Baryta Carbonica bar-c.

NUTRITION. MIND. GLANDS: THROAT. Prostate. HEART. Nerves. Blood-vessels. Lungs.

Company. Thinking of it. Cold: Damp; to feet. To head. Changes. Lying on: Painful part. Left side. Odors.

Warm wraps.

Torpid, dwarfish (Med. Syph.) or marasmic. Weakly. Senility; early (Calc-c.). Adenopathies. Scrophula. Chronicity. Single effects (Agar. Con.). Burning, localised. Numb parts; mouth, genitals, fingers, etc. Forced through a narrow place, as if. Vascular softening and dilatation. Paralytic effects. Apoplexy. Too tired to even eat. Wants to lie down. Takes colds. Inflamed mucous membranes.

SLOW, INEPT AND BACKWARD. Childish, thoughtless behavior. Timid. Cowardly. Groans from every little thing. Increasing mental weakness. Weak, beclouded mind. Bad memory. Forgets her errand or the word in her mouth. Irresolute. Mistrustful. Shy of strangers. Brain feels loose; > cool air. Heavy pressure over eyes (Bell.). Baldness; < vertex. Hazy cornea. Eyes, > looking down. Old, sickly, weakened look. Crusty ears. Nose dry, < blowing it. Pendulous lips. Weak tongue. Burning soreness or vesicles on tip of tongue. Throat (glands) affected by every cold; < menses. Chronic quinsy. Enlarged tonsils (Calc-p.). Spasm of œsophagus. Sore spot in stomach. Diarrhœa, with lumbar ache. Flabby genitals. Erections when riding. Paralytic aphonia. Asthma, < wet, warm air; senile (Bar-m.). Chronic bronchitis. Heart; bruised sore; < suppressed footsweat. Trembling feet. Hot, bruised soles at night. Cold, foul footsweat. Indurated glands; tonsils; cervicals, swelled like knotted cords. Cysts. Lipoma. Warts. Acne. Pulse slow and small. High blood-pressure. Arterio-sclerosis.

Related: Kali-p. Med. Sil.

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 (Hep., Psor.). Inability to swallow anything but liquids (Bap., Sil.). Haemorrhoids protrude every time he urinates (Mur. ac.). Chronic cough in psoric children; enlarged tonsils or elongated uvula; < after slight cold (Alum.). Swelling and indurations, or incipient suppuration of glands, especially cervical and inguinal. Offensive foot sweat; toes and soles get sore; of the heels; throat affections after checked foot sweat (compare, Graph., Psor., Sanic., Sil.). Great sensitiveness to cold (Cal., Kali c., Psor.).

Frequently useful before or after Psor., Sulph., and Tub. After Bar. c., Psor will often eradicate the constitutional tendency to quinsy. Similar: to, Alum, Cal. iod., Dul., Fluor. ac., Iod., Sil. Icompatible: after Calc. in scrofulous affections.

When thinking of his disease (Oxal. ac.); lying on painful side; after meals; washing affected parts.

One is reminded of this drug by seeing a dwarfish and delicate person, a person that is mentally and physically so, i.e., a man dwarfish in size, and the mind seems dwarfish, cannot grasp ordinary ideas; also for backward children. Right hypochondriac region. Micturition too frequent. Tension in outer parts. Cystic tumors. particularly occurring on the wrist. Pricking after scratching; itching after scratching; pricking in the skin. Sleep unquiet. Perspiration on one side, as on one hand, one foot, one side of the face or body, etc.; stinking, particularly on the feet.

Great aversion to strangers; the sight of them makes the symptoms worse, or causes a recurrence of. Suddenly overwhelmed with evil apprehensions. Great solicitude and anxious care. Feebleminded children.

Losing hair from the crown of the head. Itching and gnawing of scalp; external head, particularly behind the ears; lobe of the ear, or lobes of the ears; upper lip; nape of neck.

Pressing pain deep in, relieved by looking downward. Sensation as of gauze before eyes.

Tearing in bone in front of right ear.

Troublesome dryness and stoppage of.

Swelling of submaxillary glands, with induration. Frequent and considerable bleeding of gums. Toothache before menses.

Sore throat occurs from the least cold that is taken; throat often suppurates; swollen glands after scarlet fever. Sensation as of smoke in.

When eating, as the food descends into stomach, much pain is felt, as if it had to force itself into the stomach through sore places.

Obstructed with mucus; sensation as if something hard had fallen down in.

Lying on painful side; from pressure without.

Calc. carb., Conium, Pulsat., Phosphor., Rhus tox., Sepia, Silic., Sulphur.

Camphor.

Great mental and bodily weakness, deficient memory, child cannot remember or be taught. Especially suitable for old people, dwarfs, scrofulous children, with glandular swellings. especially those who have inflammation and swelling of tonsils from last cold.

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.

Loss of memory, mental weakness. Irresolute. Lost confidence in himself. Senile dementia. Confusion. Bashful. Aversion to strangers. Childish; grief over trifles.

Vertigo; stitches, when standing in the sun, extending through head. Brain feels as if loose. Hair falls out. Confusion. Wens.

Alternate dilatation and contraction of pupils. Photophobia. Gauze before eyes. Cataracts (Calc; Phos; Sil).

Hardness of hearing. Crackling noise. Glands around ears painful and swollen. Reverberation on blowing 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Hard and tense, distended. Colicky. Enlarged mesenteric glands. Pain in abdomen swallowing food. Habitual colic, with hunger, but food is refused.

Constipation, with hard, knotty stools. Hæmorrhoids protrude on urinating. Crawling in rectum. Oozing at anus.

Every time patient urinates, his piles come down. Urging to urinate. Burning in urethra on urinating.

Diminished desire and premature impotence. Enlarged prostate. Testicles indurated.

Before menses, pain in stomach and small of back. Menses scanty.

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.

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.

Swollen glands in nape of occiput. Fatty tumors about neck. Bruised pain between scapulæ. Stiffness in sacrum. Weakness of spine.

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.

Talking in sleep; awakens frequently; feels too hot. Twitching during sleep.

Worse, while thinking of symptoms; from washing; lying on painful side. Better, walking in open air.

Compare: Digitalis; Radium; Aragallus; Oxytrop; Astrag. Complementary: Dulc; Silica; Psorin. Incompatible: Calc. Antidote for poisonous doses: Epsom salts.

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

Mental and physical weakness; both ends of life; don't grow. Almost imbecile (children) feeble and tottering; childish and thoughtless (old age); loss of memory.

Tonsils inflame, swell and suppurate repeatedly, on every cold exposure; chronic hypertrophy afterwards.

Glands swell, infiltrate, hypertrophy; neck, parotids, submaxillary, groin, lymphatics, in the abdomen; hypertrophy, sometimes suppuration.

Offensive foot-sweats; toes and soles get sore; throat affections after checked foot-sweat.

Great sensitiveness to cold.

This is one of the leading so-called anti-scrofulous remedies. Please refer to what I said on this subject (scrofula) while writing on Sulphur. This is also one of the remedies which has one of its leading indications, like Calcarea ost., in the constitution of the patient. Complaints of dwarfish children; mind and body weak; don't grow; inclined to glandular swellings. The defective growth is both mental and physical. The weakness of the mind may amount almost to idiocy or imbecility. Then again it is equally adapted to old age, with mental and physical weakness; feeble and tottering; childishness and thoughtless behavior. It is especially adapted to apoplexy of old people, or a tendency thereto. For loss of memory in such subjects it stands equal to Anacardium. Now we see that if all this is true, Baryta carb. becomes a valuable remedy at both ends of life. Marasmus, infantile or senile, comes equally within its range. In the marasmus of children we may have to choose from among other remedies such as Silicea, Abrotanum, Natrum muriaticum, Sulphur, Calcarea and Iodine. Under all these remedies we may find emaciation of the rest of the body, while the abdomen is greatly enlarged. Again under every one of them, the child may have a voracious appetite; eat enough, but grow poor all of the time. It is defective assimilation. There are some strong points of resemblance between Baryta carb. and Silicea, namely: Offensive sweat on the feet. The head is disproportionately large for the body. Both suffer from damp changes in the weather and both are sensitive to cold about the head. But Silicea has the important diagnostic difference -profuse sweat on the head equal to that of Calcarea ost., which Baryta has not. And there is not that weakness of mind in Silicea that is found in Bryonia; on the contrary the child is self-willed and contrary.

The resemblances to the other remedies, other than those we have mentioned, are so many that we will not undertake to compare them here, but will proceed to notice some of the other strong points of Baryta.

Besides the strong action of Baryta upon the glandular system generally, it seems to have a peculiarly strong affinity for the throat, especially the tonsils, which become greatly inflamed, swollen and suppurate as a consequence of the least exposure to cold. Thus it becomes one of our most valuable therapeutic agents in old quinsy subjects. Alone it is often sufficient to abort an attack of quinsy and with an occasional dose at long intervals with a high potency, to overcome the tendency thereto. (Psorinum). But like Lachesis, Lycopodium, Phytolacca and other remedies, it must be chosen according to all the indications. Baryta is really fully as useful to change the constitutional tendencies to quinsy, as it is in the acute attack. You will find occasionally a case of chronic cough in children with enlarged tonsils, reported in the journals as cured by this remedy. The cure of the cough depends evidently upon the power of the remedy over the condition which produced the enlarged tonsils, for aside from this I have never found it to be a great cough remedy. In tonsilitis acute or chronic which seems to have come as the result of a suppressed foot-sweat, we would immediately think of Baryta notwithstanding Silicea has more troubles arising from such suppression than any other remedy, but Silicea has not nearly the same affinity for the throat that Baryta has.

Here we will close Baryta, for while it is a remedy of the greatest value, its range is not a wide one. Some of the remedies of this kind make up for the lack of range by a positiveness within their range, and this is one of them.

Mistrust ; want of self-confidence, and aversion to strangers (the child does not want to play). Deficient memory (children cannot remember and learn).

Pricking headache near the warm stove. Baldness. The scalp is very sensitive to the touch, especially on the side on which he lies, with the sensation of suggillation, worse from scratching. Dry or humid scurf on the head.

The light hurts the eyes, and in the dark he sees sparks before them. Burning and pressing in the eyes, if he looks attentively at any thing. Inflammation of the eyes, with sensation of dryness.

Cracking in the ears when swallowing, sneezing, and when walking fast.

Dark redness of the face, with congestions to the face. Tension on the face, as if it were covered by spider webs. Swelling of the submaxillary glands, with induration.

Tongue cracked, feels very sore. Inflammation of the throat, with swollen, inflamed tonsils. Sensation, as from a plug in the throat.

Weakness of the digestion after eating, pressing in the stomach ; and pain in the hard, swollen abdomen. Sensation of soreness of the stomach ; while eating, it feels as if the food had to force itself through some raw places.

Sudden, irresistible urging to stool, with painful soreness in the lumbar region, followed by frequent diarrhœtic stools. Anus sore and humid. Crawling in the rectum, (ascarides).

Erections (only) in the morning before rising. Soreness and moistening between the scrotum and thighs.

Suffocative catarrh, and paralysis of the lungs in old people. Sensation of soreness in the chest. Sensation, as if something hard dropped down in the chest. Sensation of smoke in the larynx. Hoarseness and loss of voice from tough mucus in the larynx and trachea. Palpitation and soreness of the heart, renewed by lying on the left side, and when thinking of it. Spasmodic cough (like hooping-cough from roughness and tickling in the throat and pit of the stomach. Cough worse in the evening till midnight ; after getting the feet cold ; from exercise ; when lying on the left side ; in the cold air ; from thinking of it.

Stiffness of the nape of the neck. Sarcoma in the neck, with burning. Beating and pulsation in the back. Stiffness in the small of the back, in the evening, especially while sitting, which allows neither to rise nor to bend backwards.

Upper. Painfulness of the arms, with swelling of the axillary glands. Lower. Fetid perspiration of the feet. Corns, with burning and stinging.

Paralysis and palsy of aged persons. Great weakness of mind and body of old men. Emaciation, with bloated face, swelled abdomen, and difficult learning in children. Tearing in the limbs, with chilliness. Heaviness of the body. Tension and shortening of the muscles.

Sleepiness day and night.

Pulse accelerated, but weak. Chilliness relieved by external heat. Flushes of heat, more at night, with great restlessness. Perspiration, one-sided, (left side), every other evening.

Burning prickings here and there. Soreness and humid skin. Swelling and induration of the glands. Warts.

Especially suitable for old people, or scrofulous children, especially those who suffer from inflammation of the throat and swelling of the tonsils after the least cold. Great liability to take cold, (sore throat), stiffness of the neck, or diarrhœa. The left side is most affected. Aggravation while sitting, or when lying on the painful side, or when thinking of his disease. Amelioration when walking in the open air.

Carbonate of Barium Ba C0 3 , with which are included symptoms of Baryta acetica — Barium acetate Ba(C 2 H 3 O 2 ) 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.

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 .

Baryta corresponds to scrofulous conditions in children and old age; dwarfish children and childish old people. Old people who are fat. Those liable to take cold easily; sore throat from cold; glandular affections. Many cases of aneurism have been cured with Baryta , mostly in lower attenuations. It corresponds to the atheromatous condition. A paralytic condition runs throughout the pathogenesis. There is paralysis of mind and body. Mistrust; want of self-confidence; aversion to strangers (the child does not want to play). It has cured a case of fetid foot-sweat with spells of despondency, seeking solitude, sobbing and crying. Deficient memory (children cannot remember and learn). Sensation as if brain loose. Vertigo: with nausea; from stooping; when lifting arms up; in old people. Pressure and sticking in brain, at vertex on waking. It has cured baldness in young people; tinea, wens. The scalp is very sensitive to touch. Enlarged glands in occiput and neck. On the face there are rough, dry and herpetic eruptions. Dark redness. Tension of whole face as if white of egg had dried on it; as if a cobweb ( B. acet .) over face, temples, and scalp. Painful swelling of parotid and of submaxillary glands. The sense of smell is very acute. There is an illusion of smell as of pine smoke. Nose-bleed before menses. The tongue is paralysed. Salivation; saliva runs out during sleep. The digestion is weak; after eating, pressing in stomach; and pain in hard, swollen abdomen. Sensation of soreness of stomach; while eating it feels as if the food had to force its way through some raw place. It has proved curative in the habitual colic of children who do not thrive; enlarged mesenteric glands; hungry, but refuse food, swallowing painful. The anus is sore and humid. Piles protrude with urination as well as stool. Constipation, with hard, knotty stools; hæmorrhoids, burning and soreness. The paralytic condition appears in the sexual organs. Impotence. Soreness and moistening between scrotum and thighs. Enlarged prostate. There is also a paralytic condition of the respiratory organs. There is a feeling in the larynx as if inspiring smoke or pitch. Hoarseness and loss of voice from cough, mucus in larynx and trachea. Suffocating catarrh and paralysis of lungs in old people. Sensation as if lungs full of smoke. There is a spasmodic cough, like whooping-cough, from roughness and tickling in throat and pit of stomach. Cough < evening till midnight; after getting feet cold; exercise; lying left side; cold air; thinking of it. Palpitation with soreness of heart, < lying on left side; < thinking of it. Violent long lasting palpitation; felt in head. Palpitation < on exertion. Slightest exertion makes him feel tired and sleepy. These heart symptoms of Bar. c . are met with in many cases of aneurism and atheroma, and no remedy has a better record here. I cured an advanced case of thoracic aneurism with the 3x. Baryt. c . has cured tumours of several kinds. Induration in the breasts. Sarcoma in neck with burning. Fatty tumours, especially about the neck. Swelling and induration of glands. A marked symptom is, pulsation in the back. Stiffness and tension in small of back, in evening, especially while sitting, allowing neither to rise nor to bend backwards. Painfulness of arms and swelling of axillary glands. Cold feet. Fetid perspiration of feet. Corns with burning and stinging. Burning and drawing pains are frequent in lower limbs. A case has been recorded in which Baryt . removed in an old man a pain, coming suddenly, in hollow of knee and running down back of leg like a thin stream of hot fluid or molten metal, running down under the skin. Tearing in limbs with chilliness. Tension and shortening of muscles. Intolerable irritation all over like prickings and tingling, waking him at night. Itching, sore and humid skins. — Warts. — Burning pains are found in many parts. General soreness and sensitiveness. Small wounds ulcerate and get very sore.

Chilliness predominates. It has cold, clammy feet as notably as Calcarea . < Cold air; cold washing; damp weather; warm food; in sun (headache); near warm stove (headache). < From raising arms, < from mental emotion. < Thinking of complaints. < In company; > alone. > From cold food. Left side much affected. Offensive sweat of one side (mostly left). < Lying on painful side; on left side. < After eating. After eating, so weak cannot raise his hands; too weak to masticate.

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Want of clear consciousness. θ Old age.
Feels stupefied ; as if benumbed ; brain seems to move to and fro as if loose, when moving body.
Weak memory.
Memory deficient ; child cannot be taught, for it cannot remember ; is inattentive.
Forgets what was just said, just done, or what he was going to do or get.
Forgetful ; in middle of a speech the most familiar words fail him.
(bar. a) As if absent ; absentmindedness. θ Apoplexy.
(bar. a) Has no clear perception. θ Apoplexy.
Great mental and bodily weakness ; childishness. θ Old people.
Idiocy.
Imagines he walks on his knees.
Walking in street she imagines men are laughing at her, criticising to disadvantage ; this makes her so timid that she dare not look up or at anybody, and she perspires over whole body.
Delirium, with frightful figures and images before eyes.
Talkative mania ; < during catamenia ; yellow complexion ; white-coated tongue, with red edges, little ulcers on tongue ; nausea without being able to vomit ; fine skin becoming easily denuded. θ Young
girls.
Mania ; talks much and confusedly ; wants to go out of house. θ During pregnancy.
Inclined to make fruitless exertions of memory ; tries to recollect past events.
Loquacity.
Groaning and murmuring. θ Old age.
Childish and thoughtless behavior. θ Old people. θ Apoplexy.
Averse to strangers and company.
Laziness, averse to bodily or mental labor.
Child does not want to play, but sits in corner doing nothing.
Weeping mood.
Sadness, dejection of spirits, grief over trifles.
Hopelessness ; distrust.
Anxious about most trivial affairs.
She is suddenly overwhelmed with an evil apprehension ; she imagines, for instance, that a beloved friend has suddenly fallen sick and is dying.
Solicitude : about his future ; about domestic affairs.
A peculiar dread of men.
Fearful, easily startled.
Nervous anxiety, restlessness, desire to escape.
Irresolute, constantly changing his mind.
The highest degree of irresoluteness ; she proposes a little journey, but as soon as she makes preparation she changes her mind ; she wavers between opposite resolutions ; all self-confidence has disappeared ; great timidity and cowardice.
Loss of self-confidence ; desponding : pusillanimous.
Whining mood.
Sudden ebullitions of anger, but coupled with cowardice.
Very easily frightened ; a little noise in street seems to her like cries of fire ; it frightened her so that all her limbs trembled.
Dull pain in bumps of firmness and concentrativeness, with corresponding symptoms of mind.
Thinking of one's complaints makes them worse.
Worse in company ; better when alone.

Oversensitiveness of all the senses.
At night, in bed, everything rocks within him, as in a ship.
When she raises herself it seems as if her head would be turned inside out.
Sensation as if brain was loose ; seems to move to and fro on motion of body ; feels stupefied, as if benumbed.
(bar. a) He has not his full consciousness ; is childish and stupid. θ Apoplexy.
Vertigo : with nausea ; from stooping ; when lifting arms up ; old people.

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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.

Get this in mind first, and think what it means; and then in the Baryta carb. constitution, we have the very opposite state.

That is what we mean by dwarfishness. Children are late coming into usefulness; or activity; late with their studies; late! learning to talk; late learning to read; late learning to make the combinations that enter into life; late learning to take in images, and form perceptions; to take on their activities; to do their work.

We say sometimes that Calc. carb. is late in learning to walk, but Baryta carb. is also late learning to walk, although it has an entirely different cause.

To express it in a common, old-fashioned way, Baryta carb. is late learning how to walk, even with pretty good limbs. Calc . has miserable, weakly limbs, flabby muscles, poor bones, and hence he is late learning to walk.

"Late walking" is Calc.

"Late learning to walk" is Baryta carb.

It competes also with Borax and Natrum mur. All three of these medicines have a peculiar kind of tardiness in the development of the brain, so that they are late learning to do things; late in developing.

But Baryta carb. leads them all in this late coming into the activities and uses of life.

You will have patients to treat, where this slow development manifests itself in girls. 18 to 25 years of age, who do the things they did when they were children, and say things as they said them when they were children.

"Childish manner of doing things, and childish behavior. Playing with dolls and saying foolish things."

They have not come into womanhood. They are late in taking on the activities and uses of the woman. They lack the prudence of the woman. They have not become circumspect, and say things just as a boy or just as a little girl would say them.

That is the dwarfishness of the mind. To appreciate that late development, and to see it in Baryta carb. from all of its symptoms and peculiar features, leads to a strong grasp of the remedy.

There is some of this found in such remedies as Graph., Sulph. and Calc., but nothing compared to this remedy. This seems to suspend the development that makes the child into a man or a woman.

It is not a small person that makes me think of Baryta carb., but the dwarfishness that is mental, and that is of organs.

Organs, as it were, become paralyzed, or one organ does not develop. It stops, and the others go on. That would make me think of this remedy. A single organ fails to mature, and the others go on; one-sidedness, a partiality of development.

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Especially adapted to complaints of first and second childhood; scrofulous, dwarfish children who do not grow (children who grow too rapidly, Cal.); scrofulous ophthalmia, opaque cornea; attacks of colic; swollen abdo- men; puffed face; general emaciation; mind and body weak; psoric or tubercular.

Memory deficient; forgetful, inattentive; child cannot be taught for it cannot remember; threatened idiocy.

Children both physically and mentally weak.

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 least cold, have an attack of tonsillitis prone to sup- puration (Psor.).

Dwarfish hysterical women and old maids, with scanty menses; deficient vital heat, always cold and chilly.

Old cachectic people; scrofulous, especially when fat; or those who suffer from gouty complaints (Fluor. ac.).

Diseases of old men; hypertrophied prostate or indurated testes.

Swelling and indurations, or incipient suppuration of glands.

Offensive foot-sweat; toes and soles get sore; throat affec- tions after checked foot-sweat (Graph., Psor., San., Sil.).

Great sensitiveness to cold (Cal., Con., Kali c., Psor.).

While sitting; when thinking of his disease

(Oxalic acid); lying on painful side; washing affected part.

When walking in the open air.

Frequently useful before or after Psor., Sulph. and Tub.

After Bar. c., Psor. will often eradicate the constitutional ten- dency to quinsy.

Incompatible: after Calc. in scrofulous affections.

Quotidian; tertian; continued

8 P. M. Afternoon or evening.

Without thirst.

Constant coldness, as if cold water were dashed over her (Ant. t., Rhus), relieved by warmth of stove (Ign.), but aggravated by exercise or the least draught of air. Chill begins in face and descends over the body; or shivering, beginning in the feet, with bristling of the hairs. Chills in pit of stomach (Cal.) alternate with warmth of body; cold feet, then chilliness comes on again. Sudden chill, with goose-skin, external coldness and the hair standing on end. Icy coldness of the feet from afternoon till evening; after lying down, heat in the whole body. Alternate chilliness and heat the whole night. Chill generally one (left) sided. Chill alternating with heat; evening and night. Horripilation.

Without thirst. Skin hot and dry; heat at night and anxiety. She cannot lie upon the left side on account of violent palpitation, with a feeling of soreness in the heart, and great anxiety. Dry heat the whole night, with sleeplessness; if she puts her hands out from under the cover of the bed, she feels cold, chilly and thirsty (feels cold, Hep.); next day, violent thirst, drinks whole glasses of water. Frequent flushes of heat during the day; night attacks, with great anxiety and restlessness. Heat and redness, frequently of one cheek, with coldness of the other. Very sensitive to cold air, or to change of temperature (Cal., Hep.). Coldness of single parts.

Exhausting night-sweat; anxious sweat. Sweat profuse, of the left side; offensive of one (the left) side; returning every other evening (Ant. c.); < by eating, < in the presence of strangers. Sweat for several nights, after midnight. No thirst.

Very thick; white, fuzzy coating. Too weak to chew; too lazy to eat. Hungry, but cannot eat; sleepy, but cannot sleep. While at meals sudden disgust for food.

Excessive languor of all the limbs; prostration and inability to support one's self on the limbs. Constantly weak and weary, wishes to lean on something, to sit or lie down, and still feels weak and weary.

In fevers as sequellæ of scarlet fever or diphtheria; fevers occurring in young persons or old people of a psoric diathesis.

Extremely sensitive to cold air in every stage of the paroxysm.

Chilly from uncovering any part of body.

The constitutional cachexia of the patient.

Memory deficient; child cannot be taught, for it cannot remember; is inattentive.
* Forget; in the middle of speech the most familiar words fail him.
Great mental and bodily weakness, childishness; old people.
Child does not want to play, but sits in the corner doing nothing.
Sadness, dejection of spirits, grief over trifles.
* Dread of men, of strangers; imagines she is being laughed at or criticised, hence so fearful she will not look up.
Solicitude; about his future;* about domestic affairs.
* Irresolute, constantly changing his mind.
Loss of self-confidence; desponding; pusillanimous.
* sudden ebullitions of anger, but coupled with cowardice.
Thinking of one's complaints makes them worse.
Thinks his legs are cut off and he is walking on his knees.

Vertigo: with nausea from stooping; of old people.
Apoplexy of drunkards; of aged people, who are childish, sensorium not clear, loss of speech, trembling of the limbs.

Headache in the evening; every noise, especially male voices, affect the brain painfully.
Headache just above the eyes.
Pressive sticking on the vertex which extends through the whole head whenever he stands in the sun.

Feeling of tension as if the skin were too tight; forehead and temples.
* Encysted tumor on the scalp.
Right side of the head feels burning hot, but is cold.
Baldness, especially on the crown.
Scalp, sensitive on the side on which he is lying, worse from scratching.
Head sensitive to cold.
Crusta lactea, dry scurf, or moist crusts, itching, burning; causes the hair to fall out; cervical glands hard, swollen.

Weakness of sight caused by old age.
Dim-sighted, cannot read.
Flying webs and black spots before the eyes.
Light dazzles; fiery sparks before the eyes in the dark.
* Quick succession of dilatation and contraction of the pupils; pupil irregular.
Pressure deep in the eyes; worse looking fixedly, or upwards and sideways; better looking downwards.
Opaque cornea; inflammation of the eyes with sensation of dryness; shuns the light.
Lids agglutinated.

Difficult hearing.
Buzzing and jingling before the ears.
Roaring in the right ear like the sea, at each inspiration.
Cracking in ear when sneezing, swallowing or walking fast.
Itching in the ears.
Tearing with boring and drawing in bones in front of right ear.
Thick crust on and behind the ears; small flat tubercles behind the ears.
Eruption on lobe of the ear.
Right parotid hard and swollen. θ After scarlatina.

Coryza, nose and upper lip swollen; children with large abdomen.
Frequent nosebleed.
Sneezing causing concussive pain in the brain.
Tormenting dryness in nose; secretion of thick, yellow mucus.
Formation of scabs in the posterior nares and behind the base of the uvula.
Scurfs under the nose.

Face: pale; puffed.
Comedones.
Sensation as if the face were swollen.
Tension as from a cobweb over the face, temples, scalp.
Rough, dry place on the right cheek.

Swelling of the upper lip which burning pain.
Pain in the articulation when closing the jaw.
Indurated swelling of the submaxillary glands.

After eating some, feels too weak to chew any more.
Toothache in decayed teeth before menses or from a cold.
Drawing, jerking, throbbing toothache; right teeth feel tense.
Burning stitches in a hollow tooth when touched by warm food; left side.
Gums bleed, are swollen, pale red with a dark red border.
Toothache worse thinking about it; disappears when the mind is diverted.

Paralysis of the tongue; loss of speech.
Hardness on the middle of the tongue, burning when touched; burning sense of excoriation at the tip; fissure on the left border, feeling excoriated.
Vesicles on the middle, tip, or under the tongue.

The buccal cavity feels numb.
Dryness of the mouth early after rising.
Whole mouth filled with vesicles, especially the inside of cheeks.
Saliva runs out of the mouth while asleep, at daybreak.
Intolerable stench from the mouth, unnoticed by himself.

Smarting in the throat when swallowing, worse from empty swallowing; throat sore to touch.
Liability to tonsillitis after every slight cold, or suppressed foot-sweat.
Tonsils tend to suppurate, especially the right; palate swollen; dark brown urine; sleeplessness.
Chronic induration of the tonsils; sensation as of a plug in the throat; worse swallowing solids.
Sensation in the œsophagus as if a morsel of food had lodged there.
On swallowing, sensation as if the food had to force itself over a sore spot.
Œsophageal spasm, in old people.

Hungry, but cannot eat; or, feels as though she needed food, but did not want it.
Thirst, with dryness of mouth, not relieved by drink.

Sudden nausea while eating.
Pressure like a stone in the stomach after eating bread; repletion after a little food.
Heaviness of the stomach, nausea, goes off after breakfast.
Soreness in the stomach as if food passed over sore places.
Cough from eating warm food.
Better from cold diet.

Eructations: as if air were forcing its way through the stomach, causing a feeling of soreness; sour a few hours after dinner.
Nausea, palpitation and anxiety in the early morning.
Long-lasting nausea.
Water suddenly accumulates in the mouth.

Pressing in stomach, also after eating.
Sensation of soreness in the stomach.
Pressure as from a stone; better from eructations.

Aching at a small spot in right hypochondrium, when drawing a deep breath, or from pressure.

Distended, hard.
Cutting in the hypogastric region at night.
Distention and fullness above the pubes, as if the parts would burst, when lying on the back.
Tension and sensitiveness of the abdominal walls.

Scanty, hard or lumpy stool, expelled with difficulty.
Sudden, irresistible urging to stool; soreness in the lumbar region; chills over head and legs; then loose stools, and renewed urging; after taking cold.
Burning and soreness around the anus as if excoriated.
Frequent passage of blood, with distended abdomen.
Crawling in the rectum; expulsion of ascarides.

Great desire to urinate; cannot retain the urine.
Constant urging, and frequent emission of urine, every other day; passes much at night.
Dark brown urine; also with the tonsillitis.

Diminished sexual ability.
Excoriation between the scrotum and thigh.
Sweat about the scrotum.

Menses scanty, last only one day.
Before the menses: toothache, swollen gums, colic with swelling of the limbs; immediately before leucorrhœa.
During the menses, weight over the pubes; bruised pain in the small of the back.

Feeling as if inhaling smoke or pitch.
Voice imperfect, aphonia; from tough mucus in fauces and larynx; old people.

Oppression with anguish; in the evening must loosen her dress.
Short breath from fulness in the chest, when ascending a height; stitches in the chest on inspiring.
Suffocative catarrh of old people, with impending paralysis of the lungs.

Chronic cough in scrofulous children, with swollen glands and enlarged tonsils; worse after slightest cold.
Cough in the presence of strangers.
Spasmodic cough excited by tickling and roughness in the throat and epigastrium; worse: evening until midnight; lying on the left side; active motion, ascending or stooping; in the cold air; from thinking of it; eating.
Nightly cough, chest full of phlegm.

Sensation of soreness in the chest when coughing.

Feels the heart-beat.
Palpitation when lying on the left side, with soreness in the region of the heart, great anxiety; renewed by thinking about it.
Orgasm of blood, with anxiety.

Stiffness in the nape of the neck.
Tension in neck and scapulæ; pain in the loins in cold air.
Stinging pains in the neck.
Chronic torticollis.
Swelling of the glands in the nape of the neck and occiput.
Pain in small of the back.
Tensive pain in the small of the back; worse in the evening; he can neither rise nor bend backwards.

Pains in the arms, with hard, swollen axillary glands.
Pain in the deltoid muscle when raising the arm.
When lying on the arm it goes to sleep.
Tension in small places of the arms.
Fingers numb as if asleep.
Panaritium, with nightly throbbing and ulceration, from a splinter.

* Tearing from above downwards in right buttock, periodically increasing and decreasing.
* Drawing pain down entire left leg.
Pain in legs at night, as after excessive walking or dancing.
Has to drag the legs when going up stairs, on account of lameness in the middle of the thighs.
Severe stitching on thighs.
Tension, as if the tendons were too short, less lying down; worse when standing.
Tremor of the feet while standing, must hold on to something to steady himself.
Soles feel bruised, at night, keeping one awake; better after rising and walking.
Aching lymphatic swelling on the ball of the great toe.
Fetid foot-sweat.
The hard skin on the sole is painful when walking.

Tearing in the limbs, with chilliness.
Stitches in the joints, they feel relaxed.

Motion: 27. Walking: 17, 33; fast: 6. Dancing: 33. Ascending: 26, 27, 33. Sits in a corner: 1. Stooping: 2, 27. Cannot rise: 31. Cannot stand: 36. After rising: 12, 33. Rising up in bed: 36. Standing: 33, 36. Standing in sun: 3. Cannot bend backwards: 31. Inclined to lie down: 36. Lying down: 4, 33. Lying on back: 19. Lying on left side: 29. Lying on arm: 32. Raising arm: 32.
Worse lying on painful side.

Nervousness, excessive irritation of all the nerves.
Jerking and starting in day time.
Prostration, cannot stand, the knees give way.
Weariness, constant inclination to lie down.
Heaviness of the whole body.
General paralysis of old people; loss of memory, childishness, trembling of the limbs; after apoplexy; in old age.
Great weakness, can hardly sit up in bed; if attempted, the pulse immediately becomes quick and somewhat hard, after a while imperceptible.

Talking in sleep (old men).
Awakes often at night; feels too hot; soles of feet feel bruised.
Twitching of muscles of the whole body during sleep.
Ravings of the fancy at night and stupefaction.
On awaking, pressure in limbs; tired, weary limbs.

Morning: 12. Early morning: 16. Afternoon: 16. Evening: 3, 26, 27, 31, 40. Evening till midnight: 27. Night: 16, 21, 27, 32, 33, 37, 40. Daytime: 21, 36, 40.

Warmth, external: 40. Sun: 3. Warm food: 10, 15. Cold: 27, 31. Cold food: 15. Cold air: 27, 31.
Sensitive to cold air; great liability to take cold, sore throat, cough, diarrhœa, pain in back and loins.
Worse from moistening or washing the diseased part.

Chill and chilliness predominating: often as if cold water were poured over one; better from external warmth; thirst during chill.
Chill from the face or pit of the stomach down the body; or beginning in the feet.
Chill alternating with heat; evening and night.
Frequent flushes during the day; nightly attacks with great anxiety and restlessness.
Anxiety sweat.
Debilitating night-sweat.
Offensive sweat of one (mostly left) side.
Sweat returning every other evening.
Sweat increased by eating.

Every other day: 21. Every other evening: 40. Increasing and decreasing periodically: 33.

Right: 4, 6, 8, 10, 13, 18, 33. Left: 10, 11, 27, 29, 33, 40. Above downward: 3, 33, 40. Below upward: 40. Upper left with lower right.

Feels "hide-bound"; tension of the skin.
Sensation of swelling.

Tension, shortening of the muscles.
Dwarfish, defective mental and physical growth.
Atrophy, great weakness; face red and abdomen bloated; glands swollen.
Steatoma; sarcoma with burning.
Glands indurated, swollen.
Glandular sequelæ of scarlatina.
Fatty tumors; encysted tumors.
Tearing and tension in the long bones; boring in bones.
Ulcers, fistulous, in glands; mostly glands of neck; feeling of tension.

Sensitiveness of part lain on.
Touch, 4, 11, 13. Pressure: 18. Rubbing: 46. Scratching: 4, 46.

Pimples on the feet suppurate and spread like ulcers.
Ringworms.
Skin humid, sore.
Warts.
A small wound, as from a splinter, throbs and ulcerates.
Itching, pricking, burning, here and there; not relieved by scratching or rubbing.
Scratching causes pricking, pimples.

Old people; especially when fat.
Scrofulous children; dwarfish; mind and body weak; scurf on head, ears, nose; eyes inflamed, opaque cornea; abdomen swollen; face puffed; general emaciation.

Cognates Ant. tart. (paralysis of lungs); Calc. ostr. (scrofulosis, coryza, etc.); Calc. iod. (large tonsils); Caustic. (paretic symptoms); Conium (old people); Dulcam. (tendency to catch cold); Fluor ac. (old people); Iodium (glands); Lycop. (tonsils); Mercur. (colds, glands, diarrhœa); Phosphor; Pulsat.; Sepia (ringworms); Silic. (glands, foot-sweat, etc.) Sulphur; Tellur. (ringworms).
Antidotes to Baryt. carb.: Ant. tart., Bellad., Camphor, Dulcam., Zincum.

Pure Carbonate of Barium in triturated for use.

A profound tissue remedy affecting glandular structures especially; indicated in general degenerative changes.

Lycop ., Merc. i. rub., Mag., Nat., Calc., Kali.

Stitches in joints. ▶ Tearing in whole body, now here now there. ▶ Pinching in several places. ▶ Bruised feeling over whole body in morning on waking with weakness. ▶ Tense feeling in whole body, with anxiety in forenoon. ▶ Beating through whole body in morning on rising. ▶ Drawing alternately in right shoulder, in lower extremities, arms, occiput and eyes with heaviness of occiput, great indolence and sleepiness causing dizziness.

General sick feeling. ▶ Sensitiveness of all senses. ▶ Faint feeling at night, with profuse vomiting next day nausea. ▶ Walking in open air is difficult but the farther he walks the easier it becomes. ▶ Weakness at 8 P.M., so that he almost sinks down; W. from a short walk then necessity to sleep; when lying, which generally seems a kind of heaviness. ▶ Relaxed condition of joints. ▶ Indolence after dinner. ▶ Paralysis extending from below upward so that he could only nod his head, with red face, difficult speech, sensation intact, reflex irritation increased, respiration rapid, with tracheal râles. ▶ Several symptoms decrease during dinner. ▶ Many symptoms arise when sitting, are better when standing and disappear on motion. ▶ Many symptoms disappear in open air.

It is useful in conditions of malnutrition in children when there is imperfect development of mind or in diseases that have a tendency to slow degenerative changes like scrofulous glandular indurations of various sorts. ▶ It is an extremely valuable remedy in degenerative changes in coats of arteries, aneurism, arterial fibrosis in apoplexy as the result of senility, etc. ▶ Fatty tumors, particularly about back. ▶ Paralysis of old people.

In children mental weakness, approaching idiocy. ▶ Mental impairment, as a result of masturbation, irresolute, memory lost no confidence in himself. ▶ Senile dementia, with loss of memory.

Delirium at night, with stupefaction, as in fever. ▶ Anxiety evenings in bed, with necessity to open her clothes. ▶ Fear and cowardice. ▶ Sadness and fear for his future, in the evening, he thinks that he is lost. ▶ Despondency, with crying and the belief that she must die. ▶ Lachrymose mood at night. ▶ Dejection, with disinclination to speak. ▶ Ennui and ill humor. ▶ Peevish and quarrelsome. ▶ Good humor becomes mischievousness. ▶ Stupid feeling in the morning on waking. ▶ Want of memory; so that he does not known what he has just spoken (Anac., Dig.).

Stitches, from warmth of stove; in brain, with heat and crawling in head; increasing and decreasing. ▶ Shattering in brain on stamping. ▶ Aching in evening, agg. noise, especially the human voice; from walking. ▶ Heaviness in morning on waking, after rising heat in it, with coldness of hands and feet. ▶ Confusion; in morning on waking and the whole forenoon; in evening, with heaviness in it, sleepiness constant falling forward of head, fretfulness and fatigue; when sitting, amel. open air. ▶ Humming as of boiling water. ▶ Rush of blood, with feeling as if the blood stagnated there. ▶ Loose feeling in brain, it seems to fall here and there when moving head.

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General loss of power and of steadiness, with inclination to lie down.
General physical and mental weakness, simulating old age.
Easy taking cold, followed by sore throat and stiff neck, or even diarrhœa.
The left side is more particularly affected.
Most symptoms are relieved by moving about in the open air.
Paralytic symptoms, extending from below upwards.

Clinical:
This drug has been found particularly useful in chronic lymphatic indurations.
It is also particularly indicated in the fatty degenerations of the coats of arteries, and may frequently be found useful in a condition of general fibrosis, which precedes fatty degeneration.
It is thus especially suitable to the so-called scrofulous cachexia, and to the diseases of old people.

General want of self-reliance, dread of people, especially strangers.
Becomes easily vexed.
Excessively busy, without any aim.
Loss of memory; forgets what has just been spoken.

Vertigo, with nausea on stooping.
Pressing headache just over the eyes.
A feeling of tightness in the occiput.
Shooting pains in the head by a warm stove.
Unsteadiness of the head.
Dry eruptions like dandruff of the scalp.

Burning and pressure in the eyes after exerting vision.
Inflamed eyes, with a feeling of dryness.
Photophobia.
Agglutination of the lids.
Blinding of the eyes in the light, and in the dark, vision of sparks.

Difficult hearing; reverberation, especially on blowing the nose.
Sounds like buzzing, or ringing bells, or wind blowing in the evening.
Crack on swallowing, sneezing or walking rapidly.
Eruption on and behind the ears.
Swelling of the parotid gland, which becomes very painful.

Dryness.
Coryza, with discharge of thick, yellow mucus.
Nose-bleed after blowing the nose.
Smell sensitive.

Generally pale.
At times dark redness of the face, like a rush of blood.
A feeling of tightness, as if covered with cobwebs.
Face swollen, with a feeling of tension (eczema of nursing children).
Swelling of the submaxillary glands.

Jerking toothache, which extends into ear and temples.
Toothache, with swelling of the gums, precedes the menses.
Frequent and profuse bleeding of the gums.
The teeth decay rapidly.
Smarting, burning pain in the tip of the tongue.
Mouth filled with inflamed vesicles, especially on the sides of the teeth.
Bad odor from the mouth.
Dryness of the mouth.

Inflammation and swelling of the tonsils and palate, with threatening suppuration.
Smarting pain on swallowing, especially when swallowing nothing, with external soreness.
Rawness worse during empty swallowing, with smarting.
Constriction and feeling as if a plug were in the region of the larynx when swallowing.
A choking feeling, recurring after dinner, a feeling as though the thyroid gland were pressed inward, impeding respiration.

Loss of appetite, though food has natural taste.
Thirst.
Bitter taste in the mouth.
Food has a sour taste.
Very weak digestion.
Pressure after eating.
A feeling of soreness in the stomach, with a feeling as though food had to be forced down over sore places.

Hardness and tension.
Cutting pains as though diarrhœa would occur (after taking cold).

Frequent urging to stool.
Anxious aching in the lumbar region, followed by diarrhœa.
Urgent desire for stool which cannot be restrained.
Diarrhœa, with bloody mucus.
Constipation caused by hard, knotty stools.
The anus is sore and moist.
Shooting pains in the hæmorrhoids.

Frequent desire which cannot be restrained.
Urine is passed frequently and copiously.

Moisture and soreness between the scrotum and thighs.
Weak sexual power.
Diminished sexual desire.

Sensation of breathing smoke in the larynx.
Suffocative feeling, threatening paralysis of the lungs in old people.
Dry cough in the evening.
Cough at night, with oppression of the chest.
Hoarseness and loss of voice, caused by tough mucus in the larynx and trachea.

A feeling of fullness in the chest.
Violent palpitation brought on especially by lying on the left side, or even by thinking of it.
Soreness in the chest on coughing.
A feeling of fullness, with bruised pain in the left side, with short breath or stitches, worse on breathing or going up stairs.

Stiffness in the neck.
Hard swelling of the glands in the nape of the neck and around the throat.
Pulsatings in the back.
Tensive stiffness in the small of the back in the evening, especially when sitting - is not relieved by standing or by bending backward.

Pain in the axillary glands, which are swollen.
Swelling of the arm.
Veins on the hands are swollen.
The skin of the hands is dry.
Pain as if strained in the hip.
Tension in the thigh as though the muscles were shortened.
Drawing and tearing in the legs, as if in the bones.
Feet perspire too much, and become offensive.
Corns form on the balls of the toes, with burning stitches.

General sleepiness day and night.
Almost constant dreaming, causing anxiety at night.

Chilliness and dry pains in the limbs.
Sweat at night, particularly on the feet.
Heat at night, with anxiety.

BARYTA CARBONICA.

(Crystalline muriate of baryta is finely powdered, boiled for a few minutes with 6 parts of alcohol, to remove any muriate of strontia that may be present ; the remaining powder is dissolved in six parts of boiling distilled water and precipitated with weak ammonium, say a solution of sal ammoniac in water. The precipitated baryta is washed several times with distilled water and then dried.) One grain of this baryta is first brought to the millionth powder attenuation, and then being dissolved, it is diluted and potentized to the decillionth degree (X) as taught in the direction for the preparation of dry antipsoric remedies in part I. A few of the smallest pellets, moistened with this medicine and put into a powder of sugar of milk, from a dose which will prove efficient of good for over 40-48 days, if the medicine was selected homœopathically suitable to the case of disease. This antipsoric medicine may be used very advantageously in many cases, and in especially serviceable where the following ailments are among the chronic ills to be cured : Weeping mood ; anxiety about domestic affairs ; shyness as to strange persons and as to social meetings ; headache close above the eyes ; the head easily catches cold ; eruption on the head ; baldness of the head ; eruption on the ears, and behind them ; tubercles behind the ears ; eruption on the lobule of the ear ; roaring and ringing before the ear ; pressure in the eyes : inflammation of the eyeballs and eyelids with photophobia ; the eyelids closed by suppuration ; flying webs and black spots before the eyes ; dimness of vision, he cannot read ; the eyes are dazed by the light ; scurf under the nose ; eruption on the face ; single jerks in the teeth ; burning stitches in the hollow tooth when anything warm touches it ; dryness of the mouth ; constant thirst ; eructation after a meal ; sour eructation ; water-brash ; long continued nausea ; pressure on the stomach, both when fasting and after a meal ; pain of the stomach, on touching the scrobiculus cordis ; difficult knotty stool ; hard and insufficient stool ; urging to urinate and frequent micturition ; weakness of the sexual powers ; leucorrhœa just before the menses ; coryza ; troublesome dryness of the nose ; nocturnal cough ; mucus on the chest with nocturnal cough ; excessive secretion of mucus in the chest ; palpitation of the heart perceptible per se ; pain in the small of the back ; stiffness of the small of the back ; stiffness of the nape of the neck ; stitches in the nape of the neck ; pain in the deltoid muscle, on lifting the arm ; the arm goes to sleep, while lying on it ; going to sleep of the fingers ; drawing and tearing in the legs ; ulcers on the feet ; fetid sweat of the feet ; painful lymphatic swelling on the ball of the big ; twitching and jerking of the body in daytime ; heaviness in the whole body ; asthenia ; general weakness of the nerves and the body ; tendency to take cold ; WARTS ; raving when asleep ; at night, twitching of the muscles of the whole body ; night-sweat. The names of my fellow-provers are marked as follows : Ad. Dr. Adams ; Gr., Dr. Gross ; Htb., Dr. Hartlaub, Sen. ; Htn., Dr. Hartmann ; Ng., anonymous ; Rt., Dr. Rueckert ; St., Dr. Stapf ; Rl. Dr. Rummel. [*].

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Bar. c. / Barber.

Baryta Carb.-In much demand
Art thou, for hard and swollen gland,
Especially when the same we note,
with inflammation of the throat.
Soft tumors, too, with thee find place,
A sense-like cobweb on the face.
A cough and smothering breath oppressed,
And sense of soreness in the chest.
A stomach tender to the touch,
An abdomen distended much.
Offensive, tender, sweaty feet,
And general feebleness complete,
Of dwarfs, and people old, or daft,
In dread of cold air and of draught.

The Barber,-Has enlarged glands.

The Barber, Calvin Sil, rooms with Jo Carba, the dark Kid, and his brother.

This Barber,-Who is subject to a pot-belly,-Is to go to Cina with Calvin Plat, for a Mess of eels.

Enlarged Glands: Bar. c., Cal. c., Sil., Rhus., Mer., Sul., Iod., Carb. a., Nit. a., Kal. i., Brom.

Pot-Belly: Bar. c., Graph., Cina., Cal. c., Plat., Mer., Sep., Lach., Sil. (Women, Plat., Sep.)

Indicated in the ailments of scrofulous children, physically and mentally backward, with enlarged tonsils and other expressions of scrofulous tendency. Useful in diseases of men of advanced years, timid, easily tired, giving evidence of commencing physical deterioration. The latter frequently suffer from hypertrophy or induration of the prostate or testicles.

Dwarfed state of body and mind.

Hardness of hearing; the glands about the ears are swollen and painful.

Swelling of the submaxillary glands and parotids.

Enlargement and suppuration of the tonsils worse after every slight cold.

Hard distension of the abdomen; colicky tendency to constipation; stools hard and knotty.

Fetid foot-sweats; cold, clammy feet.

Perspiration of one side.

Worse from washing.

Better from walking in the open air.

Averse to playing. Disposed to weep. Sudden ebullitions of temper with cowardice. Mental weakness in old people. Extraordinary forgetfulness. Critical and irresolute. Want of self - confidence. Dread of man (especially strangers). Excessive activity and restlessness. Chilliness.

With nausea while stooping.

Pressive ache just over the eyes. Tension in occiput. Sticking headache, when near stove. Heaviness worse night and lying on a pillow.

Painfully sensitive on side lain on, and to every touch. Feeling of blood extravasating beneath. Tension in skin of scalp and face, as if egg albumen had dried thereon, with swelling thereof. Crawling eating and sticking itching most on vertex and sides, Sticking violently, and very painful when scratched, leaving moist spots which late cover themselves with scabs. Hair falls out even to baldness, beginning on vertex, with dry itching crusts, on and itching pimples on neck. Tendency to take cold in from washing head. Worse: Evening, at night, scratching, in a warm room. Better: Motion in open air.

Burning and pressing in, from eye strain. Inflamed, with a sense of dryness and photophobia. Suppurative agglutination of lids. Light dazzles, yet in the dark there are sparks before.

Eruption on and behind. Cracking and snapping in, when swallowing, sneezing and walking rapidly.

Nosebleed after blowing it. Sensitive smell. Fluent coryza with thick mucus

Dark red, with violent congestion thereto. Tension as if covered with a cobweb, Swollen. Milk crust. Swelled submaxillary glands.

Jerks, extending into ears and temples. Ache with swollen gums before menses.

Repeated inflammation, after taking the slightest cold, with swelling and suppuration of tonsils. Sense of a plug in. Sore, when swallowing. Roughness in.

Great weakness of digestion. Pressure, after eating. Sore pain in, with a sensation when eating as though' the morsels were forced through sore spots.

Appetite: Small, but food tastes properly. Thirst.

Taste: Bitter, in mouth early in morning. Sour, before eating.

Intense urging to, with agonizing pains in loins, followed by diarrhoeic stools. Sudden irresistible necessity for.

Excoriation and moisture between scrotum and upper thigh. Weak sexual power. Diminished sexual desire.

Suffocative catarrh from paralysis of lungs in old people. Tightness of chest. Dyspnoea.

Excited by roughness and tickling in epigastrium and throat. Dry in evening. Chest full of phlegm with night cough. Difficult expectoration of a yellowish, tenacious, starchy, often a saltish mucus in morning.

Hoarseness and loss of voice from tenacious mucus in, and in trachea. Sensation of smoke in.

Fullness in. Strong palpitation, when lying on left side or renewed when thinking about it. Soreness in. Feeling as if something had fallen down within. Sore feeling about heart. violent palpitation.

Throbbing pulsation in. In evening, tensive stiffness in lumbar region, especially when sitting, it allows neither rising nor bending backward.

Neck: Stiff. Pain in bones of. Indurated swelling of glands of neck and throat. Burning steatomatous swelling on neck.

Swelling of arms, with painful axillary glands. Swollen blood vessels on hands. Dry skin of hands.

Sprained pain in hip joint. Tension in legs, as from shortened muscles. Drawing and tearing in legs as if in bones. Fetid foot sweat. Corns with burning sticking, also on balls of toes.

Suitable for old men, dwarfs and atrophic children. Nightly twitching of muscles of entire body. Great weakness and relaxation with inclination to lie down. General physical, mental and nervous weakness in old people. Hyperaesthesia of all senses. Apoplexy with paralysis in old people. Great tendency to take cold, especially causing sore throat, stiff neck and diarrhoea. The left side is mostly affected. Most symptoms disappear during motion in open air. Worse: Night, in cold. Better: Warmth, especially when sitting quietly in a dark room.

Glands swollen, indurated.

Unhealthy. Burning, needle - like stitches here and there. Smarting and oozing of single spots.

Somnolency, day and night.

Pulse: Accelerated but weak, seldom full and hard. Chill: And chilliness predominate, often as if cold water were poured over one, relieved by external warmth. IN evening and at night alternating with heat. Spreading downward over body from face or epigastrium. Beginning in feet. With drawing in limbs. Heat: running over body frequently during day. Nightly attacks of flying heat, with great anxiety and restlessness. Sweat: Debilitating at night. Unilateral, mostly on left side. Recurring every other evening. (Lac - can.)

Allied Remedies: Ars., Calc-c., Nux-v., Sep., ZINC. Acute of Bar-c.: Apis.

Mistrust.

Want of self-confidence, and aversion to strangers.

Tension and shortening of the muscles.

Heaviness of the body.

Pains in the joints and bones.

Tearing in the limbs with chilliness.

Swelled and indurated glands.

Emaciation with bloated face, swelled abdomen and difficult learning in children.

Great liability to catch cold (sore throat, stiffness of the neck, and diarrhoea).

Great weakness of the mind and body of old men.

Paralysis and palsy of aged persons.

Aggravation while sitting or lying on the painful side.