Source:
- Common Name: Wild Indigo
- Botanical Name: Baptisia tinctoria
- Family: Fabaceae
- Preparation: Tincture of fresh root
- Miasm: Typhoid, septic
- Constitution: Toxic, dull, sluggish
KEYNOTE SYMPTOMS
Feels as if body is scattered—cannot get self together
Typhoid states—low-grade fever with septic symptoms
Delirium—mutters, falls asleep while talking
Foul discharges—breath, stool, sweat, urine all offensive
Bed feels too hard—must change position frequently
“The typhoid remedy – when body feels scattered and septic.”
CLINICAL INDICATIONS
Infective & Septic Conditions:
- Typhoid fever
- Low fevers with toxic or septic conditions
- Ulceration of mucous membranes
- Offensive diarrhea, sore throat
Mental Confusion:
- Delirium, muttering, falls asleep while speaking
- Feels as if mind and body are separated
- Indifference to surroundings
Gastrointestinal Symptoms:
- Diarrhea—offensive, dark, bloody, with great weakness
- Can’t swallow solid food—sore, ulcerated throat
- Coated tongue—thick, brown in center; edges red
General State:
- Extreme prostration, weakness, toxic feeling
- Bed feels hard—must move constantly
- Sore, bruised feeling all over body
MODALITIES
|
Worse From |
Better From |
|
Cold, damp weather |
Rest and warmth |
|
Motion, talking |
Lying quietly |
|
Evening or night |
Open air (sometimes) |
MIND SYMPTOMS
- Confusion, dullness
- Thinks parts of body are separated or double
- Answers slowly, sleeps during conversation
- Delirium, muttering, stupor
- Indifference to everything
CONSTITUTIONAL INDICATIONS
- Septic states with mental dullness
- In early stages of typhoid, dysentery, sore throat
- When patient looks intoxicated, dull, besotted face
- Complaints with rapid prostration and offensiveness
POTENCY & DOSAGE
- Most often used in Mother Tincture (Q) or 6C / 30C
- Q: In septic sore throat or low-grade infections
- 30C: In early typhoid or when mental symptoms are marked
- Frequent repetition may be required in acute states
COMPARE WITH:
|
Remedy |
Comparison |
|
Arnica |
Bed feels hard, soreness of body |
|
Pyrogenium |
Septic states with restlessness and high fever |
|
Gelsemium |
Dullness and prostration in fever |
|
Mur acid |
Low fever with prostration, slides down in bed |
|
Rhus tox |
Restlessness with body pain, tongue triangular tip red |
MEMORY TRICK: B.A.P.T.I.S.I.A.
- B – Body feels broken/scattered
- A – Answers slowly, dull mind
- P – Prostration is marked
- T – Typhoid fever remedy
- I – Intoxicated look, besotted face
- S – Septic symptoms: mouth, stool, sweat
- I – Indifference to surroundings
- A – Awakes while answering, mutters
ONE LINE SUMMARY:
"Baptisia is a chief typhoid remedy with extreme prostration, mental dullness, and septic offensiveness."
REFERENCES:
- Boericke’s Materia Medica
- Allen’s Keynotes
- Clarke’s Dictionary
- Hering’s Guiding Symptoms
