Baryta Carbonica

Baryta corresponds to scrofulous conditions in children and old age; dwarfish

children and childish old people. Old people who are fat. Those liable to take cold easily; sore

throat from cold; glandular affections. Many cases of aneurism have been cured with Baryta,

mostly in lower attenuations. It corresponds to the atheromatous condition. A paralytic condition

runs throughout the pathogenesis. There is paralysis of mind and body. Mistrust; want of self-

confidence; aversion to strangers (the child does not want to play). It has cured a case of fetid

foot-sweat with spells of despondency, seeking solitude, sobbing and crying. Deficient memory

(children cannot remember and learn). Sensation as if brain loose. Vertigo: with nausea; from

stooping; when lifting arms up; in old people. Pressure and sticking in brain, at vertex on

waking. It has cured baldness in young people; tinea, wens. The scalp is very sensitive to touch.

Enlarged glands in occiput and neck. On the face there are rough, dry and herpetic eruptions.

• ▸Dark redness.
• ▸Tension of whole face as if white of egg had dried on it; as if a cobweb (B.
• ▸acet.
• ▸)

over face, temples, and scalp. Painful swelling of parotid and of submaxillary glands. The sense

of smell is very acute. There is an illusion of smell as of pine smoke. Nose-bleed before menses.

The tongue is paralysed. Salivation; saliva runs out during sleep. The digestion is weak; after

eating, pressing in stomach; and pain in hard, swollen abdomen. Sensation of soreness of

stomach; while eating it feels as if the food had to force its way through some raw place. It has

proved curative in the habitual colic of children who do not thrive; enlarged mesenteric glands;

hungry, but refuse food, swallowing painful. The anus is sore and humid. Piles protrude with

urination as well as stool. Constipation, with hard, knotty stools; hemorrhoids, burning and

• ▸soreness.
• ▸The paralytic condition appears in the sexual organs.
• ▸Impotence.
• ▸Soreness and

moistening between scrotum and thighs. Enlarged prostate. There is also a paralytic condition of

the respiratory organs. There is a feeling in the larynx as if inspiring smoke or pitch. Hoarseness

and loss of voice from cough, mucus in larynx and trachea. Suffocating catarrh and paralysis of

lungs in old people. Sensation as if lungs full of smoke. There is a spasmodic cough, like

whooping-cough, from roughness and tickling in throat and pit of stomach. Cough < evening till

midnight; after getting feet cold; exercise; lying left side; cold air; thinking of it. Palpitation with

soreness of heart, < lying on left side; < thinking of it. Violent long lasting palpitation; felt in

• ▸head.
• ▸Palpitation < on exertion.
• ▸Slightest exertion makes him feel tired and sleepy.
• ▸These heart

symptoms of Bar. c. are met with in many cases of aneurism and atheroma, and no remedy has a

• ▸better record here.
• ▸I cured an advanced case of thoracic aneurism with the 3x.
• ▸Baryt.
• ▸c.
• ▸has cured

• ▸tumours of several kinds.
• ▸Induration in the breasts.
• ▸Sarcoma in neck with burning.
• ▸Fatty tumours,

especially about the neck. Swelling and induration of glands. A marked symptom is, pulsation in

the back. Stiffness and tension in small of back, in evening, especially while sitting, allowing

neither to rise nor to bend backwards. Painfulness of arms and swelling of axillary glands. Cold

• ▸feet.
• ▸Fetid perspiration of feet.
• ▸Corns with burning and stinging.
• ▸Burning and drawing pains are

frequent in lower limbs. A case has been recorded in which Baryt. removed in an old man a pain,

coming suddenly, in hollow of knee and running down back of leg like a thin stream of hot fluid

or molten metal, running down under the skin. Tearing in limbs with chilliness. Tension and

shortening of muscles. Intolerable irritation all over like prickings and tingling, waking him at

• ▸night.
• ▸Itching, sore and humid skins.
• ▸—Warts.
• ▸—Burning pains are found in many parts.
• ▸General

soreness and sensitiveness. Small wounds ulcerate and get very sore.

Chilliness predominates. It has cold, clammy feet as notably as Calcarea. < Cold air; cold

washing; damp weather; warm food; in sun (headache); near warm stove (headache). < From

• ▸raising arms, < from mental emotion.
• ▸< Thinking of complaints.
• ▸< In company; > alone.
• ▸> From

• ▸cold food.
• ▸Left side much affected.
• ▸Offensive sweat of one side (mostly left).
• ▸< Lying on painful

side; on left side. < After eating. After eating, so weak cannot raise his hands; too weak to

masticate.

• ▸Loss of memory, mental weakness.
• ▸Irresolute.
• ▸Lost confidence in himself.
• ▸Senile dementia.
• ▸Confusion.
• ▸Bashful.
• ▸Aversion to strangers.
• ▸Childish; grief over trifles.

Lachrymose disposition.—Repugnance to strangers or to society; (the sight of them <

symptoms or causes a recurrence).—Mistrust; want of self-confidence, the child does not want to

play.—Anxious inquietude about domestic affairs.—Scrupulous, irresolute, suspicious temper,

• ▸with mistrust of one's self.
• ▸—Fear and cowardice.
• ▸—Aversion to play (in children).
• ▸—Sudden fits of

passion from trifling causes.—Incessant activity—Great weakness of memory.—Inattention to

studies in children.—Deficient memory (children cannot remember and learn).

Pains in the joints and in the hollow bones.—Cramp-like pressure or pulling,

with paralytic weakness, or tension, as if from contraction of the tendons, in different

parts —Paralysis and palsy of aged persons.—Acute drawing pains in the limbs, with

shuddering.—At night, starting of the muscles.—Shakings and startings of some of the limbs, and

of the whole body during the day.—Tearing in the limbs with chilliness—The symptoms exhibit

themselves particularly on the |. side, and when sitting; they disappear on movement, or in the

open air.—Swelling and induration of the glands——Heaviness in the whole body.—Great

uneasiness and over-excitability of all the senses.—Great weakness, which does not permit a

long-continued standing posture —Great weakness of mind and body of old men.—Necessity to

lie down, or to be seated.—Intellectual, nervous, and physical weakness.—Emaciation, or bloating

of the body and of the face, with inflation of the abdomen.—Great tendency to catch cold, which

commonly occasions inflammation in the throat.

• ▸Vertigo; stitches, when standing in the sun, extending through head.
• ▸Brain feels as if loose.
• ▸Hair falls out.
• ▸Confusion.
• ▸Wens.

Vertigo, with nausea, and headache on stooping.—At night everything rocks with him

as on a ship.—Aching pains in the head, principally in the forehead, over the eyes, and the root of

the nose, or with tension in the occiput, towards the nape of the neck.—Pricking, lancinating

pains in the head, esp. provoked by the heat of a stove.—Pressure in brain under vertex, towards

occiput, on waking, with stiffness of neck.—Digging in the head, with a sensation of looseness of

• ▸the brain.
• ▸—Painful sensibility in the scalp.
• ▸—The scalp is very sensitive to the touch, esp.
• ▸on the

side on which he lies, with the sensation of sugillation, worse from scratching —Numbness in

skin of forehead to root of nose.—Tendency to take cold through the head.—Itching and gnawing

in the scalp; and external head, particularly behind the ears; lobe of the ear, or lobes of the ears;

• ▸upper lip; nape of neck.
• ▸—Eruptions and humid or dry scabs on the head.
• ▸—Baldness.
• ▸—Losing hair

from crown of head.

• ▸Alternate dilatation and contraction of pupils.
• ▸Photophobia.
• ▸Gauze before eyes.
• ▸Cataracts (Calc; Phos; Sil).

Aching and burning pain in the eyes, esp. on fatiguing the sight.—Inflammation of the

ball of the eye and of the eyelids, with pain as of excoriation, sensation of dryness with

• ▸photophobia.
• ▸—Swelling of the eyes in the morning.
• ▸—Exophthalmos.
• ▸—Scrofulous inflammation

• ▸with phlyctenule and ulcers on cornea.
• ▸—Stye in inner comer of 1.
• ▸eye.
• ▸—Tarsal

tumours.—A gglutination of the eyelids —Confusion of sight, which prevents one's

reading.—Specks flying about, and black spots before the eyes.—Sparks before the eyes in the

dark.—Dazzling of the eyes by the light.

Hardness of hearing. Crackling noise. Glands around ears painful and swollen. Reverberation on blowing nose.

Itching in the ears—Nocturnal pulsation in the ears when they are lain

upon.—Eruptions on the ears or behind the ears.—Parotids swollen and painful—Hardness of

hearing.—Tinkling and roaring in the ears.—Cracking in the ears on swallowing, on sneezing, and

on walking quickly.—Tearing in bone in front of r. ear.

• ▸Dry; sneezing; coryza, with swelling of upper lip and nose.
• ▸Sensation of smoke in nose.
• ▸Discharge of thick, yellow mucus.
• ▸Frequent bleeding.
• ▸Scabs around wings of nose.

Epistaxis, esp. after having blown the nose; before catamenia.—Crusts below the

• ▸nose.
• ▸—Very acute sense of smell.
• ▸—Smells pine smoke.
• ▸—Fluent coryza with abundant secretion of

thick mucus.—Painful dryness of the nose.—Coryza; with upper lip swollen, < mornings.

Pale, puffed; sensation as of cobweb (Alumina). Upper lip swollen.

Face deep red, with purple lips, and great ebullition of the blood.—Sensation of

swelling and tension in the face, as if it were covered with cobwebs.—Pains in the face with

tensive swelling —Eruption on the face.—Lips dry and cracked.—Swelling of upper lip; with

burning pain.—Acute pain in the joint on closing the jaws.—Swelling of the submaxillary glands,

with induration.

• ▸Awakes with dry mouth.
• ▸Gums bleed and retract.
• ▸Teeth ache before menses.
• ▸Mouth filled with inflamed vesicles, foul taste.
• ▸Paralysis of tongue.
• ▸Smarting, burning pain in tip of tongue.
• ▸Dribbling of saliva at dawn.
• ▸Spasm of oesophagus when food enters.

Buccal cavity feels numb.—Dryness of the mouth.—Accumulation of saliva in the

mouth.—Offensive smell from the mouth.—Inflamed vesicles in the mouth and on or under the

• ▸tongue.
• ▸—Cracks in the tongue, with burning pain as of excoriation.
• ▸—Paralysis of tongue.
• ▸—Cold

tongue, somewhat black (Acet.).—Tongue coated as if fuzzy.

Toothache only in the evening, in bed.—Pullings, throbbing, and shocks in the teeth,

extending even to the ear and the temple —Toothache < when thinking about it—Burning

shootings in the carious teeth, excited by contact with anything hot—Toothache before the

catamenia, with pale red swelling of the gums and of the cheek.—Bleeding of the gums.—Fistula

dentalis.

Sore throat, with swelling of the palate and of the amygdalze, which

suppurate.—Sensation, as if one had a plug in the throat.—Suffocation and contraction in the

throat —Shootings, and pain as of excoriation, in the throat, esp. during the act of

deglutition.—Spasm of cesophagus; can only swallow liquids.—Sensation in cesophagus as if a

morsel of food had lodged there.

• ▸Submaxillary glands and tonsils swollen.
• ▸Takes cold easily, with stitches and smarting pain. Quinsy. Suppurating tonsils from every cold.
• ▸Tonsils inflamed, with swollen veins.
• ▸Smarting pain when swallowing; worse empty swallowing.
• ▸Feeling of a plug in pharynx.
• ▸Can only swallow liquids.
• ▸Spasm of oesophagus as soon as food enters oesophagus, causes gagging and choking (Merc cor; Graphit).
• ▸Throat troubles from over use of voice.
• ▸Stinging pain in tonsils, pharynx or larynx.

• ▸Waterbrash, hiccough, and eructation, which relieves pressure as of a stone.
• ▸Hungry, but refuses food.
• ▸Pain and weight immediately after a meal, with epigastric tenderness (Kali carb).
• ▸Worse after warm food.
• ▸Gastric weakness in the aged with possible malignancy present.

Disagreeable, or bitter taste, generally in the morning, with tongue much

loaded.—Sour taste, esp. before, but not after a meal—Continual thirst—Appetite weak, and soon

satisfied, although the food pleases the palate—After dinner, pains in the stomach, uneasiness,

• ▸indolence, and aversion to labour.
• ▸—Weakness of digestion.
• ▸—Cough from warm food.
• ▸—> From

cold diet.

Sinking sensation in the afternoon.—Risings after a meal.—Frequent risings,

• ▸abortive or sour.
• ▸—Discharge of phlegm from the stomach.
• ▸—Vomiting of mucus.
• ▸—Nausea, chiefly

in the morning, when fasting, and sometimes as if in consequence of indigestion.—Pains in the

stomach, when fasting, after a meal, or on pressing upon the epigastrium.—Sensibility and pain in

the epigastrium at every step taken.—Heaviness, fulness, and pressure in the stomach and

epigastrium, ever. after having eaten little—Weakness of the digestion after eating, pressing in

the stomach; and pain in the hard, swollen abdomen.—Sensation as if stomach were hanging

relaxed.—Pain, as of excoriation, in the region of the stomach, with a sensation when eating as if

the parts through which the food passes were raw.

• ▸Hard and tense, distended.
• ▸Colicky.
• ▸Enlarged mesenteric glands.
• ▸Pain in abdomen swallowing food.
• ▸Habitual colic, with hunger, but food is refused.

Pain in the abdomen, relieved by eructation or by external heat.—Painful tension

and inflation of the abdomen.—Colic, with retraction of the navel.—Pinchings and cuttings in the

abdomen, with inclination to evacuate, as if diarrhoea were coming on.—Accumulation of

flatulency in the abdomen.

• ▸Constipation, with hard, knotty stools.
• ▸Haemorrhoids protrude on urinating.
• ▸Crawling in rectum.
• ▸Oozing at anus.

Evacuations difficult and knotty, or hard and insufficient—Frequent

inclination to evacuate, with a sensation of anxious uneasiness in the lumbar region, shiverings

passing over the thighs, and evacuations soft and loose.—Sudden irresistible urging to stool, with

painful soreness in the lumbar region, followed by frequent diarrhceic stool (Acet.).—Urgent

desire to evacuate, which can scarcely be repressed.—Expulsion of ascarides.—Crawling in the

rectum (ascarides).—Appearance of hemorrhoidal excrescences, with shooting pain.—Itching,

sensation of burning, excoriation and oozing at the anus.

Frequent inclination to make water, with abundant emission.—Urgent

inclination to make water; it can hardly be retained.—During urination, burning in urethra.

Every time patient urinates, his piles come down. Urging to urinate. Burning in urethra on urinating.

Before menses, pain in stomach and small of back. Menses scanty.

Diminution of sexual desire in women.—Catamenia too feeble, and

of too short duration.—Leucorrheea a little before the catamenia.—Before and during menses:

toothache; colic; pain in back.

Diminished desire and premature impotence. Enlarged prostate. Testicles indurated.

Diminution of sexual desire, and weakness of the genital

functions.—Relaxed penis, premature emissions.—Falling asleep during coition, without the

emission having taken place.—Gleet.—Hypertrophied prostate —Excoriation and oozing between

the scrotum and the thighs.—Erections only in the morning before rising.

• ▸Dry, suffocative cough, especially in old people, full of mucus but lacking strength to expectorate, worse every change of weather (Senega).
• ▸Larynx feels as if smoke were inhaled.
• ▸Chronic aphonia.
• ▸Stitches in chest; worse inspiration.
• ▸Lungs feel full smoke.

Catarrh, with cough, voice hollow and low, and fluent

coryza.—Suffocative catarrh and paralysis of the lungs in old people.—Sensation of smoke in the

larynx.—Spasmodic cough (like whooping-cough) from roughness and tickling in the throat and

pit of the stomach.—Cough worse in the evening till midnight; after getting the feet cold; from

exercise; when lying on the 1. side; in the cold air; from thinking of it—Hoarseness and loss of

voice, from an accumulation of viscid mucus in the throat and on the chest, with dry cough,

chiefly at night, in the evening, or in the morning.

• ▸Palpitation and distress in region of heart.
• ▸Aneurism (Lycop).
• ▸Accelerates the heart's action at first, blood pressure much increased, contraction of blood vessels.
• ▸Palpitation when lying on left side, when thinking of it especially; pulse full and hard.
• ▸Cardiac symptoms after suppressed foot-sweat.

Difficulty of respiration and shortness of breath, with sensation of fulness in the

chest.—Pains in the chest, mitigated partly by eructations and partly by external heat.—Sensation

of soreness in the chest.—Sensation, as if something hard dropped down in the chest.—Fulness

and pressive heaviness on the chest, esp. when ascending, with shooting in the act of respiration.

Very violent throbbings of the heart.—Throbbing of the heart excited by lying on the

1. side, or renewed by thinking of it—Palpitation felt in head.—Atheroma and aneurism.

• ▸Swollen glands in nape of occiput.
• ▸Fatty tumors about neck.
• ▸Bruised pain between scapulae.
• ▸Stiffness in sacrum.
• ▸Weakness of spine.

Stiffness at the nape of the neck —Shootings in the nape of the

neck.—Aching pains in the nape of the neck.—Steatoma in the nape of the neck, with burning

pain in the bottom of it—Swelling and induration of the glands of the neck.—Encysted tumour

under the arm-pit.—Sacral pains, more violent when seated than when in motion.—Tensive

stiffness in the loins, aggravated in the evening to such an extent that one cannot get up from

one's chair, nor stand up straight.—Tension in the shoulder-blades, the nape of the neck, and the

muscles of the neck, esp. in a sharp and cold air—Burning pain and throbbing sensation in the

• ▸back, esp.
• ▸after mental emotion.
• ▸—Beating and pulsation in the back.
• ▸—Stiffness in the small of the

back in the evening, esp. while sitting, which allows neither to rise nor to bend backwards.

Swellings of the arms, with pain of the axillary glands.—Pain in the deltoid

muscle on raising the arm.—The arm becomes numbed when one lies down.—Hands cold, with

• ▸bluish spots.
• ▸—Swollen veins and redness of the hands.
• ▸—Hands dry, like parchment.
• ▸—Trembling

of the hand when writing —Violent tingling and gnawing in the palm of the hand, with desire to

scratch.—Peeling off of the skin of the back of the hand, and of the tops of the fingers.—The

fingers are numbed.—Panaris.

Pain, as of dislocation or of stiffness of the coxo-femoral joint.—Tension in

the legs, as if the tendons were too short.—Drawing pain in r. nates as if the flesh were being torn

• ▸off—Violent stitches; burning in nates.
• ▸—Drawing pain down whole I.
• ▸leg (Acet.
• ▸).
• ▸—Burning

pains: in nates; in bend of thigh; in knee-pan; in soles —Tractive and acute pains in legs, as if in

the bones.—Itching in the thighs, even at night—Shootings in the joints of the knee.—Tension in

the tibia and in the calves and the legs.—Cramps in the calves of the legs and in the toes on

stretching out the limbs.—Inquietude and trembling in the legs and feet —Pain in the joint of the

foot, as from a sprain.—Fetid sweat of the feet.—Ulcers in the feet Lymphatic and painful

swelling in the fleshy part of the great toe.—Pain like that of a corn in the callous part of the sole

of the foot, esp. when walking.—Corns, with burning shootings and pinchings.

• ▸Pain in axillary glands.
• ▸Cold, clammy feet (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 lower limbs.

Sensation in different parts, like the pricks of burning needles, itching and crawling

sensations.—Intolerable itching and tingling over the whole body at night—Excoriation and

oozing in several parts of the skin.—Injuries in the skin healing with difficulty —Swelling and

induration of the glands.—Warts.—Whitlows.

Talking in sleep; awakens frequently; feels too hot. Twitching during sleep.

Somnolency in the daytime—Drowsiness night and day.—Nocturnal sleep, agitated,

with frequent waking and anxious dreams.—At night, ebullition of the blood; strong pulsations of

the heart, and sensation in the heart as if it were excoriated, with great anxiety, and inability to

lie on the |. side—Sleep with many unquiet dreams.

Pulse accelerated but weak.—Strong disposition to chilliness.—Shuddering, with

corrugated skin, and uprising of the hair, or with tension of the face.—Shuddering, which runs

over the whole body, beginning at the face, or at the epigastrium, followed by a transient heat

over the whole body.—Chilliness relieved by external heat.—Flushes of heat, more at night, with

great restlessness.—Perspiration, one-sided (1.) every other evening.

• ▸Aneurism.
• ▸Apoplexy.
• ▸Atrophy.
• ▸Baldness.
• ▸Brain, affections of.
• ▸Cysts.
• ▸Foot-sweat.

• ▸Glandular swellings.
• ▸Hemorrhoids.
• ▸Heart, affections of.
• ▸Memory defective.
• ▸Esophagus, spasm

• ▸of.
• ▸Panaris.
• ▸Paralysis.
• ▸Parotitis.
• ▸Prostate, enlarged.
• ▸Quinsy.
• ▸Throat, sore.
• ▸Tonsils, enlarged.

Tumours. Warts. Wens.

• ▸Compare: Alum.
• ▸, Ant.
• ▸t.
• ▸(paralysis of lungs); Bell.
• ▸, Calc.
• ▸c.
• ▸(scrofulosis, coryza,

• ▸&c.
• ▸); Calc.
• ▸iod.
• ▸(large tonsils); Caust.
• ▸(paralysis); Cham.
• ▸, Chi.
• ▸, Con.
• ▸(old people); Dulc.

• ▸(catching cold); Fluor.
• ▸ac.
• ▸(old people); Iod.
• ▸(glands); Lach.
• ▸, Lyc.
• ▸(tonsils); Mag.
• ▸c.
• ▸, Merc.

• ▸(colds, glands, diarrhoea); Nat.
• ▸c.
• ▸, Phos.
• ▸, Puls.
• ▸, Sep.
• ▸(tinea); Silic.
• ▸(glands, fetid foot-sweat, but

• ▸Bar.
• ▸c.
• ▸lacks the head-sweat of Silic.
• ▸, and Silic.
• ▸has self-will instead of the weak-mindedness of

• ▸Bar.
• ▸c.
• ▸); Sul.
• ▸, Tell.
• ▸Antidoted by: Ant.
• ▸t.
• ▸, Bell.
• ▸, Camph.
• ▸, Dulc.
• ▸, Merc.
• ▸, Zn.
• ▸Compatible: after

Scilla, Ars. Before and after Sul. Incompatible: Calc.

• ▸Compare: Digitalis; Radium; Aragallus; Oxytrop; Astrag.
• ▸Complementary: Dulc; Silica; Psorin.
• ▸Incompatible: Calc.
• ▸Antidote for poisonous doses: Epsom salts.

Third to thirtieth potency, the latter to remove the predisposition to quinsy. Baryta is slow in action, bears repetition.

Baryta carbonica is an interesting study, because it is fully proved

• ▸and a constitutional remedy.
• ▸Such remedies are always more interesting than the short-acting, superficial ones.
• ▸They take hold in deepseated, long-lasting, miasmatic troubles.
• ▸This remedy looks towards

the development of the young. You will see in the text commonly

expressed under this medicine, “dwarfishness." That does not always

mean small in stature as it is spoken of in this remedy. Dwarfishness

in body and mind ; mental dwarfishness, and dwarfihsness of organs.

You realize what precocity means ; young persons who are unusually

brilliant; well advanced mentally. We say they are beyond their

years. They are precocious. Get this in mind first, and think what

it means ; and then in the Baryta carb. constitution we have the very

opposite state- That is what we mean by dwarfishness. Children are

late coming into usefulness ; or activity ; late with their studies ; latd

learning to talk ; late learning to read ; late learning to make the combinations that enter into life ; late learning to take in images, and form

perceptions ; to take on their activities ; to do their work. We say

sometimes that Calc. carb. is late in learning to walk, but Baryta carb.

is also late learning to walk, although it has an entirely different cause.

To express it in a common, old-fashioned way, Baryta carb. is late

learning how to walk, even with pretty good limbs. Calc, has miserable, weakly limbs, flabby muscles, poor bones, and hence he is late

learning to walk. “Late walking’* is Calc. “Late learning to walk”

is Baryta carb. It competes also with Borax and Natrum mur- All

three of these medicines have a peculiar kind of tardiness in the development of the brain, so that they are late learning to do things ; late

in developing. But Baryta carb. leads them all in this late coming into

the activities and uses of life.

stools. Stool hard, and insufficient.” A lack of action in the rectum,

and haemorrhoidal protrusion during stool and urination.

Of the male sexual organs we have some strange features. This

medicine takes away all sexual desire and ability, leaving the genitals

relaxed, and in a state of impotency. '‘Relaxed penis. Impotence,

• ▸Diminished sexual desire.
• ▸Hypertrophied prostate.
• ▸Atrophied testicles,” It cures old gleety discharge from the uicthra.
• ▸An old, painless, whitish, gleety discharge that has been in existence a long time.

It is an offensive discharge and there is no inflammation. “Numbness of the genitals.”

The female has many troubles. Sterility. Dwindling of the ovary.

Dwindling of the mammary glands, and yet the lymphatics become

enlarged and infiltrated. A passive leucorrhoeal discharge, whitish,

thick, persistent, often copious, w^orse about a week before the menstrual period.

With some a constitutional weakness takes hold of the larynx ; a

• ▸paralytic weakness.
• ▸Voice entirely lost.
• ▸Or, “hoarseness and huskincss.
• ▸*' Low, deep voice. Aphonia from constitutional weakness, and

from paralysis. Feeling in the larynx all the time as if inhaling

smoke, or pitch, or sulphur fumes, or dust. With the hoarseness

there is a chronic dry, hoarse, barking cough ; not a hard cough, but

it comes every night. Suffocative cough of old people. It says here,

• ▸“impending paralysis of the lungs.
• ▸” That is in keeping with the general nature of the remedy.
• ▸Chest full of mucus, but unable to expectorate it.
• ▸You observe from the effort made in the cough that

there is a weakness somewhere, a lack of power. It is not a strong

effort. “Night cough, with asthmatic breathing.” Cough excited by

irritation in the larynx and trachea. There is a cough in Baryta

carb. where he coughs and coughs, and gets no relief until he lies

on the abdomen ; and so long as he lies on the abdomen he is free

from cough. Palpitation from slight exertion when lying on the left

side when thinking about it, with anxiety and orgasm of blood, with

strong pulsation in the head, rapid pulse. Palpitation in chlorotic girls.

Tension in the muscles of the back. Swelling of the glands of

the back of the neck.” Swelling of the cervical glands. “Fatty

rumors upon the back.” A number of times a patient has said, “Doctor, did you intend to take away that fatty tumor I had on my back ?”

The chances are I did not know he had one. That is generally the

way such things appear in the practice of the homoeopathic physician,. for he does not prescribe for the tumor, and the chances are

he thinks little about the tumor in his prescription ; he gives the constitutional medicine, and they often disappear after a while, and then

the patient thinks the doctor has done a wonderful thing. He gets

fn6rt glory and more credit for curing a wart than he does for cur-

You will have patients to treat, where this slow development manifests itself in girls 18 to 25 years of age, who do the things they did

when they were children, and say things as they said them when they

were children- ^'Childish manner of doing things, and childish behavior. Playing with dolls and saying foolish things.” They have not

come into womanhood. They are late in taking on the activities and

uses of the woman. They lick the prudence of the woman. They

have not become circumspect^ and say things just as a boy or just as

a little girl would say them- That is the dwarfishness of the mind.

To appreciate that late development, and to see it in Baryta carb. front

all of its symptoms and peculiar features, leads to a strong grasp of

the remedy. There is some of this found in such remedies as Graph.,

• ▸Sulph.
• ▸and Cate.
• ▸, but nothing compared to this remedy.
• ▸This seems

to suspend the development that makes the child into a man or a

woman. It is not a small person that makes me think of Baryta carb.,

but the dwarfishness that is mental, and that is of organs. Organs, as

it were, become paralyzed, or one organ does not develop. It stops,

and the others go on. That would make me think of this remedy.

A single organ fails to mature, and the others go on ; onesidedness, a

partiality of development-

The next grand feature of this remedy is its affinity for the lymphatic

glands all over the body. The glands all over the body enlarge and

indurate ; the glands of the neck, the glands of the groin, the lymphatics

in the abdomen are all affected— knotty chains form in the neck. With

a few other things that we will put together shortly we will see in this

patient a peculiar figure. It has emaciation — ^gradual dwindling in

persons who have been fat, who have been well nourished, It has an

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enlarged abdomen. It has been found suitable in marasmus, for children with enlarged glands, enlarged abdomen ; emaciation of the tissues, emaciated limbs and dwarfishness of mind> you have there the

whole Baryta carb. marasmus.

The patient himself is chilly ; sensitive to cold ; wants to be well

wrapped. Marked weakness with feeble pulse is a strong feature and

he must lie down ; he is worse standing and sitting. The weakness is

worse after eating. His pains are better from motion and in the open

air. His complaints are aggravated by cold. The enlarged glands

take on tenderness and congestion from being exposed. The tonsils

gradually increase. The glands of the neck increase in size, and in

hardness, from every cold and from becoming chilled.

‘‘Swelling and induration of glands. Inflammation of glands with

infiltration.” Infiltration belongs to the remedy. The glands become

• ▸harder and harder.
• ▸Ulcers become indurated in their base.
• ▸Open surfaces become indurated in their tvalls.
• ▸When a child has almost any

disease, measles, scarlet fever, mumps, or even a bad cold, or a malarial

attack, the development ceases and dwarfishness results, a state in

which he was not born, but a state that he has acquired, arrest of development. It brings on emaciation and dwindling of the whole body,

except the abdomen, which gradually enlarges. These are phases not

to be overlooked in the very beginning, because the symptoms only

help to establish this basis and these troubles and tissue changes come

on as ultiraates.

Another grand feature in this remedy is the application of these

things to more advanced years. We say this is a childhood state, this

is the state of youth and arrested development. Now it does not matter whether we have this arrested development in youth, in childhood,

or at the advanced age of fifty. From some strange circumstance

which we are not able to fathom we say the individual is taking on the.

appearance of old age. We call it premature old age. Baryta carb.

has cured lingering complaints that have resulted from malaria, overwork, mental or physical, prolonged mental strain, when the appearance of premature old age was a prominent feature. Old age creeps

upon him too soon. There is but little difference between childhood

and old age, and hence old age is called second childhood ; but we always regret to see a man under seventy becoming childish, and yet we

do see many becoming simple and childish. It does not mean merely

imbecility, but childlike behavior. Doing and saying things like a

child. So in premature old age these symptoms lead us to think of

Baryta carb.

Baryta carb. has cured fatty tumors, encysted tumors, lupus, outward growths of tuberculous character, sarcoma ; and it has mitigated

the pains and sufferings, and has prolonged life in cancerous affections.

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Mentally it is worthy of careful study, and we will see cropping out

in the mental symptoms all of the phases intermingled with tissue

changes. The Baryta carb. child will be seen hiding behind the furniture when strangers come in ; will hide as for shame of something, or

as if afraid. It imagines all sorts of strange things, that it is talked

about, or laughed at. It does not seem to advance. It docs not seem

to do any good to teach it, for it does the same things over and over

and remains untrained. They either cannot comprehend, or they cannot memorize, or they cannot maintain a thought, and you go over it

and over it, and the mother wonders if that child is ever going to learn

something, and the teacher reports that the child lacks capacity. The

teacher cannot comprehend it, the mother cannot comprehend it, but

the homoeopathic physician should know all about it at once. If he

knows his Materia Medica he should be well up in the development

of a feeble child ; those who are going towards rickets, who arc feeble,

who are always depending on somebody, fitted only for menial places.

The homoeopathic physician does well when he trots the little Johnnies

and the little Susies on his knee and takes a good, fair observation of

their ability, and of what they lack, and understands how to build up

what is lacking. Is not that in itself worth working for ? It requires

all of the potencies that have ever been made to master constitutions.

Some will require medium potencies, some very low, some very high.

Let us not deprive our little oites of anything they need. Only so we

look forward to the highest use, to develop them into their fullest

capacity.

There is an expression here in the text, “Want of clear consciousness.” Do we not see from what I have said what that must mean in

this remedy, and that it is different in this remedy from what it is in

a good many others ? And yet if you had read that symptom first you

• ▸would not have appreciated it.
• ▸“A want of clear consciousness.
• ▸” Especially in old age has that been useful.
• ▸It is not that confusion of

mind that we know to be dizziness. But he is not clear in his intellect.

We see how this medicine takes hold of the intellect. It takes hold of

his memory. It begins with a feeble state, and it gradually travels

toward imbecility. You press it to its extreme and it has imbecility,

and up to this we have degrees all along the line from the very beginning, from a mere matter of cloudiness in his thoughts to imbecility.

When the Baryta carb. babies appear in the clinic they will keep the

hand up over the face and peek out through the fingers. Bashful.

• ▸Timid.
• ▸Easily frightened.
• ▸Afraid of strangers.
• ▸Other remedies have

similar features, but it is a strong feature of this medicine. Withered

• ▸face.
• ▸Sickly countenance.
• ▸It is the idea of hiding, the idea of timidity.
• ▸The child does not want to play, and it sits in the comer.
• ▸Dow

not pay any attention to its hammer, if it is a boy ; or its doll, if it is

a girl. Sits and sits. Does not seem to be thinking ; a lack of ability

to think. Children grow up without any distinctiveness, without any

ability to perceive, and therefore fail to develop. Always borrowing

trouble. Like Caust,^ fear of something going to happen. Full of

imaginations ; imaginary cares and worries. Hatching up all sorts of

complaints and grievances that may happen. A good deal like Ars.

Children in a constant whining mood ; always whining. Running

through the complaints will be the sufferings of the parts, or the mental symptoms. ‘The more he thinks about the complaint the worse it

gets.’" If he thinks about his troubles, his sufferings, they at once

grow worse. Premature old age and brain fag from prolonged mental work.

Troublesome headaches. “Pressure in the brain.’’ A feeling of

looseness in the brain, as if the brain fell from side to side or was rising and falling. A sensation of motion in the brain when moving the

head or from sudden jar. Seems as if the brain moves to and fro td

correspond to the motions of the head when the head is turned fromi

side to side. “Pressing headaches.” Headaches ameliorated in fresh

air, in the open air, and aggravated from heat. That is the opposite

of its general state. The Baryta carb. general state is aggravated from

cold ; he is sensitive to cold, and his complaints come on from becoming

cold ; but his headaches are ameliorated in cool air. The Baryta carb.

patient is often sensitive to the extremes of heat and cold. Hot weather

will bring on complaints. Hot weather will cause the blood to mount

to the head, and favors apoplectic conditions. It has many complaints

of the head like unto the stupor of apoplexy. It has some of the paralytic conditions analogous to the complaints in old apoplectics, and it

has been very useful in re-establishing the supply and flow of nerve

force along the nerves. It parallels Phos,, and is an excellent remedy

for old paralytic conditions that have come from a rupture of a bloodvessel, and therefore pressure upon the nerve supply. The headaches

are congestive, pressive headaches ; a feeling of pressure in the brain.

These puny infants, such as we have described, have eruptions upon

the head ; eczema upon the head ; and those who are born for better

things have the eruption driven back by ointments and applications.

• ▸“Moist crusts upon the scalp.
• ▸” “Dry eruptions upon the scalp.
• ▸Falling off of the hair.
• ▸Baldness.
• ▸” Head complaints and a dwarfish state

of mind, an intellectual defect, as results of suppressed eruptions.

It is full of eye symptoms. “Granular lids. Thickening of the eyelids ; thickening of all of the membranes and tissues abouj the eyes.

Opacity of the cornea.” Infiltration of the various coverings. It has

cured cataract, it has cured various kinds of dimsightedness, but especially in those that things look hazy, “looking as through a fog, or

through smoke.” Ulceration of the cornea. Little white spots, causttARYl'A CAkBONICA

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mg defective vision. “Lids agglutinated in the motnlng;’ Styes. “A

sensation of weight in the upper lids.” A sensation of weight in the

brow with headaches as if the forehead was pressing down over the

• ▸eyes.
• ▸Like Carbo veg,, Carbo an.
• ▸and Natr.
• ▸mur.
• ▸I’he patient will

often grasp the whole forehead with the hands, and say, “1 feel as if

the forehead was pressing down over the eyes.”

It has many noises in the ears, but especially cracking and flapping

when breathing, swallowing and chewing ; better while lying. It affects the right car most. Rushing sounds in the ears when breathing.

“Eruptions about the cars. Glandular swellings and eruptions about

the ears.” Inflammation of the parotid glands, with hardness. First

it may be called swelling, but it is finally a permanent enlargement and

induration, and it means a great growth sometimes. Other glands

about the neck are affected in association with the ear troubles. Knots

• ▸of lymphatic glands down the neck under the ear (Bar.
• ▸m.
• ▸, Tub.
• ▸).

Sometimes the sub-maxillary gland is affected, being enlarged and indurated. Sometimes the tonsils enlarge and indurate. All these

glands inflame and become sensitive, and get a little larger, after any

exposure to cold, and from sudden changes of the weather. It is a

wonderful medicine for the cure of enlarged glands. Clinically it is

laid down in the books for suppuration of these glands, but all my life

I have failed to find it a good remedy for suppuration. The inflammation is more likely to turn ihto an increased infiltration. It is laid

down in the books here for 8U|Jpuration of die tonsils, but from long

experience it is one of the last i*emedies I would think of for suppuration of the tonsils. It may have done so, but it has not been my observation that it runs that way, and I am very much in doubt about the

great value and high marking of that observation. But it certainly

has infiltration gradually increasing from becoming cold. The enlarged tonsils will redden up and inflame and become painful, and the

acute inflammation and pain will subside, but the tonsils are a little

larger than with the last cold. In that way the tonsils keep growing.

In children these are often cut out. There are instances in which I

might admit it was necessary to cut them off, when there is a wonderful superabundance, creating much disturbance in swallowing and in

speaking. Two or three times I have absolutely failed to cure with

remedies selected to the best of my ability, and they have gone to the

surgeon and he has cut them off; but I believe these tonsils ought to

be all cured. One thing in Homceopathy taught in Hahnemann’s Organon is that unless there are symptoms to indicate the remedy, no

great things should be expected from the administration of the remedy.

The enlargement of the tonsils alone is not a symptom upon which a

remedy can be selected, and it necessitates guessing a dozen times, and

perhaps not hitting at all. That is the worst sort of practice, guessing

at a remedy ; yet there are children having enlarged tonsils that appear

to us without any symptom whatever to select a remedy by. The

symptoms to prescribe on are such as represent the patient, not the

glands ; not the changed tissue. We must always regret that the surgeon must come in, for in cutting off anything it may be effeipe to the

constitutional detriment of the patient. Yet there are things tliat have

to be done that we know are to the constitutional detriment of the

patient. We have to keep servants on their feet to earn their living,

and operations have to be performed upon them, beacuse they cannot

lie up a year or two to be cured. The surgeon will always have a

place with us, but let us do our part as physicians first.

Eruptions upon the face. The face :s sickly, often purple, red and

bloated, or lean and emaciated, looking old and withered. The infant

looks like a little old person, like the state we find in Nat. mur. and

Calc, With face troubles, with teeth troubles, and especially with

throat troubles, enlarged glands under the jaw and down the neck.

Ear diseases following scarlet fever. Enlargement and induration of

the parotids and of the submaxillary glands after scarlet fever. Scarlet fever often stirs up much trouble in the economy, especially when

it has not been properly treated, when it has been treated by the allopath, or by a nervous homoeopath. A nervous homoeopath is one who

does not wait for his own convictions to be ultimated, does not wait

for his remedy to work, and he gives another and another, and by the

time the scarlet fever runs its course the patient becomes dreadfully

sick, ends up with ear troubles, enlarged glands and sometimes kidney

affections. When it runs into ear troubles and enlarged glands of the

neck this is one of the several remedies to be studied.

“Paralysis of the tongue in old people. Weakness of the tongue

in old people. Hardness of the tongue in old people.” Premature old

age and giving out of muscles.

There is a catarrhal state in this remedy, an accumulation of mucus

in the nose, throat, larynx and trachea. It is very suitable for old

people who have rattling in the trachea. On every cold change of the

weather, and on every exposure to the cold, he gets an additional

aggravation of the rattling. Rattling respiration. There are a few

remedies that have, in such high degree, this coarse rattling in the

chest of old people, that it is well to emphasize it. Baryta carb. is one

of them. Senega, Ammoniacum and Baryta muriatica should be compared. When there is coarse rattling in the chest all the time in an

old person, an octogenarian, who is pretty comfortable in summer,

but miserable all winter from the coarse rattling in the chest, and

there are no other symptoms, Ammoniacum will keep him comfortable

The sore throat in this remedy has numerous symptoms. “Inflam

mation of cellular tissue of fauces and tonsils.” ITiis remedy is one

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in general catarrhal symptoms of the throat. Granulations of the

throat, so that the pharynx looks shiny, studded with coarse granules

becoming inflamed with every cold spell, or from being chilled. Every

cold change inflames the tonsils, and in children they very soon enlarge. Children with enlarged tonsils, and with enlarged glands in

Other places, somewhat dwarfish intellectually, slow to learn — ^Baryta

• ▸carb.
• ▸^11 cure the enlarged tonsils.
• ▸But these, you see, are constitutional symptoms.
• ▸You are not selecting the remedy purely on enlarged tonsils.
• ▸'‘Inflammation of tlie tonsils.
• ▸"' The inflammation is

not so violent as that which comes in Bell., it does not come on in

a night, it does not go on rapidly to suppuration ; but it is a very

sore throat, has come on slotvly after many days of exposure and

there is gradual growth and gradual development. That is the character of the Baryta carb. tonsilitis ; while that of Bell, comes on with

great rapidity. Hepar is also rapid and goes on to suppuration. There

is a remedy for inflammation of the tonsils where the ear is involved and is ameliorated by heat, that very few use, but it is of great

value ; it is Chamomilla, and it is especially indicated if the patient

is irritable. The pain is ameliorated by heat and comes on with great

violence. It might be mistaken for a Bell, inflammation, but Cham.

cures it permanently. “Sensation of plug in the throat that is, the

tonsils arc so large they fed like a great ball or great lump in the!

throat. They change the character of the voice, cause difficulty.

“Much burning in the throat. Inalnlity to swallow anything but

liquids.'" This irritation ke^s up a constant choking and spasmodic

constriction in the throat ; contractions, and drawings, and crampings

in the throat. It also has a spasm in the oesophagus when swallowing, especially in old nervous, or prematurely broken-down people.

“Spasm in the oesophagus. Difficulty in swallowing." The bolus of

food goes down a little way, and then causes spasms, and he gags and

chokes. This gagging and choking with a little food is a very strong

• ▸feature in Kali c.
• ▸Graph, and Merc.
• ▸cor.
• ▸This is also a strong feature

of Baryta carb., but much stronger in Merc cor.

The troubles of eating and drinking and appetite and stomach can

• ▸all be run together.
• ▸There is weakness of digestion.
• ▸All sorts of disorders and disagreeable sensations in the stomach after eating.
• ▸Sometimes gastralgia ; sometimes distension.
• ▸“Stomach aches after eating.
• ▸" Extreme weakness after eating.
• ▸Abdomen hard and tense.

“Mesenteric glands swollen and hard ; with a big belly ; abdominal

muscles sore to touch." It has cured, in the early stages, tabes mesenterica. It has cured the enlarged abdomen of children, when there

was emaciation of the limbs, emaciation everywhere, knots of enlarged glands and a dwarfed intellect.

Baryta carb. has an inveterate constipation. “Difficult knotty

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