Vespa Crabro

Live Wasp

by William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory

Skin and female symptoms marked. Indurated feeling. Vasomotor symptoms of skin and mucous membranes.

Dizzy, better lying on back. Fainting. Numbness and blindness. Nausea and vomiting, followed by creeping chills from feet upward. Cramping pain in bowels. Axillary glands swollen with soreness of upper arms. Perspiration on parts laid on with itching.

Face

Painful and swollen. Erysipelatous inflammation of lids. Chemosis of conjunctiva . Swelling of mouth and throat, with violent burning pains.

Urinary

Burning with micturition; also itching.

Female

Menstruation, preceded by depression, pain, pressure, and constipation. Left ovary markedly affected , with frequent burning, micturition ; sacral pains extending up back. Erosion around external os .

Skin

Erythema; intense itching ; burning. Boils ; stinging and soreness, relieved by bathing with vinegar. Wheals, macules and swellings with burning, stinging and soreness. Erythema multiforme, relieved by bathing with vinegar.

Relationship

Compare: Scorpio (salivation; strabismus; tetanus); Apis .

Antidote: Sempervivum tector , locally.

Dose

Third to thirtieth potency.

Vespa Crabro across the other classic books

Vespa Crabro appears in 4 of the 13 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“Vespa crabo, Hornet; (F.), Guepe-frelon. Vespa vulgaris, Wasp. Order , Hymenoptera. , Vespidæ. Preparation , Tincture. Authorities. ( 1 to 5 , wasp stings, from Hering, Amer. Arz.) Vespa crabo; 7 , Jas. Mease, M.D. (letter from Dr. Wiley), Amer. Journ. Med. Sci., 1836 (2), p. 266, a man was stung in the throat by a…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“VULGARIS, the Wasp; VESPA CRABRO, the European Hornet; and VESPA MACULATA, "Yellow-jacket," the American Hornet. N. O. Hymenoptera (Sub-order Vespidæ). Tincture of the living insects. Abscesses, multiple / Alopecia / Chemosis / Enuresis / Fainting / Flushing / Glottis, spasm of / Indigestion; with flushing / Œdema /…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“The Wasp, including Hornet and Yellow Jacket. Introduced by Hering, Amerikanische Arzneiprüfungen (see Bienengifte). There are no provings with the exception of those by Berridge of Vespa crabro, the hornet, 30th dilution, Med. Inv., vol. 1, New Ser., 1875, p. 100. The symptoms quoted are mainly the results of the…”

Vespa Crabro in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Vespa Crabro in 181 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in EXTREMITIES (31), FACE (19), EYE (16), FEMALE GENITALIA (11), THROAT (11).

MALE GENITALIA - SWELLING - Penis - prepuce
MIND - UNCONSCIOUSNESS - conduct,automatic
MALE GENITALIA - SWELLING - Penis - oedematous
EYE - CHEMOSIS
EXTREMITIES - ERUPTION - rash
MALE GENITALIA - SWELLING - Scrotum
FACE - SWELLING - oedematous
MOUTH - PAIN - Tongue
MALE GENITALIA - SWELLING - Penis
KIDNEYS - PAIN - sore,bruised
MOUTH - INFLAMMATION
RESPIRATION - ACCELERATED
BLADDER - URGING to urinate (morbid desire)
SKIN - ITCHING
BLADDER - URGING to urinate (morbid desire) - frequent
VERTIGO - VERTIGO
BACK - PAIN - aching - cold - washing amel.
BACK - PAIN - aching - dysuria - during
BLADDER - URINATION - dysuria - aching in back,with
EXTERNAL THROAT - PAIN - Sides - night

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