Vespa Crabro vesp.

Strongly indicated for all complaints of left ovary.

Live Wasp

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.

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

Burning with micturition; also itching.

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.

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.

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

Antidote: Sempervivum tector, locally.

Third to thirtieth potency.

VESPA 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. Ophthalmia. Ovary, left, pain in. Quinsy. Tongue, swelling of. Uterus, ulcerated. Vertigo.

Vespa was introduced into the materia medica by Hering. The symptoms of the Schema Are mostly the results of stings. Berridge proved Vesp. crabro 30 on three persons. Low spirits; pain in right ear; nausea with faint feeling and trembling; pain in left side of the neck on waking — these were the chief symptoms experienced by them. Berridge demonstrated that the poison of the hornet and the wasp may answer to each other's indications by curing with Vesp. c . cm. (Fincke) a symptom produced by Vesp. vulgaris , namely, chemosis of the right eye. Mr. X., 66, had had his right eye inflamed for six days. When seen there was redness of right lower lid; baggy swelling of conjunctiva partly covering the cornea when pressed upward; lachrymation of right eye < in open air; right lids adhere in morning. Vesp. c . thrice daily cured in a few days ( Org ., ii. 319). E. T. Blake ( M. H. R ., xxii. 370, quoted Org ., i. 320) cured with Vesp . 1. the following group of symptoms: Face swollen and puffy, skin transparent and blanched; scalding urine followed by itching; itching of right arm. Blake also related ( M. H. R ., xix. 418, quoted by Allen) the case of Miss C. J., who at the age of thirty-one was stung on the left thumb, through some calico, and was never well after, dying at the age of thirty-eight. She was prone to constipation all her life, and at twenty-three had had "congestion of the left lung." Most of the abdominal, urinary, ovarian, and uterine symptoms were hers. Among the latter was an irritable ulcer surrounding the os tincæ . W. Rowbotham ( Org ., ii. 79) was stung on the right cheek. Next day, about 4 a.m., was suddenly awakened by burning, stinging pain in cheek, "as if pierced with red-hot needles," and soreness and smarting along the lymphatics. After bathing the face he got to sleep and was again suddenly awakened by the pain two hours later, which recurred periodically , in paroxysms , throughout the day. Burnett observed a case of sting on the tongue in a woman. The tongue entirely filled the buccal cavity. The patient's appearance was exactly like one suffering from severe cynanche. The swelling was diffuse and deep-seated. There was not much redness. Peculiar Sensations were: As if a harpoon were sticking deep in and were drawn on. Cold, chilly sensation round sting. As if pierced with red-hot needles. As if about to suffocate. As if left shoulder-joint were sprained. As if a cutting instrument were piercing all joints like an electric shock. As if dying. The symptoms were: < By motion. Cold water applied, first > , then < . Open air < lachrymation. Feet were cold except in summer, when they burned uncomfortably. < After sleep. < After eating (indigestion with flushes).

Antidoted by: Apis, Led., Camph., Salt-water, Vinegar. Incompatible: Arg. n. Compare: Pains as if pierced with red-hot needles, Ars., Apis. Ulcers around os uteri, Mitch., Eu. pu., Apis., Hydrocotyle.

Terrible anxiety. — Low-spirited. — Insensibility. — Unconsciousness, with inability to move.

Fainting and loss of consciousness. — A violent heat came over him, felt sick; then turned giddy and spun round and round like a top till he fell; staggered to the house, got into a chair, in a moment, fell out of it, almost fainting; dashed water into his face, at length was able to lie down on his bed. — Headache. — Face and head swollen and inflamed. — Alopecia.

Injection of r. conjunctiva. — Itching of r. lid in evening, with swelling, afterwards pain in lid and ball, erysipelatous inflammation of lid, whole side of face painful and swollen, almost complete chemosis of conjunctiva, it being raised up on the sclerotic membrane, more than half over eye to border of cornea, as if fatty matter were under it, caused by effusion of lymph, an abscess opened upon inside of upper lid about its centre, later the chemosis became reddish. — Inflammation of r. eye, with baggy swelling of conjunctiva.

Sticking deep in r. ear. — Purulent catarrh of middle ears.

Face livid. — Face smooth, dark red, bloated. — Anxious expression. — Face and eyes œdematous, face, mouth and throat appeared as in severe cynanche (after a sting on tongue). — Pain in cheek (part stung) as if pierced with red-hot needles, suddenly awakening him from sleep, and recurring periodically.

Tongue: swollen and tense, swelling below chin, between that and hyoid bone, pain in a point in middle line of tongue, 3/4-in. from apex; swollen, red, rounded, filled the mouth, immovable, could not speak, only mumbled, swallowing was painful and difficult. — Swelling of palate, with inflammation, so preventing respiration that he died. — Swelling of mouth and throat, with burning pain, nausea, vertigo, after two hours fever, delirium, face, neck, arms, and chest swollen and shining red, respiration impeded, swallowing difficult, pulse 126, heart's action irregular and tumultuous (cured by Camph .). — Peculiar taste, a combination of palatal and nasal sensation, as when a nest of wasps is disturbed, < heat.

Swelling of throat; soreness; heat of throat. — Difficulty of swallowing. — Hypertrophied tonsils which secreted a cheesy matter. — Pharyngeal varicosis.

Hunger. — Thirst.

Eructations. — Nausea: in evening after coming indoors, with weight in stomach; with faint feeling and trembling. — Vomiting, with swelling of head. — Cold feeling in stomach. — Heat in stomach.

Uneasiness in abdomen.

Marked tenderness to deep pressure in renal region. — Incessant enuresis (after five years). — Burning micturition in women. — Remittent dysuria with backache. — Hæmaturia.

Swelling of scrotum and penis.

(Valuable in affections of l. ovary, with tenderness, frequent micturition, pain in sacrum extending up back.). — Pain in l. ovarian region. — Menses: intermittent; sometimes brown; always accompanied by pain and flatulence, preceded by mental depression, pain, pressure and constipation. — An irritable ulcer surrounded os tincæ. — Irritation ( < in groins), passing into pudenda = ulceration.

Hoarseness. — Voice lost. — Spasm of glottis (after application of diluted ammonia to tongue), face pale, drops of sweat on forehead, arms thrown out to gasp for air, he got out of bed, sank back on bed, face livid, breath and pulse stopped. — Dyspnœa. — Respiration hurried.

Aching in heart. — Slow beating of heart, almost imperceptible. — Pulse: rapid and small; rapid and feeble; rapid with violent beating of carotids.

Pain in l. side of neck, waking her at night, preventing her from turning it to l. side, felt least when lying on back, best on r. side. — Pain in scapula (place of sting), with soreness.

Pain in shoulder, in region of stings, axillary glands swollen. — Sprained pain in l. shoulder-joint on moving it, < lifting arm or twisting it. — Aching in hand and arm.

Trembling, quaking, with chattering of teeth. — Nervo-muscular excitement. — Stinging piercing deeply, as if a hook were pulled out. — Sudden stinging and burning in cheek waking me at 4 a.m. (after a sting on the cheek). — Burning of the part, then swelling, red, with burning pain. — Sudden tearing. — Cutting like electric shocks through all joints, arm, head and face swollen, eyes red and twitching, red lines along absorbents, itching over whole body, insensibility, vomiting, pulse slow, heart's action scarcely perceptible. — Feeling as if dying at night. — Weakness; with enuresis somni, heat esp. overpowers him. — Faintness; all day with trembling and nausea.

Redness of hands, feet, and chest. — Swelling: of face, body, and limbs; of cheek, skin soon became bright red, the redness spread over head and down neck, shoulders, back and front of chest, with pain and tenderness; of the stung part (r. side of neck), with aching, redness, and burning, the burning > then < by cold water. — Swelling of thumb and face, soon became red as if covered with scarlet rash; restlessness at night, heat, irritation, and wherever he scratched himself there arose spots like nettle-rash, swelling and redness of l. arm and hand, after forty hours œdema of lids (esp. lower), face pallid and puffy. — Prurigo-like, pinkish, lentil-shaped spots on hand and forearm, on neck, and all over, down to feet. — Ulcer. — Desquamation of whole surface. — Abscesses over whole body, causing emaciation. — Itching: of whole body; of the part every day about 3 or 4 a.m., slightly > by application of vinegar, always burning after scratching; also the same every day about 8 or 9 a.m. and at 3 p.m., the itching > by applications of salt and vinegar.

Night restless. — Sleepless all night.

Heat, with sick feeling, vertigo, almost faintness. — Burning (after the sting) as if something were sticking and drawing out, the part stung was bright red, elevated, with hard swelling, the redness surrounded by a circle of chilliness, soon changing to a general chill, intermittent, extending in waves over whole body.

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 sting.
Authorities : See Allen's Encyclopædia, vol. 10, p. 119 and supplement p. 639 .
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Œdema of face, etc ., Blake, Org., vol. 1, p. 320, from Hom. Rev., vol. 22, p. 270 ; Ophthalmia (Vespa crabro), Berridge, Org., vol. 2, p. 818 ; Vesical catarrh , Hering, MSS.

Insensibility ; loss of consciousness ; inability to move.
Anxiety and universal distress.
Low-spirited.

Fainting, loses consciousness.
A violent heat came over him, felt sick ; then turned giddy and spun round and round like a top till he fell head-long into a currant bush ; managed to stagger like a drunken man to house, got into chair, in a moment fell out of it upon his knees, all but fainting ; dashed water into his face, at length he was able to lie down upon his bed.

Headache.

Face swollen and inflamed ; swelling extends upward over head.
Alopecia.

Vision, especially right eye, growing dim.
Eyes turned red and twitched.
Swelling and puffiness of lower lids.
Eyes nearly closed, two or three hours after sting.
Injection of conjunctiva of right eye.
Itching of eyelids ; adhesion in morning.
Itching and redness in eyes.
Itching of right lid in evening, slight tumefaction ; lids more swollen and painful ; swelling increased, considerable pain in eyeball and lids all night ; lids greatly tumefied with what seemed to be erysipelatous inflammation ; whole side of face painful and swollen ; on opening lids discovered almost complete chemosis of conjunctiva, it being raised up on sclerotic membrane more than half over eye to border of cornea, as if fatty matter were underneath it, caused by effusion of lymph ; an abscess opened upon inside of upper lid about its centre ; swelling began to abate and chemosis to flatten down, assuming instead of a semi-transparent, a reddish hue, as in common ophthalmia ; discharge from abscess profuse ; in fourteen days chemosis entirely disappeared.
Right eye inflamed for six days ; it had commenced with lachrymation ; had taken Acon. without relief ; now there is redness of conjunctiva of right lower lid ; in left lower half of right eye is a semi-transparent baggy swelling of conjunctiva extending up to cornea, and on pressing it upward it partly covers cornea ; much lachrymation of right eye, < in open air, right eyelids adhere in morning ; man, æt. 60.

Subdued, stitchlike pain deep in right ear.

Face : anxious ; livid ; bluish ; smooth, dark-red and bloated.
Facial neuralgia.
An ulcer lasting three months after a sting in cheek.
Stings in face, swelling closing eyes.
Swelling and redness of face like erysipelas.
After a sting in cheek a violent sensation burning like fire, as if it were going deep in ; a sensation followed as if something were sticking deep in, like a harpoon, and were drawn on frequently ; place of sting bright-red, elevated, and a hard swelling followed ; there was a very marked chilly-cold sensation all around red middle and this was followed by a general chill.
Face and ears became red as if covered with scarlet rash.
Face, especially eyelids, swollen and puffy.
Face swollen and puffy ; skin transparent and etiolated ; scalding urine, followed by itching ; itching of right arm ; vision, especially of right eye, growing slowly dim ; palpitation on exertion ; flatulence.
Next day, about 4 A. M., I was suddenly awakened by a burning, stinging sensation in cheek, and a great soreness and smarting along course of lymphatics down into neck ; I found my cheek much swollen and red, and there was a patch of redness about size of a florin that felt as if it were being pierced with red-hot needles ; temporo-maxillary joint stiff and painful, and a feeling of soreness ran along gums to tonsils on that side of face ; after bathing for a while affected parts, I got into bed again, feeling somewhat >, and fell asleep again ; about two hours afterward I was again suddenly aroused, this time by a sense of suffocation and difficulty of swallowing with renewal of former distress with intensified severity ; feeling alarmed, I obtained some hot water, to which I added a few drops of tincture of Ledum and fomented whole of affected part until severity of symptoms abated ; during remainer of that day and for four days afterward attacks continued to return in paroxysms of more or less severity ; submaxillary and cervical glands on that side of face became increasingly swollen and tender until fourth day, when these conditions began gradually to abate ; in immediate locality of wound pains began to assume a more constant character, throbbing, smarting and burning ; still there was a marked periodicity about stinging and lancinating pains experienced for more than a month afterward, although wound suppurated and discharged freely ; general constitutional disturbances were marked by slight rigors and febrile conditions felt mostly in evening.

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A tincture is made of live wasps (Vespa crabo).

Trembling, quaking, with chattering of teeth. ▶ Nervo-muscular excitement. ▶ Stinging piercing deeply, as if a hook were pulled out; sudden S. and burning in cheek waking me at 4 A.M. (after a sting on cheek), with soreness and smarting along lymphatics into neck, cheek swollen and red, maxillary joint stiff and painful, sore feeling ran along gums to tonsil, relief from bathing, two hours later suddenly aroused by suffocation, difficulty in swallowing and renewal of former distress, the symptoms returned in paroxysms, submaxillary and cervical glands of the side became swollen and tender, pains about wound became more constant, were throbbing, smarting and burning, but there was a periodicity about the stinging for more than a month, though the wound suppurated and discharged freely, slight rigors and febrile conditions, agg. evening.

Sudden tearing. ▶ Cutting like electric shocks through all joints, arm, head and face swollen, eyes red and twitching, red lines along absorbents, itching over whole body, insensibility, vomiting, pulse slow, heart's action scarcely perceptible. ▶ Pain after sting in region of brows, with inflammation and mortification. ▶ Feeling as if dying, at night. ▶ Distress. ▶ Weakness; wit enuresis somni, heat especially overpowers him. ▶ Faintness; all day, with trembling and nausea.

Anxiety. ▶ Low-spirited. ▶ Insensibility. ▶ Unconsciousness, with inability to move.

Injection of right conjunctiva. ▶ Itching of right lid in evening, with swelling, afterward pain in lid and ball, erysipelatous inflammation of lid, whole side of face painful and swollen, almost complete chemosis of conjunctiva, it being raised up on the sclerotic membrane, more than half over eye to border of cornea, as if fatty matter were under it, caused by effusion of lymph, an abscess opened upon inside of upper lid about its centre, later the chemosis became reddish.

Inflammation of right eye, with baggy swelling of conjunctiva.

Burning micturition, in women. ▶ Valuable in affections of left ovary, with tenderness, frequent micturition, pain in sacrum, extending up back.

Sticking deep in right ear. ▶ Face livid. ▶ Purulent catarrh of middle ears. ▶ Face smooth, dark red, bloated. ▶ Anxious expression. ▶ Face and eyes œdematous, F., mouth and throat appeared as in severe cynanche (after a sting on tongue).

Tongue swollen and tense, swelling below chin, between that and hyoid bone, pain in a point in middle line, three-quarters of an inch from apex; swollen, red, rounded, filled the mouth, immovable, could not speak, only mumbled, swallowing was painful and difficult. ▶ Swelling of palate, with inflammation, so preventing respiration that he died; S. of mouth and throat, with burning pain, nausea, vertigo, after two hours fever, delirium, face, neck, arms and chest swollen and shining red, inspiration impeded, swallowing difficult, pulse 126, heart's action irregular and tumultuous, cured by Camph. ▶ Peculiar taste, a combination of palatal and nasal sensation, as when a nest of wasps is disturbed, agg. heat.

Swelling. ▶ Soreness. ▶ Heat. ▶ Difficulty in swallowing.

Hunger. ▶ Thirst. ▶ Eructations. ▶ Nausea; in evening after coming indoors, with weight in stomach; with faint feeling and trembling. ▶ Vomiting, with swelling of head. ▶ Cold feeling in stomach. ▶ Heat in S. ▶ Uneasiness in abdomen.

Hoarseness. ▶ Voice lost. ▶ Spasm of glottis (after application of diluted ammonia to tongue), face pale, drops of sweat on forehead, arms thrown out to gasp for air, he got out of bed, sank back on face, face livid, breath and pulse stopped. ▶ Dyspnœa. ▶ Respiration hurried.

Rapid and small; R. and feeble; R., with violent beating of carotids.

Pain in left side of neck, waking her at night, preventing her from turning it to left side, felt least when lying on back, best on right side. ▶ Pain in scapula (place of sting), with soreness. ▶ Pain in shoulder, in region of stings, axillary glans swollen. ▶ Sprained pain in left shoulder-joint on moving it, agg. lifting arm or twisting it. ▶ Aching in hand and arm.

Redness of hands, feet and chest. ▶ Swelling of face, body and limbs; of cheek, skin soon became bright red, the redness spread over head and down neck, shoulders, back and front of chest, with pain and tenderness; of the part (right side of neck), with aching, redness and burning, the B. amel. then agg. cold water; of thumb and face, agg. lids, face, agg. ear, soon became red as if covered with scarlet rash, restlessness at night, heat, irritation, and wherever he scratched himself there arose spots like nettle-rash, S. and redness of left arm and hand, after forty hours œdema of lids, agg. lower, face pallid and puffy. ▶ Prurigo-like, pinkish, lentil-shaped spots on hand and forearm, on neck, and all over down to feet. ▶ Ulcer. ▶ Desquamation of whole surface. ▶ Abscesses over whole body, causing emaciation.

Itching of whole body; of the part every day about 3 or 4 A.M., slightly amel. applications of vinegar, always burning after scratching, also the same every day about 8 or 9 A.M. and at 3 P.M., the I. amel. applications of salt and vinegar.

Night restless. ▶ Sleepless all night. ▶ Heat, with sick feeling, vertigo, almost faintness. ▶ Burning (after the sting) as if something were sticking and drawing out the part stung was bright red, elevated, with hard swelling, the redness surrounded by a circle of chilliness, soon changing to a general chill, intermittent, extending in waves over whole body; B. of the part, then swelling, red, with burning pain.

A young man in perfect health was stung by a large number of wasps. Frequent convulsions followed, involving all the muscles of the body, with loss of consciousness ; the convulsions disappeared after three years, leaving him subject to attacks of unconsciousness when walking about, he often starts to go somewhere and finds himself several blocks beyond the place he started for.

The period of unconsciousness lasts several minutes. He does not fall nor does he drop things which he happens to hold in his hands.

If spoken to, he does not answer nor seem to hear or notice anything ; he looks into space. When he comes to himself, he has no memory of the moments that have passed ; he is as bright as ever.

He has no warning of the coming spell : A friend remarked that his eyes were glassy and bloodshot and he looked as though he had no sense.

When standing upon the platform of a street car, he was noticed to grasp the iron railing and look wild ; two men standing near him undertook to loosen his hands and put him in a seat, but they could not force him to lot loose until he came to himself, and then he needed no aid.

It was thought that he continued to grasp the railing about ten minutes, but time flies under excitement, and no one has timed this period.

He becomes sick and faint near 4 warm stove or in a close room ; often gets up and leaves a close warm room to prevent vomiting ; craves cold washing of hands and face which make him feel better. Anger or excitement will bring on a spell.

The usual antidotes have helped for a while, and then the symptoms have returned with about the same general features.

Mentally he is not strong, and the tendency is to grow weaker.