BAPTISIA [Bapt]:

– T. F. Allen.

Generalities
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.
Mind
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.
Head
General soreness of the brain (

William H.Burt

SPHERE OF ACTION
Through the cerebro-spinal nervous system it acts upon the system similar to typhoid fever, producing paralysis, both of sensation and motion. Has a special action upon the mucous membrane of the cavity, and lower portion of the intestinal canal, producing ulceration having a fetid odor, and a sanious character.-HALE. Glandular System.-It seems to have quite a special action upon the lymphatic glandular system. The tonsils and inguinal glands become much swollen under its action. Vascular system.-Baptisia causes a condition of the blood similar to the typhus crisis, and a state of the fluids of the body nearly identical with that occurring in low fevers.-HALE.
GRAND CHARACTERISTICS
Typhoid disease, with stupor, delirium, face dark red, and a besotted expression; eyes injected; tongue coated brown, dry, particularly in the centre; very offensive breath; sordes on the teeth; diarrhoea, with great fetor of the stools and urine.- A.E.SMALL, M.D. She cannot go to sleep because the cannot get herself together; her head feels as though scattered about, and she tosses about the bed to get the pieces together.-J.B.BELL, M.D. Wandering of the mind whenever the eyes are closed. Stupor and delirium at night. Dull stupefying headache. Confusion of ideas. While answering a question falls into a deep sleep in the middle of a sentence. Head feels too heavy, with numbness. Excitement of he brain, especially at night. Face dark red, with a besotted expression.-DR. SMALL. Confusion of sight. Soreness of the eyeballs; they feel as if they would be pressed into the head. Digestive Organs.- Tongue dry and red as if burned. Tongue coated brown, and dry, particularly in the centre.- SMALL. Pasty tongue, heavily furred.-HALE. Putrid, offensive breath.-HALE. Putrid ulceration of the buccal mucous membrane, with salivation.-HALE. Diphtheria, dark red color of the fauces, which are greatly inflamed; dark, wash-leather false-membrane covering the tonsils and fauces; much swelling of fauces, and great enlargement of the parotid glands, and tonsils; breath excessively fetid; head, back and limbs fearfully, with low adynamic fever. If you ever have a patient who can swallow nothing but liquids, give him Baptisia.:. Great difficulty in swallowing. Great sinking sensation at the epigastrium, with frequent fainting.-DR. BAYES. Violent colicky pain in the hypogastrium, before and during stool. Very fetid, exhausting diarrhoea. Dysentery; stools scanty, of blood and mucus, with severe tenesmus, and low fever. Great tenesmus, with stools of blood and mucus, without fever. For dysentery this remedy is of great value. Stools, urine and sweat all extremely fetid.-DR.SMALL. Constant pain in the region of the gall-bladder; has to move constantly but this does not remove the pain. In whatever position1 the patient lies the parts rested upon feel sore and bruised.- DR.BAYES. Soreness of the flesh and whole body, with chilliness.- DOUGLAS. Limbs tremble and are very weak.-DOUGLAS. Nights very restless, with delirium and frightful dreams. Patient must go to the door for fresh air.

-Boericke W.

-Wild Indigo.

General
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 OESOPHAGUS. [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 a.m. 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 dyspnoea and necessity to assume erect position.).
Dose
Tincture, to twelfth attenuation. Has rather short action.