Baptisia confusa acetica
Plant · Fabaceae
Baptisia Confusa Acetica suits patients presenting with left hypochondrial oppression impelling them to assume an erect posture, unrelieved by eating. The remedy has a typhoid affinity like ordinary Baptisia. It may also increase appetite and energy for mental work and improve sleep.
Key symptoms
- Distressing left hypochondrium oppression fullness and dyspnoea impelling erect posture
- Congestion of the fore part of the head
- Weakness of vision
- Right molar feels too long worse by pressure
- Stiffness and pain in jaws at joint
- Left-sided sciatica
- Rapidly relieved typhoid-simulating condition
Worse (aggravation)
- Pressure on right molar
- Lying down
Better (amelioration)
- Erect position (hypochondrium oppression)
Australian Baptisia. N. O. Leguminosæ. Acetum of stem and leaves.
Clinical
Headache. Oppression. Spleen pain. Typhoid. Vision, defective.
Characteristics
Mr. J. Meredith ("Agricola") communicated to the Hom. World (xxxi. 267) his experience with this shrub. Symptoms produced on himself were: Congestion of fore part of head. Vision weak. Hectic flush after tea. Right molar felt too long,< by pressure, intermittent; right jaw (later both jaws) stiff and painful at joint. Sciatica left side. Appetite increased, more energy for brain work. Sleep improved. But the most remarkable effect was the relief of a distressing symptom which had troubled him many months, and which the ordinary Bapt. tinct. in any preparation had failed to relieve. He describes it as "a really distressing left hypochondrium oppression, fulness and actual dyspnœa, impelling me to assume an erect position." This would continue half the night. It was uninfluenced by eating. The distress was located either in the spleen or splenic curve of the …
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