APIS

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.

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.

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. (*Bapt. 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.

In cardiac dropsy the feet swell after walking, and are

intolerably sore and burning.

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.

RELATIONS

Brom. (swelling of ovary during menses);

Sil. (ovarian
affections with inverted nipples, ulcer on tongue, vaccination
effects),

MIND

(The mental symptoms are rich in

unconsciousness, absentmindedness, impaired memory, and slow
march of ideas.

Cannot bear to be left alone.

sensation as if he could not breathe

again. Fear of being poisoned.

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).

NOSE; chronic
catarrh with crusty nostrils, polypus.

ABDOMEN; Hard swelling in the right groin, oblong, as large as a

cucumber. Long-standing inguinal hernia. Collapse of abdominal
walls in meningitis infantum.

At every motion of body bowels act as though he had

no power. Uncertain anus, constantly open (during urination),
oozing of liquid (Phos., Ph-ac.).

FEMALE;

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.

Swelling and hardness of the mammae threatening

to ulcerate. Scirrhus or open cancer of the mammae, with
stinging, burning pains.

RESPIRATION
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.

#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.

SLEEP

Dreams full of care and toil, of making

long journeys, of flying through the air, of hot stones, of
walking over hot floors, of walking a long way over wet roads.
Sleep, late in the morning. -Awakens from sleep with a shrill
shriek (child suffering from hydrocephalus).

BOERICK

AWKWARD; DROPS
THINGS READILY. . CRAVING FOR MILK. RHUS

URINE; SCANTY, HIGH COLORED. Incontinence. LAST DROPS burn and

smart.

Fever

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,

NASH

This oedematous condition of APIS may be found in almost any

part of the body, but is especially prominent in mouth and
throat, eyelids and face, AROUND the eyes (PHOS., whole face);
lower eyelids hang down like bags of water.(KALI-C., UPPER
LIDS.).