Barium Carbonate-BaCo3
General
Especially adapted to complaints to 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. , Sil.]. 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 affection after checked foot sweat [compare, Graph. , Psor. , Sanic. , Sil.]. Great sensitiveness to cold [Cal. , Kali c. , Psor.].
Relations
Frequently useful before or after Psor. , Sulph and Tub. After Bar. c. , Psor. will often eradicate the constitutional tendency to quinsy. Similar: to, Alum. , Cal. iod. , Dul., Fluor. ac. , Iod. , Sil. Incompatible: after Calc. in scrofulous affections.
Aggravation
When thinking of his disease [Oxal. ac.]; lying on painful side; after meals; washing affected parts.