BAPTISIA TINCTORIA
Wild Indigo
(BAPTISIA)
The symptoms of this drug are of an asthenic type, simulating low fevers, septic conditions of the blood, malarial poisoning and extreme
prostration. Indescribable sick feeling. Great muscular soreness and
putrid phenomena always are present. All the secretions are offensive-breath,
stool, urine, sweat, etc. Epidemic influenza. Chronic intestinal toxćmias of children with
fetid stools and eructations.
Baptisia in low dilutions produces a form of anti-bodies to the bac
typhosus, viz, the agglutinins (Mellon). Thus it raises
the natural bodily resistance to the invasion of the bacillary intoxication, which produces
the typhoid syndrome. Typhoid carriers. After inoculation with anti-typhoid serum.
Intermittent pulse, especially in the aged.
Mind.–
Wild, wandering feeling. Inability to think. Mental
confusion. Ideas confused. Illusion of divided personality. Thinks he
is broken or double, and tosses about the bed trying to get pieces together (Cajeput). Delirium, wandering, muttering. Perfect indifference.
Falls asleep while being spoken to. Melancholia, with stupor.
Head.–
Confused, swimming feeling. Vertigo; pressure at root of
nose. Skin of forehead feels tight; seems drawn to back of head. Feels too large, heavy, numb. Soreness of eyeballs. Brain feels sore. Stupor;
falls asleep while 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 red
and shining. Dry and brown in center, with dry and glistening edges; surface cracked and sore.
Can swallow liquids only; least solid food gags.
Throat.–
Dark redness of tonsils and soft palate. Constriction, contraction of śsophagus (Cajeput).
Great difficulty in swallowing solid food. Painless sore throat, and offensive discharge. Contraction at cardiac orifice.
Stomach.–
Can swallow only liquids, vomiting due to spasm of
śsophagus. Gastric fever. No appetite. Constant desire for water. Sinking
feeling at stomach. Pain in epigastric region. Feeling of hard substance (Abies nig). All symptoms worse from beer (Kali
bich). Cardiac orifice contracted convulsively and ulcerative inflammation of
stomach and bowels.
Abdomen.–
Right side markedly affected. Distended and rumbling.
Soreness over region of gall-bladder, with diarrhśa. Stools very offensive,
thin, dark, bloody. Soreness of abdomen, in region of liver. Dysentery of old
people.
Female.–
Threatened miscarriage from mental depression, shock,
watching, low fevers. Menses too early, too profuse. Lochia acrid, fetid. Puerperal fever.
Respiratory.–
Lungs feel compressed, breathing difficult; seeks
open window. Fears going to sleep on account of nightmare and sense
of suffocation. Constriction of chest.
Back and Extremities.–
Neck tired. Stiffness and pain, aching
and drawing in arms and legs. Pain in sacrum, around 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 while answering a
question.
Skin.–
Livid spots all over body and limbs. Burning and heat in
skin (Arsenic). Putrid ulcers with stupor, low delirium
and prostration.
Fever.–
Chill, with rheumatic pains and soreness all over body.
Heat all over, with occasional chills. Chill about 11 am.Adynamic
fevers. Typhus fever. Shipboard fever.
Modalities.–
Worse; Humid
heat; fog; indoors.
Relationship.–
Compare: Bryonia
and Arsenic may be needed to complete the favorable
reaction. Ailanthus differs, being more painful. Baptisia
more painless. Rhus; Muriat acid; Arsenic; Bryon; Arnica; Echinac.
Pyrogen.
Baptisia confusia
(Pain in right jaw and oppression in left
hypochondrium, producing dyspnśa and necessity to assume erect position).
Dose.–
Tincture, to twelfth attenuation. Has rather short
action.