Baptisia Tinctoria bapt.

BLOOD. Mind. Nerves. Mucous membranes: Digestive tract. Left side.

Humid heat. Fogs. In room. Pressure. On awaking.

SORE, HEAVY, ACHING MUSCLES; gall-bladder, heart, etc WITH RAPID PROSTRATION; the bed is too hard, yet he feels too sick to move. Dark; mucous membranes, exudates, hæmorrhage, stools, spots in body, etc. Brown; sordes, stripe down center of tongue, stool, menses, etc. FOUL; odor of body; excretions, stool, sweat, etc. Grippe. Zymoses. Sepsis. Typhoid states. Bed sores, etc. Insensible to pain. Restless mind but lifeless body. Bewildered. Thick speech. Sensation as of a blow on occiput. Dull, drowsy, besotted look. SENSE OF DUALITY; PARTS FEEL SCATTERED ABOUT, SEPARATED, numb or too large. Dull and confused. Falls asleep while answering or does not complete his sentence. Eyes feel swelled. DUSKY, SODDEN, BESOTTED, STUPID COUNTENANCE. Dark red, tumid mouth and throat. Throat, numb inside but sensitive outside. Fetor oris. Tongue cracked, bleeds, feels thick or is heavily coated. Viscid saliva. Aphthæ. Ragged ulcers in throat. Can't swallow solids. Spasm of gullet. Easy vomiting. Diarrhœa; sudden; horribly foul, mushy, painless, dark or slaty. Symptoms radiate from small of back. Dyspnœa from weakness in chest. Air hunger; on waking, > standing. Bronchial asthma. Drowsy, stupid and languid; slides down in bed and lower jaw drops (Mur-ac.). Hyperpyrexia. Livid spots on body. Uræmia.

Related: Arn. Gel. Hyo. Lach. Mur-ac. Op. Rhus-t.

For the lymphatic temperament. Great prostration, with disposition to decomposition of fluids (Pyr.); ulceration of mucous membranes. All exhalations and discharges fetid, especially in typhoid or other acute disease; breath, stool, urine, perspiration, ulcers (Psor., Pyr.). Aversion to mental exertion; indisposed, or want of power to think. Perfect indifference, don't care to do anything, inability ot fix the mind to work. Stupor; falls asleep while being spoken to or in the midst of his answer (when spoken to, answers correctly, but delirium returns at once, Arn.). Tongue: at first coated white with red papillae; dry and yellow-brown in center; later dry, cracked, ulcerated. Face flushed, dusky, dark-red, with a stupid, besotted drunken expression (Gels.). Can swallow liquids only (Bar. c.); least solid food gags (can swallow liquids only, but has aversion to them, Sil.). Painless sore throat; tonsils, soft palate and parotids dark red, swollen; putrid, offensive discharge (Diph.). Dysentry of old people; diarrhoea of children, especially when very offensive (Carbo v., Pod., Psor.). Cannot go to sleep because she cannot get herself together; head or body feels scattered about the bed; tosses about to get the pieces together; thought she was three persons, could not keep them covered (Petr.). In whatever position the patient lies, the parts rested upon feel sore and bruised (Pyr. - compare, Arn., Pyr.). Decubitus in typhoid (Arn., Mur. ac., Pyr.).

Similar: to, Arn., Ars., Bry., Gels., in the early stages of fever with malaise, nervousness, flushed face, drowsiness, and muscular soreness. When Ars. has been properly given or too often repeated in typhoid or typhus. After Baptisia: Crot., Ham., Nit. ac. and Tereb. act well in haemorrhage of typhoid and typhus.

Gloomy, unhappy state of mind. Imagines he is in pieces, and scattered about the bed, vainly attempting to get himself together.

Heavy feeling in, as if could not sit up, causing a wild feeling; aggravated by noise.

Dulness of hearing.

Ulcers in the mouth. with salivation. Centre of tongue coated yellow, with bitter taste; dryness of mouth and tongue. Stomatitis materna; in feeble women with offensive breath.

Diphtheria, with fetid breath and ulceration of the mouth; great prostration.

Gone, empty or sinking sensation in the stomach. Vomits if a little hard substance is felt in fauces.

Fulness of, with borborygmus and diarrhœa; uncomfortable sensation in, as if it would be a relief to vomit.

Congestion of, during typhoid.

Frequent, small, offensive, acrid. Dysentery with low typhoid fever.

Female: Fetid lochia with much prostration.

Tightness of; too weak to breathe.

Delirious stupor, falls asleep while answering a question or being spoken to. Body feels scattered about, tosses around to get the pieces together. cannot sleep because he cannot get the pieces together. Head feels large and heavy, with numbness of head and face. Confusion of mind as if drunk, wild wandering feeling. Face Rushed hot and dusky, or dark red with a besotted expression. Tongue white with reddish papillae, followed by yellow brown coating in centre, edges dark red and shining. or dry and brown down the centre, cracked, sore and ulcerated. Fauces dark red, dark putrid ulcers, tonsils and parotids swollen, can only swallow water, no pain, but great prostration. Offensive dark brown mucous or bloody stools, with typhoid tendency. Difficult breathing, the lunge feel tight and compressed, must have fresh air. Feels as if lying on a board, must change position, the bed feels so hard. Indescribable sick feeling all over, feels weak, tired and bruised.

Wild Indigo (BAPTISIA)

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 toxæmias of children with fetid stools and eructations.

Baptisia in low dilutions produces a form of anti-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.

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.

Confused, swimming feeling. Vertigo; pressure 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. Eyelids heavy.

Besotted look. Dark red. Pain at root of nose. Muscles of jaw rigid.

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 swallow liquids only; least solid food gags.

Dark redness of tonsils and soft palate. Constriction, contraction of œsophagus (Cajeput). Great difficulty in swallowing solid food. Painless sore throat, and offensive discharge. Contraction at cardiac orifice.

Can swallow only liquids, vomiting due to spasm of œsophagus. Gastric fever. No appetite. Constant desire for water. Sinking feeling at stomach. Pain in epigastric 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.

Right side markedly affected. Distended and rumbling. Soreness over region of gall-bladder, with diarrhœa. Stools very offensive, thin, dark, bloody. Soreness of abdomen, in region of liver. Dysentery of old people.

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

Lungs feel compressed, breathing difficult; seeks open window. Fears going to sleep on account of nightmare and sense of suffocation. Constriction of chest.

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

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

Livid spots all over body and limbs. Burning and heat in skin (Arsenic). Putrid ulcers with stupor, low delirium and prostration.

Chill, with rheumatic pains and soreness all over body. Heat all over, with occasional chills. Chill about 11 am.Adynamic fevers. Typhus fever. Shipboard fever.

Worse; Humid heat; fog; indoors.

Compare: Bryonia and Arsenic may be needed to complete the favorable reaction. Ailanthus differs, being more painful. Baptisia more painless. Rhus; Muriat acid; Arsenic; Bryon; Arnica; Echinac. Pyrogen.

Baptisia confusia (Pain in right jaw and oppression in left hypochondrium, producing dyspnœa and necessity to assume erect position).

Tincture, to twelfth attenuation. Has rather short action.

Mind confused; as if drunk; cannot collect himself; feels scattered about, cannot get pieces together.

Face dark, dusky; eyes bleared, besotted expression.

Mouth ulcerated, with foul smell; or, dry, tongue dry in a streak down the centre.

Abdomen sensitive in right iliac region, with rumbling.

Stool loose, and urine with all other discharges; very offensive.

Awakes with oppressed feeling, must have more air.

Great prostration with aching and soreness all over. Great typhoid remedy.

Can swallow liquids only; least solid food gags.

In whatever position the patient lies the parts rested upon feel sore and bruised. (Lach., Pyr.).

Baptisia tinctoria will quite naturally come in here, as it is often indicated after the Gelsemium stage is over in fevers. Typhoid fever can be aborted under proper homœopathic treatment, no matter what the old school says to the contrary. I have had but one case of typhoid fever run its full course in seven years, and that was a case of a young lady whose mother tried to treat her, until the disease was fully established. The symptoms indicating Baptisia are, in the first stage, great nervousness, chilliness, aching pains all over, but especially in head, back and limbs, and a sensation of soreness all over; feels as if bruised. Then the patient grows weak, prostrated, drowsy, becomes confused, the face and eyes suffused so as to give it a "besotted appearance"; the sensorium is so blunted that the patient falls asleep even before he can answer a question, or while he is in the middle of an answer. Then the tongue becomes streaked down the middle, at first white, even becomes brown in a well-defined streak down the middle, and as he comes more fully under the typhoid influence he mutters and reaches about the bed, tossing to and fro, and if he says anything he says he feels "scattered around the bed and is trying to get the pieces together." Now the bowels begin to rumble, especially in the ilio-cæcal region, which is also sensitive to touch; later still the bowels begin to discharge, and all the discharges (stool, urine and sweat) are extremely offensive. This is a true picture of a Baptisia typhoid, and I have aborted in the first stage many cases and even checked their progress (in other cases) and cured them when they had been running eight to twelve days. I have used both the low and high preparations with equal success, but now use the 30th potency.

Wild Indigo (United States of America.) N. O. Leguminosæ. Tincture of fresh root and its bark.

Abortion, threatened. Apoplexy. Appendicitis. Biliousness. Brain softening. Cancer. Consumption . Diphtheria. Dysentery. Enteric fever . Eye, affections of. Gall-bladder, affections of. Gastric fever. Headache, bilious. Hectic fever . Hysteria. Influenza . Mumps. Œsophagus, stricture of. Plague. Relapsing fever . Sewer gas-poisoning . Shivering. Stomatitis. Tabes mesenterica. Tinea capitis. Tongue ulcerated . Typhus. Variola. Worms .

Baptisia has gained its greatest reputation as a remedy in typhoid fever, to the symptoms of which its pathogenesis strikingly corresponds. But it is only when it is used strictly in accordance with its symptoms that it will give successful results. When given as a matter of routine there are sure to be failures. Another disease in which it has proved specific in a large number of cases is epidemic influenza. The besotted countenance, bleary eyes, aching head, sore throat, pains and soreness all over the body, and profound prostration which are present in all typical cases indicate Baptisia before any other remedy.

Among the chief symptoms of the remedy are the following: Stupor, falls asleep whilst being spoken to, confused as if drunk. Cannot keep his mind together, a wild wandering feeling. This scattered feeling is further exemplified in the illusion that the body is double; limbs separated and conversing with each other; can't sleep because body seems scattered about and cannot collect pieces. There is a dull heavy sensation in head with drowsiness and heavy eyelids. The head feels large, with a numb feeling of head and face. Bruised headache; soreness as if in brain; bruised feeling in occiput; heavy feeling at base of brain with drawing in cervical muscles. Frontal headache with pressure at root of nose. The neck is tired, cannot hold head easy in any position. The eyes cannot bear light; burn; are weak; painful on reading. Weight on eyes; eyeballs sore, lame on moving. Blear-eyed. Lids partially paralysed. An illusion of smell "as of burnt feathers" has been caused and cured by it. Pain in left parotid gland. Flat, bitter taste. Tongue swollen; feels numb; speech difficult. Is coated whitish yellow, and feels burnt or scalded. Dry, parched, brown centre; cracked and ulcerated. Canker sores in mouth. Ulcerations. The sore-mouth of sucklings. Painlessness is a feature in the sore throat; putrid, painless, dark ulcers. Œsophagus feels constricted down to stomach; can only swallow liquids; cases of convulsive contraction of œsophagus and cardiac orifice, with regurgitation of food, have been cured by it. In one case, that of an old man, food could be swallowed and retained some days, but not on others. He had always liked very hot food. The œsophagus was red and granular. Bapt . 12 cured. Nausea, retching and vomiting. Sinking, gone feeling. Pain in liver; and especially in gall-bladder; in spleen; in right iliac region; in groins; glands swollen. Soreness of abdominal muscles and right iliac region. Fetid exhausting diarrhœa; dysentery in autumn or hot weather. Worms. The urine is high-coloured, scanty, alkaline, fetid. Orchitis, squeezed pain in testes. Hale considers it specific in threatened miscarriage from mental depression, shock of bad news, watching, fasting, or low fever. Patients in these conditions often complain of "dreadful sinking at the stomach," fetid breath and other symptoms of Baptisia . Many cases of phthisis are relieved by this remedy when the symptom and type of fever correspond. Lumbar backache. Feels as if lying on a board. Pain in sacrum. Weakness of lower limbs. Left foot much prickling and numbness. Numbness and soreness are very general in Baptisia patients. It has cured hysteria with prostration, numbness and fear of paralysis, wanted to die, rubbed hands continually, restlessness. The bed feels hard. There is excessive drowsiness. < On waking; < walking; < open air; < cold wind; < autumn or hot weather.

Compare: Arn., Arsen., Bry.; Gels. (malaise, nervousness, flushed face, drowsiness, and muscular soreness); Ecchin. angust., Hyo., Kali mur., Lach., Mur. ac. and Nit. ac. (typhoid); Nux v., Op., Rhus t. Follows well: Ars. is followed well by: Tereb., Nit. ac., Ham. Silic has, like Bap., ability to swallow only liquids (like milk), but unlike Bap., Silic has aversion to milk. Ecchinacea angustifolia is perhaps its nearest analogue.

Stupor; falls asleep while being spoken to, or answering; heavy sleep till aroused; awakes only to again fall asleep in the midst of his answer, which he vainly endeavours to finish. — Indisposed to think, want of power; mind seems weak, confused, as if drunk. — Cannot confine his mind: a sort of wild, wandering feeling. — Gloomy, unhappy state of mind. — Body feels scattered about, tosses around to get the pieces together; cannot sleep because he cannot get pieces together. — Mind wanders as soon as the eyes are closed. — Mentally restless but too lifeless to move. — Indisposed to think; inability to memorise. — < When thinking of pains in various parts of body.

Vertigo, and weak feeling of entire system, esp. lower limbs and knees. — Vertigo, with paralysis of eyelids. — Peculiar feeling in head, which is never felt except during fever, excitement of brain such as precedes delirium. — Dull, heavy pressive headache. — Frontal headache, with pressure at root of nose; with feeling of fulness and tightness of whole head. — Head feels large and heavy, with numbness of head and face. — Sharp darts of pain in supraorbital nerve at foramen. — Frequent sharp pains by spells in r. and l. temple. — Soreness in the brain, worse on stooping. — Top of head feels as if it would fly off. — Dull, bruised feeling in occiput. — Skin of forehead feels tight. — Scalp feels sore. — Sensation as if head swelling. — Neck feels so tired she cannot hold her head easy in any position.

Cannot bear light eyes burn but do not water. — Feeling as if eyes would be pressed into head eyeballs feel sore, with great confusion of sight; cannot place anything until after looking at it a few seconds; everything appears to move. — Severe pains in eyes on reading, compelling to stop. — Bloated feeling of eyes, glistening; disposition to have them half closed. — Eyeballs feel sore; sore and lame on moving them. — Partial paralysis of lids.

Dull hearing. — Delirium with almost complete deafness. — Slight pain in l. parotid gland.

Dull pain at root of nose; crampy sensation. — Sneezing and feeling as after a severe cold; slight bleeding from r. nostril of bright red blood, thick. — Epistaxis of dark blood. — Sensation of fulness; œdema of affected parts, esp. in choanæ. — Illusion of smell: as of burnt feathers.

Face flushed, dusky, hot; dark-red, with a besotted expression. — Muscles of jaw rigid.

Sordes on the teeth and lips. — Tongue yellow along the centre; first white, with reddish papillæ, followed by yellow-brown coating in centre, edges dark-red and shining; dry, brown down the centre; cracked, sore, ulcerated. — Filthy taste with flow of saliva. — Saliva rather abundant, somewhat viscid, tasting flat. — Numb, pricking sensation in tongue. — Putrid ulcers of the buccal cavity, with salivation. — Mouth and tongue very dry in fevers. — Putrid; offensive; fæcal breath. — Flat, bitter taste in mouth.

Pain and soreness of fauces. — Constrictive feeling in throat, causing frequent efforts at deglutition. — Throat feels swollen or full. — Fauces dark-red; dark, putrid ulcers; tonsils and parotids swollen; absence of pain, and great prostration. — Difficult deglutition; can only swallow water; œsophagus feels as if constricted from above down to stomach.

Sinking, gone feeling at the stomach. — Constant desire for water, with nausea and want of appetite. — Great thirst. — Loss of appetite; averse to nourishment and stimulants. — All symptoms < from beer. — At night, frequent pain in the epigastric region; < from turning over, which he had to do all the time. — Full feeling in stomach. — Heavy gnawing in stomach. — Burning heat rising up to throat. — Pains in stomach; feeling there as of a hard substance.

Pain in liver, from r. lateral ligament to gall-bladder; can scarcely walk, it so augments pain in gall-bladder. — Constant severe pain over gall-bladder. — Constant pain in stomach and liver; < walking; hot sensation; heavy aching in liver. — Pain in liver region on going upstairs. — Constant aching distress in stomach and umbilical region. — Pain in region of spleen, with darts of pain in body, esp. in carpus, metacarpus, and phalanges. — R. iliac region sensitive. — Fulness and distension of the abdomen. — Abdominal muscles sore on pressure. — Sharp, rheumatic pains in groins, lasting a short time but returning after short interval, < from walking. — Glands of l. groin swollen; painful on walking.

Frequent small, thin, dark, offensive, and acrid stools. — Very fetid, exhausting diarrhœa; excoriating. — Stool papescent, with large quantities of mucus; no pain. — Dark-brown mucous and bloody stools, with tenesmus and typhoid tendency. — Dysentery: rigors, pains in limbs and small of back; stools small, all blood, not very dark but thick; tenesmus; great prostration, brown tongue, low fever; in autumn or in hot weather, constipation; severe, with hæmorrhoids; in afternoon. — Stricture from piles.

Stitches in region of r. kidney; shooting in l. kidney. — Burning when urinating. — Urine rather scanty, dark-red colour; alkaline; fetid. — Light-green urine.

Orchitis. — Pressing pain in l. testicle; cramp, as if squeezed.

Menses too early and too profuse. — Excites abortion. — Lochia acrid, fetid. — Puerperal fever. — Stomatitis materna.

Aphonia. — Larynx sore to touch, painful swallowing or speaking. — Fetid breath. — Awakes with great difficulty of breathing; the lungs feel tight and compressed; must have fresh air.

Constriction and oppression of the chest. — Weight and oppression in precordial region, with a feeling of unsatisfied breathing; afternoon. — Sharp pains in centre of sternum. — Dull stitches in l. nipple.

Feeling of greatly increased compass and frequency of heart's pulsations; seem to fill chest. — Pulse at first accelerated, afterward slow and faint.

Neck tired; sore down neck. — Stiffness and lameness of cervical muscles; < on moving head. — Back and hips very stiff, ache severely; < walking. — Feels as if lying on a board; changes position often, bed feels so hard; < in region of sacrum. — Dull sacral pain, compounded of a feeling as from a pressure and fatigue, from long stooping; soon extending round hips and down r. leg.

Wandering pains in all the limbs with dizziness. — Drawing pains in arms and legs; aching in the limbs.

Constant twitching in l. deltoid. — Pain in l. shoulder, extending down arm. — Pains in bones of arms and hands. — Numbness of l. hand and forearm, with prickling.

Soreness in front of thighs, < after sitting. — Limbs weak and vacillating. — L. foot numb, prickles. — Burning of top of r. foot from toes to back of foot.

Restless; does not sleep quietly; wants to be on the move. — Great languor; wants to lie down. — Tired, bruised, sick feeling in all parts of the body. — Weak and tremulous, as if recovering from a severe illness. — Great weakness, esp. in lower limbs. — Prostration, with disposition of fluids to decompose. — Indescribable sick feeling all over. — Numbness prickling and paralytic feeling over the whole body, esp. l. side. — Ulceration of mucous membranes, esp. of the mouth, with tendency to putrescence. — Discharges and exhalations fetid. — Sensation all over the body as if bruised or beaten. — Feels as if lying on a board; changes position, bed feels so hard makes him feel sore and bruised.

Great burning and heat in skin; < in face. — Livid spots over body and limbs. — Eruption like measles or urticaria. — Confluent small-pox, tardy eruption. — Foul, gangrenous, eating syphilitic sores.

Delirious stupor; falls asleep while answering a question or being talked to. — Sleeps well till 2 or 3 a.m., then restless till morning. — Drowsy, stupid, tired feeling; disposition to half close the eyes. — Restless, with frightful dreams. — Wants to get out of bed. — Cannot sleep, limbs seem scattered about so.

Chilly going into the open air; chills over the back and lower limbs. — Chilly, with soreness of body. — Whole surface hot and dry, with occasional chills, mostly up and down the back. — On awaking, 3 a.m., flashes of heat; feeling as if sweat would break out. — An uncomfortable burning all over surface, esp. face; moves to cool part of bed; finally rises, opens window and washes. — Typhoid and cerebral forms of fever. — Beginning of typhus when the so-called nervous symptoms predominate; causes sweat to break out and relieve; typhus; critical sweat on forehead and face. — Fever originating from confinement on shipboard, without good care or food. — Fetid sweat.

Unconsciousness. θ Typhus.
Stupor ; falls asleep while being spoken to, or answering ; heavy sleep until aroused ; awakes only to again fall asleep in the midst of his answer, which he vainly endeavors to finish. θ Typhus.
Confusion of ideas ; confused as if drunk.
Cannot confine his mind ; a sort of wild, wandering feeling.
Cannot go to sleep, because he cannot get himself together. θ Orchitis. θ Typhoid.
Sensation as if there was a second self outside of patient. θ Typhus.
Feels scattered about, and tosses about to get the pieces together. θ Typhus.
He thinks his gouty legs are holding a conversation with each other ; a man, æt. 60. θ Gout.
He thinks his toe is holding a confab with his gouty thumb.
Mind wanders as soon as the eyes are closed.
Delirium, especially at night, or constant, low ; stupor. θ Typhus.
Delirium and incoherent talk. θ Typhus.
Delirious stupor or fierce delirium. θ Typhus.
Low muttering. θ Typhus.
Indisposed to think, want of power ; mind seems weak.
Aversion to mental or bodily exertion, or to hear conversation about sickness or injuries ; feeble mind ; fretful. θ Spasmodic stricture of œsophagus.
A sensation as if some person touched him gently while dozing. See 37 .
Perfect indifference, does not care to do anything ; inability to fix the mind on anything.
Hopeless of recovery, and certain of death. θ Typhus.
Mentally restless, but too lifeless to move.
Restless and delirious for three weeks. θ Typhus.
Want of mental force. θ Typhus.
Worse when thinking of pains in various parts of body.

Vertigo and weak feeling of entire system, especially of lower limbs and knees.
Dizzy when stooping.
Vertigo with paralysis of eyelids.
Giddiness and severe nausea. θ Typhus.
Head feels heavy, as if he could not sit up.
Dull, heavy sensation in head with drowsiness ; unfit for mental labor.
Frequent fainting ; tongue dry, brown, in morning.

Peculiar feeling in head, which is never felt except during fever, excitement of brain, such as precedes delirium.
Head feels heavy as if he could not sit up, day and night, causing a wild feeling ; < from noise.
Dull, stupefying headache with fulness ; sensation as if a band were around forehead ; confusion of ideas ; stupor ; dull, heavy looking eyes, besotted expression ; feel as if had been drunk and was just recovering from its effects ; general debility and
nervous prostration.
Head feels large and heavy, with numb feeling of head and face ; stitches or shocks in various parts of head.
Dull, heavy, pressive headache.
A dull, heavy feeling in head, especially forehead and malar bones ; ears feel hot, yet cold to touch ; head feels swollen ; giddiness, as if he had taken liquor, < when walking.
Dull, heavy feeling in head with general languor ; eyes pain while reading by gaslight ; 2d day.
Dull, heavy, full feeling in forehead with slight frontal headache, with sensation as if temples were pressed by thumbs ; 1st day.
Pain in forehead over left eye in region of supraorbital foramen ; darts of pain in different parts of body ; 2d day.
Slight frontal headache after having been up awhile ; forehead hot ; 4th day.
Frontal headache, weighty. θ Typhus.
Dull, heavy headache, > from pressure on nasal bones and < from mental labor.
Fulness of head, with fluctuation when walking.
Frontal headache : with pressure at root of nose ; with feeling of fulness and tightness of whole head.
Pressive pain in forehead as if it would be pressed in, with sharp pains in both temples ; much < from motion.
Sharp darts of pain in supraorbital nerve at foramen.
Dull pain in anterior lobes of brain and right frontal sinus ; afternoon.
Severe pain passing from insertion of right sterno-mastoid muscle through head into orbit, causing a dull, heavy feeling in head, especially forehead, > by pressing below mastoid process.
Beating headache in forehead, with soreness in back of head, immediately below occipital protuberance, followed by hot stitches in temples.
Frequent pain in right temple ; sharp pain by spells in both.
Heavy pain at base of brain, with lameness and drawing in cervical muscles.
Fulness in head with pain behind right ear ; > having lain quiet for a short time.
Headache and pain behind right ear, > after dinner.
Severe pain in occiput with dull, stupid feeling all over head ; sharp pain over eyes.
Dull feeling in occiput, with pain and fulness of vessels.
Throbbing in head, over eyes, with weakness in limbs on going up-stairs.
Dull bruised ache in head. θ Typhus.
Dull, bruised feeling in occiput. θ Diphtheria.
Soreness as if in brain, frontal region, with pain, heat, vertigo ; < on stooping.

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Baptisia is suitable for acute diseases. It is principally a short-acting medicine, suitable for complaints that are not long lasting. So far as we know it is not an antipsoric, does not go deep into the life.

All of its acute diseases and complaints have the appearance of Zymosis, like scarlet fever, diphtheria, typhoid, and gangrenous complaints. There is one thing that is unusual about it, it brings on this septic state more, rapidly than most other remedies.

The zymotic complaints of Ars., Phos., Rhus, and Bry., are much slower in their pace. But Baptisia is suitable for typhoids that come on rapidly, and hence it is not so often suitable in idiopathic typhoids.

When an individual comes down suddenly from cold, from malaria, from drinking poisonous waters, and from any zymotic or septic cause he is hurled into bed in a few days, instead of going through a period of four, five or six weeks. The old idiopathic typhoid fevers come on slower.

Baptisia is suitable for those blood poisons that are highly septic such as the puerperal state, such as scarlet fever. He comes down perhaps with the appearance of a sudden violent break down, with a remittent fever.

But all at once it turns continued, and takes on septic symptoms. So much for its progress and its pace. Every medicine must be observed as to its velocity, as to its pace, as to its periodicity, as to its motion, and its wave.

We get that by looking at the symptoms. You take an individual who has been down in a mine, in the swam, down in the mud, in the sewers, who has inhaled foul gases, who goes into bed with a sort of stupor, from the very beginning he feels stupid. It is not gradual, but he goes down very suddenly, and he is stupid.

He is prostrated. His face is mottled. Sordes begin to appear on the teeth much earlier than in the regular typhoid. The abdomen becomes distended much earlier than in a regular typhoid; that is one who is accustomed to observing those things knows they are postponed for a number of days; while with this remedy the third day the abdomen is distended, his mouth is bleeding, and is putrid.

His odors are horrible; and he is in a marked state of delirium, such as would not be expected until the typhoid is out for many days. So it has rapid running diseases. It has velocity.

That is, he is going down toward death rapidly. He is increasing in his prostration more rapidly than usual. It is not a gradual decline of days and weeks.

He goes into a state of stupor. When aroused he takes on delirium. It does not matter whether it is scarlet fever, or typhoid fever, or a septic surgical fever, or a puerperal fever, or what.

He has fever, and if you look at him, and talk to him, and turn him over, and rouse him up, and make him realize that you want to say something to him - which is difficult - he gives you the impression that he has been on a big drunk.

That is the first thought you will have in a Baptisia case. His countenance is besotted. It is bloated and purple and mottled. Blood oozes from the mouth. You have seen the besotted countenance of drunkards, and it is like an old drunkard.

His mind seems to be gone. He does not know what be is talking about lie is in confusion, and when aroused be attempts to say some thing, and utters a word or two and it all flits away, and he is back in his state of stupor again.

No matter what disease that comes in, no matter what inflammation is present, no matter what organ is inflammed, if that state of the blood that can give rise to such symptoms and such sepsis is present, if that state of the mind is present, it is Baptisia.

All of the discharges are putrid. The odor is cadaverous, pungent; penetrating. His perspiration, if he has any, is sour, foetid, pungent, and penetrating.

If he has no sweat the body gives off an odor that is unaccountable. The odor is so penetrating that on going into the front door the whole house, if the room is open, is filled with the odor. The odor from the stool is putrid and so penetrating that it can be detected on first going into the house.

Now, a strange thing that runs through the remedy is a peculiar kind of mental confusion, in which he is in a constant argument with his parts.

He seems to feel that there are two of him. He realizes a dual existence whenever he is roused up. He will begin talking about the other one in bed with him.

It is said clinically that

"his great toe is in controversy with his thumb."

Or, "one leg is talking to the other leg."

Or, one part is talking to another part; or, he is scattered around over the bed; tumbles and you ask him what he is trying to do.

"why, I am trying to get those pieces together."

He never succeeds; he is in delirium, Of course these are only examples; you will get a new phase every time you get a Baptisia case.

Most of the time he is un conscious except when roused. Sometimes mutters. You will see his lips go, and you rouse him to see what he is about, and he is trying to get the pieces together.

"Confused as if intoxicated."

There are stages when he is not quite so stupid, and he is sleepless and restless. That is the exception. Most, generally you will find him lying upon one side curled up like a dog, and he does not want to be disturbed.

Again, when the stupor is not so great he is restless and turns and tosses. In that case he cannot sleep, because he cannot get the pieces together. He feels if he could once get matters together he could go to sleep, and these parts that are talking to each other keep him awake. His mind wanders as soon as his eyes are closed. Dullness, especially at night. Indisposition to think. Mind seems weak.

There you find the whole picture of the mental aspect in all complaints, in all acute diseases but they all come on in a hurry.

They are zymotic, of a low form such as scarlet fever, such as malignant diseases; and yet it takes on a continued type of fever.

These patients will die in from ten to twelve days if let alone. Whereas, ordinary typhoid will run for weeks, and sometimes die at the close of four weeks in a crisis.

The bleedings are black and offensive. The putridity is marked. In the mouth, the mucus from the throat and nose is bloody and putrid. It has a diarrhoea.

Thin, faecal, watery, yellow. It has a typical typhoid discharge; the most typical typhoid stool is like yellow corn-meal mush, coming on many times a day, but soft, pappy, just about the consistency of soft mush.

This remedy has that stool, but it is not the commonest form - but the black, the brown, the dark. In treating a good many cases of typhoid it was my fortune to observe a large number of Baptisia cases, which the remedy cured promptly.

The stool where the Baptisia did the most service was like ground up slate, slate colored, brownish. The odor was penetrating. In addition to that I have seen this medicine cure that kind of diarrhoea when it was slate colored, even thin as water, if it was horribly putrid like decomposed meat; like the cadaver, attended with great prostration.

I have seen it cure that diarrhoea when there were none of the elements of typhoid fever present a simple prostrating form of diarrhoea.

Exhaustion. Exhaustion comes rapidly. In three days he has a deathly sinking coming over him.

The headaches are nondescript. Only those congestive attacks, frontal headaches - violent pains in the head, and especially in the occiput, such as occur in the low forms of disease.

I hardly ever go into the details of headaches. Baptisia is not a headache remedy. It is not a remedy that we would single out to treat headaches with, except such violent pains in the head of a congestive character that are associated with this low form of fever.

It has characteristic eye symptoms. Congestion. Redness.

Pains in the eyes, and back of the eyes. So it has with hearing. So it has with nasal symptoms. But associated with fevers. But as soon as we come to the face we begin to realize the Baptisia symptoms, that besotted expression.

The countenance shows that. The eyes show it, the face shows it. And these are the symptoms:

"Dark red with besotted appearance. Hot and perceptibly flushed; dusky."

That tells the whole story. Burning; beat in the face.

"Critical sweat on forehead and face. Anxious, frightened look."

On rousing from sleep looks as if he had a horrible dream.

And then comes the mouth, and the teeth, and the throat, and the tongue, all show marked Baptisia features.

The tongue is swollen, painful, offensive. Covered with black blood. Raw; denuded. Stiff and dry as leather. Described as if it was made of wood, or burnt leather; ulcerated. Ulceration runs all through the remedy.

Aphthous patches. These little ulcers that start no bigger than a pin-head become black and are so offensive and run together so that the whole surface of the mouth will be in a state of ulceration; raw and denuded, oozing a thick saliva that is putrid.

The throat takes on ulceration; is raw and bleeding.

There may be diphtheritic exudations in the throat, but round about it there are those low, dark, offensive surfaces. The throat is greatly swollen, and it is with difficulty that he can swallow.

Baptisia has been a very useful remedy in gangrenous sore mouth and sore throat.

"Cancrum oris." The ulcers spread rapidly and eat rapidly.

They are really phagedenic. Sordes form rapidly on the teeth. And when he is roused from sleep after a few hours of stupor there is a building up on the lips and around the corners of the mouth ridges of dry blood; very offensive.

Bleeds much from the mouth, throat and nose. Thick oozing. Putrid.

"Tongue red, and dry in the middle, The roof of the mouth swollen and feels numb. Foul or bitter nauseous taste in the mouth. Tongue of a dark hue. Tongue dry, brown down the centre. Tongue covered with a thick, brown crust. Tongue yellowish white, deeply furred."

Ulcers all over the mouth. Baptisia has cured the ulcerated sore throat of young mothers - and nursing sore mouth in children, when the parts become dusky and ulcers spread, and the mouth is putrid, and prostration is coming on rapidly. The child or the mother is growing weak with great rapidity, is becoming prostrated.

Now, all this without fever.

Many of these ulcerative states in Baptisia are not attended with fever, it seems sometimes as though there were not life enough to get up a fever. Aphthous appearance in typhoid, in children, and with nursing mothers.

Canker sores in the mouth.

"Putrid ulceration of the whole buccal cavity."

Now, with all this trouble saliva pours into the mouth, is thick and ropy and runs all over the pillow; like we find in Mercury.

The sore throat may be gangrenous. A strong feature of it is that the ulcers are rapid and painless, as if numb, without sensation. But it has a painful sore throat.

"Fauces dark red; dark, putrid ulcers; tonsils and parotids swollen. Putrid sore throat. Tonsils and soft palate swollen, not accompanied by pain."

Great swelling; great tumefaction; purplish.

The darker it is the more likely would I be to think of Baptisia -but never a bright red. I have never seen the Baptisia mental state associated with a bright red appearance. That low form of mental state is associated with blood decomposition, with duskiness, with a dark appearance of the skin, and of the mucous membranes. Not bright red, not pink, as we find in Bell.

Bell is more commonly bright red, although it has duskiness, but nothing to the extent of Baptisia.

There is nothing like the putridity in Bell. that there is in Baptisia.

"Oesophagus feels as if constricted from above down to stomach."

Now, we have another phase of it. From the sore throat the trouble extends into the oesophagus, and the oesophagus is at first in a state of spasm. Later it is paralyzed. Fluids will at first go down the throat, but he cannot swallow a particle of solids.

The bolus of food will go into the upper end of the oesophagus and there it chokes him and feels like a lump, and he chokes and struggles and gags and throws it back, and then takes water or fluids.

He can swallow fluids but he cannot swallow solids. Every particle of solid food gags; but he can swallow liquids. Natr. mur. and quite a number of other remedies have spasms of the oesophagus coming on with nervous complaints, but in this low state I know of no other medicine having that one symptom, having these features, and the paralysis, and the spasmodic condition of the oesophagus.

"The oesophagus feels as if constricted from above down to the stomach."

Constrictive feeling causing frequent efforts at deglutition; throat sore, feels constricted. Can swallow only liquids. Children cannot swallow solids. The smallest solid substance causes gagging, thus he cannot use anything but milk; sometimes, thin, watery, offensive passages day and night; associated with the putridity, with the offensiveness, with the duskiness and with the prostration.

You need to know no more, if it is diphtheria, or scarlet fever, if it is typhoid fever, that will lead you to a certain remedy.

"Paralysis of the organs of deglutition."

To draw out from every remedy that which is positive to get the associations that make up a particular remedy and that only is the duty of every clinician.

The abdomen is distended; the stomach is distended. We may have these symptoms in inflammation of the liver, when this remedy would be useful. Along with the diseases that I have mentioned, tympanitic abdomen.

Great soreness in the right iliac fossa; so sore and tender, no bigger than a fist; but all of this putridity, - I am sure, would prevent you from using a knife to cut off that little appendix.

"Foetid, exhausting diarrhoea. Aphthous diarrhoea which means that the parts of the anus that roll out are ulcerated, little aphthous patches inside of the margin."

"Involuntary diarrhoea."

Involuntary urine and stool in these low forms of disease.

"Dark brown, mucous and bloody stools. Foetid stools."

It has dysentery. After confinement the lochia stops. Great tenderness of the abdomen. All these putrid signs-breaking down of the blood, the appearance of the face, the sudden prostration, suddenly becoming stupid; and add to that the mental symptoms-these are all signs for Baptisia in puerperal fever.

Now, intermingled with this after the case has been running on a few days the limbs become helpless and tremulous.

The tongue when it is put out is tremulous. The hand when it is raised is tremulous, and the limbs are tremulous. Quivering all over the body. Prostration. increases. The jaw drops and he lies upon the back unconscious, with the mouth wide open. He gradually slides down toward the foot of the bed.

A peculiar sort of paralytic weakness. This is how the prostration increases with the disease; but even yet when he is as low as this, with the signs present, Baptisia will break that fever. Baptisia will stop the typhoid fever, when it is indicated. Prostration and trembling Huddles down in bed, feels as if sinking away.

Lies in a semiconscious condition when she appears dying. Excessive drowsiness. Delirious stupor, Lies in a semi-comatose state.

"Discharges and exhalations foetid."

Breath, stool, urine, ulcers; all putrid. Ulceration of mucous membranes.

For the lymphatic temperament.

Great prostration, with disposition to decomposition of fluids (Pyr.); ulceration of mucous membranes.

All exhalations and discharges fetid, especially in typhoid or other acute diseases; breath, stool, urine, perspiration, ulcers (Psor., Pyr.).

Aversion to mental exertion; indisposed, or want of power, to think.

Perfect indifference, does not care to do anything; inability to fix mind on work.

Stupor; falls asleep while being spoken to or in the midst of his answer (when spoken to, answers correctly, but delirium returns at once, Arn.).

Face flushed, dusky, dark-red, with a stupid, besotted, drunken expression (Gels.).

Can swallow liquids only (Bar. c.); least solid food gags (can swallow liquids only, but has aversion to them, Sil.).

Painless sore throat; tonsils, soft palate and parotids dark red, swollen; putrid, offensive discharge (Diph.).

Dysentery of old people; diarrhœa of children, especially when very

Great languor; wants to lie down. General malaise; feels weak, tremulous, as after severe illness; sore, bruised (Arn., Pyr.).

Chilly all day; whole body feels sore, bruised (Arn.). Chills; up and down the back (Gels.); over the back, and limbs; over the back while sitting by the fire; on going into the open air; with severe aching in muscles of whole body.

Whole surface hot and dry, with occasional chills, mostly up and down the back (Ars.). Flushes of heat; from small of back in all directions (Gels.); over the face; over the whole body; 3 A. M. with feeling as if sweat would break out. Uncomfortable burning all over surface, especially face, as if sweat would break out; had to move to a cool part of the bed. Heat at night; burning in legs prevent sleep; limbs hot, but feel cold to touch.

Fetid, frequent, but not profuse.

White at first, with red edges and papillæ; brown streak down centre; later, dry, cracked, ulcerated. Taste flat or bitter; cannot digest food.

Small, thready, weak, variable, 120–160; temperature, rises rapidly to 103–106.

Indescribable sick feeling all over. Generally weak, restless. uneasy; can confine himself to nothing; wants to be continually moving from place to place.

Dark red, flushed face, with stupid, besotted expression.

The peculiar delirium and stupor.

The bruised soreness of parts lain upon.

The marked early prostration, and tendency to a low type of fever with decomposition.

Stupor; falls asleep being spoken to, or answering.
Confusion of ideas confused as if drunk.
Cannot confine his mind, a short of wild, wandering feeling.
Indisposed to think, want of power; mind seems weak.
Body feel scattered about, tosses about to get the pieces together; cannot sleep because cannot get pieces together.
Delirium, especially at night, or constant.
Mentally restless, but too lifeless to move.

Head feels heavy as if he could not sit up.
Frequent fainting; tongue dry, brown in the morning.
Vertigo and weak feeling of entire system, especially of lower limbs and knees.

Dull, heavy, pressive headache.
Soreness of brain, worse stooping.
Frontal headache: with pressure at root of nose; with feeling of fulness and tightness of the whole head.
Dull pain in anterior lobes of brain and right frontal sinus; afternoon.
Excitement of brain, such as precedes delirium.
Frequent pain in right temple, sharp pains by spells in both.
Head feels large and heavy; with numb feeling of head and face; stitches or shocks in various parts of head.
Heavy pain at base of brain; pain in base of brain with lameness and drawing in cervical muscles.

Top of head feels as if it would fly off.
Great tightness of the skin on forehead.
Scalp feels sore.

Vessels congested, eyes look red, inflamed.
Eyes feel swollen, slight lachrymation, with burning.
Cannot bear light, eyes burn, but do not water. θ Chronic ophthalmia.
Eyeballs feel sore; sore and lame on moving them.

Dull hearing.
Roaring in ears with mental confusion.

Thick mucus from the nose.
Dull pain at root of nose.
Sneezing and feeling as after taking cold.

Face: swallow; cheeks yellow, with central deep flush; dark red, with a besotted expression; flushed, dusky; hot and perceptibly flushed.
Burning, prickling of left side of face and head.
Cheeks burn.
Face and whole head feel numb.
Muscles of jaw rigid.

Pain in articulation of lower jaw. θ Typhus.

Teeth and gums sore; by pressing with the finger, large quantities of blood ooze out.
Sordes on teeth and lips.

Taste: flat, bitter.
Tongue feels swollen, thick, makes talking difficult.
Tongue yellow along the centre; at first white, with red papillæ here and there, followed by a yellow-brown coating in centre, edges being red, shining; dry, brown down the centre. See 17, 20.
Cracked, sore, ulcerated.

Fetid odor; also after mercury.
Putrid ulceration of buccal cavity with salivation; well developed ulcers.
Cancrum oris, copious saliva; gums loose, flabby, dark, red or purple, fetid.
Mouth and tongue very dry. θ Fevers.
Stomatitis materna; breath fetid; feeble state.
Saliva rather abundant, somewhat viscid, tasting flat.

Constrictive feeling causing frequent efforts at deglutition; throat sore, feels contracted.
Fauces dark red; dark, putrid ulcers; tonsils and parotids swollen; unusual absence of pain.
Tickling in throat provoking cough; uvula elongated.
Can swallow liquids only; the least solid food gags.
Mucus abundant and viscid, can neither swallow it nor bring it up.
Œsophagus feels as if constricted from above down to the stomach; can only swallow water.

Constant desire for water; nausea, want of appetite.

All symptoms worse from beer.
After breakfast, dull feeling.

Pressure at the stomach, belching of large quantities of wind.
Nausea with eructations, followed by painful vomiting.
Feeling as if he would vomit, but no nausea, with severe shooting in left kidney and to the left of the umbilicus.

Sinking, gone feeling at the stomach, fainting; tongue brown in the morning.
Constant burning distress in epigastrium, severe colicky pains in the umbilical, and especially in the hypogastric region; rumbling in bowels.
Cramp in the stomach, evening.

Pain in liver, from right lateral ligament to gall-bladder; can scarcely walk.
Must stir about, yet motion is painful; pain over gall bladder.

Distress, dull pain in umbilical region.
Distended abdomen; fullness; flatulence, rumbling, feels as if vomiting would relieve; mushy stools.
Sharp shooting pains in bowels.
Dull aching, distress in bowels.
Right ileac region sensitive.
Abdominal muscles sore on pressure.
Glands of the left groin swollen; painful on walking.

Stools: dark, thin, fecal, offensive; soft papescent, with large quantities of mucus; of pure blood or bloody mucus.
Fetid exhausting diarrhœa, causing excoriation.
Offensive diarrhœa day and night; child can swallow nothing but milk. See 13.
Dark brown mucus and bloody stools; brown tongue. θ Typhus.
Constipation: hemorrhoids in the afternoon.
Dysentery; rigors, pains in the limbs, and small of the back; stools small; all blood, not very dark, but thick; tenesmus; great prostration, brown tongue, low fever; in the autumn, or in hot weather.

Shooting pains in region of left kidney.
Urine: scanty, dark red.
Burning when urinating.

Dull drawing in right groin and testicle, also in legs and knee-joints.
Orchitis; cannot sleep because he feels as if his body was scattered about the bed.

Threatened abortion. θ Typhoid.
Stomatitis materna.
Lochia acrid, fetid; great prostration.
Puerperal fever, with typhoid symptoms.

Very sore to the touch, swallowing or speaking.
Hoarseness.
Aphonia.
Swelling of epiglottis, mornings.
Increased secretion from the bronchial tubes and fauces, with expectoration of mucus.

Oppressed breathing, 6 P.M. with cough, right lung sore, sneezing.
A woke with great difficulty of breathing; lungs felt tight, compressed; could not get a full breath; must open window and get his face to the fresh air, burning heat of the skin, dry tongue, accelerated pulse.
On lying down difficult breathing, but no constriction of chest, must rise; afraid to go to sleep, fears suffocation.

Tickling in throat provoking cough. See 13.

Tightness of the chest; constriction.
Pain in right lung; less in the left, with soreness.

Compass and frequency of the heart's pulsations seem increased; they seem to fill the chest.
Pulse first accelerated, afterwards slow and faint.

Neck so tired he cannot hold it easy in any position; sore down the neck.
Cervical muscles stiff, lame.
Back and hips very stiff; ache severely.
Dull lumbar backache, worse walking.
Dull sacral pain, as from pressure, fatigue, long stooping; soon extends around hips and down right leg.
Feels as if lying on a board; changes position often, bed feels so hard; worst part is region of sacrum.

Pain in left shoulder, extending down arm.
Feels sore and stiff about shoulders and chest.
Numbness of left hand and forearm, with pricking, worse from movement; sharp darting pains through fingers.
Hands feel large, tremulous.

Lower limbs weak, vacillating when walking.
Soreness in anterior portion of thighs, worse after sitting awhile.
Drawing in the hips and calves.
Cramp in calves whenever he moves them.
Left foot numb, prickling.

Aching in limbs.
Drawing in arms and legs.

Motion: 18, 32, 33, 36. Moving eyes: 5.
Walking: 18, 19, 31, 33. Must walk: 18, 36. Stooping: 3, 31. Going to bed: 19. Lying down: 26. Wants to lie down: 35. Cannot lie down in one place, must rise: 26. Position of head not easy: 31. Sitting: 33; by a fire: 40. Parts rested on: 40. Lower jaw dropped; slides down in bed, lies with head thrown back.

Restless, uneasy, could confine himself to nothing; wanted to be moving from place to place, evening.
General weak feeling, but worse of lower limbs.
Great languor; wants to lie down.
Paralysis of whole left side; left hand and arm numb, powerless.
Slides down in bed; feels as if sinking away.
Indescribable sick feeling all over.

Delirious stupor; falls asleep while answering a question or while being talked to.
Afraid to go to sleep, fears nightmare and suffocation. See 26.
Drowsy, stupid, tired feeling; disposition to half close eyes.
Slept well until about 3 A.M., then restless until morning; tosses about.
Restless; does not sleep quietly.
Cannot sleep; head or body feels scattered about the bed.
Restless, with frightful dreams.
Quiet but persistent wakefulness; melancholy.

Morning: 2, 17, 25, 37. Forenoon: 40. Afternoon: 3, 20. Evening: 17, 36, 40. Night: 1, 40. 3 A.M.: 37, 40. During the day: 40. Day and night: 20.

Warmth of fire: 40. Open air: 26. Hot weather: 20. Autumn: 20.
Averse to open air. θ Sore throat.
Chilly, 10 or 11 A.M., afternoon glowing heat. θ Lung troubles.

Chilly all day; whole body feels sore; chill over the back while sitting by a fire, forenoon.
Chilly going into the open air; chills over the back and lower limbs; evening.
Whole surface hot and dry, with occasional chills, mostly up and down the back.
Heat at night; burning in the legs preventing sleep.
Limbs feel hot, except the feet, which are cold.
On awaking at 3 A.M., flashes of heat, feeling as if sweat would break out.
Flashes of heat from small of back in all directions; dull, heavy aching, great prostration.
Excellent in phthisis; chills 10 A.M. and 3 P.M.; high fever, drowsiness.
Typhoid and cerebral forms of fever; beginning of typhus when so-called nervous symptoms predominate.
Fever originating from confinement on shipboard, without good care or food.
Early stages, white tongue, red edges; or brown, or yellow-brown down centre; bitter or flat taste; cannot digest food; stools frequent, yellow; gurgling and slight sensitiveness of right iliac region; pulse high; fever tends to increase; parts rested on are sore. θ Typhoid.
Sensation as if there was a second self outside of him. θ Typhoid.
Sweat breaks out and relieves; critical sweat on forehead and face. θ Typhus.
Fetid sweat; frequent sweating; also worse from small of back in all directions.

Pain in spells: 3.

Right: 3, 17, 18, 19, 22, 26, 28, 31, 40. Left: 8, 16, 17, 19, 21, 28, 32, 33, 36. Above downwards: 13, 31, 32, 43. Up and down: 40. From small of back in all directions: 40.

As if too large: head, hands.

Prostration, with disposition of the fluids to decompose.
Stiffness of all the joints, as though strained; rheumatic pains and soreness all over the body.
Discharges and exhalations fetid.
Ulceration of mucous membranes, especially that of the mouth, also with tendency to putrescence.

Intolerance of pressure; hence must often change position; feels as if bed-sores would form.
Touch: 25. Pressure: 10, 19.

Burning all over the skin, worse in the face.
Livid spots in the body and limbs; not elevated; of irregular shape.
Eruption like measles, urticaria.
Eruption thick on palatine arch, tonsils and uvula; breath fetid; salivation; prostration, θ Variola.

Children; offensive diarrhœa.
Old people; dysentery.

Cognates: Arnic.; Arsen; Bryon; Gelsem. (especially in the malaise, nervousness, flushed face, or drowsiness and muscular soreness in early stages of typhoid); Hyosc.; Kali chlor.; Laches; Mur. ac.; Nitr. ac.; Nux vom.; Opium; Rhus tox.

The wild Indigo of America, Baptisia tinctoria R. Br., is a perennial herb belonging to the Leguminosæ. A tincture is prepared from the fresh root.

It produces profound depression, with a tendency to disorganization of the blood; low type of fever and conditions simulating malarial poisoning (dysentery and typhoid fever).

Compare Rhus, Arnica, Gelsem., (Apis, Bry., Phyto., etc.). ▶ Paralytic symptoms, Lathyrus, Oxytropis, Physostigma.

Intolerance of pressure on all parts, could not rest back against chair without pain, obliged to change sitting posture often even the feet were painful from resting on floor (Arn., Bry.). ▶ Pains in all parts on which he lay, each time after waking from nightmare especially in sacral region and hips, inducing the conviction that the position would soon cause bed-sores, obliged to lie on his face to relieve the back and hips (Arn.). ▶ Rheumatic pains in right side. ▶ Erratic pains in various parts.

▶ Indescribable sick feeling over whole body. ▶ Feeling as if he had taken cold, soreness of throat and sneezing. ▶ General feeling of having slept too long and too hard, with bloated feeling in eyes. ▶ Restlessness (Rhus); does not sleep quietly, wants to get upset does not want to R. in evening. ▶ Faintness; with trembling of legs and aching in them. ▶ Weakness; after alight dinner at 3 P.M., with sleepiness; especially in lower limbs with weakness and vertigo (Gelsem.); in all parts, with bruised and sick feeling yet does not feel very badly; with tremulous feeling as if recovering from a fit of sickness and as yet incapable of vigorous mental or physical exertion; amel. walking in open air which causes lachrymation; with flashes of heat from small of back in all directions. ▶ Indisposition to move (Bry.). ▶ Feeling of inability to makes physical or mental exertion on going to bed. ▶ Weariness of whole left side of body; in back and lower limbs especially right after walking and in right shoulder and arm. ▶ Stiffness and soreness over whole body, with dread of motion; stiffness of all joints as if strained. ▶ Paralysis of whole left side, left arm and hand numb and powerless. ▶ Aggravation of all symptoms after a glass of beer (Rhus).

Weary bruised feeling over the whole body, especially in the limbs. ▶ Hysteria with great physical prostration, with numbness and fear of paralysis, wanted to die, rubbed her hands all the item, restless. ▶ It is indicated in low types of disease, tendency to disorganization of the blood, with restless and generally with delirium or stupor. ▶ It may be useful in low typhoid states of a great variety of diseases all the eruptive and malarial diseases. ▶ All the secretions are offensive, even the sweat and urine with frequent attacks of faintness and exhaustion.

Excitement; of brain like the beginning of delirium. ▶ Disposition to talk. ▶ Low spirits. ▶ Mind cannot be confined a wild, wandering feeling. ▶ Indisposition to think and inability to think. ▶ Memory weak. ▶ Stupid feeling after breakfast. ▶ Weakness rather than confusion. ▶ Very distinct recollection of what he had been reading.

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Great depression, with tendency to disorganization of the blood.
A low type of fever, similar to types of malarial fever.
General intolerance of pressure everywhere.
Cannot continue leaning against a chair; the feet even become painful when resting on the floor; obliged to change position often.
A sensation, when lying some time at night, as though bedsores would form on the hips, so that he shifts his position, and even lies on his face to relieve the sensation.
An indescribable, sore feeling everywhere.
General restlessness; cannot sleep quietly.
Weakness, especially of the lower extremities; the knees give way, sometimes with vertigo, or with a tremulous feeling, as though recovering from illness.
Incapable of physical or mental effort.
Paralytic symptoms of the whole left side.

Mental confusion; a wild, wandering feeling.
Inability to think connectedly.

Clinical:
During a low type of fever, delirium, with confused ideas and incoherent muttering; especially possessed with an idea that he is trying to collect the several parts of his body.
Also useful in brain fag, with a heaviness of the head.
Aversion to mental effort and inability to think.

General soreness of the brain < stooping.
Vertigo, with weakness, especially of the lower extremities, and weak knees.
Aching at the root of the nose, with pressure.
(The head feels heavy and numb, and the skin seems to be drawn over.)

Eyeballs sore; feel lame on attempting to move them.
Partial paralysis of the upper lids.

Tongue yellow, especially in the centre, or yellowish-brown, with red shining edges.
Tongue dry on waking, feels burnt.
Ulceration of the mouth.
Salivation; saliva viscid and bad tasting.
Taste flat, bitter.

The whole throat becomes red, frequent inclination to swallow, with pain at the root of the tongue.
General sore throat with a constrictive sensation; frequent efforts to swallow.
(Occasionally indicated in diphtheria with a low type of delirium, ulceration of the mouth, etc.)

General loss of appetite.
Nausea.
More or less pain in the region of the stomach, distention and rumbling in the abdomen.

Pain in the region of the gall bladder and liver.

Clinical:
The provings and clinical experience both seem to show a marked affinity for the right side of the abdomen from the region of the liver down to the caput coli.

Diarrhœa, generally in the morning, evacuations extremely fetid, thin, usually dark colored.
Dysentery with bloody discharges.
Constipation, with distention of the abdomen.

Burning when urinating.
Urine dark red, not copious.

Breathing difficult, the lungs feel compressed: feels obliged to rise on account of fear of going to sleep, lest he shall suffocate.
Soreness of the right lung, with increased bronchial secretion.

Stiffness of the muscles and lameness.
Pain in the sacrum, as from pressure, and fatigue after long stooping, extending around the hips and down the right leg.

General aching in the limbs; a kind of drawing.
Numbness of the left knee or left foot, with a prickling.

Livid spots over the whole body.

Restless after 2 A. M.
Frightful dreams.

Clinical:
(Type of fever [typhoid], with great sensitiveness of the right iliac region, with general soreness of the abdomen, with restlessness, muttering delirium, offensive odor from the mouth and body.)
Malarial fevers, sometimes chill about 11 A. M., or a continued, low type of fever, particularly with diarrhœa and other characteristics.

Bap. / Baptist.

Baptisia truly means decay,
Means putrefaction in every way,
A putrid throat, and parts below,
A putrid stool, and mucous flow.
Is prime in Phthisis, and Typhoid,
In small-pox, too, and varioloid.
Now, when we note besotted face,
With drowsy heat, and weariness,
And waking breathless- must have air-
And bruise-like feeling hard to bear;
Ah! then we need Baptisia there.

The Baptist,- Has Typhoid fever

The Baptist, Echi Euca, is in a low room toiling for the sour twin babies.

This Baptist,-Who is subject o a besotted appearance,- Is going with Bryan to the Zoo.

Typhoid Fever: Bap., Echi., Euca., Lyc., Ars., Rhus., Mer., Tere., Lach., Mur. a., Nit. a., Hyo., Stram., Bell., Bry.

Besotted Appearance: Bap., Gel., Bry., ZN., etc.

Indicated in continuous fevers, etc., with depraved state of the blood, excessive prostration and marked muscular soreness; in diphtheria with severe constitutional symptoms.

Face cachetic, besotted, dirty; breath putrid.

Tongue coated yellowish-brown; dry in the center; edges red; cracked, sore; sordes.

Drowsy; goes to sleep before finishing a sentence.

Brain feels sore.

Pulse compressible.

Foulness of excretions.

Tenderness and soreness of the parts on which he is lying.

Wandering, muttering delirium; cannot go to sleep because she thinks parts of her body are scattered and she must put the pieces together.

Utter indifference.

Livid spots over the limbs and body.

Stools diarrhoeic, foul, dark, bloody.

Chill about 11 o'clock a. m.

Throat foul, ulcerated, as though it must be very painful; but the patient scarcely complains of it.