Baryta Muriatica bar-m.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Barium Chloride

General

The different salts of Baryta are called for in organic lesions of the aged and dwarfish, both mentally and physically. Arterio-sclerosis and cerebral affections due to this condition. Headaches, but without acute crisis, occurring in old people; heaviness rather than pain. Vertigo, due to cerebral anæmia and noises in ears. Acts on lower alimentary canal, especially rectum; on muscles and joints, giving stiffness and weakness as from overwalking. The white blood corpuscles increased. Hypertension and vascular degeneration. Increased tension of pulse. Arterio-sclerosis (Aurum; Secale) where a high systolic pressure with a comparatively low diastolic tension is attended by cerebral and cardiac symptoms.

This remedy has indurated and narrowing of the cardiac orifice with pain, immediately after eating, and epigastric tenderness, which has been repeatedly verified, also its use in aneurism and chronic hypertrophy of the tonsils. Nymphomania and satyriasis. Convulsions. In every form of mania when the sexual desire is increased. Icy coldness of body, with paralysis. Multiple sclerosis of brain and cord. Voluntary muscular power gone but perfectly sensible. Paresis after influenza and diphtheria. General feeling of lassitude in the morning, especially weakness of the legs, with muscular stiffness. Children who go around with their mouth open and who talk through the nose. Stupid-appearing, hard of hearing.

Ears

Whizzing and buzzing. Noises on chewing and swallowing, or sneezing. Earache; better sipping cold water. Parotids swollen. Offensive otorrhœa. Inflates middle ear on blowing nose.

Throat

Difficult swallowing. Tonsils enlarged. Paresis of pharynx and eustachian tubes, with sneezing and noises. Tubes feel too wide open.

Respiratory

Bronchial affection of old people with cardiac dilation. Facilitates expectoration. Great accumulation and rattling of mucus with difficult expectoration. Arterio-sclerosis of the lung, thus in senile asthma, modifies the arterial tension.

Stomach

Gone feeling at epigastrium a good guiding symptom for it in chronic affections. Retching and vomiting. Sensation of heat ascending to head.

Urine

Great increase in uric acid, diminution of chlorides.

Abdomen

Throbbing (Selen); induration of pancreas; abdominal aneurism. Inguinal glands swollen. Spasmodic pain in rectum.

Relationship

Compare in sclerotic degenerations, especially of spinal cord, liver, and heart. Plumbum met and Plumb iod. Also Aurum mur (which will often accomplish more in sclerotic and exudative degenerations than other remedies. Multiple sclerosis, fulgurating pains, tremors, Morvan's disease, hypertrophy of fingers).

Dose

Third trituration. Bears repetition of dosage well.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1st edition (1900-02, three volumes); homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML digitization

General

Chloride of Barium. Ba Cl 2 2 H 2 O.

Clinical

Aneurism. Anus, abscess of. Asthma. Convulsions. Deafness. Dyspepsia. Fistula. Glandular swellings. Gleet. Gonorrhœa. Idiocy. Leucorrhœa. Mania. Mumps. Nymphomania. Otorrhœa. Pancreatitis. Paralysis. Scrofula. Sterility. Testicles, affections of. Tinea capitis. Tinnitus. Tonsillitis. Tumours.

Characteristics

The symptoms of Baryta mur . are like those of the other Barium salts, but it has a distinct character of its own. Convulsions are more marked in the muriate. Periodical attacks of convulsions, with excessive jactitation of the limbs. Idiocy. Mania, with increase of sexual desire; "in every form of mania as soon as the sexual desire is increased." Offensive otorrhœa. Parotid glands hard and swollen (especially right). It has cured whizzing and buzzing in ears; noises on chewing and swallowing. Deafness. Great salivation and odour from mouth as from mercurialisation. Swelling of salivary glands. Disposition to tonsillitis. There is great indigestion. Below stomach to left a hardness from which paroxysms of dyspnœa come. Induration of pancreas. Distressing throbbing in abdomen (abdominal aneurism). Many cases of aneurism have been benefited by Bar. mur . Both elements have a strong action on heart and arteries. In one poisoning case, that of a girl, the instant she swallowed the solution she exclaimed that she was on fire; vomitings, convulsions, pain in the head and complete deafness supervened; and death within an hour. Baryt. mur . acts on parotid glands and pancreas. Is suited to scrofulous children. Attacks of tonsillitis occurring in spring and autumn. The earache is > by sipping cold water.

Relations

Compare: Con. (indurations of abdominal glands); Iod., Kali iod. and Iris (pancreas); Selen. (pulsations in abdomen). Useful after Ars. in extravasations of blood. The vomiting is antidoted by Absinthe.

Mind

Great anxiety, with gastralgia, nausea, and retching; has to bend double. ─ Idiocy. ─ Mania of every form as soon as sexual desire is increased.

Head

Vertigo, swimming before the eyes; things turn round. ─ Head confused and heavy. ─ Cephalalgia, with vomitings. ─ Very purulent eruptions on the scalp. ─ Scabby eruptions on the head and on the neck. ─ Eruption at the nape of the neck.

Eyes

Eyes fixed and immovable. ─ Shuns light; child lies all the time on its face. ─ Pupils dilated and insensible, with fixed look. ─ Blennorrhœa of the eyes, of the ears, and of the nose.

Ears

Deafness and vomiting. ─ Otorrhœa; odour like rotten cheese. ─ Abscesses behind ears. ─ Parotids (esp. r.) swollen.

Nose

Sneezing in sleep. ─ Coryza.

Face

Tractive pains in the muscles of the face. ─ Painful nodosity at the point of the nose, with slight pricking.

Teeth

Shooting, throbbing pains in the teeth, esp. on waking, after midnight. ─ Looseness of the teeth.

Mouth

Swelling of the salivary glands and of the palate. ─ Tongue loaded. ─ Tongue and mouth dry. ─ Fetor of the mouth, as if from mercury. ─ Putrid taste in the mouth, also of food.

Throat

Uvula elongated. ─ Varicose veins of throat. ─ Suppuration of tonsils after every cold. ─ Swallowing difficult.

Stomach

Loss of appetite. ─ Thirst. ─ Inclination to vomit. ─ Retching. ─ Vomiting in the morning, with anxiety. ─ Vomiting of a small quantity of water, with nausea. ─ Sickness. ─ Pressure on the stomach, with spasm. ─ Sensation of heat, ascending from the stomach to the chest and head. ─ Burning pain in the stomach, with vomiting. ─ The membranes of the stomach are of a blue red, with red spots on the muscular part. ─ The pit of the stomach is inflamed, with isolated ecchymoses. ─ Uneasiness, as if from worms.

Abdomen

Burning pains in the abdomen. ─ Tumefaction of the liver. ─ Throbbing of tumour in abdomen. ─ Inguinal glands swollen; painful; ulcerating.

Stool and Anus

Fæces slimy. ─ Easy evacuation. ─ Chronic, painless diarrhœa, or diarrhœa with violent colic. ─ Stools jelly-like, with blood, no pain; discharges every fifteen or twenty minutes. ─ Stools white, hard as stones.

Urinary Organs

Urine frequent, involuntary, and painful. ─ Urine yellowish, very offensive. ─ Flow of urine. ─ Whitish sediment in the urine.

Male Sexual Organs

Frequent emission of semen. ─ Swelling of the testes. ─ Buboes after suppressed gonorrhœa.

Female Sexual Organs

Catamenia too early. ─ Pains, as from a bruise, in the cavity of the pelvis. ─ Sterility. ─ Leucorrhœa. ─ Induration, tumour or atrophy of ovaries. ─ Nymphomania.

Respiratory Organs

Weak voice. ─ Dry cough. ─ Chronic cough of scrofulous children.

Chest

Catarrh, with heat. ─ Heat in the upper part of the chest. ─ Oppression.

Heart

Throbbing of the heart accelerated. ─ Palpitation of the heart. ─ Heart-beats irregular, pulse scarcely perceptible.

Neck and Back

Enlargement and induration of cervical glands. ─ Pains in the back.

Limbs

Trembling of limbs. ─ Convulsive jerkings of hands and feet. ─ Paralysis of upper and lower limbs. ─ Swelling of hands and feet.

Upper Limbs

Painless twitching in arm esp. at night.

Lower Limbs

Drawing pains in thighs. ─ Hæmorrhagic extravasations in knee-joint. ─ Feet swollen. ─ Effects of checked foot-sweat.

Generalities

Great weakness, which necessitates lying down. ─ Weakness and prostration, amounting almost to paralysis. ─ Syncope. ─ Stiffness and insensibility of the body, with periodical convulsions. ─ General heaviness. ─ Trembling of the limbs. ─ Convulsive trembling. ─ Twitching in the face or in some of the limbs, or in the whole body. ─ Periodical convulsive fits, with starting and excessive tossing about.

Skin

Pricking in the skin. ─ Burning and pricking in excoriated places. ─ Small itchy eruptions on the head, nape of the neck, abdomen, and thighs. ─ Glands inflamed and ulcerated. ─ Hæmorrhage.

Fever

General dry heat, night and day. ─ Redness and heat of the face. ─ Pulse frequent and full. ─ Tertian fever. ─ Increased perspiration. ─ Cold sweat.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

Mind

The locality around him seems transformed.
Children are inattentive when studying, sit in corners and give confused answers.
Idiocy.
In every form of mania, as soon as the sexual desire is increased.
Children do not desire to play.
Dejection and dread of men.
Sense of oppressive anxiety, accompanied by the illusory notion that he is walking on his knees, without legs.
Great anxiety, with pressure in stomach, nausea and retching ; has to bend double.
(OBS :) Attacks of anxiety and want of breath, so that he rolls on the ground.
Appears like an epileptic, with full consciousness. θ Induration of pancreas.
During an attack of fear, she says in a weak, husky voice, she must die ; t.
Despondent and anxious.

Sensorium

Is easily startled.
Vertigo ; things turn around.
Head so heavy that he cannot keep up.

Inner head

Headache, with angina.
Headache with the vomiting.

Outer head

Tinea capitis extending to sides and posterior portion of neck.
Tinea, with abundant discharge of pus.
Itch-like eruption on scalp and neck.
The whole scalp covered by a thick, offensive crust. θ Scrofulous ulcers.

Sight and eyes

Shuns light, child lies all the time on its face. θ Scrofulous ulcers.
Pupils dilated and immovable.
Albuginea injected.
Eyeballs much inflamed. θ Scrofulous ulcers.
Eyes stiff, cannot move them.
Lids on both eyes swollen and inflamed. θ Scrofulous ulcers.
Ophthalmia scrofulosis.
Staphyloma spurium with a boy, æt. 9, on inner edge of l. cornea.
Hernia tunicæ humoris aquei.

Hearing and ears

Deaf, with vomiting ; headache ; burning in stomach and convulsions.
Ears pain. θ Angina.
Earache right side ; < lying on painful side ; > sipping cold water.
Catarrh of ears.
Discharge from both ears of an odor like rotten cheese.
Otorrhœa after frequent otitis.
Post-scarlatinal otorrhœa.
Profuse purulent otorrhœa of five years' standing.
Otorrhœa on both sides, offensive discharge. θ Glandular swelling.
Abscess behind both ears, discharging offensive pus. θ Scrofulous ulcers.
Parotis on right side swollen, with a swelling of submaxillary and cervical glands.
Both parotids, most right side, swell after scarlatina.
Parotis swollen hard, not very painful, but extending to edge of lower maxilla.

Smell and nose

Sneezing in sleep, four, five times before midnight, not wakening ; a boy.
Catarrh of nose.
Coryza with fever heat.
Broad, red nodule on side of point of nose ; biting, tickling soreness and with fine stitches in it when touched.

Upper face

Red face, with fever heat.
Tension in whole face, with nausea and diarrhœa.
Drawing and spasmodic contraction of facial muscles.

Lower face

Enlarged, indurated and painful submaxillary glands. θ Otorrhœa.

Teeth and gums

After fine stitching a pulse-like jerking and throbbing toothache ; < after midnight ; < after sleep ; is compelled to sit up in bed.
Looseness of teeth, with salivation.

Taste, speech, tongue

Putrid taste in mouth, even food has a putrid taste ; tongue and mouth dry.
Tongue furred. θ Glandular swelling.
Tongue covered with mucus.

Inner mouth

Stench from mouth, like after mercury.
Great salivation. θ Angina.
Saliva runs out of mouth in large quantities, with every paroxysm. θ Induration of pancreas.
(In sick :) Salivation, with looseness of teeth, swelling of salivary glands and palate, odor like from mercurialism.
Swelling of salivary glands.

Palate and throat

Palate swollen. See 12 .
Elongation of uvula, with hyperemia and blennorrhœa. θ Angina tonsillaris.
Inner throat hyperemic and blennorrheic.
Varicose veins in throat.
Pharynx and œsophagus inflamed ; t.
Difficult swallowing.
Catarrh extends over tonsils, epiglottis, glottis, into tubes. θ Angina tonsillaris.
Angina tonsillaris, with suppuration, after every cold, with variola or varioloid.
Severe pain in right side of throat and ear ; saliva ran from mouth in large quantities ; fauces, especially on right side, of a deep red color ; tonsils but little swollen. θ Angina.
In a girl, both tonsils enlarged ; chills and heat alternately with general malaise, headache, thirst, etc. ; pulse 120 ; deglutition painful on right side, extending to ear ; tonsil red. θ Chronic
hypertrophy of tonsils.
Disposition to tonsillitis, with suppuration each time after taking cold.
Chronic scrofulous enlargement and induration of tonsils.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Increased appetite.
Appetite diminished. θ Glandular swelling.
Desire for dry wheat bread.
Glandular swelling.
Much thirst, with a dry tongue.
Thirst ; chill and fever alternately. θ Angina.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Nausea and sickness.
Retching.
Nausea, with vomiting and violent colic. θ Hydrops.
Nausea, retching ; slimy, watery vomiting ; t.
Nausea, vomiting, with worms and colic. θ After scarlatina.
Hematemesis.
(In sick :) Vomiting every morning after taking it.
Violent vomiting and purging, with anxiety.
During six hours he vomits small quantities of a disgusting matter, looking and tasting bad.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Oversensitiveness of stomach.
Stomach feels heavy ; a pressure in stomach, most after eating solid food.
Cramps in stomach.
Great indigestion.
Warm sensation rises up to chest and head.
Inflammation of stomach.
The fundus inflamed and several ecchymoses ; t.
The mucous membrane blue red, with red spots in muscular coat ; t.
External coat of stomach dark brown and inflamed.
Below stomach to left side a hardness, from which paroxysms of want of breath originate. θ Induration of pancreas.
Considerable hardness in region of stomach.
Cardia, pylorus, duodenum inflamed, dark red, highly congested ; t.

Hypochondria

Liver and spleen full of thick black blood ; gall-bladder filled with pale yellow, watery bile ; t.
Tumefaction of liver.

Abdomen and loins

Colic ; burning pains.
Pain in region of navel ; < in morning ; dry cough ; great appetite ; slime-covered tongue. θ Ascarides.
Borborygmus.
Distressing throbbing in a tumor inside of abdomen. θ Abdominal aneurism.
Abdomen much swollen. θ Scrofulous ulcers.
Abdomen distended. θ Glandular swelling.
Swelling and induration of abdominal glands.
Swelling of abdomen and lower limbs. θ After scarlatina.
Abdomen distended and hard. θ Scrofulosis glandulosa.
Ecchymoses in colon ; t.
Omenta reddened ; t.
Inguinal glands swollen and painful.
Fetid, ichorous ulcers in inguinal region.
(OBS :) Worm diseases.

Stools and rectum

Obstinate constipation.
Stool covered with mucus.
Stools of a jelly-like appearance, with blood, no pain at all, discharges every 15 or 20 minutes. θ Dysentery.
Bloody, mucous stools, without much pain, several times a day ; child. θ Dysentery.
Chronic, painless diarrhœa, yellow, slimy stools ; vomiting and exhaustion.
Colic and several stools ; boy, æt. 9.
Stools green and chopped.
Thin, watery, very fetid stools. θ Scrofulous ulcers.
Bleeding from intestinal canal.
Paralysis of sphincter ani.
Stool only after injections, excrement white and hard as stones. θ Scrofulous glands.
(In sick :) Passage of ascarides and slime.

Urinary organs

Cystitis.
Frequent urination.
(In sick :) Continual violent urging to urinate ; sometimes involuntary.
Urine yellowish, of a very offensive odor. θ Glandular swelling.
(In sick :) Frequent urination, whitish sediment.
Urine yellowish, of great stench. θ Scrofulous glands.

Male sexual organs

Sexual desire. See 1 .
(In sick :) Nightly pollutions.
Gonorrhœa and gleet.
Hypertrophied testicle after suppressed gonorrhœa.
Testicles increased in size, hard and painful stitches ; for nine years.
Swelling of testicles and scrotum, painless. θ After a contusion while riding on horseback.
Buboes after suppressed gonorrhœa.

Female sexual organs

Sterility.
Leucorrhœa.
Induration, tumor, or atrophy of ovaries.
Nymphomania.
Squeezing pains in pelvis.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Weak, husky voice.

Respiration

Attacks of anxious dyspnœa ; rolls on floor, several attacks a day, also in night. θ Epilepsy, with full consciousness.
Dyspnœa and oppression.
Has to sit up, head bent forward ; slime and saliva runs from mouth, without cough. θ Induration of pancreas.

Cough

Dry cough.
Chronic cough of scrofulous children.

Inner chest and lungs

Inward heat in upper chest.
Blennorrhœa of lungs with scrofula.
Phthisis scrofulosa, with herpetic eruption and indurated testicle.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Palpitation.
Pulse 120. θ Angina.
Abdominal aneurism.

Neck and back

Myelitis.
Beginning struma ; child, æt. 6 months, breathing with a rattle.
The whole neck and throat full of hard glandular swellings, size of eggs.
Enlargement and induration of cervical glands. θ Otorrhœa.
Submaxillary and cervical glands swollen to size of pigeon eggs, two like hen's eggs, very hard, and painful on slight pressure. θ Swelling of parotis.
Two cervical glands swollen and fluctuating. θ Swelling of parotids.
Vertebræ 7 and 8 are protruding, forming a hump. θ Glandular swelling, scrofula.
Tinea from scalp to neck.

Upper limbs

Painless jerking in arms, principally at night.
Eruption like millet seed on hands.

Lower limbs

Tension in thighs.
Emaciation of thighs.
When kneeling, a violent stitch, followed by a peculiar tension in right patella, making it difficult to walk. θ Hemorrhagic extravasation of knee.
Tension and increased warmth in knee. θ Swelling of knee.
Fine stinging in and around swollen knee.
A globular swelling on tip of right knee, increasing quickly but without much pain. θ Hemorrhagic swelling of knee.
A round, sharply defined swelling, size of a goose egg, of a dark color and clearly fluctuating, surrounded by bluish-red spots, not disappearing on pressure, with a greenish-yellow halo. θ Hemorrhagic
extravasation.
Hemorrhagic extravasation in bursa patellæ.
After checking foot sweat. θ Tonsillitis.
Feet swollen. θ Glandular swelling.
Cramps in toes.

Limbs in general

Trembling of limbs.
Convulsive jerkings of hands and feet.
Paralysis of upper and lower limbs.
Swelling of hands and feet.

Rest. position. motion

Lying on painful side : earache worse.
Has to sit up, head bent forward : breathing >. θ Induration of pancreas.
When kneeling : violent stitch in right patella.
Neither motion nor pressure is painful. θ Gonitis.

Nerves

Convulsive tremor and twitches.
Convulsions, accompanied by shocks which shake whole body.
Periodical attacks of convulsions, with excessive jactitation of limbs.
Heaviness and prostration, must lie down.
Prostration, can scarcely move a limb.
Paralysis.
Paralysis of left side, with aphasia.
General muscular weakness.
General malaise. θ Angina.
Faintings.

Sleep

Sneezing in sleep not wakening.
After sleep toothache worse.

Time

Morning : pain in region of navel worse.
Day : attacks of dyspnœa ; dry heat.
Evening : chill, with thirst.
Night : pollutions ; dyspnœa ; painless jerking in arms.
Before midnight : sneezing in sleep.
After midnight : toothache.

Temperature and weather

Sipping cold water : earache better.
Spring and Fall attacks of angina tonsillaris.

Fever

Fever : thirst ; loss of appetite ; dry mouth and tongue ; dysphagia ; frequent, full pulse ; flushed face ; prostration generally lasting seven days, occasionally accompanied by catarrh of eye, ear or nose, or inflammatory action of skin.
Chill with thirst in evening ; loss of appetite and vomiting.
Dry heat all day ; pulse excitable ; head affected.
During fever increased suppuration of ulcers with boys, and enlargement of swollen cervical glands with girls.
Heat, with coryza.
(In sick :) All day dry heat ; pulse irritated ; head affected.
Discoloring sweat.
Cold sweat.
Tertian intermittent.
Chills with heat, alternately with angina tonsillaris.

Locality and direction

Right : earache ; parotids ; pain side of throat and ear ; fauces of side deep red color ; deglutition painful on side ; stitch in patella ; globular swelling tip of knee.
Left : staphyloma on inner edge of cornea ; below stomach to side a hardness from which paroxysms of want of breath originate ; paralysis of side.
Below upward : burning.

Sensations

Stitches : in nodule on nose ; in teeth ; in testicles ; in right patella.
Stinging : in and around knee.
Jerking : in teeth ; in arms.
Drawing : in facial muscles.
Biting : in nodule on nose ; in skin.
Burning : in stomach.
Pressure : in stomach.
Soreness : in nodule on nose.
Squeezing pains : in pelvis.
Cramps : in stomach ; in toes.
Undefined pain : in ears ; in right side of throat and ear ; in region of navel.
Throbbing : toothache ; in tumor in abdomen.
Tension : in face ; in thigh ; in right patella ; in knee.
Tickling : in nodule on nose.
Warmth : rises to chest and head.

Tissues

Increased irritability of nerves.
Varicose veins. θ Angina tonsillaris.
Affection of lymphatic vessels and glands in scrofula.
Hydrops after scarlatina.
Painful glandular swellings and indurations of scrofulous people.
Adenitis.
Catarrhal affections.
Pale and emaciated. θ Dysentery.
Emaciation. θ Swelling of cervical glands.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Pressure : submaxillary and cervical glands < ; no effect on swollen knee.
Swelling of testicle and scrotum from bruising, caused by riding horseback.
Touch : stitches in nodule side of nose.

Skin

Biting sensation in skin.
Spasmodic contraction of skin.
Skin not reddened, not warmer than usual. θ Swelling of parotis.
Inflammation of skin.
Itch-like pimples on head, nape of neck, abdomen and thighs.
Yellowish, scaly eruptions.
Herpes on various parts. θ Hypertrophy of testicle.
Herpes favinosus all over body, face excepted.
Tetters.
Scrofulous eruptions.
Fetid ichorous ulcers in inguinal region.
Whole body covered with ulcers. θ Scrofula.
Complaints after scarlet fever.

Stage of life, constitution

Scrofulous children. See 13 , 27 , 31 .
Child, æt. 18 months. θ Dysentery after humid tetter.
Girl, æt. 18 months. θ Scrofulous ulcers.
Boy, æt. 2, scrofulous, emaciated. θ Indurated cervical glands.
Boy, æt. 4, three weeks after scarlatina. θ Swelling of parotis.
Blonde, blue-eyed girl. θ Earache.
Scrofulous child, æt. 10, since five years otorrhœa and glandular swellings, cured by one dose daily for two weeks.
Girls, æt. 39. θ Hemorrhagic extravasation of knee.
Man, æt. 50, strong constitution, inclined to catarrhal affections, and great disposition to angina tonsillaris.
Woman, æt. 53, small, weakly, poorly fed. θ Parotid swelling.
Woman, æt. 65, after five months absolute rest and strict diet having been useless, 1/5 grain in distilled water, three times daily, for several weeks. θ Abdominal aneurism.

Relations

Absinthe antidotes the vomiting.
Useful after Arnic . in extravasations of blood.
Similar to Conium in indurations of abdominal glands.

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

James Tyler Kent · Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Séror HTML text (Kent d. 1916; public domain)

Generalities

This is one of our deep acting constitutional remedies and one much neglected. It was much used by the earlier men in our school with great effect. In mental weakness, insanity, enlarged glands and sexual excitement we have a group of symptoms hard to cure without Baryta muriatica.

Add to this profound increasing muscular weakness and we must have this remedy sometime during the case or the cure will be slow.

Its complaints are prominent in the morning, forenoon, afternoon, evening, night and after midnight. In the diseases most amenable to this remedy are the affection of the lymphatic glands and other glands.

The patient desires the open air, yet the open air often increases the symptoms. Many cases of aneurysm have been benefited by it.

Modalities

General physical anxiety is a strong feature. Complaints are worse ascending stairs such as dyspnoea, palpitation and weakness. Dread of bathing, like Sulphur.

The symptoms are often worse in cold air and from becoming cold. The convulsive tendency is a very important feature; convulsions with headache, deafness, vomiting and burning in the stomach; convulsions with full consciousness with electric shocks; clonic spasms. It has cured most stubborn cases of epilepsy.

Distension of the blood vessels; emaciation, fainting spells. Complaints worse in fall and spring. Formication all over the body. Sensation of internal fullness. Bleeding from mucous membranes and from ulcers.

Heaviness externally and internally as from weakness and relaxation. Induration of glands; inflammation and swelling of glands. Extreme lassitude, compelled to lie down. Symptoms come before and during menses.

Some symptoms are better from motion; bruised feeling internally; burping in many parts; cutting pains in internal parts; digging pains are not uncommon; gnawing in external parts.

Pains and sensations

Painless symptoms predominant and pain is the exception. Convulsive jerking in the limbs; stitching in glands and along nerves; downward tearing as if in the muscles; one-sided paralysis; left side. Many parts are tender to pressure.

Pulsation in abdomen and limbs. Pulse fast, 120 full, hard, small. Rising up brings on many symptoms. Electric shocks with convulsions. Complaints left-sided-worse while sitting; must lie down. Symptoms come on during sleep-worse while standing.

Painful swelling of glands. Dropsical swelling after scarlet fever; tension, trembling, twitching; weakness in whole body, can hardly move a limb; while walking; general muscular weakness; paralytic weakness; weariness.

Complaints and symptoms grow worse in wet weather. It is the natural complement of Conium in glandular affections and it is very similar, but much deeper acting.

Mind

Easily angered. Anxiety in the evening; about the future; with nausea; retching and pressure in the stomach. It is useful ill children who are slow to learn or understand; children do not desire to play like other children.

Concentration impossible. The locality around him seems strange, transformed; timid and cowardly; delusion that he walks on his knees. Dullness of mind.

Thinks she is going to die. Fear: of evil, of men; foolish behavior; idiocy; imbecility, indifference, insanity; erotic insanity.

Insanity where the sexual excitement becomes strong. Irresolution. Irritable in the evening. Mania in every form when sexual desire is increased; nymphomania. Sadness in the morning; sits in silence.

Children sit in the corner and give confused answers. Easily startled; suspicious; indisposed to talk; talks in sleep; unconsciousness; fainting; vertigo when walking; things turn around.

The scalp feels constricted. It is a remedy of great usefulness in eruptions of the scalp. Thick, offensive crusts; eczema of the whole top of the head, extending to sides and occiput; suppurating with copious pus. Crops of pimples.

Head

The head feels so heavy he cannot keep up; heaviness of forehead and occiput; sensation of looseness of the brain; a feeling of movement in the head.

Pain in the head in the morning on rising; afternoon, evening, worse in open air; from binding up the hair; after eating, while lying; on moving the eyes; from noise; from pressure; on stopping; while walking; in the forehead, occiput; sides of head, temples; boring in temples; bruises in head; burning in head; pressing in head and in forehead; outwards; stitching in forehead, occiput, sides of head, in temples; stunning pain in head; tearing in occiput, sides of head; shocks in head, ulcers on scalp.

Eyes

Agglutination of the lids in the morning; discharge of mucus and pus from the eyes; inflammation of the eyes in scrofulous patients. Itching and smarting, pressing pain in eyes; paralysis of upper lids; photophobia; pupils dilated and immovable.

Redness of the eyes; of the lids; veins injected; stiffness of the eyes; ulceration of the cornea; swollen lids; complaints of the eyes and head from exertion of vision, much like Conium; dim vision with flickering.

Ears

Abscesses behind both ears; discharge from both ears; copious offensive; like spoiled cheese; purulent; after scarlet fever.

Eruptions on ears; recurrent inflammation of the ear; auditory canal itching in the ear; noises in the ear on chewing and on swallowing catarrh of the Eustachian tube; buzzing, ringing and roaring; pain in both ears; deep in; worse in the right ear; pain in the ear with sore throat; worse lying on the painful side; better from cold drinks; drawing, stitching, tearing pain in ear tearing behind ear; pulsation in ear; tingling of the ears; twitching hearing impaired, finally lost.

Nose

Catarrh of the nose with copious thick, yellow discharge; coryza fluent with fever; dryness in the nose; epistaxis.

Itching in the nose; the nose is obstructed; rawness in the nose. A red nodule on the side of the top of the nose; stitching pains in the nose. Frequent sneezing; sneezing in sleep without waking.

Face

The face is red with fever, otherwise pale.

Drawing and spasms of the face. Dryness of the lips. Enlarged and indurated submaxillary gland with otorrhoea; eruption on forehead and nose; crusty, pimples, expression is anxious and the face is hot.

Inflammation of the right parotid gland after scarlet fever swelling of the glands of neck and jaw; very hard; right parotid submaxillary. Tension of the face with nausea and diarrhoea.

Mouth

Bleeding gums. Cracked tongue; white tongue.

Dryness of the mouth in the morning, of the tongue; coated tongue; viscid mucus fills the mouth and covers the tongue; odor from mouth offensive; putrid; like from mercury. Burning in the mouth; the gums are sore.

Paralysis of the tongue. Salivation with every paroxysm. Speech difficult. Swollen gums and palate. Taste is bitter; putrid, sour, sweetish; food tastes putrid.

Ulceration of tongue. Looseness of the teeth with salivation; pulsating pain in the teeth. Compelled to sit up in bed; worse after midnight and after sleep; jerking; stitching, tearing.

Throat

Inflammation of the throat and tonsils; recurrent tonsillitis from taking cold; dryness in throat. Enlarged tonsils elongation of the uvula with sore throat; viscid mucus in the throat pain in the throat and ear, worse on right side; with salivation; worse on swallowing; burning in the throat.

Suppuration of the tonsils. Swallowing very difficult. Swollen tonsils. Varicose veins in the throat. Swelling and induration of the cervical glands.

Appetite and stomach

Appetite ravenous; wanting; aversion to food. Desires dry wheat bread. Distension of the stomach. A feeling of emptiness in the stomach. Eructations after eating; bitter; water.

Flushes of heat rise from the stomach to the head. Fullness and weight in the stomach after solid food; heartburn, hiccough.

He can eat only the simplest food, as digestion is slow and the stomach is feeble; inflammation of the stomach; loathing of food; nausea.

Pain in the stomach; cramping; pressing after eating; sore; stitching. Retching. Tension. Thirst with dry tongue; during chill; extreme. Vomiting in the morning; with headache; incessant, bile, blood, mucus, watery, with purging and great anxiety.

Abdomen

Distension of the abdomen. Enlarged and bard liver and mesenteric glands. Flatulence; fullness; hard abdomen.

Pain in abdomen in the morning, after eating, before stool, in hypochondria, burning, cramping, cutting, stitching in hypochondria and inguinal region.

It has been of great benefit in abdominal aneurisms. Swollen liver; swollen inguinal glands after suppressed gonorrhoea. Abdominal tension. Ulcers in the inguinal region.

Stools

Constipation; difficult stool; no desire for stool; stool hard and covered with mucus; generally painless, diarrhoea which is also generally painless.

Dysentery, bloody mucus; jelly-like stools; frequent; generally painless. Much offensive flatus. Haemorrhage from rectum and from intestines.

External piles, protrude during urination; itching of the anus; involuntary stool; moisture about the anus; some pain in the rectum during stool burning during and after stool; pressing pain; soreness, stitching tenesmus.

Paralysis of the rectum and of the sphincter ani. Stool bloody, jelly-like, hard, green, foetid, soft, thin, watery, white and hard; yellow and slimy; worms with stool.

Bladder

Inflammation of the bladder. Retention of urine. Urging to urination; constant, frequent, ineffectual, violent.

Urination difficult; frequent at night; frequent during perspiration; involuntary during the night. Gleety urethral discharge. It has cured chronic gonorrhoea.

Pain in the urethra during urination. The urine is hot, copious, offensive, with whitish sediment; watery, yellow, with great stench.

Enlarged testes. Induration of testes Inflammation of testes from suppressed gonorrhoea; seminal emission sexual passion greatly increased, even violent.

Females

Induration of the ovaries. Leucorrhoea. Menses copious, too often, painful. Pain in the uterus. Sterility.

Larynx and trachea

Catarrh of the larynx and trachea; irritation in larynx and trachea; tickling in the larynx.

Voice is hoarse, husky and weak.

Respiration is fact, anxious, asthmatic, deep, difficult, with cough, and she must sit up; rattling, short.

Cough in daytime, morning, evening, night, before midnight; asthmatic, dry, chronic dry cough of scrofulous children; front irritation in larynx and trachea; rattling, whooping cough.

Expectoration in the morning; mucous; copious; muco-purulent expectoration from bronchial tubes; yellow.

It has cured phtisical conditions of the chest with herpetic eruptions and indurated testes.

Marked palpitation. It has been a very useful remedy in spinal curvature.

Upper and lower limbs

Cold hands and feet; cramps in the toes; drawing up the limbs ameliorates.

Eruptions on the limbs; pimples. Hot hands. Heaviness of the whole body, must lie down. Itching of the limbs; the thighs. Painless jerking of the arms at night.

Violent, periodical jerking of the limbs with convulsions. Lassitude; numbness of the fingers. Pain in the upper limbs and thighs. Paralysis of the left side; paralysis of the lower limbs. Perspiration of the feet; suppressed foot sweat.

Pulsation of the shoulder. Swelling of the hands, lower limbs, knees, feet. Tension in knees. Trembling of the limbs. Twitching of the upper limbs, thighs, feet. Ulcers on the legs. Weakness of the limbs.

Dreams

amorous, anxious, frightful, of misfortune, pleasant, vivid.

Restless sleep; sleepiness; afternoon, evening, after dinner; sleepless before midnight; frequent waking.

Coldness in the morning; evening; in bed; chilliness; external chill; shaking chills every third day.

Fever in the evening and during the night; burning heat; heat with chilliness; dry heat all day; dry heat during the night.

Skin

Dryness, biting and burning in skin; cold skin; eruptions; eczema herpes all over body; pimples; scabs, yellow scales; stinging, urticaria; erysipelas, formication, horripilation.

Inflammation of skin. Itching. Swelling and tension. Whole body covered with small ulcers. Unhealthy skin. Burning ulcers.