Materia Medica
Baptisia
Wild Indigo
The symptoms of this drug are of an asthenic type. simulating low fevers, septic conditions of the blood, maiarial poisoning, and extreme prostration. Indescrib- able sick feeling. Great muscular soreness and putrid phienomena always are present. All the secretions are offensive —breath, stool, urine, sweat, ctc. Epidemic influenza. Chronic intestinal toxamias of children with fetid stools and eructations. Baptisia in low dilutions produces a form of an bodies to the bac. typhosus, viz., the agglutinins. [uol1y] Thus it raises the natural bodily resistance to the invasion of the bacillary int
Mind
Wild, wandering feeling. Inability to think. Brain-fag. Ideas confused. Thinks hc is broken or double, and tosscs 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; pres- sure 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.
Nose
Muscles of jaw rigid.
Face
Besotted look. Dark red. Pain at root of
Mouth
Taste fat, bitter. Teeth and gums sore, ulcerated. Breath fetid. Tongue feels burned; yellow- ish-brown; edges red and shining. Dry and brown in center, with dry and glistening edges; surface cracked and sore. Can swallow liquids only; least solid food ags.
Throat
Dark redness of tonsils and soft palate. Constriction, contraction of esophagus. [Cajeput.] Great difficulty in swallowing solid food. Painless sore throat, and offensive discharge. Contraction at cardiac orifice.
Stomach
No appetite. Constant desire for water. Sinking feeling at stomach. Pain in episgastric 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. Dys- : entery of old people.
Female
Threatened miscarriage from mental de- pression. shock. watching, low fevers. Menses too ear!y, too profuse. Lochia acrid, fetid. Puerperal fever.
Respiratory
Lungs feel compressed, breathing dif- ficult. Fears going to sleep on account of nightmare and sense 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. De- cubitus.
Skin
Livid spots all over body and limbs. Burn- ing and heat in skin. [Arsenic.] Putrid ulcers with stupor, low delirium and prostration.
Sleep
Sleepless and restless.. Nightrmare and frightful dreains. Cannot get herself together, feels scattered about bed. Falls asleep while answering a question.
Fever
Chill, with rheumatic pains and soreness all over body. Heat all over, with occasional chills. Chill about 1l A. M. Typhus fever. Shipboard fever.
Modalities
Worse: Humid heat; fog; indoors.
Relationships
Compare: Ailanthius differs, being more painful. Baptisia more painless. Rhus; Muriat. acid: Arsenic; Bryon.: Arnica; Echinac. Baptisia confusia. (Pain in right jaw and oppression in left hypochondrium, producing dyspnoea and eces- ity to assume erect position.)
Dose
Tincture, to twelfth attenuation.