Apis Mellifica - The Essential FeaturesIndex 1. Apis Mellifica -
The Essential Features Apium virus. Honey-bee poison. Tinctures
are made of the whole bee or of dilutions of the poison with
alcohol. THE ESSENTIAL FEATURES Apis is a large remedy that has
been but partially understood and little used, mainly because of
a lack of appreciation of the inner nature of the remedy. Kent
probably felt similarly when he said in his lecture on Apis: "We
must be able to see in the general beginning of provings the
disease which they resemble, for we do not always see the remedy
in the advanced state. We see the disease in a state of progress
and must be able to see it in the beginning. As was the disease
in the beginning so was the remedy in the beginning. Things that
have similar beginnings may have similar endings." It is the
subtle changes in the behavior of people in the beginning of
illness that most of the time foretell and determine
patho/ogica/ changes in the end. To be able to code these subtle
changes is the ma