Hand Book of Materia Medica and Homœopathic Therapeutics
Baryta Muriatica bar-m.
General
For use dissolve one part of Barium chloride in nine parts of distilled water.
General Action and Affinities
See Baryta carb.
Trembling. ▶ Convulsions. ▶ Weakness; with laxity of muscles. ▶ Heaviness so that he cannot keep up. ▶ Immobility. ▶ Paralysis. ▶ Anxiety; with retching. ▶ Headache. ▶ Head affected. ▶ Heaviness of head so that he can scarcely sit up. ▶ Vertigo. ▶ Eyes sunken. ▶ Eyes stiff so that he cannot move them. ▶ Paralysis of left lid. ▶ Catarrh of eyes. ▶ Ears and nose. ▶ Deafness. ▶ Face red. ▶ Face pale, with anxious expression. ▶ Sensitive drawing in facial muscles.
Clinical
Whizzing and buzzing in ears. ▶ Noises in ears on chewing and swallowing.
Teeth loose. ▶ Toothache, first sticking then (twitching) throbbing, agg. after sleeping and after midnight, which compels him to sit up in bed. ▶ Tongue coated. ▶ Mouth and tongue dry. ▶ Swelling of salivary glands; of palate. ▶ Salivation. ▶ Offensive breath, as from mercury. ▶ Taste bad, even to food. ▶ Swallowing difficult.
Chronic hypertrophy of the tonsils. ▶ Valuable in loss of power, paresis of the pharynx and Eustachian tube, with clacking sounds on swallowing or sneezing; air is forced into the tympanum too easily.
Appetite lost. ▶ Nausea. ▶ Retching. ▶ Vomiting in morning; V., with pain in abdomen; of everything taken, with stringy mucus; of small portions of nauseous-looking and tasting substance; violent; violent, with anxiety. ▶ Stomach troubles; cramp; pain; warmth going to chest and head. ▶ Pain in abdomen; burning. ▶ Burning in abdomen. ▶ Pinching in pelvic cavity. ▶ Diarrhœa; painful; profuse, without pain in abdomen. ▶ Stool liquid; S. greenish and chopped; coated with mucus. ▶ Micturition painful; constant M.; involuntary. ▶ Urine increased; U. has a white sediment. ▶ Frequent emissions at night. ▶ Menstruation induced. ▶ Voice weak. ▶ Cough. ▶ Dyspnœa. ▶ Oppression of chest. ▶ Internal heat in upper part of chest.
Heart beats irregularly, pulse scarcely perceptible. ▶ Pulse rapid, full. ▶ Pulse soft and irregular.
Some remarkable cases of aneurism have been reported cured by this drug; one particularly of the descending aorta, in which death seemed inevitable, entirely cured in six months by the 1st dec.; there were persistent palpitation, fulness and painfulness in the chest, swelling of the thorax close to the sternum, etc.
Pain in back. ▶ Swelling of hands and feet. ▶ Trembling of extremities, with faintness and twitchings. ▶ Weariness of muscles of extremities. ▶ Hands and feet paralyzed. ▶ (Extremities paralyzed, cold.). ▶ Twitching of arm, agg. night. ▶ Tension in legs. ▶ Cramp in toes. ▶ Skin inflamed. ▶ Eruptions, small; itchlike, on body and throat; itching on neck; scurflike on abdomen and thighs. ▶ Scurf, profusely suppurating on scalp. ▶ Red pimple on side of tip of nose with biting, tickling sore sensation, with fine stitches on touching and rubbing it. ▶ Suppurating glands discharge more. ▶ Biting pain in skin. ▶ Tearing-burning in denuded spots. ▶ Cold surface; C. extremities. ▶ Fever, with thirst. ▶ Tertian fever. ▶ Dry heat day and night. ▶ Sweat.