by E. B. Nash — Leaders in Respiratory Organs
Historical reference for practitioners and students. The statements below reflect the named author’s homeopathic teaching and do not establish treatment effectiveness. This text is not medical advice and must not replace appropriate diagnosis or care.
Baryta.—Cough connected with swollen tonsils.
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Baryta carbonica appears in 16 of the 27 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.
“Barium Carbonate. (BaCO3.) Especially adapted to complaints of first and second childhood; the psoric or tubercular. Memory deficient ; forgetful, inattentive; child cannot be taught for it cannot remember; threatened idiocy. Scrofulous, dwarfish children who do not grow (children who grow too rapidly, Cal.)…”
“Barium Carbonate, BaCo3. Preparation , Triturations. Authorities. Emotional. Slight delirium and stupefaction at night, as in fever, 1. He imagines he walks on his knees (Rust), 8. Children do not desire to play, 7. Lachrymose at night, 1. Sad and fearful; he has all kinds of sad thoughts about his future state, and…”
“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…”
“COMPANY, CROWDS, ETC. AGG., CRAVES SOLITUDE, ETC. COORDINATION, disturbed CYSTS DIRECTION of sensations, Downward EMACIATION FORCED, THRU A NARROW OPENING, AS IF FORMICATION, crawling, etc. GLANDS HANGING LOOSE or down, as if HERE AND THERE (Comp. Wandering) LOOSE, as if (Comp. Rolling, Swashing.) LYING, on side, Agg…”
“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…”
“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…”
“BARYTA CARB., STRONTIANA CARB., AND LITHIUM CARB. Baryta Carbonica. Barium and strontium are very closely related to each other chemically. Of the elements themselves we have no provings. The carbonates of these have, however, been proved, as have also the Muriate and the Sulphate of Baryta. Baryta is somewhat of a…”
“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…”
“(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…”
“Barium Carbonate. Ba Co 3 . In 1824 Stapf published in his Archives, vol. iii, No. 3, p. 183, the Baryta acetica , proved by himself and his friends Gross, Hartman, Hartlaub, Sen., Adams, and Rückert, Sen. There were two hundred and fifty-four symptoms, and some additional observations and collections of Hahnemann on…”
“Generalities: Baryta carbonica is an interesting study, because it is fully proved and a constitutional remedy. Such remedies are always more interesting than the short-acting, superficial ones. They take hold in deep-seated, long-lasting, miasmatic troubles. This remedy looks towards the development of the young. You…”
“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…”
“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…”
“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…”
“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…”
Kent's Repertory lists Baryta carbonica in 2,868 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in EXTREMITIES (444), HEAD (287), GENERALITIES (271), MIND (201), STOMACH (135).
