Materia Medica
Baryta Carb
Carbonate of Baryta
This remedy brings aid to scrofulous children, espe- cially if they are backward mentally and physically, are dwarfsh, do not grow and develop. have scrofulous ophthalmia, swollen abdomen, take cold easily, and then alzways have sccllen tonsils. Persons subject to quinsy a na si n d s eases cf old men when degenerative changes begin; 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 t epistaxis. Often usef
Mind
Loss of memory, mental weakness. Irreso- lute.1 Lost confidence in himself. Senile dementia. Confusion. Bashful. Aversion to strangers. Childish; grief over trifles.
Head
Vertigo; stitches, when standing in the sun, extending through head. Brain feels as if loose. Hair falls out. Confusion. W'cus.
Eyes
Alternate dilatation and contraction of pu- ils. Photophobia. Gauze before eyes. Cataracts. [Calc., Phos.; Sil.]
Ears
Hardness of hearing. Cruckling noise. Glands around cars painful and szvollcn. Reverberatinn on blowing nose.
Nose
Dry; sneezing; coryza, with szvclling of up- per lip and nose. S Sensation of smoke in nose. Dis- charge of thick, yellow mucus. Frequent bleeding. Scabs around ings of nose.
Face
Pale, puffed; sensation as of cobweb. [1lumina.] Upper lip swollen.
Mouth
Awakes with dry mouth. Gums bleed and retract. Teeth ache before menses. Mouth filled with inflamed vesicles, foul taste. Paralysis of tongue. Smarting, burning pain in tip of tongue. Dribbling of saliva at dawn.
Throat
Submaxillary glands and tonsils swollen. Takes cold easily, with. stitches s and smarting pain. Quinsy. Suppurating tonsils from every cold. Tonsils infammed,, with swollen veins. Smarting-pain when swallowing; worse empty swallowing. Feeling of a plug in pharynx. Can only swallow liquids. Spasm of cesophagus as soon as food enters cesophagus, causes gagging and choking. [Merc. cor.; Graphit.] Throat troubles from over use of voice. Stinging pain in ton- sils, pharynx or larynx.
Stomach
Waterbrash, hiccough, and eructation, which relieves pressure as of a stone. Hungry, but refuses food. Pain and weight immediately after a meal, with epigastric tenderness. [Kali carb.] Worse after warm food.
Abdomen
Hard and tense, distended. Colicky. Enlarged mesenteric glands. Pain in abdomen swallow- ing food. Habitual colic, with hunger, but food is refuse.
Rectum
Constipation, with hard, knotty stools. Haemorrhoids protrude on urinating. Crawling in rec- tum. Oozing at anus.
Urinary
Every time patient urinates, his piles come down. Urging to urinate. Burning in urethra on urinating.
Male
Diminished desire and premature impotence. Enlarged prostate. [Thuj, Arg. nit.; Digit.]
Female
Before menses, pain in stomach and small of back. Menses scanty.
Respiratory
Dry, suffocative cough, especiaily in old people. [Senega.] Larynx feels as if smoke were inhaled. Chronic aphonia. Stitches in chest; worse, inspiration. Lungs feel full of smoke.
Heart
Palpitation and distress in region of heart. Aneurism. [Lycop.] Accelerates the heart's action at first, blood pressure much increased, contraction of blood vessels. Paipitation when lying on left side, when think. ing of it especially; pulse fuil and hard. Cardiac symp- toms after suppressed foot-sweat.
Back
Swollei glands in nape of occiput. Fatty tumors about neck. Bruised pain between scapula. Stiffness in sacrum. Weakness of spine. 125
Extremities
Pain in axillary glands. Cold, clammy feet. [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.
Sleep
Talking in sleep; awakens frequently; feels too hot. Twitching during sleep.
Modalities
Worse, while thinking of symptoms; from washing; lying on painful side. Better, walking in open air.
Relationships
Compare : Digitalis; Radium ; Aragal- lus; Oxytrop; Astrag. Complementary: Dulc.; Silira; Psorin. Incompatible: Calc. Antidote for poisonous doses: Epsom salts.
Dose
Third to thirtieth potency, the latter to re- move the predisposition to quinsy.