BAPTISIA


Baptisia homeopathy medicine – drug proving symptoms from Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica by TF Allen, published in 1874. It has contributions from R Hughes, C Hering, C Dunham, and A Lippe….


Introduction

Baptisia tinctoria, R. Br.

Natural order: Leguminosae.

Mind

The brain a little stimulated.

Febrile excitement of the brain, like a beginning febrile delirium in a greater degree.

A sort of excitement of the brain which is the preliminary, or rather the beginning, of delirium; with him it never fails to take place if the fever continues, and increases to considerable intensity.

Disposition to talk.

Low spirits (third day).

Unhappy (second day).

Felt very gloomy for several days (third day).

Cannot confine his mind; sort of wild, wandering feeling.

Mind seemed weak, rather than confused (second day).

Inactive mind.

Indisposed to think; want of power to think (second day).

Dull, stupid feeling after breakfast.

Very distinct recollection of what he had been reading.

Inability to memorize as usual.

Head

Confused feeling in the head.

Slightly confused feeling of the brain.

Dulness in the head.

A little dulness of the head (second day).

Slight dulness in brain all day (second day).

Dull, stupid feeling all over the head, with severe pain at the occiput.

Morning, after rising, dull heavy feeling head and headache.

Head feels very heavy.

Head feels heavy as though he could not sit up.

Head feels very heavy with pain in occiput (after one hour).

Swimming sensation, very like that experienced before the operation of an emetic.

Slight dizziness and languor.

Vertigo Vertigo and sensation of weakness in the entire system, especially in the lower limbs, with weak knees.

Headache day and night, causing a sensation of wildness.

Pain in base of brain, with lameness and drawing pain in cervical muscles (after twenty minutes).

Heavy pain at base of brain (after twenty minutes).

Slight pain of head, with bruised feeling of forehead (third day).

Head felt large.

Head feels large and heavy (after twenty minutes).

Head dull headache, very much worse by moving (30 grains crude bark), (second day).

Dull, heavy headache (second day).

Dull, heavy, pressive headache.

Slight pressive headache and dull pain in loins (from subcutaneous injection of 10 drops).

Soreness of brain, worse when stooping.

Noise increases the headache.

Severe headache in front (third day).

Pain in the whole anterior part of the head and in the forehead.

Some headache in front, afterwards passing to the back part.

In morning, headache in front part of brain.

Frontal headache, with feeling of fulness and tightness of the whole head (after twenty minutes).

Frontal headache, with pressure at root of nose (after twenty minutes).

Severe frontal headache, with pressure at root of nose (after one hour).

Slight pain in the frontal sinuses, mostly in the right side.

Slight pain in the right frontal sinus.

Severe pain in frontal sinuses, followed by sneezing.

Heat in forehead (second morning).

Skin of forehead feels very much contracted.

Feeling of tightness across forehead, with pain over right eye (after two hours).

Skin of forehead feeling very tight, with sharp pain in temples.

Skin of the forehead feels as if drawn very tightly over the forehead, with sharp pain over right eye (immediately).

Skin of forehead felt as if it would be pulled to the back part of the head, with numb feeling of forehead and face (from subcutaneous injection of 10 drops, after ten minutes). Dull pain in front part of head.

Dull pain in forehead.

In the afternoon, dull pain in the anterior lobes of the brain and in the right frontal sinus.

Dull, heavy pain in forehead.

All the evening, dull frontal headache, with smarting of the eyes and a drawing pain down nose.

Constant dull frontal headache, and dull pain in bowels all the evening.

Pressive pain in forehead.

Dull pressive pain in the forehead (after three hours).

Feeling as if the forehead would be pressed in (from subcutaneous injection of 10 drops, after half an hour).

In evening soreness in the front part of the head on moving the eyes or turning them upward.

Frequent pains in right temple.

Dull pain in both temples, growing more and more intense.

Sharp pains in both temples (after three hours).

Sharp pains in temples, very often (30 grains crude bark), (second day).

Sharp pains by spells in right and left temple.

Burning on top of head and soreness of scalp.

Dull feeling, especially in the occiput, where there was slight pain and fulness (after one and a half hours).

Dull pressure in occiput (second morning).

Soreness of scalp (after one hour).

Eyes

Eyes shining.

Congestion of the vessels of the eye; they look red and inflamed.

Eyes feel swollen, with burning and slight lachrymation.

Eyes feel as if being pressed into head, with great confusion of sight; cannot place anything until she looks at it a few seconds; everything appears to be moving.

Eyes smart and ache severely.

Frequent pressive pain over right eye.

Sharp pain over right eye, then over left.

Partial paralysis of the eyelids; it is very difficult to keep them open.

Lachrymation on going into the open air (third day).

Walking in open air produced continual and profuse lachrymation (third day).

Soreness of eyeballs.

Eyeballs feel sore and lame on moving them (after twenty minutes).

Ears

Dulness of hearing.

Nose

Sneezing, and feeling as after taking a severe cold (after twenty minutes).

Catarrh.

Thick mucous discharge from nose.

Dull pain at root of nose.

Severe pressure at root at nose (after twenty minutes).

Soreness extends to posterior nares (after twenty minutes).

Face

Sallow appearance of countenance.

Hot and perceptibly flushed face.

Face feels flushed and very hot.

Cheeks burn.

Burning and prickling of left side of face and head.

Mouth

Teeth and gums have been very sore for two days; by pressing on them with the finger, large quantities of blood ooze from the gums (third day). Tongue coated whitish, and slightly congested (second morning).

Slight yellow coat on tongue.

Tongue coated yellow.

Tongue coated yellow along the center (second day), Tongue coated at first white, with reddish papillae here and there, followed by a yellowish brown coating in the centre, the edges being red and shining.

Tongue coated yellow, with flat, bitter taste, (second day).

Tongue feels thick and swollen.

Tongue feels as though it had been scraped.

Numb pricking sensation of the tongue.

Well developed ulcers in the mouth.

Long continued flow of saliva.

Saliva rather abundant, some what viscid and flat tasting.

Profuse flow of sweetish bitter saliva, followed by a dryish or glutinous substance; lips stick together.

In the morning, increased flow of saliva of a pleasant taste.

Increased flow of saliva in the evening.

A most copious flow of saliva, followed by sore throat, with scraping and burning.

In a short time, an increased secretion of saliva, followed by slight pain in the right lung.

Taste of food not quite natural.

Flat taste in mouth (9 a. m., second day).

Flat, bitter taste in mouth.

Bad taste in mouth.

Filthy taste, with flow of saliva.

Throat

In the afternoon, fulness of the throat.

Slight angina; throat feels swollen or full, with oppressed respiration.

Constrictive feeling in throat, causing frequent efforts at deglutition.

Sore throat, extending to the posterior nares (after one hour).

Throat sore, and feels contracted (after twenty minutes).

Sore throat, with scraping and burning, preceded by a most copious flow of saliva.

Tickling in the throat, constantly provoking to cough.

Tonsils and soft palate look very red, but are not painful (second day).

Tonsils congested.

Tonsils and soft palate congested (second and third days).

Tonsils very much congested, with frequent inclination to swallow, which produces pain in the root of the tongue.

Fauces and tonsils very much congested.

Scraped sensation extends through the fauces.

Dryness and roughness of the pharynx, extending to the nares., with a stringent sensation, followed after a little by an increased secretion from the parts, especially the pharynx.

Raw sensation in pharynx, with a large amount of viscid mucus.

Pricking sensation in upper part of pharynx.

Stomach

Loss of appetite.

Thirst.

Constant desire for water.

Frequent gulping up of air (from subcutaneous injection of 10 drops).

Frequent eructations of flatus.

Nausea.

Slight nausea and want of appetite.

Slight nausea, with increased heat.

Feeling as though it would be a relief to vomit.

Feeling as if he would vomit, but no nausea, with severe shooting pain in the left kidney and left side of the umbilicus (from subcutaneous injection of 10 drops, after fifteen minutes).

Gone, empty feeling at stomach.

Pains in the stomach, and feeling as if there was a hard substance in it.

Severe pain every few minutes in the cardiac portion of stomach (after five hours).

A good deal of pain in epigastric region all night.

Slight pain all day in stomach and right hypochondriac region; pain in right side very severe when walking.

Slight pain in stomach and right hypochondrium, region and umbilical (from subcutaneous injection of 10 drops after half an hour).

Pain in stomach abdomen, and right hypochondrium, passing down to right iliac region (third day).

Constant pain in stomach and right hypochondriac region.

Constant pain, of a drawing character, in the epigastric and right hypochondriac regions, very severe when walking.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.