{"id":604,"remedy_name":"Apis Mellifica","remedy_type":"Homeopathic Remedy","alternative_names":[""],"miasm":"Psoric Miasm","temperament":"Hot","aggravation_time":"Afternoon","keynote_indications":"Source: Derived from the whole honey bee ( Apis mellifera ), including its venom, prepared for. homeopathic use through potentization. Traditional Context: Historically employed in homeopathy for conditions mimicking the effects of. a bee sting, such as swelling, burning, stinging pains, and inflammatory reactions, with applications. in allergic, dermatological, urinary, and joint disorders. It is noted for symptoms like sudden edema,. intense heat, thirstlessness, and restlessness, often aggravated by warmth, touch, or afternoons. Modern  Context:  Indicated  for  acute  allergic  reactions (e.g.,  urticaria,  angioedema),. inflammatory  edema,  urinary  tract  dysfunction,  and  joint  inflammation,  characterized  by. burning or stinging sensations  and  swelling. It suits patients with acute or subacute conditions. involving localized or generalized edema, heat intolerance, and restlessness, often triggered by. allergens,  infections,  trauma,  or  environmental  factors,  and  typically  accompanied  by  mild. psychological agitation or irritability.","modalities":"Worse from: Heat (e.g., warm rooms, baths, beds), touch, pressure, afternoon (2\u20135 p.m.),. lying down, confinement, right side.","symptoms_by_system":{"Mind":"Great anxiot^ restlessness and fidgety. Fussy and fidgety, hard to please. Fear of being poisoned. \nDread of apopl exy. Constant whining  in children. Cannot bear to be left alone . Restlessness and \nconstantly busy. Ailments from hearing bad news. Weeping, cannot help crying, all day and \nnight without any cause. \nAbsent-minded with impaired memory. \nCannot concentrate min d on attempting to f read and write. Stupor with sudden sharp cries and startings. \nAwkward, drops things readily.  Listless, cannot think clearly. Couldn't bring his thoughts to bear on t \nanything. \nApathy and indifference. Indifference, says nothing ails hi m. Indifference with dull - ? ness of head. Nothing \nseems to satisfy, all wrong and out of place. Fruitless activity. \nIrritable, excitable and sehsitive. Fickle and inconsistent behavior. Childish, silly behavior in women after \ndelivery. Hysterical girls a t puberty. Borrows troubl\u00e9 about everything. Jealous,fidgety, hard to please. \nJealous, fright, rage, vexation, grief. Foolishly suspicious. Whining. \nMuttering delirium alternating with stu por. Declares she is well, during delirium. Sudden shrill, piercing  \nscreams. Mania from sexual irritation. Sexual mania alternating with stupor in women. Premonition of death. \nSensation of dying. Lost of consciousness. Great anxiot^ restlessness and fidgety. Fussy and fidgety, hard to please. Fear of being poisoned. \nDread of apopl exy. Constant whining  in children. Cannot bear to be left alone . Restlessness and \nconstantly busy. Ailments from hearing bad news. Weeping, cannot help crying, all day and \nnight without any cause. \nAbsent-minded with impaired memory. \nCannot concentrate min d on attempting to f read and write. Stupor with sudden sharp cries and startings. \nAwkward, drops things readily.  Listless, cannot think clearly. Couldn't bring his thoughts to bear on t \nanything. \nApathy and indifference. Indifference, says nothing ails hi m. Indifference with dull - ? ness of head. Nothing \nseems to satisfy, all wrong and out of place. Fruitless activity. \nIrritable, excitable and sehsitive. Fickle and inconsistent behavior. Childish, silly behavior in women after \ndelivery. Hysterical girls a t puberty. Borrows troubl\u00e9 about everything. Jealous,fidgety, hard to please. \nJealous, fright, rage, vexation, grief. Foolishly suspicious. Whining. \nMuttering delirium alternating with stu por. Declares she is well, during delirium. Sudden shrill, piercing  \nscreams. Mania from sexual irritation. Sexual mania alternating with stupor in women. Premonition of death. \nSensation of dying. Lost of consciousness.","Vertigo":"Vertigo with sneezing worse lying or closing e yes. Vertigo with nausea and headache. Vertigo -as if \nshe would fall. Vertigo with obscuration of sight, nausea and disgust for fpod.  \nVision - Obscured vision, in meningitis cerebrospinalis. Could only observe light  \ncoming in at window when turning herself towards it. Whitish grey mist. Weak vision, with feeling of fullness in \n \n \neyes. Blindness better stool. Myopia. Objects appear too large. Could see better at night than in daytime. \nDiplopia after meningitis. Whirling. Indistinct vision, as if a skin were drawn over eye.  \nCOMMENTS - Acute remedy for anaphylactic shock from bee stings, jellyfish, nettles, scorpions, from drugs, \nfrom allergic reactions especially to strawberries and to certain foods. \nIn a severe case, their face swells, first the eyes swell, t hen the face swells, and then the throat swells. It's \nalso for hives, itching, burning, stinging hives from insect bites, from certain foods, severe allergies. Chronic \ntreatment can lesson sensitivity (Vesp., Carb-ac.). \nBurns or sunburns with stinging pain, worse heat, or burns with water-filled blisters. \nHas been used for eczema, skin cracked and painful, burning, swollen, suppurating, worse wafer. PMS with \nacute, severe edema, water retention, irritability, emotional sensi tivity. Right sided ovarian cyst s, especially if \nso painful it's about to burst. Appendicitis. \nAcute nephritis with stinging pains. Good for urinary retention, cystitis, bladder infections (Canth.). Bladder \nfeels full and urethra is swollen so urine comes out in painful drops. Pelvis fee ls full. For puncture wounds \nwhen the arm swells, vaccinations. Joint pain from arthritis or injury, the joint swells up. \nToxemia in pregnancy, women have protein in the urine and high blood, pres sure. Inflammation of the body \ncavity like peritonitis or f luid collecting around the heart, for meningitis, for hydrocephalic children, for painful \ninflammation of the scrotum. Brain cry, high pitch shrill, due to inflammation and on the brain. Never well since \nmeningitis (Bell.). \nOriginally used for edema. Often  edema from the immune system or the kidneys, the histamine is released, \nthe tissues swell. Better heat, look for the stinging pains and \nworse heat in some type of allergic reaction or bite or sting or some kidney failure type of problem.  \nApis has great sensitiveness of the surface to touch. General soreness, every hair is painful to contact. Great \ndebility as if he h had worked hard is compelled to lie down. \nTired and bruised feeling. Great restlessness di and fidgetiness (th e Ars. restlessness is more from mental \nanxiety). \nTrembling, jerking and twitching. One half of the body twitching, the other lame or paralyzed. Hemiplegia. Apis \nis more a right -sided medicine, symptoms proceed from right to left (Rhus -t. left to rig ht) and from above \ndownwards. . \nStiffness of lower jaw, soon amounting to < - a sense of complete fixation. This stiffness extended to tongue \nand throat, rendering speech difficult and unintelligible and  causing a condition of extreme discomfort. The \nstiffness being accompanied by a feeling of in \u25a0 constriction, wffich excited a single, spasmodic, hacking cough \nat short intervals. \nSome difficulty in breathing, especially S' in inspiration. These symptoms were ac companied by a terrible \nrestlessness. \nOn a later occasion there was dyspnea, face purple, head thrown back. The same symptoms as above \nrecurred, but the throat 0,1 ' was more swollen and the distress extended below the larynx to the upper part of \nthe lung, 'which soon became very sore and sensitive. '\" An hour after the sting on thi s occasion a violent \ncough came on. \nIt seemed to be excited by the constrictive feeling in the throat, but it reached down to the sore place in the \nlungs, causing great \u201c\" distress. It was a deep, hard, ringing cough, lasting without intermission for three hours. \n''Traces of the cough and soreness lasted for months. \nHni ' \nApis has slow action and must not be changed too soon. Increased flow of urine shows it is having a favorable \neffect. The dropsies of Apis are characterized by a waxy hue of skin, whitish or yellowish, transparent swelling \nof eyelids, bag-like swelling under eyes, surface of body sore, bruised or burning. In cardiac dropsy the feet \nswell after walking and are intolerably sore and burning. \nIn chest disorders there is sensation of contraction  (Lach.) and inability to lie down. Tension, swelling and \nstiffness of limbs. This tight sensation is manifested in another symptom: sensation in abdomen as if something \ntight would break if too much effort was made to void a constipated stool. Aversion to  tight things like Lach. \nProstration even to faintness. Paralytic weakness. Paralysis after diphtheria and other severe diseases.  \nNervous, restless, over-sensitive or hot and drowsy with or without thirst. Worse from touch or pressure (though \nthe head is better by pressure). Apis has a sensitiveness to heat, especially to heated rooms (Puls., lod., Kali-\ni.. Sec., Sulph.), worse by warmth of bed. Cold water better. Thirstlessness, there's no desire to drink. Can \nhave fever with thirstlessness. \nA keynote is the eyes swell from allergic reactions. The person feels hot, the area is swollen. Sensation as \nthough it would burst, skin becomes very sensitive. Dry skin. Wandering pains. Described as a red-hot needle \nstuck in and moved around. Shrieking out with pain,  keynote. The eyes are glassy, the face is hot and puffy. \n \n \nBobs head back and forth  Worse bathing, better cold applications. Fears suffocation. Aggravated by heat, \ncongestion and stuffy room (Puls.). Often has *0 choking feeling because the throat swells n up. Dreams of \nflying from place to place. \nInduced jealousy. Arching back of neck.","Head":"Chronic sick headache. Sudden stabbing in head. Sharp shrieks. Bores head into pillow and screams \nout. Hydrocephalus enlargement of head. Rolling of the head from side to side in hydrocephalus. V Boring \nof the head backward in pillow in meningitis. Inability to hold the head a up in meningitis. Stinging pains. \nNumb, tired headache, better pressure. Flow of \ntears with headache. Fontanelles sunken. Fontanels reopen. Brain feels very tired. Heat, throbbing, pains, \nbetter on pressure and worse on motion. Aching in forehead and temples. Dull, heavy sensation in occiput, as \nfrom a blow. Erysipelas of scalp. Painful hair. Musty head sweat. Head feels swollen. Hair- falls out, bald spots. \nApoplexy. Chronic sick headache. Sudden stabbing in head. Sharp shrieks. Bores head into pillow and screams \nout. Hydrocephalus enlargement of head. Rolling of the head from side to side in hydrocephalus. V Boring \nof the head backward in pillow in meningitis. Inability to hold the head a up in meningitis. Stinging pains. \nNumb, tired headache, better pressure. Flow of \ntears with headache. Fontanelles sunken. Fontanels reopen. Brain feels very tired. Heat, throbbing, pains, \nbetter on pressure and worse on motion. Aching in forehead and temples. Dull, heavy sensation in occiput, as \nfrom a blow. Erysipelas of scalp. Painful hair. Musty head sweat. Head feels swollen. Hair- falls out, bald spots. \nApoplexy.","Eyes":"Myopia. Styes. Asthenopia during \u00e9ruptive fevers. Ophthalmia. \n* Face - Red, hot, swollen  with piercing pains. Waxy pale and edematous. Lips bluish, edematous, upper. \nBee stings.  Erysipelas with stinging burning edema.  Extends from right to left. Expression happy, terror \nstricken or apathetic. Jaws stiff, with stiffness of tongue. Paralysis of right side with right eye closed. Desire for \nwashing face with cold water. Formication and prickling in face.","Ears":"Redness and swelling of both ears. External ear red inflamed, sore. Stinging pains. Raises the hand \nto the back of ear with each scream. Scarlatinal otitis. Ten - ^ sion about ears. Violent j>ain in left ear, when \nchewing. Shooting, burning pain. Pain in ears, when swallowing. Impaired hearing. Deafness.","Throat":"Tonsillitis with skin eruptions. Tonsils are swollen, fiery red, stinging .J'. pain, while swallowing, better \ncold drinks. \nUlcers on tonsils. Swollen throat from allergic reaction.  Constricted, stinging pains. Uvula swollen, sac-\nlike. Sandy, ,t glossy or translucent better cold, swollen inside and outside. Throat purple. Angina. Diphtheria \nwith early prostration, dirty membrane, edema of uvula. Throat sore, v. swallowing painful worse solids, sour \nor hot substances. Sensation as if fishbone in throat. Vasculargoitre. \nTongue - Tongue as. if scalded, red hot, trembling. Cancer of the tongue.  Tongue fiery red, swollen, sore \nand raw with vesicles. Tongue feels raw. Tongue hangs out or cannot be protruded. Tongue as if wooden. \nStinging blisters along edge of tongue. Dryness of tongue. Tongue red at tip. Tongue coated white. Tongue \ntrembles, catches in teeth. Tongue first covered thickly white, later covered with a brown crust.","Chest":"Pains from below ribs going upwards. Burning or soreness below ribs. Hydrothorax. Burning stinging \npains throughout entire front of the chest. Hydrothorax after pleurisy. Chest feels as if beaten or bruised. \nConstitutions - Psoric and allergic constitutions. \nCough - Severe cough before midnight. Croupy cough with ringing sound. Dry cough with  gagging. Cough \nwith soreness of upper part of chest. Very dry cough. Spasmodic cough morning and evening. Dry cough with \ngagging, worse lying on left side. Cough with tickling behind pit of throat. Heart troubles with great feeling of suffocation. Heart stitches backward from apex. Violent palpitations, \nshake the whole body. Palpitations of heart from scanty secretion of urine. Insufficiency of'mitral valves. \nOrganic heart disease. Blowing sound with the diastole. Pericarditis. Pulse is hard small intermittent and quick, \nweak. \nKidneys - Sore or bruised feeling over region of kidneys. Nephritis. Acute nephritis, urine scanty or \nsuppressed. Hyperemic state of kidneys. Burning and soreness when urinating. Frequent and involun tary \nurine. Stinging pain and st rangury. Scanty, high colored urine.  Urine loaded with casts. Urine milky in \nhydrocephalus. Albuminuria. Urine profuse, more than he drinks. Urine turbid after standing. Coffee ground \nsediment. Urine clear and colorless during dentition. Urine of greenish hue. Urethra as if scalded. Asthma witn hives. Dyspnea from allergic reactions. Breathing hurried and difficult. Panting \nbreathing, feels every breath would be his last. Air hunger. Edema of larynx. Fee ls as if he could not draw \nanother breath. Suffocation, \nshort, dry cough, supra-sternal. Painful shock in head and chest from every cough. v, Larynx drawn in. \nHoarseness. Expectora- >t J. tion sweetish. \n!Male - Affections of prostate gland. Dropsy Zll of the scrotum. Hydrocele and cysts. n, Testiclespainful when \ntouched. Frequent and long -lasting erections. Swelling of testicles, worse right. Violent itching and j redness \nof scrotum, sore to touch. Sexual desire increased or diminished. Discharge of prostat ic fluid. Gonorrhea, \ncopious secretion of thin, ichorous discharge. Gon orrhea with burning, stinging pain. Large boils on pubes. \nSwelling of foreskin.-","Stomach & Abdomen":"- Dropsy of abdomen. Burning, pain and tenderness in epigastrium. Sore, bruisedpain,  on \npressure, when sneezing. Extremely tender. Rumbling in abdomen. Violent cutting pains. Peritonitis. Swelling \nin right groin. Ulceration of navel in newborn. Inguinal hernia. Sensitivity of ileocecal region. Thirstless with edema, dropsy. Craving for milk (Rhus-t.). Better from milk. Craving for sour things. \nChild nurses by day, refuses at night.","Urinary & Genital":"Amenorrhea of puberty. Premenstrual syndrome with water retention. Menses suppressed with \nmental and head symptoms, especially in young girls. Hysterical girls at puberty.  Menses last a . day or \nappear at intervals of one day. Dys - ' menorrhea with scanty discharge of slimy blood or with ovarian pains. \nDysmenorrhea, with severe ovarian pains. Bearing-down, as if menses were to appear. Great tenderness over \nabdomen and uterine region. Metritis. Metrorrhagia profuse with heavy abdomen, faintness, stinging pain. \nMenorrhagia with the miscarriage.Leucorrhea, profuse, acrid, green. Edema of labia, relieved by cold water. \nOvarian cysts. Soreness and stinging p ains. Ovaritis, worse in right ovary. Ovarian tumors, with stinging \npains. Ovaries numb or congested with suppressed menses. Pains in ovaries, worse sex. Toxemia. \nMiscarriage during early months. Uterine hemorrhage during pregnancy. Dropsy in later parts o f pregnancy \nwith puerperal convulsions. Mania in women from sexual excesses or suppressed menses.","Extremities":"Joint swelling or stiffness with stinging pains, resembling reactive arthritis or acute. synovitis. Painful soreness or heat in affected areas, worse from pressure or motion, better with. cold applications. Localized edema in extremities, often post-trauma or inflammatory triggers. Urinary:. Burning dysuria or scalding sensation during urination, often with urinary retention. or oliguria. Pelvic  discomfort  or  bladder  fullness,  sometimes  mimicking  cystitis  without. infection. Scanty  urine  output,  occasionally  with  hematuria  in  severe  cases,  linked  to. inflammatory irritation. Systemic:. Generalized edema, resembling anaphylactic or nephrotic-like states, with puffy face. or extremities. Fever with heat intolerance, often without thirst, and a sensation of internal burning. Fatigue  or  lethargy  during  inflammatory  flares,  with  aggravation  in  hot,  stuffy. environments. Psychological:. Restlessness or agitation, particularly during painful swelling or allergic episodes. Irritability, with sensitivity to touch, confinement, or external stimuli (e.g., noise,. heat). Mild anxiety or fear of worsening symptoms, often tied to physical discomfort.","Neck & Back":"Back of the neck stiff. Back as if tired and bruised. Rheumatic pain in back. Burning pressing in coccyx \nworse when Sii sitting down. Back tired and bruised. \nScapulae as if lame. Cervical glands t n swollen. Violent pain in sacrum, could not sit. Dragging-pain in lumbar \nregion 11 with ovarian and uterine diseases. \nBladder - Great irritation at neck of bladder with frequent and burning urination. Burn ing and soreness when \nurinating. Cystitis. Dysuria with stinging pains. Last drops m burn and smart. Incontinence of urine bn worse \nnight, coughingJJeienZion of urine y in newborn. Stitching in urethra, with r. bedwetting. Suppressed urine. \nTenesmus Uu during and after urination. Cannot urinate .n without a stool. Difficult, frequent or slow  \nurination, must press to pass urine, in prostatic affections. \nBreasts - Breasts swollen and hard. Child nurses by day .refuses at night. Milk dimin ished. Stinging burning \npains in breasts. Breast tumors. Cancer of breasts. Breast burning, stinging, swelling, hardness and \nsuppuration. Erysipelas of breast. \nCausations - Allergens. Grief. Fright. Rage. Vexation. Jealousy, the queen bee is the most jealous thing in \nnature. Hearing bad news, mental shock. Suppressed eruptions.","Skin":"Generalized edema, resembling anaphylactic or nephrotic-like states, with puffy face. or extremities. Fever with heat intolerance, often without thirst, and a sensation of internal burning. Fatigue  or  lethargy  during  inflammatory  flares,  with  aggravation  in  hot,  stuffy. environments. Psychological:. Restlessness or agitation, particularly during painful swelling or allergic episodes. Irritability, with sensitivity to touch, confinement, or external stimuli (e.g., noise,. heat). Mild anxiety or fear of worsening symptoms, often tied to physical discomfort.","Sleep":"Very drowsy. Great inclination to sleep  but cannot from nervous  restlessness. Drowsiness during \nfeyer. Screams and sudden starting during sleep.  Kicks off covers during sleep. Yawning after coughing. \nDreams full of care and toil. Dreams of being busy going from place to place. Travelling dreams. Flying dreams. \nUnpleasant dreams. \n. Stomach - Belchings that tasting of ingesta worse drinking water or flow of water. Bitter or acrid belching. \nSoreness in the pit of stomach when touched. Gastroen teritis. Nausea and vomiting. Neither eats nor drinks \nfor weeks. Vomiting of frothy mucus. Vomiting with diarrhea. Vomiting of food, bile.","Generalities":"The burning is like hot needles. Sensation of constriction. Sensation of stiffness and as of \nsomething torn off the interior part of the body."},"schema_version":"1.0","api_provider":"Allahshafi"}