Baptisia

Characteristic symptoms

General prostration ; changes his position frequently, for it feels as if lying on a hard floor (Arnica) ; ulcerations of mucous membranes, especially of the mouth ; burning heat of the whole body, particularly the face ; tongue feels dry, smarting, sore ; typhoid fevers, with delirious stupor, besotted expression of face, injected eyes, diarrhœa, dry brown tongue, offensive breath, fetid urine and stool ; cannot go to sleep, because she cannot collect herself; numb feeling of the head and face, delirium ; vertigo, with sensation of paralysis of the eyelids ; cancrum oris; diphtheria ; frequent eructations of flatus ; gone, empty feeling of the stomach ; rumbling in bowels; soreness of abdominal muscles ; stools dark, offensive, mucous, and even bloody ; great hoarseness ; constriction and oppression of chest.