Baptisia
Wild Indigo
Abdomen
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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
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Tincture, to tjvelfth attenuation.
Extremities
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Neck tired. Stiffness and pain, aching and drawing in arms and legs. Pain in sacrum, around hips and legs. Sore and bruised. Decubitus.
Face
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Besotted look. Dark red. Pain at root of
Female
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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
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Chill, with rheumatic pains and soreness all over body. Heat all over, with occasional chills. Chill about 11 A. M. Typhus
Guiding symptoms
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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.
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Perfect indifference. Falls asleep while being spoken to. Melancholia, with stupor.
Head
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Feels too large, heaT/y, numb. Soreness of eyeballs. Brain feels sore. Stupor ; falls asleep while spoken to. Early deafness in typhoid conditions.
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Confused, swimming feeling. Vertigo; pressure at root of
Limbs
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Burning and heat in
Liver
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Dys- ^ entery of old people.
Mind
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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
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Worse: Humid heat; fog; indoors.
Nose
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Skin of forehead feels tight : seems drawn to back of
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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
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Lungs feel compressed, breathing difficult. Fears going to sleep on account of nightmare and sense of suffocation.* Constriction of
Skin
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Livid spots all over body and
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[Arsenic.] Putrid ulcers with stupor, low delirium and prostration.
Sleep
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Sleepless and restless. Nightmare and frightful dreams. Cannot get herself together, feels scattered about bed. Falls asleep while answering a question.
Stomach
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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.
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No appetite. Constant desire for w'ater. Sinking feeling at
Throat
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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
This monograph is an original summary faithful to the classical tradition. It condenses material from these public-domain sources:
- James Tyler Kent, Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica (1905)Primary remedy pictures; characteristic mental and general symptoms. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- William Boericke, Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica and Repertory (1927)Reproduced here in full — the complete classical repertory-style monographs. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- Constantine Hering, The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica (1879–1891)Confirmed symptom aggregates behind the section organization. · Public domain
- Timothy Field Allen, Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica (1874–1879)Provings background referenced by the verification tradition. · Public domain
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