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over the body. He is disturbed from heat even in the chill of an intermittent fever; if in a warm roomwhen having a chill, he suffocates. So it is with the scarlet fever, with the sore throat, and in diphtheria;from the least whiff of radiated heat he suffocates. He wants the doors and windows open, wantssomething cold. Sometimes the scarlet fever patient will go into convulsions because the rash fails tocome out. Apis is sometimes a suitable remedy and must be compared with Cuprum, Zincum andBryonia. A warm bath will intensify the convulsion."Sensation of constriction and erosion in the throat in the morning". Throat sore and swollen;stinging pains. "Could not swallow solid food". With these complaints there is often shivering,shuddering, little chills intermingled with the febrile state. Many times you will think to comfort himby covering him up with a warm blanket, but it will make him worse.he will throw it off. A child will kick off the covers. An adult is shivering while covered up willkick off the covers. These strange and peculiar things are guiding features, things that cannot beaccounted for. In Apis there is vomiting, nausea, retching and vomiting, with great anxiety. Vomitingof bile and everything eaten. Vomiting of bitter and sour fluids Apis causes soreness and tightnessthroughout the abdomen and hypochondria. Sensation of tightness runs through many of the complaintsof Apis. The abdomen is distended with gas. Meteoritic condition, great tension and fullness, hard anddrum-like. In all inflammatory complaints, in peritonitis, inflammation of the liver, inflammation of thepelvis, there is great tension, tightness; but this tightness is not always general, sometimes it is local;sometimes it is with little congestion, but tightness prevails throughout the abdomen, and this tightnessmakes it impossible for the patient to cough for fear something will burst. The cough makes him feel asif something would be torn.Cannot strain at stool. This is common in the abdominal and pelvic complaints of women. Thewoman will say she can not strain at stool, because of the feeling that if she strains something willbreak loose. The same state exists in the chest. It seems that on coughing something will tear loose, asif the fibers are in a state of tension or stretching.Hypersensitive state of the liver; inflammation of the liver and spleen. Pain under the short ribs,worse on the left side."Pains from below the ribs spreading upward. Obliged to bend forward from a painfulcontracted feeling in the hypochondria".All the complaints are likely to make the patient bend forward and flex the limbs, because thestate of tension is painful.Sensitiveness of the stomach to touch. Over the whole abdomen she is so sore that touch isextremely painful; in all the inflammatory complaints of women the abdomen is very sore and painful.Soreness, distension and stinging burning pains through the abdomen. Burning heat in the stomach.In the external abdomen there is an oedematous state. Dropsy, sometimes alone, sometimeswith anasarca. Limbs swollen to the full extent. pitting upon pressure, the feet and limbs swollen, withburning, stinging and numbness in the limbs.Feeling as if the intestines were bruised. Watery diarrhea is common in Apis; yellow stools,green stools, olive green stools, watery stools, etc. Every day six to eight diarrhoeic stools, which smelllike carrion. It is especially useful in a peculiar kind of stool occurring in children and infants, anintermingling of blood, mucus and food, giving the stool an appearance like tomato sauce. The anusprotrudes with stool and seems to remain open, an open anus like Phosph. and Puls. Chronic diarrhea,dysentery, hemorrhage from the bowels. In its constipation it is related more commonly to headtroubles. He goes many days without a stool. The bowels seem to be perfectly paralyzed, withcongestion of the brain and acute hydrocephalus.The urinary troubles are numerous in Apis. The urine is scanty, coming only in drops. Muchstraining before the urine will start, and then only a few drops; dribbling a little hot urine, burningurine, bloody urine. As soon as a few drops collect in the bladder the urging comes, constant,ineffectual urging. Later the urine is almost suppressed. Infants go a long time without passing urine,screeching and carrying the hand to the head, crying out in sleep, kicking off the covers. Very often adose of Apis will be found useful. It is often called for in scarlet fever when the urine is loaded withalbumen. Urinary troubles, with swelling of the genitals, and the swelling is oedematous. Scanty urinein little boys, with the foreskin enormously distended, or in hydrocele. Every time the call to urinatecomes he will shriek, because he remembers the pain he had the last time. Inflammatory complaints ofthe kidneys and ureters, bladder and urethra. The whole urinary tract is irritated, very much likeCantharis, and these two medicines antidote each other. If you are called to a child that has beendrugged with crude Apis you can generally antidote it with Cantharis. If you go to a woman who hastaken Cantharis for vicious purposes, you can very often overcome it with Apis. The violent frenzy thathas been brought on by < Cantharis will be overcome by Apis. The smarting, burning and stinging