Baryta Carbonica
Dewey - Essentials of Homoeopathic Materia Medica · Willis Alonzo Dewey · 797 chars
General
Where are pathogeneses of Baryta found ?
In Hahnemann's Chronic Diseases .
How is it prepared ?
Triturations of the pure Carbonate of Barium .
What are the chief spheres of action of this drug ?
Atony of the lymphatic system, with especially hypertrophy of the parenchyma of the tonsils and chronic ulceration of the glandular system. Also in arterial sclerosis in the aged. Fatty tumors.
Give the symptoms of Baryta carbonica in enlarged tonsils.
In scrofulous children, where every little cold starts up inflammation of the tonsils ; the glands of the neck and behind the ear are swollen ; it removes the predisposition to tonsillitis, and cures chronic enlargement of the tonsils.
To what periods of life does Baryta carbonica correspond ?
To the extremes of life, infancy and old age.