Vespa crabro
European hornet. · Animal · Vespidae
People for whom Vespa is best suited are prone to insomnia, often due to anxiety. Their nerves and muscles are often sensitive.
Red, swollen skin complaints and disorders of the female reproductive organs are usually treated with Vespa. Typical skin symptoms include sore, stinging boils, raised, itchy bumps and weals, and itchy, lentil-shaped spots. Stinging, burning pains, as if the body is being pierced by something sharp, are another symptom associated with this remedy.
Vespa is also used for mucous membrane problems and complaints associated with menstruation, such as premenstrual depression, pain, and constipation.
Key symptoms
- Skin and female symptoms marked; intense itching and burning
- Left ovary markedly affected with frequent burning micturition
- Erythema and urticaria with burning, stinging, and soreness
- Boils and wheals relieved by bathing with vinegar
- Swelling of mouth and throat with violent burning pains
- Erosion around external os; menstruation preceded by pain and constipation
- Fainting; nausea followed by creeping chills from feet upward
- Axillary glands swollen with soreness of upper arms
Worse (aggravation)
Better (amelioration)
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.
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 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.
Clinical
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.
Characteristics
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 …
Phatak's chapter on Vespa crabro is available in the app.
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