Materia Medica

Borax
[Bor.]

Mind.-- Fear of downward motion. Frightened and starting at every noise. Timidity. Anxiety with sleepiness, increasing toward evening. Fretfulness with whining and crying.

Head.-- Heat of, hot mouth and hot palms, with desire to uncover. Aching, with nausea and trembling of whole body at ten AM

External Head.-- Sensitive to cold and changes of weather. Hair tangles at tips and becomes agglutinated.

Eyes.-- The lashes turn inward and inflame them, especially in outer canthi. The tarsal edges are quite sore. Nightly agglutination. Better: Rubbing.

Ears.-- Stitches in (l.) with roaring, hardness of hearing and purulent discharges. Worse: Washing in cold water.

Nose.-- Red, shining swelling, with throbbing and tenseness. Fluent coryza with stitches in chest. Sucklings rub the nose, and then the eyes. Hard dry mucus in, m and in eyes. Discharges much thick, greenish mucus.

Face.-- Bladder - like swellings under eye. Swelling of lower lip. Heat, swelling and redness of one cheek. Redness around eyes when crying. Herpes about the mouth. Pale. Anxious expression during downward motion.

Teeth.-- Inflammatory swelling of gums (gum boils). Dull griping toothache in hollow teeth, in wet weather.

Mouth.-- Aphthae, also on tongue. Mucous membrane of palate wrinkled and shrivelled as if burnt, infant cries frequently when nursing. Hot.

Throat.-- Much tough mucus in, so difficult to loosen, the exertion causes vomiting.

Stomach.-- Pain in region of, extending to sacrum, after heavy lifting or during menses.

     Hypochondria: Pressure as of a stone in. Cutting as of a hard, sharp piece there.

Abdomen.-- Flatulent distension after every meal. Pinching in, with diarrhoea.

Stool.-- Frequent, very easy, of soft, light yellow mucus, with languor and weakness. Mucous diarrhoea.

Urine.-- Badly smelling. Albuminuria with erythema and swelling, especially of lower limbs. Hot, in an infant, Nephritis.

Female Sexual Organs.-- - Abortion. Easy conception. Leucorrhoea: Like the white of an egg, with a sensation of warm water flying down, like paste. Heat in vagina.

Cough.-- Coughs up blood streaked white phlegm, detached with difficulty. Expectoration has a mouldy taste and smell, with every cough.

Chest.-- Stitches in (r.), from coughing, breathing, yawning, speaking or lying on painful side, better washing with cold water or walking about slowly. Pains in one breast when child nurses the other. Aching in mammae when empty, better by pressure. Milk curdled.

Generalities.-- Great weariness and indolence, with heaviness of lower limbs. Infants cry and scream when nursing, and before passing stool or urine. When laying the infant down it starts and throws up its hands as if afraid of falling. Hot discharges, hot urine and leucorrhoea. Heat in orifices, vagina, mouth, etc. Albuminous discharges. Stitching sensations predominate. Soft, flabby patients.

     Worse: Mental exertion, noise, excitement, downward motion, bad or wet weather, eating fruit (apples, pears etc.)

     Better: After stool and urine, after eleven PM, smoking helps toothache, but may bring on diarrhoea.

Skin.-- Does not heal. Earth - colored. Herpes on. Psoriasis.

Sleep.-- Restless, caused by restlessness of body and ebullitions of blood. Child screams out during sleep, and awakes clinging to its mother as if frightened. Awakes at three AM, can't sleep again because of heat of body, especially of head, with sweat of thighs.

Fever.-- Pulse: Somewhat accelerated. Chill: And shivering mostly during sleep. Predominating, especially in afternoon and evening. Alternating with heat. Whenever he uncovers. Heat: Flying, in early morning and in evening. When covering hands, but coldness if she uncovers them. Sweat: During morning sleep.

Relationship.-- Allied Remedies: Ap., Bry., Calc-c., Cham., Coff, Gel., Sil., Stram., Sul.