Compendious on Apis Mellifica – Indications, benefits, side effects

About Apis Mellifica

Keynotes: Stings, Puffy Raised Skin Symptoms, Common Hives, Stinging Pain, Pains with Burning Sensations, Urinary Irritation, Minor Joint Pain, Sore Throats

Description: Just as bee stings can trigger a variety of reactions, the bee remedy can relieve a range of responses whether a bee was involved or not. From mild swelling to red membranes, Apis helps the body calm many pain and irritation symptoms, including: common hives, insect bites and stings, red sore throats, eye irritation, puffy joints and minor urinary irritation. Redness, puffing up, hot stinging pains and sensitivity to touch are the keys to this remedy as your solution.

Modalities: Worse for touch, pressure and heat in any form; on the right side and after sleeping. Better for applied cold, cold bathing and open air.

Leading characteristics of Apis Mellifica (Indications)

1. Ailments from jealousy, fright, rage, vexation, bad news, mental shock.
2. Bad effects of acute exanthema (eruptions) imperfectly developed or suppressed; measles, scarlatina, urticaria. suppressed eruptions.
3. Oedema (puffiness): Pitting on pressure; marked under the eyes; of hands and feet; dropsy without thirst.
4. Pain: Burning, stinging, sore; suddenly migrating from one part to other.
5. Diarrhoea: In eruptive diseases, especially if eruption be suppressed; of drunkards; involuntary from every mo-tion; with anus wide open (Phos.).
6. Albuminuria (albumin in urine) after scarlatina when Canth. has failed.
7. Meningitis with sudden shrill, piercing screams, rolling of head from side to side; opisthotonos (arching back-ward), or head drawn back, gnashing of teeth.
8. Chemosis (swelling) of conjunctiva with sharp pains.
9. Right-sided troubles: Right-sided ovarian cyst, hydrocele.
10. Synovitis (inflammation of membrane containing joint fluids), with burning, sore, stinging pains; worse from warm applications.
11. Sore throat with constrictive sensation.
12. Intermittent fevers: Chill at 3 p.m.; chill with thirst; feels worse in a warm room.
13. Menstrual troubles in women with burning, stinging pains and thirstlessness with great heat.
14. Scirrhus or open cancer with enlarged, indurated glands with characteristic and constitutional symptoms of Apis .
15. Especially suited to the following types of patients:
    • who are warm-blooded; worse in warm and closed room
    • children, girls and women, though generally careful, become awkward and let things fall, while handling them;
    • irritable, nervous, fidgety persons hard to please;
    • who have a weeping disposition; cannot help crying; discouraged and despondent;
    • who are extremely sensitive to touch (Bell., Hep., Lach.);
    • who are worse after sleeping, touch and pressure, heat of bed and at 3 p.m. and better from sitting erect, changing position, walking, uncovering and bathing;
    • jealous persons; women, especially widows;
    • persons who are apathetic, are absent-minded, cannot concentrate; are listless, fault-finding, joyless, suspicious or indolent;
    • sad and melancholic;
    • foolish persons.

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Apis Mellifica medicinal benefits (uses)

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Apis Mel Side effects : When taken in the recommended dilute form, no side effects from Apis Mellifica. However, concentrated quantities of the bee venom can cause allergic reactions in susceptible people.