Apis Mellifica; or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic AgentWolf, C. W.
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Apis Mellifica; or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent
Wolf, C. W.
Bees -- Venom -- Therapeutic use; Homeopathy
At the very commencement of the disease, a globule of Apis 3 is
sufficient to cut short the disease so that the patient feels easy, and
sleeps quietly. During this slumber, fever, pain and tenesmus disappear,
and the patient wakes with a feeling of health. If this should not take
place in three hours, owing to the more advanced state of the disease,
another dose of Apis is required, after which the patient soon feels
well.
If the dysenteric disease has had a chance to localize itself, and to
assume a higher degree of intensity, it becomes necessary to excite the
organic reaction all the more frequently. Under these circumstances we
repeat the medicine every hour, or every two or three hours, one globule
at a time, until all further medication has become unnecessary.
It is well known that epidemic diarrhœa, viz., a diarrhœa resulting from
peculiar alterations of the normal condition of the atmosphere, earth,
water, indispensable food, or from other still unknown elementary
influences inevitably acting upon every body, commences in the form of a
simple, apparently unimportant diarrhœa; that it gradually increases in
intensity as the processes of nutrition and sanguification become more
deeply disturbed, and that it finally terminates in life-destroying
cholera. All these different stages of diarrhœa, whether with or without
vomiting, watery or papescent, of one color or another, with or without
pain, with or without fever, have yielded readily, safely and thoroughly
to Apis in my hands. I must except, however, cholera of the epidemic
form, where I have not yet been able to try Apis for want of
opportunity. As far as my personal observations go, I am disposed to
affirm that the best mode of effecting a good result, is to give Apis 3
and Aconite 3, in alternation, one drop of each preparation well shaken
in a bottle containing twelve tablespoonfuls of water, and giving a
tablespoonful every hour or three hours, if the danger is great, and in
milder cases a full drop alternately morning and evening. This treatment
is continued until an improvement sets in, after which the organic
reaction is permitted to develope itself, which will terminate in a few
hours or days, according as the disease is more or less violent, and
assistance was sought more or less early, in the perfect recovery of the
patient.
This end is not always attained with equal certainty and rapidity, if
Apis is not given in alternation with Aconite. In such a case, Apis
alone often develops a powerful reaction, which is avoided by the
alternate use of Aconite. Wherever the case is urgent, and it is
important to shorten the durations of the organic reaction, the two
remedies should be given in alternation. In most cases I have seen a few
alternate doses give rise to a pleasant perspiration, speedily followed
by quiet sleep and recovery on waking. May we not expect the same result
at the commencement of Asiatic cholera, and thus arrest the further
development of the disease?
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