Baryta muriatica is a constitutional remedy that is often overlooked but highly effective. It was widely used by early practitioners in our school and can be essential in treating mental weakness, insanity, enlarged glands, sexual excitement, and profound increasing muscular weakness.

This remedy should be administered at some point during the case as it can lead to a slow cure otherwise. Its complaints are noticeable at all times of day and night, and it is particularly useful in treating lymphatic and other glandular affections.

Patients who require Baryta muriatica often desire open air but find that it worsens their symptoms. However, it has been found to be beneficial in many cases of aneurysm. Physical anxiety is a prominent feature, and symptoms such as dyspnea, palpitation, and weakness worsen when ascending stairs. It has been known to be effective in the treatment of epilepsy and other convulsive tendencies, with symptoms often worse in cold air and from becoming cold.

Barytamuriatica also addresses complaints that occur in fall and spring and includes formication all over the body, sensation of internal fullness, bleeding from mucous membranes and ulcers, heaviness externally and internally, induration of glands, inflammation and swelling of glands, extreme lassitude, and compelled to lie down. Some symptoms are better from motion, while others include a
bruised feeling internally, burping in many parts, cutting pains in internal parts, digging pains, and gnawing in external parts.

Pain is the exception rather than the rule with this remedy, and convulsive jerking in the limbs, stitching in glands and along nerves, downward tearing as if in the muscles, one-sided paralysis on the left side, and tenderness in many parts are common. There is often pulsation in the abdomen and limbs, and rising up can bring on many symptoms. Complaints are left-sided and worsen while sitting, with symptoms worsening during sleep and standing.

Baryta muriatica is a complementary remedy to Conium in glandular affections and has many similar qualities but is much deeper acting.

The following text describes a homeopathic remedy for various physical and mental symptoms. This remedy is said to be useful for children who are slow to learn or understand and do not desire to play like other children. It may also help with anxiety in the evening about the future, along with nausea, retching, and pressure in the stomach.

The remedy is said to be helpful for those experiencing difficulty concentrating and may make the locality around them seem strange or transformed. Additionally, it may cause timidity, cowardice, and delusions that the individual is walking on their knees. Dullness of mind is also mentioned.

The remedy is said to be helpful for those who fear evil, men, or death, and may experience foolish behavior, idiocy, imbecility, indifference, or erotic insanity. It may also help those experiencing various forms of mania, including nymphomania. Sadness in the morning and sitting in silence are mentioned.

For children, the remedy may help with confusion, easily being startled, suspicion, talking in sleep, unconsciousness, fainting, vertigo when walking, and feeling like things are turning around.

Regarding physical symptoms, the remedy may help with various head pains, such as heaviness, movement, morning pain, pain in open air, pain from binding up hair, pain after eating or while lying, pain when moving the eyes, pain from noise or pressure, and pain in the forehead, occiput, temples, or sides of the head. Other symptoms include itching, smarting, or pressing pain in the eyes, dilated and immovable pupils, inflammation of the eyes or lids, ulceration of the cornea, and recurrent inflammation or itching in the ears.

The remedy may also help with nose symptoms such as thick yellow discharge, fluent coryza with fever, dryness, itching, obstruction, and red nodules or stitching pains. For the face, the remedy may help with redness or pale skin, spasms or tension, dry lips, and various glandular swellings. Mouth symptoms may include bleeding gums, cracked or white tongue, dryness, coated tongue, offensive odor, burning, sore gums or palate, bitter or putrid taste, and pulsating pain in the teeth. Throat symptoms may include inflammation or recurrent tonsillitis, dryness, enlarged tonsils or uvula, pain in the throat or ear, and burning.

The tonsils are suppurated, and the throat is swollen with varicose veins. The cervical glands are indurated and swollen. The patient has an insatiable appetite or no appetite at all, with a preference for dry wheat bread. There is a feeling of fullness and emptiness in the stomach, with heartburn and hiccups after eating. The patient has a slow digestion and a weak stomach and may experience inflammation of the stomach, loathing of food, and nausea. Pain in the stomach, retching, tension, thirst with a dry tongue, and vomiting may also be present. The abdomen may become distended with flatulence and the liver and mesenteric glands may enlarge and harden. Pain in the abdomen may occur in the morning, after eating, before a bowel movement, and in the hypochondria.

Constipation or diarrhea may be present, and there may be hemorrhages from the rectum and intestines. The bladder may become inflamed with difficulty or frequent urination, and chronic gonorrhea may be cured. The urethra may also be painful during urination. Women may experience ovarian induration, leucorrhoea, and painful, copious menses. The larynx and trachea may become irritated with a hoarse, husky, or weak voice. Breathing may become difficult, and coughing and expectoration may occur. Herpetic eruptions and indurated testes may be present in the chest. The patient may experience palpitations, spinal curvature, coldness, cramps, jerking, and paralysis in the upper and lower limbs. Itching, eruptions, and ulcers may occur on the skin. The patient may have restless sleep, experience chills and fever, and have vivid dreams that are amorous, anxious, frightful, of misfortune, or pleasant.

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