Baptisia tinctoria, R. Br.

Natural Order , Leguminosæ.

Authorities.

1 , Dr. Wm. L. Thompson, N. A. J. of Hom., 5, 547 (dose not given); 2 , Dr. J. S. Douglass, N. A. J. of Hom., 6, 230 (took repeated doses of 1 to 3 drops of tincture); 3 , Dr. S. R. Beckwith (ibid.); 4 , W. Rowley, ibid.; 5 , L. W. Sapp, ibid.; 6 , J. E. Smith, ibid.; 7 , T. B. Hoyt, ibid.; 8 , Dr. Hadley, Trans. of N. Y. St. Hom. Med. Soc., 3, 325 (took 10 to 25 drops of tinct.); 9 , Miss Hadley, ibid. (took 15 drops of tinct.); 10 , Dr. Burt, Hale's New Remedies (took 10 to 200 drops of tinct., and 30 grains of bark subcutaneously); 11 , Dr. Burt, ibid. (took 4 to 14 grains of Baptisin); 12 , Dr. Wallace, Med. Investigator, 1873 (three provings with the one-tenth). [Note: Corrections by D. C. J. Douglas, N. Am. Jour. of Hom., 7, 228.

Add: "Inability to make any mental or physical effort." "Tongue dry, on rubbing it against the roof of mouth smarted and felt sore as if burnt."]

MIND

The brain a little stimulated, 2.
Febrile excitement of the brain, like a beginning febrile delirium in a greater degree, 2.
A sort of excitement of the brain which is the preliminary, or rather the beginning, of delirium; with him it never fails to take place if the fever continues, and increases to considerable intensity, 2.
Disposition to talk, 2.
Low spirits (third day), 4.
Unhappy (second day), 2.
Felt very gloomy for several days (third day), 11.
Cannot confine his mind; sort of wild, wandering feeling, 7.*
Mind seemed weak, rather than confused (second day), 2. [10.]
Inactive mind, 3.
Indisposed to think; want of power to think (second day), 2.*
Dull, stupid feeling after breakfast, 5.
Very distinct recollection of what he had been reading, 2.
Inability to memorize as usual, 6.

HEAD

Confused feeling in the head, 1.
Slightly confused feeling of the brain, 2.
Dulness in the head, 1.
A little dulness of the head (second day), 2. [20.]
Slight dulness in brain all day (second day), 6.
Dull, stupid feeling all over the head, with severe pain at the occiput, 7.
Morning, after rising, dull heavy feeling of head, and headache, 5.
Head feels very heavy, 10.
Head feels heavy, as though he could not sit up, 7.
Head feels very heavy, with pain in occiput (after one hour), 12.
Swimming sensation, very like that experienced before the operation of an emetic, 1.
Slight dizziness and languor, 3.
Vertigo.
Vertigo, 7.
Vertigo, and sensation of weakness in the entire system, especially in the lower limbs, with weak knees, 1.* [30.]
Headache day and night, causing a sensation of wildness, 7.
Pain in base of brain, with lameness and drawing pain in cervical muscles (after twenty minutes), 12.
Heavy pain at base of brain (after twenty minutes), 12.
Slight pain of head, with bruised feeling of forehead (third day), 6.
Head felt large, 2.
Head feels large and heavy (after twenty minutes), 12.
Fulness of the external vessels of the head and face, 2.
Head full, and feels heavy (after twenty minutes), 12.
Hard, dull headache, very much worse by moving (30 grains crude bark), (second day), 10.
Dull, heavy headache (second day), 11.* [40.]
Dull, heavy, pressive headache, 10.*
Slight pressive headache and dull pain in loins (from subcutaneous injection of 10 drops), .

Temples. [70.]

Frequent pains in right temple, 11.
Dull pain in both temples, growing more and more intense, 7.
Sharp pains in both temples (after three hours), 10.
Sharp pains in temples, very often (30 grains crude bark), (second day), 10.
Sharp pains by spells in right and left temples, 10.
Burning on top of head and soreness of scalp, 12.
Dull feeling, especially in the occiput, where there was slight pain and fulness (after one and a half hours), 2.
Dull pressure in occiput (second morning), 5.
Soreness of scalp (after one hour), 12.

EYES

Eyes shining, 2. [80.]
Congestion of the vessels of the eye; they look red and inflamed, 7.
Eyes feel swollen, with burning and slight lachrymation, 7.
Eyes feel as if being pressed into head, with great confusion of sight; cannot place anything until she looks at it a few seconds; everything appears to be moving, 11.
Eyes smart and ache severely, 11.
Frequent pressive pain over right eye, 10.
Sharp pain over right eye, then over left, 7.
Partial paralysis of the eyelids; it is very difficult to keep them open, 11.
Lachrymation on going into the open air (third day), 6.
Walking in open air produced continual and profuse lachrymation (third day), 2.
Soreness of eyeballs, 7.* [90.]
Eyeballs feel sore and lame on moving them (after twenty minutes), 12.*

EARS

Dulness of hearing, 7.

NOSE

Sneezing, and feeling as after taking a severe cold (after twenty minutes), 12.
Catarrh, 7.
Thick mucous discharge from nose, 1.
Dull pain at root of nose, 7.
Severe pressure at root of nose (after twenty minutes), 12.
Soreness extends to posterior nares (after twenty minutes), 12.

FACE

Sallow appearance of countenance, 5.
Hot and perceptibly flushed face, 2.* [100.]
Face feels flushed and very hot, 7.
Cheeks burn, 7.
Burning and prickling of left side of face and head, 12.

MOUTH

Teeth and gums have been very sore for two days; by pressing on them with the finger, large quantities of blood ooze from the gums (third day), 11.
Tongue coated whitish, and slightly congested (second morning), 5.
Slight yellow coat on tongue, 5.
Tongue coated yellow, 10, 11.*
Tongue coated yellow along the centre (second day), 10, 11.*
Tongue coated at first white, with reddish papillæ here and there, followed by a yellowish-brown coating in the centre, the edges being red and shining, 7.*
Tongue coated yellow, with flat, bitter taste (second day), 11. [110.]
On waking, tongue dry, with the same burnt feeling (second day), 2.
Tongue feels thick and swollen, 7.
Tongue feels as though it had been scraped, 1.
Numb pricking sensation of the tongue, 7.
Well-developed ulcers in the mouth, 1.*
Long-continued flow of saliva, 1.
Saliva rather abundant, somewhat viscid and flat tasting, 2.*
Profuse flow of sweetish-bitter saliva, followed by a dryish or glutinous substance; lips stick together, 7.
In the morning, increased flow of saliva of a pleasant taste, 8.
Increased flow of saliva in the evening, 8. [120.]
A most copious flow of saliva, followed by sore throat, with scraping and burning, 1.
In a short time, an increased secretion of saliva, followed by slight pain in the right lung, 8.
Taste of food not quite natural, 2.
Flat taste in mouth (9 A.M., second day), 10.
Flat, bitter taste in mouth, 11.
Bad taste in mouth, 7.
Filthy taste, with flow of saliva, 3.

THROAT

In the afternoon, fulness of the throat, 9.
Slight angina; throat feels swollen or full, with oppressed respiration, 7.
Constrictive feeling in throat, causing frequent efforts at deglutition, 1.* [130.]
Sore throat, extending to the posterior nares (after one hour), 12.
Throat sore, and feels contracted (after twenty minutes), 12.
Sore throat, with scraping and burning, preceded by a most copious flow of saliva, 1.
Tickling in the throat, constantly provoking to cough, 1.
Tonsils and soft palate look very red , but are not painful (second day), 11.
Tonsils congested, 11.
Tonsils and soft palate congested (second and third days), 11.
Tonsils very much congested, with frequent inclination to swallow, which produces pain in the root of the tongue, 11.
Fauces and tonsils very much congested, 11.
Scraped sensation extends through the fauces, 1. [140.]
Dryness and roughness of the pharynx, extending to the nares, with a stringent sensation, followed after a little by an increased secretion from the parts, especially the pharynx, 8.
Raw sensation in pharynx, with a large amount of viscid mucus, 1.
Pricking sensation in upper part of pharynx, 1.

STOMACH

Loss of appetite, 3, 5.
Thirst, 5.
Constant desire for water, 7.
Frequent gulping up of air (from subcutaneous injection of 10 drops), 10.
Frequent eructations of flatus, 1.
Nausea, 1, 4.
Slight nausea and want of appetite, 7. [150.]
Slight nausea, with increased heat, 3.
Feeling as though it would be a relief to vomit, 1.
Feeling as if he would vomit, but no nausea, with severe shooting pain in the left kidney and left side of the umbilicus (from subcutaneous injection of 10 drops, after fifteen minutes), 10.
Gone, empty feeling at stomach, 2.
Pains in the stomach, and feeling as if there was a hard substance in it, 5.
Severe pain every few minutes in the cardiac portion of stomach (after five hours), 10.
A good deal of pain in epigastric region all night, 10.
Slight pain all day in stomach and right hypochondriac region; pain in right side very severe when walking, 10.
Slight pain in stomach and right hypochondriac region and umbilical (from subcutaneous injection of 10 drops, after half an hour), 10.
Pain in stomach, abdomen, and right hypochondrium, passing down to right iliac region (third day), 4. [160.]
Constant pain in stomach and liver, quite sharp at times, 10.
Constant pain in stomach and right hypochondriac region, 10.
Constant pain, of a drawing character, in the epigastric and right hypochondriac regions, very severe when walking, 10.
Constant pain in stomach and right hypochondrium of a dull, aching character, and extending to the spine; very much worse by motion, 10.
At night, frequent pain in the epigastric region, very much worse by turning over, which he had to do all the time, 10.
Great distress in epigastric and umbilical regions, with great rumbling, 11.
Great distress in stomach and bowels all the forenoon, with desire to vomit, .

ABDOMEN

Pains in liver (third day), 6.
Dull pain in right hypochondriac region (after three hours), 10.
The pain in the liver extends from the right lateral ligament to the gall-bladder; it is almost impossible to walk, it makes the pain so severe in the region of the gall-bladder, 10.*
Suffered constantly and severely all day with pain in the liver and stomach; the pain caused a numb feeling to pass all over the body, 10. [180.]
Good deal of dull pain in liver, stomach, and umbilical region (second day), 10.
Soreness in region of liver, 5.
Constant dull pain in region of the gall-bladder; very severe on walking, 10.*
Severe pain in region of gall-bladder ; lasted one hour, 11.*
Good deal of distress in the umbilical region all day (second day), 11.
Constant dull pain in the umbilical region, 11.
Constant aching pains in umbilical region (30 grains crude bark, second day), 10.
Constant slight pain in the umbilical region, 11.
Constant dull pain in the umbilical and hypogastric regions; by spells the pain in hypogastric region very sharp, 11.
Constant dull aching pains in umbilical region, aggravated by a full inspiration (second day), 10. [190.]
All day, constant pain in umbilical region, with slight rumbling of bowels (second day), 10.
Fulness of abdomen, 7.*
Distension of abdomen, 1.*
Flatulence, 7.
Loud borborygmi (third day), 6.
Rumbling in the intestines, 1.
Slight rumbling in the bowels, 10.
Rumbling, with desire for stool, 11.
Slight rumbling in the bowels, with a mushy stool (after three hours), 10.
Dull aching distress in bowels (second day), . [200.]

STOOL AND ANUS

Bowels loose next morning (very uncommon), 6.
Diarrhœa (third day), 6.*
Diarrhœic stools dark, 3.* [210.]
Soft stools (first and second days), 10.
Soft mushy stool, 11.
Soft papescent stool (second day), 11.
Stool papescent, with a large quantity of mucus, but no real pain, 11.*
Bowels costive, 2.
Bowels costive for two days, 5.
Constipation (fourth day), 6, 7.
Constipation throughout the period of proving (eight days), 2.
Constipation severe, with hæmorrhoids in the afternoon; quite troublesome (fifth day), 6.

URINARY ORGANS

A sort of burning when urinating, 7.* [220.]
Urine is of a whitish color, does not change blue litmus, and has no effect on red paper (second day), 11.
Urine high-colored, 5.
Urine not very copious, but of dark-red color, 7.*

RESPIRATORY APPARATUS

In morning, swelling of the epiglottis, 5.
Increased secretion from the bronchial tubes and fauces, with expectoration of mucus, 8.
Hoarseness to such an extent as to require the utmost effort to be understood, 1.
In afternoon, disposition to cough quite troublesome, 9.
Lungs feel easier and stronger than usual (curative reaction), 9.
She was cured by this proving of a troublesome cough of long standing, [°], 9.
Constant want to take a full breath, 2. [230.]
In the afternoon, difficulty of breathing, 9.
At 6 P.M., oppressed breathing, with cough, soreness of right lung, and sneezing, 8.
Awoke with great difficulty of breathing; the lungs felt tight and compressed ; could not get a full breath; felt obliged to open the window to get his face to fresh air, with the same burning heat of surface, dry tongue, increased pulsations of the heart, and accelerated pulse, and the same peculiar feeling of the brain as on first night. An hour passed before he could breathe easily and felt comfortably cool, 2.*
*On lying down, difficulty of breathing, in half an hour becoming so great that he was obliged to rise; afraid to go to sleep from a feeling of certainty that he should immediately have nightmare and suffocations.
This difficulty of breathing is not so much from constriction of the chest as from a feeling of want of power in the respiratory apparatus, such as he had only felt during a fever, 2.

CHEST

Constriction and oppression of the chest, 3.
Tightness of chest and desire to take a deep inspiration (after twenty minutes), 12.
In the afternoon, tightness of the chest, 9.
Oppression of chest and difficult breathing, 11.
Sharp pains in chest when taking a long breath, 7.
Pain through left of chest, 12. [240.]
Pain in the right lung, continuing some time; less pain in the left lung, with some soreness, 8.
Rheumatic pains in right side, 5.
Dull pain in the sternum, 8.
In the afternoon, sensation of weight and oppression in the præcordial regions, with a feeling of unsatisfied breathing, 8.

HEART AND PULSE

Feeling of greatly increased compass and frequency of the pulsations of the heart; pulsations seem to fill the chest, 2.
Throbbing in heart, so as to be distinctly heard, 6.
Pulse, at first accelerated, afterwards became very low and faint, 7.
Pulse slow and weak (third day), 4.
Slow, round, full pulse, 3.
The pulse (usually but little over 70) I judged to be 90 or over, full and soft, 2. [250.]
Pulse 70, rising, about 2 o'clock P.M., to 100, 5.

NECK AND BACK

Neck stiff and lame (after twenty minutes), 12.
Stiffness and lameness of cervical muscles (after one hour), 12.*
Pain in neck, unbearable on moving head (after twenty minutes), 12.
Soreness of muscles of neck, 5.
Twitching in latissimus dorsi of left side (third day), 6.
Lameness of muscles of back and chest, especially when moving the head (after twenty minutes), 12.
Back and hips are very stiff, and ache severely (second day), 11.*
Pain in back extending to sacrum, 3.
Slight backache (third day), 11. [260.]
Back aches severely, aggravated by walking (second day), 11.
Dull heavy aching in lumbar region on going to bed at night, 5.
Dull aching pain in lumbar region; very severe when walking (second day), 10.
Dull pain in small of back (after three hours), 10.
Dull pain of the sacrum, compounded of a feeling as from pressure, and fatigue from long stooping, and soon extending around hips and down right leg, 2.*

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL

Wandering pains in all the limbs, with dizziness, 12.
Aching in limbs, 3.*
Drawing pains in arms and legs, 10.*
At times, drawing pain in right wrist and left ankle, 11.
Prickling of hands and feet, with numbness; worse on motion, 12. [270.]
Peculiar thrilling sensation through both hands and feet, somewhat like going to sleep or a want of circulation, 2.

UPPER EXTREMITIES

Constant twitching in left deltoid muscle (since taking first dose), 6.
Pain in left shoulder and arm (after twenty minutes), 12.
Pain in left shoulder, extending down the arm (after one hour), 12.
Drawing pain in shoulder and arms, more in the left (after twenty minutes), 12.
Feel sore and stiff about shoulders and chest (second day), 12.
Numbness of left hand and forearm, with prickling (after one hour), 12.
Numb prickling pain of hand and arm, worse by movement; sharp darting pain through the fingers (after twenty minutes), 12.
The hands felt large and were tremulous, 2.

LOWER EXTREMITIES

Lower limbs, on walking, feel weak and vacillating, 2. [280.]
Pain in hips and legs, with numbness (after twenty minutes), 12.
Drawing pains in the left hip (second day), 11.
Drawing pains in right hip and both calves (30 grains crude bark), 10.
Soreness in anterior part of thighs, worse after sitting awhile (third day), 6.
Darting pain in left knee and malleolus of left side (third day), 6.
Drawing pains in legs, 11.
Legs ache, 10.
Cramps in calves of legs whenever he moves them, 11.
Drawing pain in calves of legs, 10.
Severe drawing pain in both calves, 10. [290.]
Frequent drawing pain in calves (second day), 11.
Drawing pains in the legs (after three hours), 10.
Foot and leg prickly, and can move but little, 12.
Left foot numb, and prickles (after twenty minutes), 12.

GENERALITIES

Restless, 3.*
*Restless; does not sleep quietly; wants to get up, and yet does not want to, 7.
During the evening, uneasy, restless; could confine himself to nothing; wanted to be moving from place to place (second day), 2.*
No disposition to move, 3.
On going to bed, feeling of inability to make either physical or mental exertion, 2.
Great languor, 5.* [300.]
Feels weary and obliged to lie down (after twenty minutes), 12.
After walking, feeling of rather painful weariness of back and lower limbs, especially the right, and the right shoulder and arm, 2.
Painful weariness of the whole left side of body (after one hour), 12.
General tired, bruised, sick feeling in all parts of the body, yet does not feel very badly (third day), 6.*
Debility, 3.
Muscular debility, 3.
Through the day, rather weak (second day), 2.
Feel rather weak and tremulous, as though recovering from a fit of sickness, and as yet incapable of vigorous mental or physical exertion (third day), 2.*
Feeling very weak, and trembling a good deal, 10.
Very weak and faint, 11. [310.]
Sensation of weakness in the entire system, especially in the lower limbs, with weak knees and vertigo, 1.*
Prostration (third day), 4.
Feeling of great prostration, with flashes of heat from small of back in all directions, 4.
Prostration and increased perspiration upon the least exertion, 9.
Felt stronger on walking in open air (third day), 2.
Very faint and weak; legs tremble and ache, 11.

SKIN

Livid spots appear all over the body and limbs; size of pea to three-cent piece; thickest on body; without sensation; not elevated, and irregular in shape (after six weeks), 12.

SLEEP AND DREAMS

Drowsiness; disposition to have eyes half closed (third day), 4.
Feel drowsy, and must sleep (after three hours), 12.
Drowsy, stupid, tired feeling, 3. [330.]
Unusual sound sleep, 5.
Deep sleep till 3 A.M., 5.
Slept profoundly all night, and was not even waked in the morning by the breakfast-bell, a very unusual occurrence (second day), 2.
Slept well until midnight, then could not sleep any more, 10.
Slept very well until 2 A.M., then very restless till morning, 10.*
Slept until 2 A.M., then could not sleep any more, 10.
Slept until 3 A.M.; could not sleep any more, but had to toss about constantly (30 grains crude bark, second day), 10.*
Slept well until 1 A.M.; awoke with severe cutting pains in hypogastric region, with loud rumbling of the bowels; very restless after (second day), 11.
Slept two or three hours, and waked from a troublesome dream, with difficult breathing, a sort of nightmare; felt on waking as if the room was insufferably hot and close, hindering respiration, 2.
After sleeping about two hours, had nightmare, from which he seemed to be a long time in rousing himself by violent efforts, to move and to make a noise. The anxiety continued some time after waking. (Has never had nightmare for many years, except when sleeping on back, or, very rarely, on left side. In all the instances recorded, was sleeping in usual position, on right side), 2. [340.]
Lay down and slept an hour, waking from a sort of nightmare with moderate tightness of the chest and correspondingly difficult breathing, which was soon over (after one and a half hours), 2.
Slept well the remainder of the night, after having, for a short time, slight febrile chilly horripilations over the lower limbs and back, 2.
Had a very restless night (second day), 11.
At night, sleepless, disturbed, 6.
Restless night, with frightful dreams, 10.
Dreams at night, 5.
When asleep, continual dreaming, .

FEVER

Surface of body chilly, 1.
Slight chill about 11 o'clock A.M., 5.
Forenoon, chill over back while sitting by a hot fire, 5.
In evening, great chilliness on going into open air, 5.
Slight chilliness in the lower limbs and back (very soon after taking), 2.
In evening, chills over back, 5.
Most uncomfortable burning heat of the whole surface, especially the face; it compelled him to move to a cool part of the bed, and finally to rise and open a window and wash his face and hands; with these symptoms there was a peculiar feeling of the head, which is never felt except during the presence of fever, 2.
On waking at 3 A.M., flashes of heat and feeling as if perspiration would break out, 5. [360.]
General heat after going to bed, 5.
Burning sensation over the whole body, followed by perspiration, vomiting, and diarrhœa, 3.
Heat of the face (after a few minutes), 2.
Flashes of heat over face, 5.
At night, heat and burning in lower extremities so intense as to prevent sleep much of the night, 6.
Chill all day, with fever at night, 7.
Whole surface of body feels hot and dry, with occasional chill, principally up and down the back, as if ague were coming on, 7.
Extremities feel hot, except the feet, which are cold, 7.

CONDITIONS

Aggravation.
( Morning ), After rising, dull feeling of head, etc.; frontal headache; increased saliva; swelling of epiglottis; on waking, 3 A.M., flashes of heat, etc.
( Forenoon ), Distress in stomach, etc.; chill over back; about 11 A.M., slight chill.
( Afternoon ), Pain in anterior lobes of brain, etc.; fulness of throat; disposition to cough; difficulty of breathing; 6 P.M., oppressed breathing, etc.; tightness of chest; sensation of weight, etc., in præcordial regions.
( Evening ), Frontal headache , etc.; on moving eyes, soreness in front of head; increased saliva; cramp in stomach; uneasy, etc.; chilliness; chills over back.
( Night ), Pain in epigastric region; difficulty of breathing; on going to bed, pain in lumbar region; heat, etc., in lower extremities.
( Going into open air ), Lachrymation.
( Walking in open air ), Lachrymation.
( After going to bed ), General heat.
( Beer ), All symptoms.
( After breakfast ), Dull feeling.
( Full inspiration ), Pains in umbilical region; sharp pains in chest.
( Lying down ), Difficulty of breathing.
( Motion ), Headache; pain in stomach, etc.; prickling of hands, etc.; numb pain of hand, etc.
( Moving head ), Pain in neck; lameness of muscles of back, etc.
( On moving legs ), Cramp in calves.
( Noise ), Headache.
( After sitting ), Soreness of thighs.
( Stooping ), Soreness of brain.
( Turning over ), Pain in epigastric region.
( On waking ), Tongue dry.
( Walking ), Pain in right side; pain in epigastric, etc., regions; ; pain in glands of groin; backache; pain in lumbar region; weakness in lower limbs, etc.

SUPPLEMENT: BAPTISIA. Authority.

13 , C. Wesselhoeft, M.D., Trans. Mass. Hom. Med. Soc., vol. iii, 1875, p, 457, took 3 drops of the 5th dil.

In five minutes to half an hour, aching pain of occiput, extending from ear to ear, and from nape of neck to vertex (first day), 13.
Immediately after taking medicine, aching pressure over whole occiput, from ear to ear, and from vertex to nape of neck (fourth day), 13. [370.]
For two days, severe sleepiness, dulness and drowsiness of memory; fall asleep easily while sitting or writing (second and third days). Great sleepiness all day while sitting still; irresistible desire to sleep in carriage; was so exhausted and sleepy after a light dinner, at 3 P.M., as to be unable to sit up any longer. Refreshed after an hour of imperfect sleep, but felt sleepy and tired all the evening (fourth day); Immediately after breakfast, great sleepiness, would like to lie down and sleep, though I slept well all night. Head dull and heavy; mental work costs great exertion; great disinclination to exert the mind in any manner. Excessively sleepy all day; gaping while conversing with people; fall asleep in the horse cars; and can scarcely keep awake while driving. Sleep after dinner refreshed me somewhat, but sleepiness returned in the evening with nausea (fifth day), 13.

Baptisia