Baryta Carbonica is a homeopathic remedy obtained from the barium salt of carbonic acid useful for the slowness, psychic and motor and for the health of the nervous and lymphatic system. Let's find out better.
Description of Baryta Carbonica
Baryta carbonica is barium carbonate, which is the barium salt of carbonic acid. They are rhomboid crystals, insoluble in water, soluble in chlorides, ammonium nitrates and acids (except sulfuric acid). The mines of Witherite, the mineral from which it is derived, are found in many European locations, such as in England and Austria, and American, as in the USA and Canada.
The barium ion is extremely poisonous, just like barium carbonate, toxic to the body; barium sulfate, on the other hand, is not toxic. For this reason and due to its opacity to X-rays, it is used in radiology as a contrast agent for the examination of the digestive system. Barium carbonate, on an industrial level, is used in the production of ceramics, bricks, rodent and as an anti-mold additive in paints.
The Baryta Carbonica homeopathic remedy is obtained by triturating barium carbonate with lactose and subsequent dilutions and dynamizations in a water-alcohol solution.
When using Baryta Carbonica
Baryta Carbonica is a constitutional remedy with a deep action, whose constitution is mainly carbonic, for which the rounded, fat and sometimes obese aspect prevails. The remedy acts electively on the lymphatic tissues of the whole body, causing an increase in volume and hardening of the glands.
It acts on blood vessels, causing arteriosclerosis and cerebro sclerosis of senility and premature aging and also on a psychic level, causing weakness of memory.
The Baryta Carbonica homeopathic remedy is used in the following main cases:
- for the nervous system, in particular in delayed intellectual development in children and adults, early senility, memory loss, depressive states of the elderly and vertigo
- swelling of the glands, hypertrophy in the neck, armpits, groin, sebaceous cysts
- palpitations and disorders of the circulatory system, hypertension, consequences of a stroke such as arteriosclerosis
- throat disorders, angina, pharyngitis, tonsillitis, adenoids
- respiratory disorders, colds, coughs, asthma, sticky mucus
- headache, headache, alopecia
- lipomas
- prostate hypertrophy
- warts
- Hypertrophy of gastroenteric glands, slow digestion, belching, flatulence, hemorrhoids
Doses and administration
In all cases, if acute, dilute 4CH, 3 - 5 granules or 5 - 10 drops every 3 hours; if chronic, dilution 9 - 15 -30CH, 3 - 5 granules or 5 - 10 drops once a day or at longer intervals depending on the situation.
To whom Baryta Carbonica is recommended
It is the remedy of childishness and mental retardation, whether the subject is a child, an adult, or an elderly person . Children are shy and shy, have difficulty socializing and making friends with classmates, show little interest in school subjects, are slow to learn. They are also chilly and easy to get sick.
Baryta Carbonica is therefore an excellent remedy for infantile nasopharyngitis and recurrent throat angina. Adults are childish and puerile, they have a delay in physical and intellectual development, psycho-motor slowness with a tendency to ebetism .
The elderly have recent memory defects, they often lose themselves in the streets they habitually frequent, they forget the proper names and any event. Seniors suspicious, angry, quarrelsome, fearful, who have the typical problems related to age.
Physically, the type in question has a large head, expressionless eyes, a large mouth, a stupid smile, and looks sickly. Having a slowed metabolism, it is slow to react to infections and therefore to heal. The symptoms worsen with cold and damp, with pressure, so that the subject cannot lie down on the painful side, in the presence of other people, when he has to hurry, thinking of his own ills.