Apis



Rapid, considerable swelling.

Swelling of the whole body.

Spreading, inflammatory swelling (humble-bee).

Inflammatory swelling till death, Painful red swelling.

Diffuse inflammation of the cellular tissues, ending in their destruction.

Swelling and an erysipelatous redness.

Sharp pain and erysipelatous swelling, very hard and white in the middle.

From 1 to 4, mornings, tension and swelling in the face and lips.

Hand, arm, face, and head, swell considerably (after a sting in the middle finger), (wasp).

Face, neck, breast, and limbs considerably swollen.

Swelling of the whole left side of the body (side of the sting, in the testicle), first in the joints.

Blotches on the body, and on the back of the hand, with stinging as of nettles.

Body covered with large wales, size of a silver half dollar, slightly elevated and white (C. C. C)..

The whole body covered with red spots, as if scalded, with burning and sticking (after a sting in the neck).

Red and white blotches over the body and extremities like nettlerash, (A. R. M)..

Red place near the sting, with swelling on the stung spot, and red stripes along the fingers and the arms.

Erysipelatous redness of the toes; and the feet.

Redness of the stung spot; not till later, when the attacks were improving.

Red lines along the lymphatic vessels, from a sting in the middle finger and the arms (wasp).

Over the whole body, the most violent inflammation and excessive pressure when rubbing; covered with small white spots, resembling mosquito-Large, florid blotches appeared upon the skin, resembling erysipelas.

This lasted for something over an hour, but was essentially relieved by a solution of borax, (S. D)..

Rash; red blotches, with great sensitiveness of the skin to contact.

This sensitiveness extended all over the body, (A. R. M)..

Spots of the size of a dollar swell up, without changing the color of the skin, and become uncommonly sensitive to the touch, as if sore (and 1st).

Sudden, indescribable sensation over the whole body, with a stinging feeling; red and white spots on the palms, on the arms and feet.

Her whole body was covered with thickly swelled wales, without itching or burning; whereupon other symptoms disappeared.

Light-red, raised, hard swelling of the sting, and a chilly sensation around it (wasp).

Elevations on the skin, as after the bite of insects, painfully sore, sensitive to touch.

Small elevations on the skin, as after the bites of ants, appear at the extreme end, over the left eyebrow, pain as if sore and are very sensitive to pressure (third day).

In a few minutes after the cessation of the spasms, there appeared all over her body and limbs, and even on her ears, a red eruption; some of the elevations in circumference the size of a pea, but generally like millet-seed.

This eruption continued visible for an hour, and was very itchy while passing away, (J. P. D)..

With swelling of the face, and the whole body, he is covered with a kind of urticaria, that is somewhat paler than the usual color of the skin.

Itching and appearance of blotches, like nettlerash, after scratching, (B)..

Eruption, like nettlerash, over the whole body, with itching (second day, after 30th dil)..

Nettlerash over the whole body, and lessening of the previous symptoms.

Nettlerash after fever.

Very soon, a dense nettlerash over the whole body, that itched very much, and disappeared after a good sleep.

Nettlerash (appeared a week after the sting; the symptoms had disappeared), (C. C. C)..

Sensitive pimples (B)..

Red pimply eruption, covering the entire body, but more evident and thicker upon his chest and back than upon his face and limbs, (E. U. J)..

Tetter on the lobe of the ear.

Eruption around the lips.

Inflammation, violent pains, and gangrene.

Pain of sting seemed to penetrate deeply, and as if a hook were being drawn out there (wasp).

Violent sensation of burning like fire, in the seat of the sting (wasp).

Sensation of burning heat and stinging, in various portions of the surface of the body, at the same time.

Vivid, stinging pain, swelling and inflammation.

Over the whole body, from head to foot, as if he were being stung by insects, so that it prevented him from sleeping all night.

Stinging, prickling, burning, smarting, itching sensation, all over the skin. (E. E. M)..

Stitch, as from an insect, and then swelling.

Throbbing in the swelling.

Prickling over the whole body, externally and internally, Prickling all over the body, most on the back and palms of the face, forehead, and under eyes; chiefly in circumscribed points (directly after taking the 6th dil)..

Prickling over the whole body, as after the sting (lasting one to two weeks, returning after every exertion).

Intense burning itching all over his body, so severe that he retired to his room, and rubbed himself vigorously with his flesh brush (almost immediately) (E. U. J)..

Burning itching in several places.

Burning itching places, here and there, especially on the back (second day).

Itching pricking in the skin in different parts of the body, more on the lower extremities, and continued through the day (first day).

In evening, an intolerable itching, attended with a burning, fiery sensation, commencing in the arms, and finally spreading over the whole surface of the body, reaching to the feet, (S. D)..

Itching over the whole body (humble-bee).

The most violent itching, like pricking with needles, so that his whole body had to be rubbed with cloths, Itching over various parts, especially on head and fingers (humble-bee).

Itching on the head; on the forehead and face; about the eye; and about the eyebrows; the lids.

In the canthi; in the eye; on the nose; on the back; on the hands; the palms,; fingers; on the things; the knees; the lower limbs.

Violent itching of the tensively swelled scrotum.

Itching of eruptions; the bunches on the joints.

Stinging itching on the posterior surface of the right thigh, like flea-bites;directly after, the same on the right arm; better after scratching, afternoon.

Itching of the feet.

The itching is relieved by friction, (E. U. J).

Sleep and Dreams.

Inclination to yawn; morning (fourth or fifth day).

Must yawn much, and is often sleepy; she feels the least interruption of her morning sleep all day (third and fourth week).

Yawning, chilliness, headache.

Yawning in uterine hemorrhage.

Much yawning after rising in the morning, although she had slept long enough (second day).

Great inclination to sleep; still he walks a tenth of a mile.

Great desire to sleep, amounting to most extreme sleepiness.

Desire for rest and sleep, but they compelled him to move about (wasp).

When the other symptoms diminished again, the prostration, with great desire to sleep, remained.

Very sleepy, early in the evening (second day).

Sleepiness, prostration, and vomiting of bile.

Very drowsy mornings; will not rise; back as if beaten; must extend and stretch himself; is confused in the head (second day).

She fell asleep while sitting, evening, and started several times at a noise (after one hour).

They sleep very long, mornings, for several weeks (with many), (C. Hg)..

Too much sleep (from second to third day).

Frequent walking during the night; to pass urine.

Awaking four times from sleep at night, with great thirst for cold water.

Anxious starting in sleep, with some cough. – Sleeplessness.

Was kept awake and restless during the whole night, by loose, urgent stools. (E. E. M). Nervous restlessness all night, that prevents sleep. Nervous restlessness, especially during the latter half of the night.

Fidgety restlessness in the latter part of the night (third day, 2WD dilution).

Very restless sleep; inclination to frequent awaking during the night, and incessant dreaming.

Has not the least enjoyment from sleep; it seems to him as if his brain had no rest at all, either day or night.

A burning pain under the left ribs at night, preventing sleep.

Stitches in the skin, preventing sleep, as if from insects.

Night-sleep full of dreams (third day); still the same, mostly of traveling (eleventh day), 2WD dilution; repeated at every proving.

Sensation as of movement from place to place, mostly traveling by railroad.

Dreams mostly of journeys; long distances.

Often dreams of flying far through the air.

Dreams that he made journey in great leaps through the air, like a bird.

Feels like a bird in the air; takes great leaps in his dreams.

Plagues himself in dreams all night, with a flying apparatus; tries to arrange the wings, which, however, will not work.

Dreams of a great, hot stove; was obliged to walk over a hot floor; also, on dirty, wet roads for a very long distance; then he came to a dinner-table where many people were assembled (first day).

Frequent waking first night, and dreams, with vexatious care about various kinds of business.

Dreams of a tormenting, active kind, full of care and toil.

Dreams of many people who are quarreling; one among them, who becomes nearly beside himself, he leads from the room by the arm, whereby he is calmed (humble-bee).

Disagreeable dreams about fiends.

Dreams she has pain in the abdomen and diarrhoea (first night).

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.