Baptisia tinctoria

Baptisia tinctoria
(wild indigo)
* 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 toxaemias 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 glisteningedges; surface cracked and sore.
- Can swallow liquids only; least solid food gags.
Throat
- Dark redness of tonsils and soft palate.
- Constriction, contraction of oesophagus. [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 oesophagus.
- 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 diarrhoea.
- 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 andsense 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 a.m.
- 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
dyspnoea and necessity to assume erect position).
Dose
- Tincture, to twelfth attenuation.
- Has rather short action.