Condensed Materia Medica.
By Constantine Hering.
Presented by .
BARYTA CARBONICA.
[Baryt.]
Barium Carbonate. Hahnemann. Ba Co3.[1] * [2]
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* [46] * [47] * [48]Symptoms marked * are from the Acetate.
► Memory deficient ; child cannot be taught, for it
cannot remember ; is inattentive.
► * Forget ; in the middle of speech the most familiar words
fail him.
► Great mental and bodily weakness, childishness ; old people.
► Child does not want to play, but sits in the corner doing nothing.
► Sadness, dejection of spirits, grief over trifles.
►* Dread of men, of strangers ; imagines she is being laughed
at or criticised, hence so fearful she will not look up.
► Solicitude ; about his future ;* about domestic affairs.
►* Irresolute, constantly changing his mind.
► Loss of self-confidence ; desponding ; pusillanimous.
►* sudden ebullitions of anger, but coupled with cowardice.
► Thinking of one’s complaints makes them worse.
► Thinks his legs are cut off and he is walking on his knees.
► Vertigo : with nausea from stooping ; of old
people.
► Apoplexy of drunkards ; of aged people, who are childish,
sensorium not clear, loss of speech, trembling of the limbs.
► Headache in the evening ; every noise, especially
male voices, affect the brain painfully.
► Headache just above the eyes.
► Pressive sticking on the vertex which extends through the whole
head whenever he stands in the sun.
► Feeling of tension as if the skin were too tight ;
forehead and temples.
►* Encysted tumor on the scalp.
► Right side of the head feels burning hot, but is cold.
► Baldness, especially on the crown.
► Scalp, sensitive on the side on which he is lying, worse from
scratching.
► Head sensitive to cold.
► Crusta lactea, dry scurf, or moist crusts, itching, burning ;
causes the hair to fall out ; cervical glands hard, swollen.
► Weakness of sight caused by old age.
► Dim-sighted, cannot read.
► Flying webs and black spots before the eyes.
► Light dazzles ; fiery sparks before the eyes in the dark.
► * Quick succession of dilatation and contraction of the pupils ;
pupil irregular.
► Pressure deep in the eyes ; worse looking fixedly, or upwards
and sideways ; better looking downwards.
► Opaque cornea ; inflammation of the eyes with sensation of
dryness ; shuns the light.
► Lids agglutinated.
► Difficult hearing.
► Buzzing and jingling before the ears.
► Roaring in the right ear like the sea, at each inspiration.
► Cracking in ear when sneezing, swallowing or walking fast.
► Itching in the ears.
► Tearing with boring and drawing in bones in front of right ear.
► Thick crust on and behind the ears ; small flat tubercles
behind the ears.
► Eruption on lobe of the ear.
► Right parotid hard and swollen. θ
After scarlatina.
► Coryza, nose and upper lip swollen ; children with
large abdomen.
► Frequent nosebleed.
► Sneezing causing concussive pain in the brain.
► Tormenting dryness in nose ; secretion of thick, yellow
mucus.
► Formation of scabs in the posterior nares and behind the base of
the uvula.
► Scurfs under the nose.
► Face : pale ; puffed.
► Comedones.
► Sensation as if the face were swollen.
► Tension as from a cobweb over the face, temples, scalp.
► Rough, dry place on the right cheek.
► Swelling of the upper lip which burning pain.
► Pain in the articulation when closing the jaw.
► Indurated swelling of the submaxillary glands.
► After eating some, feels too weak to chew any more.
► Toothache in decayed teeth before menses or from a cold.
► Drawing, jerking, throbbing toothache ; right teeth feel
tense.
► Burning stitches in a hollow tooth when touched by warm food ;
left side.
► Gums bleed, are swollen, pale red with a dark red border.
► Toothache worse thinking about it ; disappears when the mind
is diverted.
► Paralysis of the tongue ; loss of speech.
► Hardness on the middle of the tongue, burning when touched ;
burning sense of excoriation at the tip ; fissure on the left border,
feeling excoriated.
► Vesicles on the middle, tip, or under the tongue.
► The buccal cavity feels numb.
► Dryness of the mouth early after rising.
► Whole mouth filled with vesicles, especially the inside of cheeks.
► Saliva runs out of the mouth while asleep, at daybreak.
► Intolerable stench from the mouth, unnoticed by himself.
► Smarting in the throat when swallowing, worse from
empty swallowing ; throat sore to touch.
► Liability to tonsillitis after every slight cold, or suppressed
foot-sweat.
► Tonsils tend to suppurate, especially the right ; palate
swollen ; dark brown urine ; sleeplessness.
► Chronic induration of the tonsils ; sensation as of a plug in
the throat ; worse swallowing solids.
► Sensation in the śsophagus as if a morsel of food had lodged
there.
► On swallowing, sensation as if the food had to force itself over a
sore spot.
► Śsophageal spasm, in old people.
► Hungry, but cannot eat ; or, feels as though she
needed food, but did not want it.
► Thirst, with dryness of mouth, not relieved by drink.
► Sudden nausea while eating.
► Pressure like a stone in the stomach after eating bread ;
repletion after a little food.
► Heaviness of the stomach, nausea, goes off after breakfast.
► Soreness in the stomach as if food passed over sore places.
► Cough from eating warm food.
► Better from cold diet.
► Eructations : as if air were forcing its way
through the stomach, causing a feeling of soreness ; sour a few hours
after dinner.
► Nausea, palpitation and anxiety in the early morning.
► Long-lasting nausea.
► Water suddenly accumulates in the mouth.
► Pressing in stomach, also after eating.
► Sensation of soreness in the stomach.
► Pressure as from a stone ; better from eructations.
► Aching at a small spot in right hypochondrium, when
drawing a deep breath, or from pressure.
► Distended, hard.
► Cutting in the hypogastric region at night.
► Distention and fullness above the pubes, as if the parts would
burst, when lying on the back.
► Tension and sensitiveness of the abdominal walls.
► Scanty, hard or lumpy stool, expelled with difficulty.
► Sudden, irresistible urging to stool ; soreness in the lumbar
region ; chills over head and legs ; then loose stools, and
renewed urging ; after taking cold.
► Burning and soreness around the anus as if excoriated.
► Frequent passage of blood, with distended abdomen.
► Crawling in the rectum ; expulsion of ascarides.
► Great desire to urinate ; cannot retain the urine.
► Constant urging, and frequent emission of urine, every other day ;
passes much at night.
► Dark brown urine ; also with the tonsillitis.
► Diminished sexual ability.
► Excoriation between the scrotum and thigh.
► Sweat about the scrotum.
► Menses scanty, last only one day.
► Before the menses : toothache, swollen gums, colic with
swelling of the limbs ; immediately before leucorrhśa.
► During the menses, weight over the pubes ; bruised pain in
the small of the back.
► Feeling as if inhaling smoke or pitch.
► Voice imperfect, aphonia ; from tough mucus in fauces and
larynx ; old people.
► Oppression with anguish ; in the evening must
loosen her dress.
► Short breath from fulness in the chest, when ascending a height ;
stitches in the chest on inspiring.
► Suffocative catarrh of old people, with impending paralysis of the
lungs.
► Chronic cough in scrofulous children, with swollen
glands and enlarged tonsils ; worse after slightest cold.
► Cough in the presence of strangers.
► Spasmodic cough excited by tickling and roughness in the throat
and epigastrium ; worse : evening until midnight ; lying on
the left side ; active motion, ascending or stooping ; in the
cold air ; from thinking of it ; eating.
► Nightly cough, chest full of phlegm.
► Sensation of soreness in the chest when coughing.
► Feels the heart-beat.
► Palpitation when lying on the left side, with soreness in the
region of the heart, great anxiety ; renewed by thinking about it.
► Orgasm of blood, with anxiety.
► Stiffness in the nape of the neck.
► Tension in neck and scapulć ; pain in the loins in cold air.
► Stinging pains in the neck.
► Chronic torticollis.
► Swelling of the glands in the nape of the neck and occiput.
► Pain in small of the back.
► Tensive pain in the small of the back ; worse in the evening ;
he can neither rise nor bend backwards.
► Pains in the arms, with hard, swollen axillary glands.
► Pain in the deltoid muscle when raising the arm.
► When lying on the arm it goes to sleep.
► Tension in small places of the arms.
► Fingers numb as if asleep.
► Panaritium, with nightly throbbing and ulceration, from a
splinter.
►* Tearing from above downwards in right buttock,
periodically increasing and decreasing.
►* Drawing pain down entire left leg.
► Pain in legs at night, as after excessive walking or dancing.
► Has to drag the legs when going up stairs, on account of lameness
in the middle of the thighs.
► Severe stitching on thighs.
► Tension, as if the tendons were too short, less lying down ;
worse when standing.
► Tremor of the feet while standing, must hold on to something to
steady himself.
► Soles feel bruised, at night, keeping one awake ; better
after rising and walking.
► Aching lymphatic swelling on the ball of the great toe.
► Fetid foot-sweat.
► The hard skin on the sole is painful when walking.
► Tearing in the limbs, with chilliness.
► Stitches in the joints, they feel relaxed.
► Motion : 27. Walking : 17,
33 ; fast : 6. Dancing :
33. Ascending : 26, 27,
33. Sits in a corner : 1. Stooping :
2, 27. Cannot rise : 31.
Cannot stand : 36. After rising : 12,
33. Rising up in bed : 36.
Standing : 33, 36. Standing in
sun : 3. Cannot bend backwards : 31.
Inclined to lie down : 36. Lying down : 4,
33. Lying on back : 19. Lying on
left side : 29. Lying on arm : 32.
Raising arm : 32.
► Worse lying on painful side.► Nervousness, excessive irritation of all the nerves.
► Jerking and starting in day time.
► Prostration, cannot stand, the knees give way.
► Weariness, constant inclination to lie down.
► Heaviness of the whole body.
► General paralysis of old people ; loss of memory,
childishness, trembling of the limbs ; after apoplexy ; in old
age.
► Great weakness, can hardly sit up in bed ; if attempted, the
pulse immediately becomes quick and somewhat hard, after a while
imperceptible.
► Talking in sleep (old men).
► Awakes often at night ; feels too hot ; soles of feet
feel bruised.
► Twitching of muscles of the whole body during sleep.
► Ravings of the fancy at night and stupefaction.
► On awaking, pressure in limbs ; tired, weary limbs.
► Morning : 12. Early morning :
16. Afternoon : 16. Evening :
3, 26, 27, 31,
40. Evening till midnight : 27.
Night : 16, 21, 27,
32, 33, 37, 40.
Daytime : 21, 36, 40.
► Warmth, external : 40. Sun :
3. Warm food : 10, 15.
Cold : 27, 31. Cold food : 15.
Cold air : 27, 31.
► Sensitive to cold air ; great liability to take cold, sore
throat, cough, diarrhśa, pain in back and loins.
► Worse from moistening or washing the diseased part.
► Chill and chilliness predominating : often as if
cold water were poured over one ; better from external warmth ;
thirst during chill.
► Chill from the face or pit of the stomach down the body ; or
beginning in the feet.
► Chill alternating with heat ; evening and night.
► Frequent flushes during the day ; nightly attacks with great
anxiety and restlessness.
► Anxiety sweat.
► Debilitating night-sweat.
► Offensive sweat of one (mostly left) side.
► Sweat returning every other evening.
► Sweat increased by eating.
► Every other day : 21. Every
other evening : 40. Increasing and decreasing
periodically : 33.
► Right : 4, 6, 8,
10, 13, 18, 33.
Left : 10, 11, 27,
29, 33, 40. Above
downward : 3, 33, 40.
Below upward : 40. Upper left with lower right.
► Feels “hide-bound” ; tension of the
skin.
► Sensation of swelling.
► Tension, shortening of the muscles.
► Dwarfish, defective mental and physical growth.
► Atrophy, great weakness ; face red and abdomen bloated ;
glands swollen.
► Steatoma ; sarcoma with burning.
► Glands indurated, swollen.
► Glandular sequelć of scarlatina.
► Fatty tumors ; encysted tumors.
► Tearing and tension in the long bones ; boring in bones.
► Ulcers, fistulous, in glands ; mostly glands of neck ;
feeling of tension.
► Sensitiveness of part lain on.
► Touch, 4, 11, 13.
Pressure : 18. Rubbing : 46.
Scratching : 4, 46.
► Pimples on the feet suppurate and spread like ulcers.
► Ringworms.
► Skin humid, sore.
► Warts.
► A small wound, as from a splinter, throbs and ulcerates.
► Itching, pricking, burning, here and there ; not relieved by
scratching or rubbing.
► Scratching causes pricking, pimples.
► Old people ; especially when fat.
► Scrofulous children ; dwarfish ; mind and body weak ;
scurf on head, ears, nose ; eyes inflamed, opaque cornea ;
abdomen swollen ; face puffed ; general emaciation.
► Cognates Ant. tart.
(paralysis of lungs) ; Calc. ostr.
(scrofulosis, coryza, etc.) ; Calc. iod.
(large tonsils) ; Caustic.
(paretic symptoms) ; Conium (old
people) ; Dulcam. (tendency to
catch cold) ; Fluor ac. (old
people) ; Iodium (glands) ; Lycop.
(tonsils) ; Mercur. (colds,
glands, diarrhśa) ; Phosphor ; Pulsat. ;
Sepia (ringworms) ; Silic.
(glands, foot-sweat, etc.) Sulphur ;
Tellur. (ringworms).
► Antidotes to Baryt. carb. : Ant.
tart., Bellad., Camphor, Dulcam., Zincum.
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