BAPTISIA TINCTORIA



On awaking at 3 A.M., flashes of heat, feeling as if sweat would break out.

Flashes of heat from small of back in all directions; dull, heavy aching, great prostration.

Excellent in phthisis; chills 10 A.M. and 3 P.M.; high fever, drowsiness.

Typhoid and cerebral forms of fever; beginning of typhus when so-called nervous symptoms predominate.

Fever originating from confinement on shipboard, without good care or food.

Early stages, white tongue, red edges; or brown, or yellow- brown down centre; bitter or flat taste; cannot digest food; stools frequent, yellow; gurgling and slight sensitiveness of right iliac region; pulse high; fever tends to increase; parts rested on are sore. Typhoid.

Sensation as if there was a second self outside of him. Typhoid.

Sweat breaks out and relieves; critical sweat on forehead and face. Typhus.

Fetid sweat; frequent sweating; also worse from small of back in all directions.

Attacks

      Pain in spells :.

Sides

      Right : Left : Above downwards : Up and down From small of back in all directions :.

Sensations

      As if too large: head, hands.

Tissues

      Prostration, with disposition of the fluids to decompose.

Stiffness of all the joints, as though strained; rheumatic pains and soreness all over the body.

Discharges and exhalations fetid.

Ulceration of mucous membranes, especially that of the mouth, also with tendency to putrescence.

Contact Injuries etc.

      Intolerance of pressure; hence must often change position; feels as if bed-sores would form.

Touch : Pressure,.

Skin

      Burning all over the skin, worse in the face.

Livid spots in the body and limbs; not elevated; of irregular shape.

Eruption like measles, urticaria.

Eruption thick on palatine arch, tonsils and uvula; breath fetid; salivation : prostration, Variola.

Stages and States

      Children; offensive diarrhoea.

Old people; dysentery.

Relationship

      Cognates; Arnic; Arsen; Bryon; Gelsem., (especially in the malaise, nervousness, flushed face, or drowsiness and muscular soreness in early stages of typhoid); Hyosc; Kali chlor.; Laches; Mur. ac; Nitr. ac.; Nux vomica; Opium; Rhus tox.

C. Hering
Hering got the degree of M. D. from the University of Wuezburg with highest honours. The theme of his thesis was "De'Medicina Futura" (The medicine of future). Hering left Germany for West Indies and finally arrived at Philadelphia in Jan, 1833. He established a homeopathic school at Allentown, Pennsylvania, commonly known as "Allentown Academy". Soon he became very popular as a physician. He is known as the 'Father of Homeopathy' in America.