Indication / Benefits
Apis Mellifica acts on cellular tissues, causing edema of the skin and mucous membranes. It’s prescribed for symptoms that start on the right side and move to the left. Apis treats urticaria, insect bites, burns, urinary infections like cystitis, and edema or urine retention, especially in newborns. It also helps with eye, mouth, or throat inflammation, and fever. People benefiting from Apis are often fussy, restless, and irritable, showing behaviors similar to bees. They are over-sensitive, sad, and dislike being alone, often organizing others like a “queen bee” but can be jealous and suspicious.
Common Names:
Hindi: Madhu Makkhee
English: Honey Bee
Apis Mellifica can be helpful in the following conditions:
- Urticaria, Bites & Stings
- Itchy, swollen skin with stinging pain.
- Puffy, blotchy skin with raised, water-filled bumps; may develop after a chill or fever.
- Cystitis
- Burning, stinging pain in urethra and bladder when urinating.
- Frequent urge to urinate with minimal output.
- Edema
- Swelling of body tissues due to fluid retention, associated with arthritis, meningitis, pleurisy, or peritonitis.
- Typically accompanied by burning or stinging pain.
- Inflammation of the Eyes, Lips, Mouth, or Throat
- Red, sore eyes sensitive to light, watering with hot tears.
- Swollen mouth and throat with burning pains, possible breathing obstruction, and marked lack of thirst.
- Fever
- Fever with lack of thirst and possible sore throat.
- Severe headache with stabbing pains,
- High fever with sore, tearful eyes.
- Albuminuria
- Scanty, high-colored urine with burning and soreness when passing.
- Loss of thirst.
- Apoplexy
- Stupor with sudden sharp cries and startlings.
- Unconsciousness.
- Asthma
- Difficult, hurried breathing with a feeling that each breath may be the last.
- Loss of thirst.
- Erysipelas
- Edema with pale, shiny skin; stinging and burning pains.
- Swollen eyelids; better with cold, worse with heat.
- Hydrocephalus
- Rapid fluid accumulation causing intense pain and crying.
- Loss of thirst.
- Kidney Issues
- Scanty urine with albumen; acute nephritis; albuminuria.
- Thirstlessness.
- Otorrhoea
- Redness and swelling of ears, post-scarlet fever.
- Violent pain in left ear when chewing.
- Pain
- Burning pain from insect bites.
- Stinging pain in tonsils; loss of thirst.
