Baryta Carbonica

▲   GENERAL

General

Specially indicated in INFANCY and Old age. Baryta Carbonica brings aid to scrofulous children, especially if they are backward mentally and physically, are dwarfish, do not grow and develop, have scrofulous ophthalmia, swollen abdomen, take cold easily, and then Always have swollen tonsils. Persons subject to quinsy, which is prone to suppurate; gums bleed easily. Diseases of old men when degenerative changes begin; - cardiac vascular and cerebral; - who have hypertrophied prostate or indurated testes, very sensitive to cold, offensive foot-sweats, very weak and weary, must sit or lie down or lean on something. Very averse to meeting strangers. Catarrh of posterior nares, with frequent epistaxis. Often useful in the dyspepsia of the young who have masturbated and who suffer from seminal emissions, together with cardiac irritability and palpitation. Affects glandular structures, and useful in general degenerative changes, especially in coats of arteries, Aneurism, and senility. Baryta is a cardiovascular poison acting on the muscular coats of heart and vessels. Arterial fibrosis. Blood-vessels soften and degenerate, become distended, and aneurisms, ruptures, and apoplexies result.

Dose

Third to thirtieth potency, the latter to remove the predisposition to quinsy. Baryta is slow in action, bears repetition.

▲   MODALITIES ETC

Worse

WORSE, while thinking of symptoms; from washing; lying on painful side.

Better

BETTER, walking in open air.

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

Compare

Compare: Digitalis Purpurea ^Digitalis; Radium; Aragallus; Oxtrop; Astrag.

Complementary

Complementary: Dulcamara ^Dulc.; Silicea ^Silica; Psorinum ^Psorin.

Antidotes

Antidote for poisonous doses: Epsom salts.

Incompatible

Incompatible: Calc Carb ^Calc.

▲   MIND

Mind

Loss of memory, mental weakness

Irresolute

Lost confidence in himself

Senile dementia

Confusion

Bashful

Aversion to strangers

Childish; grief over trifles.

Aversions, dislikes; company

Behaviour; childish behaviour (see foolish)

Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition

indecisive

indecisive; in acts

indecisive; in projects

indecisive; about things of little importance

suspicious

Intellectual faculties

impaired thinking; difficulty concentrating

impaired thinking; dull, sluggish

children

aged people

impaired thinking; imbecility

Insecure, uncertain, scared

anxiety; during fever

fear; of people; children

frightened easily

timidity

Memory

forgetful

weakness of memory

for words

Unconsciousness

▲   VERTIGO, DIZZINESS

Vertigo

Vertigo; stitches, when standing in the sun, extending through head

▲   HEAD

Head

Brain feels as if loose

Confusion

Wens.

Swollen, and feeling swollen; glands of head; back of head (occiput)

Scalp

Hair falls out

Hair; baldness

Skin and scalp

out-break on skin; moist

itching

▲   EYES

Eyes

Alternate dilatation and contraction of pupils

Photophobia

Gauze before eyes

Cataracts ( Calc Carb ^Calc.; Phosphorus ^Phos.; Silicea ^Sil.)

Pain; light

Intolerance of light (photophobia)

Vision

Dazzling

▲   EARS

Ear

Hardness of hearing

Crackling noise

glands around ears painful and swollen

Reverberation on blowing nose.

Noises in ear; roaring

Pain; soreness; below ear

Skin

out-breaks on skin

out-breaks on skin; behind ears

Swelling

below

below; glands

Hearing

Impaired

▲   FACE

Face

Pale, puffed; sensation as of cobweb ( Alumina ^Alumina.) Upper lip swollen.

Inflammation

indurated (hard from inflammation); submaxillary gland (gland by neck, under jaw)

parotid gland (gland in front and below ear lobe)

Pain; submaxillary gland (gland by neck, under jaw)

Skin; out-breaks on skin; powdery flaking skin

Swelling

lips; upper

parotid gland (gland in front and below ear lobe)

right

submaxillary gland (gland under jaw, by throat)

painful

▲   NOSE

Nose

Sensation of smoke in nose

Discharge of thick, yellow mucus

Frequent bleeding

Scabs around wings of nose.

Dryness; inside

Swelling

Discharge

Dry; sneezing, Coryza, with swelling of upper lip and nose

▲   MOUTH

Mouth

Awakes with dry mouth

Spasms of oesophagus when food enters.

Gums and teeth

Gums bleed and retract

Teeth ache before menses

Bleeding; gums

Saliva

Dribbling of saliva at dawn

Dryness

morning

Salivation

Tongue

Paralysis of tongue

Smarting, burning pain in tip of tongue

Taste

Mouth filled with inflamed vesicles, foul taste

▲   THROAT

Throat

Submaxillary glands and tonsils swollen

Takes cold easily, with stitches and smarting pain

quinsy

suppurating tonsils from every cold

Tonsils inflamed, with swollen veins

Smarting pain when swallowing; worse empty swallowing

Feeling of a plug in pharynx

Can only swallow liquids

Spasm of oesophagus as soon as food enters oesophagus, causes gagging and choking ( Mercurius Corrosivus ^M-c">Merc)

Cor.; Graphit.) Throat troubles from over use of voice

Stinging pain in tonsils, pharynx or larynx.

Larynx (voice box); sensation of smoke

Catarrh; in old people

Inflammation

tonsils

recurrent

tonsils indurated (hard from inflammation)

Mucus

clinging

in the air passages

trachea (wind pipe)

Pain

swallowing; swallowing empty

burning; night

burning; when swallowing

burning; on swallowing empty

rawness; night

rawness; when swallowing

Spasms, convulsions etc.

gullet

gullet; on swallowing

closing gullet

Swallowing

difficult

difficult; solids

impossible; constriction of gullet

Swelling

tonsils

tonsils; from fluid build-up

External throat; swelling; cervical glands (on side of neck)

▲   CHEST

Chest

Heart; Palpitation and distress in region of heart

Aneurism ( Lycopodium ^Lycop.) Accelerates the heart’s action at first, blood pressure much increased, contraction of blood vessels

Palpitation when lying on left side, when thinking of it especially; pulse full and hard

Cardiac symptoms after suppressed foot-sweat.

Catarrh

aged people

Pain; arm pit; glands

Paralysis

lung

lung; aged people

Swelling; arm pit glands

Respiration

Dry, suffocative cough, especially in old people, full of mucus but lacking strength to expectorate, worse every change of weather ( Senega ^Senega.) Larynx feels as if smoke were inhaled

Chronic aphonia

Stitches in chest; worse inspiration

Lungs feel full of smoke.

▲   COUGH

Cough

Night

▲   EXPECTORATION

Expectoration

Copious; aged people

Mucous

▲   SKIN

Skin

Abnormal growths

warts

warts; wens

Out-breaks on skin

dry

Pain

excoriated (as if grazed, chaffed)

pain after scratching

Sticking

after scratching

▲   BACK AND NECK

Neck

Fatty tumors about neck

Skin; tumours; fatty tumour, on neck

Stiffness; neck

Swelling; nape of neck; glands of nape

Back

Swollen glands in nape of occiput

Bruised pain between scapulae

Stiffness in sacrum

Weakness of spine.

Heaviness, weight

Pain

lumbar (lower half of back)

burning

dorsal (shoulder level); shoulder blades

pulling; sacrum (base of spine)

Pulsating

lumbar (lower half of back)

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Stomach; Water brash, hiccough, and eructation, which relieves pressure as of a stone

Gastric weakness in the aged with possible malignancy present.

Hard and tense, distended

Colicky

Enlarged mesenteric glands

Bloated; in children

Enlarged; in children

Hard

Tension

Bladder

urging to urinate (unhealthy desire); frequent (see urination, frequent)

urination; frequent

night

Stomach

burping, belching; clear, salty liquid from stomach in mouth (waterbrash)

indigestion

sensation of lump; stone

pain; after eating

pain; pressing

pain; sore, bruised, beaten (tenderness)

after swallowing a morsel

Eating

Hungry, but refuses food

Pain and weight immediately after a meal, with epigastric tenderness ( Kali Carb ^Kali-carb.) Worse after warm food

Pain in abdomen swallowing food

Habitual colic, with hunger, but food is refused.

▲   RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Rectum

Constipation, with hard, knotty stools

Hemorrhoids protrude on urinating

Crawling in rectum

Oozing at anus.

Urinary Organs.

Every time patient urinates, his piles come down

Urging to urinate

Burning in urethra on urinating.

Haemorrhage from anus

Haemorrhoids; protrude during urination

Urging, desire to stool (see pain; urge to stool, or urinate, but producing nothing); frequent

Worm; worms

▲   GENITALS ETC

Male

Testicles indurated.

Male

thick emission from penis

Genitals

Diminished desire and premature impotence

Enlarged prostate

Male

erections; delayed

erections; impotency

sexual passion; diminished

prostate gland; enlargement

in aged persons

Menses

Female; Before menses, pain in stomach and small of back

Menses scanty.

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Pain in axillary glands

Cold, clammy feet ( Calc Carb ^Calc.) Fetid foot-sweats

Numbness of limbs

Numb feeling from knees to scrotum; disappears when sitting down

Toes and soles sore; soles painful when walking

Pain in joints; burning pains in lower limbs.

Dryness

hands

hands; skin of hands like parchment

Pain

upper limbs; with swollen arm pit glands

pulling; lower limbs

sore, bruised; foot; sole

tearing; knee

Perspiration

foot

foot; cold

foot; offensive smelling

foot; suppressed

toes; between toes; causing rawness

Skin

itching; thigh

warts; hand

Weakness; tottering

▲   FEVER AND CHILL

Fever and chill

In bed; putting hand out of bed

Chilliness (see also whole body; temperature)

Night; on waking

▲   GENERALITIES

Sleep and dreams

Talking in sleep; awakens frequently; feels too hot

Twitching during sleep.

Dreams; anxious

Position; on side

Restless

Waking

frequent

from heat

Perspiration

Odour; offensive; on one side

One-sided; left

In the presence of strangers

Generalities

Affects of alcohol

Dwarfism

Emaciated (extremely thin)

aged people

Inflammation; blood vessels

Lying down; lying on side; on painful side

In aged people

Pressure

Sensitive; glands

Swelling

glands

glands; after scarlet fever

Tension; externally

Temperature (felt and effects of temperature); becoming cold; hand out of bed

cold feeling

lack of vital heat

hot feeling; sensation of heat; on waking

cold in general

cold air

from becoming cold

after becoming cold

tendency to catch cold

Tumours; cystic (see bony growth (exostosis), polyp)

Weakness (see lethargic, weariness)

after eating

aged people

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