BAPTISIA TINCTORIA
Source indications
Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica
- Threatened abortion
- Apoplexy
- Appendicitis
- Biliousness
- Brain softening
- Cancer
- Consumption
- Diphtheria
- Dysentery
- Enteric fever
- Eye affections
- Gall-bladder affections
- Gastric fever
- Headache bilious
- Hectic fever
- Hysteria
- Influenza
- Mumps
- Oesophagus stricture
- Plague
- Relapsing fever
- Sewer gas-poisoning
- Shivering
- Stomatitis
- Tabes mesenterica
- Tinea capitis
- Tongue ulcerated
- Typhus
- Variola
- Worms
- Stupor
- Falls asleep while being spoken to
- Confused as if drunk
- Cannot keep his mind together
- Wild wandering feeling
- Illusion that the body is double
- Limbs separated and conversing with each other
- Cannot sleep because body seems scattered about
- Cannot collect pieces
- Dull heavy sensation in head with drowsiness
- Heavy eyelids
- Head feels large
- Numb feeling of head and face
- Bruised headache
- Soreness as if in brain
- Bruised feeling in occiput
- Heavy feeling at base of brain with drawing in cervical muscles
- Frontal headache with pressure at root of nose
- Neck is tired
- Cannot hold head easy in any position
- Eyes cannot bear light
- Eyes burn
- Eyes are weak
- Eyes are painful on reading
- Weight on eyes
- Eyeballs sore
- Eyeballs lame on moving
- Blear-eyed
- Lids partially paralysed
- Illusion of smell as of burnt feathers
- Pain in left parotid gland
- Flat bitter taste
- Tongue swollen
- Tongue feels numb
- Speech difficult
- Tongue coated whitish yellow
- Tongue feels burnt or scalded
- Tongue dry parched brown centre
- Tongue cracked
- Tongue ulcerated
- Canker sores in mouth
- Ulcerations
- Sore-mouth of sucklings
- Painlessness in the sore throat
- Putrid painless dark ulcers
- Oesophagus feels constricted down to stomach
- Can only swallow liquids
- Convulsive contraction of oesophagus and cardiac orifice with regurgitation of food
- Nausea
- Retching
- Vomiting
- Sinking gone feeling
- Pain in liver
- Pain in gall-bladder
- Pain in spleen
- Pain in right iliac region
- Pain in groins
- Glands swollen
- Soreness of abdominal muscles
- Soreness of right iliac region
- Fetid exhausting diarrhoea
- Dysentery in autumn or hot weather
- Worms
- Urine high-coloured
- Urine scanty
- Urine alkaline
- Urine fetid
- Orchitis
- Squeezed pain in testes
- Threatened miscarriage from mental depression
- Threatened miscarriage from shock of bad news
- Threatened miscarriage from watching
- Threatened miscarriage from fasting
- Threatened miscarriage from low fever
- Dreadful sinking at the stomach
- Fetid breath
- Lumbar backache
- Feels as if lying on a board
- Pain in sacrum
- Weakness of lower limbs
- Left foot much prickling and numbness
- Numbness
- Soreness
- Hysteria with prostration
- Hysteria with numbness
- Hysteria with fear of paralysis
- Wanted to die
- Rubbed hands continually
- Restlessness
- Bed feels hard
- Excessive drowsiness
- Worse on waking
- Worse walking
- Worse open air
- Worse cold wind
- Worse autumn or hot weather
- Indisposed to think
- Want of power
- Mind seems weak
- Gloomy unhappy state of mind
- Body feels scattered about
- Tosses around to get the pieces together
- Mind wanders as soon as the eyes are closed
- Mentally restless but too lifeless to move
- Inability to memorise
- Worse when thinking of pains in various parts of body
- Vertigo
- Weak feeling of entire system
- Especially lower limbs and knees
- Vertigo with paralysis of eyelids
- Peculiar feeling in head never felt except during fever
- Peculiar feeling in head excitement of brain such as precedes delirium
- Dull heavy pressive headache
- Frontal headache with pressure at root of nose
- Frontal headache with feeling of fulness
- Frontal headache with feeling of tightness of whole head
- Head feels large and heavy with numbness of head and face
- Sharp darts of pain in supraorbital nerve at foramen
- Frequent sharp pains by spells in right and left temple
- Soreness in the brain worse on stooping
- Top of head feels as if it would fly off
- Dull bruised feeling in occiput
- Skin of forehead feels tight
- Scalp feels sore
- Sensation as if head swelling
- Neck feels so tired she cannot hold her head easy in any position
- Cannot bear light eyes burn but do not water
- Feeling as if eyes would be pressed into head eyeballs feel sore
- Great confusion of sight
- Cannot place anything until after looking at it a few seconds
- Everything appears to move
- Severe pains in eyes on reading compelling to stop
- Bloated feeling of eyes
- Glistening eyes
- Disposition to have eyes half closed
- Partial paralysis of lids
- Dull hearing
- Delirium with almost complete deafness
- Slight pain in left parotid gland
- Dull pain at root of nose
- Crampy sensation in nose
- Sneezing
- Feeling as after a severe cold
- Slight bleeding from right nostril of bright red blood thick
- Epistaxis of dark blood
- Sensation of fulness in nose
- Odema of affected parts of nose especially in choanae
- Face flushed
- Face dusky
- Face hot
- Face dark-red with a besotted expression
- Muscles of jaw rigid
- Sordes on the teeth and lips
- Tongue yellow along the centre
- Tongue first white with reddish papillae
- Tongue followed by yellow-brown coating in centre edges dark-red and shining
- Filthy taste with flow of saliva
- Saliva rather abundant somewhat viscid tasting flat
- Numb prickling sensation in tongue
- Putrid ulcers of the buccal cavity with salivation
- Mouth and tongue very dry in fevers
- Putrid offensive faecal breath
- Pain and soreness of fauces
- Constrictive feeling in throat causing frequent efforts at deglutition
- Throat feels swollen or full
- Fauces dark-red
- Dark putrid ulcers
- Tonsils swollen
- Parotids swollen
- Absence of pain in throat
- Great prostration
- Difficult deglutition can only swallow water
- Oesophagus feels as if constricted from above down to stomach
- Constant desire for water with nausea and want of appetite
- Great thirst
- Loss of appetite averse to nourishment and stimulants
- All symptoms worse from beer
- At night frequent pain in the epigastric region worse from turning over which he had to do all the time
- Full feeling in stomach
- Heavy gnawing in stomach
- Burning heat rising up to throat
- Pains in stomach feeling there as of a hard substance
- Pain in liver from right lateral ligament to gall-bladder can scarcely walk it so augments pain in gall-bladder
- Constant severe pain over gall-bladder
- Constant pain in stomach and liver worse walking hot sensation heavy aching in liver
- Pain in liver region on going upstairs
- Constant aching distress in stomach and umbilical region
- Pain in region of spleen with darts of pain in body especially in carpus metacarpus and phalanges
- Right iliac region sensitive
- Fulness and distension of the abdomen
- Abdominal muscles sore on pressure
- Sharp rheumatic pains in groins lasting a short time but returning after short interval worse from walking
- Glands of left groin swollen painful on walking
- Frequent small thin dark offensive and acrid stools
- Very fetid exhausting diarrhoea excoriating
- Stool papescent with large quantities of mucus no pain
- Dark-brown mucous and bloody stools with tenesmus and typhoid tendency
- Dysentery rigors pains in limbs and small of back
- Dysentery stools small all blood not very dark but thick tenesmus
- Dysentery great prostration brown tongue low fever in autumn or in hot weather
- Constipation severe with haemorrhoids in afternoon
- Stricture from piles
- Stitches in region of right kidney
- Shooting in left kidney
- Burning when urinating
- Urine rather scanty dark-red colour
- Light-green urine
- Pressing pain in left testicle cramp as if squeezed
- Menses too early and too profuse
- Excites abortion
- Lochia acrid fetid
- Puerperal fever
- Stomatitis materna
- Aphonia
- Larynx sore to touch painful swallowing or speaking
- Awakes with great difficulty of breathing
- The lungs feel tight and compressed must have fresh air
- Constriction and oppression of the chest
- Weight and oppression in precordial region with a feeling of unsatisfied breathing afternoon
- Sharp pains in centre of sternum
- Dull stitches in left nipple
- Feeling of greatly increased compass and frequency of heart's pulsations seem to fill chest
- Pulse at first accelerated afterward slow and faint
- Neck tired sore down neck
- Stiffness and lameness of cervical muscles worse on moving head
- Back and hips very stiff ache severely worse walking
- Dull sacral pain compounded of a feeling as from a pressure and fatigue from long stooping soon extending round hips and down right leg
- Wandering pains in all the limbs with dizziness
- Drawing pains in arms and legs aching in the limbs
- Constant twitching in left deltoid
- Pain in left shoulder extending down arm
- Pains in bones of arms and hands
- Numbness of left hand and forearm with prickling
- Soreness in front of thighs worse after sitting
- Limbs weak and vacillating
- Left foot numb prickles
- Burning of top of right foot from toes to back of foot
- Restless does not sleep quietly wants to be on the move
- Great languor wants to lie down
- Tired bruised sick feeling in all parts of the body
- Weak and tremulous as if recovering from a severe illness
- Great weakness especially in lower limbs
- Prostration with disposition of fluids to decompose
- Indescribable sick feeling all over
- Numbness prickling and paralytic feeling over the whole body especially left side
- Ulceration of mucous membranes especially of the mouth with tendency to putrescence
- Discharges and exhalations fetid
- Sensation all over the body as if bruised or beaten
- Great burning and heat in skin worse in face
- Livid spots over body and limbs
- Eruption like measles or urticaria
- Confluent small-pox tardy eruption
- Foul gangrenous eating syphilitic sores
- Delirious stupor
- Sleeps well till 2 or 3 a.m. then restless till morning
- Drowsy stupid tired feeling disposition to half close the eyes
- Restless with frightful dreams
- Wants to get out of bed
- Cannot sleep limbs seem scattered about so
- Chilly going into the open air
- Chills over the back and lower limbs
- Chilly with soreness of body
- Whole surface hot and dry with occasional chills mostly up and down the back
- On awaking 3 a.m. flashes of heat feeling as if sweat would break out
- An uncomfortable burning all over surface especially face moves to cool part of bed finally rises opens window and washes
- Typhoid and cerebral forms of fever
- Beginning of typhus when the so-called nervous symptoms predominate causes sweat to break out and relieve
- Typhus critical sweat on forehead and face
- Fever originating from confinement on shipboard without good care or food
- Fetid sweat