Baryta carbonica is a valuable homoeopathic medicine prepared from Carbonate of Barium (Baryta Carb), particularly suited to the extremes of life - infancy and old age. It is especially indicated in cases of arrested mental and physical development in children, and degenerative conditions in the elderly. The medicine supports scrofulous constitutions, glandular swellings, and vascular degeneration including arteriosclerosis, aneurysm, and senile changes. It acts prominently on the nervous, glandular, and cardiovascular systems, as well as on the mucous membranes and skin.
Common Name: Carbonate of Baryta, SBL's Baryta carbonica can be helpful in the following conditions:
- Developmental Delays in Children. Helps scrofulous children who are mentally and physically backward and dwarfish. Manages swollen abdomen and swollen tonsils from recurrent colds. Aids children with poor growth and stunted development who take cold easily. Supports children who talk through the nose and go about with their mouth open.
- Glandular Swellings & Throat Complaints. Helps in enlargement of submaxillary glands and chronically swollen tonsils. Indicated in quinsy with tendency to suppuration. Assists in painful, smarting, and stinging throat symptoms, worse on empty swallowing. Baryta carbonica manages sensation of a plug in pharynx with difficulty swallowing solids.
- Degenerative & Senile Disorders. Supports conditions in old men with weakened memory, dementia, and fatigue. Aids in degenerative cardiac, vascular, and cerebral changes with indurated prostate or testes. Addresses arteriosclerosis, arterial fibrosis, and risk of aneurysms and apoplexy. Helpful in fatty tumors about the neck and swollen glands at the nape.
- Mental Weakness & Emotional Disturbances.
- Relieves mental weakness, confusion, and forgetfulness. Manages grief over trifles, bashfulness, and aversion to strangers. Indicated in childish and irresolute states with lack of self-confidence.
- Dry Cough & Chest Constriction. Supports dry, suffocative cough in elderly, with mucus difficult to expectorate. Larynx feels full of smoke; chronic aphonia. Helps in chest stitches on inspiration and dyspnoea on exertion.
- Cardiac Palpitation and Hypertension. Useful in palpitations, high blood pressure, and cardiac discomfort from suppressed foot-sweat. Indicated in aneurysm and hard, full pulse with increased arterial tension. Palpitations worse lying on left side or when thinking about it.
- Gastrointestinal & Rectal Trouble. Aids in waterbrash, hiccough, and heaviness in the stomach after eating. Manages hard, distended abdomen and enlarged mesenteric glands. Supports constipation with knotty stools and prolapsing piles during urination.
- Swollen Testes and Scanty Menses. Helps diminished libido and premature impotence in males. Useful in indurated testicles and enlarged prostate. Assists in scanty menses and premenstrual back or stomach pain in females.
- Musculoskeletal & Limb Aching. Relieves rheumatic pain in joints, sore toes, and painful soles when walking. Indicated in cold, clammy feet and offensive foot-sweat. Manages stiffness in the sacrum and bruised pain between scapulae.
- Neurological & Sensory Disturbances. Assists in vertigo on standing in sun and sensations as if the brain is loose. Helpful in numbness from knees to scrotum, disappearing when sitting. Manages burning pain in lower limbs and twitching during sleep.
- Sleep Disorders. Baryta carbonica helps talking in sleep, frequent waking, and overheating during rest.
