of filling up in the throat, as though he needed to raise something.

Does not recollect, however, raising anything, (E. U. J)..

Sensation of soreness in the fauces and throat, extending downward through the chest to the pit of the stomach.

He described this feeling of soreness as one of erosion, excoriation, or rawness, and supposed it to be such as a consumptive might feel, who had a violent and hard cough for a long time (in a few minutes), (E. U. J)..

Sensation of fullness, contraction, and suffocation in the throat.

Throat felt constricted, and as if a foreign body was lodged in; deglutition was painful.

Sensation of constriction and erosion in the throat, in the mornings, after fifteen minutes; increases to such a degree, in eight hours, that swallowing becomes difficult.

Disagreeable oppression in the throat (in one hour), (Deane).

An aching pressure, as if from a hard body, back in the upper part of the throat and fauces; continuing for some hours (at half an hour), (occurred in two provings).

Stinging itching deep in the throat, at the lower part of the neck, accompanied with a sensation of constriction.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.