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Apis Mellifica

30C / 200CApis
Honey Bee · Bee Venom · "The Bee Sting Remedy"
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🎯 Acts on cellular tissues to produce swelling, fluid retention, and stinging, burning pains.
📖 Boericke writes:
The Honey-Bee
Acts on cellular tissues causing oedema of skin and mucous membranes.
The very characteristic effects of the sting of the bee furnish unerring indications for its employment in disease. Swelling or puffing up of various parts, oedema, red rosy hue, stinging pains, soreness, intolerance of heat, and slightest touch, and afternoon aggravation are some of the general guiding symptoms. Erysipelatous inflammations, dropsical effusions and anasarca, acute, inflammation of kidneys, and other perenchymatous tissues are characteristic pathological states corresponding to Apis. Apis acts especially on outer parts, skin, coatings of inner organs, serous membranes. It produces serous inflammation with effusion, membranes of brain, heart, pleuritic effusion, etc. Extreme sensitiveness to touch and general soreness is marked. Constricted sensations. Sensation of stiffness and as of something torn off in the interior of the body. Much prostration.
👤 Constitution
•Often indicated for individuals who are sensitive to touch, irritable, and prone to sudden, puffy swelling of the skin or mucous membranes.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Awkward; drops things readily.
mind
Whining.
mind
Tearfulness.
mind
Lachrymation hot.
eyes
Sudden piercing pains.
eyes
Suppurative inflammation of eyes.
eyes
Red, shining, and puffy, like erysipelas.
mouth
Thirstless.
stomach
Extremely tender.
abdomen
Diarrhoea watery, yellow; cholera infantum type.
stool
Feels as if he could not draw another breath.
respiratory
oedematous.
extremities
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Useful for mental states involving irritability, sudden screaming, or a lack of focus.
Apathy, indifference, and unconsciousness.
Awkward; drops things readily.
Stupor, with sudden sharp cries and startings.
Stupor alternating with erotic mania.
Sensation of dying.
Listless; cannot think clearly.
Jealous, fidgety, hard to please.
Sudden shrill, piercing screams.
Whining.
Tearfulness.
Jealously, fright, rage, vexation, grief.
Cannot concentrate mind when attempting to read or study.
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
↑Better from
💊 Dosage & Potency
Tincture to 30C
Other
🕒As directed
📝In edematous conditions use lower potencies.
Primary Dosage
6X
Decimal
🕒As directed
📝Apium virus trituration.
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🤝 Complementary
Natrium Muriaticum →Baryta Carbonica →
🔄 Compare With
Lachesis Mutus →Apium Graveolens →Zincum Metallicum →Cantharis Vesicatoria →Vespa Crabro →
⚠️ Inimical
Rhus Toxicodendron →
📚 Sources & References

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