Author: Urenus

The attenuations are prepared from the careful dried poison of the honey-bee, Apis mellifica. N.O. Apidae.

The indications are similar or exactly the same as for Apis Mellifica and Formici- cum Acidum.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Apisinum, published the fol- lowing indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for apisinum: inflammations and disorders associated with collection of fluids in tisues and cavities of the body.

The mother tincture is prepared from the whole honey-bee, Apis mellifica L. N.O. Apidae.

This unique homoeopathic remedy, prepared from the honey-bee, is distinguished by typical symptoms. Apis Mellifica is indicated for the characteristically burning, stinging pains, violent and fiery like the sting of a bee. There is also a certain over- sensitivity to touch and frequently also to any jarring, so that the patient will yell out at the slightest bump against the bed. This symptom may occur in frozen shoulder, or in meningeal irritation. In the latter, such a typical penetrating scream (known as the “cri encephalique”) may begin with no apparent cause. Thus Apis is a polychrest which is frequently indicated in inflammatory and irritative conditions, whether these be of the serous membranes, the meninges, the synovial membranes or the mu- cous membranes.

Apis has a special relationship with the right-hand side of the body, much as Lach- esis tends to the left side. Thus Apis is also an important remedy in right-sided para- metritis, in salpingitis and oöphoritis, and also especially in ovarian cysts. Here one mostly finds the typical burning, stinging pains, which may extend to the sacrum.

Apis is also indicated in right-sided tonsillitis, when the uvula hangs down in the pharynx like an oedematous sac.

Apis, indeed, is a remedy for oedemas of every kind, whether they be of the acute, inflammatory kind such as may occur following a bee-sting, or whether they be a consequence of renal insufficiency in glomerulonephritis or of cardiac failure. In all such cases Apis may be successfully employed, particularly in combination with other suitable supporting remedies. Oedemas which require Apis frequently occur around the eyes, causing the lower lids, in particular, to hang down as if full of water. In erysipelas there is oedematous swelling of the skin, and further indications include scrotal oedema, pleural effusions and ascites, in which thirstlessness is typi- cal.

Apis is also indicated in acute skin eruptions and urticaria. Apis has similarities with these, and also complements Sulphur well, since both remedies are able to deal with suppressive poisonings (retoxications). In the case of Apis, the homotoxin has been diluted by flooding of the tissues on account of the oedema. A combination of these two remedies achieves excellent results, or they can be given in alternation.

Nash recommends Apis also in diphtheria, and was able to halt and cure a serious epidemic with Apis.

Whilst Apis patients can be very restless, in other cases there may be a profound stupor, interrupted now and again by the “cri encephalique”, as in meningitis. When patients are found to be alternately hot and dry or perspiring, this alternation is an in- dication for Apis, similar to that which we find in Lachesis. Apis is strongly indicat- ed in scarlet fever, especially when kidney or brain complications occur.

In the Apis patient, the tongue is coated whitish with a red tip. Along the edge we find vesicles with stabbing pain.

The main symptoms of Apis may be summed up as follows for quick reference:

1. Stabbing, burning pains like the sting of a bee.
2. Amelioration from cold.
3. Sensitivity to touch and jarring.
4. Irritation of the meninges, especially from suppressed eruptions.
5. Diseases of the serosa, joints, meninges.
6. Oedematous swellings with formations like water-filled sacs. Infiltration of the cellular tissues.
7. Right-sided tonsillitis with oedematous swelling of uvula.
8. Right-sided adnexitis, and other kinds of right-sided inflammatory illnesses or deposition phases (cysts in adnexa).
9. Serous meningitis, “cri encephalique”.
10. Alternation between dryness, heat and sweat.
11. Scarlatina and acute glomerulonephritis.
12. Tongue coated white, with red tip and burning, stinging vesicles on the edge

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Apis mellifica, published the fol- lowing indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for apis mellifica: inflammations and disorders with collection of fluid in tissues and cavities of the body; allergies.

The attenuations of this sarcode are prepared from the aorta of a healthy pig (Sus scrofa domesticus).

Hypotension, afflictions of the blood-vessels such as intermittent claudication and gangrene. To be used with care in states such as angina pectoris: first use antihomo- toxic preparations, e.g. Cor (Heart sarcode) 10X/30X/200X.

The attenuations are prepared from a mixture of Antimony (III)-sulphide and Sul- phur.

Chronic asthma. Bronchial catarrhs.

Copious discharges of mucus from the nose are characteristic of this remedy, also from the sinuses and in colds with difficult respiratory and asthmatic constriction. Indications for this remedy are burning pains and heat in the pharynx and larynx, and an accumulation of tough mucus in the bronchi and larynx.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Stibium sulphuratum auranti- acum, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for antimonium sulphuratum aurantiacum: chronic bronchitis; emphysema.

The attenuations are prepared from black sulphide of antimony, a mineral prima- rily containing Antimony (III)-sulphide, Sb₂S₃, MW: 339.7.

Black antimony sulphide, or Antimonium Crudum, exhibits in its picture some characteristic symptoms, a few of which correspond to diseases which are difficult to treat. In spite of that, such serious cases can show a rapid and fundamental change when the right remedy, Antimonium Crudum for example, is applied.

Typical of this remedy are gastric symptoms, such as vomiting with ketosis, and diarrhoea, alternating with constipation and mucous haemorrhoids, almost always accompanied by the typical thick, chalky-white coating of the tongue. A further characteristic is the aggravation of complaints, especially the gastric ones, by the heat of summer and after cold bathing. There is also toothache after swimming, oc- curring especially at night and mostly in the summer. These often react surprisingly rapidly to a few doses of the remedy.

Antimonium Crudum is often indicated in irritable, sullen children who cannot bear anyone to look at them or touch them. The nostrils and corners of the mouth are often chapped and scurfy. It is also indicated for fingernails which are deformed, split and have horny growths on them. Antimonium Crudum has proved its worth as a remedy for corns, and also for warts, when other remedies such as Thuja, Ni- tricum Acidum and Causticum have failed. It has helped with chronic blepharitis with redness of the eyelids, and has also done good service in many cases of chron- ic arthritis and coxalgia. In Antimonium Crudum we have a great healing remedy, whose most important symptoms may be categorised as follows:

1. Chalky-white coating of the tongue.
2. Vomiting with ketosis. Gastritis and enteritis. Stomach-aches, especially after cold bathing in the summer.
3. All complaints aggravated by heat of the sun and cold bathing, (also toothache in very decayed teeth at night, stomach-aches, rheumatism, coxalgia, etc.).  Toothache aggravated by eating and cold drinks. (Pulpitis purulenta.)
4. Corners of the mouth chapped and scurfy.
5. Fingernails split. Horny skin, calluses and corns on the feet. Warts.
6. Sentimental mood or, in children, irritability.
7. Children bite their nails.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Stibium sulphuratum nigrum, pub- lished the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for antimonium crudum: digestive disorders; skin disorders; rheumatism.

The attenuations are prepared from a trituration of equal parts of Antimony pen- toxide, Sb₂O₅, MW: 323.5 and Arsenic trioxide, As₂O₃, MW: 197.8.

Bronchiolitis with weakness of the heart. Dyspnoea, cyanosis and capillary con- gestion. Pulmonary emphysema. Pulmonary oedema. Bronchial asthma with circu- latory weakness and oedema, myocarditis. Tongue coated chalky-white.

Typical of this remedy is the extreme dyspnoea, and the effusion which occurs in pleurisy and pericarditis; also the aggravation upon eating and lying down.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Stibium arsenicosum, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for antimonium arsenicosum: inflammations of the lower respiratory pas- sages; bronchial asthma; pulmonary emphysema.

– Nosode of Anthrax

The attenuations of this nosode are prepared from anthrax serum.

Ulcer-formation on the skin with intense, unbearable burning; bluish-purple to blackish vesicles, which exude a foul-smelling, purulent, irritating fluid; possibly gangrene. Swelling of the lymph nodes. Parotitis, especially on the right side. Stinking diarrhoea. Carbuncles. Septicaemia. Gangrenous, phlegmonous conditions. Panaritium. Boils. Acne vulgaris. Gastroenteritis.

The attenuations are prepared from Anthraquinone, C₁₄H₈O₂, MW: 208.2.

According to W. F. Koch (U.S.A.), it regenerates blocked cell-respiration by “burning away” accumulated toxins (amines and others), and is therefore indicated in all cellular phases (impregnation, degeneration and neoplasm).

As Anthraquinone is the raw material for numerous chemical products designed to enhance the appearance and shelf-life of food-products, and moreover is the active ingredient of numerous laxatives, together with Hydroquinone it is one of the most- used quinones. It acts on the regulation of the respiratory-chain function.

Everything affects the colon with diarrhoea. There is almost no other remedy to match its effect on hypotension. There is scarcely another remedy in which the irri- tability and feeling of misery in intestinal disturbances, from infancy to old age, is so marked as in Anthraquinone.

In affections of the lungs, pleurisy, pneumonia and respiratory illness arising from chill there is effusion in most cases.

Kidney ailments also react to Anthraquinone, especially when loose stools, a great feeling of misery and raging headache are present together.

In cancer of the prostate, continual erections and painful discharges of purulent matter are an indication for Anthraquinone; also in cancer of the uterus, when there is watery, brown discharge with great tiredness and possibly ascites. On the skin, es- pecially in the creases, red pustules appear, itching severely, and repeatedly giving way to new patches. These get better and worse in conjunction with the sluggishness of the bowels, and there is a tormenting itching, especially at night in bed, as well as pruritus vulvae.

The drug picture of Anthrachinon was composed in July 1996 by David Riley, M.D., Santa Fe (New Mexico), USA.

The most important symptoms from David Riley’s drug proving were:

Essential Characteristics

The essential characteristic of Anthrachinon elicited in this proving had a signifi- cant effect on the female provers. Symptoms focused on the psycho-sexual sphere. There was a feeling of increased self confidence and optimism. Also irritability to- wards family members, and increased sexual desire.

Improvement of the normal symptom of straining, tearing pain, or bleed with the bowl evacuation.

Irritability. Mistakes. Anxiety and fears. Increased energy or fatigue. Desires ice cream. Head pain. Eruptions on the face. Distention, flatulence, and cramping ab- dominal pain. Constipation with straining or sudden diarrhea. Hard stools like balls

or loose water stools. Frequent urination at night. Soreness, achiness, or weariness of the extremities.

Mind

Difficult concentration especially during conversation. FEELING MORE SELF CONFI- DENT or improvement of lack of self confidence. Timid to appear in public. Discon- tented. Starting on waking. Dreams that continue after returning to sleep. IRRITABILI- TY to family or over trifles. Mistakes in speaking or in writing the wrong word. OPTI- MISTIC or improvement of lack of optimism. Sadness with weeping and pitying her- self. Sensitive to sad stories and sadness. Rapid thoughts. Anxiety about the future or when dancing improves. Fear of being injured or looked at.

Generalities

ENERGY INCREASED especially in the morning, or improvement of low energy. Food desires of ice cream, meat. sweets with salt, yogurt. Aversion to sweets. FATIGUE. Weakness or pain in joints and muscles.

Vertigo

Pitching forward on rising with sensation of floating. Better after eating.

Head

Noises in head when falling asleep. HEAD PAIN on waking or improvement of head aches. Throbbing in forehead behind the eyes or in the temples improves. Sharp prickling sensation on the forehead. Decrease in number of headaches.

Ear

Painful pimple behind ear. Sharp ear pain in right ear. Dull ear pain.

Nose

Coryza. Improvement of obstruction. Bland green discharge only when blowing the nose.

Mouth

Aphthae on tip of tongue. Swelling of upper and lower gums that is sensitive.

Face

Eruptions on the chin that is a red rash or pustules on the chin.

Throat

Dryness. Burning pain.

Stomach

Appetite diminished. Pain from flatulence. Shooting pains from gas. Nausea.

Abdomen

DISTENSION before menses, from gas, on waking, and at the umbilical region. Heaviness in abdomen before menses. Cramping pain with diarrhea or from gas. Cutting pain before stool. Flatulence that causes cramping pain. Sore pain in the iliac region.

Rectum

CONSTIPATION that is painful, or from incomplete evacuation, or with ineffectual urging, or with straining or an improvement of straining. DIARRHEA that is sudden, painful, or better lying down. Sense of fullness. PAIN before or during. Long lasting pain after stool improves. Cutting or burning pain. Tearing pain during stool im-

proves. Ineffectual urge. Pressing sensation as if diarrhea would happen. Flatus in evening. Improvement of bleeding hemorrhoids. Improvement of rectal itch.

Stool

Hard formed balls. Loose or watery stool. Hard stool. Frequent. Elimination with- out tearing pain, bleeding, straining. or pain after stool. [Cured.]

Bladder

Frequent urination especially at night.

Genitalia, Female

Many effects on the menses. Menses with bright red blood, copious bleeding and large clots like chunks of liver. Menses either frequent or intermittent or scanty menstrual flow. Vaginal pain that is cutting, stitching, or lancinating pain and that extends backward. SEXUAL DESIRE INCREASED or improvement of low desire. Feeling more feminine and having more sexual feelings. Herpetic eruptions on labia.

Expectoration

Thick, greenish phlegm with a bad taste is decreasing.

Respiration Difficult inspiration. Chest

Chest tightness.

Back

Herpetic eruptions. Back pain from constipation. Soreness of the low back and lumbar region.

Extremities

Cramps in the calf or left hip and left thigh. Heaviness of the right knee, or heavi- ness or the leg before menses. Swelling of right knee. Trembling of arms, hands, and fingers. Weakness of forearm, or left leg. Aching pain in joints or calf. Sore pain in knee, calf, or upper arm. Contraction of leg.

Skin

Dry and itching on neck and upper shoulders.

The attenuations are prepared from the dried ripe fruits of the plant Illicium verum Hook. (also known as Chinese Anise), which is a native of China and Tonkin.

N.O. Magnoliaceae.

Anise (Aniseed) has proved its worth as a carminative and mild spasmolytic, es- pecially in flatulent distension. According to Nash it is also especially effective in catarrhal conditions of an asthmatic nature, if the pain goes through the upper part of the left breast and radiates towards the shoulder. It has a mild expectorant action, and is reputed also to function well as a galactogogue.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation-Monograph for Illicium verum, published the

following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for

anisum stellatum: bronchitis; flatulence.

The mother tincture is prepared from the dried ripe fruits of the tree Semecarpus anacardium L., which is native to the East Indies. N.O. Anacardiaceae.

According to Nash the tincture of the fruits of this tree, Semecarpus anacardium, used for the homoeopathic attenuations, is a valuable remedy which is generally un- dervalued. In many cases of so-called dyspepsia, where otherwise Nux Vomica is prescribed indiscriminately, Anacardium is better indicated, since it has a typical stomach-ache, which always occurs with an empty stomach and is ameliorated by eating, whereas the distinctive stomach-ache of Nux Vomica is ameliorated when the digestive process is finished. This distinguishing symptom has led to the prescription of Anacardium in cases of duodenal ulcer and duodenal catarrh, in which of course such hunger-pain sensations are characteristic.

Like Nux Vomica, Anacardium also has the symptom of frequent unsuccessful urging to pass stool, but in Anacardium there is the additional sensation of a plug or lump in the rectum, which cannot be squeezed out. This symptom does not occur in the picture of Nux Vomica.

A. v. Fellenberg-Ziegler characterises the action of Anacardium as bearing partic- ularly on the skin and brain, and draws attention to the periodicity of the complaints which are typical in cases of duodenal ulcer. The sensation of a plug is not restricted to the rectum, but may occur in a variety of parts of the body, linked with weakness in the limbs, especially the knees.

Cramps in the calves may also occur while walking or on risig from sitting. There may also be an anaesthesia of the skin or a great sensitivity to draughts and cold, linked with a burning itching of the skin, urticarial vesicles and wart-like excres- cences. Also characteristic of Anacardium are retoxic impregnations after sup- pressed skin-eruptions, in particular cerebral and emotional symptoms with hypochondriacal irritability, timidity and fearfulness of misfortune and danger.

Such irritative symptoms of the central nervous system may also occur after ex- hausting mental work, with brain-fag and tearing pains in the forehead, temples and occiput; here again there may be the sensation of a plug in the head, or as of a tight band placed around the forehead.

In many cases there is also extraordinary weakness of memory, such as may occur after recovery from serious illnesses, possibly associated with a feeling of pressure or swimming in the head. This may be accompanied by a fear of company or out- right agoraphobia, linked with hard-heartedness, inhumanity and a tendency to use

bad language. Precisely this last symptom may provide a characteristic pointer to Anacardium. If a patient incessantly swears about everything (including the political situation etc.) one should cast about for Anacardium symptoms, and not infrequent- ly such symptoms will be found. In such cases Anacardium is capable of curing the whole condition.

Nash also draws attention to a further symptom: the patient has a feeling as if he had two wills, each driving him to do opposing things. Here then we are dealing with a symptom such as is found in schizophrenia.

If we sum up the most essential symptoms of Anacardium, the following picture emerges:

1. Periodicity of complaints and pains, stomach ulcers aggravated in spring.
2. Itching, burning and sensation of heat in the skin. Formation of vesicles, pustules and warts. Urticaria with a yellowish fluid exuded.
3. Anxious and worried mood. Timidity, sensitivity. Tendency to cursing and swear- ing.
4. Sensation of a plug in various places in the body, e.g. in the head, the lower ab- domen, in the rectum or anus, associated with constipation, (even a soft stool can only be passed with difficulty).
5. Typical hunger-pains with empty stomach, ameliorated by eating.
6. Marked weakness of memory in old people, linked with nervous breakdown, weakness in the limbs (especially the knees), and possibly headache (with plug sensation). Cramps in the calf-muscles when walking.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation-Monograph for Semecarpus anacardium, pub- lished the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for anacardium: skin rashes; gastric digestive insufficiency; gastric and duodenal ulcers; mental exhaustion; emotional discord or upset; delusions.