Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

shoulder, wrist, feet, and toes; tearing in the limbs, joints, upper limbs, upper arms, fingers, FINGERJOINTS, thighs, toes. Painless paralysis of limbs. Staggering gait. Stiffness of knees.Dropsical swelling of legs and feet. Tension of thighs; weakness of limbs; of joints, upperlimbs, lower limbs, knees.Comatose sleep. Dreams: amorous, anxious, of assassins, of dead people, of death, distressing,frightful, of thieves; pleasant, VIVID. Sleep is very restless; sleepiness afternoon; after dinner.Sleepless before midnight; after midnight. Waking easily.Coldness in evening in bed; chilliness; shaking chill. Fever of a mild nondescript type.Perspiration in the morning; during the night; profuse.Burning of the skin, cold skin. Eruptions; blisters; boils; burning; eczema; herpes; pustules;scabby; urticaria; vesicles, Erysipelas; excrescences. Formication. Itching, itching burning, itchingcreeping, itching stinging. Sensitive skin. Sore feeling in the skin. Ulcers; burning, cancerous, deep,offensive, discharging yellow pus; fistulous, sensitive, suppurating, syphilitic. It has cured syphiliticwarts.BAPTISIA TINCTORIA [bapt] [Kent’s]Baptisia is suitable for acute diseases. It is principally a short-acting medicine, suitable forcomplaints that are not long lasting. So far as we know it is not an antipsoric, does not go deep into thelife. All of its acute diseases and complaints have the appearance of zymosis, like scarlet fever,diphtheria, typhoid, and gangrenous complaints. There is one thing that is unusual about it, it brings onthis septic state more rapidly than most other remedies. The zymotic complaints of Ars., Phos., Rhus,and Bry., are much slower in their pace. But Baptisia is suitable for typhoids that, come on rapidly, andhence it is not so often suitable in idiopathic typhoids. When an individual comes down suddenly fromcold, from malaria, from drinking poisonous waters, and from any zymotic or septic cause he is hurledinto bed in a few days, instead of going through a period of four, five or six weeks. The old idiopathictyphoid fevers come on slower. Baptisia is suitable for those blood poisons that are highly septic, suchas the puerperal state, such as scarlet fever. He comes down perhaps with the appearance of a suddenviolent break down, with a remittent fever. But all at once it turns continued, and takes on septicsymptoms. So much for its progress and its pace. Every medicine must be observed as to its velocity, asto its pace, as to its periodicity, as to its motion, and its wave. We get that by looking at the symptoms.You take an individual who has been down in a mine, in the swamp, down in the mud, in the sewers,who has inhaled foul gases, who goes into bed with a sort of stupor, from the very beginning he feelsstupid. It is not gradual, but he goes down very suddenly, and he is stupid. He is prostrated. His face ismottled. Sordes begin to appear on the teeth much earlier than in the regular typhoid. The abdomenbecomes distended much earlier than in a regular typhoid; that is, one who is accustomed to observingthose things knows they are postponed for a number of days; while with this remedy the third day theabdomen is distended his mouth is bleeding, and is putrid. His odors are horrible; and he is in a markedstate of delirium, such as would not be expected until the typhoid is out for many days. So it has rapidrunning diseases. It has velocity. That is, he is going down toward death rapidly. He has fever, and ifyou look at him, and talk to him, and turner, and rouse him up, and make him realize that you want tosay something to him---which is difficult---he gives you the impression that he has been on a big drunk.That is the first thought you will have in a Baptisia case. His countenance is besotted. It is bloated andpurple and mottled. Blood oozes from the mouth. You have seen the besotted countenance ofdrunkards, and it is like an old drunkard.His mind seems to be gone. He does not know what he is talking about. He is in confusion, andwhen aroused he attempts to say something, and utters a word or two and it all flits away, and he isback in his state of stupor again. No matter what disease that comes in no matter what inflammation ispresent, no matter what organ is inflamed, if that state of the blood that can give rise to such symptomsand such sepsis is present, if that state of the mind is present, it is Baptisia.All of the discharges are putrid. The odor is cadaverous, pungent; penetrating. His perspiration,if he has any, is sour, fetid, pungent, and penetrating. If he has no sweat the body gives off an odor thatis unaccountable. The odor is so penetrating that on going into the front door the whole house, if theroom is open, is filled with the odor. The odor from the stool is putrid and so penetrating that it can bedetected on first going into the house.Now, a strange thing that runs through the remedy is a peculiar kind of mental confusion, inwhich he is in a constant argument with his parts. He seems to feel that there are two of him. Herealizes a dual existence whenever he is roused up. He will begin talking about the other one in bedwith him. It is said clinically that "his great toe is in controversy with his thumb". Or, "one leg istalking to the other leg". Or, one part is talking to another part; or, he is scattered around over the bed;