Baptisia Tinctoria

Baptisia Tinctoria
The following are the indications of Baptisia Tinctoria, as it relates to this part. Strongest indications are in bold, the next strongest are in italics, and the remaining indications are in a plain typeface.

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.

mind, aversions, dislikes, open air;

mind, aversions, dislikes, aversion to mental work;

mind, dazed;

mind, delirium, night;

mind, intellectual faculties, impaired thinking, confusion, as if intoxicated;

mind, intellectual faculties, impaired thinking, dull, sluggish;

mind, restlessness, nervousness;

VERTIGO, DIZZINESS

Vertigo, pressure at root of nose

vertigo, dizziness;

HEAD

Confused, swimming feeling

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.

face, expression, besotted;

face, skin, discoloration, bluish;

face, skin, discoloration, dark;

face, skin, discoloration, red;

face, skin, discoloration, red, dark red;

NOSE

nose, sense of fullness;

MOUTH

Breath fetid

Dry and brown in center, with dry and glistening edges, surface cracked and sore

Can swallow liquids only, least solid food gags.

mouth, thrush (whitish flakes);

Teeth and gums sore, ulcerated

mouth, discoloration, gums, redness, dark;

mouth, teeth, deposits on teeth during illness (see mucus);

tongue feels burned, yellowish-brown, edges red and shining

mouth, discoloration, tongue, brown;

mouth, growths, blisters, swellings, ulcers, tongue;

Taste flat, bitter

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.

throat, discoloration, redness, dark red;

throat, discoloration, redness, uvula (lobe at back of mouth);

throat, inflammation, painless;

throat, inflammation, tonsils, painless;

throat, pain;

throat, pain, sore;

throat, spasms, convulsions etc., gullet;

throat, spasms, convulsions etc., gullet, can only swallow liquids;

throat, spasms, convulsions etc., gullet, on swallowing;

throat, spasms, convulsions etc., closing gullet;

throat, swallowing, difficult, solids;

throat, swelling, tonsils;

throat, ulcers, throat at back of mouth;

CHEST

chest, pain, sore, bruised, breast, nipples;

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.

SKIN

Livid spots all over body and limbs

Burning and heat in skin ( Arsenic) Putrid ulcers with stupor, low delirium and prostration.

skin, abnormal growths, ulcers, discharges, offensive;

ABDOMEN

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.

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.

abdomen, pain, sore, bruised, tenderness, etc.;

Stomach, Can swallow only liquids, vomiting due to spasm of oesophagus

RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

rectum, diarrhoea, painless;

stool, copious;

stool, odour, offensive;

stool, odour, putrid;

GENITALS ETC

urine, alkaline;

urine, odour, offensive;

genitals, male, inflammation, testes;

Female, Threatened miscarriage from mental depression, shock, watching, low fevers

Lochia acrid, fetid

Puerperal fever.

Menses too early, too profuse

EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

extremities, limbs, pain, sore, bruised;

FEVER AND CHILL

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.

chill, in the open air;

fever, night;

fever, fever without chill, night;

fever, continued fever;

fever, continued fever, night;

fever, continued fever, dazed from fever;

fever, infectious fevers;

fever, septic fever (see infectious, continued, from childbirth, etc.);

GENERALITIES

Sleepless and restless

Nightmare and frightful dreams

Cannot get herself together, feels scattered about bed

Falls asleep while answering a question.

sleep, comatose;

sleep, deep;

sleep, falling asleep, when answering;

sleep, sleepiness, tiredness;

generalities, aversion to open air;

generalities, pain, sore, bruised, externally;

generalities, pain, sore, bruised, internally;

generalities, symptoms not symmetrical, right;

generalities, weakness (see lethargic, weariness);