Baptisia Tinctoria

Baptisia

• Source : vegetable kingdom 
• Common name : wild indigo, sophora tinctoria linn
• Family : leguminosae
• Prover : Dr.w.l.thompson and Dr.w.h.burt
• Miasm : psora
• Temperament : lymphatic 
• Thermal : chilly
• Side affinity : left 

Introduction 

• "The king of typhoid". 
• It can be given in every stage of typhoid fever, even it is a best preventive medicine for epidemic of typhoid. 
• It was used as antiseptic dressing on Gangrenous wounds, especially when it was accompanied with low type of fever. 

Fever+

• Pt appears very weak and prostrated, unable to think, looks like a drunkard(ars.).
• Temperature range : 103 - 106°F. 
• Great nervousness and aching pain especially in head, back and limbs. 
• Sore and bruises feeling of the parts rested upon (arn.). 
• Bradycardia : soft pulse.
• Offensiveness : all the discharges are very offensive, such as breath, sweat, urine, stool.
• Mind : Delirium, pt says that his body is scattered and he is two or three persons, indifferent. 
• Blunted sensorium, pt falls asleep in the midst of answer (after answering fully- arn.). 
• Tongue : cracked or ulcerated with dry yellow, brown coated in center. 
• Painless sore throat, can swallow liquids only.