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Baptisia Tinctoria
Wild Indigo (United States of America · BAPT
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Origin Plant · Leguminosae (Fabaceae) · Simple
Habitat United States of America
ClarkePreparation Tincture of fresh root and its bark.
Sources 12 entries across 11 books: Boericke, Clarke, Hering, Allen, Nash …

Dose Boericke
12X, Ø
Tincture, to twelfth attenuation. Has rather short action

Reason for useAllen

For the lymphatic temperament. Great prostration, with disposition to decomposition of fluids (Pyr.); ulceration of mucous membranes. All exhalations and discharges fetid, especially in typhoid or other acute disease; breath, stool, urine, perspiration, ulcers (Psor., Pyr.). Aversion to mental exertion; indisposed, or want of power to think. Perfect indifference, don't care to do anything, inability ot fix the mind to work. Stupor; falls asleep while being spoken to or in the midst of his answer (when spoken to, answers correctly, but delirium returns at once, Arn.). Tongue: at first coated white with red papillae; dry and yellow-brown in center; later dry, cracked, ulcerated. Face flushed, dusky, dark-red, with a stupid, besotted drunken expression (Gels.). Can swallow liquids only (Bar. c.); least solid food gags (can swallow liquids only, but has aversion to them, Sil.). Painless sore throat; tonsils, soft palate and parotids dark red, swollen; putrid, offensive discharge (Diph.). Dysentry of old people; diarrhoea of children, especially when very offensive (Carbo v., Pod., Psor.). Cannot go to sleep because she cannot get herself together; head or body feels scattered about the bed; tosses about to get the pieces together; thought she was three persons, could not keep them covered (Petr.). In whatever position the patient lies, the parts rested upon feel sore and bruised (Pyr. - compare, Arn., Pyr.). Decubitus in typhoid (Arn., Mur. ac., Pyr.).


Books*
Antidoted by Actaea Racemosa
Complementary —
Follows well Arsenicum Album, Hamamelis Virginiana, Nitricum Acidum +2
Compare Arnica Montana, Rhus Toxicodendron, Bryonia Alba +18

* Number of books that state the relation, where more than one. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works.
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