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Description of baptisia

BAPTISIA (Wild Indigo) The symptom 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 purid phenomena are present. All the secretions arc offensive breath, stool, urine, sweat, etc. Epidemic influenza. Chronic intestinal toxaemias 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. Interimittent pulse, especially in the aged.

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