Homeopathy Remedy Vespa


Vespa homeopathy drug symptoms from Handbook of Materia Medica and Homeopathic Therapeutics by T.F. Allen, of the homeopathic remedy Vespa…


      A tincture is made of live wasps (Vespa crabro).

Generalities

      Trembling, quaking, with chattering of teeth. Nervo-muscular excitement. Stinging piercing deeply, as if a hook were pulled out; sudden S. and burning in cheek waking me at 4 A.M. (after a sting on cheek), with soreness and smarting along lymphatics into neck, cheek swollen and red, maxillary joint stiff and painful, sore feeling ran along gums joint stiff, relief from bathing, two hours later suddenly aroused by suffocation, difficulty in symptoms returned in paroxysms, submaxillary and cervical glands of the side became swollen and tender, pains about would become more constant, were throbbing, smarting and burning, but there was a periodicity about the stinging for more than a mouth, though the wound suppurated and discharged freely, slight rigors and febrile conditions, (<) evening.

Sudden tearing. Cutting like electric shocks through all joints, arm, head and face swollen, eyes red and twitching, red lines along absorbents, itching over whole body, insensibility, vomiting, pulse slow, heart’s action scarcely perceptible. Pain

after sting in region of brows, with inflammation and mortification. Feeling as if dying, at night. Distress. Weakness; with enuresis somni, heat especially overpowers him. Faintness; all day, with trembling and nausea.

Mind

      Anxiety. Low-spirited. Insensibility. Unconsciousness, with inability to move.

Eyes

      Injection of r. conjunctiva. Itching of r. lid in evening, with swelling, afterwards pain in lid and ball, erysipelatous inflammation of lid, whole side of face painful and swollen, almost complete chemosis of conjunctiva, it being raised up on the sclerotic membrane, more than half over eye to border of cornea, as if fatty matter were under it, caused by effusion of lymph, an abscess opened upon inside of upper lid about its centre, later the chemosis became reddish.

Clinical Inflammation of r. eye, with baggy swelling of conjunctiva.

Ears and Face

      Sticking deep in r. ear. Face livid. Purulent catarrh of middle ears. Face smooth, dark red, bloated. Anxious expression. Face and eyes oedematous, F., mouth and throat appeared as in severe cynanche (after a sting on tongue).

Mouth

      Tongue swollen and tense, swelling below chin, between that and hyoid bone, pain in a point in middle line, three-quarters of an inch from apex; swollen, red, rounded, filled the mouth, immovable, could not speak, only mumbled, swallowing was painful and difficult. Swelling of palate, with inflammation, so preventing respiration that he died; S. of mouth and throat, with burning pain, nausea, vertigo, after two hours fever, delirium, face, neck, arms and chest swollen and shining red, respiration impeded swallowing difficult, pulse 126, heart’s action irregular and tumultuous, cured by Camph. Peculiar taste, a combination of palatal and nasal sensation, as when a nest of wasps is disturbed, (<) heat.

Throat

      Swelling. Soreness. Heat. Difficulty in swallowing.

Stomach and Abdomen

      Hunger. Thirst. Eructations. Nausea; in evening after coming indoors, with weight in stomach; with faint feeling and trembling. Vomiting, with swelling of head. Cold feeling in stomach. Heat in S. Uneasiness in abdomen.

Urinary and Sexual Organs

      Clinical Burning micturition, in women. Valuable in affections of l. ovary, with tenderness, frequent micturition, pain in sacrum, extending up back.

Respiratory Organs

      Hoarseness. Voice lost. Spasm of glottis (after application of diluted ammonia to tongue), face place, drops of sweat on forehead, arms throw out to gasp for air, he got out of bed, sank back on bed, face livid, breath and pulse stopped. Dyspnoea. Respiration hurried.

Pulse

      Rapid and small; R. and feeble; R., with violent beating of carotids.

Neck, Back and Extremities

      Pain in l. side of neck, waking her at night, preventing her from turning it to l. side, felt least when lying on back, best on r. side. Pain in scapula ( place of sting), with soreness. Pain in shoulder, in region of stings, axillary glans swollen. Sprained pain in l. shoulder-joint on, moving it, (<) lifting arm or twisting it. Aching in hand and arm.

Skin

      Redness of hands, feet and chest. Swelling of face, body and limbs; of cheek, skin soon became bright red, the redness spread over head and down neck, shoulders, back and front of chest, with pain and tenderness; of the part (r. side of neck), with aching, redness and burning, the B.(>) then (<) cold water; of thumb and face, (<) lids, face, (<) ears, soon became red as if covered with scarlet rash, restlessness at night, heat, irritation, and wherever he scratched himself there arose spots like nettle-rash, S. and redness of l. arm and hand, after forty hours oedema of lids, (<) lower, face pallid and puffy. Prurigo-like, pinkish, lentil-shaped spots on hand and forearm, on neck, and all over down to feet. Ulcer. Desquamation of whole surface. Abscesses over whole body, causing emaciation.

Itching of whole body; of the part every day about 3 or 4 A.M., slightly (>) applications of vinegar, always burning after scratching, also the same every day about 8 or 9 A.M. and at 3.P.M., the I. (>) application of salt and vinegar.

Sleep and Fever

      Night restless. sleepless all night. Heat, with sick feeling, vertigo, almost faintness. Burning (after the sting) as if something were sticking and drawing out the part stung was bright red, elevated, with hard swelling, the redness surrounded by a circle of chilliness, soon changing to a general chill, intermittent, extending in waves over whole body; B. of the part, then swelling, red with burning pain.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.