Baryta carbonica
as H.C. Allen recorded it in Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 1899
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Keynotes
Baryta carbonica
Barium Carbonate. BaCoj.
Especially adapted to complaints of first and second childhood; the psoric or tubercular.
Memory deficient; forgetful, inattentive; child cannot be taught for it cannot remember ; threatened idiocy.
Scrofulous, dwarfish children who do not grow (children who grow too rapidly. Cal.) ; scrofulous ophthalmia, cornea opaque; abdomen swollen; frequent attacks of colic ; face bloated ; general emaciation.
Children both physically and mentally weak.
Dwarfish, hysterical women and old maids with scanty menses ; deficient heat, always cold and chilly.
Old, cachectic people; scrofulous, especially when fat; or those who suffer from gouty complaints (Fluor, ac.).
Diseases of old men; hypertrophy or induration of prostate and testes; mental and physical weakness.
Apoplectic tendency in old people; complaints of old drunkards; headache of aged people, who are childish.
Persons subject to quinsy, take cold easily, or with every, even the least, cold have an attack of tonsillitis, prone to suppuration (Hep., Psor. ).
Inability to swallow anything but liquids (Bap., Sib).
Haemorrhoids protrude every time he urinates (Mur. ac.).
Chronic cough in psoric children; enlarged tonsils or elongated uvula; < after slight cold (Alum.).
Swelling and indurations, or incipient suppuration of glands, especially cervical and inguinal.
Offensive foot sweat; toes and soles get sore; of the heels; throat affections after checked foot sweat (compare, Graph., Psor., Sanic., Sib).
Great sensitiveness to cold (Cab, Kali c., Psor.).
Relation. — Frequently useful before or after Psor., Sulph. and Tub.
After Bar. c., Psor. will often eradicate the constitutional tendency to quinsy.
Similar: to, Alum., Cab iod., Dub, Fluor. ac.,Iod., Sib
Incompatible : after Calc, in scrofulous affections.
Aggravation.. — When thinking of his disease (Oxab ac. ); lying on painful side; after meals; washing affected parts.
What the other books say about Baryta carbonica
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- Baryta carbonica in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Baryta carbonica in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
- Baryta carbonica in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
- Baryta carbonica in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Cite this page. H.C. Allen. Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica. 3rd edition (1910). Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. Baryta carbonica — Keynotes, pp. 55–56. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/baryta-carbonica. Published 1910: public domain in the US (before 1931) and in India (author died 1909). Replaces B. Jain's 2005 "rearranged and classified" edition (© the publisher), per the owner's decision of 13 Sep 2026. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.