Baryta Carb Materia Medica
(A salt of Barium and Carbonate)
Consider in the extremes of life, infancy and old age. Especially suited to dwarfish children, scrofulous children especially those who have inflammation and swelling of tonsils from least cold.
Childish old people and old people who are fat.
Baryta Carb is slow in action and requires repetition
Causation – checked foot sweat
APPEARANCE
Dwarfishness as in stunted growth both physical and mental
Child is shy, bashful, sits around idle and uninterested
May tend to emaciation with a bulging abdomen
Gradual loss of weight when before they were well nourished
Marasmus
Late to walk and talk
Can look prematurely old because of the wrinkles on the forehead
Slowness, dullness, backward, retarded
Tendency to dribbling and salivation
GLANDS
Affinity for the lymphatic glands all over the body:neck, groin, mesenteric glands of the abdomen
Sometimes there can be knotty chains forming in the neck
Affinity to throat area
Acute and chronic tonsillitis
Great tendency to catch colds with sore throats and hypertrophied tonsils
Every little exposure to cold and damp brings on inflammation of the tonsils
Tonsils tend to suppurate
Pain even when swallowing air
Inability to swallow anything but liquids
Food is thrown up due to throat spasm
Sensation as if lump in throat
ELDERLY
Accumulation of mucus in chest
Low grade chronic rattle in chest
Dwarfishness
Dwindling of the glands, ovary, mammary, testicles or their genitalia remains small
Loss of sexual drive, impotency
SWEAT
Offensive on the feet (D/D Silica)
Throat affections after checked foot sweat
PARALYSIS
In old age that comes on after stroke.
Patient becomes childish, has loss of memory, trembling of the limbs and a paralysis of the tongue
AGGRAVATIONS
Cold, wanting to be rugged up as very chilly
Damp cold
AMELIORATION
Pains are > open air and motion
MENTALS
Child is excessively shy
Hide behind parent
Bashful
Do not like meeting strangers
Scared of being left alone
Stunted growth (Delusions leg are cut off)
Dependent on others
Needs the support of others
Children late becoming useful and taking on responsibility
Inner feeling of being dwarfed, cannot do anything
Little things frighten, feel something is going to happen
Easily startled
Talk behind hands (shy and timid)
May be together, but can see a childishness and foolishness come through
Inattention, difficulty in learning, slowness, dullness, poor concentration
Difficulty remembering what is read
Absentmindedness
Intellect and memory is affected
Always falling behind in class
Never stick to things, easily distracted, short attention span
May want to sit in a corner and do nothing
Difficulty in thinking, taking in things
Whine about problems, thinking about it makes it worse
Later stage in pathology
Worry about people looking and laughing (self conscious) thinks it is about them
Feel all eyes are on them
Difficulty in taking on responsibility due to slowness and mental dullness
Cannot stand on their own two feet
Anxiety about friends, domestic affairs, others
Industrious
Conscientious about trifles
Irresolute
Snippet of Story
Childish old people and old people who are fat.
Baryta Carb is slow in action and requires repetition
Causation – checked foot sweat
APPEARANCE
Dwarfishness as in stunted growth both physical and mental
Child is shy, bashful, sits around idle and uninterested
May tend to emaciation with a bulging abdomen
Gradual loss of weight when before they were well nourished
Marasmus
Late to walk and talk
Can look prematurely old because of the wrinkles on the forehead
Slowness, dullness, backward, retarded
Tendency to dribbling and salivation
GLANDS
Affinity for the lymphatic glands all over the body:neck, groin, mesenteric glands of the abdomen
Sometimes there can be knotty chains forming in the neck
Affinity to throat area
Acute and chronic tonsillitis
Great tendency to catch colds with sore throats and hypertrophied tonsils
Every little exposure to cold and damp brings on inflammation of the tonsils
Tonsils tend to suppurate
Pain even when swallowing air
Inability to swallow anything but liquids
Food is thrown up due to throat spasm
Sensation as if lump in throat
ELDERLY
Accumulation of mucus in chest
Low grade chronic rattle in chest
Dwarfishness
Dwindling of the glands, ovary, mammary, testicles or their genitalia remains small
Loss of sexual drive, impotency
SWEAT
Offensive on the feet (D/D Silica)
Throat affections after checked foot sweat
PARALYSIS
In old age that comes on after stroke.
Patient becomes childish, has loss of memory, trembling of the limbs and a paralysis of the tongue
AGGRAVATIONS
Cold, wanting to be rugged up as very chilly
Damp cold
AMELIORATION
Pains are > open air and motion
MENTALS
Child is excessively shy
Hide behind parent
Bashful
Do not like meeting strangers
Scared of being left alone
Stunted growth (Delusions leg are cut off)
Dependent on others
Needs the support of others
Children late becoming useful and taking on responsibility
Inner feeling of being dwarfed, cannot do anything
Little things frighten, feel something is going to happen
Easily startled
Talk behind hands (shy and timid)
May be together, but can see a childishness and foolishness come through
Inattention, difficulty in learning, slowness, dullness, poor concentration
Difficulty remembering what is read
Absentmindedness
Intellect and memory is affected
Always falling behind in class
Never stick to things, easily distracted, short attention span
May want to sit in a corner and do nothing
Difficulty in thinking, taking in things
Whine about problems, thinking about it makes it worse
Later stage in pathology
Worry about people looking and laughing (self conscious) thinks it is about them
Feel all eyes are on them
Difficulty in taking on responsibility due to slowness and mental dullness
Cannot stand on their own two feet
Anxiety about friends, domestic affairs, others
Industrious
Conscientious about trifles
Irresolute
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