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Baptisia Tinctoria

30C / 200CBaptisia
Wild Indigo · "The Putrid Typhoid Remedy"
bapt.PolychrestPlantCommonPsoric
🎯 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 . Indescribable sick feeling. Great muscular soreness and phenomena always are present. All the secretions are offensive-breath, stool, urine, sweat, etc. Epidemic influenza. Chronic intestinal toxaemias of children with stools and .
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 syndrome. carriers. After inoculation with anti- serum. pulse, especially in the aged.
👤 Constitution
•The typical patient is in a state of physical and mental , often appearing 'besotted' or intoxicated, with a tendency toward , septic-like symptoms.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Great muscular soreness and 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 .
mouth
Can swallow liquids only; least solid food gags.
mouth
, contraction of (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, , 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).
, wandering, muttering.
Perfect indifference.
Falls asleep while being spoken to.
, with .
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

Tincture
Mother Tincture
Primary Dosage
12th attenuation
Decimal
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Arsenicum Album →Rhus Toxicodendron →Bryonia Alba →Arnica Montana →Ailanthus Glandulosa →Muriaticum Acidum →Pyrogenium →

Boericke's Materia Medica

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Baptisia Tinctoria is listed in 220 rubrics across 25 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 89 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Fever35Abdomen23Mind20Head16Throat16Tongue15Nervous System12Locomotor System10Skin8Stomach8Generalities8Mouth8Female Sexual System6Face6Eyes5Modalities4Gums4Respiratory System4Nose3Male Sexual System2Circulatory System2Taste2Ears1Teeth1Urinary System1

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