Baryta Muriatica

The symptoms of Baryta mur. are like those of the other Barium salts, but it

has a distinct character of its own. Convulsions are more marked in the muriate. Periodical

attacks of convulsions, with excessive jactitation of the limbs. Idiocy. Mania, with increase of

sexual desire; "in every form of mania as soon as the sexual desire is increased." Offensive

otorrhoea. Parotid glands hard and swollen (especially right). It has cured whizzing and buzzing

in ears; noises on chewing and swallowing. Deafness. Great salivation and odour from mouth as

• ▸from mercurialisation.
• ▸Swelling of salivary glands.
• ▸Disposition to tonsillitis.
• ▸There is great

indigestion. Below stomach to left a hardness from which paroxysms of dyspnoea come.

Induration of pancreas. Distressing throbbing in abdomen (abdominal aneurism). Many cases of

aneurism have been benefited by Bar. mur. Both elements have a strong action on heart and

arteries. In one poisoning case, that of a girl, the instant she swallowed the solution she

exclaimed that she was on fire; vomitings, convulsions, pain in the head and complete deafness

• ▸supervened; and death within an hour.
• ▸Baryt.
• ▸mur.
• ▸acts on parotid glands and pancreas.
• ▸Is suited

to scrofulous children. Attacks of tonsillitis occurring in spring and autumn. The earache is > by

sipping cold water.

Great anxiety, with gastralgia, nausea, and retching; has to bend

double.—Idiocy.—Mania of every form as soon as sexual desire is increased.

Vertigo, swimming before the eyes; things turn round.—Head confused and

• ▸heavy.
• ▸—Cephalalgia, with vomitings.
• ▸—Very purulent eruptions on the scalp.
• ▸—Scabby eruptions

on the head and on the neck.—Eruption at the nape of the neck.

Eyes fixed and immovable.—Shuns light; child lies all the time on its face —Pupils

dilated and insensible, with fixed look.—Blennorrhcea of the eyes, of the ears, and of the nose.

• ▸Whizzing and buzzing.
• ▸Noises on chewing and swallowing, or sneezing.
• ▸Earache; better sipping cold water.
• ▸Parotids swollen.
• ▸Offensive otorrhoea.
• ▸Inflates middle ear on blowing nose.

Deafness and vomiting.—Otorrhcea; odour like rotten cheese.—Abscesses behind

• ▸ears.
• ▸—Parotids (esp.
• ▸r.
• ▸) swollen.

Tractive pains in the muscles of the face.—Painful nodosity at the point of the nose,

with slight pricking.

Swelling of the salivary glands and of the palate.-—Tongue loaded —Tongue and

mouth dry.—Fetor of the mouth, as if from mercury.—Putrid taste in the mouth, also of food.

Shooting, throbbing pains in the teeth, esp. on waking, after midnight.—Looseness of

the teeth.

Uvula elongated.—Varicose veins of throat—Suppuration of tonsils after every

cold.—Swallowing difficult.

• ▸Difficult swallowing.
• ▸Tonsils enlarged.
• ▸Paresis of pharynx and eustachian tubes, with sneezing and noises.
• ▸Tubes feel too wide open.

Gone feeling at epigastrium a good guiding symptom for it in chronic affections. Retching and vomiting. Sensation of heat ascending to head.

• ▸Loss of appetite —Thirst.
• ▸—Inclination to vomit.
• ▸—Retching.
• ▸—Vomiting in the

morning, with anxiety.—Vomiting of a small quantity of water, with nausea —Sickness.—Pressure

on the stomach, with spasm.—Sensation of heat, ascending from the stomach to the chest and

head.—Burning pain in the stomach, with vomiting.—The membranes of the stomach are of a

blue red, with red spots on the muscular part—The pit of the stomach is inflamed, with isolated

ecchymoses.—Uneasiness, as if from worms.

Throbbing (Selen);

induration of pancreas; abdominal aneurism. Inguinal glands swollen. Spasmodic pain in rectum.

Burning pains in the abdomen.—Tumefaction of the liver.—Throbbing of tumour

in abdomen.—Inguinal glands swollen; painful; ulcerating.

Feces slimy.—Easy evacuation.—Chronic, painless diarrhoea, or diarrhoea

with violent colic.—Stools jelly-like, with blood, no pain; discharges every fifteen or twenty

minutes.—Stools white, hard as stones.

Urine frequent, involuntary, and painful—Urine yellowish, very

offensive.—Flow of urine.—Whitish sediment in the urine.

Great increase in uric acid, diminution of chlorides.

Catamenia too early.—Pains, as from a bruise, in the cavity of the

• ▸pelvis.
• ▸—Sterility.
• ▸—Leucorrhcea.
• ▸—Induration, tumour or atrophy of ovaries—-Nymphomania.

Frequent emission of semen.—Swelling of the testes —Buboes after

suppressed gonorrhcea.

• ▸Bronchial affection of old people with cardiac dilation.
• ▸Facilitates expectoration.
• ▸Great accumulation and rattling of mucus with difficult expectoration.
• ▸Arterio-sclerosis of the lung, thus in senile asthma, modifies the arterial tension.

Throbbing of the heart accelerated. —Palpitation of the heart—Heart-beats irregular,

pulse scarcely perceptible.

Drawing pains in thighs.—Hzmorrhagic extravasations in knee-joint.—Feet

swollen.—Effects of checked foot-sweat.

24. Generalities—Great weakness, which necessitates lying down.—Weakness and prostration,

amounting almost to paralysis.—Syncope.—Stiffness and insensibility of the body, with

• ▸periodical convulsions.
• ▸—General heaviness.
• ▸—Trembling of the limbs.
• ▸—Convulsive

trembling —Twitching in the face or in some of the limbs, or in the whole body.—Periodical

convulsive fits, with starting and excessive tossing about.

Pricking in the skin.—Burning and pricking in excoriated places.—Small itchy

eruptions on the head, nape of the neck, abdomen, and thighs.—Glands inflamed and

ulcerated.—Hzemorrhage.

General dry heat, night and day.—Redness and heat of the face.—Pulse frequent and

full—Tertian fever —Increased perspiration.—Cold sweat.

• ▸Aneurism.
• ▸Anus, abscess of.
• ▸Asthma.
• ▸Convulsions.
• ▸Deafness.
• ▸Dyspepsia.
• ▸Fistula.

• ▸Glandular swellings.
• ▸Gleet.
• ▸Gonorrhcea.
• ▸Idiocy.
• ▸Leucorrhoea.
• ▸Mania.
• ▸Mumps.
• ▸Nymphomania.

• ▸Otorrhoea.
• ▸Pancreatitis.
• ▸Paralysis.
• ▸Scrofula.
• ▸Sterility.
• ▸Testicles, affections of.
• ▸Tinea capitis.

Tinnitus. Tonsillitis. Tumours.

• ▸Compare: Con.
• ▸(indurations of abdominal glands); Iod.
• ▸, Kali iod.
• ▸and Iris

• ▸(pancreas); Selen.
• ▸(pulsations in abdomen).
• ▸Useful after Ars.
• ▸in extravasations of blood.
• ▸The

vomiting is antidoted by Absinthe.

• ▸Compare in sclerotic degenerations, especially of spinal cord, liver, and heart.
• ▸Plumbum met and Plumb iod.
• ▸Also Aurum mur (which will often accomplish more in sclerotic and exudative degenerations than other remedies.
• ▸Multiple sclerosis, fulgurating pains, tremors, Morvan's disease, hypertrophy of fingers).

Third trituration. Bears repetition of dosage well.

This is one of our deep acting constitutional remedies and one much

neglected. It was much used by the earlier men in our school with

great effect. In mental weakness, insanity, enlarged glands and sexual excitement we have a group of symptoms hard to cure without

Baryta muriatica. Add to this profound increasing muscular weakness and we must have this remedy sometime during the case or the

cure will be slow. Its complaints are prominent in the morning, forenoon, afternoon, evening, nigh$ and after midnight. In the diseases

most amenable to this remedy are the affection of the lymphatic

glands and other glands. The patient desires the open air, yet the

open air often increases the symptoms. Many cases of aneurism have

been benefited by it. General physical anxiety is a strong feature.

Complaints are worse ascending stairs such as dyspnoea, palpitation and weakness. Dread of bathing, like Sulphur. The symptoms

are often worse in cold air and from becoming cold. The convulsive

tendency is a very important feature ; convulsions with headache,

deafness, vomiting and burning in the stomach ; convulsions with

full consciousness with electric shocks ; clonic spasms. It has cured

most stubborn cases of epilepsy. Distension of the blood vessels ;

emaciation, fainting spells. Complaints worse in fall and spring.

• ▸Formication all over the body.
• ▸Sensation of internal fulness.
• ▸Bleeding from mucous membranes and from ulcers.
• ▸Heaviness externally

and internally as from weakness and relaxation. Induration of glands ;

inflammation and swelling of glands. Extreme lassitude, compelled

to lie down. Symptoms come before and during menses. Some symptoms are better from motion ; bruised feeling internally ; burning in

many parts ; cutting pains in internal parts ; digging pains are not uncommon ; gnawing in external parts. Painless symptoms pfedomiz88

nant and pain is the exception. Convulsive jerking in the limbs ;

stitching in glands and along nerves ; downward tearing as if in the

muscles ; one-sided paralysis ; left side. Many parts are tender to

pressure. Pulsation in abdomen and limbs. Pulse fast, x2o ; full,

hard, small. Rising up brings on many symptoms. Electric shocks

with convulsions. Complaints left-sided — worse while sitting ; must

lie down. Symptoms come on during sleep — worse while standing.

Painful swelling of glands. Dropsical swelling after scarlet fever ;

tension, trembling, twitching ; weakness in whole body, can hardly

move a limb ; while walking ; general muscular weakness ; paralytic

weakness ; weariness. Complaints and symptoms grow worse in wet

weather. It is the natural complement of Conium in glandular affections and it is very similar, but much deeper acting.

Easily angered. Anxiety in the evening ; about the future ; with

nausea ; retching and pressure in the stomach. It is useful in children

who are slow to learn or understand ; children do not desire to play

like other children. Concentration impossible. The locality around

him seems strange, transformed ; timid and cowardly ; delusion that

he walks on his knees. Dullness of mind. Thinks she is going to

• ▸die.
• ▸Fear : of evil, of men ; foolish behavior ; idiocy ; imbecility, indifference, insanity ; erotic insanity.
• ▸Insanity where the sexual excitement becomes strong.
• ▸Irresolution.
• ▸Irritable in the evening.

Mania in every form when sexual desire is increased; nymphomania.

Sadness in the morning ; sits in silence. Children sit in the corner

and give confused answers. Easily startled ; suspicious ; indisposed

to talk ; talks in sleep ; unconsciousness ; fainting ; vertigo when walking ; things turn around.

The scalp feels constricted. It is a remedy of great usefulness in

eruptions of the scalp. Thick, offensive crusts ; eczema of the whole

top of the head, extending to sides and occiput ; suppurating with copious pus. Crops of pimplse. The head feels so heavy he cannot

keep up ; heaviness of forehead and occiput ; sensation of looseness of

the brain ; a feeling of movement in the head. Pain in the head in

the morning on rising ; afternoon, evening, worse in open air ; from

binding up the hair ; after eating, while lying ; on moving the eyes ;

from noise ; from pressure ; on stopping ; while walking ; in the forehead, occiput ; sides of head, temples ; boring in temples ; bruises in

head ; burning in head ; pressing in head and in forehead ; outwards ;

stitching in forehead, occiput, sides of head, in temples ; stunning pain in

head ; tearing in occiput, sides of head ; shocks in head, ulcers on scalp.

Agglutination of the lids in the morning ; discharge of mucus and

pus from the eyes ; inflammation of the eyes in scrofulous patients.

Itching and smarting, pressing pain in eyes ; paralysis of upper lids ;

photophobia ; pupils dilated and immovable. Redness of the eyes ; of

the lids ; veins injected ; stiffness of the eyes ; ulceration of the cornea ; swollen lids ; complaints of the eyes and head from exertion of

vision, much like Conium; dim vision with flickering.

Abscesses behind both ears ; discharge from both ears ; copious ;

offensive ; like spoiled cheese ; purulent ; after scarlet fever. Eruptions

on ears ; recurrent inflammation of the ear ; auditory canal ; itching

in the ear ; noises in the car on chewing and on swallowing ; catarrh

of the Eustachian tube ; buzzing, ringing and roaring ; pain in both

ears ; deep in ; worse in the right ear ; pain in the ear with sore

throat ; worse lying on the painful side ; better from cold drinks ;

drawing, stitching, tearing pain in ear ; tearing behind ear ; pulsation

in ear ; tingling of the ears ; twitching ; hearing impaired, finally lost.

Catarrh of the nose with copius, thick, yellow discharge ; coryza

fluent with fever ; dryness in the nose ; epistaxis. Itching in the

nose ; the nose is obstructed ; rawness in the nose. A red nodule on

the side of the top of the nose ; stitching pains in the nose. Frequent

sneezing ; sneezing in sleep without waking.

The face is red with fever, otherwise pale. Drawing and spasms

of the face. Dryness of the lips. Enlarged and indurated submaxillary gland with otorrhoea ; eruption on forehead and nose ; crusty,

pimples, expression is anxious and the face is hot. Inflammation of

the right parotid gland after scarlet fever ; swelling of the glands of

neck and jaw ; very hard ; right parotid ; submaxillary. Tension of

the face with nausea and dia^hoea.

• ▸Bleeding gums.
• ▸Cracked?
• ▸tongue ; white tongue.
• ▸Dryness of the

mouth in the morning, of ^e tongue ; coated tongue ; viscid mucus

fills the mouth and covers the tongue ; odor from mouth offensive ;

putrid ; like from mercury. Burning in the mouth ; the gums are sore.

Paralysis of the tongue. Salivation with every paroxysm. Speech

difficult. Swollen gums and palate. Taste is bitter ; putrid, sour,

sweetish ; food tastes putrid. Ulceration of tongue. Looseness of

the teeth with salivation ; pulsating pain in the teeth. Compelled to

sit up in bed ; w^orse after midnight and after sleep ; jerking ; stitching, tearing.

Inflammation of the throat and tonsils ; recurrent tonsilitis from

taking cold ; dryness in throat. Enlarged tonsils ; elongation of the

uvula with sore throat ; viscid mucus in the throat ; pain in the throat

and ear, worse on right side ; with salivation ; worse on swallowing ;

burning in the throat. Suppuration of the tonsils. Swallowing very

• ▸difficult.
• ▸Swollen tonsils.
• ▸Varicose veins in the throat.
• ▸Swelling

and induration of the cervical glands.

Appetite ravenous ; wanting ; aversion to food. Desires dry wheat

bread* Distension of the stomach. A feeling of emptiness in the

stomach. Eructations after eating ; bitter ; water.

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Flushes of heat rise from the stomach to the head. Fullness and

weight in the stomach after solid food ; heartburn, hiccough. He can

eat only the stimplest food, as digestion is slow and the stomach is

feeble ; inflammation of the stomach ; loathing of food ; nausea. Pain

in the stomach ; cramping ; pressing after eating ; sore ; stitching.

Retching. Tension. Thirst with dry tongue ; during chill ; extreme.

Vomiting in the morning ; with headache ; incessant, bile, blood, mucus, watery, with purging and great anxiety.

• ▸Distension of the abdomen.
• ▸Enlarged and hard liver and mesenteric glands.
• ▸Flatulence ; fullness ; hard abdomen.
• ▸Pain in abdomen

in the morning, after eating, before stool, in hypochondria, burning,

cramping, cutting, stitching in hypochondria and inguinal region.

It has been of great benefit in abdominal aneurisms. Swollen liver ;

swollen inguinal glands after suppressed gonorrhoea. Abdominal tension.

Ulcers in the inguinal region.

Constipation ; difficult stool ; no desire for stool ; stool hard and

covered with mucus ; generally painless, diarrhoea which is also generally painless. Dysentery, bloody mucus ; jelly-like stools ; frequent ;

• ▸generally painless.
• ▸Much offensive flatus.
• ▸Haemorrhage from rectum and from intestines.
• ▸External piles, protrude during urination ;

itching of the anus ; involuntary stool ; moisture about the anus ; some

pain in the rectum during stool ; burning during and after stool ;

pressing pain ; soreness, stitching ; tenesmus. Paralysis of the rectum,

and of the sphincter ani. Stool bloody, jelly-like, hard, green, foetid,

soft, thin, watery, white and hard ; yellow and slimy ; worms with

stool.

• ▸Inflammation of the bladder.
• ▸Retention of urine.
• ▸Urging to urination ; constant, frequent, ineffectual, violent.
• ▸Urination difficult ;

frec|uent at night ; frequent during perspiration ; involuntary during

the night. Glcety urethral discharge. It has cured chronic gonorrhoea.

Pain in the urethra during urination. The urine is hot, copious, offensive, with whitish sediment ; watery, yellow, with great stench.

Enlarged testes. Induration of testes ; Inflammation of testes from

suppressed gonorrhoea ; seminal emission ; sexual passion greatly increased, even violent. Induration of the ovaries. Leucorrhoea.

Menses copious, too often, painful. Pain in the uterus. Sterility.

Catarrh of the larynx and trachea ; irritation in larynx and trachea ;

tickling in the larynx. Voice is hoarse, husky and weak. Respiration is fact, anxious, asthmatic, deep, difficult, with cough, and she

must sit up ; rattling, short.

Cough in daytime, morning, evening, night, before midnight ; asthmatic, dry, chronic dry cough of scrofulous children; from irritation

in larynx and trachea ; rattling, whooping cough. Expectoration iii

the morning ; mucous ; copious ; muco-purulent expectoration from

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bronchial tubes ; yellow. It has cured phthisical conditions of the

chest with herpetic eruptions and indurated testes. Marked palpitation. It has been a very useful remedy in spinal curvature.

Cold hands and feet ; cramps in the toes ; drawing up the limbs

• ▸ameliorates.
• ▸Eruptions on the limbs ; pimples.
• ▸Hot hands.
• ▸Heaviness of the whole body, must lie down, itching of the limbs ; the

• ▸thighs.
• ▸Painless jerking of the arms at night.
• ▸Violent periodical jerking of the limbs with convulsions.
• ▸Lassitude ; numbness of

the lingers. Pain in the upper limbs and thighs. Paralysis of the

• ▸left side ; paralysis of the lower limbs.
• ▸Perspiration of the feet ; suppressed foot sweat.
• ▸Pulsation of the shoulder.
• ▸Swelling of the hands,

lower limbs, knees, feet. Tension in knees. Trembling of the limbs.

Twitching of the upper limbs, thighs, feet. Ulcers on the legs. Weakness of the limbs.

Dreams ; amorous, anxious, frightful, of misfortune, pleasant, vivid.

Restless sleep ; sleepiness ; afternoon, evening, after dinner ; sleepless before midnight ; frequent waking.

Coldness in the morning ; evening ; in bed ; chilliness ; external chill;

shaking chills every third day. Fever in the evening and during the

night ; burning heat ; heat with chilliness ; dry heat all day ; dry heat

during the night.

Dryness, biting and burning in skin ; cold skin ; eruptions ; eczema ;

• ▸herpes all over body ; pimplei ; scabs, yellow scales ; stinging, urticaria ; erysipelas, formication, hoirripilation.
• ▸Inflammation of skin.
• ▸Itching.
• ▸Swelling and tension.
• ▸Whole body covered with small ulcers.

Unhealthy skin. Burning ulcers.

Trembling of limbs.—Convulsive jerkings of hands and feet.—Paralysis of upper and

lower limbs.—Swelling of hands and feet.