Baryta carbonica
Barium carbonate · Barium carbonate · Mineral
Physical, emotional, or mental development is usually slow in those who respond best to Baryta carb. They tend to be shy and introverted, often because they are insecure and feel that they are worthless. They may require excessive reassurance, and are prone to fears and anxieties. Emotional immaturity can cause them to feel inadequate in relationships and social situations.
Typical physical traits linked with Baryta carb. include nail-biting when anxious and a tendency to have sweaty, smelly feet. The remedy is used for slow development in children and for those with Down syndrome, and is also given for senile dementia in the elderly. In addition, Baryta carb. is used to treat recurrent colds and coughs, sore throats, swollen tonsils, anxiety and phobias, and impotence.
Key symptoms
- physical, mental, and emotional immaturity
- lack of confidence
- swollen tonsils
- offensive-smelling perspiration on the feet
Worse (aggravation)
- Worse while thinking of symptoms
- Worse from washing
- Worse lying on painful side
Better (amelioration)
- Better walking in open air
Carbonate of Baryta (BARYTA CARB)
Specially indicated in infancy and old age. 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 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 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 vessels. Arterial fibrosis. Blood-vessels soften and degenerate, become distended, and aneurisms, ruptures, and apoplexies result.
Mind
Loss of memory, mental weakness. Irresolute. 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. Wens.
Eyes
Alternate dilatation and contraction of pupils. Photophobia. Gauze before eyes. Cataracts (Calc; Phos; Sil).
Ears
Hardness of hearing. Crackling noise. Glands around ears painful and swollen. Reverberation on blowing nose.
Nose
Dry; sneezing; coryza, with swelling of upper lip and nose. Sensation of smoke in nose. Discharge of thick, yellow mucus. Frequent bleeding. Scabs around wings of nose.
Face
Pale, puffed; sensation as of cobweb (Alumina). 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. Spasm of œsophagus when food enters.
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 œsophagus as soon as food enters œsophagus, causes gagging and choking (Merc cor; Graphit). Throat troubles from over use of voice. Stinging pain in tonsils, 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. Gastric weakness in the aged with possible malignancy present.
Abdomen
Hard and tense, distended. Colicky. Enlarged mesenteric glands. Pain in abdomen swallowing food. Habitual colic, with hunger, but food is refused.
Rectum
Constipation, with hard, knotty stools. Hæmorrhoids protrude on urinating. Crawling in rectum. 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. Testicles indurated.
Female
Before menses, pain in stomach and small of back. Menses scanty.
Respiratory
Dry, suffocative cough, especially in old people, full of mucus but lacking strength to expectorate, worse every change of weather (Senega). Larynx feels as if smoke were inhaled. Chronic aphonia. Stitches in chest; worse inspiration. Lungs feel full 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. Palpitation when lying on left side, when thinking of it especially; pulse full and hard. Cardiac symptoms after suppressed foot-sweat.
Back
Swollen glands in nape of occiput. Fatty tumors about neck. Bruised pain between scapulæ. Stiffness in sacrum. Weakness of spine.
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.
Relationship
Compare: Digitalis; Radium; Aragallus; Oxytrop; Astrag. Complementary: Dulc; Silica; Psorin. Incompatible: Calc. Antidote for poisonous doses: Epsom salts.
Dose
Third to thirtieth potency, the latter to remove the predisposition to quinsy. Baryta is slow in action, bears repetition.
Generalities
Baryta carbonica is an interesting study, because it is fully proved and a constitutional remedy. Such remedies are always more interesting than the short-acting, superficial ones. They take hold in deep-seated, long-lasting, miasmatic troubles.
This remedy looks towards the development of the young. You will see in the text commonly expressed under this medicine, "dwarfishness."
That does not always mean small in stature as it is spoken of in this remedy. Dwarfishness in body and mind; mental dwarfishness, and dwarfishness of organs.
You realize what precocity means; young persons who are unusually brilliant; well advanced mentally. We say they are beyond their years. They are precocious.
Carbonate of Barium Ba C03, with which are included symptoms of Baryta acetica─Barium acetate Ba(C2H3O2)2. (I follow Hering and Hahnemann in combining the two, as I agree with Hering that "there is hardly any difference between the two, and certainly none in the symptoms cured.") Solution of acetate; trituration of carbonate.
Clinical
Aneurism. Apoplexy. Atrophy. Baldness. Brain, affections of. Cysts. Foot-sweat. Glandular swellings. Hæmorrhoids. Heart, affections of. Memory defective. Œsophagus, spasm of. Panaris. Paralysis. Parotitis. Prostate, enlarged. Quinsy. Throat, sore. Tonsils, enlarged. Tumours. Warts. Wens.
Barium Carbonate. (BaCO3.)
Especially adapted to complaints of first and second childhood; the psoric or tubercular. Memory deficient; forgetful, inattentive; child cannot be taught for it cannot remember; threatened idiocy. Scrofulous, dwarfish children who do not grow (children who grow too rapidly, Cal.); scrofulous ophthalmia, cornea opaque; abdomen swollen; frequent attacks of colic; face bloated; general emaciation. Children both physically and mentally weak. Dwarfish, hysterical women and old maids with scanty menses; deficient heat, always cold and chilly. Old, cachetic people; scrofulous, especially when fat; or those who suffer from gouty complaints (Fluor. ac.). Diseases of old men; hypertrophy or induration of prostrate and testes; mental and physical weakness. Apoplectic tendency in old people; complaints of old drunkards; headache of aged people, who are childish. Persons subject to quinsy, take cold easily, or with every, even the least, cold have an attack of tonsillitis prone to suppuration …
Mind
Great bodily and mental weakness, in old people, childishness.
Hearing and Ears
Right parotid painfully swollen, sensitive to touch.
Mouth and Throat
Chronic enlargement and suppuration of tonsils, < after every slight cold or following suppressed foot sweat.
Abdomen
Abdomen distended and hard; children.
Extremities
Throat affections after suppressed foot sweat.
Generalities
Scrofulous, atrophic, dwarfish children, inclined to glandular swellings; mind and body weak.
Generalities
Weak sight and other complaints of old people, especially when inclined to get fat.
Constitution and Temperament
Especially suitable for old people, dwarfs, scrofulous children, especially those who have swelling and inflammations, acute or chronic, from the least cold.
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Great mental and bodily weakness, deficient memory, child cannot remember or be taught.
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Especially suitable for old people, dwarfs, scrofulous children, with glandular swellings. especially those who have inflammation and swelling of tonsils from last cold.
Phatak's chapter on Baryta carbonica is available in the app.
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