Baryta Carbonica
by H. C. Allen
Baryta Carbonica 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.
Baryta Carbonica has Scrofulous, dwarfish children who do not grow (children who grow too rapidly, Calcarea ); scrofulous ophthalmia, cornea opaque; abdomen swollen; frequent attacks of colic; face bloated; general emaciation.
Baryta Carbonica Children both physically and mentally weak.
Dwarfish, hysterical women and old maids with scanty menses; deficient heat, always cold and chilly.
Old, cachectic people; scrofulous, especially when fat; or those who suffer from gouty complaints ( Acidum fluoricum ).
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 ( Hepar, Psorinum ).
Inability to swallow anything but liquids ( Baptisia, Silicea ).
Haemorrhoids protrude every time he urinates ( Acid Muriaticum ).
Chronic cough in psoric children; enlarged tonsils or elongated uvula; < after slight cold ( Alumina ).
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, Graphites, Psorinum, Sanicula, Silicea ).
Great sensitiveness to cold ( Calcarea, Kali carb., Psorinum ).
Baryta Carbonica Relation. – Frequently useful before or after Psorinum, Sulphur, and Tuberculinum
After Barayta carbonica, Psor will often eradicate the constitutional tendency to quinsy.
Similar: to, Alum, [Calcarea iod.], Dulcamara, Acidum fluoricum, Iodium, Silicea
Incompatible: after Calcarea in scrofulous affections.
Aggravation. – When thinking of his disease ( Acid oxalicum ); lying on painful side; after meals; washing affected parts.