Baptisia Tinctoria

Homeopathy Medicine Homeopathic Remedy

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 to 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. ).

Dysentery 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. ).

Relation. – 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.

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