Baptisia Tinctoria

▲   GENERAL

General

The symptoms of Baptisia Tinctoria 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 toxaemia of children with fetid stools and eructations.

▲   MODALITIES ETC

Worse

Worse; humid heat; fog; indoors.

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

Compare

Compare: Bryonia ^Bryonia and Arsenicum Album ^Arsenic may be needed to complete the favorable reaction. Ailanthus ^Ailanthus differs, being more painful. Baptisia Tinctoria more painless. Rhus Tox ^Rhus; Muriaticum Acidum ^{Muriat. Acid}; Arsenic; Bryonia ^Bryon.; Arnica ^Arnica; Echinacea Purpurea ^Echinac. Pyrogenium ^Pyrogen. Baptisia Tinctoria confusia ( Pain in right jaw and oppression in left hypochondrium, producing dyspnoea and necessity to assume erect position.)

▲   MIND

Mind

Wild, wandering feeling

Inability to think

Mental confusion

Ideas confused

Illusion of divided personality

Thinks he is broken or double, and tosses about the bed trying to get pieces together ( Cajeput.) Delirium, wandering, muttering

Perfect indifference

Falls asleep while being spoken to

Melancholia, with stupor.

Aversions, dislikes

open air

aversion to mental work

Dazed

Delirium; night

Intellectual faculties

impaired thinking; confusion; as if intoxicated

impaired thinking; dull, sluggish

Restlessness, nervousness

▲   VERTIGO, DIZZINESS

Vertigo

Vertigo; pressure at root of nose

▲   HEAD

Head

Confused, swimming feeling

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

Eyelids heavy.

▲   FACE

Face

Besotted look

Dark red

Pain at root of nose

Muscles of jaw rigid.

Expression; besotted

Skin

discoloration; bluish

discoloration; dark

discoloration; red

dark red

▲   NOSE

Nose

Sense of fullness

▲   MOUTH

Mouth

Breath fetid

Dry and brown in center, with dry and glistening edges; surface cracked and sore

Can swallow liquids only; least solid food gags.

Thrush (whitish flakes)

Gums and teeth

Teeth and gums sore, ulcerated

Discoloration; gums; redness; dark

Teeth; deposits on teeth during illness (see mucus)

Tongue

tongue feels burned; yellowish-brown; edges red and shining

Discoloration; tongue; brown

Growths, blisters, swellings; ulcers; tongue

Taste

Taste flat, bitter

▲   THROAT

Throat

Dark redness of tonsils and soft palate

Constriction, contraction of oesophagus ( Cajeput.) Great difficulty in swallowing solid food

Painless sore throat, and offensive discharge

Contraction at cardiac orifice.

Discoloration

redness; dark red

redness; uvula (lobe at back of mouth)

Inflammation

painless

tonsils; painless

Pain

sore

Spasms, convulsions etc.

gullet

gullet; can only swallow liquids

gullet; on swallowing

closing gullet

Swallowing; difficult; solids

Swelling; tonsils

Ulcers; throat at back of mouth

▲   CHEST

Chest

Pain; sore, bruised; breast; nipples

Respiration

Lungs feel compressed, breathing difficult; seeks open window

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

Decubitus.

▲   SKIN

Skin

Livid spots all over body and limbs

Burning and heat in skin ( Arsenicum Album ^Arsenic) Putrid ulcers with stupor, low delirium and prostration.

Abnormal growths; ulcers; discharges; offensive

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Gastric fever

No appetite

Constant desire for water

Sinking feeling at stomach

Pain in epigastric region

Feeling of hard substance ( Abies Nigra ^{Abies Nig}.) All symptoms worse from beer ( Kali Bich ^Kali-bich.) Cardiac orifice contracted convulsively and ulcerative inflammation of stomach and bowels.

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

Dysentery of old people.

Pain; sore, bruised, tenderness, etc.

Vomiting

Stomach; Can swallow only liquids, vomiting due to spasm of oesophagus

▲   RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Rectum

Diarrhoea; painless

Stool

Copious

Odour

offensive

putrid

▲   GENITALS ETC

Urine

Alkaline

Odour; offensive

Male

Male; inflammation; testes

Genitals

Female; Threatened miscarriage from mental depression, shock, watching, low fevers

Lochia acrid, fetid

Puerperal fever.

Menses

Menses too early, too profuse

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Pain; sore, bruised

▲   FEVER AND CHILL

Fever and chill

Chill, with rheumatic pains and soreness all over body

Heat all over, with occasional chills

Chill about 11 a.m

Adynamic fevers

Typhus fever

Shipboard fever.

In the open air

Night

Fever without chill; night

Continued fever

night

dazed from fever

Infectious fevers

Septic fever (see infectious, continued, from childbirth, etc.)

▲   GENERALITIES

Sleep and dreams

Sleepless and restless

Nightmare and frightful dreams

Cannot get herself together, feels scattered about bed

Falls asleep while answering a question.

Comatose

Deep

Falling asleep; when answering

Sleepiness, tiredness

Generalities

Aversion to open air

Pain

sore, bruised; externally

sore, bruised; internally

Symptoms not symmetrical; right

Weakness (see lethargic, weariness)

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