Allen’s Keynotes Easy 1

APIS MELLIFICA
Poison of the Honey Bee Apium Virus

Constitution
• Adapted to the strumous1 constitution; glands enlarged, indurated2; scirrhus or open
cancer.
• Women, especially widows; children and girls who, though generally careful,
become awkward, and let things fall while handling them (Bov.).

Mental Generals
• Ailments from jealousy, fright, rage, vexation [= annoyance], bad news.
• Irritable; nervous; fidgety [=restless]; hard to please.
• Weeping nature; cannot help crying; discouraged, hopeless (Puls.).
• Sudden, shrill [=very loud], piercing3 screams from children while waking or
sleeping (Hell.).

Physical Generals
• Extreme sensitiveness to touch (Bell., Lach.).
• Pain: Burning, stinging, sore; suddenly migrating from one part to another (Kali-
bi., Lac-c., Puls.).
• Thirstlessness; in anasarca [=extreme generalized edema]; ascites4 (Aceticum
acidum, but face more waxy and great thirst).
• Affects right side; enlargement or dropsy of right ovary; right testicle.

Eyes

1
strauma: goiter.
2
indurated: having become hard.
3
piercing: sharp and able to make a hole in something.
4
ascites: abnormal buildup of fluid in the abdomen.
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• Edema; bag-like, puffy swelling under the eyes (over the eyes, Kali-c.).

Gastro-intestinal System

• Constipation: Sensation in abdomen as if something tight would break if much

effort were used.
• Diarrhea: Of drunkards; in eruptive diseases, especially if eruption be suppressed;
involuntary from every motion, as though anus was wide open (Phos.).

Urinary System
• 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.

Extremities
• Edema; of the hands and feet, dropsy, without thirst (with thirst, Acet-ac., Apoc.).

Fever
• Intermittent fever5; chill 3 p.m, with thirt, always (Ign.); < warm room and from
external heat (Thuj. 3 a.m. and at 3 p.m.).

Skin
• Bad effects of acute exanthema 6 imperfectly developed or suppressed (Zinc.);
measles, scarlatina, urticaria.

Modalities
• Aggravation: After sleeping (Lach.); closed, especially warmed and heated rooms
are intolerable; from getting wet (Rhus-t.), 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.

Relation
• Complementary: Nat-m.

5
Intermittent fever: a malarial fever in which feverish periods lasting a few hours alternate with
periods in which the temperature is normal.
6
Exanthema: an eruptive disease (such as measles) or its symptomatic eruption.
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• Disagrees, when used either before or after Rhus-t.

• Ars. and Puls. follow Apis well.
• Has cured scarlatina albuminuria after Canth., Dig., Hell., failed.