APIS MELL


APIS MELL homeopathic remedy keynotes and indications from the Decachords by Gladstone Clarke, of the medicine APIS MELL …


Symptoms

      1. Strumous constitutions: Children and girls who become awkward esp. in handling things; hysterical women.

2. Anxiety with tearful restlessness; impaired memory and absent-mindedness in elderly persons.

3. OEdematous swellings, serous effusions, and urticaria.

4. Pains burning, darting, stinging (>) cold (rev. Arsenicum).

5. General soreness and sensitiveness of body surface (<) touch or pressive esp. uterine and ovarian regions; constriction disliked; weary, bruised feeling.

6. Marked restlessness (physical causes) without (>) to symptoms.

7. Great drowsiness; sleep much disturbed by pain or anxious dreams; sopor interrupted by piercing screams (meningitis).

Thirstlessness in nearly all complaints esp. dropsical conditions.

9. Ailments right-sided or travel from right to left.

10. Patients (<) all forms of heat; general (<) 4-6 p.m. (<) sleep.

Notes. Slow-acting remedy. In acute conditions with an hour or two. Low potencies should not be given during pregnancy. Keynote.- OEdema.

A. Gladstone Clarke
Arthur Gladstone Clarke, a christian missionary working with the North China Mission, made good practical use of the homeopathy. He learnt as a student at MSM. He published a short introduction to the use of over 100 commonly used medicines—Decachords—first published in 1925 and still in print today.