APIS MELLEFICA
Apis mellefica is the common honey bee. The medicine is prepared from the poison of this bee.
This homoepathic medicine is prescribed to persons who show awkwardness and drop thins out of their hands despite careful handling. Such persons generally the widows may keep themselves “very busy” by constantly changing one kind of work to another.
Also, for the paralysis particularly the left side after hearing bad news, severe shock, fright, vexation or jealousy.
Apis is the leading medicine for the swelling of the skin after insect bite when there occurs sudden puffing of the part. The swelling most commonly is urticarial (dhappar) in nature which appears and disappears here and there over the skin.
At times, swelling develops all over the body(anasarca) where the face is greatly swollen, lower eyelid and uvula hang down like transparent sac filled with water. Sometimes there may be intensely violent and rapid or insidious painful or painless throat problem, such as diphtheria etc, where the patient seems in imminent danger of death by suffocation from actual closure of throat owing to oedema of larynx accompanying hoarseness, short dry cough, difficult or hurried breathing. The patient may have a feeling as if every breath would be his last.
Apis is splendid remedy in inflammation of the abdominal viscera particularly the ovary, uterus and genitals commencing from he right side of the body extending to the left side. The inflamed area is pale, waxy and hydrocephalus, ascites, hydrothorax, and hydrocele etc. (owing to abnormal accumulation of the cerebrospinal or serous fluid in these body cavities).
It is the most suitable medicine for the congestion of the brain, may be due to hot weather etc. leading to meningitis where the patient mostly the child bores his head into the pillow or rolls and tosses in the bed. The child gnashes the teeth, has squint of eyes with body convulsions or is in semiconscious state and carries his hands frequently to the head. Very often the child cries out with a piercing shriek (brain cry) with sudden startle from sleep.
Apis is effective in trachoma (Rohain), chemosis (oedema of whites), staphyloma (protrusion of cornea and sclera) etc. When there is deep burning, stinging or stitching pain in eyes. The patient wants something cold applied in the eyes. These troubles get worse from looking at white things like the snow. It is effective medicine in acute nephritis (Bright’s disease) as a sequel of acute throat trouble when there is ineffectual urging for urination owing to irritability of the bladder. The patient scarcely retains the urine. There is much straining in voiding the urine which comes in drops. The urine may be scantly, fetid and contains albumen or the blood. At times, there is retension or suppression of the urine specially noticed in nursing infants. They scream while passing urine.
Apis is equally effective in stopping fecal matter or fluid that oozes from the anus owing to loose sphincter. It also removes the fear of body parts would break if he strains at stool.
It has often cured tumors and stopped the progress of cystic growth of ovary and uterus.
Apis is useful in malarial fever when chill starts at 3PM and brain fever which occurs due to suppression of skin eruptions.
