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Baptisia; Uses/ Indications, Dosage, Side Effects

Baptisia has been a remedy for serious infections or sepsis. It has also been used for types of diphtheria, flu, and typhoid fever. The person needing it is drowsy and falls asleep while responding to questions but also restless from body aches and pains. Delirium and confusion may also be present. The mouth or discharges (stool, perspiration, urine) have a putrid odor and the face confused and dusky in color. Baptisia may be used with conventional medicines, without interactive or toxic side-effects. Indicated for Flu-like symptoms, Bruises, Dizziness. Baptisia Tinctoria is a homeopathic remedy to consider when there is great prostration accompanied by much aching and soreness all over. Confusion is common.

Materia Medica of Baptisia

Mind – Irritable; holds everything in contempt. Full of desires, for what they know not.
Head – Bones of the skull feel crushed or bruised. Pain extends to teeth and root of the tongue.
Eyes – Inflamed, red. Pain through eyeballs. Profuse lachrymation. Cornea dim. Eyes tire from near vision. State of vision constantly changing. Spasm of accommodation from the irritable weakness of the ciliary muscle. Nausea from looking on moving objects.
Face – Blue rings around eyes. Periodical orbital neuralgia, with lachrymation, photophobia, and smarting eyelids.
Nose – Coryza, with stoppage of nose and nausea. Epistaxis.
Stomach – Tongue usually clean. Mouth, moist; much saliva. Constant nausea and vomiting, with pale, twitching of face. Vomits food, bile, blood, mucus. Stomach feels relaxed as if hanging down. Hiccough.
Abdomen – Amebic dysentery with tenesmus; while straining pain so great that it nauseates; little thirst. Cutting, clutching; worse, around the navel. Body rigid; stretched out stiff.
Stools – Pitch-like green as grass, like frothy molasses, with griping at the navel. Dysenteric, slimy.
Female – Uterine hæmorrhage, profuse, bright, gushing, with nausea. Vomiting during pregnancy. Pain from navel to the uterus. Menses too early and too profuse.
Respiratory – Dyspnœa; constant constriction in chest. Asthma. Yearly attacks of difficult shortness of breathing. Continued sneezing; coryza; a wheezing cough. A cough incessant and violent, with every breath. Chest seems full of phlegm but does not yield to coughing. Bubbling rales. A suffocative cough; the child becomes stiff, and blue in the face. Whooping-cough, with a nosebleed, and from the mouth. Bleeding from lungs, with nausea; feeling of constriction; rattling cough. Croup. Hæmoptysis from slightest exertion (Millef). Hoarseness, especially at end of a cold. Complete aphonia.
Fever – Intermittent fever, irregular cases, after Quinine. Slightest chill with much heat, nausea, vomiting, and dyspnœa. Relapses from improper diet.
Sleep – With eyes half open. Shocks in all limbs on going to sleep (Ign).
Extremities – Body stretched stiff, followed by spasmodic jerking of arms towards each other.
Skin – Pale, lax. Blue around eyes. Military rash.

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Uses/ Indications of Baptisia

Mental-emotional

Drowsiness to the point of coma.
As if drunk, intoxicated, sleepy.
May respond to questions but falls asleep mid-sentence or immediately on answering.
Confused sensations and delusions about the body – as if it is broken or double, separated or scattered, enlarged or twice its normal size, or limbs “talking” to each other.

Face

Dull, confused, stupid expression.
Dark red congestion.

Mouth and Throat

Putrid odor from mouth.
Ragged ulceration of tongue and throat.
Painlessness of the ulcerated, inflamed throat.
Throat spasms – gagging on solid food but able to swallow liquids.

Flu

Bruised and sore pains with muscles and joints.
Unable to get comfortable in any position – bed feels too hard (c.f. Arn; Rhus-t; Pyrog.)
Apoplexy
Appendicitis
Brain softening
Cancer
Consumption
Diphtheria
Dysentery
Enteric fever
Gastric fever
Headache
Hysteria
Influenza

Dosage of Baptisia

Adults: 4 drops into a tsp. of water 3 times a day. Children: 1/2 dose. Repeat at greater intervals as condition subsides. Or as directed bya lic. practitioner.