30/10/2025
Have you ever had the flu and felt not only weak and sore,
but almost drunk, as if your mind and body were separated ?
That is the picture of Baptisia tinctoria (wild indigo).
Some influenza cases take on a toxic, septic-like character and here Baptisia becomes one of the key remedies.
It may be considered when there is:
- Profound weakness and rapid prostration, as if poisoned
- Mental dullness, confusion, a “drunk-like” state
- A heavy, aching, sore body and the bed feels too hard
- Offensive secretions and breath
- Restlessness, yet too weak to move
- Strange Illusions such as feeling divided or fragmented
- Worse from open air, cold wind, humid heat, pressure, and on waking.
The mental picture is striking: Intoxication, confusion, heaviness of the head, and even a sense of losing one’s wholeness.
Baptisia is particularly associated with epidemic influenza, where both body and mind are equally overwhelmed.
In homeopathy, we don’t treat the virus, we treat the person.
Baptisia shows us the depth of the Materia Medica, where each remedy carries its own unique signature, offering support that matches the individual expression of illness.
As flu season unfolds, Baptisia stands alongside remedies such as Aconitum, Bryonia, Gelsemium, and Belladonna, remedies we have already presented, each addressing influenza in its own characteristic way.
Have you ever experienced the use of Baptisia for influenza ?
Next week we continue with another classical remedy suited for a different expression of influenza.
Stay tuned!
