Baptisia
(Baptisia tinctoria · Wild indigo)
The remedy of the dazed, scattered feeling. In the materia medica, Baptisia is associated with fast-developing feverish states marked by heavy dullness, a flushed, dazed look, aching soreness and offensive breath and discharges.
Source
The fresh root and bark of wild indigo, a North American plant
Kingdom
Plant
Abbreviation
Bapt.
Home acute kit
Usually prescribed by a homeopath
The classic picture
(a remedy is chosen when the whole picture fits the person, not from a single symptom)
Dazed, with a flushed, dusky face; may fall asleep in the middle of answering
Feels scattered about the bed, as if the body were in pieces
Aching, bruised soreness; whatever is lain on feels sore
Can swallow only liquids; painless, dark red sore throat; breath and discharges offensive
Tends to feel better
Open air
Tends to feel worse
Humid heat
Fog
Indoors
How it compares
(remedies that are often confused with Baptisia)
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Gelsemium
(Gelsemium sempervirens)
Both drowsy, heavy and flushed early in a fever; Gelsemium is droopy and trembling, Baptisia more dazed, with soreness and offensive breath.
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Arnica
(Arnica montana)
Both sore and bruised and may drift off mid-answer; Arnica insists nothing is wrong, Baptisia feels scattered in pieces.
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Pyrogenium
(Pyrogenium)
Both offensive and sore; Pyrogenium is restless with a racing pulse, Baptisia dull and stupefied.
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From the classic texts
“Thinks he is broken or double, and tosses about the bed trying to get pieces together (Cajeput).”
“Aversion to mental exertion; indisposed, or want of power to think. Perfect indifference, don't care to do anything, inability ot fix the mind to work.”
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