Baptisia Tinctoria (bapt) ব্যাপটিসিয়া টিংটোরিয়া
Wild Indigo. (Leguminosae)
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ধাতুগত বৈশিষ্ট্যঃ শ্লেষ্মা ও রস প্রধান ধাতুর ব্যক্তিদের পক্ষে অধিক উপযোগী । ধূসর কৃষ্ণবর্ণের মুখমন্ডল, অপরিচ্ছন্ন ঝাপসা দৃষ্টি ও হতবুদ্ধিবৎ মুখশ্রী।
Antidote food / ঔষধের ক্রিয়ানাশক খাদ্য: কফি, কর্পূর ।
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Henry Clay Allen, William Boericke, E. B. Nash এঁর মেটেরিয়া মেডিকা থেকে নেয়া Baptisia Tinctoria ঔষধের সারাংশ:
- নিঃশ্বাস এবং সকল স্রাব (প্রস্রাব, মল মূত্র, ঘাম) পুতিগন্ধময়।
- মানসিক পরিশ্রম করতে অনীহা, বিতৃষ্ণা।
- চিন্তা ভাবনা করার শক্তির অভাব।
- উদাসীন, কোন কিছু করতে, কাজ করতে চায় না।
- কাজ করার মন মানসিকতা ঠিক করতে, মাইন্ড সেট করতে পারে না, অক্ষম।
- কাজে মন বসাতে অক্ষম।
- কারো সাথে কথা বলতে বলতে ঘুমিয়ে পড়ে (হত চেতন অবস্থা) অথবা প্রশ্নের উত্তর দেয়ার মাঝখানে ঘুমিয়ে পড়ে।
- জিহবায় প্রথমে সাদা প্রলেপ পড়ে, সাদা লেপাবৃত, সেইসাথে স্তনের বোটার মত ছোট লাল উদগম; জিহবার মাঝখানে শুষ্ক এবং হলুদ-বাদামী বর্ণ হয়; এরপর ফেটে গিয়ে আলসার, ক্ষত, ঘা হয়।
- জিহবা যেন পুড়ে গেছে-এমন মনে হয়।
- জিহবার কিনারা, প্রান্তগুলি লাল এবং উজ্জ্বল।
- শুধুমাত্র তরল পানীয় গিলতে পারে।
- ব্যথাহীন গলার ক্ষত, টনসিল।
- ভাবে যে সে ভেঙ্গে গেছে বা দুইজন হয়ে গেছে।
- তার মাথা বা শরীরের অঙ্গ-প্রত্যঙ্গ বিছানায় ছড়িয়ে ছিটিয়ে আছে; উক্ত টুকরাগুলো একত্রিত জড়ো করার জন্য এদিক ওদিক করতে থাকে।
- মনে করে, ভাবে যে সে তিনজন মানুষ, সবাইকে ঢাকতে পারে না।
- যে অবস্থাতে/ পজিসনে শয়ন করুন না কেন, শরীরের যে অঙ্গের উপর শুয়ে থাকে সেটা যেন ক্ষত এবং থেৎলানো-এমন অনুভূতি/ এমন মনে হয়।
- মাংশপেশির প্রচন্ড ব্যথা থাকে।
- চিন্তা ভাবনা করতে পারে না।
- সে যেন বিভক্ত হয়ে গেছে-এমন ভ্রান্ত বিশ্বাস, অলীক ধারনা।
- মাথাটি যেন অনেক বৃহৎ বড়, ভারী, অবশ হয়ে গেছে-এমন মনে হয়।
- শ্বাস প্রশ্বাস পুতিগন্ধময়।
- খাদ্যনালী সংকুচিত, সংকীর্ণ।
- পাকস্থলী ডুবে যাচ্ছে-এমন মনে হয়।
- টাইফাস জ্বর (জ্বরসহ গায়ে লাল ফুস্কুড়ি ওঠে এবং রোগী অত্যন্ত দুর্বলতা বোধ করে)
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রোগ আক্রমণের সঙ্গে সঙ্গে রোগী অত্যন্ত দুর্বল হইয়া পড়ে; এই দুর্বলতা ও রোগ অত্যন্ত দ্রুতগতিতে বৃদ্ধি পায়।
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পচন ও অতিশয় দুর্গন্ধযুক্ত স্রাব; তৎসহ ঘোর আচ্ছন্ন বিকার অবস্থা, অতিশয় অবসাদ ও দৌর্বল্য।
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অঙ্গে ব্যাথা এবং শারিরীক ও মানসিক অস্থিরতা।
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কুকুর-কুন্ডুলী হইয়া এক পার্শ্বে চাপিয়া পড়িয়া থাকে।
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পঁচন ও
অতিশয় দুর্গন্ধস্রাব ইহার মর্মকথা; তৎসঙ্গে ঘোর আচ্ছন্ন বিকার অবস্থা,
অতিশয় অবসাদ এবং দৌবর্ল্য, মুখমন্ডল ফোলা ফোলা ও নীলাভ ।
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ইহার নিম্নশক্তি ব্যবহার না করাই ভাল ।
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ব্যাপটিসিয়া পুরাতন পীড়ায় কখনো প্রয়োজন হয় না, নিতান্তই তরুণ পীড়ায় ইহা ব্যবহৃত হয় ।
কাতরতাঃ
মায়াজমেটিক অবস্থাঃ (মায়াজমের দোষ নষ্ট করার শক্তি)
- এন্টি-সিফিলিটিক (তৃতীয় গ্রেড)
মূল কথাঃ
- একেবারেই উদাসীনভাব-কোন কিছুরই তোয়াক্কা করে না।
- কোন কাজেই মনোযোগী হতে পারে না।
- মানসিক পরিশ্রম করতে পারে না-চিন্তা করার শক্তি নেই বা চিন্তা করতে চায় না।
- কোন প্রশ্নের জবাব দেয়ার মাঝ পথে ঘুমিয়ে পড়ে (প্রশ্নের ঠিক উত্তর দেয় কিন্তু সেই মুহূর্তেই আবার প্রলাপ বকা শুরু করে-আর্ণিকা।)
- শরীরের যে অঙ্গের উপর ভর দিয়ে শুয়ে থাকে সেই দিকেই ঘায়ের মত ব্যথা (থেৎলে যাওযার মত ব্যথা-পাইরো)।
- নিজের ছিন্ন ভিন্ন অঙ্গ-প্রত্যঙ্গ বিছানায় ছড়িয়ে আছে, উহা এক জায়গায় আনার জন্য এপাশ ওপাশ করে, সেজন্য ঘুমাতে পারে ।
- নিজেকে দুইজন বা তিনজন বলিয়া অনুভব;
- রোগের দ্রুতগতি, দুর্বলতা ও সংজ্ঞাশূন্যতা।
- কেবলমাত্র তরল দ্রব্য গিলিতে পারে, শক্ত দ্রব্য গলায় আটকে যায়।
- আক্রমণের গতি, রোগের বৃদ্ধি ও রোগের প্রবাহটি অতি দ্রুত, পচন ও ক্ষয় সাধনকারী।
- মল, মূত্র, শ্বাস-প্রশ্বাস সবই অত্যন্ত দুর্গন্ধযুক্ত।
- জিহবার ধার উ্জ্বল লালবর্ণ ও মধ্য স্থানটি লেপাবৃত।
- টাইফয়েড জ্বরে ইহা একটি মহৌষধ।
- অনেকের মতে Baptisia ব্যাপটিসিয়া একটি তরণ জাতীয় ঔষধ। স্বল্পকাল স্থায়ী ইহার কাযর্কাল।
ব্যবহারস্থলঃ অবর্ণনীয় বমনেচ্ছা, ঘুষঘুষে জ্বর, পেশী সংক্রান্ত টাটানি ব্যাথা; যাবতীয় স্রাবই দুগর্ন্ধময়; ইনফ্লুয়েঞ্জা। ইহা টাইফয়েড জ্বরের চমৎকার ঔ্ষধ। অ্যাপান্ডিসাইটিস বা উপাঙ্গ প্রদাহ, গর্ভস্রাবের আশঙ্কা, বহুব্যাপক সর্দি, ডিপথেরিয়া, ম্যালেরিয়া, আমাশয় প্রভৃতি পীড়ায় ব্যবহার্য। টাইফয়েড জ্বরের প্রথম অবস্থা হইতে শেষ অবস্থা পযর্ন্ত উপযোগী ।
ক্রিয়াস্থলঃ ইহা রক্ত বিকৃতি করিয়া মুখ, গলা ও অন্ত্রের ঝিল্লীতে ক্ষত জন্মায় এবং গতিবিধায়ক, অনুভাবক স্নায়ু আক্রমণ করিয়া অবসাদ ও পক্ষাঘাত আনয়ন করে ।
ব্যাপ্টিশিয়া তরুন রোগে উপকারী; ইহা প্রধানতঃ একটি অল্প ক্রিয়াকাল ঔষধ।
উপশম/হ্রাসঃ পুনঃপুন পার্শ্ব পরিবর্তনে; ঘাম হইলে, মুক্ত বাতাসে উপশম।
বৃদ্ধিঃ ঠান্ডা আবহাওয়ায়, শুইয়া থাকিলে, ঘরের ভিতরে, ঘুম ভাঙ্গার পরে রোগ উপসর্গের বৃদ্ধি, বিয়ার/মদ্য খেলে সমস্ত লক্ষণের বৃদ্ধি (পেট সংক্রান্ত), শরৎকালে,
লক্ষণ সূত্রঃ এম, ভট্রাচার্য্য: পৃষ্ঠা-১৬৪, এন, সি ঘোষ: পৃষ্ঠা-১৪৮, উইলিয়াম বোরিক: পৃষ্ঠা-৭৪, নরেন্দ্রনাথ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়: পৃষ্ঠা-১১৩, অতুল কৃষ্ণ দত্ত: পৃষ্ঠা-১৯৫, ই. এ. ফ্যারিংটন: পৃষ্ঠা-৩১১, জেমস টেইলর কেন্ট: পৃষ্ঠা-১৩৯, নীলমনি ঘটক: পৃষ্ঠা-১০৩, ই. বি ন্যাশ: পৃষ্ঠা-৩২৮, জে এম মিত্র: পৃষ্ঠা-১৫২, এস কে সাহা: পৃষ্ঠা-৩৪১, এইচ. সি এলেন: পৃষ্ঠা-৫৪, জন হেনরি ক্লার্ক: পৃষ্ঠা-২২৪ ।
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Baptisia Tinctoria
Wild Indigo. (Leguminosae)
H.C. Allen
Baptisia Tinctoria
Wild Indigo. (Leguminosae)
- 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.).
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.
William BOERICKE
BAPTISIA TINCTORIA
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 toxaemias 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.
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.
Head:
- 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.
Face:
- Besotted look.
- Dark red.
- Pain at root of nose.
- Muscles of jaw rigid.
Mouth:
- 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.
Throat:
- 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.
Stomach:
- Can swallow only liquids, vomiting due to spasm of oesophagus.
- 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.
Abdomen:
- 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.
Female:
- Threatened miscarriage from mental depression, shock, watching, low fevers.
- Menses too early, too profuse.
- Lochia acrid, fetid.
- Puerperal fever.
Respiratory:
- 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.
Sleep:
- Sleepless and restless.
- Nightmare and frightful dreams.
- Cannot get herself together, feels scattered about bed.
- Falls asleep while answering a question.
Skin:
- Livid spots all over body and limbs.
- Burning and heat in skin (Arsenic).
- Putrid ulcers with stupor, low delirium and prostration.
Fever:
- 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.
Modalities:
Worse; Humid heat; fog; indoors.
Relationship:
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).
Dose:
Tincture, to twelfth attenuation. Has rather short action.
E.B Nash
BAPTISIA TINCTORIA
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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.
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HOMŒOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA
by William BOERICKE, M.D.
Presented by Médi-T
BAPTISIA TINCTORIA
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.
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.
Head.--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.
Face.--Besotted look. Dark red. Pain at root of nose. Muscles of jaw rigid.
Mouth.--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.
Throat.--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.
Stomach.--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.
Abdomen.--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.
Female.--Threatened miscarriage from mental depression, shock, watching, low fevers. Menses too early, too profuse. Lochia acrid, fetid. Puerperal fever.
Respiratory.--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.
Sleep.--Sleepless and restless. Nightmare and frightful dreams. Cannot get herself together, feels scattered about bed. Falls asleep while answering a question.
Skin.--Livid spots all over body and limbs. Burning and heat in skin (Arsenic). Putrid ulcers with stupor, low delirium and prostration.
Fever.--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.
Modalities.--Worse; Humid heat; fog; indoors.
Relationship.--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).
Dose.--Tincture, to twelfth attenuation. Has rather short action.
A DICTIONARY OF PRACTICAL
MATERIA MEDICA
By John Henry CLARKE, M.D.
Presented by Médi-T ®
Baptisia Tinctoria.
Wild Indigo (United States of America.) N. O. Leguminosæ. Tincture of fresh root and its bark.
Clinical.─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.
Characteristics.─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.
Relations.─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.
SYMPTOMS.
1. Mind.─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.
2. Head.─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.
3. Eyes.─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.
4. Ears.─Dull hearing.─Delirium with almost complete deafness.─Slight pain in l. parotid gland.
5. Nose.─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.
6. Face.─Face flushed, dusky, hot; dark-red, with a besotted expression.─Muscles of jaw rigid.
8. Mouth.─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.
9. Throat.─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.
11. 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.
12. Abdomen.─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.
13. Stool and Anus.─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.
14. Urinary Organs.─Stitches in region of r. kidney; shooting in l. kidney.─Burning when urinating.─Urine rather scanty, dark-red colour; alkaline; fetid.─Light-green urine.
15. Male Sexual Organs.─Orchitis.─Pressing pain in l. testicle; cramp, as if squeezed.
16. Female Sexual Organs.─Menses too early and too profuse.─Excites abortion.─Lochia acrid, fetid.─Puerperal fever.─Stomatitis materna.
17. Respiratory Organs.─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.
18. Chest.─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.
19. Heart and Pulse.─Feeling of greatly increased compass and frequency of heart's pulsations; seem to fill chest.─Pulse at first accelerated, afterward slow and faint.
20. Neck and Back.─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.
21. Limbs.─Wandering pains in all the limbs with dizziness.─Drawing pains in arms and legs; aching in the limbs.
22. Upper 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.
23. Lower Limbs.─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.
24. Generalities.─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.
25. Skin.─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.
26. Sleep.─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.
27. Fever.─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.
A Text-Book of Materia Medica.
(Characteristic, Analytical, and Comparative.)
By Pr. Allen Corson Cowperthwaite, M. D., PH. D., LL. D.
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BAPTISIA. (BAPTISIA TINCTORIA.)
Natural order.- Leguminosae.
General Analysis.-
Acts especially upon the blood, having a disorganizing and decomposing influence, producing a state similar to that present in low forms of fever and typhoid conditions.
Through the blood it affects the mucous membranes, especially the mouth, throat, and intestines, and also involves the motor and sensory nerves, giving rise to prostration and to paralysis, both of motion and sensation.
Characteristic symptoms.
Mind.- (Baptisia)
Indisposed to think, want of power ; mind seems weak and confused (Aeth., Gels., Phos. ac., Rhus tox.) ; confused, as if drunk.
Cannot confine his mind: a sort of wild, wandering feeling.
Body feels scattered about, tosses around to get the pieces together ; cannot sleep because he cannot get pieces together.
Head.- (Baptisia)
Vertigo, and weak feeling of entire system, especially lower limbs and knees.
Dull, heavy, pressive headache. (Coni., Gels., Hydras.)
Frontal headache, with pressure at root of nose. (Acon., Kali bi.)
Head feels large and heavy, with numbness of head and face.
Soreness in the brain, worse on stooping.
Top of head feels as if it would fly off. (Cimic.)
Dull, bruised feeling in occiput.
Eyes.- (Baptisia)
Eyeballs feel sore ; sore and lame on moving them. (Bry., Cimic.)
Face.- (Baptisia)
Face flushed, dusky, hot ; dark-red, with a besotted expression.
Mouth.- (Baptisia)
Sordes on the teeth and lips. (Ailanth., Rhus tox.)
Tongue yellow along the center ; first white, with reddish papillae, followed by yellow-brown coating in center, edges dark-red and shining ; dry, brown down the center (Plumb.) ; cracked, sore, ulcerated. (Apis, Ars., Rhus tox.)
Saliva rather abundant, somewhat viscid, tasting flat.
Putrid ulcers of the buccal cavity, with salivation. (Merc., Nitr. ac.)
Mouth and tongue very dry in fevers. (Acon., Ars., Bry.)
Putrid, offensive (Arn., Hep. s., Iodi., Kreos., Nitr. ac., Puls.) ; fecal breath.
Flat, bitter taste in mouth. (Borax, Bry., Hep. s., Nux v., Puls., Sulph.)
Throat.- (Baptisia)
Constrictive feeling in throat, causing frequent efforts at deglutition. (Ars., Bell., Hyos.)
Fauces dark-red (Naja) ; dark, putrid ulcers (Mur. ac.) ; tonsils and parotids swollen ; absence of pain, and great prostration.
Difficult deglutition ; can only swallow water.
Stomach.- (Baptisia)
Sinking, gone feeling at the stomach. (Cimic., Hydras., Ign., Sep., Sulph.)
Loss of appetite.
Abdomen.- (Baptisia)
Pain in liver, from right lateral ligament to gall bladder ; can scarcely walk, it so augments pain in gall bladder.
Constant severe pain over gall bladder. (Berb.)
Right iliac region sensitive.
Fullness and distention of the abdomen. (Bry., Cinch., Caps.)
Abdominal muscles sore on pressure.
Stool and Anus.- (Baptisia)
Frequent small, thin, dark, offensive, and acrid stools. (Ars.)
Very fetid, exhausting diarrhoea. (Ars.)
Stool papescent, with large quantities of mucus ; no pain.
Dark-brown mucous and bloody stools, with tenesmus and typhoid tendency. (Ars.)
Urinary Organs.- (Baptisia)
Burning when urinating. (Acon., Ars., Canth.)
Urine rather scanty, dark-red color. (Acon.)
Respiratory Organs.- (Baptisia)
Awakes with great difficulty of breathing ; the lungs feel tight and compressed ; must have fresh air. (Ars., Carb. v., Sulph.)
Constriction and oppression of the chest.
Pulse.- (Baptisia)
At first accelerated, afterward slow and faint.
Neck and Back.- (Baptisia)
Stiffness and lameness of cervical muscles.
Back and hips very stiff, ache severely.
Dull sacral pain, compounded of a feeling as from a pressure and fatigue, from long stooping ; soon extending around hips and down right leg.
Limbs.- (Baptisia)
Drawing pains in arms and legs ; aching in the limbs.
Numbness of left hand and forearm, with prickling.
Generalities.- (Baptisia)
Restless ; does not sleep quietly ; wants to be on the move. (Acon., Ars., Rhus tox.)
Great languor ; wants to lie down.
Tired, bruised, sick feeling in all parts of the body. (Arn., Cinch.)
Weak and tremulous, as if recovering from a severe illness.
Great weakness, especially in lower limbs.
Prostration, with disposition of fluids to decompose.
Indescribable sick feeling all over.
Numbness, prickling and paralytic feeling over the whole body, especially left side.
Ulceration of mucous membranes, especially of the mouth, with tendency to putrescence.
Discharges and exhalations fetid.
Sensation all over the body as if bruised or beaten. (Arn., Ruta.)
Feels as if lying on a board ; changes position, bed feels so hard, makes him feel sore and bruised. (Arn.)
Fever.- (Baptisia)
Chilly going into the open air ; chills over the back and lower limbs.
Whole surface hot and dry, with occasional chills, mostly up and down the back.
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.
Sleep.- (Baptisia)
Delirious stupor ; falls asleep while answering a question or being talked to. (Hyos.)
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.
Skin.- (Baptisia)
Great burning and heat in skin. (Ars.)
Eruption like measles or urticaria. (Acon., Ant. crud., Coff. c., Puls.)
Therapeutic Range.- (Baptisia)
In typhoid fever (especially first stages), and adynamic conditions in general accompanying other diseases ; ulceration of the mucous membranes, especially of the mouth ; diphtheria ; stomatitis materna ; cancrum oris, etc.
Diarrhoea ; dysentery ; cerebro-spinal meningitis.
Compare.- (Baptisia)
Ars., Arn., Bry., Gels., Hyos., Merc., Mur. ac., Nitr. ac., Op., Rhus tox.
KEY-NOTES TO THE MATERIA MEDICA
by HENRY N. GUERNSEY, M.D.
Presented by Médi-T
BAPTISIA TINCTORIA
Mental.--Gloomy, unhappy state of mind. Imagines he is in pieces, and scattered about the bed, vainly attempting to get himself together.
Head.--Heavy feeling in, as if could not sit up, causing a wild feeling; aggravated by noise.
Ears.--Dulness of hearing.
Mouth.--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.
Throat.--Diphtheria, with fetid breath and ulceration of the mouth; great prostration.
Gastric.--Gone, empty or sinking sensation in the stomach. Vomits if a little hard substance is felt in fauces.
Abdomen.--Fulness of, with borborygmus and diarrhœa; uncomfortable sensation in, as if it would be a relief to vomit.
Liver.--Congestion of, during typhoid.
Stools.--Frequent, small, offensive, acrid. Dysentery with low typhoid fever.
Sexual.--Female: Fetid lochia with much prostration.
Chest.--Tightness of; too weak to breathe.
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