Borax

▲   GENERAL

General

Gastro-intestinal irritation. Salivation, nausea, vomiting, colic, diarrhoea, collapse, albuminuria, casts and vesical spasm. Delirium, visual changes, haematuria, and skin eruptions have all be observed from over-dosing.

Dread of downward motion in nearly all complaints. For homeopathic purposes, the peculiar nervous symptoms are very characteristic, and have frequently been verified, especially in the therapeutics of children. Of much value in epilepsy. Aphthous ulceration of mucous membranes.

Dose

First to third trituration. In skin diseases continue its use for several weeks. Locally in pruritis pudendi. A piece of Borax, the size of a pea, dissolved in the mouth, acts magically in restoring the voice, in cases of sudden hoarseness brought on by c

▲   MODALITIES ETC

Worse

WORSE, downward motion, noise, smoking, warm weather, after menses.

BETTER, pressure, evening, cold weather.

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

Compare

Compare: Calc Carb ^Calc.; Bryonia ^Bryon.; Sanicula; Sulphuricum Acidum ^Sulph-ac.

Antidotes

Antidote: Chamomilla ^Cham.; Coffea Tosta ^Coffea.

▲   MIND

Mind

Extreme anxiety, especially from motions which have a downward direction, rocking, being carried downstairs, laid down

Anxious expression of face during the downward motions, starts and throws up hands on laying patient down, as if afraid of falling

Excessively nervous; easily frightened

Sensitive to sudden noises

Violent fright from report of a gun, even at a distance

Fear of thunder.

Behaviour

shrieking; in children

shrieking; during sleep

shrieking; before urinating

Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition

mildness

sensitive, oversensitive

to noise

Insecure, uncertain, scared

anxiety; from movement; downward

anxiety; while riding; down hill

fear

frightened easily

starting, startled; easily

starting, startled; from fright

starting, startled; at hawking

starting, startled; from noise

starting, startled; during sleep; starting from sleep

starting, startled; at sneezing

▲   VERTIGO, DIZZINESS

Vertigo

While walking

when walking down

when walking down; stairs

▲   HEAD

Head

Aches, with nausea and trembling of whole body

Congestion (see pulsation); fullness; when walking down steps or hill

Hot

Headache

Pain, headache; late morning; 10 a.m.

Scalp

Hair tangled at tips, cannot be separated, as in Plica Polonica ( Vinca min.)

▲   EYES

Eyes

Lashes turn inward

Visions of bright waves

Eyelids inflamed, lids cut against eyeball

Entropium.

▲   EARS

Ear

Very sensitive to slightest noise; not so much disturbed by louder ones.

Noises in ear; roaring

▲   FACE

Face

Pale, earthy, with suffering expression

Swollen, with pimples on nose and lips

Feeling of cobwebs.

Expression

anxious

anxious; during downward movement

▲   NOSE

Nose

Red nose, of young women ( Natrum Carbonicum ^Nat-carb.) Red and shining swelling, with throbbing and tensive sensation

Tip swollen and ulcerated

Dry crusts.

▲   MOUTH

Mouth

Aphthae

White fungous like growth

Mouth hot and tender; ulcers bleed on touch and eating

Crying when nursing

Stomach and Abdomen.

Distention after eating; vomiting

Gastralgia, depending upon uterine disturbance

Pain as if diarrhoea would result.

Heat

Thrush (whitish flakes)

bleeding easily

in children

Gums and teeth

Painful gum-boil

Swelling; gums

Teeth; decay, hollow

Saliva

Dryness

Salivation

Tongue

Bleeding; tongue

Thrush (whitish flakes); tongue

tongue; sensitive and bleeding

Taste

Pulsatilla ^Puls.; Cup.) Taste of "cellar mould."

Palate

Wrinkled; palate (roof of mouth)

▲   CHEST

Chest

Pain

during a cough

while talking

sides; while talking

stitching, sudden, sharp

coughing

sides; right

sides; right; on coughing

sides; while talking

Respiration

Hacking and violent cough; expectoration, mouldy taste and smell

Stitches in chest, with inspiration and cough

Cough with mouldy taste - breath smells mouldy

Pleurodynia; worse upper part of right chest

Arrest of breathing when lying; is obliged to jump and catch breath, which causes pain in right side

Out of breath on going up stairs.

Pain

when breathing in

when breathing; breathing normally

stitching, sudden, sharp; when breathing in

stitching, sudden, sharp; respiration

deep

stitching, sudden, sharp; sides; right; when breathing

Impeded, obstructed; when walking down hill or steps

▲   EXPECTORATION

Expectoration

Noticeable smell

musty smell

offensive smell

Noticeable taste; musty

▲   SKIN

Skin

Psoriasis

Erysipelas in face

Itching on back of finger-joints

Unhealthy skin; slight injuries suppurate

Herpes ( Rhus Tox ^Rhus.) Erysipelatous inflammation with swelling and tension

Chilblains relieved in open air

Trade eruptions on fingers and hands, itching and stinging

Ends of hair become tangled.

Generally unhealthy

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Bladder

urging to urinate (unhealthy desire); painful; in children; child cries

urination; painful or difficult urination; painful; child cries before urine starts

urination; frequent; night

Stomach

distended (swollen from inner pressure); after eating

pain; sudden, sharp; extending to other parts; back

▲   RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Rectum

Diarrhoea; painless

Stool

Loose, pappy, offensive stools in children

Diarrhoea, offensive, preceded by colic; stools mucous, with aphthous sore mouth.

Albuminous (white, thick see mucous)

Light-coloured

Mucous, slimy

transparent

white

▲   GENITALS ETC

Urine

Hot, smarting pain in orifice

Pungent smell

Child afraid to urinate, screams before urinating ( Sarsaparilla ^Sarsap.) Small red particles on diaper.

Burning (includes hot)

Odour; strong and sharp (acrid), pungent

Urethra

Urethra (urinary part of genitals); pain; burning; before urination

Male

Male; thick emission from penis

Female

Pruritis of vulva and eczema.

Female

vaginal discharge; strong and sharp (acrid), wearing away skin

vaginal discharge; albuminous (white, thick)

vaginal discharge; burning

vaginal discharge; between period

vaginal discharge; like boiled starch

vaginal discharge; transparent

vaginal discharge; white

Genitals

Labor pains with frequent eructations

Galactorrhoea ( Caladium Seguinum ^Cal.; Conium Mac ^Con.; Belladonna ^Bell.) In nursing, pain In opposite breast

Leucorrhoea with like white of eggs, with sensation as if warm water was flowing

Membranous dysmenorrhoea

Sterility

Favors easy conception

Sensation of distention in clitoris with sticking

Female; sterility

Menses

Menses Too soon, profuse, with gripping, nausea and pain in stomach extending into small of back

Female; period; membranous

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Feeling as of cobwebs on hands

Itching on back of finger-joints and hands

Throbbing pain in tip of thumb

Stitches in sole

Pain in heel

Burning pain in great toe; inflammation of balls of toes

Eczema of toes and fingers with loss of nails.

Pain

thigh; during chill

stitching, sudden, sharp; foot; sole

▲   FEVER AND CHILL

Fever and chill

During sleep

▲   GENERALITIES

Sleep and dreams

Voluptuous dreams

Cannot sleep on account of heat, especially in head

Cries out of sleep as if frightened ( Belladonna ^Bell.)

Dreams; frightful

Sleeplessness, insomnia

night; from 3 to 5 a.m. from heat

night; during heat

in head

Waking; as from fright

Generalities

Anaemia

Walking down stairs

Pain; sudden, sharp; internally

In women

symptoms after period

symptoms when breast feeding children

Riding; down hill

Symptoms not symmetrical; right

During sleep

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