Apis mellifica
as H.C. Allen recorded it in Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 1899
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Keynotes
Apis mellifica
Poison of the Honey Bee. Apium virus.
Adapted to the strumous constitution; glands enlarged, indurated ; scirrhus or open cancer.
Women, especially widows ; children and girls who, though generally careful, become awkward, and let things fall while handling them (Bov.).
Bad effects of acute exanthema imperfectly developed or suppressed (Zinc.) ; measles, scarlatina, urticaria.
Ailm.ents from jealousy, fright, rage, vexation, bad news.
Irritable; nervous; fidgety; hard to please.
Weeping disposition; cannot help crying; discouraged, despondent (Puls.).
Sudden, shrill, piercing screams from children while waking or sleeping (Hellebore).
Oedema; bag-like, puffy swelling under the eyes (over the eyes. Kali c.) ; of the hands and feet ; dropsy, without thirst (with thirst, Acet. ac., Apoc. ).
Extreme sensitiveness to touch (Bell., Each.).
Pain : burning, stinging, sore ; suddenly migrating from one part to another (Kali bi.. Lac c.. Puls.).
Thirstlessness : in anasarca; acites (Acetic acid, but face more waxy and great thirst).
Incontinence of urine, with great irritation of the parts; can scarcely retain the urine a moment, and when passed scalds severely; frequent, painful, scanty, bloody.
Constipation: sensation in abdomen as if something tight would break if much effort were used.
Diarrhoea : of drunkards ; in eruptive diseases, especially if eruption be suppressed; involuntary from every motion, as though anus were wide open (Phos.).
Affects right side; enlargement or dropsy of right ovary; right testicle.
Intermittent fever; chill 3 p. m., with thirst, always Ign. ; < warm room and from external heat (Thuja, 3 A. M. and at 3 p. m.).
Disagrees, when used either before or after Rhus.
Ars. and Puls, follow Apis well.
Has cured scarlatina albuminuria after Canth., Dig., Hell, failed.
Aggravation. — After sleeping (Lach.) ; closed, eS' pecially warmed and heated rooms are intolerable ; from getting wet (Rhus), but better from washing or moistening the part in cold water.
Amelioration. — Open air ; cold water or cold bathing; uncovering; pains by coughing, walking or changing position; when sitting erect.
What the other books say about Apis mellifica
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Apis mellifica in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Apis mellifica in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
- Apis mellifica in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
- Apis mellifica in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Cite this page. H.C. Allen. Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica. 3rd edition (1910). Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. Apis mellifica — Keynotes, pp. 38–39. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/apis-mellifica. Published 1910: public domain in the US (before 1931) and in India (author died 1909). Replaces B. Jain's 2005 "rearranged and classified" edition (© the publisher), per the owner's decision of 13 Sep 2026. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.