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Baptisia Tinctoria. – THE GUIDING SYMPTOMS OF OUR MATERIA MEDICA By CONSTANTINE HERING, M.D.

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[1] Mind.

[2]
Sensorium.

[3]
Inner head.

[4]
Outer head.

[5]
Sight and eyes.

[6]
Hearing and ears.

[7]
Smell and nose.

[8]
Upper face.

[9]
Lower face.

[10]
Teeth and gums.

[11]
Taste, speech, tongue.

[12]
Inner mouth.

[13]
Palate and throat.

[14]
Appetite, thirst. Desires..

[15]
Eating and drinking.

[16]
Hiccough, belching, nausea..

[17] Scrobiculum and stomach.

[18]
Hypochondria.

[19]
Abdomen and loins.

[20]
Stools and rectum.

[21]
Urinary organs.

[22]
Male sexual organs.

[23]
Female sexual organs.

[24]
Pregnancy. Parturition..

[25] Voice and larynx. Trachea..

[26]
Respiration.

[27]
Cough.

[28]
Inner chest and lungs.

[29]
Heart, pulse and circulation.

[30]
Outer chest.

[31]
Neck and back.

[32]
Upper limbs.

[33] Lower limbs.

[34]
Limbs in general.

[35]
Rest. Position. Motion.

[36]
Nerves.

[37]
Sleep.

[38]
Time.

[39]
Temperature and weather.

[40]
Fever.

[41] Attacks, periodicity.

[42]
Locality and direction.

[43]
Sensations.

[44]
Tissues.

[45]
Touch. Injuries..

[46]
Skin.

[47]
Stage of life, constitution.

[48]
Relations.

Bapt. * Full text (80 Ko) * Red
and blue only
(50 Ko) * Red only

UPPER FACE. [8] [Bapt.]

Looked ill for two weeks. θ Typhus.

Anxious, frightened look. θ Cough.

Yellowish cheeks ; central deep flush. θ Typhus.

Face : sallow ; dark red, with besotted expression ; flushed, dusky ; hot and perceptibly flushed.

Burning, prickling of left side of face and head.

Burning heat in face with flushed cheeks. θ Diphtheria.

Cheeks burn.

Cheeks flushed, dark violet. θ Cough.

Heat all over, most in face. θ Typhus.

Critical sweat on forehead and face. θ Typhus.

Face and whole head feel numb.

Muscles of jaw rigid.

   

LOWER FACE. [9] [Bapt.]

Pain in articulation of lower jaw. θ Typhus.

Jaw dropped. θ Typhus.

Cracked lips, with bleeding and ulceration of bowels. θ Typhus.

Pain in region of right mastoid process.

   

TEETH AND GUMS. [10] [Bapt.]

Teeth and gums sore ; by pressing with finger large quantities of blood ooze out.

Sordes on teeth and lips ; tongue ulcerated. θ Typhus.

   

TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] [Bapt.]

Taste : flat, bitter, sometimes putrid.

Filthy taste with flow of saliva.

Foul or bitter nauseous taste in mouth. θ Typhus.

Tongue swollen, thick, making talking difficult.

Slight heat or burning at root of tongue.

Tongue red and dry in middle. θ Typhus.

Tongue feels dry on rubbing against roof of mouth ; smarts, feels burned.

The roof of tongue is swollen and feels numb. θ Diphtheria.

Tongue of a dark hue. θ Cough.

Dry, parched, thickly coated tongue. θ Typhus.

Tongue dry, brown down centre. θ Typhus.

Tongue covered with a thick, brown crust. θ Typhus.

Tongue baked down centre. θ Typhus.

Tongue at first white with red papillæ here and there, followed by a yellow-brown coating in centre, edges being red, shining.

Tongue coated white, yellow or yellowish-brown, and feels as if burned or scalded. θ Diphtheria.

Tongue yellowish-white, deeply furred. θ Typhus.

Tongue has a yellow centre, or yellowish-brown coating, dry. θ Typhus.

Foul tongue. θ Typhus.

Tongue feels as though it had been scraped, and sensation extending to fauces.

Tongue cracked down centre.

Cracked, sore, ulcerated tongue. θ Typhus.

   

INNER MOUTH. [12] [Bapt.]

Stomatitis materna ; breath fetid ; feeble state.

Fetid odor ; also after mercury.

Mouth and tongue very dry. θ In fevers.

Filthy taste, with flow of saliva.

Saliva rather abundant, somewhat viscid, tasting flat.

Copious saliva : followed by sore throat, scraping, burning ; slight pain in right lung.

Copious flow of saliva ; ulcers in mouth.

Cancrum oris, copious saliva ; gums loose, flabby, dark red, or purple ; fetid.

Aphthæ. θ Typhus.

Sore mouth of sucklings and consumptives.

Canker sores in mouth.

Ulcerations extending from mouth, through alimentary canal, with watery discharges from bowels.

Putrid ulceration of buccal cavity, with salivation ; well-developed ulcers, slight pain.

   

PALATE AND THROAT. [13] [Bapt.]

Pain and soreness of fauces. θ Diphtheria.

Hot feeling in fauces, passing up into ears ; sensation as if had eaten pepper.

Fauces dark red ; dark, putrid ulcers ; tonsils and parotids swollen ; unusual absence of pain. θ Diphtheria. θ Putrid
sore throat, etc. θ Typhus. θ Variola.

Scraping and burning, raw sensation in pharynx ; much viscid mucus ; copious flow of saliva ; ulcers in mouth.

Dry scraping in throat when swallowing ; tongue coated white, especially at root ; fetid perspiration of body, and especially hands ; eyes much injected ; face and ears hot and very red ; absence of thirst ; heaviness in chest, with dull pain in region of
spleen.

Burning and heat in fauces, as from heartburn, extending into ears ; < from belching, which causes pain to extend into chest, and there producing a weak feeling.

Tonsils and soft palate swollen, with constant inclination to swallow, not accompanied by pain. θ Diphtheria.

Stitches in right tonsil.

Tonsils and soft palate very red, but not painful.

Pricking in upper part of pharynx ; raw sensation.

Tickling in throat provoking cough ; uvula elongated.

Sore throat.

Throat sore ; averse to open air.

Mucus abundant and viscid, can neither be swallowed nor expectorated.

Mucus rattles in throat. θ Typhus.

Œsophagus feels as if constricted from above down to stomach ; can only swallow water.

Constrictive feeling causing frequent efforts at deglutition ; throat sore, feels contracted.

Throat feels swollen, full ; tonsils and soft palate congested ; frequent inclination to swallow, causing pain in root of tongue.

Spits out liquids put in mouth. θ Typhus.

Can swallow liquids only ; least solid food gags. θ Spasmodic stricture of œsophagus. θ Diarrhœa.

Children cannot swallow solid food ; the smallest solid substance causes gagging, thus they cannot use anything but milk ; sometimes thin, watery, offensive passages day and night. (Compare Silicea).

Unable to swallow. θ Typhus.

Paralysis of organs of deglutition. θ Typhus.

   

APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] [Bapt.]

Loss of appetite. θ Typhus.

Constant desire for water, with nausea and want of appetite. θ Typhus.

Spitting out of liquids put into her mouth.

Great thirst. θ Typhus.

A good deal of thirst. θ Typhus.

   

EATING AND DRINKING. [15] [Bapt.]

All symptoms < from beer.

After breakfast, dull feeling.

Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting

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