Baptisia tinctoria
bapt-tinWild 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 toxæmias of children with fetid stools and eructations. Baptisia in low dilutions produces a form of anti-bodies to the bac typhosus, viz,
Baptisia tinctoria — Materia Medica
Baptisia tinctoria — keynotes · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
the bed is too hard, yet he feels too sick to move. Dark; mucous membranes, exudates, hæmorrhage, stools, spots in body, etc. Brown; sordes, stripe down center of tongue, stool, menses, etc. FOUL; odor of body; excretions, stool, sweat, etc. Grippe. Zymoses. Sepsis. Typhoid states. Bed sores, etc. Insensible to pain. Restless mind but lifeless body. Bewildered. Thick speech. Sensation as of a blow on occiput. Dull, drowsy, besotted look. SENSE OF DUALITY; PARTS FEEL SCATTERED ABOUT, SEPARATED, numb or too large. Dull and confused. Falls asleep while answering or does not complete his sentence. Eyes feel swelled. DUSKY, SODDEN, BESOTTED, STUPID COUNTENANCE. Dark red, tumid mouth and throat. Throat, numb inside but sensitive outside. Fetor oris. Tongue cracked, bleeds, feels thick or is heavily coated. Viscid saliva. Aphthæ. Ragged ulcers in throat. Can't swallow solids. Spasm of gullet. Easy vomiting. Diarrhœa; sudden; horribly foul, mushy, painless, dark or slaty. Symptoms radiate from small of back. Dyspnœa from weakness in chest. Air hunger; on waking, > standing. Bronchial asthma. Drowsy, stupid and languid; slides down in bed and lower jaw drops (Mur-ac.). Hyperpyrexia. Livid spots on body. Uræmia.
Baptisia tinctoria — mind · James Tyler Kent
His mind seems to be gone. He does not know what be is talking about lie is in confusion, and when aroused be attempts to say some thing, and utters a word or two and it all flits away, and he is back in his state of stupor again. No matter what disease that comes in, no matter what inflammation is present, no matter what organ is inflammed, if that state of the blood that can give rise to such symptoms and such sepsis is present, if that state of the mind is present, it is Baptisia. Discharges: All of the discharges are putrid. The odor is cadaverous, pungent; penetrating. His perspiration, if he has any, is sour, foetid, pungent, and penetrating. If he has no sweat the body gives off an odor that is unaccountable. The odor is so penetrating that on going into the front door the whole house, if the room is open, is filled with the odor. The odor from the stool is putrid and so penetrating that it can be detected on first going into the house. Now, a strange thing that runs through the remedy is a peculiar kind of mental confusion, in which he is in a constant argument with his parts. Delirium: He seems to feel that there are two of him. He realizes a dual existence whenever he is roused up. He will begin talking about the other one in bed with him. It is said clinically that "his great toe is in controversy with his thumb." Or, "one leg is talking to the other leg." Or, one part is talking to another part; or, he is scattered around over the bed; tumbles and you ask him what he is trying to do. "why, I am trying to get those pieces together." He never succeeds; he is in delirium, Of course these are only examples; you will get a new phase every time you get a Baptisia case. Most of the time he is un conscious except when roused. Sometimes mutters.
Baptisia tinctoria — general · James Tyler Kent
Baptisia is suitable for acute diseases. It is principally a short-acting medicine, suitable for complaints that are not long lasting. So far as we know it is not an antipsoric, does not go deep into the life. All of its acute diseases and complaints have the appearance of Zymosis, like scarlet fever, diphtheria, typhoid, and gangrenous complaints. There is one thing that is unusual about it, it brings on this septic state more, rapidly than most other remedies. The zymotic complaints of Ars., Phos., Rhus, and Bry., are much slower in their pace. But Baptisia is suitable for typhoids that come on rapidly, and hence it is not so often suitable in idiopathic typhoids. When an individual comes down suddenly from cold, from malaria, from drinking poisonous waters, and from any zymotic or septic cause he is hurled into bed in a few days, instead of going through a period of four, five or six weeks. The old idiopathic typhoid fevers come on slower. Baptisia is suitable for those blood poisons that are highly septic such as the puerperal state, such as scarlet fever. He comes down perhaps with the appearance of a sudden violent break down, with a remittent fever. But all at once it turns continued, and takes on septic symptoms. So much for its progress and its pace. Every medicine must be observed as to its velocity, as to its pace, as to its periodicity, as to its motion, and its wave. Looking and smelling: We get that by looking at the symptoms. You take an individual who has been down in a mine, in the swam, down in the mud, in the sewers, who has inhaled foul gases, who goes into bed with a sort of stupor, from the very beginning he feels stupid. It is not gradual, but he goes down very suddenly, and he is stupid. He is prostrated. His face is mottled.
Baptisia tinctoria — introduction · Margaret Lucy Tyler
« 3 or what. If you . . . try to rouse him up, he gives you the impression that he has been on a big drunk. . . . His countenance is besotted. It is bloat-ed and purple and mottled . . . it is like an old drunkard. ' “ His mind seems to be gone . . . he is in confusion. When aroused, he attempts to say something, and utters a word or two, and it all flits away, and he is back in his state of stupor again. . . . No matter what disease that comes in, no matter what inflammation is present, no matter what organ is inflamed, if that state of the blood that can give rise to such symptoms and such sepsis is present, if that state of the mind is present, it is Baptisia. " Discharges putrid. Odour cadaverous—pungent—penetrat ing. Odour of stool putrid, penetrating . . And then Kent graphically describes the wanderings and delirium of Baptisia. “ A strange thing that runs through the remedy is a peculiar kind of mental confusion, in which he is in a constant argument with his parts. He seems to feel that there are two of him. He will begin talking about the other one in bed with him. It is said clinically that ' his great toe is in controversy with his thumb '. Or, ‘ one leg is talking to the other leg ’ . . . or he is scattered around over the bed ; fumbles and you ask him what he is trying to do. ‘ Why, he is trying to get those pieces together.' . . . It is that dual* idea, that attempt to reconcile something. You see his lips go, and you rouse him to see what he is about, and he is trying to get the pieces together. . . . “ As soon as we come to the face, we begin to realize the Baptisia symptoms, that besotted expression. The countenance shows that. The eyes show it, the face shows it.
Baptisia tinctoria — modalities worse · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
Humid heat. Fogs. In room. Pressure. On awaking. SORE, HEAVY, ACHING MUSCLES; gall-bladder, heart, etc WITH RAPID PROSTRATION;
Baptisia tinctoria — head · William Boericke
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.
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