Baptisia Tinctoria 30 Uses – Baptisia Tinctoria Homeopathic Medicine

• In whatever position the patient lies, the part rested feels sore and bruised
• Painless sore throat, tonsils
  
• Can swallow liquids only, least solid food gags
• Stupor – falls asleep while being spoken to or in the midst of the answer

Source: Vegetable kingdom
Synonyms: Wild indigo, Sophora tinctoria Linn
Family: Leguminosae
Prover: Dr W. L. Thompson in 1857 and Dr W. H. Burt
Duration of Action: 6 to 8 days
Miasmatic Background: Psora
Temperament: Lymphatic
Thermal Relationship: Very chilly patient

Introduction and History: It is a well known drug for typhoid fever; it is an invaluable remedy in an epidemic of influenza and also in malignant type of malaria. According to Dr Burnett, it is the king of all remedies for typhoid. It can also be used as a preventive against typhoid in low potency. It is a short acting and left sided remedy. This plant was officially used in medicine from 1830 to 1840. Indigo was used as an antiseptic dressing on gangrenous wounds, especially when it was accompanied with a low type of fever, Baptisia in low dilutions produces a form of antibodies to the bacteria typhus, like agglutinins. Thus, it raises the natural resistance.

Habit and Habitat: It is indigenous of America and Canada. It grows plentifully near the sea coast and in dry sandy soils. It is a perennial herb. It is planted as an ornamental plant. The flowers are bright yellow. They bloom from June to August. The roots are short and woody, blackish externally and yellow internally. Leaves are small and bluish-green in colour.

Preparation and Parts Used: Mother tincture is prepared from the root and bark of the plant.

Constitution and Physiognomy

It is specially adapted to elderly people who look dark red, dusky and flushed.

The patient has a besotted expression and looks like a drunkard.

Mouth is ulcerated with a very bad and offensive smell (halitosis).

There is rapid prostration in old people.

Ailments From: Beer, after confinement.

Seat of Action (Pharmacodynamics): Mind, nerves, blood, mucous membranes, left side of the body, digestive tract, etc.

Active Principles (Chemical Constituents)

1. It contains different types of alkaloids, alkaloidal salts and pale yellow crystals of various forms with a whitish-yellow resin.
2. The purified alkaloid is water, alcohol and ether soluble.

Physiological Action

Disorganisation and decomposition of blood in a typhoid condition.

It produces foetid breath, catarrhal inflammation and ulceration, with watery, putrid, copious discharges.

Physio-pathological Changes (Pathology)

1. It acts on blood causing disorganisation and decomposition of blood, which brings on low forms of fever like typhoid, paratyphoid, dysentery, etc.
2. It affects the mucous membrane of the mouth, throat and intestines, causing ulceration.
3. It affects motor and sensory nerves and produces prostration and paralysis.
4. In low potency, it is capable of producing antibodies against the typhoid bacilli. Thus, it is a specific remedy for typhoid fever.

Characteristic Mental Symptoms (Psychology)

1. Patient is mentally very RESTLESS.
2. DROWSINESS, stupor with a besotted expression; heavy sleep, falls asleep while being spoken to, in the middle of a sentence.
3. Patient is very dull and confused. Confused as if drunk. Cannot concentrate his mind. Head and body feel scattered and for that reason tosses about to get the pieces together.
4. ILLUSION that the body is double. He is divided into three pieces and is unable to keep them covered, he tries to get these pieces together.
5. DELIRIUM, especially at night time or constant.
6. Weakness of mind, indisposed to think, Want of power, wandering feelings.
7. Aversion to work, does not want to do any mental work, feels heaviness of the head, frequent fainting.
8. GREAT INDIFFERENCE, does not care to do anything, inability to fix the mind on Work.

Characteristic Physical Guiding Symptoms

Soreness: Soreness all over the body as if bruised, bed feels too hard.

Sensitiveness: Patient is very sensitive to light, touch.

Constriction: Constriction of the oesophagus, can swallow liquids only, cannot swallow solid food.

Blunted sensorium: Falls asleep before he can answer a question or in the middle of an answer.

Offensiveness: All discharges of the body such as urine, sweat, ulcers, stool, vomit are very offensive and putrid.

Bleeding, ulceration: Ulceration is a marked feature of Baptisia. Ulceration is sometimes associated with bleeding and always with putridity.

Numbness: Ulcers rapid and painless, as if numb, without sensation. Putrid, painless, dark ulcers with redness of the mouth and throat.

Prostration: Great weakness and prostration of lower limbs, wants to lie down, rapid prostration; prostration more profound than the severity of the attack.

Tremulousness: Very weak and tremulous as if recovering from severe illness. Tongue when put out is tremulous; limbs tremulous.

Look of the face: Face looks dark red, dusky and flushed with a stupid expression. Besotted appearance and expression like that of a drunkard.

Typhoid state: Baptisia shows a typical typhoid state in all diseases such as diphtheria, dysentery and typhoid.

Tongue: Tongue streaked down the middle; at first white, then brown and feels burnt.

Vertigo: Weak feeling of the entire system, especially lower limbs and knees. Head feels heavy, vertigo at night time of constant.

Diarrhoea: Offensive diarrhoea of children. Cannot go to sleep. Dysentery of old people.

Appetite: No appetite, constant desire for water. Sinking feeling in the stomach.

Left-sidedness: Generally affects the left side of the body.

Important Characteristic Features

Enteric fever: It is one of the well known remedies for typhoid fever. Perhaps no remedy presents a clearer picture of a typical case of typhoid fever than Baptisia. Dr Burnett says, ‘Baptisia is the king of all remedies for typhoid.‘ It has a drowsy, stupid state and a black or brownish coated tongue; temperature goes from 100°F to 106°F. Pulse is full and soft, with marked bradycardia, great nervousness, chilliness and aching pain all over the body. Sore and bruised feeling of the parts rested upon. There is low muttering type of delirium, patient feels that his body is scattered into three pieces, cannot collect and cover them up properly.

All discharges from the body such as urine, stool, breath, ulcers, sweat are very offensive and putrid. Tongue is coated white with raised papillae in the middle; yellow-brown, cracked and ulcerated.

Patient is very weak, drowsy, besotted and prostrated. The face looks like that of a drunkard – dark red, dusky and flushed. Patient is very restless and tosses about in bed to find a soft spot. Eyes are heavy and stuporous. Delirium is often present. Incapacity of thinking anything; cannot concentrate his mind on any work; indifferent with an aversion to mental work.

Dysentery and diarrhoea: It is a very good medicine for dysentery and diarrhoea in the typhoid state. Stool contains decomposed blood, is very offensive and painless. It is a accompanied with high temperature. The ileocaecal region is very sensitive to touch. Stool is accompanied with profound prostration, tenesmus but there is absence of pain.

General Modalities

Aggravation: In a room, humid heat, fog, on waking, pressure, motion, noise, right side, beer, etc.

Amelioration: Open air, rest.

Remedy Relationships

Remedy precedes well: Ars.

Follows well: Ter, Nit-ac, Ham.

Antidotes: Ars.

Antidoted by: Bry, Ars, Ail, Mur-ac, Sang, Phyt.

Comparison

Stupor, but easily aroused when spoken to: Bapt., Diph, Sulph.

Patient lies in a semistupid condition, eyes dull, besotted: Apis, Bapt, Diph.

Head feels as if scattered about: Bapt, Stram.

Potency: 3x, 6x, 12x, 30, 200, 1000.

Baptisia Tinctoria Dosage

1. Doses of mother tincture to 200 are found to act very well.
2. When the characteristic symptoms are not present, lower potencies or mother tincture is indicated; but when the characteristic symptoms are present, higher potencies act remarkably.

Repetition: Mother tincture in drop doses; low potencies are to be repeated daily; high potencies are to be repeated daily, but high potencies act very well in single doses.

Therapeutic Value: Appendicitis, Delirium, Dengue, Diarrhoea, Diphtheria, Dysentery, Gangrene, Headache, Hectic fever, influenza, Paralysis, Puerperal fever, Sepsis, Stomatitis, Tonsillitis, Typhoid, Urinary affections.