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Baptisia Tinctoria

30C / 200CBaptisia
Wild Indigo · "The Putrid Typhoid Remedy"
bapt.PolychrestPlantCommonPsoric
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🎯 It acts on the blood and tissues to treat severe, low-grade fevers and septic conditions characterized by extreme exhaustion and offensive discharges.
📖 Boericke writes:
(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.
👤 Constitution
•The typical patient is in a state of physical and mental collapse, often appearing 'besotted' or intoxicated, with a tendency toward putrid, septic-like symptoms.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Great muscular soreness and putrid phenomena always are present.
introduction
Thinks he is broken or double, and tosses about the bed trying to get pieces together (Cajeput).
mind
Besotted look.
face
Breath fetid.
mouth
Can swallow liquids only; least solid food gags.
mouth
Constriction, contraction of oesophagus (Cajeput).
throat
Contraction at cardiac orifice.
throat
Sinking feeling at stomach.
stomach
Stools very offensive, thin, dark, bloody.
abdomen
Fears going to sleep on account of nightmare and sense of suffocation.
respiratory
Sore and bruised.
back and extremities
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Indicated for mental confusion, delirium, and a strange feeling of being physically fragmented during severe illness.
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.
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
💊 Dosage & Potency
Tincture
Mother Tincture
🕒As directed
Primary Dosage
12th attenuation
Decimal
🕒As directed
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Arsenicum Album →Rhus Toxicodendron →Bryonia Alba →Arnica Montana →Ailanthus Glandulosa →Muriaticum Acidum →Pyrogenium →
📚 Sources & References

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