Carbonas baryta Barium Carbonate, BaCOs
‘Carbonate of Barium BaCOs, with which are included symptoms of Baryta acetica – Barium acetate Ba(C2H302)2. (I follow Hering and Hahnemann in combining the two, as I agree with Hering that “there is hardly any difference between the two, and certainly none in the symptoms cured. ”) Solution of acetate; trituration of carbonate/ Clarke.
English Carbonate of Barytes; Carbonate of Baryta
French Baryte carbonatee; sous-carbonate de baryte
German Baryt; Schwererde
THE ESSENTIAL FEATURES
Like all polychrests, Baryta carbonica is used in all age groups and in a wide span of disorders. The old homeopaths’ observation of Baryta carbonica is most interesting however; they found that most patients who required Baryta carbonica were either very young or very old, and that the elderly patients who needed Baryta carbonica were generally those who had fallen into their ‘second childhood’.
It is a fact that Baryta carbonica is very useful in treating old patients whose behaviour becomes childish as well as child¬ren whose behaviour is far behind their age, but this does not exclude patients of all ages. Some authors have used the term ‘dwarfishness’ in describing the Baryta carbonica state, and this quality is most certainly an aspect of