Apis Melli

APIS MELLIFICA
PRESENTED BY-
Dr . AKHILESH KUMAR
PGT-2022 BATCH
Source: Animal kingdom
Synonyms: Honeybee poison, Madhu makhi
Family:
Prover: Proved by Brauns and introduced by
E.E. Marey to homeopathy
Duration of Action: Uncertain
Miasmatic Background: Psora
Temperament: Nervous and irritable
Diathesis: Scrofulous
Thermal Relationship: Hot patient
• Apis is very useful anti-psoric medicine prepared from
the poison of honey Bee.
• Bee sting gives burning, stinging pain, soreness, red
rose hue and puffiness of the part which is sensitive to
touch. Person becomes irritable, restless and cries or
even weeps till the pain subsides.
• The genus Apis is of European origin and is widely
distributed all over the world.
• Female bees are distinguished from the males by their
shorter abdomen.
• Only the female bees have poisonous stings. In males,
the mouth parts are well developed.
• Honey bees are found in India and other parts of the
world.
Abscess, Apoplexy, Asthma,
Bright's disease,
Carbuncle Constipation, Cancerous affections,
Diarrhoea, Dropsy Eye troubles,
Gangrene,
Hydrocephalus,
Intermittent fever.
Kidney affections,
Meningitis Menstrual troubles,
Rheumatism,
Skin affection,
Tumours,
Urinary troubles, etc.
SPHERES OF ACTION.
Apis acts on cellular tissues, glands, skin,
brain, urinary system, heart, pleurae and
serous membran.
Physio-pathological Changes
(Pathology)
1. It acts on the nervous system; sensorium is depressed to the
point of drowsiness, even to unconsciousness.
2. It acts on the skin, mucous membranes, which get affected
– swollen and inflamed; particularly in the eyes and where
there is loose tissue; thus it causes oedema and anasarca.
3. Urticarial patches with burning, stinging; redness and a shiny
surface of the skin are seen.
4. Also acts on the urinary system producing inflammation;
burning and scanty urine with a feeling of stricture in the
urethra.
5. Acts on the glands, causing induration and enlargement.
6. It acts on the lungs that is, on the pleura and produces wet
pleurisy.
7. Acts on joints like wrists, shoulders, ankles, etc. producing
rheumatic pains.
Mental Symptoms (Psychology)
1. Patient is absentminded with impaired memory.
2. Moaning and whining; weeping disposition, cannot help
crying; discouraged an despondent.
3. Patient is very restless, constantly changes his
occupation.
4. Patient is very nervous, irritable, fidgety and very hard to
please; sad and melancholic.
5.Patient is very awkward, drops things while handling them.
6. Very jealous, especially widows. Apathetic, listless,
fault-finding, joyless.
7. Indolent and suspicious.
8. There is a kind of constricted feeling. Stretched, ‘tight
feeling’; sensation in abdomen as if something is tight.
9. Dreams full of care and toil, of flying through the air.
Characteristic Physical Guiding
Symptoms
1. Thirstlessness: Patient is totally thirstless except in intermittent chill at 3
to 4 pm.
2. Right-sidedness: It is a right sided medicine. The right side especially
gets
affected first and then the left side.
3. Oedema: It may be local or general. Oedematous swelling is
particularly
marked in the throat, face and below the lower eyelids. Sometimes
general
anasarca is found.
4. Scanty urine: Urine is scanty and high coloured, coming in drops,
sometimes
suppressed; retention of urine in nursing infants with thirstlessness;
alburninuria with tubal casts in urine.
5. Soreness: Patient is very sensitive to touch and pressure; bruised and
sore
feeling all over the body. Uterine and ovarian region is very tender and
6. Burning stinging pains: It is a great pain remedy with a
character of burning, stinging and sore pain. This suddenly
migrates from one part to another.
7. Rapidity and violent: All the symptoms of Apis mellifica
come on with great rapidity and violence until
unconsciousness is reached.
8. Tension: Stretched, tight feeling, tension; this sensation
of tightness is observed in many symptoms, great aversion
to tight bandage like Lachesis.
9. Diarrhoea: Involuntary diarrhoea of drunkards with the
sensation as if the anus remained wide open; stool,
greenish, yellowish, slimy, mucoid; worse in the morning
with no thirst.
10. Constipation: During constipation, sensation in the
abdomen as if something tight would break if too much
effort was made.
Important Characteristic Features
1. Diarrhoea: Diarrhoea due to suppression of
eruptions, in drunkards, in eruptive diseases.
Stool is watery, greenish, yellowish, with slimy
mucous; worse in the morning with no thirst.
Involuntary diarrhoea, painless, bloody and very
offensive, with every motion as though the anus
stood wide open.
Before passing of stool there is much flatus with
a rumbling noise, there is great tenesmus and
griping pain with soreness in the anus, nausea,
vomiting and painful urination. After stool there
is a throbbing pain in the rectum. No thirst and
2. Fever: It is a very good medicine for typhoid and
malaria.
i. In typhoid there is stupor with muttering
delirium; trembling tongue which gets caught between
the teeth when protruding it. Tongue is cracked with
blisters. Skin is hot and burning, mostly dry, some times
perspiration is present. Patient is generally thirstless
except during chill; continuous fever, chill running over
the back. Patient is very sensitive to touch, wants open
air.
ii It is also an excellent drug for malaria. Chill
starts at 3 pm with thirst. Swelling and burning of lips, no
thirst during perspiratory stage. Pulse is full and rapid;
trembling of tongue. Symptoms worse in a warm room
and with external heat.
3. Urticaria: Apis mellifica is very useful in urticaria. Skin
is very sensitive to touch ; is waxy, painful and
oedematous; stinging, burning, smarting, pricking and
itching of the skin in erysipelas; swelling, especially
under lower eyelids. All symptoms go from right to left.
4. Urinary complaints: It is a very well know medicine
for urinary complaints. Urine scanty, high coloured,
coming in drops with thirstlessness; urine may also be
suppressed. Retention of urine in nursing infants.
Incontinence of urine with great irritation of the parts.
Urine is bloody, albuminous, with casts, very offensive.
Great urging, constant and ineffectual. Stinging,
burning and smarting pain during urination. Patient is
generally thirstless.
General Modalities
Aggravation: Worse from heat, hot bath, by lying down,
after sleep, afternoon at 3 pm, in a hot and warm
room, from touch, pressure, getting wet.
Amelioration: Cold applications, cold bathing, open air,
changing position, uncovering, getting erect, cool
open air, expectoration, cold water.
Remedy Relationships
Complementary: Ars, Puls, Nat-m.
Follows well: Puls, Ars.
Antidotes: Dig, Chin, Canth.
Inimical: Rhus-t.
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