# Apis Mellifica

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **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 (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Worse from: Heat (e.g., warm rooms, baths, beds), touch, pressure, afternoon (2–5 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.
- Dread of apopl exy.
- Constant whining  in children.
- Cannot bear to be left alone .
- Restlessness and 
constantly busy.
- Ailments from hearing bad news.
- Weeping, cannot help crying, all day and 
night without any cause.
- Absent-minded with impaired memory.
- Cannot concentrate min d on attempting to f read and write.
- Stupor with sudden sharp cries and startings.
- Awkward, drops things readily.
- Listless, cannot think clearly.
- Couldn't bring his thoughts to bear on t 
anything.
- Apathy and indifference.
- Indifference, says nothing ails hi m.
- Indifference with dull - ?
- ness of head.
- Nothing 
seems to satisfy, all wrong and out of place.
- Fruitless activity.
- Irritable, excitable and sehsitive.
- Fickle and inconsistent behavior.
- Childish, silly behavior in women after 
delivery.
- Hysterical girls a t puberty.
- Borrows troublé about everything.
- Jealous,fidgety, hard to please.
- Jealous, fright, rage, vexation, grief.
- Foolishly suspicious.
- Whining.
- Muttering delirium alternating with stu por.
- Declares she is well, during delirium.
- Sudden shrill, piercing  
screams.
- Mania from sexual irritation.
- Sexual mania alternating with stupor in women.
- Premonition of death.
- Sensation of dying.
- Lost of consciousness.
- Great anxiot^ restlessness and fidgety.
- Fussy and fidgety, hard to please.
- Fear of being poisoned.
- Dread of apopl exy.
- Constant whining  in children.
- Cannot bear to be left alone .
- Restlessness and 
constantly busy.
- Ailments from hearing bad news.
- Weeping, cannot help crying, all day and 
night without any cause.
- Absent-minded with impaired memory.
- Cannot concentrate min d on attempting to f read and write.
- Stupor with sudden sharp cries and startings.
- Awkward, drops things readily.
- Listless, cannot think clearly.
- Couldn't bring his thoughts to bear on t 
anything.
- Apathy and indifference.
- Indifference, says nothing ails hi m.
- Indifference with dull - ?
- ness of head.
- Nothing 
seems to satisfy, all wrong and out of place.
- Fruitless activity.
- Irritable, excitable and sehsitive.
- Fickle and inconsistent behavior.
- Childish, silly behavior in women after 
delivery.
- Hysterical girls a t puberty.
- Borrows troublé about everything.
- Jealous,fidgety, hard to please.
- Jealous, fright, rage, vexation, grief.
- Foolishly suspicious.
- Whining.
- Muttering delirium alternating with stu por.
- Declares she is well, during delirium.
- Sudden shrill, piercing  
screams.
- Mania from sexual irritation.
- Sexual mania alternating with stupor in women.
- Premonition of death.
- Sensation of dying.
- Lost of consciousness.

### Vertigo
- Vertigo with sneezing worse lying or closing e yes.
- Vertigo with nausea and headache.
- Vertigo -as if 
she would fall.
- Vertigo with obscuration of sight, nausea and disgust for fpod.
- Vision - Obscured vision, in meningitis cerebrospinalis.
- Could only observe light  
coming in at window when turning herself towards it.
- Whitish grey mist.
- Weak vision, with feeling of fullness in 
 
 
eyes.
- Blindness better stool.
- Myopia.
- Objects appear too large.
- Could see better at night than in daytime.
- Diplopia after meningitis.
- Whirling.
- Indistinct vision, as if a skin were drawn over eye.
- COMMENTS - Acute remedy for anaphylactic shock from bee stings, jellyfish, nettles, scorpions, from drugs, 
from allergic reactions especially to strawberries and to certain foods.
- In a severe case, their face swells, first the eyes swell, t hen the face swells, and then the throat swells.
- It's 
also for hives, itching, burning, stinging hives from insect bites, from certain foods, severe allergies.
- Chronic 
treatment can lesson sensitivity (Vesp., Carb-ac.).
- Burns or sunburns with stinging pain, worse heat, or burns with water-filled blisters.
- Has been used for eczema, skin cracked and painful, burning, swollen, suppurating, worse wafer.
- PMS with 
acute, severe edema, water retention, irritability, emotional sensi tivity.
- Right sided ovarian cyst s, especially if 
so painful it's about to burst.
- Appendicitis.
- Acute nephritis with stinging pains.
- Good for urinary retention, cystitis, bladder infections (Canth.).
- Bladder 
feels full and urethra is swollen so urine comes out in painful drops.
- Pelvis fee ls full.
- For puncture wounds 
when the arm swells, vaccinations.
- Joint pain from arthritis or injury, the joint swells up.
- Toxemia in pregnancy, women have protein in the urine and high blood, pres sure.
- Inflammation of the body 
cavity like peritonitis or f luid collecting around the heart, for meningitis, for hydrocephalic children, for painful 
inflammation of the scrotum.
- Brain cry, high pitch shrill, due to inflammation and on the brain.
- Never well since 
meningitis (Bell.).
- Originally used for edema.
- Often  edema from the immune system or the kidneys, the histamine is released, 
the tissues swell.
- Better heat, look for the stinging pains and 
worse heat in some type of allergic reaction or bite or sting or some kidney failure type of problem.
- Apis has great sensitiveness of the surface to touch.
- General soreness, every hair is painful to contact.
- Great 
debility as if he h had worked hard is compelled to lie down.
- Tired and bruised feeling.
- Great restlessness di and fidgetiness (th e Ars.
- restlessness is more from mental 
anxiety).
- Trembling, jerking and twitching.
- One half of the body twitching, the other lame or paralyzed.
- Hemiplegia.
- Apis 
is more a right -sided medicine, symptoms proceed from right to left (Rhus -t.
- left to rig ht) and from above 
downwards.
- .
- Stiffness of lower jaw, soon amounting to < - a sense of complete fixation.
- This stiffness extended to tongue 
and throat, rendering speech difficult and unintelligible and  causing a condition of extreme discomfort.
- The 
stiffness being accompanied by a feeling of in ■ constriction, wffich excited a single, spasmodic, hacking cough 
at short intervals.
- Some difficulty in breathing, especially S' in inspiration.
- These symptoms were ac companied by a terrible 
restlessness.
- On a later occasion there was dyspnea, face purple, head thrown back.
- The same symptoms as above 
recurred, but the throat 0,1 ' was more swollen and the distress extended below the larynx to the upper part of 
the lung, 'which soon became very sore and sensitive.
- '" An hour after the sting on thi s occasion a violent 
cough came on.
- It seemed to be excited by the constrictive feeling in the throat, but it reached down to the sore place in the 
lungs, causing great “" distress.
- It was a deep, hard, ringing cough, lasting without intermission for three hours.
- ''Traces of the cough and soreness lasted for months.
- Hni ' 
Apis has slow action and must not be changed too soon.
- Increased flow of urine shows it is having a favorable 
effect.
- The dropsies of Apis are characterized by a waxy hue of skin, whitish or yellowish, transparent swelling 
of eyelids, bag-like swelling under eyes, surface of body sore, bruised or burning.
- In cardiac dropsy the feet 
swell after walking and are intolerably sore and burning.
- In chest disorders there is sensation of contraction  (Lach.) and inability to lie down.
- Tension, swelling and 
stiffness of limbs.
- This tight sensation is manifested in another symptom: sensation in abdomen as if something 
tight would break if too much effort was made to void a constipated stool.
- Aversion to  tight things like Lach.
- Prostration even to faintness.
- Paralytic weakness.
- Paralysis after diphtheria and other severe diseases.
- Nervous, restless, over-sensitive or hot and drowsy with or without thirst.
- Worse from touch or pressure (though 
the head is better by pressure).
- Apis has a sensitiveness to heat, especially to heated rooms (Puls., lod., Kali-
i..
- Sec., Sulph.), worse by warmth of bed.
- Cold water better.
- Thirstlessness, there's no desire to drink.
- Can 
have fever with thirstlessness.
- A keynote is the eyes swell from allergic reactions.
- The person feels hot, the area is swollen.
- Sensation as 
though it would burst, skin becomes very sensitive.
- Dry skin.
- Wandering pains.
- Described as a red-hot needle 
stuck in and moved around.
- Shrieking out with pain,  keynote.
- The eyes are glassy, the face is hot and puffy.
- Bobs head back and forth  Worse bathing, better cold applications.
- Fears suffocation.
- Aggravated by heat, 
congestion and stuffy room (Puls.).
- Often has *0 choking feeling because the throat swells n up.
- Dreams of 
flying from place to place.
- Induced jealousy.
- Arching back of neck.

### Head
- Chronic sick headache.
- Sudden stabbing in head.
- Sharp shrieks.
- Bores head into pillow and screams 
out.
- Hydrocephalus enlargement of head.
- Rolling of the head from side to side in hydrocephalus.
- V Boring 
of the head backward in pillow in meningitis.
- Inability to hold the head a up in meningitis.
- Stinging pains.
- Numb, tired headache, better pressure.
- Flow of 
tears with headache.
- Fontanelles sunken.
- Fontanels reopen.
- Brain feels very tired.
- Heat, throbbing, pains, 
better on pressure and worse on motion.
- Aching in forehead and temples.
- Dull, heavy sensation in occiput, as 
from a blow.
- Erysipelas of scalp.
- Painful hair.
- Musty head sweat.
- Head feels swollen.
- Hair- falls out, bald spots.
- Apoplexy.
- Chronic sick headache.
- Sudden stabbing in head.
- Sharp shrieks.
- Bores head into pillow and screams 
out.
- Hydrocephalus enlargement of head.
- Rolling of the head from side to side in hydrocephalus.
- V Boring 
of the head backward in pillow in meningitis.
- Inability to hold the head a up in meningitis.
- Stinging pains.
- Numb, tired headache, better pressure.
- Flow of 
tears with headache.
- Fontanelles sunken.
- Fontanels reopen.
- Brain feels very tired.
- Heat, throbbing, pains, 
better on pressure and worse on motion.
- Aching in forehead and temples.
- Dull, heavy sensation in occiput, as 
from a blow.
- Erysipelas of scalp.
- Painful hair.
- Musty head sweat.
- Head feels swollen.
- Hair- falls out, bald spots.
- Apoplexy.

### Eyes
- Myopia.
- Styes.
- Asthenopia during éruptive fevers.
- Ophthalmia.
- * Face - Red, hot, swollen  with piercing pains.
- Waxy pale and edematous.
- Lips bluish, edematous, upper.
- Bee stings.
- Erysipelas with stinging burning edema.
- Extends from right to left.
- Expression happy, terror 
stricken or apathetic.
- Jaws stiff, with stiffness of tongue.
- Paralysis of right side with right eye closed.
- Desire for 
washing 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 
to the back of ear with each scream.
- Scarlatinal otitis.
- Ten - ^ sion about ears.
- Violent j>ain in left ear, when 
chewing.
- 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 
cold drinks.
- Ulcers on tonsils.
- Swollen throat from allergic reaction.
- Constricted, stinging pains.
- Uvula swollen, sac-
like.
- Sandy, ,t glossy or translucent better cold, swollen inside and outside.
- Throat purple.
- Angina.
- Diphtheria 
with early prostration, dirty membrane, edema of uvula.
- Throat sore, v.
- swallowing painful worse solids, sour 
or hot substances.
- Sensation as if fishbone in throat.
- Vasculargoitre.
- Tongue - Tongue as.
- if scalded, red hot, trembling.
- Cancer of the tongue.
- Tongue fiery red, swollen, sore 
and raw with vesicles.
- Tongue feels raw.
- Tongue hangs out or cannot be protruded.
- Tongue as if wooden.
- Stinging blisters along edge of tongue.
- Dryness of tongue.
- Tongue red at tip.
- Tongue coated white.
- Tongue 
trembles, 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 
pains throughout entire front of the chest.
- Hydrothorax after pleurisy.
- Chest feels as if beaten or bruised.
- Constitutions - Psoric and allergic constitutions.
- Cough - Severe cough before midnight.
- Croupy cough with ringing sound.
- Dry cough with  gagging.
- Cough 
with soreness of upper part of chest.
- Very dry cough.
- Spasmodic cough morning and evening.
- Dry cough with 
gagging, 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, 
shake the whole body.
- Palpitations of heart from scanty secretion of urine.
- Insufficiency of'mitral valves.
- Organic heart disease.
- Blowing sound with the diastole.
- Pericarditis.
- Pulse is hard small intermittent and quick, 
weak.
- Kidneys - Sore or bruised feeling over region of kidneys.
- Nephritis.
- Acute nephritis, urine scanty or 
suppressed.
- Hyperemic state of kidneys.
- Burning and soreness when urinating.
- Frequent and involun tary 
urine.
- Stinging pain and st rangury.
- Scanty, high colored urine.
- Urine loaded with casts.
- Urine milky in 
hydrocephalus.
- Albuminuria.
- Urine profuse, more than he drinks.
- Urine turbid after standing.
- Coffee ground 
sediment.
- 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 
breathing, feels every breath would be his last.
- Air hunger.
- Edema of larynx.
- Fee ls as if he could not draw 
another breath.
- Suffocation, 
short, dry cough, supra-sternal.
- Painful shock in head and chest from every cough.
- v, Larynx drawn in.
- Hoarseness.
- Expectora- >t J.
- tion sweetish.
- !Male - Affections of prostate gland.
- Dropsy Zll of the scrotum.
- Hydrocele and cysts.
- n, Testiclespainful when 
touched.
- Frequent and long -lasting erections.
- Swelling of testicles, worse right.
- Violent itching and j redness 
of scrotum, sore to touch.
- Sexual desire increased or diminished.
- Discharge of prostat ic fluid.
- Gonorrhea, 
copious secretion of thin, ichorous discharge.
- Gon orrhea with burning, stinging pain.
- Large boils on pubes.
- Swelling of foreskin.-

### Stomach & Abdomen
- - Dropsy of abdomen.
- Burning, pain and tenderness in epigastrium.
- Sore, bruisedpain,  on 
pressure, when sneezing.
- Extremely tender.
- Rumbling in abdomen.
- Violent cutting pains.
- Peritonitis.
- Swelling 
in 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.
- Child nurses by day, refuses at night.

### Urinary & Genital
- Amenorrhea of puberty.
- Premenstrual syndrome with water retention.
- Menses suppressed with 
mental and head symptoms, especially in young girls.
- Hysterical girls at puberty.
- Menses last a .
- day or 
appear at intervals of one day.
- Dys - ' menorrhea with scanty discharge of slimy blood or with ovarian pains.
- Dysmenorrhea, with severe ovarian pains.
- Bearing-down, as if menses were to appear.
- Great tenderness over 
abdomen and uterine region.
- Metritis.
- Metrorrhagia profuse with heavy abdomen, faintness, stinging pain.
- Menorrhagia with the miscarriage.Leucorrhea, profuse, acrid, green.
- Edema of labia, relieved by cold water.
- Ovarian cysts.
- Soreness and stinging p ains.
- Ovaritis, worse in right ovary.
- Ovarian tumors, with stinging 
pains.
- Ovaries numb or congested with suppressed menses.
- Pains in ovaries, worse sex.
- Toxemia.
- Miscarriage during early months.
- Uterine hemorrhage during pregnancy.
- Dropsy in later parts o f pregnancy 
with 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 
worse when Sii sitting down.
- Back tired and bruised.
- Scapulae as if lame.
- Cervical glands t n swollen.
- Violent pain in sacrum, could not sit.
- Dragging-pain in lumbar 
region 11 with ovarian and uterine diseases.
- Bladder - Great irritation at neck of bladder with frequent and burning urination.
- Burn ing and soreness when 
urinating.
- Cystitis.
- Dysuria with stinging pains.
- Last drops m burn and smart.
- Incontinence of urine bn worse 
night, coughingJJeienZion of urine y in newborn.
- Stitching in urethra, with r.
- bedwetting.
- Suppressed urine.
- Tenesmus Uu during and after urination.
- Cannot urinate .n without a stool.
- Difficult, frequent or slow  
urination, must press to pass urine, in prostatic affections.
- Breasts - Breasts swollen and hard.
- Child nurses by day .refuses at night.
- Milk dimin ished.
- Stinging burning 
pains in breasts.
- Breast tumors.
- Cancer of breasts.
- Breast burning, stinging, swelling, hardness and 
suppuration.
- Erysipelas of breast.
- Causations - Allergens.
- Grief.
- Fright.
- Rage.
- Vexation.
- Jealousy, the queen bee is the most jealous thing in 
nature.
- 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 
feyer.
- Screams and sudden starting during sleep.
- Kicks off covers during sleep.
- Yawning after coughing.
- Dreams full of care and toil.
- Dreams of being busy going from place to place.
- Travelling dreams.
- Flying dreams.
- Unpleasant dreams.
- .
- Stomach - Belchings that tasting of ingesta worse drinking water or flow of water.
- Bitter or acrid belching.
- Soreness in the pit of stomach when touched.
- Gastroen teritis.
- Nausea and vomiting.
- Neither eats nor drinks 
for 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 
something torn off the interior part of the body.