BARYTA CARBONICA
Carbonate of Baryta
(BARYTA CARB)
Specially indicated in infancy and historic age. This treatment brings resource to scrofulous children, mainly if they are backward mentally and physically, are dwarfish, do now not develop and develop, have scrofulous ophthalmia, swollen abdomen, take bloodless easily, and then continually have swollen tonsils. Persons difficulty to quinsy which is susceptible to suppurate; gums bleed easily. Diseases of historic guys when degenerative modifications begin;-cardiac vascular and cerebral;-who have hypertrophied prostate or indurated testes, very touchy to cold, offensive foot-sweats, very vulnerable and weary, need to take a seat or lie down or lean on something. Very averse to assembly strangers. Catarrh of posterior nares, with well-known epistaxis. Often beneficial in the dyspepsias of the younger who have masturbated and who go through from seminal emissions, collectively with cardiac irritability and palpitation. Affects glandular structures, and beneficial in well-known degenerative changes, mainly in coats of arteries, aneurism, and senility. Baryta is a cardio-vascular poison performing on the muscular coats of coronary heart and vessels. Arterial fibrosis. Blood-vessels soften and degenerate, come to be distended, and aneurisms, ruptures, and apoplexies result.
Mind.–Loss of memory, intellectual weakness. Irresolute. Lost self belief in himself. Senile dementia. Confusion. Bashful. Aversion to strangers. Childish; grief over trifles.
Head.–Vertigo; stitches, when standing in the sun, extending via head. Brain feels as if loose. Hair falls out. Confusion. Wens.
Eyes.–Alternate dilatation and contraction of pupils. Photophobia. Gauze earlier than eyes. Cataracts (Calc; Phos; Sil).
Ears.–Hardness of hearing. Crackling noise. Glands round ears painful and swollen. Reverberation on blowing nose.
Nose.–Dry; sneezing; coryza, with swelling of top lip and nose. Sensation of smoke in nose. Discharge of thick, yellow mucus. Frequent bleeding. Scabs round wings of nose.
Face.–Pale, puffed; sensation as of cobweb (Alumina). Upper lip swollen.
Mouth.–Awakes with dry mouth. Gums bleed and retract. Teeth affliction earlier than menses. Mouth crammed with infected vesicles, foul taste. Paralysis of tongue. Smarting, burning ache in tip of tongue. Dribbling of saliva at dawn. Spasm of oesophagus when meals enters.
Throat.–Submaxillary glands and tonsils swollen. Takes bloodless easily, with stitches and smarting pain. Quinsy. Suppurating tonsils from each and every cold. Tonsils inflamed, with swollen veins. Smarting ache when swallowing; worse empty swallowing. Feeling of a plug in pharynx. Can solely swallow liquids. Spasm of oesophagus as quickly as meals enters oesophagus, reasons gagging and choking (Merc cor; Graphit). Throat troubles from over use of voice. Stinging ache in tonsils, pharynx or larynx.
Stomach.–Waterbrash, hiccough, and eructation, which relieves stress as of a stone. Hungry, however refuses food. Pain and weight without delay after a meal, with epigastric tenderness (Kali carb). Worse after heat food. Gastric weak spot in the aged with viable malignancy present.
Abdomen.–Hard and tense, distended. Colicky. Enlarged mesenteric glands. Pain in stomach swallowing food. Habitual colic, with hunger, however meals is refused.
Rectum.–Constipation, with hard, knotty stools. Haemorrhoids protrude on urinating. Crawling in rectum. Oozing at anus.
Urinary.–Every time affected person urinates, his piles come down. Urging to urinate. Burning in urethra on urinating.
Male.–Diminished wish and untimely impotence. Enlarged prostate. Testicles indurated.
Female.–Before menses, ache in belly and small of back. Menses scanty.
Respiratory.–Dry, suffocative cough, specifically in historic people, full of mucus however missing power to expectorate, worse each and every trade of climate (Senega). Larynx feels as if smoke have been inhaled. Chronic aphonia. Stitches in chest; worse inspiration. Lungs experience full smoke.
Heart.–Palpitation and misery in area of heart. Aneurism (Lycop). Accelerates the heart’s motion at first, blood stress an awful lot increased, contraction of blood vessels. Palpitation when mendacity on left side, when questioning of it especially; pulse full and hard. Cardiac signs after suppressed foot-sweat.
Back.–Swollen glands in nape of occiput. Fatty tumors about neck. Bruised ache between scapulae. Stiffness in sacrum. Weakness of spine.
Extremities.–Pain in axillary glands. Cold, clammy ft (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 decrease limbs.
Sleep.–Talking in sleep; awakens frequently; feels too hot. Twitching in the course of sleep.
Modalities.–Worse, whilst questioning of symptoms; from washing; mendacity on painful side. Better, on foot in open air.
Relationship.–Compare: Digitalis; Radium; Aragallus; Oxytrop; Astrag. Complementary: Dulc; Silica; Psorin. Incompatible: Calc. Antidote for toxic doses: Epsom salts.
Dose.–Third to thirtieth potency, the latter to do away with the predisposition to quinsy. Baryta is gradual in action, bears repetition.
