Baptisia tinctoria
as H.C. Allen recorded it in Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 1899
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Keynotes
Baptisia tinctoria
Wild Indigo. LeguminoscE.
For the lymphatic temperament.
Great prostration, with disposition to decomposition of fluids (Pyr. ) ; ulceration of mucous membranes.
All exhalations and discharges fetid, especially in typhoid or other acute disease ; breath, stool, urine, perspiration, ulcers (Psor., Pyr.).
Aversion to mental exertion; indisposed, or want of power to think.
Perfect indifference, don’t care to do anything, inability to fix the mind on work.
Stupor; falls asleep while being spoken to or in the midst of his answer (when spoken to, answers correctly, but delirium returns at once, Arn.).
Tongue: at first coated white with red papillae; dry and yellow-brown in centre; later dry, cracked, ulcerated.
Face flushed, dusky, dark-red, with a stupid, besotted, drunken expression (Gels.).
Can swallow liquids only (Bar. c.) ; least solid food gags (can swallow liquids only, but has aversion to them, Sil.).
Painless sore throat; tonsils, soft palate and parotids dark red, swollen; putrid, offensive discharge (Diph.).
Dysentery of old people; diarrhoea of children, especially when very offensive (Garbo v.. Pod., Psor.).
Cannot go to sleep because she cannot get herself together; head or body feels scattered about the bed; tosses about to get the pieces together; thought she was three persons, could not keep them covered (Petr.).
In whatever position the patient lies, the parts
BAPTISIA
Arn., Pyr.).
Decubitus in typhoid (Arn., Mur. ac., Pyr.).
Relation. — Similar: to, Arn., Ars., Bry., Gels., in the early stages of fever with malaise, nervousness, flushed face, drowsiness, and muscular soreness.
When Ars. has been improperly given or too often repeated in typhoid or typhus.
After Baptisia: Crot., Ham., Nit. ac. and Tereb. act well in haemorrhage of typhoid and typhus.
What the other books say about Baptisia tinctoria
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Baptisia tinctoria in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Baptisia tinctoria in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
- Baptisia tinctoria in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
- Baptisia tinctoria in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Cite this page. H.C. Allen. Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica. 3rd edition (1910). Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. Baptisia tinctoria — Keynotes, pp. 54–55. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/baptisia-tinctoria. Published 1910: public domain in the US (before 1931) and in India (author died 1909). Replaces B. Jain's 2005 "rearranged and classified" edition (© the publisher), per the owner's decision of 13 Sep 2026. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.