Baptisia tinctoria appears in 10 of the 13 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.
- Allen HC — The keynotes that separate this remedy from its nearest neighbours.
“Wild Indigo. (Leguminosae) For the lymphatic temperament. Great prostration, with disposition to decomposition of fluids (Pyr.); ulceration of mucous membranes. All exhalations and discharges fetid , especially in typhoid or other acute disease; breath, stool, urine, perspiration, ulcers (Psor., Pyr.). Aversion to…”
- Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“Baptisia tinctoria, R. Br. Natural Order , Leguminosæ. Authorities. 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."] The brain a little stimulated, 2. Febrile excitement of the brain, like a beginning febrile delirium in a…”
- Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Wild Indigo (BAPTISIA) The symptoms of this drug are of an asthenic type, simulating low fevers, septic conditions of the blood, malarial poisoning and extreme prostration. Indescribable sick feeling. Great muscular soreness and putrid phenomena always are present . All the secretions are offensive-breath, stool…”
- Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“BLOOD. Mind. Nerves. Mucous membranes: Digestive tract. Left side. Humid heat. Fogs. In room. Pressure. On awaking. SORE, HEAVY, ACHING MUSCLES; gall-bladder, heart, etc WITH RAPID PROSTRATION; the bed is too hard, yet he feels too sick to move. Dark; mucous membranes, exudates, hæmorrhage, stools, spots in body, etc…”
- Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Wild Indigo (United States of America.) N. O. Leguminosæ. Tincture of fresh root and its bark. Abortion, threatened / Apoplexy / Appendicitis / Biliousness / Brain softening / Cancer / Consumption / Diphtheria / Dysentery / Enteric fever / Eye, affections of / Gall-bladder, affections of / Gastric fever / Headache…”
- Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Wild Indigo. Leguminosæ. An old Indian drug, first used by the Eclectics until introduced into our School by N. L. Thompson, in 1857. The first useful proving was given by J. S. Douglas and others, followed by Hadley, Burt, Harpel and Schenck, in 1871 ; by Wallace, in 1873 ; C. Wesselhœft, in 1875. The most important…”
- Kent — The mental and general picture — who the patient is, before what the remedy cures.
“Generalities: Baptisia is suitable for acute diseases. It is principally a short-acting medicine, suitable for complaints that are not long lasting. So far as we know it is not an antipsoric, does not go deep into the life. All of its acute diseases and complaints have the appearance of Zymosis, like scarlet fever…”
- Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: wild indigo. BAPTISIA is suitable to all stages of typhoid-early or late (F.). Typhoid diseases, with stupor, delirium; face dark red and a besotted expression; eyes injected; tongue coated brown, dry, particularly in the centre; very offensive breath; sordes on the teeth; diarrhœa, with great fœtor of…”
- Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Mind confused; as if drunk; cannot collect himself; feels scattered about, cannot get pieces together. Face dark, dusky; eyes bleared, besotted expression. Mouth ulcerated with foul smell; or, dry, tongue dry in a streak down the centre. Abdomen sensitive in right iliac region, with rumbling. Stool loose, and urine…”
