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Active Ingredients:
Baptisia Tincture
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General Indication:
Fever and flu.
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Indepth Product Information:
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, urine, sweat, etc. Epidemic influenza. Chronic intestinal toxaemia of children with fetid stools and eructations.
Baptisia in low dilutions produces a form of anti-bodies to the Bac. typhosus, viz., the agglutinins. (Mellon.) Thus it raises the natural bodily resistance to the invasion of the bacillary intoxication, which produces the typhoid syndrome. Typhoid carriers. After inoculation with anti-typhoid serum. Intermittent pulse, especially in the aged.
The besotted countenance, bleary eyes, aching head, sore throat, pains and soreness all over the body, and profound prostration which are present in all typical cases indicate Baptisia before any other remedy.
Among the chief symptoms of the remedy are the following: Stupor, falls asleep while being spoken to, confused as if drunk. Cannot keep his mind together, a wild wandering feeling. This scattered feeling is further exemplified in the illusion that the body is double, limbs separated and conversing with each other, can't sleep because body seems scattered about and cannot collect pieces. There is a dull heavy sensation in head with drowsiness and heavy eyelids. The head feels large, with a numb feeling of head and face. Bruised headache, soreness as if in brain, bruised feeling in occiput, heavy feeling at base of brain with drawing in cervical muscles.
Frontal headache with pressure at root of nose. The neck is tired, cannot hold head easy in any position.
The eyes cannot bear light, burn, are weak, painful on reading. Weight on eyes, eyeballs sore, lame on moving. Blear-eyed. Lids partially paralysed.
Pain in left parotid gland. Flat, biter taste. Tongue swollen, feels numb, speech difficult. Is coated whitish yellow, and feels burnt or scalded. Dry, parched, brown center, cracked and ulcerated. Canker sores in mouth. Ulcerations. The sore-mouth of sucklings.
Painlessness is a feature in the sore throat, putrid, painless, dark ulcers. Esophagus feels constricted down to stomach, can only swallow liquids, cases of convulsive contraction of oesophagus and cardiac orifice, with regurgitation of food, have been cured by it. In one case, that of an old man, food could be swallowed and retained some days, but not on others. Nausea, retching and vomiting.
Sinking, gone feeling. Pain in liver, and especially in gall-bladder, in spleen, in right iliac region, in groins, glands swollen. Soreness of abdominal muscles and right iliac region. Fetid exhausting diarrhoea, dysentery in autumn or hot weather. Worms. The urine is high-colored, scanty, alkaline, fetid.
Lumbar backache. Feels as if lying on a board. Pain in sacrum. Weakness of lower limbs. Left foot much prickling and numbness. Numbness and soreness are very general in Baptisia patients. It has cured hysteria with prostration, numbness and fear of paralysis, wanted to die, rubbed hands continually, restlessness. The bed feels hard. There is excessive drowsiness. Worse On waking, worse walking, worse open air, worse cold wind, worse autumn or hot weather. |
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