Apis Mellifica

William Boericke 1922

Peritonitis. Swelling in right groin. StooL — Involuntary on every motion ; anus seem9 open. Bloody, painless. Anus feels raw. Haemorrhoids, with stinging pain, after confinement. Diarrhoea watery, yellow; cholera infantum type. Cannot urinate without a stool. Dark, fetid, worse after eating. Constipation ; feels as if something would break on straining. Urine. — Burning and soreness when urinating. Suppressed, loaded with casts; frequent and involuntary; stinging pain and strangury; scanty, high colored. Incontinence. Last drops burn aqd smart.

William Boericke 1922

Sore, bruised on pressure, when sneezing. Extremely tender. Dropsy of

William Boericke 1922

Apium virus (auto-toxreniia, with pus produci>) ■ Zinc.; Canth.; Vespa: Lafhesh. 74 APIS MELLIFICA — APIUM GRAVEOLENS

William Boericke 1922

Tincture to thirtieth potency. Sometimes action is slow; so several days elapse before it is seen to act, and then urine is increased. Apium virus, sixth trituration.

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Low to medium potencies repeated in acute rosy-swelling states; cease promptly on relief.

William Boericke 1922

External ear red, inflamed, sore ; stinging pains.

William Boericke 1922

CEdernatous. Synovitis. Knee swollen, shiny, sensitive, sore, with slinging pain. Feet swollen and stiff. Feel too large. Rheumatic pain in back and

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Lids swollen, red, puffy like bags; stinging burning tears; photophobia; conjunctivae injected with rosy hue.

William Boericke 1922

Swollen, red, with piercing pain. Waxy, pale, cedematous. [Acet. ac,]

William Boericke 1922

CEdema of labia; relieved by cold water. Soreness and stinging pains; worse in right ovary.

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Ovarian stitches, right side predominance; menses scanty with headache at cessation; breasts sore, stinging before flow.

William Boericke 1922

Afternoon chill, with thirst; worse on motion and heat. External heat, with smothering feeling. Sweat slight, with sleepiness. Perspiration breaks out and dries up frequently. Sleeps after the fever paroxysm. After perspiration, nettle rash, also with shuddering.

William Boericke 1922

Menses suppressed, with cerebral and head symptoms, especially in young girls. Dysmenorrhoea, with severe ovarian pains. Metrorrhagia profuse, with heavy abdomen, faintness, stinging pain. Sense of tightness. Bearing-down, as if menses were to appear. Ovarian tumors, metritis with stinging pains. ^

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Stinging, burning, rosy swellings worse from warmth and touch — the bee's sting translated into human pathology.

William Boericke 1922

Feels as if he could not draw another breath. Suffocation ; short, dry cough, suprasternal. Hydrothorax.

William Boericke 1922

Tired, bruised feeling.

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Jealousy, fussiness, apathy alternating with busy-ness; sudden shrill cries in children; cannot tolerate being answered curtly; indifferent in deeper states.

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Worse: heat in any form, touch, pressure, after sleep, right side. Better: cold applications, open air, cold bathing.

William Boericke 1922

Worsd, warmth in any form ; touch ; pressure; late in afternoon; after sleeping; in closed and heated rooms. Right side. Better, in open air, uncovering, and cold bathing.

William Boericke 1922

Tongue swollen, sore, and raw, with vesicles. Scalding in mouth and

William Boericke 1922

Red, swollen, inflamed, with sharp pains.

William Boericke 1922

Coldness of tip of

William Boericke 1922

Complementary: Nat. viur. The “chronic,” Apis.; also Baryta carb. Inimical. Rhus.

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Compare Cantharis (more violent urinary tenesmus), Urtica urens (similar urticaria less mental); complementary Natrum muriaticum.

William Boericke 1922

Hoarseness ; dyspnoea, breathing hurried and difficult. CEdema of

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Rosy, tense, puffy swellings (urticaria) with intolerable itching and stinging; worse warmth of bed, better cold; bites and stings with rapid rosy edema.

William Boericke 1922

Swellings after bites ; sore, sensitive. Stinging. Erysipelas, with sensitiveness and swelling, rosy hue. Urticaria. Carbuncles, with burning, stinging pain. [Ars.; Anthrac.] Sudden puffing up of whole body.

William Boericke 1922

Very drowsy. Dreams full of care and toil. Screams and sudden starting during

William Boericke 1922

Sore feeling. Thristless. Vomiting of food. Craving for milk. [Rhus.]

William Boericke 1922

Tongue feels scalded, red hot, trembling. Gums swollen. Lips swollen, especially upper. Membrane of mouth and throat glossy, as if varnished. Red, shining, and puffy, like erysipelas.

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Bright red, puffy, uvula baggy like a sac; stinging pains on swallowing; tongues scalded feeling.

William Boericke 1922

Constricted, stinging pains. Uvula swollen, sac-like. Throat swollen, inside and out ; tonsils swollen, puffy, fiery red. Ulcers on tonsils. Fiery red margin around leathery membrane. Sensation of fishbone in

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Scanty, bloody urine with last-drops strangury; soreness and bruised feeling in the region; incontinence from irritation.