BARYTA CARBONICA

BARYTA CARBONICA
(Carbonate of Baryta)
Bar-c.
Especially suited for infants and the elderly. This remedy assists scrofulous children, particularly those who are mentally and physically underdeveloped, stunted in growth, and have scrofulous eye inflammation, a swollen abdomen, susceptibility to colds, and always swollen tonsils. It is beneficial for those prone to quinsy with a tendency to suppuration; their gums bleed easily. In old age, it addresses degenerative changes, particularly in the heart, blood vessels, and brain, often accompanied by a hypertrophied prostate or hardened testes, extreme sensitivity to cold, offensive foot sweats, and profound weakness necessitating support when standing. There is a strong aversion to meeting strangers. It affects glandular structures, aiding in general degenerative changes, especially in arterial walls, aneurysms, and senility. Bar-c. acts as a cardiovascular toxin, affecting the muscular layers of the heart and blood vessels, leading to arterial fibrosis, softening, and degeneration, predisposing to aneurysms and strokes.

Mind: Memory loss, mental weakness, indecisiveness, loss of self-confidence, senile dementia, confusion, bashfulness, aversion to strangers, and childish behavior with undue grief over trivial matters.

Head: Vertigo aggravated by standing in the sun, with a sensation of stitches extending through the head, loose feeling in the brain, hair loss, confusion, and the presence of wens.

Eyes: Alternating dilation and contraction of pupils, photophobia, sensation of gauze before the eyes, cataracts.

Ears: Hardness of hearing, crackling noise, painful and swollen glands around the ears, reverberation on blowing the nose.

Nose: Dryness, sneezing, coryza with swelling of upper lip and nose, sensation of smoke in the nose, discharge of thick, yellow mucus, frequent epistaxis, scabs around the nostrils.

Face: Pale, puffy, sensation of a cobweb, swelling of the upper lip.

Mouth: Dry mouth upon waking, bleeding and receding gums, stomatitis with inflamed vesicles, foul taste, paralysis of the tongue, burning pain on the tip of the tongue, dribbling of saliva at dawn, esophageal spasms on swallowing.

Throat: Swollen submaxillary glands and tonsils, easy susceptibility to colds with stitching and smarting pain, quinsy, suppurating tonsils after every cold, inflamed tonsils with swollen veins, smarting pain on swallowing, sensation of a plug in the throat, difficulty swallowing solids, spasm of the esophagus causing gagging and choking, stinging pain in tonsils, pharynx, or larynx.

Stomach: Waterbrash, hiccoughs, eructation relieving pressure, hunger with food refusal, postprandial epigastric pain and tenderness, worsened by warm food, gastric weakness in the elderly possibly indicating malignancy.

Abdomen: Hard, tense, and distended abdomen, colic, enlarged mesenteric glands, abdominal pain on swallowing food, habitual colic with hunger but refusal to eat.

Rectum: Constipation with hard, knotty stools, hemorrhoids protruding during urination, crawling sensation in rectum, anal oozing.

Urinary: Piles protrude with each urination, urging to urinate, burning in urethra during urination.

Male: Reduced desire and premature impotence, enlarged prostate, indurated testicles.

Female: Premenstrual stomach and lumbosacral pain, scanty menses.

Respiratory: Dry, suffocative cough in the elderly, rich in mucus but lacking expectoration strength, worsened by weather changes, sensation of inhaling smoke, chronic aphonia, chest stitches worse on inspiration, feeling of lungs filled with smoke.

Heart: Palpitations and discomfort in the cardiac region, aneurysms, increased heart rate and blood pressure initially, followed by vessel contraction, palpitations when lying on the left side, especially when thinking of it, full and hard pulse, cardiac symptoms following suppressed foot sweat.

Back: Swollen glands in the nape of the neck, fatty tumors around the neck, bruised pain between the shoulder blades, sacral stiffness, weakness in the spine.

Extremities: Pain in axillary glands, cold and clammy feet, fetid foot sweats, numbness of limbs, numbness from knees to scrotum relieved by sitting, sore toes and soles, painful soles when walking, joint pain, burning pain in lower limbs.

Sleep: Talking in sleep, frequent waking, feeling excessively hot, twitching during sleep.

Modalities: Symptoms worsen with contemplation, washing, lying on the painful side; improve with outdoor walking.

Relationship: Comparable to Dig., Rad-br., Arag., Oxyt., Astrag. Complementary to Dulc., Sil., Psor. Incompatible with Calc. Antidote for toxic doses: Epsom salts. Dose: Third to thirtieth potency; the latter removes predisposition to quinsy. Bar-c. acts slowly and may require repeated dosing.