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Apis.
Live bees (Apis mellifica) are shaken in a bottle, and then digested in dilute
alcohol for several days.
General Action :- Erysipelatous inflammation and destruction of tissue (of
dermoid tissue), acute inflammation of kidneys and some other
parenchymatous tissues.
Allies :- Canth., Rhus t., Gelsem., Ledum, Secale corn., Lyc., Phos., Mag.
m., Merc., Sulph.
Generalities :- Swelling of whole body ; with pallid, deathlike look of
face ; of whole side of body, first in joints ; of face, neck, chest and limbs.
Blood colorless and only red in the centre of the vessel. (No blood when
venesection is attempted.). Failed to respond when spoken to. Falling to
the ground. Twitching, burning, like a prickling contraction from without
inward, in right thumb and other places. Convulsions ; from the offer of
water, which was desired, with expression of fear in face as in hydrophobia,
also C. when touched on right index (the place of the sting) ; generally tonic,
but in a measure clonic, with knees drawn up to breast and hands and arms
moved convulsively, partially conscious and continually moaning. Electric
shocks, thrilling ends of fingers and toes. Trembling.
Burning stitches here and there, especially on back, which itched.
Neuralgic rheumatism. General bruised sensation. Prickling over whole
body (Sec. corn.), externally and internally. General sensation of fulness
and weakness of co-ordinating power, especially in hands. Malaise.
Strange, indefinable feeling ; with stinging feeling and white and red spots
in palms on arms and feet. Sensation in whole body as if everything were
too large. Restlessness ; in afternoon, with weakness ; alternating with
depression approaching syncope ; nervous, the latter half of the night.
Necessity to lie down ; sudden, without weakness or faintness. Sensation
as if dying. Faintness ; with nausea ; faintness, with weakness, anxiety and
distress at stomach, oppression of chest, dyspna, short, rapid breathing and
rapid pulse. Weakness ; evening, with vertigo ; during diarrha ; with
trembling ; with desire to be let alone ; as if bruised in every limb, especially
in back, agg. rising from a seat, with necessity to stretch. Sudden
weakness ; with coldness ; with vomiting, profuse diarrha, cold limbs, pale
face, griping in abdomen, pulse weak, after abatement of these symptoms

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redness of part stung. General sensation diminished. Numbness over

whole body. Amelioration from sleep.
Clinical :- There is general aggravation of all symptoms about 5 P.M.
The pains are always sudden, stinging. As a rule, the patients are not
restless but in some cases of hydrocephalus there is great restlessness,
with rolling of the head from side to side. The effects generally travel
from right to left, pain, erysipelas, inflammations. In paralysis following
diphtheria or typhoid fever it is sometimes indicated ; sometimes but
rarely, in rheumatic affections. Cases are reported in which there was
diminished sensibility with paralysis, could not tell when the foot touched
the ground, with soreness of the spine and pains. General inclination to
dropsical effusions and anasarca, with stinging pains. General
intolerance of the heat of the bed.

Mind :- Excitement ; approaching delirium. Violent affection of whole

nervous system. Fear ; of death, or sensation as if he could not breathe
again. Anxiety ; with excitement and restlessness. Sadness ; in forenoon,
with longing for death. Irritability ; allowed no one but his mother to come
near him. Dissatisfaction with everything. Restlessness, with dullness of
head. Listless. Concentration impossible. Inability to fix attention on a
book requiring thought (Gelsem.). Inability to think clearly and to express
himself. Confusion ; when reading. Unconsciousness.
Clinical :- Stupor or even unconsciousness, with or without symptoms
of inflammation of the meninges of the brain. As a rule, it is
characterized by sudden starts with screaming, as from some terrible pain
in the head. In meningitis from suppressed eruptions with stupor,
apparently the result of effusion, interrupted by short cries. In the stupor
occurring during the progress of low types of fever or malarial disease, as
in typhus, diphtheria, etc. Mania resulting from the suppression of the
menses, with stupor alternating with attacks of erotic mania. Impairment
of mind so that the patient seems preoccupied, lets things fall from her
hands, and seems to be unconscious of things transpiring about her. As a
rule, the mental sate in erysipelas, diphtheria, low fevers, etc., requiring
Apis, is one of apathy, indifference, or even unconsciousness.

Head :- Aching from 8 to 10 P.M., with chilliness and toothache, pain in

forehead, alternately in left and right side, afterwards in right side of vertex,
where it is sensitive to touch, then in temples, then right side of forehead,
next morning in left side of forehead ; aching in evening during cough ;
during cough ; when rising from reclining or from sitting ; agg. reading ;
amel. pressure ; amel. during diarrha ; mostly confined to forehead, with
fever ; with fulness and heaviness in occiput ; and in eyeballs ; dull, heavy,
from rising till 3 P.M. ; oppressive, when in a warm room and reading ;
expansive, on exertion, with vertigo and palpitation ; bursting, with vertigo
and confusion of mind. Confusion ; with pain in sinciput ; with pain in
forehead. Anxiety, with swelling of face. Fulness, with heaviness,
pressure and sometimes sudden rush of blood. Throbbing, agg. moving and
stooping, amel. pressure. Whole brain seems weary, asleep and crawling
(Con.). Head feels swollen. Heaviness, with pressure ; heaviness as if she
could hardly hold it up, agg. during day and by motion, coughing, etc., with
throbbing. Vertigo ; evenings after sleeping on the sofa, with headache ;
with blindness ; with nausea ; confused, worse when siting than when

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walking, extreme when lying and closing eyes.

Forehead :- Stitches, and in temples ; over right eye, extending to eyeball,
burning in left superciliary ridge. Aching and in temples ; after sneezing,
with vertigo ; with dullness and confusion ; inwardly above outer end of left
eyebrow, in afternoon, lasting all day, agg. when coughing ; in upper part as
if it would burst, extending to temples ; in left side in evening, with stitches
under left ear, chilliness, yawning, and pain in umbilical region ; in sinciput,
with vertigo ; heavy tensive, over eyes, with pain through orbits ; dull heavy,
amel. pressure, and in sides of head. Dullness just over eyes. Confusion
from supraorbital ridges to protuberances, amel. after breakfast.
Temples :- Stitch in left in evening. Aching in left ; and in organs of
casuality, comparison, mirthfulness and ideality, in single jerks to middle of
forehead, agg. 10 A.M., with sensitiveness of head to touch, burning of eyes
and itching of nose ; sharp, in right ; heavy, in morning on waking, right,
then left ; throbbing. Boring ; every morning on waking ; intermittent.
Bursting sensation (Bell.).
Heaviness in vertex, with fulness. Pressure deep inward in left side of
vertex when drawing on boots. Headache in left side and vertex when
coughing. Heavy pain in right parietal protuberance. Aching in occiput ;
agg. shaking head. Blow in suboccipital region. Swelling of head ;
inflammatory swelling and twitching, so that apoplexy was feared. Hair
falls out. Itching ; in afternoon ; extending to face and neck, afterwards to
thighs and hands.
Clinical :- The headache is usually a hot, heavy feeling, with
congestion and with sudden stabbing pains, almost universally relieved by
external pressure and aggravated by any motion. In meningitis, acute or
chronic, or tubercular hydrocephalus, extremely valuable when the
peculiar symptoms are present, the child bores the head into the pillow, is
stupid and occasionally scrams out.

Eyes :- Scler injected. Bloodshot ; and protruding, pupil dilated and

immovable, and was obliged to change from convex to concave glasses
(from sting in cornea). Piercing in evening, with necessity to remove the
spectacles while reading and writing (in a near-sighted woman). Boring
forenoon, with piercing. Burning stinging in right, beginning with
heaviness and causing lachrymation. Sensation as if a mass of mucus were
in left. Heaviness ; with inclination to close them, and after being closed
for sometime desire to rub and press them.
Twitching in left agg. at night. Stinging itching, and in lids and around
eyes (Sulph.), on left side, and especially in inner canthus. Piercing itching
around eyes, in brows, lids and eyes themselves, agg. left, and more at inner
canthi, with desire to rub eyes while pressing them hard with soreness and
smarting in margins of lids, in canthi and in eye itself (Sulph.), quivering of
left ball and sensation of mucus in them, agg. left, full feeling in eyes and
weak vision. Weakness, with photophobia ; W., with pain when used.
Lachrymation ; left, of left, in evening, with pain in left side of forehead ; of
left, with burning and sensation of a foreign body in it, weakness of both

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eyes, with pain and sensitiveness to light in evening when sewing ; of right,
of right at night in bed, with flow of mucus ; of right from a biting piercing
sensation ; with pain in eyes ; with pain when looking at a bright light.
Piercing in balls. Aching in left ball, mostly in lower part ; A. around left
ball, then around both. Pupils insensible to light. Lids swollen, red,
dematous (Rhus t.). Upper lids so swollen that they hand like sacs over
face. Agglutination ; with soreness of margins and canthi. Twitching of
right lid. Stinging in right lower, in morning. Burning in margins of lids
(Sulph.), causing lachrymation. Stinging in right caruncula. Sensation of
a foreign body in left outer canthus after constant profuse lachrymation.
Itching on margins ; I. of right, with prickling ; paroxysmal, of right ; of left
inner canthus. Conjunctiva injected. Burning stinging around left eye and
in superciliary ridge. Aching over and about eyes, amel. pressure. Pain
around orbits ; in left orbit, mostly lower part. Photophobia. Vision
obscured ; difficult, with a whirling sensation in sight. Blindness ; in
afternoon when stooping.
Clinical :- An extremely valuable remedy in a great variety of disease
of the eyes ; in inflammation of the lids, which are dematous, often
everted so that the lid actually rolls over on to the cheek, the conjunctiva
is inflamed and dematous, with hot lachrymation, photophobia, violent
stinging pains ; the lids even may become ulcerated. It is often found
valuable in purulent ophthalmia, with infiltration of the balls and lids,
great dema and sharp pains are sufficiently characteristic. In
inflammations of the cornea of various sorts, scrofulous, parenchymatous,
with or without destruction of the tissues, especially in ophthalmia
following eruption diseases, with great dema, burning stinging pains.
There is, as a rule, temporary relief from the application of cold water.
Sometimes indicated in staphyloma of the cornea or sclerotic. In serous
inflammation within the eyeball, in serious iritis or aquacapsulitis, with
punctiform deposit on the inner surface of the cornea. In muscular
asthenopia, with sharp stinging pain on attempting to use the eyes,
swelling of lids, etc. In short, in is a extremely valuable remedy in
inflammatory affections of the eyes, always characterized by serious
exudation, dema, with sudden piercing pains.

Ears :- Swelling ; of a lymphatic gland behind ear. Purple. Stitches

under left. Pain in right middle ; behind left. Itching in right, then left, in
ears and glands near root of tongue, increasing in two years to sharp itching
and burning in throat just back of palate, finally working into bronchial
tubes, down around lungs, and resulting in asthma. Ringing in right.
Rumbling. Hearing diminished.
Clinical :- Erysipelatous inflammation of the external ear. Deafness
fever.

Nose :- Swelling. Obstruction. Sneezing ; on going into open air ;

violent ; with watery discharge from nose and eyes. Coryza, agg. evening,
with dull sensation in nose, and now and then some dropping ; with dread of
cold but agg. from warmth ; with feeling as if it would swell. C. at 4 P.M.,
with dryness of nose, then burning of lips, with sensation as if they would
chap. Blowing of blood ; mornings.

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Clinical :- In erysipelatous inflammation of the nose externally, red

swelling, sharp stinging pains. Coldness of the tip of the nose when the
throat begins to be sore in a pretty sure indication for Apis.

Face :- Swollen ; red and dematous, especially nose, eyelids and

cheeks ; and head. Inflammatory S., right eye completely closed, left
almost, the cheeks hung down to the breast ; and eyelids puffed up, lips
turned upward, inside out ; and cyanotic. Shrunken, wan and anxious.
Pale. Red ; then purple ; with heat, burning piercing pain and swelling.
Stinging in left malar bone ; burning in chin and malar-bones. Sensation as
if left side would swell, especially about eye.
Jaw :- Drawing back and forth of lower. Stiffness of lower extending to
mouth and throat, making speech difficult and unintelligible, with
constriction in throat exciting spasmodic hacking cough, with difficulty in
breathing, agg. on inspiration, throat swollen, agg. uvula and arches of
palate, agg. on left side, deflecting uvula to the right.
Lips :- Swollen ; upper ; and sensation of swelling, then eruption about
lips and dryness and desquamation of lower lips and dryness and
desquamation of lower lip. Cyanotic. Livid and open. Lower chapped.
Dark streak along epithelium, with cracks and desquamation. Dryness,
with a black stripe in red portion. Roughness, agg. upper, with tension.
Prickling, with bruised and swollen feeling ; P., and on tongue, extending
over face, temples and head, thence over entire body.
Clinical :- The appearance of the face varies with the character of the
other affections ; in disease of the kidneys in pregnancy the face is
dematous and pale ; during fever it is generally hot and bright red ;
sometimes almost livid ; in erysipelas it is swollen and inflamed, with
severe stinging pains ; the erysipelas is characterized by puffiness and
dematous infiltration, which, as a rule, does not pit on pressure ; the
swelling is out of proportion to the intensity of the pain.

Mouth :- Jerking grinding of teeth on biting them together, in swallowing,

after yawing, etc. Toothache in evening in right upper jaw, during which
she feels the biting-together of the teeth in her head, with chilliness.
Jumping pain in left upper molars. Gums bleed. Gums painful.
Tongue :- Swollen ; then S. of face and whole body, with inability to
swallow, move tongue or speak. A row of vesicles somewhat to left of tip,
with soreness and rawness ; V. on tip and left side, with red spots. Covered
with a dirty white fur, pale, soft and flabby. Pain, with burning rawness,
stinging, and with vesicles along edge. Rawness on margin, with scalding
and pimples and stinging. Dryness, with redness and tenderness of mouth
(Rhus t.). Prickling heat. Burning extending into stomach, with
eructations and gathering of tasteless water in mouth, the eructations agg.
after drinking water, almost suffocating her.
Scalding in mouth and throat. Burning in mouth in forenoon, with thirst.
Dryness ; under tongue at 6 P.M., amel. moving tongue much ; of palate,
also with roughness. Salivation ; soapy, mornings, and in fauces. Taste
bitter at back of tongue and in fauces ; B., afterwards more pungent,

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spreading to fauces, with affection of tongue as after chewing pyrethrum, at

same time symptoms in all parts of mouth as after alcohol. Taste as of
sweet almost. Loss of taste.
Clinical :- During acute febrile states the tongue is red and hot, even
dry and hot, and in low fevers it may even tremble, reminding one of
Lachesis. Sometimes in scarlet fever it is cracked, sore and covered with
blisters or ulcerated, but is rarely red and dry. In diphtheria it is swollen,
not heavily coated.

Throat :- Swollen ; with hoarseness, difficulty in breathing, difficulty on

swallowing from irritability of epiglottis, and with white spot to left of
glottis ; and posterior part of hard palate, base of tongue and inside of
cheeks, the parts bright red, dry and shining. Viscid mucus deep in throat,
in morning, compelling frequent hawking ; thick M. in pharynx. Pressure
as from a foreign body in upper back part. Rawness, with inclination to
hawk ; R. with viscid saliva adhering to hard palate, velum and tongue ;
extending to pit of stomach, with hoarse, hard, spasmodic, hollow cough,
caused by a sensation of filling up in throat, as if he needed to raise
something, eating drove the soreness downward and he continued to eat till
soreness and cough disappeared. Full and choking sensation, as if filling
up ; full, constriction and suffocation, agg. horizontal position, with
difficult, anxious breathing. Constriction, with sensation of a foreign body
in it and painful swallowing. Deep-seated stinging itching, at lower part of
neck, with constriction. Dryness ; with heat (Bell., sc. h.). Swallowing
difficult. Nausea apparently from T.
Clinical :- In severe inflammations of the throat, with general stupor
and prostration, even in diphtheria, we will find in Apis an extremely
valuable and frequently indicated remedy. It is almost a specific in true
diphtheria, always indicated when the throat is very much swollen and
dematous, with severe stinging pains on attempting to swallow, with
great inertia or even complete stupor. In suspected scarlet fever, in the
early stage, when rash is seen upon the hard palate and the throat is
dematous and bright red, with great pain on swallowing and the eruption
is mottled, without thirst.

Stomach :- Appetite lost ; and he refused drink. Thirst. Eructations ;

after eating ; tasting like the yolk of eggs ; violent empty during headache.
Hot vapor seems to rise from S., with dry throat, without thirst, with burning
cheeks and cold feet. Aversion, with chilliness and cold limbs. Nausea ;
at night, with rumbling in abdomen as before diarrha ; with vertigo ; with
vomiting and faintness ; with pain in whole body. Gagging. Vomiting at
night in sleep, with thirst ; V., with diarrha ; of food ; of bile ; then a thin
bitter fluid with pain across lower abdomen ; yellow and bitter. Prickling
as from needles. Pressure in region of orifice ; in pit. Crampy pain, and in
abdomen, then vomiting and diarrha. Oppression at pit ; at epigastrium.
Sore feeling, and in abdomen. Burning.
Clinical :- The absence of thirst is the rule in Apis cases, though
sometimes there may be great thirst ; in these circumstances the condition
of stupor and the afternoon aggravation at 5 o'clock will overbalance the
presence of thirst. The vomiting of food and frequent effort to vomit

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must be associated with the Apis symptoms in meningitis or in the early

stage of scarlet fever and in various other troubles. It has occasionally
been found useful in the nausea of pregnancy.

Abdomen :- Distention ; after a moderate meal, and dyspna when

lying, strong desire for stool, passed flatus and urine freely. Rumbling,
with urging to stool ; R. as before diarrha. Loud offensive flatus.
Sputtering, flatus after stool. Cutting. Griping. Sickly feeling, inclining
him to continue a quiet sitting posture. Pain ; mornings, with hard scanty
stools ; in morning, with urging to stool, also with pain when straining, after
dreaming at night that she had pain in abdomen and diarrha ; P. agg.
pressure, touch and horizontal position, with sensitiveness ; with urging
to pass flatus ; with a feverish trembling feeling ; contractive, at 11 P.M.
when walking, compelling her to bend forward. Soreness ; morning ;
when sneezing or on pressure. Compression. Nausea.
Faintness and nausea from short ribs across the whole abdomen. Pain
under left last ribs ; in umbilical region, with chilliness ; from hips towards
umbilicus, forenoon ; in hypogastrium, with bloating of abdomen ; in
hypogastrium, with bearing down in uterus, as if menses were coming on.
Shooting deep in pelvis. Throbbing boring over crest of left ilium, amel.
eructations. Soreness deep within, below and beside right hip, with burning
and numbness.
Clinical :- Abdominal dropsy, sometimes with diarrha and vomiting,
great oppression of breath with the other general symptoms indicating
Apis. With all the abdominal affections there is present the characteristic
bruised feeling in the abdominal walls, which are extremely tender (Lyc.),
sometimes even when the abdomen is not swollen ; we may even meet
with this symptom in hydrocephalus. Stool sometimes involuntary on
every motion ; this symptom indicates Apis in diarrha and cholera
infantum, especially in great stupor with disinclination to take food or
drink. In dysentery with a low type of fever, apathy, bloody, almost
painless stools, abdomen sore, anus raw, tongue raw, dry, sometimes with
tenesmus. Cholera infantum with constant relapses, with threatening
brain troubles, sunken abdomen ; the child gets stupid and starts suddenly,
especially during dentition. There may be constipation, with fever or
with hydrocephalus.

Rectum and Anus :- Electric shock in R. then urging to stool. Frequent

urging. Tenesmus. Anus, raw sensation, with diarrha ; pain in A. ;
throbbing in A. ; sensation of stuffing ; heat.
Clinical :- Hmorrhoids, with stinging pain, the anus becomes
extremely sore (sc. h.). Piles after confinement, with sharp, stinging
pain. Ascarides, with delirium, screaming, etc.

Stool :- Watery, yellow ; frequent yellow, W., with griping ; W. copious.

Soft, mixed with serum, orange coloured. Loose in morning ; and urgent ;
loose, lumpy. Copious diarrha, with vomiting ; lumpy D., with vomiting,
then watery and fetid stools, then pappy mixed with mucus and blood, then
stools like dysentery, with tenesmus and crushed sensation in intestines.
Copious, blackish brown, green and whitish. Frequent. Scanty, pappy,
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water, containing lumps, or fragments of jelly-like mucus, streaked with

blood. Omitted.
Clinical :- Diarrha, watery yellow, sometimes painless. Chronic
diarrha, cannot urinate without having a stool, or the stools become dark
and fetid, worse after eating (Compare with Aloes).

Urinary Organs :- Burning and soreness when urinating. Excitement.

Disagreeable feeling in bladder, with bearing down in region of sphincter,
frequent desire to urinate and during micturition burning smarting and
uneasy feeling in spermatic cords. Urging, with scanty urine and dribbling.
Frequent desire to urinate ; with burning in urethra and with uneasiness in
spermatic cord ; frequent desire, and when passing burning and sensation as
if the flow were obstructed by contraction near glans. Involuntary
micturition. No micturition for thirty-six hours. Stitches in urethra.
Burning in urethra before and after micturition. Urine high-colored, and
frequent emissions of small quantities. Urine copious, agg. out-door
exercise, with flatulence and diarrha ; pale, with red or mealy sediment,
frequent urging and strangury. Scanty ; with frequent micturition.
Offensive.
Clinical :- In acute inflammation of the kidneys, frequently with great
aching in the lumbar region, with soreness over the region of the kidneys
(Merc. c., Phyto.), and excessively bruised sensation in the abdominal
walls on deep pressure. Acute inflammation of the kidneys, particularly
during or subsequent to eruptive diseases ; the urine may be almost
entirely suppressed loaded with casts ; the dropsy also is very great, comes
on rapidly, is especially marked in the face and upper part of the body,
with stupor, absence of thirst ; with restlessness and dryness of skin. In
inflammation of the bladder, which becomes very irritable ; frequent or
even involuntary micturition ; at times when urine is passed there is
stinging pain or there may be strangury (Canthar.). The urine is rarely
blood, very frequently high-colored. The urine is sometimes retained in
the bladder, rarely suppressed (Stram.). As a rule, in diphtheria,
erysipelas, scarlet fever, etc., when there is no inflammation of the urinary
passages the urine is quite free and pale, even though the patient drinks
but little. In subacute or chronic Bright's disease Apis has been found
serviceable in temporary exacerbations with an increase of dropsy,
sometimes about the head, when the patient is stupid, sometimes in the
chest, when there is great difficulty in breathing and the patient is
suffocated on lying down. Incontinence of urine in old people.

Sexual Organs :- Frequent and long-lasting erections. Scrotum tense and

translucent, looking as in hydrocele. Testicle swollen, with tension and
itching ; left T., sore ; fulness in right, with aching. Excitement. Desire
when sitting at home and when driving.
Deep penetrating pain in clitoris, extending into vagina, with swelling,
dryness and hardness of labia minora, which is covered with a crust,
hindering the beginning of micturition, amel. in evening by applications of
cold water. Hmorrhage from uterus. Metrorrhagia in second month,
with profuse discharge of blood, heaviness of abdomen, faintness,
restlessness and yawning. Miscarriage at second month ; at third month.
Bearing down as in early stage of parturition ; B., with sensation as before

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menses ; in right ovarian region. Cutting in left ovarian region across to

right in evening when stretching in bed. Strained pain in left ovarian region
at 6 P.M., agg. walking, then in corresponding spot on right side, with lame
feeling in scapul. Drawing in right ovarian region.
Clinical :- Erysipelatous inflammation of penis, with excessive
dema, great soreness and stinging pain. Hydrocele with the
characteristic symptoms. Inflammation and swelling of right testicle.
Inflammation of prepuce, with warty excrescences. It particularly affects
the right ovary (Lyc.) ; curative in various forms of inflammation and
neuralgia, always with extremely sensitive sharp stinging pains. Has
cured cystic tumor of the ovary (ovarian dropsies), with bruised sore pain
in abdominal walls (Lyc.). In inflammation of the cellular tissue of the
pelvis (pelvic cellulitis), with excessive soreness over the lower
abdominal region and sharp pain (Ars.). In enlarged and inflamed uterus
following pregnancy, etc. While menstruation is sometimes profuse, as
an accompaniment in various diseases, it has been found useful in the
suppression of menses with the cerebral symptoms above noted, also with
local inflammatory symptoms, bearing down, extreme tenderness, with
flushing of face and head, especially in girls. Dysmenorrha, with
severe ovarian pains, with a puffed, waxy appearance of face, etc. It has
averted threatening abortion with soreness of the ovaries, hmorrhage.
Erysipelas of the mammary glands or swelling like tumors, with stinging
boring pains.

Respiratory Organs :- Raw sensation in larynx, with sensitiveness.

Hoarseness. Cannot speak above a whisper. Cough in shocks when
roused from sleep before midnight, from a crawling in windpipe at pit of
throat, amel. when something is loosened and swallowed, at every shock
increased headache in left side and upper part ; severe C. before midnight,
agg. after lying and sleeping, from tickling in posterior wall in windpipe,
with desire to brush the spot, left side of head aches while coughing he must
bend head back and hold it so that the shock cannot act with so much
violence, cough agg. warmth and rest, amel. loosening mucus ; deep, hard
ringing, from constriction of throat, reaching down to upper part of lungs,
which were very sore.
Expectoration of copious, transparent, frothy, bloody mucus. Sensation
as if he could not breathe again. Suffocation ; with inability to bear
anything about throat (Lach.) dusky face and bluish lips. Asthma.
Dyspna, and at each inspiration a crawling sound that could be heard
across the street ; with sleepiness and shortness of breath when walking
(Curare). Breathing hurried and difficult, with fever and headache ; H.,
superficial and sighing ; H. nights, and short. Closed rooms, especially if
overheated, are insupportable. Inspiration croupy ; I. laborious, loud.
Breathing slow, heavy dema of lungs developing. Sighing.
Clinical :- dema of the larynx, with great distress for breath.
Hydrothorax, with suffocation on lying down, either the result of pleurisy
or dependent on disease of the kidneys ; in these cases there is especially
present with the dyspna a feeling as if he could not draw another breath.
The cough is usually suffocative, spasmodic, from irritation in upper part
of chest or suprasternal fossa, short and dry. Fit of coughing brought on
by pressure on the larynx. (Lach.).

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Chest :- Stitches ; at night, and through back ; just below heart, in side ; in
left side ; under left arm, near fourth or firth rib ; in right nipple extending
into lung ; in forenoon, where cartilages of ribs bend towards hypochondria,
left then right, with darkness before eyes, in which she felt boring sticking.
Tearing, drawing, starting from left lower side of sternum, drawing back and
forth in chest, upward, and finally into lower jaw, and at same time pain in
back.
Pain ; at night ; in upper part ; under left short ribs ; near last ribs, in or
below heart ; in left side, near middle of sternum, with fulness in chest and
short breath ; sudden to left on lower part of sternum ; sudden just below
heart, soon extending towards right chest, with suffocation, face and hands
purple, falling down, feeling as of rapid swelling of lining membrane of
air-passages, including nose, which was stopped. Bruised pain. Sore
feeling (Phos.). Fulness, with tension and pressure ; feeling of F.,
construction or suffocation, agg. horizontal position, with difficult, anxious
breathing. Oppression ; at bottom of sternum ; with frequent desire for a
deep inspiration (Phos.). Trembling in forenoon, with pressure and
oppressed breathing. Heat in morning, and in stomach. Melting heat in
region of diaphragm as from running violently.
Heart and Pulse :- Stinging in region of H. Intermittent pain.
Oppression in region of H., with slight suffocation reaching to throat.
Palpitation. Rapid, feeble beats of H. Pulse rapid ; full and strong ; and
weak ; and small ; P. decreased ; feeble ; scarcely perceptible. Slow,
irregular, afterwards rapid. Pulseless at wrist.
Clinical :- Pericarditis, with scanty urine, swollen limbs, bluish lips,
great soreness over the region of the heart.

Neck :- Swollen glands. Flushed. Rheumatic stitches in right side of

nape ; in muscles of right side, morning on rising, agg. moving head in that
direction, amel. moving head in any other direction. Piercing burning pain
in spot on left side, also on occiput and left arm. Tensive pain extending
back of left ear and over left side of head. Drawing from nape, extending
behind left ear and over left side of head. Tension in right side, beneath and
back of ear. Stiffness of left tendons, painful if he moved the head to
opposite side ; S. of nape, and small of back. Weight at nape, with tension.
Back :- Inward trembling down, with shuddering without coldness, 3 to 5
P.M., more in upper half. Weakness in both sides of spine, as if she could
not lie upon it. Pain under scapul, agg. right ; under scapul, with sore
feeling on moving the parts ; under scapul, agg. moving. Pressure on last
ribs, posteriorly on left side of spine, hindering breathing. Bruised
sensation near last ribs, agg. left. Burning stitch in upper part of small of
bruised. Stiffness of small of B.
Extremities :- dematous swelling. Blood settled under toe and finger
nails. Twitching. Unpleasant sensation in inner side of arm from elbow to
axilla, and in anterior and inner part of each thigh from near knee to inguinal
region.

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Clinical :- Synovitis, especially in the knee, which is swollen and

shiny, with stinging pains, extreme sensitiveness (from a bruise). Limbs
swollen from dropsy, associated with inflamed kidneys. Inflammation
around a nail (panaritium), with burning stinging and great soreness.
Sometimes indicated in dissecting wound with great swelling.

Upper Extremities :- Weakness. Great increase and intensity of odor

from axillary glands. Cramp in left shoulder. Pain in shoulder and upper
arm ; right. Tensive pain extending from left shoulder into nape. Drawing
in left biceps. Cramp in right arm. Swelling of arm and hand, with pain ;
swelling of whole right arm from sting or right hand, with enlargement of
axillary and cervical glands. Itching sticking in back of arm. Aching in
right ulnar nerve ; down left ulnar nerve, in bones of arms and fingers.
Drawing in right arm, with burning of anterior surface. Crawling in arm as
if asleep, agg. left. Sudden darting pain in left elbow.
Stinging and burning in hands, especially palms, amel. cold water. Sore
and red spots on palms. Want of power, with incomplete ansthesia of
hands. Benumbed feeling in right hand, then itching in palm. Swelling of
second right finger, except tip, especially middle joint, in morning, with
redness and heat, burning stinging, with tingling, extending up arm to body
and down right side and leg to foot, pain agg. 5 P.M. to 8 A.M., preventing
sleep, agg. cold applications, amel. hot applications and gentle rubbing or
pinching of end of finger. Burning pricking in finger-tips. Tingling of left
fingers. Numbness of fingers, especially tips, about roots of nails, with
sensation as if he could shape off the nails ; numbness of index ; left ulnar
fingers. Inward burning about a hang-nail on outside of right fourth finger.
Lower Extremities :- Staggering. Pain as if in bones. Sore feeling in
flesh, amel. walking, returning while sitting. Pain in left hip ; in knee,
outside, over and under knee, especially in front and laterally. Burning
stinging in knee. Crawling as if asleep from left knee to foot. Darting pain
in left outer malleolus. Foot and toes feel swollen and stiff. Feet swollen
in evening when taking off boots and socks ; with fulness, heaviness and
stiffness, with itching, redness and bungling feeling of upper part, fulness
and pain in soles and balls of toes, and sensation as if stepping on cushions.
Pricking in little toes.
Skin :- Purple spots on extremities and purple skin of feet and purple nails
of fingers and toes. Redness of hands as far as wrists and feet and ankles.
Red stripes along fingers and arms. Red spots on extremities. Red and
white spots on palms, arms and feet. Erythematous redness of trunk, arms
and chest, and the body appeared bloated. Elevations, with sensitiveness,
without change of color. Swelling on back of neck, so that the head pressed
upon the chest. Throbbing in the swelling. Painful red swelling ;
inflammatory swelling, right eye entirely closed, left almost, cheek and nose
level, cheek hung upon the breast, the breast swollen like a great loaf,
swelling about joints, with inflammation and itching. Swellings after bites
of insects, sore and sensitive to touch ; at outer corner of eyebrow.
Itching of face, arms and legs, with redness and with hard, white elevated

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patches and ridges, the application of cold water distressed him,

occasionally the legs became cold and blue but in five or ten minutes they
were again red and hot. Itching, red elevations over body, extremities and
even ears. Wales covering body, without itching or burning, but with
disappearance of other symptoms ; white wales covering body. Red and
white blotches. Red blotches, with sensitiveness of skin to touch.
Blotches on body and on back of hand, with stinging. Inflammation over
whole body, with pressure when rubbed, and white spots like mosquito
bites ; inflammation, with pain and gangrene ; cellular I. ending in
suppuration.
Erysipelas of face, with fever, coated tongue and thirst ; E. of forearm,
with disorder of muscular nerves and with heat, redness, swelling and pain.
Erysipelatous swelling, hard and white in middle, with sharp pain.
Nettlerash ; after fever ; over whole body, also with lessening of previous
symptoms ; over whole body except feet ; paler than usual color of skin, with
swelling of face and whole body. Sensitive pimples ; in inner cartilage of
left ear. Furuncles and large swellings of every description, or local
inflammation attended then with stinging. Sore pustules, with red areola in
hair of pubes, with soreness and pain.
Stinging, with swelling and inflammation ; itching S. in different parts,
especially lower limbs. Stinging prickling, burning, smarting and itching
all over skin. Prickling ; all over body ; especially on back and palms of
hands, face, forehead and under eyes, chiefly in circumscribed spots.
Burning in various portions, with stinging ; especially on back, which
itched. Burning like prickly heat on back, arms and hands and after
scratching, itching and blotches like nettle-rash.
Sensitiveness to touch ; every hair is painful when touched. Full and
constricted feeling on forehead and face, then swelling with red streaks on
face, swelling extending to body and limbs, and urticaria over whole body.
Crawling in left fingers ; as from insects on inner side of right knee in
morning ; of feet, with itching ; as after freezing.
Itching ; amel. scratching ; over right eyebrow ; on back of hands and
upper part of feet ; of right hand, with chapping ; and after scratching
blotches like nettle-rash ; on outer part of left wing of nose, with soreness
and redness ; biting, in eyebrow, sometimes right, sometimes left ; I. or
stinging of face, ears, throat, hands and wrists. Stinging itching on
posterior surface of right thigh, like flea bites, in afternoon, amel. scratching
then on right arm. Burning itching, on left thigh, especially posteriorly ; in
spots in palm, agg. left ; at 9 P.M. on backs of hands, knuckles, joints of
fingers, agg. right then chapping ; in evening, beginning in arms, spreading
over whole body ; over whole body, with red pimples, thicker on chest and
back than on face and arms.
Clinical :- Valuable for urticaria, erysipelas and dematous swellings,
always with extreme sensitiveness to touch and with stinging burning
pains.

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Sleep :- Yawning ; mornings. Sleepiness ; in morning ; in morning, will

not rise, feels as if beaten, must stretch herself, with vertigo.
Sleeplessness ; and the brain has no rest day or night, with restlessness and
loose, urgent stools at night. Restless sleep, with inclination to frequent
waking and incessant dreams. Terrified starting in evening sleep from a
noise. Frequent waking, with vexatious dreams of business cares.
Dreams ; full of care and toil, of traveling, mostly by railroad.
Fever :- Chilliness ; at noon, with red face and red spots on body ; in
evening, with cold fingers, agg. left ; in evening while sitting, caused by
previous slight movement, with heat in face and headache ; when eating ;
with cold limbs and nausea ; with hot hands ; with racking pain through
head, weakness and shivering ; then fever at night. Shuddering, with
diarrha ; S., then nettle-rash. Chill every day at 3 P.M. running over back,
with shuddering, agg. in warmth, with dead feeling in hands, then after an
hour heat, with hoarse cough, heat of cheeks and hands, without thirst,
then heaviness and weakness. Cold extremities ; hands. Coldness and
pallor of fingers up to first phalanx, and of toes, nails cyanotic. Cold,
clammy skin. Cold feet, with hot head. Heat ; at night, with agitation ;
with general oppression ; over whole body, with stinging. In flushes ;
mixed with chills. Internal, without external, with trembling, and rapid
pulse, then vertigo while standing, as if about to faint pallor, nausea and
vomiting, then sleep, with anxious starting and cough, then quiet sleep after
turning on to other side. Heat of head ; in upper part of left ear ; in spots on
hands ; in finger-tips ; in feet ; in face, with full sensation. Burning in head,
agg. motion and stooping, amel. firm pressure, with throbbing and with
occasional sweat. Sudden heat over back, with pain at left ilio-sacral
junction. Burning of toes, with redness and heat in them while the feet are
cold. B. of toes, with erysipelatous redness and heat in a patch on foot and
coldness of the rest of the feet. Sweat ; after trembling and fainting, then
nettle-rash ; alternating with dry skin ; cold, on feet.
Clinical :- In intermittent fever the characteristic symptom for Apis is
chill at 4 to 5 P.M., with thirst, agg. external heat or slightest motion, with
oppression of breath as if he would smother ; heat without thirst, with
some sensitiveness ; the sweating stage is usually very slight or wanting ;
there is generally sleepiness throughout the paroxysm. In typo-malarial
fever ; in which there are the unconsciousness, dry tongue, involuntary
stools, stupor, intense thirst.

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