APIS MELLIFICA
Source indications
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