Baptisia Confusa Acetica

(Australian Baptisia)

Pharmacy

Bap1-c. Baptisia confusa acetica. Australian baptisia. N.O. Leguminosae. Papilionoideae. Acelum of stem and leaves. Historical dose: Tincture and all potencies.

Clinical

Dyspnea. Headaches. Oppression. Spleen pain. Typhoid. Vision. Weak.

Homeopathic

Pain in the right jaw and oppression in left hypochondrium, producing dyspnea and a necessity to assume an erect position.

Comments - J. McN.

Blood poisoning. Brain softening. Cancer.

Delirium. Delusions. Diarrhea. Diphtheria. Dysentery. Epidemic influenza. Enteric fever. Esophagus, stricture. Eye disorders. Fevers. Gallbladder disorders. Gastric fever. Headaches, bilious. Hectic fever. High fever. Hysteria. Infections. Influenza. Intestinal toxemia. Mumps. Miscarriage, threatened. Plague. Prostration. Putrid discharges. Relapsing fever. Septic fever. Septicemia. Sewer gas poisoning. Shivering. Stomatitis.

Strokes. Tabes mesenterica. Tinea capitis. Tongue, ulcerated. Toxemia. Tuberculosis. Typhoid fever. Typhus. Vaccinations. Variola. Worms.

Homeopathic

Baptisia, the wild indigo of America, has its reputation as a remedy for typhoid fever. In low potency, it increases the resistant power of the body against typhoid.

In one case, that of an old man, food could be swallowed and retained some days, but not on others. He had always liked very hot food. The esophagus was red and granular. Bapt. 12c cured.

Hale considered it specific in threatened miscarriage from mental depression, shock of bad news, watching, fasting, or low septic fevers. Patients in these conditions often complain of "dreadful sinking at the stomach," fetid breath, and other symptoms of Baptisia.

Many cases of tuberculosis are relieved by this remedy when the symptoms and type of fever correspond. It has cured hysteria with prostration, numbness, and fear of paralysis, wanting to die, rubbing hands continually, restlessness.

Baptisia tinctoria has the ill effects of anti-typhoid serum vaccinations. It affects the blood, causing septic conditions, like low fevers and malaria poisoning. The symptoms of this remedy are of an asthenic type, simulating low fevers, septicemia conditions of the blood, malarial poisoning, and extreme prostration.

Restlessness, does not sleep quietly, wants to be on the move. Indescribable sick feeling all over. Tired, bruised, sick feeling in all parts of the body. Great languor, wants to lie down. Weak and tremulous, as if recovering from a severe illness. Prostration with disposition of fluids to decompose. Great muscular soreness and putrid states are present. All the secretions are offensive: breath, stool, urine, sweat, etc.

It has proved specific in a large number of cases of epidemic influenza. Besotted look, bleary eyes, aching head, sore throat, pains and soreness all over the body, and profound prostration.

Chronic intestinal toxemia of children with fetid stools and belchings. Foul odor of the body, breath of excretions, stools, sweat, urine, etc. Brown, sordes, stools, menses.

Discharges, stools, hemorrhages, etc. are dark in color, fetid. Dark spots appear upon the body. Mucous membranes that become dark. Ulceration of the mucous membranes, especially of the mouth, with a tendency to putrescence.

Feeling of soreness, heaviness, and aching of muscles. Prostration is rapid; bed feels too hard on account of soreness of muscles, yet he feels too weak to move.

Lifeless body but restless mind. Restless, always rubs the hands, hysterical. Insensitive to pain. Parts feel numb or too large. Bed sores. Intermittent pulse, especially in the elderly. Numbness, prickling, and paralytic feeling over the whole body, especially left side.

Mind

Dull and confused mind. Inability to think. Mind wanders as soon as eyes are closed. Confusion, as if intoxicated. Ideas confused. Aversion to mental and bodily exertion. Hopeless of recovery and certain of death. Melancholia with stupor. Indifference, doesn't care to do anything. Averse to conversation about sickness or injuries. Falls asleep while answering or does not complete his sentence.

Delirium, wandering, muttering. Wild, wandering feeling. Bewildered. Sense of duality. Illusion of divided personality. Thinks he is broken or double and tosses about the bed trying to get pieces together. Imagines his limbs are talking to each other. Sensation as if some person touched him gently while dozing. Parts feel separated. Worse when thinking of pains in various parts of the body.

Abdomen

Distended and rumbling. Fullness and distention of the abdomen. Severe colic in umbilical and hypogastric region. Intestinal toxemia. Soreness of abdomen in region of liver. Right side markedly affected. Right iliac region sensitive. Pain in region of spleen. Abdominal muscles sore on pressure. Sharp, rheumatic pains in groins, worse from walking. Glands of left groin swollen, painful on walking.

Modalities

Better drinking liquids.

Better gangrenous, eating syphilitic sores. Putrid ulcers with stupor, low delirium, and prostration.

Sleep

Fears going to sleep on account of nightmare and sense of suffocation. Drowsy, stupid, and languid, slides down in bed. Drowsiness can only keep awake by great effort. Falls asleep when answering a question. Lies curled up like a dog on one side. Sleepless and restlessness. Sleeplessness with wandering of mind. Weary, as if he had not slept enough. Cannot get herself together, feels scattered about bed. Troubled with dreams, but inability to remember them. Nightmares and frightful dreams.

Stomach

Gastric fever. Can swallow only liquids. Cramp in stomach, evening. Constriction at cardiac orifice. Cardiac orifice contracted convulsively. Ulcerative inflammation of stomach and bowels. Dreadful sinking feeling in the stomach. Pain in epigastric region. Feeling of hard substance (Abies-n.). Nausea with eructations, followed by painful vomiting. Easy vomiting. Sudden attacks of vomiting and diarrhea, with fever. Vomiting due to spasm of esophagus.

Teeth

Sordes on the teeth and lips. Teeth and gums sore, ulcerated. Gums oozing of large quantities of blood on pressure with finger.

Temperature

Chill with rheumatic pains and soreness all over the body. Chilly with soreness of body. High fever, sudden onset. Sweat relieves. Gastric influenza.

Typhoid and cerebral forms of fever. Shipboard fever. Heat all over with occasional chills. Septic fevers. The whole surface hot and dry with occasional chills, mostly up and down the back. Typhoid fever. Flashes of heat, feeling as if sweat would break out. Uncomfortable burning all over surface, especially face.

Throat

Aphonia. Larynx sore to touch. Painful swallowing or speaking. Septic sore throat. Fauces red, dark, putrid ulcers. Painless sore throat and offensive discharge. Numb inside but sensitive outside. Mucus rattles in throat. Can swallow liquids only; least solid food.

Better

Motion. Worse from open air, cold wind. Worse autumn. Worse hot weather, humid heat. Worse fog. Worse indoors. Worse from pressure. Worse on waking, walking. Worse mental exertion. Worse swallowing solids. Worse during sleep.

Mouth

Mouth and tongue very dry in fevers. Foul taste with flow of saliva. Flat, bitter taste. Foul or bitter nauseous taste.

Putrid, offensive breath. Breath fetid. Can swallow liquids only; least solid food gags. Lower jaw drops. Sore mouth of nursing child. Thick speech. Soft palate swollen. Putrid ulcers with salivation. Saliva viscous. Ulcers in the mouth. Sordes on lips. Dark red, tumid mouth and throat.

Nose

Dull pain at root of nose. Nosebleed of dark blood. Sensation of fullness, edema. Sneezing and feeling as after a severe cold. Thick mucus from nose. Right nostril stopped up. Illusion of smell of burnt feathers.

Perspiration

Fetid sweat. Beginning of typhus when the nervous symptoms predominate, causes sweat to break out and relieve. Typhus with sweat on forehead and face.

Rectum

Intestinal toxemia of children with fetid stools and belchings. Constipation with fullness of abdomen. Offensive diarrhea day and night. Diarrhea sudden, horribly foul, mushy, painless, dark or bloody stools. Aphthous diarrhea. Very fetid exhausting diarrhea. Dysentery of the elderly people with pain in limbs, small of back, and rigors. Painless dysentery with fever. Stricture from hemorrhoids.

Stools very offensive, thin, dark, bloody. Stool like sheep dung, dry and crumbling. Stool papescent, with large quantities of mucus.

Sensations

As if bruised or beaten all over the body. Bed feels too hard, makes him feel sore and bruised. Feels as if lying on a board, changes position.

Skin

Livid spots all over body and limbs. Burning and heat in skin (Ars.), worse in face. Eruption like measles or urticaria. Confluent smallpox, tardy eruption. Foul.

Used in the past as the primary remedy for typhoid, contemporary interest for AIDS, as they share many symptoms. Possible remedy for toxic fever with an AIDS case, with diarrhea, emaciation, and chronic recurring fever.

Relations

Compare: (1) Echinacea angustifolia is perhaps its nearest analog. (2) Gels., Am., Ars., Pyrog., Bry. or Ars. may be needed to complete the favorable reaction. (3) Ailanthus differs, being more painful. Baptisia more painless. (4) Rhus-t., Mur-ac., Hyos., Kali-m., Lach., Mur-ac. and Nit-ac. Follows well. Ars. Followed well by: Ter., Nit-ac. Ham., in typhoid. Nux-v., Op., Rhus-t. Sil. has like Baptisia, ability to swallow only liquids like milk, but unlike Baptisia, Sil. has aversion to milk.

References

Boericke. Clarke. Murphy. Phatak.

Mucus follicles of urethra, seminal vesicles, or prostate produced by excessive sex or masturbation.

Relations

Compare: (1) Cop., Thuj., Pop., Chim. (2) Diosm.

References

Boericke. Clarke.