BARYTA CARBONICA



EARS

Drawing pain in the ears; violent stitches in the ear; *throbbing in the left ear; *throbbing and hard pressure deep in the right ear. itching in the ears; *eruption on the ears. The right parotid is swollen, and painful to the touch. Cracking in the ear, when walking fast, swallowing, sneezing,. *Roaring and buzzing in the ears; noise in the ears, in the evening, like the ringing of bells hard hearing.

NOSE

Bleeding at the nose. *Scurf under the nose. Sneezing especially in the evening, with concussive sensation in the brain, and subsequent vertigo. Stoppage and *troublesome dryness of the nose. Constant coryza, with sense of obstruction; *fluent, with hollow, deep voice, and dry cough, in the morning and daytime.

FACE

*Inflammatory prosopalgia with swelling. Stitches in the face; sense of tension in the whole face, with loathing and diarrhoea; *sensation as if the face were swollen; slight swelling of the face; *swelling of the left cheek and the region behind the ear, with pain in the temple. Heat in the face, without redness; redness of the face, with purple lips and seething of the blood. *Herpes; *crustalactea. Dryness of the lips and gums. Swelling of the lip, with burning pain. Pustules about the lips.

JAWS AND TEETH

Painful gnawing in the left lower jaw. The glands of the left lower jaw are painful. *Swelling of the submaxillary glands, *with induration. Toothache in the evening, when in bed. Tensive pain, and painful stitches in the whole of the right row of teeth. Lacerating in the molar teeth. Painful gnawing in the roots and the gums of the molar teeth. Boring in the teeth, as soon as he introduces cold or warm substances into his mouth. *Drawing, jerking, throbbing, toothache, as if something were lodged under the teeth. *Burning stitches in hollow teeth when touched by warm food. Painful toothache, with soreness. Frequent and considerable bleeding of the gums. *They are of a pale red, and bordered with a dark-red narrow border. *Toothache in decayed teeth, before the menses, or from a cold.

MOUTH

The buccal cavity feels numb. The whole mouth is filled with inflamed vesicles, especially the palate and the inside of the cheeks. Hardness on the middle of the tongue, burning when touched; burning sense of excoriation at the tip of the tongue. burning blisters at the tip of the tongue. Coated tongue. *Dryness of the tongue, early in the morning, with sense of swelling of the throat. Dryness in the mouth, early after rising. Viscidity of the mouth. Fetid odor from the mouth.

THROAT

Rawness and roughness in the throat, worse after swallowing. Roughness and sense of excoriation in the throat, worse during empty deglutition, the neck being painful on both sides when touched. Stinging sore throat, when swallowing. Dryness, and painful stinging and pressing, as from a swelling in the left side of the throat, only when swallowing. Choking or contraction i the throat, with arrest of breathing. Sensation as if a plug or a quantity of phlegm were in the throat. Swelling of the left tonsil. Chilliness, heat, and sensation as if bruised in all the limbs, succeeded by *inflammation of the throat, with swelling of the palate and tonsils, which pass into suppuration, preventing him from opening the jaws, or from speaking and swallowing, with dark=brown urine and sleeplessness. *Chronic disposition to inflammation of the throat, and swelling of the tonsils.

TASTE AND APPETITE

Bitter and slimy mouth, with coated tongue. Sour taste in the mouth. *Thirst, with dryness in the mouth. No appetite. Slight appetite. Repugnance to food, with feeling of hunger. Symptoms after dinner: worn out, faintish, uneasy from constant urging to stool, and feeling of anxiety in the lumbar region; great laziness and dread of labor; pressure upon the bladder; suppressed eructations, with subsequent spasmodic contractive pain at the stomach.

GASTRIC SYMPTOMS

Incessant eructations. *Sourish or bitter eructations. Rancid eructations. Heartburn, preceded by eructations. Nausea, early in the morning when fasting, with palpitation of the heart and anxiety. *Nausea, as from a deranged stomach, early in the morning. *Weakness of digestion.

STOMACH

*Nausea in the region of the stomach. *Inclination to vomit, a kind of uneasiness with qualmishness. Frequent vomiting of mucus. *Pain in the stomach. Sensitiveness in the praecordial region. *Heaviness of the stomach, with nausea, when fasting. Feeling of repletion after taking over so little food, with painful heaviness of the stomach, as from a stone, and an intensely painful gnawing. *Pressure at the stomach, as from a stone, relieved by eructations. Pressure in the praecordial region, with dyspnoea and a sensation as if the breath were arrested; the pressure increases by tasting a little food. Contractive pain in the stomach. in the afternoon. Pain in the stomach, as from ulceration, on external pressure. Soreness in the pit of the stomach, when pressing upon it, and when drawing breath. Painful, writing sensation in the stomach, while eating, when the food is descending into it, as if it had to force its way through and over sore places. *Even eating, she feels a soreness in the stomach. The sense of pressure, with soreness and gnawing in the stomach is most violent when walking or standing, also when sitting crooked; when lying on the back, when stooping, *or pressing upon the stomach, only feels a painful pressure, not the gnawing.

ABDOMEN

Severe pain in the bowels, preventing sleep, and returning on the least motion. PAinful distention of the abdomen. Feeling in the abdomen as if something were swollen in it. Tenseness of the abdomen, with sensitiveness of the abdominal integuments to the touch. Sudden contractive pain in the hypogastrium, above the genital organs. Pinching in the abdomen, with nausea. Pinching round the naval, on the least motion. Pinching bellyache, extending from the top to the bottom of the abdomen. Cutting colic, at night. Painful cutting in the abdomen, especially round the navel, in the evening. Violent colic, as if diarrhoea would take place. Sensation in the abdomen as if she would be attacked by diarrhoea, accompanied by chills. Sensation of anguish, with uneasiness and sick feeling in the lumbar region, like an urging to stool. Feeling of soreness around the belly, commencing in the small of the back. Painful pressure in the muscles, especially in the evening, increasing to an insupportable degree when walking. Pressing in the abdominal ring, during exercise and stool.

STOOL

Frequent urging. Frequent urging, with painful soreness in the lumbar region, and shivering chills over the head and legs, as in dysentery; then loose stool, at short intervals, the pains in the loins continuing, with renewed urging. Urging, with violent pain in the belly. Loose stool, terminating in diarrhoea. Diarrhoea, mixed with blood. Hard stool, with burning in the rectum. Expulsion of ascarides. Burning in the rectum during the otherwise natural stool. Humid varices after stool. Varices of the rectum, with stinging pains, and as from excoriation. Frequent expulsion of blood from the rectum, with distention of the abdomen. Crawling in the rectum. Biting, burning in the rectum. burning around the anus, and soreness, as if the parts were excoriated.

URINE

*Great desire to urinate, cannot retain the urine. *Frequent emission of urine every other day. Rare and scanty emission of urine, with burning in the urethra. Urine with yellow sediment. Burning in the urethra during micturition. Pinching in the abdomen during micturition.

MALE GENITAL ORGANS

Burning in the left testicle. Red excoriated, moist, burning place between the scrotum and the thigh. Numbness of the sexual organs. *The sexual desire is suppressed. *Diminished sexual desire. Great increase of the sexual desire. Sudden erection in the evening, with shuddering.

FEMALE GENITAL ORGANS

Continued increase of the sexual desire. *The menses are very scanty. The menses appear too soon. Before the menses: *Toothache, with swelling of the gums; *colic, with swelling of the lower limbs; *leucorrhoea. During the menses: Cutting and pinching in the abdomen; pain, as from bruises, in the small of the back. Discharge of sanguinolent mucus from the vagina, with anxious beating of the heart, uneasiness in the body, pain in the back, and weakness even unto fainting. Tearing in the pudendum, at intervals.

LARYNX

Hoarseness and aphony for some weeks. *Voice not clear, on account of tenacious phlegm. Roughness or tickling in the throat, occasioning a continual short hacking cough. Cough excited by continual speaking. *Cough after mid-night, also with huskiness and accumulation of mucus in the chest. Dry, short cough, in the evening, with subsequent weakness in the head. Suffocating cough. *Loose cough, with a saltish, starch-like expectoration of four weeks’ standing, went off.

CHEST

Soreness in the chest, when coughing. *Suffocative catarrh, and paralysis of the lungs in old people. Fullness in the chest, with short breath, especially when ascending a height; with pain as from bruises, in the left side. *A pressure on the chest, with tickling and dry cough. Stitches and shooting in the chest and heart. Soreness in the inner and outer parts of the chest. Violent beating of the heart. Palpitation of the heart, when lying on the left side. Burning of the outer parts of the chest, with redness of the skin. Itching of the outer parts of the chest.

Charles Julius Hempel
Charles Julius Hempel (5 September 1811 Solingen, Prussia - 25 September 1879 Grand Rapids, Michigan) was a German-born translator and homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. While attending medical lectures at the University of New York, where he graduated in 1845, he became associated with several eminent homeopathic practitioners, and soon after his graduation he began to translate some of the more important works relating to homeopathy. He was appointed professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1857.