Baptisia

Wild Indigo

Abdomen

William Boericke 1922

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

Compare

William Boericke 1922

Ailanihus 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 necessity to assume erect position.)

Dose

William Boericke 1922

Tincture, to tjvelfth attenuation.

Extremities

William Boericke 1922

Neck tired. Stiffness and pain, aching and drawing in arms and legs. Pain in sacrum, around hips and legs. Sore and bruised. Decubitus.

Face

William Boericke 1922

Besotted look. Dark red. Pain at root of

Female

William Boericke 1922

Threatened miscarriage from mental depression. shock, watching, low fevers. Menses too early, too profuse. Lochia acrid, fetid. Puerperal

Fever

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BAPTISIA — BAROSMA 121

William Boericke 1922

Chill, with rheumatic pains and soreness all over body. Heat all over, with occasional chills. Chill about 11 A. M. Typhus

Guiding symptoms

William Boericke 1922

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 loxamiias of children with fetid stools and eructations. Baptisia in low dilutions produces a form of am bodies to the bac. typhosus, viz., the agglutinins. [Mellon.] Thus it raises the natural bodily resistance to the invasion of the bacillary intoxication, which produces the typhoid syndrome. Typhoid carriers. After inoculation with anti-typhoid serum. Intermittent pulse, especially in the aged.

William Boericke 1922

Perfect indifference. Falls asleep while being spoken to. Melancholia, with stupor.

Head

William Boericke 1922

Feels too large, heaT/y, numb. Soreness of eyeballs. Brain feels sore. Stupor ; falls asleep while spoken to. Early deafness in typhoid conditions.

William Boericke 1922

Confused, swimming feeling. Vertigo; pressure at root of

Limbs

William Boericke 1922

Burning and heat in

Liver

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Dys- ^ entery of old people.

Mind

William Boericke 1922

Wild, wandering feeling. Inability to think. Brain-fag. Ideas confused. Thinks he is broken or double, ^and tosses about the bed tryiuij to get pieces together, [Cajeput.] Delirium, wandering, muttering 120

Modalities

William Boericke 1922

Worse: Humid heat; fog; indoors.

Nose

William Boericke 1922

Skin of forehead feels tight : seems drawn to back of

William Boericke 1922

Muscles of jaw rigid. Mouthw — Taste flat, bitter. Teeth and gums sore, ulcerated. Breath fetid. Tongue feels burned; yellowish-brown ; edges red and shining. Dry and brown in center, with dry and glistening edges; surface cracked and sore. Can sivalloiv liquids only; least solid food gags.

Respiratory

William Boericke 1922

Lungs feel compressed, breathing difficult. Fears going to sleep on account of nightmare and sense of suffocation.* Constriction of

Skin

William Boericke 1922

Livid spots all over body and

William Boericke 1922

[Arsenic.] Putrid ulcers with stupor, low delirium and prostration.

Sleep

William Boericke 1922

Sleepless and restless. Nightmare and frightful dreams. Cannot get herself together, feels scattered about bed. Falls asleep while answering a question.

Stomach

William Boericke 1922

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.

William Boericke 1922

No appetite. Constant desire for w'ater. Sinking feeling at

Throat

William Boericke 1922

Dark redner.s of tonsils and soft palate. Constriction, contraction of cesophagus. [Cajeput.\ Great difficulty in swallowing solid food. Painless sore throat, and offensive discharge. Contraction at cardiac orifice.

References

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