BAPTISIA TINCTORIA
Wild Indigo
(BAPTISIA)
The signs and symptoms of this drug are of an asthenic type, simulating low fevers, septic stipulations of the blood, malarial poisoning and excessive prostration. Indescribable ailing feeling. Great muscular suffering and putrid phenomena continually are present. All the secretions are offensive-breath, stool, urine, sweat, etc. Epidemic influenza. Chronic intestinal toxaemias of adolescents with fetid stools and eructations.
Baptisia in low dilutions produces a shape of anti-bodies to the bac typhosus, viz, the agglutinins (Mellon). Thus it raises the herbal bodily resistance to the invasion of the bacillary intoxication, which produces the typhoid syndrome. Typhoid carriers. After inoculation with anti-typhoid serum. Intermittent pulse, particularly in the aged.
Mind.–Wild, wandering feeling. Inability to think. Mental confusion. Ideas confused. Illusion of divided personality. Thinks he is damaged or double, and tosses about the mattress attempting to get portions collectively (Cajeput). Delirium, wandering, muttering. Perfect indifference. Falls asleep whilst being spoken to. Melancholia, with stupor.
Head.–Confused, swimming feeling. Vertigo; strain at root of nose. Skin of brow feels tight; looks drawn to lower back of head. Feels too large, heavy, numb. Soreness of eyeballs. Brain feels sore. Stupor; falls asleep whilst spoken to. Early deafness in typhoid conditions. Eyelids heavy.
Face.–Besotted look. Dark red. Pain at root of nose. Muscles of jaw rigid.
Mouth.–Taste flat, bitter. Teeth and gums sore, ulcerated. Breath fetid. Tongue feels burned; yellowish-brown; edges purple and shining. Dry and brown in center, with dry and glistening edges; floor cracked and sore. Can swallow drinks only; least strong meals gags.
Throat.–Dark redness of tonsils and smooth palate. Constriction, contraction of oesophagus (Cajeput). Great challenge in swallowing strong food. Painless sore throat, and offensive discharge. Contraction at cardiac orifice.
Stomach.–Can swallow solely liquids, vomiting due to spasm of oesophagus. Gastric fever. No appetite. Constant wish for water. Sinking feeling at stomach. Pain in epigastric region. Feeling of difficult substance (Abies nig). All signs and symptoms worse from beer (Kali bich). Cardiac orifice reduced in size convulsively and ulcerative infection of belly and bowels.
Abdomen.–Right aspect markedly affected. Distended and rumbling. Soreness over vicinity of gall-bladder, with diarrhoea. Stools very offensive, thin, dark, bloody. Soreness of abdomen, in place of liver. Dysentery of historic people.
Female.–Threatened miscarriage from intellectual depression, shock, watching, low fevers. Menses too early, too profuse. Lochia acrid, fetid. Puerperal fever.
Respiratory.–Lungs sense compressed, respiration difficult; seeks open window. Fears going to sleep on account of nightmare and feel of suffocation. Constriction of chest.
Back and Extremities.–Neck tired. Stiffness and pain, aching and drawing in palms and legs. Pain in sacrum, round hips and legs. Sore and bruised. Decubitus.
Sleep.–Sleepless and restless. Nightmare and frightful dreams. Cannot get herself together, feels scattered about bed. Falls asleep whilst answering a question.
Skin.–Livid spots all over physique and limbs. Burning and warmness in pores and skin (Arsenic). Putrid ulcers with stupor, low delirium and prostration.
Fever.–Chill, with rheumatic pains and anguish all over body. Heat all over, with occasional chills. Chill about eleven am.Adynamic fevers. Typhus fever. Shipboard fever.
Modalities.–Worse; Humid heat; fog; indoors.
Relationship.–Compare: Bryonia and Arsenic can also be wished to entire the favorable reaction. Ailanthus differs, being greater painful. Baptisia greater painless. Rhus; Muriat acid; Arsenic; Bryon; Arnica; Echinac. Pyrogen.
Baptisia confusia (Pain in proper jaw and oppression in left hypochondrium, producing dyspnoea and necessity to expect erect position).
Dose.–Tincture, to twelfth attenuation. Has alternatively brief action.
