Baryta Carb
Carbonate of Baryta
Abdomen
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Hard and tense, distended. Colicky. Enlarged mesenteric glands. Pain in abdomen swallowing food. Habitual colic, with hunger, but food is refused.
Back
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Bruised pain between scapulae. Stiffness in sacrum. Weakness of
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Menses scanty.
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Stvollen glands in nape of occiput. Fatty tumors about
Chest
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worse, inspiration. Lungs feel full of smoke.
Compare
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Digitalis; Radium; Aragallus; Oxytrop; Astrag. Complementary: Dulc.; Silica; Psorin. Incompatible : Calc. Antidote for poisonous
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Aeon, lycotonum (swelling of cervical, axillary, and mammary glands'). Lapis; Con.; Merc, iod.; Carbo an.
Dose
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Third to thirtieth potency, the latter to remove the predisposition to quinsy. BARYTA lODATA (Iodide of Baryta) Acts on the lymphatic system, increased leucocytosis. Quinsy. Indurated glands, especially tonsils. Strumous ophthalmia, with tumefaction of cervical glands and stunted growth.
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Epsom salts.
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Second and third trituration.
Extremities
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Pain in axillary glands. Cold, clammy feet. [Calc.] Fetid foot-sweats. Numbness of
Eyes
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Cataracts. [Cak.; Phos.; Sil.] Eaxs. — Hardness of hearing. Crackling noise. Glands around cars painful and swollen. Reverberation on blowing
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Alternate dilatation and contraction of pupils. Photophobia. Gauze before
Face
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Pale, puffed; sensation as of cobweb. [Alumina,] Upper lip swollen.
Female
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Before menses, pain in stomach and small of
Guiding symptoms
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This remedy 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 ahvays have swollen tonsils. Persons subject to quinsy which is prone to suppurate; gums bleed easily. Diseases (f 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 iiares, with frequent epistaxis. Often useful in the dyspepsias 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 cardio-vascular poison acting on the muscular coats of heart and ve.ssels. Arterial fibrosis. Blood-vessels soften and degenerate, become distended, and aneurisms, ruptures, and apoplexies result. BARYTA CARS. 123
Head
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Brain feels as if loose. Hair falls out. Confusion. Wens.
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Vertigo; stitches, when standing in the sun, extending through
Heart
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Palpitation and distress in region of
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Aneurism. [Lycop.] Accelerates the heart’s action at first, bloo^jj^essure much increased, contracti on of blood vessels. Palpitation when lying on left side, when think ing of it especially ; pulse full and hard. Cardiac symptoms after suppressed foot-sweat.
Larynx
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124 BARYTA CARB.
Limbs
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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
Male
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Diminished desire and premature impotence. •Enlarged prostate. [Tihu>ju, Arg. nit.; Digit.]
Mind
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Loss of memory, mental weakness. Irresolute. Lost confidence in himself. Senile dementia. Confusion. Bashful. Aversion to strangers. Childish; grief over trifles.
Modalities
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Worse, while thinking of symptoms ; from washing; lying on painful side. Better, walking in open air.
Mouth
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Gums bleed and retract. Teeth ache before menses. Mouth filled with inflamed vesicles, foul taste. Paralysis of
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Awakes with dry
Nose
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Discharge of thick, yellow mucus. Frequent bleeding. Scabs around wings of
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Dry; sneezing; coryza, with sivclling of upper lip and
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Sensation of smoke in
Rectum
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Oozing at anus.
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Constipation, with hard, knotty stools. Haemorrhoids protrude on urinating. Crawling in
Respiratory
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Dry, suffocative cough, especially in old people. Larynx feels as if smoke were inhaled. Chronic aphonia. Stitches in
Sleep
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awakens frequently; feels too hot. Twitching during
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Talking in
Spine
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BARYTA CARB. — BARYTA lOD. — BARYTA MUR. 125
Stomach
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Waterbrash, hiccough, and eructatioi^ 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.
Throat
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Submaxillary glands and tonsils swollen. Takes cold easily, zvith. stitches and smarting pain. Quinsy, Suppurating tonsils from every cold. Tonsils inflammed, . with sw'ollen 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. [Merc, cor.; Graphit.] Throat troubles from over use of voice. Stinging pain in tonsils, pharynx or
Tongue
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Dribbling of saliva at dawn.
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Smarting, burning pain in tip of
Urinary
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Every time patient urinates, his piles come down. Urging to urinate. Burning in urethra on urinating.
References
This monograph is an original summary faithful to the classical tradition. It condenses material from these public-domain sources:
- James Tyler Kent, Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica (1905)Primary remedy pictures; characteristic mental and general symptoms. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- William Boericke, Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica and Repertory (1927)Reproduced here in full — the complete classical repertory-style monographs. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- Constantine Hering, The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica (1879–1891)Confirmed symptom aggregates behind the section organization. · Public domain
- Timothy Field Allen, Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica (1874–1879)Provings background referenced by the verification tradition. · Public domain
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