Baryta acetica
Barium acetate · Mineral
Baryta Acetica suits elderly or constitutionally weak patients with progressive paralytic states starting in the lower extremities and spreading upward. The mental picture includes forgetfulness, irresolution, and lack of self-confidence consistent with the general Baryta constitution. Tonsils inflame after every cold with a tendency to chronic induration and suppuration.
Key symptoms
- Paralysis beginning at the extremities and spreading upward
- Forgetfulness and wavering long between opposite decisions
- Lack of self-confidence
- Drawing pain down the whole left leg
- Crawling with burning stitches in extremities
- Lumbago and rheumatic pains in muscles and joints
- Feeling of cobweb on the face
- Pruritus of the aged
Acetate of Barium
Produces paralysis beginning at the extremities and spreading upward. Pruritus of aged.
Mind
Forgetful; wavering long between opposite resolutions. Lack of self confidence.
Face
Feeling of cobweb in face.
Extremities
Drawing pain down whole left leg. Crawling, with burning stitches. Paralysis. Lumbago and rheumatic pain in muscles and joints.
Dose
Second and third trituration in repeated dosage.
Mouth and Throat
Tonsils inflamed after every cold, tend to suppurate; chronic induration.
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