Dear Barb,

How can I ignore a "Pretty Puhleeeeeese"!?

First of all, how do you pronounce it? You're not going to like this. I have Yasgur's Dictionary, which tells you the correct pronunciation of almost all the remedies, and the truth is, we're pronouncing many of them wrong, and Baryta Carb is no exception! I say "Bar-etta"
and some say "Bar-eat-uh", but the actual pronunciation is (hold on to your hats!) Bar-eye-tuh; I kid you not. I promise you that no one is saying "Bar-eye-tuh" Carb, so take your pick.

Baretta, as I like to say, has delayed development; slow learning to walk and talk. They can actually be retarded. Sometimes the child is fine 'til vaccination, and then they go downhill. They're in Special Ed. They have a big forehead and a dumb look on their face. They're clumsy. Not putting out enough growth hormone. It's a big hormonal remedy. Stunted growth. Poor learning skills. Flat feet, over-weight. They waddle, stutter and mumble. Joyful and shy. Everything's either real funny or scary. They're < strangers. Fear of being alone. They hide--behind their mother, the furniture, their hands.... Facial expression of dumb wonderment. Enlarged tonsils. Remedy for senile persons acting childishly, crying, etc.
Etiology may be a stroke.

Calc-sil.: Weak, emaciated, cold and chilly. Constantly catching cold; extremely sensitive to drafts, cold air; < exertion; < becoming over-heated. Lacks confidence. Fearful. Always so tired. Despairing. Easily angered and < from anger. Can't concentrate on what he is reading or listening to. Stares into space, doesn't reply when spoken to. Sees and talks to the dead.
Mutters foolish things. Dreams of the dead.
Emaciation in children. Weakness upon waking, on exertion--mental or physical--and walking in open air. Nervous weakness. Least exertion prostrates.
< in wet weather. Yellow/green mucus. Swollen glands with hardness.

I must tell you, I've never seen or read about a Calc-sil. case.

Also, there are those who will tell you that a person doesn't have to be retarded to get Bar-c.
The idea of Bar-c. is one of dependence and helplessness, and there are many "compensated" Baryta Carbs--people who have learned to "act" grown-up.

Snoopy

[ 27 December 2001: Message edited by: Snoopy ]</p>