• Mania of all kinds, whenever the sexual desire increases.
• Epilepsy and convulsions with periodical imbecility, with loss of voluntary muscular power but completely sensible
• Brain and spinal cord affections
• Painlessness of complaints
• Earache, better sipping cold water

Source: Mineral kingdom
Synonyms: Chloride of barium
Prover: Dr Constantine Hering
Duration of Action: Undefined
Miasmatic Background: Psora and syphilis
Diathesis: Scrofulous
Thermal Relationship: Chilly patient

Introduction and History: The different salts of Baryta are called for in organic lesions of the aged who are dwarfish, both mentally and physically. The symptoms of Baryta muriatica are like those of the other Barium salts, but it has a distinct character of its own. Convulsions are more marked in the muriate.

Many cases of aneurysm have been benefited by Baryta muriatica; both elements have a strong action on the heart and arteries. It has cured whizzing and buzzing in ears, noises on chewing and swallowing.

Habit and Habitat: It is available in a chemist’s shop.

Preparation: As it is soluble in water dilutions, potencies are prepared in water or alcohol.

Constitution and Physiognomy

1. This salt is useful in old age and childhood, when mental and physical dwarfishness is present. Baryta muriatica acts on the parotid gland and is suited to scrofulous children.
2. Attacks of tonsillitis occurring in spring and autumn.

Seat of Action (Pharmacodynamics): It mainly acts on the mind, nerves and glands, especially parotid, male and female genital organs, pancreas, heart, blood vessels, etc.

Physio-pathological Changes (Pathology)

1. It causes vascular degeneration which leads to hypertension with high systolic pressure and a comparatively low diastolic pressure. It is accompanied with cerebral and cardiac symptoms.
2. It acts on the digestive tract, especially rectum, on muscles and joints, resulting in stiffness and weakness as from walking too much.
3. Baryta muriatica has induration and narrowing of the cardiac orifice with pain, immediately after eating with epigastric tenderness.

Characteristic Mental Symptoms (Psychology)

1. Stupid appearance. Idiocy.
2. Sexual mania, in every form: much when sexual desire is increased.

Characteristic Physical Guiding Symptoms

Earache: Pain in the ear, offensive otorrhoea, better sipping cold water.

Headache: Heaviness of the head in elderly people with vomiting.

Urine: Urine is frequent, involuntary and painful; yellowish, very offensive urine.

Tonsils: Tonsils are enlarged and infected.

Vertigo: Due to cerebral anaemia and noises in the ear, worse swimming.

Abdomen: Induration of pancreas; abdominal aneurysm.

Heart: Palpitation. Heartbeat is irregular, pulse scarcely perceptible.

Cough: Dry, chronic cough of scrofulous children. Great accumulation and rattling of mucous with difficult expectoration.

Stomach: Burning pain in the stomach. Sensation of heat, ascending from the stomach to the chest and head. There is an all gone feeling at the epigastrium.

Vomiting: Vomiting of a small quantity of water with nausea, worse in the morning with anxiety.

Glands: Enlargement and induration of cervical glands.

Important Characteristic Features

Respiratory affections: It is an indicated remedy for chronic cough of scrofulous children. Bronchial disorders of elderly people with cardiac dilatation. It facilitates expectoration. Great accumulation and rattling of mucous with difficult expectoration. Heart beats are irregular, pulse scarcely perceptible. Catarrh of the chest with oppression.

Remedy Relationships

Precedes well: Ars.

Antidoted by: Absin in vomiting.

Comparison

Sclerotic degeneration: Bar-m, Plb, Aur-m.

Convulsions with increased sexual passion: Bar-m, Con, Lyc, Nux-v.

Dosage

1. It acts both in low and high potencies.
2. Low potencies are useful in organopathic disorders.
3. High potencies are specific in dynamic affection.

Repetition: It bears repetition of dosage very well.

Therapeutic Value: Anal abscess, Aneurysm, Arteriosclerosis, Asthma, Convulsions, Deafness, Dyspepsia, Fistula, Glandular swelling, Gleet, Gonorrhoea, Hypertension, Idiocy, Infertility, Influenza, Leucorrhoea, Mania, Multiple sclerosis, Mumps, Nymphomania, Otorrhoea, Pancreatitis, Paralysis, Scrofula, Testicle disorders, Tinea capitis, Tinnitus, Tonsillitis, Tumours, Vertigo.