04/04/2018
BAPTISIA TINCTORIA
Family: Leguminosae; legume family, pea family, fabales
Common name: wild indigo
Remedy useful for typhoid fever. It affects the BLOOD, causing septic conditions, low fever and malaria poisoning. Feeling of SORENESS, HEAVINESS, and ACHING OF MUSCLES is very marked.
PROSTRATION IS RAPID; bed feels too hard on account of soreness of muscles, yet he feels too weak to move. Mucous membranes become dark.
Discharges stools, urine are dark in colour. Dark spots appear upon the body. FOUL odor of the body, breath, EXCRETIONS stool, sweat, urine.
Chronic intestinal toxaemia of children, with fetid stools and eructations.
Lifeless body but restless mind. Insensitive to pain.
Restless, always rubs the hands, hysterical. In low potency it increases the resistant power of the body against typhoid.
WORSE: humid heat. In room. Fog. Pressure. On waking. Walking. Open air. Cold wind. Autumn. Hot weather.
MIND:
Sense of DUALITY. Aversion to mental and bodily exertion. Thinks he isbroken or double.
PARTS FEEL SCATTERED or separated. Tosses about in bed trying to get pieces together. Hopeless of recovery and certain of death.
Dull and confused. Falls asleep while answering or does not complete his sentence.
Wandering, muttering delirium.
Perfect indifference. Bewildered.
Imagines his limbs are talking to each other.
Aversion to mental exertion, mind feels weak.
EARS: early deafness in typhoid like conditions.
FACE: DUSKY, SODDEN, BESOTTED, stupid. Muscles of the jaw rigid. Cracked, bleeding lips.
MOUTH: brown strip down the centre of the tongue. Tongue feels burnt. Breath fetid. Thick speech. Ulcer in the mouth. Taste flat, bitter. Dark, red, tumid (swollen) mouth.
Tongue cracked, bleeds, feels thick or is heavily coated. Lower jaw drops. Sore mouth of suckling children.
THROAT: dark, red, tumid. Numb inside but sensitive outside. Can swallow liquids only, least solid food gags. Constriction of esophagus at cardiac or***ce.
STOMACH: sinking feeling at stomach. Feeling of hard substance. Sudden attack of vomiting and diarrhoea, with fever.
ABDOMEN: soreness of the gall bladder, with diarrhoea.
Diarrhoea – sudden, horribly foul, mushy, painless, dark, slaty or bloody stools. Dysentery – of the old people, with pain in limbs, small of back and rigor. Painless dysentery, with fever. Intestinal toxaemia of children, with fetid stools and eructations. Stricture from piles.
FEMALE: threatened abortion, from mental shock, depression, low fever. Me**es, too early, too profuse. Lochia acrid, foul. Puerperal fever. Stomatitis of nursing mothers.
Craves air
Back and neck: neck tired, cannot hold it easy in any position. Pain in sacrum around hips and legs. Back sore and bruised. Bed sores.
SLEEP: drowsy, stupid and languid. Lies curled up like a dog on one side. Cannot go to sleep because she cannot get the pieces together.
FEVER: hyperpyrexia; adynamic fever; typhoid fever; shipboard fever. Sweat relieves.
Very close to gelsemium. Alike remedy. Both are useful in influenza. Cases of influenza that exhibit typhoid conditions.
Kent tells that, Gelsemium is slow paced as regards its onset, but that baptisia is of rapid onset; the patient sinks rapidly into stupid typhoid state- drugged- dull- besotted. More useful in typhoid of unusually rapid onset.
One peculiar symptom indicates baptisia in some sore throats. The throat may look dark-purple, livid, and as is very painful, but it is NOT.
Inveterate sore throat which is not painful.
HALE: soreness all over body; mouth and tongue very dry. Feverishness, with feeling all over as if bruised; the parts on which he is lying soon ache, and feel sore and bruised.(arnica).
Typhoid fever, in the premonitory stage of bilious gastric, or catarrhal origin- or from impure exhalations. It will often prevent the access of fever.
Typhoid fever in the first stages; it will often arrest the disease, and bring about a rapid convalescence.
Typhus fever, with heavy sleep, unconsciousness, delirious muttering.
Fevers, with drowsiness; pulse 120 and thread; lips parched and cracked;
And pasty tongue heavily coated; great thirst; mind wandering; could not have a direct answer to any question; falls asleep in the middle of a sentence; delirious at night, and low muttering.
Gastric fevers: with nausea, vomiting, dry, baked tongue, rapid pulse, tenderness of abdomen, diarrhoea.
Scarlet fever: with dark red eruption; dry brown tongue with red in the centre; fetid breath, stupor, fever dysenteric stools.
Catarrhal fever: or influenza, when prostration is excessive, and sore, bruised pains and sensations predominate.
Puerperal fever: from absorption of purulent matters, or from infection.
In typhoid fever, BAPTISIA vies with PYROGEN and ARNICA.
ARNICA: she says she feels well, when desperately ill. Has not the drowsiness, or redness, or the besotted condition of baptisia, has hard bed sensation markedly.
Suitable for acute diseases. Short acting medicine, suitable for complaints that are not long lasting. Does not go deep into life.
All of its acute dieseases and complaints have appearances of zymosis, like scarlet fever, diphtheria, typhoid and gangrenous complaints.
Brings septic state more rapidly than most other remedies. The old idiopathic typhoid typhoid fevers come on slower. Baptisia is suitable for thoseblood poisons that are highly septic, puerperal states, scarlet fever. Sudden violent breakdown but when continued takes septic form.
Evry medicine must be observed as to its velocity , pace, periodicity, motion, wave. It is a rapid running disease with velocity. Moves rapidly towards death. Increasing in its prostration more rapidly than usual.
It is not a gradual decline of days and weeks. He goes into a state of stpor when aroused goes into delirium. If you look at him or talk to him, he gives you an mpression that he is on a big drunk.
Mind is confused, doesn’t know what he is talking, confused. No matter what organ is inflamed, that disease is present but if sepsis is present and this state of mind is baptisia.
PUTRID DISCHARGES. Cadaverous odor, pungent, penetrating. Whole room fills up with penetrating odor.
MENTAL CONFUSION: dual existence, feels there are two of him. Muttering. Confused as if intoxicated.
There are stages that he is not so stupid, but sleepless and restless. Malignant diseases takes continued type of fever. Bleedings are black and offensive. Putridity is marked.
Diarrhoea: prostrating diarrhoea, can be without fever. Black or purplish coloured, cadaverous odor, exhausting, deathly sinking coming on over him. Never reddish appearance.
Besotted expression.
Useful remedy in gangrenous sore mouth and sore throat. Cancrum oris. Ulcers spread rapidly and eat rapidly.