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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

By regionHering
Mind ► Stupor ; falls asleep being spoken to, or answering. ► Confusion of ideas confused as if drunk. ► Cannot confine his mind, a short of wild, wandering feeling. ► Indisposed to think, want of power ; mind seems weak. ► Body feel scattered about, tosses about to get the pieces together ; cannot sleep because cannot get pieces together. ► Delirium, especially at night, or constant. ► Mentally restless, but too lifeless to move.
Inner Head ► Dull, heavy, pressive headache. ► Soreness of brain, worse stooping. ► Frontal headache : with pressure at root of nose ; with feeling of fulness and tightness of the whole head. ► Dull pain in anterior lobes of brain and right frontal sinus ; afternoon. ► Excitement of brain, such as precedes delirium. ► Frequent pain in right temple, sharp pains by spells in both. ► Head feels large and heavy ; with numb feeling of head and face ; stitches or shocks in various parts of head. ► Heavy pain at base of brain ; pain in base of brain with lameness and drawing in cervical muscles.
Eyes ► Vessels congested, eyes look red, inflamed. ► Eyes feel swollen, slight lachrymation, with burning. ► Cannot bear light, eyes burn, but do not water. θ Chronic ophthalmia. ► Eyeballs feel sore ; sore and lame on moving them.
Stomach ► Sinking, gone feeling at the stomach, fainting ; tongue brown in the morning. ► Constant burning distress in epigastrium, severe colicky pains in the umbilical, and especially in the hypogastric region ; rumbling in bowels. ► Cramp in the stomach, evening.
Lungs ► Tightness of the chest ; constriction. ► Pain in right lung ; less in the left, with soreness.
Neck And Back ► Neck so tired he cannot hold it easy in any position ; sore down the neck. ► Cervical muscles stiff, lame. ► Back and hips very stiff ; ache severely. ► Dull lumbar backache, worse walking. ► Dull sacral pain, as from pressure, fatigue, long stooping ; soon extends around hips and down right leg. ► Feels as if lying on a board ; changes position often, bed feels so hard ; worst part is region of sacrum.
Limbs In General ► Aching in limbs. ► Drawing in arms and legs.
Sleep ► Delirious stupor ; falls asleep while answering a question or while being talked to. ► Afraid to go to sleep, fears nightmare and suffocation. …
Chill, Fever And Sweat ► Chilly all day ; whole body feels sore ; chill over the back while sitting by a fire, forenoon. ► Chilly going into the open air ; chills over the back and lower limbs ; evening. ► Whole surface hot and dry, with occasional chills, mostly up and down the back. ► Heat at night ; burning in the legs preventing sleep. ► Limbs feel hot, except the feet, which are cold. ► On awaking at 3 A.M., flashes of heat, feeling as if sweat would break out. ► Flashes of heat from small of back in all directions ; dull, heavy aching, great prostration. ► Excellent in phthisis ; chills 10 A.M. and 3 P.M. ; high fever, drowsiness. ► Typhoid and cerebral forms of fever ; beginning of typhus when so-called nervous symptoms predominate. ► Fever originating from confinement on shipboard, without good care or food. ► Early stages, white tongue, red edges ; or brown, or yellow-brown down centre ; bitter or flat taste ; cannot digest food ; stools frequent, yellow ; gurgling and slight sensitiveness of right iliac region ; pulse high ; fever tends to increase ; parts rested on are sore. θ Typhoid. ► Sensation as if there was a second self outside of him. θ Typhoid. ► Sweat breaks out and relieves ; critical sweat on forehead and face. θ Typhus. ► Fetid sweat ; frequent sweating ; also worse from small of back in all directions.
Skin ► Burning all over the skin, worse in the face. ► Livid spots in the body and limbs ; not elevated ; of irregular shape. ► Eruption like measles, urticaria. ► Eruption thick on palatine arch, tonsils and uvula ; breath fetid ; salivation ; prostration, θ Variola.

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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