BAPTISIA HOMEOPATHIC REMEDY FOR TYPHOID FEVERS

Bapt. Baptisia tinctoria. Wild Indigo N. O. Leguminaceae. United States.
Tincture of fresh root and its bark.
Historical dose: Tincture and all potencies, tincture to 30c.

Baptisia is suitable for acute diseases. It is principally a short-acting medicine suitable for complaints that are not long lasting. 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 the septic state more rapidly than most other remedies.
Baptisia tinctoria has the ill effects of anti-typhoid serum vaccinations. It affects the blood, causing septic conditions, like low fevers and malaria poisoning. The symptoms of this remedy are of an asthenic type, simulating low fevers, septic conditions of the blood, malarial poisoning and extreme prostration.

Restlessness, does not sleep quietly, wants to be on the move. Indescribable sick feeling all over. Tired, bruised, sick feeling in all parts of the body. Great languor, wants to lie down. Weak and tremulous, as if recovering from a severe illness. Prostration with disposition of fluids to decompose.

Great muscular soreness and putrid states are present. All the secretions are offensive-breath, stool, urine, sweat, etc. Indescribable sick feeling.

Another disease in which it has proved specific in a large number of cases is epidemic influenza. The besotted look, bleary eyes, aching head, sore throat, pains and soreness all over the body and profound prostration. These indicate Baptisia before any other remedy.

Chronic intestinal toxemia of children with fetid stools and belchings. Feeling of soreness, heaviness and aching of muscles is very marked. Prostration is rapid, bed feels too hard on account of soreness of muscles, yet he feels too weak to move. Mucus membranes that become dark. Discharges, stools, hemorrhages etc. are dark in color.

Lifeless body but restless mind. Chronic intestinal toxemia of children with fetid stools and belching. Insensitive to pain. Parts feel numb or too large. Restless, always rubs the hands, hysterical.

Discharges and exhalations fetid. Foul odor of the body, breath of excretions, stools, sweat, urine etc. Brown, sordes, stools, menses. Bed sores. Intermittent pulse, especially in the elderly. Dark spots appear upon the body.
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Numbness prickling and paralytic feeling over the whole body, especially left side. Ulceration of the mucous membranes, especially of the mouth with tendency to putrescence.

CLINICAL CONDITIONS
Appendicitis. Biliousness. Brain softening. Cancer. Diphtheria. Dysentery. Enteric fever. Esophagus, stricture. Eye disorders. Gall bladder disorders. Gastric fever. Headaches, bilious. Hectic fever. Hysteria.
Influenza. Mumps. Miscarriage, threatened. Plague. Relapsing fever. Septic fever. Sewer gas poisoning. Shivering. Stomatitis.
Strokes. Tabes mesenterica. Tinea capitis. Tongue ulcerated. Toxemia. Tuberculosis. Typhoid fever. Typhus. Vaccinations. Variola. Worms
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MODALITIES
Worse from open air, cold wind, autumn. Worse hot weather, humid heat, fog indoors. Worse from pressure. Worse on waking, worse walking.
MIND
Dull and confused mind. Inability to think. Indifference. Ideas confused. Aversion to mental and bodily exertion. Hopeless of recovery and certain of death. Melancholia with stupor. Falls asleep while answering or does not complete his sentence Bewildered. Delirium, wandering, muttering. Wild, wandering feeling.
Thinks he is broken or double and tosses about the bed trying to get pieces together. Imagines his limbs are talking to each other. Sense of duality. Illusion of divided personality.

HEAD
Feels too large, heavy, numb. Soreness of eyeballs. Brain feels sore. Stupor, falls asleep while spoken to. As of a blow or heavy pain on occiput.
Vertex feels as if would fly off. Brain feels sore. Skin of forehead feels tight, seems drawn to back of head.

MOUTH
Putrid, offensive breath. Thick speech. Can swallow liquids only, least solid food gags. Mouth and tongue very dry in fevers. Saliva viscid. Filthy taste with flow of saliva. Taste flat, bitter. Ulcers in the mouth. Lower jaw drops. Sore mouth of nursing child. Soft palate swollen. Putrid ulcers with salivation.

TONGUE
Tongue feels burned, yellowish-brown, edges red and shining. Brown down the center, cracked, sore, ulcerated. Tongue is dry and glistening edges, surface cracked and sore. Yellow-brown coating in center, edges dark-red and shining. Numb, pricking sensation in tongue.

THROAT
Aphonia. Larynx sore to touch, painful swallowing or speaking. Fauces dark-red, dark, putrid ulcers. Tonsils and soft palate dark red and swollen. Painless sore throat and offensive discharge. Numb inside but sensitive outside. Can swallow liquids only, least solid food gags. Ragged ulcers in the throat. Spasms of gullet. Constriction at cardiac orifice of esophagus. Constrictive feeling in throat causing frequent
efforts at swallowing.



FACE
Dusky, stupid. Besotted look. Dark red. Pain at root of nose. Muscles of jaw rigid. Cracked, bleeding lips. Pain in left parotid gland.

FOOD
Constant desire for water with nausea and want of appetite. Great thirst. Loss of appetite, averse to nourishment and stimulants. All symptoms worse from beer.
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STOMACH
Gastric fever. Can swallow only liquids. Vomiting due to spasm of esophagus. Constriction at cardiac orifice. Cardiac orifice contracted convulsively and ulcerative inflammation of stomach and bowels. Constant desire for water. Sinking feeling at stomach. Pain in epigastric region. Feeling of hard substance. (Abies-n.) All symptoms worse from beer. (Kali-bi.)

RECTUM
Intestinal toxemia of children with fetid stools and belchings. Stools very offensive, thin, dark, bloody. Diarrhea sudden, horribly foul, mushy, painless, dark or bloody stools. Dysentery of the old people with pain in limbs, small of back and rigors. Painless dysentery with fever. Stricture from hemorrhoids.

FEVER
Chill with rheumatic pains and soreness all over body. Chilly with soreness of body. High fever, sudden onset. Sweat relieves. Gastric influenza. Typhoid. Typhus fever. Shipboard fever. Heat all over with
occasional chills. Septic fevers. Fetid sweat. Typhoid and cerebral forms of fever. Beginning of typhus when the nervous symptoms predominate, causes sweat to break out and relieve. Typhus with sweat on forehead and face. The whole surface hot and dry with occasional chills, mostly up and
down the back. Flashes of heat, feeling as if sweat would break out. Uncomfortable burning all over surface, especially face.

EXTREMITIES
Muscles ache, sore and bruised pain. Feels as if lying on a board, changes position often, bed feels too hard, worse in region of sacrum. Great weakness, especially in lower limbs. Stiffness and pain, aching
and drawing in arms and legs. Wandering pains in all the limbs with dizziness. Bedsores.

SLEEP
Drowsy, stupid and languid, slides down in bed. Lies curled up like a dog on one side. Sleepless and restlessness. Nightmares and frightful dreams. Cannot get herself together, feels scattered about bed. Falls asleep while answering a question.

COMPARISIONS
(1) Echinacea angustifolia is perhaps its nearest analogue
(2) Gels., Arn., Ars., Pyrog., Bry. or Ars. may be needed to complete the favorable reaction.
(4) Rhus-t., Mur-ac., Hyos., Kali-m., Lach., Mur-ac. and Nit-ac

RELATIONS

Followed well by: Ter., Nit-ac. Ham., in typhoid Nux-v., Op., Rhus-t.
Sil. has like Bapt., ability to swallow only liquids like milk, but unlike
Bapt., Sil. has aversion to milk.
Follows well : Ars

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