Baptisia tinctoria
Wild indigo
Main symptoms
- The symptoms of this drug are of an asthenic type, simulating low fevers, septic conditions of the blood, malarial poisoning and extreme extreme weakness.
- Indescribable sick feeling.
- Great muscular soreness and putrid phenomena always are present.
- All the secretions are offensive - breath, stool, urine, sweat, etc.
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- Epidemic influenza.
- Chronic intestinal toxaemias of children with fetid stools and belching.
- Intermittent pulse, especially in the aged.
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- Wild, wandering feeling.
- Inability to think.
- Mental confusion.
- Ideas confused.
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- Illusion of divided personality.
- Thinks he is broken or double, and tosses about the bed trying to get pieces together. Delirium, wandering, muttering.
- Perfect indifference.
- Falls asleep while being spoken to.
- Deep sadness, with stupor.
What makes it better or worse
Worse
Symptoms by body part
Head
Confused, swimming feeling. Dizziness; 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. 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. 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. All symptoms worse from beer. 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. Discharge after childbirth 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. Putrid ulcers with stupor, low delirium and extreme weakness.
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.
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