Baryta carbonica
By Adolph von Lippe â Keynotes and Red Line Symptoms of the Materia Medica
Common name: barium carbonate.
This is one of the leading so-called anti-scrofulous remedies (N.).
Great weakness of mind and body of old men (Anac., Lyc., Sil.).
LOSS OF MEMORY (Anac., Calc., Kali-P., Lyc., Nat-M., Phos., Sep., Sil.) (N.).
Mistrust (Acon., Ars., Bry., Cann-I., Kali-A., Lach., Lyc., Puls., Rhus-T., Sec., Stram., Sulph.).
WANT OF SELF-CONFIDENCE (Anac., Aur., Bry., Chin., Gels., Kali-C., Lyc., Puls.).
AVERSION TO STRANGERS (Anac., Carb-An., Cham., Cic., Gels., Ign., Nat-M., Nux-V.).
CHILDISH AND THOUGHTLESS (IN OLD AGE).
ALMOST IMBECILE (Aloe, Ambr., Anac., Bar-M., Carb-S., Con., Hyos., Lyc., Nux-M., Op., Phos-Ac., Stram., Sulph., Verat.).
Grief over trifles (Nat-M.) (Br.).
Vertigo (Con., Ferr., Gels., Kali-C., Phos.) (Br).
Brain feels as if loose (Carb-An., Chin.) (Br.).
Heaviness of the body (Bry., Gels., Nux-V.).
Tension and shortening of muscles (Amm-M., Caust.).
Pain in the joints and bones (Calc., Calc-F., Rhus-T., Ruta).
Tearing in the limbs, with chilliness (Nux-V., Puls., Rhus-T.).
MENTAL AND PHYSICAL WEAKNESS; BOTH ENDS OF LIFE; DON'T GROW (N.).
Headache of aged people (Ambr., Amm-C., Iod.) (A.).
Hardness of hearing (Bell., Calc., Carb-V., Caust., Graph., Lyc., Nit-Ac., Phos., Sil., Sulph., Verb.) (Br.).
It removes predisposition to tonsillitis, and cures chronic enlargement of tonsils (D.).
Reverberation in the ear on blowing the nose (Br.).
Swelled and indurated glands (Carb-An., Calc., Calc-F., Merc-I., Phyt.).
TONSILS INFLAME, SWELL AND SUPPURATE REPEATEDLY, ON EVERY COLD EXPOSURE (Hep., Merc., Sil.); CHRONIC HYPERTROPHY AFTERWARDS (N.).
EMACIATION, WITH BLOATED FACE, SWELLED ABDOMEN AND DIFFICULT LEARNING IN CHILDREN (Calc., Nat-M., Sil.).
Glands swell, infiltrate, hypertrophy; neck, parotids, sub-maxillary, groin, lymphatics, in the abdomen; hypertrophy, sometimes suppuration (N.).
GREAT LIABILITY TO CATCH COLD (SORETHROAT, STIFFNESS OF THE NECK AND DIARRHÅA) (Psor., Sulph.).
Complaints of dwarfish children; mind and body weak; don't grow; inclined to glandular swellings (N.).
Hemiplegia following cerebral hÃĻmorrhage (Bl.).
PARALYSIS AND PALSY OF AGED PERSONS (Alum., Arg-N., Kali-P., Nux-V., Op., Plb., Sil.).
Offensive foot-sweats; toes and soles get sore; throat affections after checked foot-sweat (Sil.).
Infantilism: the memory is weak; the child seems inattentive and stupid; does not learn to play or walk; and may approach a state bordering on idiocy (Bl.).
Prematurely old, thin and wrinkled children; they look like a dwarf and show a condition of malnutrition, and appear stunted both physically and mentally (Bl.).
Toothache before and during menses (Amm-C., Ars., Nat-M., Phos., Puls.) (K.).
Arterio-sclerosis (Calc., Calc-F., Sil.) (B.).
HÃĻmorrhoids protrude every time he urinates (Bar-M., Kali-C., Mur-Ac., Nit-Ac.) (A.).
Throat affections after suppressed foot sweat (N.).
HYPERTROPHY OF THE PROSTATE (Calc., Con., Dig., Puls., Sel.) (Bl.).
Burning in the urethra on urinating (Br.).
TESTICLES ARE INDURATED (Clem., Con., Graph., Kali-I., Med., Merc., Puls., Rhod., Sil., Spong.) (Bl.).
Premature impotency (Agn., Con., Graph., Kali-P., Lyc., Nat-M., Phos., Sulph.) (Bl.).
Cough, worse in the evening, with a sensation as if the lungs were full of smoke (Bt.).
Cough after getting the feet wet, or the least exposure to cold air (Bt.).
Paralysis of the tongue (Caust., Gels., Lyc., Op., Plb., Rhus-T.) (Br.).
Suffocative cough; chest full of mucus, but lacking strength to expectorate (Br.).
Spasm of the Åsophagus when food enters (Bapt., Hyos., Merc-C., Phos., Sulph., Zinc.) (Br.).
Abdomen distended and hard in children (N.).
Complaints of old drunkards (Carb-V.) (A.).
AGGRAVATION: When sitting or lying on the painful side; after slight exposure to cold; from checked foot-sweat; after meals; washing the affected parts; and when thinking of his complaint.
AMELIORATION: In warm atmosphere; from warm covering; and from walking.
RELATIONSHIP. Similar to: Alum., Bar-M., Calc., Calc-I., Dulc., Fluor-Ac., Iod., Lyc., Sil. and Sulph.
Frequently useful before or after Hep., Psor., Sulph. and Tub.
After Bar-C., Psor. will often eradicate the constitutional tendency to quinsy.