Baryta Carbonica

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 oesophagus as if a morsel of food had lodged there. ► On swallowing, sensation as if the food had to force itself over a sore spot. ► Oesophageal 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 leucorrhoea. ► 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 scapulae ; 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.

► 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.

► 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.

► 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 sequelae 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.

► 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, diarrhoea) ; Phosphor ; Pulsat. ; Sepia (ringworms) ; Silic. (glands, foot-sweat, etc.) Sulphur ; Tellur. (ringworms). ► Antidotes to Baryt. carb. : Ant. tart., Bellad., Camphor, Dulcam., Zincum.