Category: Materia Medica Hans-Heinrich Reckeweg

The attenuations are prepared from Benzoic acid (C₇H₆O₂, MW: 122.1), sublimat- ed from Siam benzoin.

The guiding symptoms and principal indications are: Urine smells like that of a horse. Uric-acid diathesis. Hypertrophy of the prostate gland. Inflammation of the urinary tract. Gout. Rheumatism. In pneumonia, a high degree of dyspnoea. Gan- glion of the wrist.

In the provings, a characteristic symptom was the progression from above down- wards, and from the right side to the left.

In rheumatism the pains frequently shift from place to place and occur mostly pe- riodically and when at rest.

As in Nux Vomica, the sleep is disturbed between 2:00 and 4:00 a.m., mainly on account of fear, restlessness and palpitations.

Red patches occur on the facial skin, with sensations of heat, itching and stinging. The stabbing, itching sensation may also occur in the ears, with possible swelling behind the ears and illusions of hearing sounds.

Inflammatory symptoms may occur throughout the alimentary canal: a slimy coat- ing on the tongue, on which ulcers form at the edges, stomatitis with difficulty in swallowing and a bitter taste, eructations, retching and vomiting, and problems of flatulent distension below the ribs on both sides. The stools are copious, loose and white in colour, with violent tenesmus and mixed with blood; there are stabbing pains in the rectum, rigors and a feeling of being seriously ill.

There may be renal colic with mucus in the bladder and a muco-purulent dis- charge, difficult urination, and tenesmus, in which case the very hot, dark-coloured, red or brown urine, with the typical smell of horse’s urine, will serve as a guiding symptom. In the male genitalia there may be balanitis.

Further characteristic symptoms are: general muscular pains, pains in the limbs, painful drawing along the nerves, and rheumatic complaints which occur particular- ly in the shoulders, in the joints of hands and fingers, hips, knees and toes.

The use of Benzoic Acid can bring about a very rapid remission in all these com- plaints, including the state of the urine.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Acidum benzoicum e resina, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Fed- eral Gazette) for acidum benzoicum: rheumatic, gout-related, and degenerative dis- orders of the joints; ganglia; disorders of the urinary tract.

The attenuations are prepared from p-Benzoquinone, C₆H₄O₂, MW: 108.1.

Has a comprehensively regenerative action on cell respiration in many cases (Cit- ric Acid cycle) on account of the free radicals, and also in cases of mutative damage (genes etc.). It is indicated in all cellular phases, also leukaemia, asthma, organic diseases of the nerves, pre-cancerous states, neoplasm phases, heptatitis and other conditions.

From practical experience it has been seen that whilst para-Benzoquinone is ad- mittedly similar to Hydroquinone in its structure and action, it is however substan- tially more specific and deeper-acting. The remedy-picture corresponds to that of a cancer patient with almost hopeless cachexia and totally wrecked metabolism, fail- ing utterly to react to well-selected remedies.

Before para-Benzoquinone is used on cancer patients, they should first undergo stimulation by the catalysts of the Citric Acid cycle. According to the symptoms, the individual acids are selected and injected at short intervals in succession. Then Hy- droquinone should first be injected, about three times, and then followed by para- Benzoquinone.

One of the most prominent symptoms of para-Benzoquinone is its great dyspnoea and heavy burden of the heart, along with oedema in the cavities of the body and in the extremities. There can also be unbearable headache with a flushed face and a very strained appearance. Para-Benzoquinone should be tried even in hopeless cases, possibly i.v. as many as 3–5 times daily. It must never be given in conjunction with tuberculostatic substances (Voll’s testing blockade in 80%). As well as in all diseases

involving neoplasms, it is also indicated in all psychoses, which must possibly be in- terpreted as preliminary stages or vicariations.

Likewise certain protective functions against viral infections may be achieved with para-Benzoquinone.

In psychoses, para-Benzoquinone should be given in combination with sarcodes: either Cerebrum or Cerebellum.

One should always think of para-Benzoquinone in almost incurable dyspnoeas, re- mitting neither by day nor night, and with the possibility of transition into respirato- ry paralysis (e.g. in side-effects of opiates).

Among other remedies, para-Benzoquinone is also for use in degenerative dis- eases of the eyes (retina) and ears, and also in diabetes mellitus.

It is also indicated in drinkers’ tremor, with destruction of the personality and ag- gressive mood; the patient becomes unapproachable and there is a danger of Kor- sakov’s psychosis.

Para-benzoquinone can also help with a state of paresis occuring after po- liomyelitis, encephalitis or vaccinations. There is complete failure of the memory, and disturbance in neuro-muscular coordination; this and conditions such as multi- ple sclerosis and tumours in the spinal area with pains and paresis, as well as brain tumours, may respond favourably to this remedy. In many cases of the highest de- gree of meningeal irritation, para-Benzoquinone deals with the terrible pains better than an opiate.

Para-benzoquinone can have action similar to Sulphur, when a well-selected rem- edy does not act sufficiently, if this depends on a change in the nervous system. Para-benzoquinone is also capable of compensating action in the critical stage of states of shock or albumin poisoning which occur after blood transfusions or infu- sions of live cells or plasma.

It is likewise indicated in patients with whom meat does not agree.

Para-benzoquinone also has wide-ranging action on the endocrine glands, e.g. in beard-growth in girls or growth of breasts in boys. In such conditions there is often a ‘stupid’ facial expression. Unusual adiposity or extreme emaciation may also be present.

In serious disorders of the parathyroids it can be of astonishing assistance when combined with the Parathyroid gland sarcode. Para-benzoquinone should also be thought of in adrenal failure and Addison’s disease, also in multiple sclerosis when pain and spasms are pronounced, as well as in damage to the spleen with changes in the blood-composition, and in states arising from removal of the spleen, in pancreat- ic insufficiency with enzyme-disturbance and consequent respiratory problems.

In combination with Malicum Acidum, Fumaricum Acidum and Natrum Ox- alaceticum it is helpful in all serious toxic states, and in reaction phases.

A particular indication for para-Benzoquinone is, if, after using Hydroquinone, an aggravation occurs in the patient’s whole condition.

Para-benzoquinone may well have a good effect in all illnesses which could be connected with albumin poisoning and in which therefore auto-antigens (wild pep- tides) are involved; auto-immune diseases; e.g. in primary chronic polyarthritis, en-

docarditis and other auto-immune diseases, also after blood-transfusions and in in- tractable children. In such conditions, the longer the irregularity has existed, the higher the potency which should be used, whereas in acute and dramatic illness the lower potencies are preferable.

The most important indication for para-Benzoquinone are cancers, especially those of the lower sections of the intestines, in which there is a distinct aggravation from eating meat and eggs.

It may be expedient to use Para-benzoquinone in combination with Anthraquinone or Hydroquinone. Such patients are mostly out of sorts, irritated and can never laugh. The impression they make is one of unutterable suffering. Their stools, almost always dry, can suddenly alternate with watery diarrhoea, with agonising pains in the whole abdomen, rectal paralysis and inability to hold the stool.

Para-benzoquinone can also be effective in summer diarrhoea, especially when travelling or from change of diet (eating meat).

It is also indicated in chronic pyelitis, incontinence of urine, papilloma of the bladder and condylomata on the penis, which are often hard and strongly pigmented. Through the whole picture of Para-benzoquinone there runs degeneration of a  wide variety of tissues, underdevelopment of retarded children, tumour-formation and faulty hormone-function (pituitary or adrenals), putrid secretions (e.g. from the mammary gland or from weeping eczemas on the genitalia), which are scarcely pre- vented by washing. Consequences of hereditary syphilis may be present, as may be stubborn eczema with lichenification of the whole skin, with a preference for the arms, legs, neck area and face, as is often found in the terminal stage after the usual

external therapy or after withdrawal of treatment with cortico-steroids.

With all this it is essential first to cleanse the body of its whole homotoxic state, using nosodes and especially remedies which stimulate elimination, otherwise the homotoxic material which is set in motion by the Para-benzoquinone may give rise to considerable extension of reaction phases, e.g. to abscess-formation which, under the circumstances, must be seen as a biologically favourable channel of elimination. Para-benzoquinone is also called for in certain degenerative changes in the skele- tal system, such as joint problems after taking cortisone, osteomyelitis, rachitic changes, Scheuermann’s disease and scoliosis in early youth, the children being able neither to sit straight nor to stand. The deposits typical of this remedy are also seen on the teeth. They crumble in large fragments, painlessly, with brown patches and

exposed necks.

Para-benzoquinone combines numerous groups of symptoms of a degenerative kind which are found in the symptom-pictures of Arsenicum, Sulphur, Phosphorus and Mercury compounds, and particularly in the nosodes (Psorinum, Medorrhinum, Tuberculinum etc.), Therefore it is expedient to give it in combination with whichev- er of the other remedies is also indicated, especially with the corresponding nosodes and sarcodes of the tissues or organs in question, but for expediency in parenteral treatment it should always be given singly, with the other remedies being given alongside it.

The characteristic situation requiring Para-benzoquinone could be described thus: the patient, his resistance and ability to oxidise at a low level, is threatening to choke in his own intermediate homotoxins. Only a superficial, small part of the serious inner toxic state is being dealt with by the existing discharges and inflammations – just suf- ficient for life to limp along, but not enough for a full clear-out of the whole toxic con- dition to take place with a positive, complete regressive vicariation into a reaction phase. In such a situation, Para-benzoquinone can tip the balance. The author experi- enced such a “miraculous healing” in 1979, in a dying 84-year-old patient.

The mother tincture is prepared from the whole fresh plant Bellis perennis L., which occurs frequently on meadows and lawns in Europe and Asia. N.O. Compositae.

The main indications are:

Sprains, bruises, acne vulgaris, bumps. Raw feeling in the abdomen.

Bellis Perennis bears a great similarity to Arnica. A leading symptom is: bruised sensation in the muscles. It is said to act primarily on the left half of the body. Apart from its use in physical over-exertion (sports-injuries), Bellis Perennis also plays a part in the treatment of acne vulgaris.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Bellis perennis, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for bellis perennis: haemorrhages; haematomas; myalgia, especially after injuries and over-exertion; rheumatism; skin disorders, also including those with suppuration.

The mother tincture is prepared from the whole fresh plant, gathered at the end of flowering. Atropa belladonna L. N.O. Solanceae.

When potentised, the Belladonna tincture made from Deadly Nightshade is one of the most effective polychrests. There is scarcely another plant which has undergone such thorough pharmacological investigation as has Belladonna in respect to its ac- tive components (Belladonna alkaloids).

Besides its effect on the excretory processes, particularly the excretion of urine and of carbonic acid via respiration, the action on bile-excretion was especially noted; this is increased by Belladonna.

But it is only the homoeopathic provings which resulted in the comprehensive tracery of symptoms which characterise Belladonna as one of the greatest poly- chrests in homoeopathy.

Belladonna’s typical complaints are aggravated principally in the afternoon and evening, also by touch and jarring, with a general hypersensitivity to cold air, whilst the nerve pains are generally worse for cold. Also typical is the sudden onset of all complaints. It can also happen that the complaints are further intensified and (partic- ularly in nerve pains) then suddenly cease, only to reappear in another place.

Violent delirium is characteristic of Belladonna, above all in fever; the patient may also see ghosts or have hallucinations of horrible faces, animals and insects, linked with anxiety in otherwise apparently healthy patients, particularly in chil- dren, who may previously have been treated with Atropine eye-drops. Such a case was observed by Dr. Hille of Reutlingen, and was cured very quickly with injections of Belladonna (see “Homotoxin-Journal” 9, 35, Vol. 2, 1970). Agitating, anxious dreams also frequently occur, with starting-up in sleep, accompanied by a typical ex- cessive flow of blood to the head. This is a further characteristic symptom of Bel- ladonna, the head being hot whilst the extremities are cold. Similar conditions occur in Chamomilla which, according to Nash, like Belladonna is one of the best reme- dies for children’s ailments.

Frequently there are headaches, linked with vertigo and possibly swimming in the head and great somnolence. Likewise typical of Belladonna is a strong pulsation in the carotid and temporal arteries, (cf. Glonoin), especially when lying, with the in- creased pressure of blood to the head, as already mentioned. The whole head may be red, or take on a purplish colour, with possible apoplexy and all head-complaints ag- gravated on lying down.

Belladonna’s typical action on the eyes is also well-known. It is also characterised by special symptoms, known from Atropine poisoning. There are cramps in the mus- cles of the eyes and eyelids, enlargement of the pupils and, in particular, an inflam- matory or irritative condition of the conjunctiva with great photophobia, lachryma- tion and pain, linked with engorgement of the inner blood-vessels, weakness of vi- sion, dimness of vision, and disturbances of vision including sparks, fire, fog and diplopia, all pointing to the retina being affected. There is also a typical right-sided ciliary neuralgia (cf. Kalmia, Sanguinaria, Chelidonium and others).

Apart from this, specific action belongs to Belladonna in all localised inflamma- tions, in the first stage where no suppuration has taken place. Thus Belladonna is in- dicated in incipient boils, in tonsillitis, and also in surface-inflammations such as erysipelas, conjunctivitis, and scarlet fever, and additionally in otitis, cholangitis, meningitis and other inflammatory affections.

A delirious state occurs particularly with a violent rise in temperature (as in Stra- monium, Hyoscyamus and Veratrum), with considerably raised sensitivity of all the senses and a disproportionate sensitivity to touch, noises, light, cold air – especially draughts and jarring – as can also be the case in Apis Mellifica, (e.g. in meningitis). There is also a typical dryness in the throat, with reddened pharynx and difficulty in swallowing, such as one finds in sore throat and pharyngitis. At the same time, the

Belladonna inflammation has all the general symptoms of inflammations, i.e. red- ness, swelling, heat and pain, with sweat usually present also, so that, when uncov- ered, the bed of a Belladonna patient will steam.

Apart from nasal catarrhs, mostly with only slight watery discharge, we also find catarrhs of the larynx and trachea, with slight mucus, accompanied by a tickling sen- sation in the larynx and a typical cough which is dry, rough and barking, with hoarse- ness. Haemoptysis may occur if violent coughing bursts the typically engorged blood-vessels. Because of the engorgement of the lung-tissue, there is air-hunger and pressing pains on breathing, with typical aggravation in the evening and at night.

In keeping with Belladonna’s typical engorgement and swelling of mucosa, the mucous membranes of the oral cavity and the tongue with its raised papillae are bright red and dry withal, and there may be a catarrh of the soft palate with inflam- matory swelling, extending from the tonsils, linked with overwhelming thirst.

Usually this is accompanied by difficulty and pain in swallowing, and, on at- tempting to drink, by oesophageal cramps. In the digestive organs, Belladonna af- fects acute gastric catarrhs, which are linked with violent pains in the stomach and, above all, with a sensation of heavy pressure, with the pain extending to the back. Here one often finds vague symptoms which may be traced back to a cholangitis or a cholecystitis and in which the whole epigastrium is involved. Belladonna is one of the most important remedies in diseases of the gall-bladder, also in disturbances of the bile-secretion, and especially where there are inflammatory symptoms. In addi- tion there are often a putrid taste, nausea, eructations, distension of the epigastrium with retching and vomiting, and also hiccoughs.

Numerous Belladonna symptoms are localised on the right side of the body (gall- bladder, headache, tonsillitis etc.), although of course Belladonna can also be indi- cated in left-sided complaints where there are the typical symptoms of dryness of the mucosa etc.

The author was once able to cure an extreme case of exophthalmos with Bel- ladonna. The patient was a 40-year-old farmer’s wife from the Black Forest, whose right eye was enormously enlarged (rather like a calf’s eye), and bulged out of the socket with a fixed stare. The exophthalmos, which up to that point had resisted all attempts at treatment, returned completely to normal in about two months with in- jections of Belladonna three times a week, using potencies 2X, 10X and 30X.

Scarlet fever-like skin rashes are also an indication for Belladonna, usually ac- companied as they are by tonsillitis. Thus Belladonna is indicated in scarlet fever.

However, Belladonna can also have a beneficial action in inflammations generally,

e.g. in cystitis, pyelitis and other localised affections, especially so in congestive states of the uterus with bearing-down pains (like Sepia, Lilium Tigrinum and possi- bly also Nux Vomica) where frequently typical cramps and colicky symptoms are present and, for example, the menstrual blood may be unusually offensive.

In contrast to Colocynth, Belladonna has a typical tendency to straighten up (opisthotonos), so that Belladonna may be of use in tetanus. Stauffer mentions a case which was cured.

To some extent, Belladonna may be considered the initial remedy for all reaction phases, to be used right at the start of such acute erythemas as measles, rubella and scarlet fever, possibly also erysipelas. It should also be used in tonsillitis, boils, cholecystitis, gall-stone colic, cystitis – especially where there are spasmodic symp- toms – in oophoritis, endometritis, and also in coughs, hoarseness and catarrhs of the air-passages, in acute gastritis, and particularly in inflammatory conditions of the conjunctiva, in exophthalmos, and especially in headaches and neuralgias when these are not ameliorated by lying down, but may get worse; or if they come on sud- denly, cease just as suddenly, and then reappear in another place.

Belladonna is such a thoroughly effective remedy in all acute symptoms of a lo- calised kind that one may prescribe it by way of experiment at the beginning of any acute complaint. What frequently then happens is that another characteristic symp- tom-picture develops, or, if the condition was an indication for Belladonna, the symptoms die down rapidly.

Belladonna is frequently indicated after Aconitum, when the diffuse chill-symp- toms of Aconite with hot, dry skin have passed the critical point and now localised symptoms such as pharyngitis, bronchitis, etc. occur.

If we summarise the symptoms of Belladonna once again, the following typical picture of the remedy’s action emerges:

1. Surge of blood to the head. Extremities cold. Head flushed, congested. Apoplexy. Meningitis. Conjunctival infection. Conjunctivitis. Exophthalmos (right side).
2. Pulsation of the arteries. Palpitations, worse on lying.
3. Delirium and states of confusion. Hallucinations.
4. Localised inflammations in the first stage, without suppuration. Boils, tonsillitis, erysipelas, conjunctivitis, scarlet fever, otitis, cholangitis, etc.
5. Pains which occur suddenly and suddenly disappear, ameliorated by stretching the body straight (opisthotonos). May be tried in tetanus. Aggravated by cold air, light, touch, jarring. Headache, especially right side, worse lying down, after- noon and evening.
6. Bed steaming in fever. Dry mucosa. Barking cough. Bronchitis. Laryngitis. Pharyngitis.
7. Haemorrhages bright red, clean, possibly with clots. Offensive menstrual blood. Epistaxis. Apoplexy. Bleeding of the skin.
8. Biliary colic. Diseases of the bile ducts, with a tendency to stretch backwards (not to double up). Cholangitis. Cholecystitis. Cholelithiasis.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Atropa belladonna, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for belladonna: inflammation accompanied by high fever of the tonsils, respiratory organs, gastrointestinal tract, urinary and reproductive organs, meninges, skin, and joints.

The mother tincture is prepared from the fresh herb, gathered before flowering. Ocimum basilicum L. N.O. Labiatae.

May be tried in non-specific urethritis and catarrhs of the mucosa.

The attenuations are prepared from the Barium salt of Oxalsuccinic acid, Barium oxalsuccinate, (C₆H₃O₇)₂ Ba₃, MW: 786.1.

This compound has a particular affinity for mesenchymal structures, and improves the function of the Citric Acid cycle and of redox systems. Indications include impreg-

nation phases of all kinds, dyscrasias, asthma, pruritus, skin diseases, psoriasis, pre- cancerous states and neoplasm phases. It has a regeneratory effect on cell-respiration.

Baryta Oxalsuccinica is also said to protect the blood from too high a cholesterol content, and has a good influence on debility. It is especially indicated in puberty and the menopause.

It works well in combination with the sarcodes: pituitary, testis, oophorinum, and brain, and also with Hydrastis, Lachesis, Kali Carbonicum, Calcium Carbonicum, Agaricus, Petroleum and Thuja.

Typical head-symptoms are bright red colouring (e.g. after apoplexy), vertigo on every movement, tinnitus, swimming sensation, headache on the vertex, worse by warmth and better in fresh air.

Chronic catarrh and bronchial asthma with dyspnoea. Lung-cancer with conges- tion extending to the head. Dryness of the nasal mucosa with hard crusts.

Nasal polypi. Reduced sense of smell. In childhood often myopia. Chronic ble- pharitis and stony-hard styes. Eyelids thickly agglutinated. Squinting. Paralysis of the eye-muscles. Hardness of hearing with tinnitus. Hard wax in the ears. To be thought of in all ear-ailments of childhood.

Children are very clumsy and show insufficient co-ordination of individual move- ments. “Podgy” school children show defective intelligence. Older patients fall prey to religious fanaticism.

There is chronic over-loading of the digestive organs, since Baryta Oxalsuccinica patients are mostly good trenchermen. When renal colics occur, they can quickly subside after a dose of Baryta Oxalsuccinica. Good results have also been observed in cancer of the prostate, cancer of the bladder, kidney diseases and uraemia with headaches and vomiting.

Foul-smelling leucorrhoea. In male puberty there may be feminisation, with ap- pearance of female secondary sexual characteristics (breasts) and fat-deposits around the hips and thighs in children with retarded mental development.

Circulatory disturbances of the extremities with bluish-red patches and burning pains. Chilblains. Oozing eczema with cracked skin and nodules exuding pus. Acne vulgaris and rosacea. Rhagades and fissures. White marks on the fingernails.

This remedy should also be tried in psoriasis with itching, painful patches the size of the palm of a hand; also in fractures slow to unite, and protruding front teeth.

The drug picture of Barium oxalsuccinicum was composed in August 1996 by David Riley, M.D., Santa Fe (New Mexico), USA.

The most important symptoms from David Riley’s drug proving were:

Essential Characteristics

The essential characteristics of this remedy manifested on an emontional level in the females in this proving. Women experienced an increase of self confidence and self respect. They were less affected by sad and sensitive stories. A number of the fe- males had a noticeable effect on their menstrual cycle.

Improvement of the usual prover symptoms: self confidence, chronic flatulence at the umbilicus, and premenstrual abdominal cramping.

Anxiety. Sadness and weeping. Dreams. Craving for cold things. Pressing head pain. Swelling of the eyes. Epistaxis. Chapped and cracked lips. Distention and ab- dominal fullness. Constipation. Rectal itching. Blood on the stools.

Mind

Anger on waking in morning. Anxiety about health, or anticipatory exam anxiety improves. Difficult concentration and comprehension while working or confusion especially with numbers. Self confidence in women increases or is improved. Delu- sion that she is smarter than others even though she knows it is not true. She has more self respect. Dreams of rape, nightmares, or logical action in dreams. Less sadness or more sensitive to sad stories. Weeping. Amorous thoughts. Suicidal dis- position decreases. Desire to play the piano. Reflecting on the past and friends.

Generalities

Decreased energy and fatigue. Desires physical exercise. Sweets: desires sweets or averse to sweet drinks. Craving for cold drinks or milk. Food desires of melons and spices.

Head

Hair feels stiff. Head pain on waking. Pains located in occiput, base, or behind the eyes. Pressing pain behind the eyes.

Eye

Red bloodshot and inflamed eye. Irritation. Yellow, gummy discharge on lashes.

Swelling sensation of the right eye. Eye pain worse bending forward.

Nose

Epistaxis especially left sided. Sneezing in the evening.

Face

LIPS are chapped, dried, or cracked. Redness and flaking of skin on the sides of nose.

Mouth

Dryness during the day.

Teeth

Ache in lower teeth. Lower teeth are sensitive to heat or cold.

Throat

Lump sensation. Clearing. Tightness or tenseness on the sides

Stomach

Appetite diminished due to constipation, or appetite increased. Burping. Nausea on waking in morning. Indigestion followed by vomiting at night. Thirst.

Abdomen

DISTENTION from gas. Fullness with a heavy feeling, or fullness during constipa- tion improves. Chronic gas pain at umbilicus improves. Left sided stitching pain. Cramping pain before menses improves.

Rectum

CONSTIPATION with no desire or straining. Blood on hard stools. Itching in the morning or after stool.

Stool

Like marbles or hard at first and then diarrhea. Sticky and sweet odor. Yellow mucus mixed in stool. Frequent. Blood droplets on stool.

Genitalia, Female

Menses one week early and painful cramps. Spotting before menses. Brown blood at onset. Short menses. Increased sexual desire.

Speech & Voice

Huskiness, or hoarseness in the morning.

Chest

Pressure on chest when breathing deep. Sensation of heart turning in the chest.

Back

Aching back pain on waking. Pain in lumbar region at small of back.

Extremities

Eruption between the fingers. Brown discolored nail of the great toe. Foot perspi- ration. Soreness under the patella.

Perspiration

Offensive.

Skin

Dry or itching. Itching of hand, arms, and under neck.

The attenuations are prepared from a trituration of Barium iodide, BaI₂ · H₂O, MW: 409.2.

Arteriosclerosis. Coronary ischaemia. Heart problems of the elderly. Scrofulous swellings of the glands. Tendency to catch cold. Struma parenchymatosa (goitre).

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Barium jodatum, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for barium iodatum: abnormal enlargement and hardening of glandular organs; goiter- ous disorders; hypertension and cerebral angiosclerosis.

The attenuations are prepared from a trituration of Barium carbonate, BaCO₃, MW: 197.3.

Baryta Carbonica is suited to tearful, anxious patients who shun the company of others.

Numerous symptoms point to Baryta Carbonica, such as: weakness and slowness of mental activity. Old people are no longer able, or no longer have the initiative, to run their home or hold down an occupation.

The picture of arteriosclerosis and of the lymphatic child hints at Baryta Carb., as does blepharitis in “glandular” children with a great sensitivity to cold and a tenden- cy to recurrent sore throats with frequent and considerable enlargement of the tonsils. The skin is dry “like parchment”, hot, tending to fissures, and peeling off easily on the backs of the hands and on the fingertips. Pustular acne in puberty, rhagades at the

corners of the mouth. Pruritus, aggravated at night.

There is a typical salivation at night, wetting the pillow. Nosebleeds on blowing the nose are typical.

Ringing and whizzing sounds in the ears with hearing impairment and inflamma- tion of the external auditory canal.

As is the case with all carbonates (salts of carbonic acid), physical weakness, las- situde, tiredness of the limbs and a tendency for them to “go to sleep” (ciruclatory disturbances) stand in the foreground. Gastro-intestinal symptoms too are present. They express themselves as typhoid, gastric, bilious and enteritic fever-symptoms. There is also halitosis.

Especially in scrofulous children, lung-symptoms almost always include those of chronic bronchitis, with attacks of coughing morning and evening. Complaints are brought on by thinking about one’s pains and by lying on the painful side (in pleurisy and bronchitis), are aggravated in cold, damp weather and by weather changes, and are ameliorated by movement in the open air, although cold air itself is felt to be unpleasant.

On the basis of its symptomatology, Baryta Carbonica is equipped to deal with ail- ments of children and the elderly. In the latter, there are often “geriatric coughs”, maybe with salty-tasting, starchy expectoration, and a leading symptom: in catarrhs, a feeling as if smoke were being inhaled.

Further indications include itching, especially at night, (calves, neck, etc.), and of- fensive foot-sweat (cf. Silica). Baryta Carbonica can be of assistance in tinnitus, with roaring, cracking, crashing and popping noises in the ears.

Baryta Carb. can bring speedy relief in diarrhoea of the elderly, in symptoms re- sembling dysentery and in almost hopeless cases.

Baryta Carbonica is one of those remedies which should be given every so often between other remedies, both in small children and in the elderly. Constitutional use however demands dosage over a longer period of time, in such conditions as foot-sweat (cf. Silica), chronic lymphadenitis, umbilical colic in children, tinnitus, and also in impotence (men) and aversion to coitus (women).

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Barium carbonicum, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for barium carbonicum: slow development among children; chronic inflammation of the tonsils and of the upper respiratory passages; hypertension; angiosclerosis.

The mother tincture is prepared from the fresh root of Baptisia tinctoria [L.] Vent., which is a native of North America. N.O. Leguminosae.

Typhoid fevers. Sepsis. Septic sore throat. Sensation as if parts of the body lay scattered about. All discharges, including sweat and breath, are offensive. The worst degree of oral putridity in diphtheria and pulmonary T.B. Encephalitis. Meningitis.

Should be given intercurrently in all septic fevers. Left-sided renal colic. Pyelonephritis.

As in Veratrum there is a streak down the centre of the tongue (from back to front), which is first white, then brownish.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Baptisia tinctoria, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for baptisia: serious feverish infections; general blood poisoning; states of confusion.

The attenuations of this nosode are prepared from sterilized cultures of Pseudomonas aeruginosa (10⁷CFU/g).

Hyperhydrosis. Impregnation phases after suppressed sweat. After abuse of laxa- tives (e.g. Senna in injections) and in tonsillitis.