Choices. We love choices. I mean, who doesn’t enjoy a beautiful charcuterie? Or a delicious assortment of chocolates. Or a colorful arrangement of flowers.
So, why is it that choices in homeopathy can often be confounding?
In Boiron’s new Practical Homeopathy® medicine kit, there are plenty of choices. However, some of the included potencies may pique a new user’s curiosity.
Apis mellifica is one of them.
When to consider choosing Apis 30
I’ve written about Apis in many previous blogs: for food intolerances, certain sufferers of Alpha-gal syndrome, mucosal hives, edematous swelling, and more. In those situations, generally, Apis 30 is considered.
However, my kit includes Apis 200CK instead of 30C. Why?
Firstly, we obviously couldn’t include every remedy in every potency. Working closely with Boiron, we curated the top remedies for common family conditions.
However, we also kept in mind that some of the more common remedy potencies are readily available in other kits or at local retail outlets. My kit was designed to step outside of the kits people already own. Apis 30 is relatively ubiquitous, while Apis 200 isn’t always in other kits or at retail stores. Consequently, my kit contains Apis 200. You may never use it, but when Apis 200 is necessary, you’ll have it.
(Note: Before you ask me in the comment section why the Apis in my kit is a 200CK (rather than just a 200C), click through to the blog post C, CH or CK? The Answer Revealed. You’ll find the answer right there.)
When to consider choosing Apis 200
Although Apis 30 is known to act effectively, some people with a history of extreme allergic reactions feel more comfortable utilizing Apis 200 for extreme allergic reactions. So, in an extreme allergic situation, it’s good to have on hand.
For instance, a mom traveling with her peanut-allergic son thought going on a plane posed no risk, now that peanuts were no longer served.
That’s when the trouble ensued. Suddenly, someone seated nearby, without knowledge of what their actions could mean to other passengers, pulled out a homemade peanut butter sandwich for lunch.
Mom watched in horror as her son’s eyes started to become boggy underneath and swell, and he was starting to get a little panicky. Because this hadn’t happened in a very long time, Mom hadn’t really planned for that.
However, because they were going on vacation, she did happen to have Apis 200 for her urinary tract infection. (You may recall I mentioned Apis 200 for UTIs in last week’s blog post, UTI Conundrum: When a Common Condition Lacks the Common Symptoms.)
So, Mom gave him the Apis 200 — an excellent consideration for both urinary tract infections and allergic reactions that cause eye swelling. Mom matched the frequency of the homeopathic medicine to the severity of the reaction, all while watching for signs of improvement.
In short order, Bob’s your uncle! Her son’s allergic reaction to the unwelcome peanut butter sandwich began to melt away, and the vacation fun continued as planned.
(Of course, it goes without saying, if the reaction were severe, Mom would be justified in seeking professional care.)
Own as many medicines as you can in as many potencies as you can
As I’ve often said, there’s no sense in wasting time and money collecting shoes, jewelry, tchotchkes or whatever transitory objects one can collect. Instead, I encourage my students to collect homeopathic medicines. As many as you can afford. It’s infinitely better to have a medicine and not need it, than to need it and not have it.
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Above blog says, “my kit includes Apis 200CK”. And I read the blog about the overall-general difference between CK vs C. But what I’d still love to know is why you prefer “CK” specifically for Apis vs “C”? I ask because I’m having aggravation to Apis when using for food histamine induced throat sensations. And while I’ve purchased the Allergic course already, there won’t be any study groups for a month or so, so I’m working my through the course anyway but also dealing with food histamine induced throat sensation daily.
I never know exactly how to describe the throat ‘sensation” – it feels a little irritated – kind of scratchy – and a little swollen. Most of the time I can still swallow no problem, but sometimes something like a ‘catch’ also develops in the throat that makes swallowing awkward. It’s kind of weird b/c when there is the ‘catch’ in the throat, I can lightly press at the area in that U-shaped divot above the collar bone at the throat and that allows me to swallow without the ‘catch’.
So I recently tested taking Apis 200*C* for it (and this is my quesiton — could Apis 200*CK* have been a better fit?) because after the 200*C* I went from only a mild throat/catch symptom to FULL ON face, skull, lip tingling and eye irritation. BUT I don’t think it was a proving because while all of the new added scary symptoms came out of no where AFTER apis – it ALSO removed the ‘catch’ & I could swallow more easily. But I was still scared with the flare of added systems & worried my throat by close back up too — so to be safe I antidoted with peppermint EO after about 20 minutes. Maybe I actually needed a 2nd Apis dose (??) – but it’s really scary related to breathing & risk of dying to trust a 2nd dose after aggravation.
Plus 1 yr ago when I had the very first throat sensation reaction after a meal I safely ate all the time, I happened to have on hand Histaminum & Apis both. I took Histaminum & it seemed to be working – my throat felt better. But then for some dumb reason when it was time to take a second dose 15 minutes later (as the Boiron package instructed) I switched to Apis instead of sticking with a 2nd dose of Histaminum – & after I took the Apis the symptoms came raging back even more than before. So that is why I’m taking Gateway 1 & 2 as well, and the Allergic course. But I wonder if maybe Histaminum is a better fit for me vs Apis? I know you can’t tell me here… but I’m still curious to know the why on your preference for Apis 200*CK* vs Apis 200 *C*?