BAPTISIA TINCTORIA
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Leguminosae
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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.).
Relations
:. - Similar: to, Arn., Ars., Bry., Gels., in the early stages of
fever with malaise, nervousness, flushed face, drowsiness, and muscular
soreness.
When Ars. has been properly given or too often
repeated in typhoid or typhus.
After Baptisia: Crot., Ham., Nit. ac. and Tereb. act
well in haemorrhage of typhoid and
typhus.
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