By Valerie Sadovsky, RSHom(NA), CCH
Remedy chart
The symptoms produced by bee venom are both local and systemic. The local reaction is the triple response of redness, flare and weal. There is stinging and burning, great sensitivity to touch and the part feels enlarged, as if it would burst. Alternatively the sensation may be described as one of constriction and a bruised soreness. The systematic reactions consist of urticaria, edema, constriction of the chest, wheezing and gastrointestinal upsets. In a third grade there is dyspnea, hoarseness, confusion and a feeling of impending disaster. The most severe grade of reaction is evidenced by collapse, cyanosis, hypotension, incontinence and unconsciousness.
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ESSENCE: Mostly a female remedy. Task-oriented and busy, always doing something, always "buzzing" around. Vital, very open, with no hidden agenda. Fast, forthright, even crude. Very much focused on everyday affairs: neither deep thinkers nor introspective, not interested in philosophical conversations. Their home (hive) is the center of their lives (in a broader sense it could be a church, circle of friends, etc.); will ferociously defend it from any potential threat. Their goal in life is to have a good family with many kids, so tend to marry and start family early. Rule the house: everyone must be in line; there are well-defined rules -- this is right and this is wrong. Tend to resonate with family members on a very basic level: the kids will be fed, well dressed, enrolled into sports, etc., but often will not have their emotional needs met. Aggressiveness can come strongly forward if they or their family is betrayed or crossed in any way but generally not otherwise. Can be controlling in the family and exhibit strong jealousy (like a bee protecting its hive.) MENTAL SYMPTOMS: - VITAL … ACTIVE … BUSY … fruitlessly busy … undertake many things, persevere in nothing … FIDGETY - Irritable, esp. when crossed … nervous … hard to please. - JEALOUS, can even kill in a jealous rage … possessive … controlling ... strong family orientation - Loss of consciousness in brain affections (Bell., Hyos., Op.) Dreams: flying … traveling from place to place … care … business GENERAL SYMPTOMS: - WARM-BLOODED but may be chilly though local complaints are almost always < from heat - THIRSTLESS (= edema, drown in his own fluids) - RIGHT-SIDED or right to left. - SWELLING and EDEMA; both generalized and in the local complaints, > cold & cold applications - Acute allergic reactions with edema, hives, stinging, shooting, burning, wondering pains (to insect stings, esp. bee, food, medicines, vaccines, etc.) - Fluid collection in/around organs (brain, heart, kidneys) PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS: Head: BAG-LIKE, PUFFY SWELLING under/around the eyes; eyes swollen shut … conjunctivitis like "raw meat" … acute meningitis & encephalitis with severe HA, boring the head into the pillow, and brain cry … coma … head pain from behind left ear extending to the left eye or temple … HYDROCEPHALUS … edema of lips, tongue, larynx … "never been well since meningitis" (Bell.) Throat: pharyngitis > from cold drinks, with bag-like swelling of the uvula … severe allergic edema Urinary: cystitis with scalding pain during urination (Canth.) ... retained urine, esp. in newborns … edematous swelling of the whole body with scanty urine (favorable action of Apis is first shown by a greatly increased flow of pale urine). Extremities: awkwardness; drops things ... edema of extremities ... red and inflamed joints; dry heat with burning, > cold ... paronychia, < from heat. Genitalia: OVARIAN CYSTS, esp. right-sided ... miscarriage esp. in the 1st trimester ... increased sexual desire but generally balanced sex life ... complaints from suppression of sexual desires … water retention at PMS … hydrocele Skin: DRY … PALE, WAXY, EDEMATOUS SWELLING WITH RED ROSY HUE (due to accumulation of serum in cellular tissue) … URTICARIA with burning pains … eczema with marked swelling, > from cold applications … herpes zoster with marked > from cold applications |
ETIOLOGIES: GRIEF, esp. loss of a loved one, esp. of a spouse … being away from home … "empty nest" … anger … jealousy … sexual excess … celibacy AFFINITIES: CELLULAR TISSUE (EYES, FACE, FAUCES, OVARIES) … SEROUS CAVITIES … SKIN ... KIDNEYS … BLADDER … nerves MODALITIES: <: HEAT (ROOM, weather, drinks, fire, bed) … after sleep … lying down … 3-5 P.M. … TOUCH … PRESSURE >: COLD (AIR, bathing, uncovering, applications) … MOTION SENSATIONS: TIGHTNESS (chest, abdomen, edematous or swollen extremities), as if will BURST PAINS: STINGING … BURNING … bruised soreness NOTES: - In severe reaction to a bee sting, give Apis 200C, wait 1 minute. If didn’t help, give Carb-ac, 200C, wait 1 minute. If didn’t help, give conventional meds. Led., Hyper., Urt-u, Hist. for less severe reaction. - In long standing conditions Apis may be slow in action. The favorable action of the remedy is first shown by a greatly increased flow of pale urine. - In severe hives think of Apis 1st, Puls. 2nd, Urt-u 3rd, and Nat-mur sometimes (Murphy) PRIME INDICATIONS: 1. Burning/stinging pains; worse heat; better cold. 2. Pink, waxy-transparent swellings, extremely sensitive to touch and pressure. 3. Jealous, fruitlessly busy, fidgety; clumsy. 4. Right-sided complaints; or right to left. 5. Warm-blooded persons. 6. No thirst. DIFFERENTIALS: Arsenicum: both have burning pains, but Apis is > for cold, Ars. for warmth. Ars. is anxious, Apis just fidgety. Ars. is thirsty, Apis not. Belladonna: the congestions of Belladonna are more violent, with throbbing of the carotids, injected red eyes, and drowsiness broken by starts and frightened outcries. The skin is hot and the face red, or, in some cases, pale; but not pale and edematous as in Apis. Opium: complete stupor after stroke is said to have yielded to Apis when Opium failed (Farrington) Rhus-tox: in Rhus the eruptions are darker, the erysipelas dusky red, and there is great bodily restlessness, not the fidgetiness of Apis. Swelling of Bell. is bright red, of Apis is rosy or purplish livid hue. RELATIONSHIPS: Complementary: Nat-mur (chronic of Apis). Inimical: Rhus-tox SOURCES: Gibson, Studies of Remedies Gutman, Homeopathy Farrington, Homeopathy (RW) Cowperthwaite, Textbook (RW) Murphy, Fundamentals of MM Vermeulen, Prisma |
Roger notes
They won’t be able to take another breath. That’s the description they will give you. It’s like it’s so painful that they are almost not going to be able to take another breath. It’s a good remedy for meningitis. There aren’t a lot of remedies for meningitis that we use real commonly. Stramonium, Belladonna, Hyoscyamus. Natrum Sulph can be. Helleborus can be. Bryonia is one of the most important. Now, in the meningitis with Apis there is the rocking of the head, which is also Belladonna. They are very much worse from heat and they have the brain cry. That’s very characteristic of Apis. Cry encephalitic, or whatever they call it. So, those are the acute situations you will use it in.
Chronically, there is a characteristic headache with pain behind the left ear, going over to the left eye. Not from the back of the head going over the left eye, but from behind the left ear. If it is just behind the left ear and it doesn’t go anywhere else, it’s Aurum. Behind the left ear, over the left eye. Aurum is just behind the left ear. More characteristic for Aurum headaches is a pain, right here at the root of the nose, on the right side like something boring into the head. That’s what that Aurum case is. Now, in chronic conditions of Apis, you will use it for allergies. You will use it for allergies with the following characteristics. If they go all the way to angioneurotic edema, you know that, where the throat gets closed off. That’s a keynote for Apis. Another thing is that there is irritation of the eyelids. The margins of the eyelids, but especially if the conjunctiva swell out of the eye. They protrude out of the eye. They prolapse and the conjunctiva looks like red meat, a bunch of red meat hanging under the eye. Or it can be just a swelling under the eye, like Kali Carb. It’s good for skin eruptions, especially erysipelas with a rose color of the skin, a pink rose color. If it is of sudden onset, with lots of swelling in the region, you know, and hot and worse heat, a condition worse with heat, you can think of Apis. The swelling sometime, and this isn’t just in the eruptions, the swelling is so much, it is intense swelling of it, as if the skin would rip is the keynote there. Anasarca, as if the skin would rip even. There are three other keynotes, which you should know for Apis. One is that they are thirstless. You know, you can use these complimentary things. You can depend on them quite a bit. If you have a case that has done well on Calcarea Carbonica, and they develop a high fever, you are thinking automatically that it is going to be Belladonna, and you can use that if you know, we talked about the three legs of the stool, you can use the complimentary as one full leg; one full keynote for the stool.
Memory card
Apis Mellifica
1. Strumous constitutions: children and girls who become awkward especially in handling things; hysterical women.
2. Anxiety with tearful restlessness; impaired memory and absent-mindedness in elderly persons.
3. Edematous swellings, serous effusions, and urticaria.
4. Pains burning, darting, stinging > cold (rev. Ars.).
5. General soreness and sensitiveness of body surface < touch or pressure especially uterine and ovarian regions; constriction disliked; weary, bruised feeling.
6. Marked restlessness (physical causes) without > to symptoms.
7. Great drowsiness; sleep much disturbed by pain or anxious dreams; sopor interrupted by piercing screams (meningitis).
8. Thirstlessness in nearly all complaints especially dropsical conditions.
9. Ailments right-sided or travel from right to left.
10. Patients < all forms of heat; general < 4-6 p.m. < sleep.
Notes: Slow-acting remedy.
In acute conditions wait an hour or two.
Low potencies should not be given during pregnancy.
Keynote: Edema.
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