APIS MELLIFICA

Homeopathic Materia Medica & Symptoms

Boericke's Materia Medica

  • Edema of skin and mucous membranes
  • Swelling of parts
  • Puffing up of various parts
  • Red rosy hue
  • Stinging pains
  • Soreness
  • Intolerance of heat
  • Intolerance of slightest touch
  • Afternoon aggravation
  • Erysipelatous inflammations
  • Dropsical effusions
  • Anasarca
  • Acute inflammation of kidneys
  • Inflammation of perenchymatous tissues
  • Serous inflammation with effusion
  • Extreme sensitiveness to touch
  • General soreness
  • Constricted sensations
  • Sensation of stiffness
  • Sensation as of something torn off in the interior of the body
  • Much prostration
  • Apathy
  • Indifference
  • Unconsciousness
  • Awkward
  • Drops things readily
  • Stupor with sudden sharp cries
  • Startings
  • Stupor alternating with erotic mania
  • Sensation of dying
  • Listless
  • Cannot think clearly
  • Jealous
  • Fidgety
  • Hard to please
  • Sudden shrill piercing screams
  • Whining
  • Tearfulness
  • Jealousy
  • Fright
  • Rage
  • Vexation
  • Grief
  • Cannot concentrate mind when attempting to read or study
  • Whole brain feels very tired
  • Vertigo with sneezing
  • Worse on lying or closing eyes
  • Heat in head
  • Throbbing pains in head
  • Distensive pains in head
  • Better on pressure in head
  • Worse on motion in head
  • Sudden stabbing pains in head
  • Dull heavy sensation in occiput
  • Occiput pain extending to neck
  • Better on pressure in occiput
  • Accompanied with sexual excitement
  • Bores head into pillow
  • Screams out
  • Lids swollen
  • Lids red
  • Lids edematous
  • Lids everted
  • Lids inflamed
  • Lids burn
  • Lids sting
  • Conjunctiva bright red
  • Conjunctiva puffy
  • Lachrymation hot
  • Photophobia
  • Sudden piercing pains in eyes
  • Pain around orbits
  • Serous exudation in eyes
  • Edema in eyes
  • Sharp pains in eyes
  • Suppurative inflammation of eyes
  • Keratitis with intense chemosis of ocular conjunctiva
  • Staphyloma of cornea following suppurative inflammation
  • Styes
  • Prevents recurrence of styes
  • External ear red
  • External ear inflamed
  • External ear sore
  • Stinging pains in ears
  • Coldness of tips of nose
  • Nose red
  • Nose swollen
  • Nose inflamed
  • Sharp pains in nose
  • Face swollen
  • Face red
  • Face with piercing pain
  • Face waxy
  • Face pale
  • Face edematous
  • Erysipelas with stinging burning edema
  • Erysipelas extends from right to left
  • Tongue fiery red
  • Tongue swollen
  • Tongue sore
  • Tongue raw
  • Tongue with vesicles
  • Scalding in mouth
  • Scalding in throat
  • Tongue feels scalded
  • Tongue feels red hot
  • Tongue trembling
  • Gums swollen
  • Lips swollen
  • Lips swollen especially upper
  • Membrane of mouth and throat glossy
  • Membrane of mouth and throat as if varnished
  • Mouth and throat red
  • Mouth and throat shining
  • Mouth and throat puffy like erysipelas
  • Cancer of the tongue
  • Throat constricted
  • Throat stinging pains
  • Uvula swollen
  • Uvula sac-like
  • Throat swollen inside and out
  • Tonsils swollen
  • Tonsils puffy
  • Tonsils fiery red
  • Ulcers on tonsils
  • Fiery red margin around leathery membrane in throat
  • Sensation of fishbone in throat
  • Sore feeling in stomach
  • Thirstless
  • Vomiting of food
  • Craving for milk
  • Abdomen sore
  • Abdomen bruised on pressure
  • Abdomen tender when sneezing
  • Abdomen extremely tender
  • Dropsy of abdomen
  • Peritonitis
  • Swelling in right groin
  • Involuntary stool on every motion
  • Anus seems open
  • Bloody stool
  • Painless stool
  • Anus feels raw
  • Hemorrhoids with stinging pain after confinement
  • Diarrhea watery
  • Diarrhea yellow
  • Cholera infantum type diarrhea
  • Cannot urinate without a stool
  • Dark fetid stool
  • Worse stool after eating
  • Constipation
  • Feels as if something would break on straining
  • Burning and soreness when urinating
  • Suppressed urine
  • Urine loaded with casts
  • Frequent and involuntary urine
  • Stinging pain in urine
  • Strangury in urine
  • Scanty urine
  • High colored urine
  • Incontinence of urine
  • Last drops of urine burn and smart
  • Edema of labia
  • Relieved edema of labia by cold water
  • Soreness of female organs
  • Stinging pains in female organs
  • Ovaritis
  • Worse in right ovary
  • Menses suppressed
  • Cerebral symptoms with menses
  • Head symptoms with menses
  • Especially in young girls
  • Dysmenorrhea with severe ovarian pains
  • Metrorrhagia profuse
  • Heavy abdomen
  • Faintness
  • Stinging pain
  • Sense of tightness
  • Bearing-down as if menses were to appear
  • Ovarian tumors
  • Metritis with stinging pains
  • Great tenderness over abdomen and uterine region
  • Hoarseness
  • Dyspnea
  • Breathing hurried and difficult
  • Edema of larynx
  • Feels as if he could not draw another breath
  • Suffocation
  • Short dry cough
  • Suprasternal cough
  • Hydrothorax
  • Edematous extremities
  • Synovitis
  • Felon in beginning
  • Knee swollen
  • Knee shiny
  • Knee sensitive
  • Knee sore
  • Knee with stinging pain
  • Feet swollen
  • Feet stiff
  • Feet feel too large
  • Rheumatic pain in back and limbs
  • Tired bruised feeling
  • Numbness of hands
  • Numbness of tips of fingers
  • Hives with intolerable itching
  • Edematous swellings
  • Swellings after bites
  • Skin sore
  • Skin sensitive
  • Skin stinging
  • Erysipelas with sensitiveness and swelling
  • Erysipelas with rosy hue
  • Carbuncles with burning stinging pain
  • Sudden puffing up of whole body
  • Very drowsy
  • Dreams full of care and toil
  • Screams during sleep
  • Sudden starting during sleep
  • Afternoon chill with thirst
  • Worse chill on motion
  • Worse chill on heat
  • External heat with smothering feeling
  • Sweat slight with sleepiness
  • Perspiration breaks out and dries up frequently
  • Sleeps after the fever paroxysm
  • After perspiration nettle rash
  • Nettle rash with shuddering
  • Worse on heat in any form
  • Worse on touch
  • Worse on pressure
  • Worse late in afternoon
  • Worse after sleeping
  • Worse in closed and heated rooms
  • Worse on right side
  • Better in open air
  • Better on uncovering
  • Better on cold bathing

Allen's Keynotes

  • adapted to the strumous constitution
  • glands enlarged, indurated
  • scirrhus or open cancer
  • women, specially widows
  • children and girls who, though generally careful, become awkward, and let things fall while handling them
  • bad effects of acute exanthema imperfectly developed or suppressed
  • measles
  • scarlatina
  • urticaria
  • ailments from jealousy, fright, rage, vexation, bad news
  • irritable
  • nervous
  • fidgety
  • hard to please
  • weeping disposition
  • cannot help crying
  • discouraged, despondent
  • sudden shrill, piercing screams from children while waking or sleeping
  • oedema
  • bag-like, puffy swelling under the eyes
  • oedema of the hands and feet, dropsy, without thirst
  • extreme sensitiveness to touch
  • pain: burning, stinging, sore
  • pain suddenly migrating from one part to another
  • thirstlessness: in anasarca
  • thirstlessness: acites
  • incontinence of urine, with great irritation of the parts
  • can scarcely retain the urine a moment, and when passed scalds severely
  • urine frequent, painful, scanty, bloody
  • constipation: sensation in abdomen as if something tight would break if much effort were used
  • diarrhoea: of drunkards
  • diarrhoea in eruptive diseases, especially if eruption be suppressed
  • diarrhoea involuntary from every motion, as though anus were wide open
  • affects right side
  • enlargement or dropsy of right ovary
  • enlargement or dropsy of right testicle
  • intermittent fever; chill 3 p. m., with thirst, always
  • intermittent fever worse in warm room and from external heat
  • worse after sleeping
  • closed, especially warmed and heated rooms are intolerable
  • worse from getting wet, but better from washing or moistening the part in cold water
  • better in open air
  • better from cold water or cold bathing
  • better from uncovering
  • pains better by coughing, walking or changing position
  • better when sitting erect

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