BARYTA CARBONICA



Fetid foot sweat.

The hard skin on the sole is painful when walking.

Limbs in General

      Tearing in the limbs, with chilliness.

Stitches in the joints, they feel relaxed.

Positions, etc.

      Motion: Walking: Walking fast : Dancing: Ascending: Sits in a corner : Stooping: Cannot rise:, Cannot stand: After rising:, Rising up in bed : Standing: Standing in sun: Cannot bend backwards : Inclined to lie down: Lying down : Lying on back : Lying on left side: Lying on arm: Raising arm: Worse lying on painful side.

Nerves

      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.

Sleep

      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.

Time

      Morning:. Early morning: Afternoon :. Evening : Evening till midnight : Night :, Daytime :.

Temperature and Weather

      Warmth, external: Sun : Warm food:,. Cold :,, Cold food :. Cold air : Sensitive to cold air: great liability to take cold; sore throat, cough, diarrhoea, pain in back and loins.

Worse from moistening or washing the diseased part.

Chill Fever Sweat

      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.

Attacks

      Every other day : Every other evening: Increasing and decreasing periodically:.

Sides

      Right : Left :,, Above downward : Below upward : Upper left with lower right.

Sensations

      Feels “hide-bound”; tension of the skin, Sensation of swelling.

Tissues

      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.

Contact Injuries etc.

      Sensitiveness of part lain on.

Touch, pressure. Rubbing. Scratching.

Skin

      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.

Stages and States

      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.

Relationship

      Cognates Ant. tart. (paralysis of lungs); Calcarea ostr. (scrofulosis, coryza, etc.); Calcarea 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); Silicea (glands, foot-sweat, etc.) Sulphur; Tellur. (ringworms).

Antidotes to Baryt carb.: Ant.tart. Bellad, Camphor, Dulcam, Zincum.

C. Hering
Hering got the degree of M. D. from the University of Wuezburg with highest honours. The theme of his thesis was "De'Medicina Futura" (The medicine of future). Hering left Germany for West Indies and finally arrived at Philadelphia in Jan, 1833. He established a homeopathic school at Allentown, Pennsylvania, commonly known as "Allentown Academy". Soon he became very popular as a physician. He is known as the 'Father of Homeopathy' in America.