Baryta carbonica

Region

NUTRITION. MIND. GLANDS [TONSILS; prostate]. HEART. Nerves. Blood vessels.

Lungs.

Modalities

Worse: Company. Thinking of symptoms. Cold [damp; to feet; to head; changes].

Lying on [painful part; left side]. Odors. After meals. Cold washing. Warm food. Sun
[headache]. Near warm stove [headache]. Emotions. PRESSURE.

Better: Warm wraps. When unmindful of his disease. Walking in open air. Alone.
Cold food.

Leading symptoms

M - Children and old age: beginning and end of life. Children: retarded or defective
mental or physical development ["dwarfish in body and mind"; LATE IN LEARNING
TO WALK, TALK AND READ], enlarged glands, scrophulous ophthalmia, chronic
tonsillitis and adenoids. Children do not want to play; hide behind mother or
furniture in presence of visitors. Old people - often resulting from apoplexy - lose
their memory, start to act thoughtless and foolish and have the idea of being
laughed at, talked about,

watched or mocked. Physical and mental functions diminished. SLOW, INEPT and
BACKWARD.

M - SLOW comprehension, slow in acting, slow movements. Simplemindedness.

M - BASHFUL TIMIDITY; aversion to and aggravation by presence of STRANGERS.

M - "Jealousy, related to feelings of inefficiency, which become somatized by

frequent colds, enuresis, regression in toilet training, or especially nervous biting of
the finger nails" [Morrison].

M - "Feeling of security in the house." [Older Bar-c. children always take their
mother or someone else they trust with them. They feel UNPROTECTED and want
to stay in the home.] HOMESICKNESS.

M - Enormous LACK OF SELF-CONFIDENCE and strong IRRESOLUTION [about trifles,

in acts].

M - Mental retardation after acute illnesses, like measles, typhoid, mumps, scarlet
fever, etc.

G - Tardiness of development of organs; a single organ fails to mature [e.g. genital

organs too small].

G - Great SENSITIVITY TO COLD air and susceptibility to catching cold. Chilly persons.
agg. FEET becoming COLD.

G - Sensation of HEAT on WAKING.

G - ORGASM of BLOOD when lying on LEFT side [2/1].

G - ENLARGED GLANDS, especially of external throat.

G - Aversion to fruit.
G - WEAKNESS after EATING.

G - Numbness upper half of body [2/1].

P - Chronic enlarged tonsils with frequent inflammation [from the least cold] and

tendency to suppuration, together with swollen maxillary glands which get

inflamed easily. Chronic tonsillitis and hardness of hearing.

P - Sensation of cobweb on face.

P - Offensive FOOT SWEAT [skin of toes excoriated; destruction of shoes].

P - Throat affections after checked foot sweat.

Repertory

Mind

Anxiety, evening in bed, uneasiness and anxiety, must uncover [2], lying, while, on
left side [2]. Biting nails [3]. Carefulness [2]. Childish behavior [3]. Company,
aversion to, amel. when alone [2]. Concentration, difficult, in children [2].
Delusions, criticized, that she is [2], laughed at, imagines she is [2/1], watched, that
she is being [2]. Dullness, children [3]; old people [3]. Fear, people, of, children [3],
railroad travel, of [3], strangers, of [2]. Hide, desire to, child thinks all visitors laugh
at it and hides behind furniture [2/1]. Irresolution, acts, in [3], projects, in [3], trifles,
about [3]. Play, indisposition to play, in children [2].

Vertigo

Old people, in [2].

Head

Coldness, begins in head [2]. Hair, baldness, young people [2; Sil.]. Pain, cold,
becoming, from feet [2], heated, from becoming, by a fire or a stove [2]. Pain,
occiput, damp weather [2]. Pain, pressing, vertex, sun, while standing in [2/1].

Vision

Dim, old people [2/1]. Foggy, morning [2], eating, after [2]. Sparks, dark, in [2].

Ear

Eruptions, behind ears, scabby [2]. Noises, lying while, amel. [2], reverberating,
blowing nose [2]. Pulsation, night, lying on the ear, when [2]. Stopped, sensation,
valve, by a, as if [2].

Nose

Epistaxis, menses, before [2].

Face

Cobwebs, sensation of [2]. Induration, submaxillary gland [3]. Paralysis,

one-sided [2]. Perspiration, one side [2]. Swelling, parotid gland, right [3],
exanthemata, after [2].

Mouth

Abscess, gums, frequently recurring [2]. Paralysis, tongue, old people [2/1]. Speech,
wanting, apoplexy, after [2].

Throat
Food, oesophagus, sensation as if food lodged in [2]. Induration, tonsils [3].
Inflammation, cold, after [2]; tonsils, recurrent [2]. Pain, burning, night [3],
swallowing, empty, on [3]; rawness, night [3].

Stomach

Aversion to food, sudden, while eating [2]. Nausea, sudden, while eating [2]. Pain,
eructations amel. [2]. Stone, sensation of, eating, after [2], eructations amel. [2].
Abdomen

Distention, children [3]. Falling, from side to side, sensation as if intestines were, on
turning in bed [2].

Rectum

Haemorrhoids, flatus, protrude when passing [2], urination, protrude during [3].
Prostate

Enlargement, senile [3].

Male genitalia

Erections, troublesome, morning only [2].

Respiration

Asthmatic, old people [2]. Rattling, old people [2].

Cough

Warm food [2].

Chest
Aneurism, of the large arteries [2]. Catarrh, alternating with diarrhoea, old people
[3]. Palpitation, heart, thinking of it [2]. Smoke, as if [2].

Back

Restlessness, lumbar region, passing flatus amel. [2/1]. Tumors, fatty, on neck [3].
Sleep

Interrupted, sensation of heat, by [2/1]. Sleeplessness, old people [2/1]. Waking,

heat, from [3].

Perspiration

Strangers, in the presence of [3].

Generalities

Cold, becoming, a part of body, agg. [2]. Emaciation, old people [3]. Heat, sensation
of, on waking [3]. Numbness, part lain on [2]. Old age, premature [2]. Pain, splinters,
sensation of [2]. Paralysis, extends from above downwards [2], one-sided, apoplexy,
after [2].

Food

Aversion: Bananas [1]; food, sudden, while eating [1]; fruit [1]; plums [1/1]; sweets
[1]. Desire: Sweets [1].

Worse: Alcohol [3]; bread [2]; warm food [2]; cold food [1].

Nucleus
1. Bashful timidity; retarded development. Shy and irresolute. Hiding. agg.
Strangers.

2. Enlarged and indurated tonsils; tendency to inflammation of tonsils after each

cold.

3. Great sensitiveness to cold. agg. Coldness of feet.

4. Delusion being laughed at, talked about or watched.

5. Defective development of one organ [especially genital organs]; offensive,

excoriating foot sweat.

6. Arteriosclerosis. Notes