Borax bor.

Occiput. NUTRITION: NERVES. MUCOUS MEMBRANES. MOUTH. Skin. Kidneys. Bladder.

DOWNWARD MOTION. Sudden noises. Cold; wet. Least uncovering. Nurslings. Children. Fruit.

11 P.M.

Tough, bloody mucus. Tousy persons (Med. Sul.): frowsy hair, tangles at ends. Frightened at every noise; starts from sleep, as if to fall. Restless in afternoon. Gummy, crusty eyelids and nostrils. Raw tarsi. Acrid coryza. Red nose of young women. Dirty complexion. Puffy face. Dry cracked tongue. Palate hard and wrinkled. Eructations when painful parts are pressed. Poorly nourished, soft and flabby. Aphtous, catarrhal tendency. Clear, thick, hot, biting discharges. Heat in single parts; mouth, vagina, palms, etc. Sticking or drawing pains; intercostal, in soles, etc. Shrivelled skin or mucous membranes. Marasmus.

Nervous, anxious, fidgety, fickle. Fretful, before stool. Fears downward motion. Starts at trifles, sudden sounds, etc. Anxious cries during sleep. Hot head of babies; they cry and scream when nursing or before passing stool or urine. Entropion. Red about eyes. Dry, tender, aphthous mouth. Puffy, indented tongue. Griping toothache, < wet weather. Nausea when thinking hard. Catch in groin on coughing. Stools: turning green; like boiled starch. Mucous diarrhœa, then weakness. Loose, pappy, repulsive stools. Hot, acrid, smarting urine. Nephritis. Cystitis. Easy conception. Membranous dysmenorrhœa. Albuminous leucorrhœa. Clear, hot, pasty leucorrhœa. Empty feeling in mammæ, after child nurses. Averse to coition. Pain in opposite breast, as child nurses. Mother's milk is thick and tastes badly. Blood-streaked or mouldy expectoration. Limbs tremble, at 10 A.M. Itching on back of hands. Eczema. Weak calves. DRY SKIN; festers easily, won't heal. Sweat on stomach. Stitch in right chest, < deep breath and > hard pressure. Heart feels as if on right side. Violent palpitation.

Related: Bell.

Dread of downward motion in nearly all complaints. Great anxiety from downward motion; when laying the child down on a couch or in the crib, cries and clings to the nurse; when rocking, dancing, swinging; going down stairs or rapidly down hill; horseback riding (compare Sanic.). Children awake suddenly, screaming and grasping sides of cradle, without apparent cause (Apis, Cina, Stram.). Excessively nervous, easily frightened by the slightest noise or an unusual sharp sound, a cough, sneeze, a cry, lighting a match, etc. (Asar., Calad.). Hair becomes frowsy and tangled; splits, sticks together at eh tips; if these bunches are cut off, they form again, cannot be combined (Flour. ac., Lyc., Psor., Tub.). Eyelashes: loaded with dry, gummy exudation; agglutinated in morning; turn inward and inflame the eye, especially at outer canthus; tendency to "wild hairs.". Nostrils crusty, inflamed; tip of nose shining red; red noses of young women. Stoppage of right nostril, or first right then left with constant blowing of nose (Am. c., Lac c., Mag. m.). Aphthae: in the mouth, on the tongue, inside of the cheek; easily bleeding when eating or touched; prevents child from nursing; with hot mouth, dryness and thirst (Ars.); cracked and bleeding tongue (Arum.); salivation, especially during dentition. Aphthous sore mouth; is worse from touch; eating salty or sour food; of old people, often from plate of teeth (Alumen). Child has frequent urination and screams before urine passes (Lyc., Sanic., Sars.). Leucorrhoea: profuse, albuminous, starchy, with sensation as if warm water were flowing down; for two weeks between the catamenia (compare, Bov., Con.). Skin: unhealthy, slight injuries suppurate (Calend., Hep., Mer., Sil.).

Borax follows: Calc., Psor., Sanic., Sulph. Is followed: by, Ars., Bry., Lyc., Phos., Sil. Incompatible: should not be used before or after, Acetic acid, vinegar, wine.

Downward motion; from sudden, slight noises; smoking, which may bring on diarrhoea; damp, cold weather; before urinating.

Pressure; holding painful side with hand.

The strongest characteristic of this drug is the great fear of a downward motion of any kind. Children will spring up suddenly on being laid down on the bed; patient is afraid to go downstairs; can't swing, ride horseback, or use a rocking-chair, so great is the dread of downward motion.

Easily startled by any sudden noise, as the snap of a match, fall of a door latch, rustling of a dress.

Pleurisy-like pain in the right pectoral region, so the patient can't move or breathe without a stitching pain. Children may be sleeping quietly, when they awaken very suddenly, screaming and holding on to the sides of the cradle, without any apparent cause for their so doing.

Anguish and fear; peculiar; finds fault; becomes vehement, swears. Does not wish to do anything.

The hair is rough and frowzy, can't be combed smooth; gets into all kinds of snarls; splits; sticks together. Much vertigo; head aches all over, with trembling of whole body and nausea.

Affections of the margins of the eyelids and eyelashes; the lashes become loaded with a dry gummy substance, so that they stick together in the morning; granular eyelids. The eyelids turn in upon the eye. Cutting, stitches, itching in eyes and canthi; very sore.

Affections of the left ear particularly. Itching; stitches; discharge of pus.

Mucous nasal secretion; scabs and thick crusts in; also green, thick mucus.

Affections of the gums. Tender aphthæ, so tender as to prevent the child from nursing. Dull, griping pain in decayed teeth, in wet, rainy weather; much of this sort of feeling.

Much tenacious mucus causing vomiting to detach.

Distension from flatus after every meal; pain in region of stomach, after lifting heavy weights, extending into small of back, quite incapacitating one.

Mucous stool; light colored; brown watery; green in infants. Three times a day with exhaustion. Stool before making water. Pinching in abdomen with diarrhœa.

Female: Complaints after menstruation. Mucous leucorrhœa; transparent mucus after menses, feels as if warm water were flowing. Sterility with concomitant symptoms.

Parts which are usually white, turn red. Dingy, unhealthy looking skin, which ulcerates easily on being injured.

In warm weather; after menstruation; from laughing: before urinating; on descending; from sudden noises even though slight; smoking (which may bring on a diarrhœa); damp cold weather.

Calc. carb., Nux vom.

Dread of downward motion, as in a swing, cradle, etc. Apthae on the tongue, in the mouth, inside of cheeks, with great dryness of the mouth; child cries when nursing. Hot urine in infants, child dreads to urinate and screams before each passage.

Borate of Sodium (BORAX)

Gastro-intestinal irritation. Salivation, nausea, vomiting, colic, diarrhœa, collapse, albuminuria, casts and vesical spasm. Delirium, visual changes, hæmaturia, and skin eruptions have all been 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.

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.

Aches, with nausea and trembling of whole body. Hair tangled at tips, cannot be separated, as in Plica Polonica (Vinca min).

Lashes turn inward. Visions of bright waves. Eyelids inflamed, lids cut against eyeball. Entropium.

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

Red nose, of young women (Nat carb). Red and shining swelling, with throbbing and tensive sensation. Tip swollen and ulcerated. Dry crusts.

Pale, earthy, with suffering expression. Swollen, with pimples on nose and lips. Feeling of cobwebs.

Aphthæ. White fungous like growth. Mouth hot and tender; ulcers bleed on touch and eating. Painful gumboil. Crying when nursing. Taste bitter (Bry; Puls; Cup). Taste of "cellar mould".

Distention after eating; vomiting. Gastralgia, depending upon uterine disturbance. Pain as if diarrhœa would result.

Loose, pappy, offensive stools in children. Diarrhœa, offensive, preceded by colic; stools mucous, with aphthous sore mouth.

Hot, smarting pain in orifice. Pungent smell. Child afraid to urinate, screams before urinating (Sarsap). Small red particles on diaper.

Labor pains with frequent eructations. Galactorrhœa (Cal; Con; Bell). In nursing, pain in opposite breast. Leucorrhœa like white of eggs, with sensation as if warm water was flowing. Menses too soon, profuse, with griping, nausea and pain in stomach extending into small of back. Membranous dysmenorrhœa. Sterility. Favors easy conception. Sensation of distention in clitoris with sticking. Pruritus of vulva and eczema.

Hacking and violent cough; expectoration, moldy taste and smell. Stitches in chest, with inspiration and cough. Cough with moldy taste-breath smells moldy. 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.

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.

Psoriasis. Erysipelas in face. Itching on back of finger-joints. Unhealthy skin; slight injuries suppurate. Herpes (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.

Voluptuous dreams. Cannot sleep on account of heat, especially in head. Cries out of sleep as if frightened (Bell).

Worse, downward motion, noise, smoking, warm weather, after menses. Better, pressure, evening, cold weather.

Acetic acid, vinegar, and wine are incompatible.

Antidote: Cham; Coffea.

Compare: Calc; Bryon; Sanicula; Sulph ac.

First to third trituration. In skin diseases continue its use for several weeks. Locally, in pruritus 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 cold, and frequently for an hour or so, it renders the voice silvery and clear.

Dread of downward motion; child jumps and cringes or cries when laying it down; also very sensitive to noises.

Aphthous sore mouth; greenish stools day and night; mouth very hot.

Pain in right pectoral region; enough with expectoration of an offensive, herby taste.

This remedy, although an old one, is not universally appreciated. Its action upon the nervous system is very marked. In the first place it manifests itself in what is called nervousness in regard to noises, to which the patient is very sensitive. Almost any noise, as a cough, a sneeze, restling of a newspaper, a cry, distant shot, etc. Belladonna is sometimes given for this starting at noises; when Borax would do better. Then there is another very peculiar nervous symptom, viz., fear of falling, from downward motion (Gelsem., Sanicula). The child cries out and clings to the nurse when she attempts to lay it down in the cradle. Carrying it down stairs has the same effect. It will scream and cling to the nurse as long as the downward motion continues. Adults get the same symptom. Will not sit in a rocking chair, or ride on horseback, or on the waves, or swing, or go coasting, because of this dread of downward motion. There is only one other remedy having this symptom that I know of, and that is Gelsemium, and so far I think that this has only appeared in intermittent fever.

A child may be sleeping quietly and awake suddenly screaming and holding on to the sides of the cradle, without an apparent cause for so doing, or it may start from sleep clinging to the nurse as if frightened. In such cases we might think of Apis mellifica, Belladonna, Cina. Stramonium, etc., but don't prescribe on the one symptom. Look at the child's mouth and if you should find an aphthous sore mouth it would settle it pretty surely for Borax. Then, again, Borax has a very strong action as a general remedy, even domestic, from "way back," and has been prescribed without rhyme or reason until the homœopaths took it and found its exact place. Now the choice has to be made between it and Mercurius, Hydrastis, Sulphur and Sulphuric acid. etc.

It is not necessary to draw the line between the different remedies here, but I will say that the sore mouth itself is only one symptom in every case. The rest are found outside the local affection and often have more to do with the final choice of the remedy. The nervous symptoms already mentioned are "pointers," for Borax. Not only upon the mucous membranes of the mouth is this action of Borax notable, but upon every other one. The eyelashes become gummy and stick together, or turn inward. The ears discharge. I cured a case of otorrhœa of fourteen years' standing with this remedy.

Dry crusts form in the nose and re-form if removed. Greenish stools day and night, with aphthæ. The infant cries when urinating or before, showing an inflamed condition of the urethra. If the crying spells before urinating should be followed with a deposit of sand in the diaper or vessel, Lycopodium or Sarsaparilla would be thought of.

The mucous membranes of the respiratory organs are also affected. There is cough, and expectoration of an offensive herby taste. Then we have decided pleuritis in the chest, in the right pectoral region.

Borax has also white, albuminous, starchy leucorrhœa, quite profuse, and with a sensation of warm water running down.

These altogether show the action of Borax upon the mucous membranes. Like Chamomilla, Hepar sulphuris and Silicea, Borax has ulcerations of the skin from slight injuries, which suppurate.

Easily frightened, and starting from the least noise. Anxiety, with sleepiness, increased towards evening. The child feels an anguish when rocked in a cradle, has an anxious countenance during the downward motion, (when carried down stairs). Parts, which are usually red, turn white.

Vertigo in the morning, in bed. Headache in the forenoon, (10 A.M.) with nausea and trembling of the body. Hot head (hot mouth and hands) of the infant.

The eyelashes turn inward into the eye, inflaming it, especially in the external canthus, where the borders of the lids are quite sore. Itching in the external canthus of the eye.

Discharge of pug from the ears, with hardness of hearing ; with roaring in the (left) ear.

Dry scabs in the nose.

Tetter around the mouth. Burning heat and redness of the left cheek.

Aphthæ in the mouth, and on the tongue, bleeding when eating. Tenacious, whitish phlegm in the throat, which can only be loosened with great exertion.

Distention from flatulence after every meal. Hiccough after dinner.

Frequent soft, light-yellow, slimy stools. Diarrhœa after breakfast. Stitches in the rectum.

Frequent micturition, (acrid-smelling urine). Hot urine in infants.

Men. During coition, the semen escapes either too early or too late. Women. Catamenia too early, and too profuse. During the catamenia, spasmodic pressure and stitches in the groin. Sterility, or easy conception. Fluor albus, like the white of an egg, or acrid. Stitches in the region of the uterus. Sensation of contraction in the left mamma, while the child nurses from the right. Aphthæ on the nipples, they bleed.

Stitches in the chest, whenever he coughs, or takes a deep inspiration.

Lower. Stitches in the solos of the feet. Suppuration of a spot in the heel, where the rubbing of the shoe had occasioned a wound. Frequent stitches in the corns. Great weakness and debility of the lower extremities.

Restlessness and ebullitions, especially after talking, with nausea.

Sleepiness during the day, and sleeplessness at night. The child starts from his sleep, and cries.

Chilliness, especially during sleep. Flushes of heat, (morning and evening). Perspiration during the morning sleep.

Unwholesome skin, small wounds suppurate and ulcerate. Erysipelatous inflammation on the lower leg, with chilliness, followed by heaviness and pulsation in the head ; later, bleeding of the nose.

Consequences from getting cold when the weather in wet and cold. Bad effects from riding ; from eating fruit, (apples, pears). Aggravation after menstruation.

Borax veneta. Natrum biboracicum. Sodium biborate. Na 2 B 4 O 7 10 H 2 O. Trituration and Solution.

Aphthæ . Corns. Dentition. Diarrhœa. Ear-discharge . Entropion. Erysipelas. Eyes, affections of. Finger joints, ulcers on. Herpes. Menstruation, painful (membranous). Nipple, sore. Nose, affections of . Pleurisy. Plica-polonica. Psoriasis. Screaming . Sea-sickness. Sterility . Syphilitic sore-throat. Taste, disordered . Trichiasis. Ulcers. Urine, strong-smelling. Vertigo . Zoster.

Borax has some very peculiar symptoms which will serve as keynotes to many cases. Chief among them are: ( 1 ) Sensitiveness to sudden noises, as a distant shot, which causes violent starting. (It has cured "shot-shyness" in sporting dogs.) ( 2 ) Intolerance of downward motions a child screams when nurse puts it into cot, or when she rocks it symptoms are worse going downstairs; sea-sickness (when the downward motion is felt most: "Every time the ship goes down, everything in me comes up"). Restlessness with ebullitions, especially after talking, with nausea. Laughter alternating with weeping. Cobweb sensations; sore mouth; infant pale, earthy, flesh flabby; screams out in sleep, wakes frightened and clings to nurse; excessively nervous, a slight noise arouses. Starts with pain. Muco-cutaneous surfaces are sore; in the eyelids there is ingrowing of lashes. Otorrhœa and inflammation of auricle: "starts with the pains." Nostrils ulcerated; soreness, pain and swelling of tip of nose. Aphthæ; mouth of child feels hot to mother's nipple; child lets go nipple and cries with pain and vexation, or else refuses breast altogether. Diarrhœa with pain or soft yellow stools accompanying aphthæ. Child screams before urinating (from inflammation of mucous membrane). Leucorrhœa clear, copious, albuminous, unnaturally hot. Painful nursing; pain after nursing; empty feeling in breasts; they ache because they are empty, > by pressure: this is characteristic. Dysmenorrhœa (may be membranous), pain excessive during flow. Leucorrhœa preceding and following menses, albuminous, acrid. Herpetic eruptions; pleuritic symptoms (upper right chest) and cough, with expectoration of a mushy, mouldy odour. A notable symptom is: Before the easy stool in afternoon, fretful, ill-humoured, indolent, and discontented; after it, lively, contented, and cheerful. Another mental symptom is: Idles through the afternoon does not really get to work; changes from one business to another from one room to another. It is suited to the period of dentition; to persons with light hair; lax skins and muscles; wrinkled skin consequences of getting cold in cold and wet weather; riding eating fruit. Symptoms are < in warm weather, < after menstruation. Parts usually red turn white. Many Natrum symptoms appear in the proving. Stitching pains predominate.

Compare: Calc., Nux, Bry., Lyc., Merc., Puls., Rhus All. c., Sil., Sul., Ars., Bell., Graph., Ign., Kali bi., Phos. Antidoted by: Cham., Coff. Similar to: Am. c. and Mag. m. (right nostril stopped); Calc. (inclination to breathe deeply); Kali bi. (tough mucus); Aur. and Puls. (laughter alternately with weeping); Sars., Lyc., Benz. ac. (strong urine, crying before urination; but these three have gravel: with Borax it is from inflammation of mucous membrane); Arum tri. (sore mouth); Graph. (trichiasis); Bell. (hot leucorrhœa); Sep. (small ulcers about joints); Bar. c. (cobweb-sensation); Nat. sul. (cheerful after stool). Incompatible: Acet. ac., Vinegar, Wine.

Great anxiety, esp. when riding in a carriage or descending a mountain. — Dread of downward motion; child has anxious countenance when laid in cot, or carried downstairs. — Easily frightened and startled with least noise. — Before stool irritable, cheerful and happy after. — Fear of being infected by some contagious disease. — Strong tendency to be frightened. — Irritability. — Disposition to be angry, with ill-humour and passion. — Becomes vehement and swears. — Does not wish to do anything. — Dread of labour.

Fits of vertigo, with fainting. — Vertigo, with fulness in the head, esp. when going upstairs, or to any elevation whatever. — Headache, with shootings in the ears. — Headache (all over, with trembling of the body), with nausea and inclination to vomit, mostly at ten o'clock in the morning. — Fulness in the head, and pressure above the eyes. — Aching and drawing pains in the forehead, and as far as the root of the nose and the nape of the neck, increased by writing, by reading, and by stooping. — Successive drawing pains in the forehead, with nausea, and acute drawing pains in the eyes. — Shootings in the head, esp. above the eyes and the temples. — Congestion in the head, esp. in the occiput, with pulsative pains. — Sensibility of the teguments of the head to cold and to bad weather. — Hair entangled, as in plica polonica; is rough and frowsy, splits; sticks together.

Pressure on the eyes. — Itching in the eyes. — The eyes burn and are contracted on putting on spectacles. — Inflammation of the eyes, esp. in the canthi, with excoriation of the edges of the eyelids, trichiasis, and nocturnal agglutination. — Granular eyelids. — Sparkling before the eyes when writing. — Too great sensibility of the eyes to candle-light.

Shootings in the ears, with pain as of excoriation. — Inflammation and swelling of the ears, with discharge of pus and shooting cephalalgia. — Fits of stoppage of the ears and of deafness. — Buzzing and murmuring in the ears, with acute, drawing pains in the top of the head. — Affections of the l. ear particularly. — Itching; stitches.

Itching in the nose, with tingling. — Nostrils ulcerated, with swelling and pain, as of excoriation at the point of the nose. — Dry scabs in the nose. — Blood follows on blowing the nose. — Red shining tip of nose; red noses of young women. — Nasal hæmorrhage, with pulsative pains in the head. — Sneezing, with violent shootings in r. side of the chest. — Accumulation of thick and greenish mucus in the nose.

Complexion (in a suckling woman) wan, pale, and earth-coloured. — Sensation in the r. side of the face as if it were covered with cobweb. — Muscular palpitation in the corners of the mouth. — Erysipelatous inflammation and swelling of the cheeks, with acute, drawing pains in the cheek-bone, aggravated by laughter. — Eruption of pimples on the face, the nose, and the lips. — Smarting in the lips. — Tettery spots round the mouth, and scabs on the upper lip. — Swelling of the lower lip, with burning and pain as of excoriation. — Red papulous eruption on cheeks and around chin.

Pressive and cramp-like pain in teeth which are carious, esp. in damp weather, sometimes with inflammatory swelling of the cheek, or swelling of the gums. — Acute drawing pains in the teeth which are carious, spreading over the head, when they are touched with the tongue, or when cold water is applied to them. — Pressive tingling in the teeth, immediately after supper, or breakfast, > by smoking tobacco. — Shooting pains in teeth which are carious, with shootings in the ears, and headache. — Ulcers in the gums, with inflammatory swelling of the cheek. — Bleeding of the gums.

Aphthæ in the mouth and on the tongue, which bleed easily. — Spasmodic stiffness and torpor of the tongue. — Skin of the palate hard and wrinkled.

Dryness in the throat. — Tenacious mucus in the throat, with difficult expectoration.

Bitter taste in the mouth on eating, or on swallowing the saliva. — Loss of taste. — Thirst in the morning. — Desire for acid drinks. — Appetite moderate, esp. at supper. — Nausea and uneasiness during a meal. — After every meal inflation of the abdomen, with diarrhœa and colic. — Fulness and pressure in the stomach, with uneasiness and ill-humour, after having eaten fruit (pears and apples). — Colic, with tendency to diarrhœa after smoking tobacco.

Nausea, with inclination to vomit, when riding in a carriage. — Vomiting of sour mucus, when fasting in the morning or after breakfast. — Pressure in the stomach after every meal. — Contractive pains in the stomach, or a sensation such as would follow a strain in the loins, with shootings in the vertebral column and loins. — Pain in region of stomach, after lifting heavy weights, extending into the small of back, quite incapacitating one.

Pain in the hypochondria, mostly pressive and in the l. side, and esp. when riding in a carriage. — Pressure and shootings in the lumbar region. — Pains in the hypochondria and in the lower part of the abdomen, as if hard and cutting bodies were moving in them. — Pinching in the abdomen, with diarrhœa. — Accumulation of flatus in the abdomen, and frequent escape of wind.

Evacuations frequent, soft, or loose, with pinching and borborygmi in the abdomen. — Greenish evacuations (in children). — Slimy diarrhœa. — Abundant flow of pale, yellowish, or brownish slime, and of blood from the anus, with pains in the loins. — Itching, contraction, and shootings, in the anus and in the rectum.

Ineffectual urgency to urinate, with incisive pains in the urethra, and swelling in the lumbar region. — Urgent inclination to urinate. — Frequent emission of urine even in the night. — Hot urine. — Acrid fetor of urine. — Soreness in the urethra after micturition, and esp. on being touched, even when not making water.

Absence of sexual desire. — Erections, with painful tension, on waking in the morning. — Gonorrhœa. — Chancres studding prepuce. — Stitches. — Sticking, sore pain, < when touched.

Catamenia premature and too copious, of a pale red colour. — During the catamenia, pulsative pains in the head, buzzing in the ears, nausea, with pains in the stomach and in the loins, or shootings and aching in the groin. — Leucorrhœa, corrosive, and thick, like starch. — Sterility. — Acrid leucorrhœa, appearing for two weeks between catamenia, with swelling of labia and inflamed and discharging Duverney's glands. — Stinging and distended feeling in clitoris. — During pregnancy, swelling, itching, and burning of vagina, with a discharge like gonorrhœa. — False pains. — Labour pains: spasmodic; more in stomach than in uterus; dart upwards, head of child goes back. — Griping and sometimes stitches in l. mamma, and when child has nursed she is obliged to compress the breast with the hand because it aches from being empty . — Pain in the breasts when suckling. — Flow of milk, which curdles speedily. — Aphthæ so tender they prevent child nursing.

Acute, drawing pains in the larynx, extending to the chest, with inclination to cough. — Hoarseness in the throat, with drawing shootings on coughing and sneezing. — Dry cough, caused by a tickling and scraping in the throat, with pressure on the chest. — Dry, hectic cough, with shootings in the r. side of the chest, and the groins, relieved by washing with cold water, increased by drinking wine. — Nocturnal cough. — Cough, with expectoration of the smell and taste of mould. — On coughing, expectoration of mucus with streaks of blood.

Difficult respiration, with urgent want to inspire deeply, and shootings in the r. side of the chest. — Constrictive oppression of the chest, esp. on going upstairs. — Shortness of breath after having ascended the stairs, with shootings in the chest on speaking. — Feeling of congestion, with heaviness in the chest. — Shootings in the chest, esp. on the r. side, and principally on yawning, on coughing, on breathing deeply, on running, and during every physical effort. — Drawing shootings in the intercostal muscles of the r. side, extending to the groins, augmented by the least movement of the chest or arms, with inability to remain lying on the side affected. — Pains in the chest > , esp. when lying quietly on the back, or on walking slowly, and pressing the part affected with the hand.

Sensation as if the heart were on the r. side, and were going to be crushed. — Infants cyanotic from birth.

Sharp and drawing pains between the shoulder-blades, on the shoulder, and in the nape of the neck, with inability to stoop. — Furunculus in the arm-pit. — Itching and crawling in the sacrum. — Aching and burning pains in the sacrum, esp. when seated and when stooping.

Sensation in the hands, as if they were covered with cobweb. — Pulsative pains in the extremity of the thumb, day and night, preventing sleep. — Burning pains, heat and redness of the fingers, like chilblains. — Pustules on the fingers, with swelling and suppuration of the affected limb.

Ulcerating vesicles on the buttocks. — Burning pain in the thighs. — Sensation as if warm water were running down thighs. — Erysipelatous inflammation and swelling of the leg and of the foot, principally after having danced a long time, and sometimes with drawing pains, burning and tensive, esp. when touched. — Great weakness and debility of the lower extremities. — Shootings in the soles of the feet. — Pain, as of excoriation, in the heel. — Suppuration of a spot in the heel, where the rubbing of the shoe had occasioned a wound. — Burning pains, heat and redness of the toes, as if from chilblains. — Shooting piercing in the corns, esp. in rainy weather.

Parts which are usually white, turn red. — Shooting and drawing pains. — Commencement and aggravation of sufferings from damp and unsettled weather, or during and subsequent to a meal. — Sufferings from riding in a carriage or from eating fruit. — Uneasiness in the whole body, which does not permit one to remain long in the same place. — Restlessness and ebullitions, esp. after talking, with nausea. — Uneasiness, trembling nausea, giddiness, and vertigo, after an animated conversation, or when thinking. — Want of strength, esp. in the joints. — Attacks of syncope, with tingling, trembling of the feet, and nausea.

Skin difficult to heal; dingy, unhealthy-looking skin; every injury tends to ulceration. — Erysipelatous inflammations, with swelling and tension of the part affected, and fever. — Erysipelatous inflammation on the lower leg, with chilliness, followed by heaviness and pulsation in the head; later, bleeding of the nose. — Tendency of old wounds to suppurate. — Whitish pimples, with red areola. — Herpetic eruptions. — Purulent and phagedænic vesicles.

Sleepiness during the day, and sleeplessness at night. — Inclination to sleep long before the usual hour, and too long sleep in the morning. — Restless sleep, in consequence of ebullition of the blood, of colic, and of diarrhœa. — Waking too early, with difficulty in going to sleep again, from heat and too great a flow of ideas. — Anxious cries of children, during sleep, with convulsive movements of the hands.

Shivering, shuddering, or cold with trembling, heaviness and weakness, or with cephalalgia and pains in the periosteum of femur, followed by heat. — Chilliness, esp. during sleep. — Flushes of heat (morning and evening). — Perspiration during the morning sleep. — Coldness, most frequently in the afternoon; afterwards heat, with headache or pain in the hypochondria, sometimes followed by sweat. — Thirst before or during the cold, or else after the sweat. — Heat in the evening in bed, with shivering on being on the least uncovered. — Moisture of the body during the night.

Alternate laughing and weeping.
Idles through afternoon, does not really get at work ; changes from one work to another, from one room to another ; without keeping to any object.
The child becomes anxious when dancing ; in one rocks it in arms it has an anxious expression of face during downward motion.
Very anxious on riding rapidly down hill, contrary to his custom he feels as though it would take away his breath.
Anxious feeling during downward motion or rocking. θ Diarrhœa.
Dread of downward motion.
Great anxiety and sleepiness ; anxiety increased until 11 P. M.
Fretful, ill-humored, indolent and discontented before easy stool, in afternoon ; after it, lively, contented, and looking cheerfully into future.
Irritability and crying of children.
Easily startled by unusual sounds ; at a distant shot, an anxious cry, hawking, sneezing, etc.
Fright ; he starts in all his limbs on hearing an anxious cry.
Reading and writing aggravate headache.
When writing in morning, flickering before eyes.
While engaged in thinking at his work, strong nausea, with trembling of whole body and weakness in knees.

First, heaviness of head ; later, light, clear head.
Vertigo and fulness in head on descending a mountain or stairs.
Vertigo : with tendency to fall to left side ; vertigo when driving down hill.
Giddy all the time.

Pain across his forehead for three days, with giddiness, then it passed to top of his head.
Pressive headache in forehead.
Headache in forehead with stinging in left ear, changing at times to right.
Throbbing headache in both temples, or in occiput.
Twitching pain in forehead, with nausea and tearing in eyeballs.
Tearing ; also stitches in vertex.
Aching in whole head, with nausea, inclination to vomit, and trembling in whole body, at 10 A. M.
Fleeting stitches in left side of head, in vertex, and later in female sexual parts, followed by voluptuous, disgusting dreams.
Headache, with dulness of entire head ; stinging in left ear.
(In sick :) Fatal basilar meningitis, with constant sopor, from which child, æt. 11 months, could not be roused.

Tearing from parietal bone to forehead.
Headache in occiput throbbing as if something would suppurate ; shuddering over whole body, lasting all night and following day.
Hot head of infants, with heat of head and palms.
Hot head and chilliness.
Hot head. θ Diarrhœa.
Sensitiveness of external head to cold and changes of weather.
Hair becomes entangled at tips and sticks together, cannot be separated ; if these bunches are cut off they form again ; the hair may split.
The hair is rough and frowsy, can't be combed smooth ; gets into all kinds of snarls.

Worse from light, particularly candlelight.
Sensitiveness of eyes to candlelight, evenings.
Flickering before eyes in morning, when writing, so that he does not see distinctly ; there seem to be bright moving waves, now from right to left, again from above downward.
Obscuration of sight in left eye.
Pain above eyes.
Tearing in eyeballs, with twitching pain in forehead and nausea.
Several stitches in succession, in left eye.
Sensation of a foreign body in eye.
Burning of eyes and contraction as soon as spectacles are put on.
Rheumatic ophthalmia.
Swelling of Meibomian glands.
Inflammation of eyes at canthi ; with irregularity of lashes ; nightly agglutination.
Lashes turn inward towards eye and inflame it, especially at outer canthus, where margins of lids are very sore.
Margin of lids affected ; eyelashes loaded with a dry, gummy exudation, stick together in morning.
Lower lids entirely inverted.
Granulated lids.
Entropion.
Difficult opening of lids.

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Borax is one of those domestic remedies that has been long used for local conditions as a soothing substance and for a healing purpose.

In "nursing sore mouth" of mother or child Borax has been used in the families of old, in the form of Borax and honey, as a wash.

The extensive use that has been made of it would make the homoeopath wonder if the people had not hit upon something, and it is a fact that Borax will rapidly heal up a sore mouth.

It is not strange that it does so, for Borax, in its proving, produces aphthous conditions of the mouth, which extend to the throat and even into the stomach. It cures where the genitalia and anus are covered with these aphthous appearances.

Anxiety, fidgetiness, and sensitiveness are prominent in Borax. He is anxious about trifles. He starts at every noise, on hearing unexpected news, from music, from excitement.

This anxiety or nervousness, this indescribable feeling that is within him, is aggravated from upward or downward motion.

Such a motion as going up in one-of our elevators nearly drives him to distraction, but he is made worse going down. All complaints are aggravated from downward motion.

It has been said in routine practice, that in all cases of sore mouth in children, when the child is worse from downward motion, Borax is the remedy.

When the mother is in the act of laying the child down on the bed it often rouses up in its sleep and cries out in fright. The anxiety may be better appreciated if you will go to the top of one of these high buildings and go down in the elevator.

It is natural for every one to feel, with the rapid motion, an anxious feeling in the Stomach, a sensation of falling; that is natural to the healthy man, but if you exaggerate that intensely you have the Borax condition in which the slightest downward motion, of even riding down hill or walking down stairs, or, in the child, when being carried down stairs in the mother's arms, produces a violent aggravation. All the nerves are in a fret.

We notice that Borax has an intensified activity throughout the body; all of his senses are made more acute.

His hearing is intensified, he is oversensitive to his surroundings, over-anxious. He has an excitable spirit throughout. Riding down hill produces vertigo.

On nervous excitement, fear and apprehension. This is a strong feature of Borax. It has many such symptoms, but the nervous elements, partake of this type.

As we go through the remedy many other things will be called out; but this may be said to be the principal feature of the mental state, and it is to a great extent the key to Borax cases.

"Anxious feeling during downward motion or rocking."

The diarrhoea will be cured when that state is present. Aphthae will be cured when that state is present. The rheumatism, menstrual troubles and numerous other complaints will disappear upon the administration of Borax, when this key is present.

It has hysterical manifestations.

"Changes from one work to another."

It has a restless, nervous, anxious, excitable state that runs through his body. The child screeches and screams when it is dandled and tossed up and down.

The motion of the brain, the upward and downward motion, as in swinging, rocking, etc., makes the patient lose himself, he hardly knows where he is; confusion and vertigo come over him. If one rocks the child, it has an anxious expression of face.

"Very anxious on riding rapidly down hill."

"Anxiety increased until 11 P.M."

That I have noticed in Borax as a peculiar time of aggravation of the anxiety. I have noticed it in women who had periods of insanity, whose nervous trouble and mental state would keep up until 11 P.M. You will notice sometimes in insane people that it seems as if they were possessed of the devil; and at once a lucid interval will come and they will talk just as if nothing had happened.

So it is in Borax that a great change may occur at 11 P.M.; this state of anxiety and nervous excitement may stop at that hour.

"Fretful, ill-humored, indolent" state increased until there is a stool and relieved by stool.

"He starts on hearing an anxious cry;" on hearing an unexpected noise, on bearing something drop from a chair to the floor, or if a door opens unexpectedly.

This is all in keeping with the nature of Borax. If you compare Borax with other Natrums you will find an astonishing likeness in the nervous excitability; Natrum carb. and Natrum mur.

Aggravation from noise, oversensitiveness to noise and overexcitement of the nerves run through all the Sodium family. They are wonderfully intense people.

"While engaged in thinking at his work, strong nausea."

Borax has many times cured this kind of trouble. I have seen it come up in this way; from any sort of meditation he becomes nauseated and excitable and must leave his work and rest a little while, and then he goes at it again until be becomes sick at the stomach and so must rest again.

With the aggravation from mental exertion, from noise, from excitement, from downward motion, we get the mental aspect of Borax.

A further examination of the sensorium shows:

"Vertigo and fullness in head on descending a mountain or stairs."

This is a form of the same anxious feeling. This remedy has a good deal of vertigo, sometimes constant vertigo, which is made so intense on downward motion that be must sit still, and do nothing.

It has many congestive headaches, pressive headaches and much beat in the head.

There are many eye symptoms.

"Granular lids."

"Lashes turn inward towards eye and inflame it. Entropion."

Granulation and thickening of the mucous membrane of the lid; contractions and scars and drawing inward.

"Lower lids entirely inverted."

"Difficult opening of lids"

Like all the salts of Sodium the nose suffers from chronic inflammation of the mucous membrane, a catarrhal state, with copious discharge, and crusts in the nose; stoppage of the nose. The whole Natrum family has these dry crusts in the nose, and copious discharges from the nose.

Natrum mur. predominantly produces white discharge, and so does Borax; Natr. sulph . produces yellow discharge, and so does Borax; Natr. sulph. produces yellow discharge from the nose, even yellowish-green.

Borax is laid down as producing greenish discharge; its characteristic discharge, which is a general of the remedy, is a white discharge.

The face of the infant is pale, and clay-colored.

"Children have small vesicles around the mouth, and on the forehead."

Natr. mur . produces herpetic eruptions around the mouth in all of its febrile states, and when the patient takes cold. Borax is sometimes forgotten, and Natr. mur. is thought of because it is better known.

When the Natrum constitution is present, then it becomes a process of individualization to determine which one of the Natrums is indicated.

"Aphthae in mouth and on tongue."

"Aphthae on tongue and inside of cheek."

This alone is not an indication for Borax, although Borax is one among many medicines when the mouth is so sore that the child lets loose its hold of the nipple or bottle. Many prescribers give Borax on that indication alone; but the constitutional state ought to be hunted up, so that there may be constitutional foundation for the remedy.

Sulph. ac. is more frequently indicated.

"Red blisters on tongue."

"Vomiting after drinking."

This leads one to expect that this aphthous state has traveled down the oesophagus into the stomach. There are many stomach symptoms present that are likely to be the result of some such condition.

"Buccal mucous membrane highly reddened."

The sore mouth, such as mothers have and such as infants have, can be cured with Borax.

"After every meal flatulent distension."

"Constant vomiting."

"Vomiting of sour slime."

The Borax patient with stomach aphthae will gag and retch and cough, and that is what is called a "stomach cough."

Mothers say,

"It is a stomach cough," because the child gags and retches with it.

"Stomach cough with pain extending into region of spleen."

Little ones often get summer complaints when they need Borax. All around about the anus you will see the aphthous appearances. Great slimy stools are passed day and night; the child keeps up a pitiful crying; the mouth is aphthous, child is emaciating, and holds its head back.

"Stools; frequent, soft, light yellow, slimy."

Quantities of fluid like boiled starch are emitted from the anus; Borax has that as well as Argentum nitricum.

There are also conditions of the rectum producing thickening of the mucous membrane, with stricture, growing, smaller and smaller until finally a long thin stool is passed, no larger than a pencil. This inflammatory stricture has been cured by Borax.

In this over-sensitive child when the catarrhal state is general the urine burns so when it passes that with the first urging (which causes the child to realize it must soon urinate) it screams out; screams with the desire to urinate.

That is what it means when it says

"Worse before urination."

it is not that the state of the urinary organs is worse before urinating, but the child in realizing that it must urinate screeches and screams.

"Frequent urination preceded by cries."

The urine burns and you may know that the child must soon urinate because it commences to cry.

"Orifice of urethra pains as if sore, after urinating."

"Desire to urinate without being able to pass a drop."

This remedy has cured gonorrhoea. Wherever there is mucous membrane you may expect to find the aphthous patches. There is another feature like Natr. mur. and Natr. Carb .; in both male and female it takes away sexual desire; it benumbs the patient, and hence the mind and sexual organs are in a state of indifference.

Then we come to the most striking feature of Borax in regard to the female sexual organs; in the menstrual flow will be found membrane.

Borax cures the most violent forms of membranous dysmenorrhoea, when there are violent labor-like pains before and during the flow and it seems as if the uterus would expel itself from the vagina.

The flow starts slightly, but the same violent pains keep on, until the expulsion of the membrane. I have known Borax to cure when the membrane was a cast of the uterus. Such patients are easily startled from downward motion; let that be your guide to Borax in membranous dysmenorrhoea.

She dreads downward motion, and motions like swinging and rocking.

"During menses; throbbing in head and rushing in ears."

"Pinching and griping in abdomen;"

that word does not describe it exactly, for it is like the pain in labor;

"pain extending from stomach."

Pain like the stabbing of a knife in the groin, and that may occur either before or during menstruation.

"Tired; sweat after midnight."

But, remember, with such things you must have the mental state, the nervous, ex citable state and then Borax will cure this dysmenorrhoea.

Another grand feature of Borax I read in the next sentence.

"Leucorrhoea like the white of eggs."

It has albuminous leucorrhoea which feels like a hot fluid, and flows down the legs.

"White albuminous or starchy leucorrhoea."

"Acrid leucorrhoea appearing for two weeks."

"Leucorrhoea white as mucus, without any other ailment."

Now from this acrid leucorrhoea, from the menstrual state, this false membrane forming and being thrown off, it is no wonder that women are sterile.

All these women are sterile, all who have such symptoms are sterile and Borax has cured sterility when this condition was the cause. You will find routinists prescribe Borax for all women who are sterile, regardless of the state. When a remedy is given for sterility, the state must be looked into which is peculiar to the remedy given such a state as that remedy can produce upon the healthy woman.

Another feature. Many times I have used Borax when the mother could not nurse the child; she talks about always having a little, thick milk.

"The milk is too thick and tastes badly."

This condition of the milk prevents the mother from nursing her child. This is a constitutional state, and Borax, if given in the beginning of pregnancy, to a Borax patient will so change the milk as well as the rest of the constitution that the mother will be able to nurse the child.

I have a number of times, when a mother has brought forth several children that she was unable to nurse, given Borax and it has so affected the case that she could nurse the next child. This remedy also has loathing of the breast in infants, due to the fact that the milk tastes bad and not due to any defect on the part of the child.

You might think of prescribing for the infant, but if you examine into the case you will find that the child will not take the milk, because it is loathsome. The mother needs a dose of Borax, which will cure the child of its diarrhoea and loathing of milk.

"The infant becomes pale, nearly earth-colored."

"The child throws up its hands when an attempt is made to put it down."

If the mother was a Borax mother, the child very likely is a Borax child; it is not an uncommon thing for the mother and baby to need the same remedy; many times I have medicated the child through the mother's milk if both needed the same remedy.

Another peculiar feature is that when the child is nursing, there is pain in the opposite breast. Borax is not necessarily limited to the state of confinement; there is a practical use for Borax among nervous women in all states of life.

Borax has cured pleurisy that very much resembled Bryonia, especially on the right side like Bryonia; stitching or darting pains from without inward as if through the upper right lung posteriorly

the stitching pains might make you think of Bryonia.

"Wilted, wrinkled skin."

"Skin pale or livid."

Emaciated; flabby child becomes emaciated. Children become marasmic along with the aphthous condition; they cannot digest. They vomit or have diarrhoea; aphthous condition that extends the whole length of the intestines; involving all mucous membranes. Oversensitive child, screams from downward motion. The aphthae involve a good many other symptoms; crying before urination, because the bladder is involved.

The aphthous condition and worse from downward motion; the oversensitiveness to noise, easily startled, anxious feeding, etc., are the most striking and characterizing features.

Idles through the afternoon, does not really get at work; changes from one work to another, from one room to another without keeping to any object.
Dread of downward motion.
Great anxiety and sleepiness; anxiety increased until 11 P.M.
Fretful, ill-humored, indolent and discontented, before the easy stool, in the afternoon; after it, lively, contented, and looking cheerfully into the future.
Easily startled by unusual sounds.

First, heaviness of head; later, light, clear head.
Vertigo and fulness in head on ascending a mountain or stairs.
Feels as if pushed from right to left and somewhat forward.

Aching in whole head, with nausea, inclination to vomit and trembling in the whole body, at 10 A.M.
Pressive headache in the forehead.
Throbbing headache in both temples, or in occiput.
Tearing; also stitches in the vertex.

Hot head, of infants, with heat of mouth and palms.
Hair becomes entangled at tips and sticks together, cannot be separated; if these bunches are cut off they form again.
Sensitiveness of external head to cold, change of weather.

Obscuration of left eye, evening.
Flickering before eyes in morning, when writing, so that he does not see distinctly; there seem to be bright moving waves, now from right in left, again from above downwards.
Several stitches in succession in left eye.
Inflammation of left eye at inner canthus, with nightly agglutination.
Inflammation of right eye at external canthus, with irregularity of the lashes; nightly agglutination.
The lashes turn inward toward the eye and inflame it, especially at outer canthus, where the margins of the lids are very sore.

Very sensitive to the slightest noise, as rumbling of paper, fall of a door-latch, etc.
Difficult hearing, more in the left ear.
Ringing, piping, crackling, drumming, or roaring in ears, more in left.
Stitches in left ear.
Discharge of pus from both ears.
Inflamed and hot swelling of both ears.

Bleeding from the nose morning.
Sneezing causes severe stitch in right side of chest.
Fluent coryza, with much crawling in the nose.
Discharge of much greenish, thick mucus from the nose.
Dry crusts in the nose, re-form if removed.
Boil in the forepart of the left nostril, toward the tip, with sore pain and swelling of tip of nose.
Red shining swelling of the nose, with throbbing and tensive sensation.

Anxious face during downward motion.
Sickly, pale, earthy color of the face.
Swelling, heat and redness of face, with tearing pain in the malar bone.
Sensation on right side of face, by the mouth, as if cobwebs laid there.

Red inflamed swelling, as large as a pea, on the lower lip, with burning soreness when touched.
Crawling like insects, on the lips.

Dull griping in a hollow tooth in wet weather.
Inflamed large swelling on the outer side of gum which pains severely (gum boil), with dull pain in a hollow tooth; swelling of cheek and whole left side of face, as far as below eye, where there is formed a watery blister.

Taste: flat and insipid; bitter; food and even saliva taste bitter.
Food has no taste.
Aphthæ on the tongue.
Red blisters on the tongue, as if the surface were eroded; they pain from every motion of tongue, or if anything salt, sour or spiced touches them.

Aphthæ: in the mouth; on inner surface of cheek, bleeding easily; with great heat and dryness of mouth.
The mucous membrane of forepart of palate is shriveled, as if burnt, pains especially when chewing.
Mouth very hot.

Palate wrinkled; child cries frequently, when nursing.
Roughness and burning in throat.
Tough, whitish mucus in the throat, which is loosened only after great exertion.

Longing for sour drinks.
No desire for his smoking tobacco.

After eating apples with mutton, fulness in stomach with peevishness and ill-humor, also fulness in head.
After every meal flatulent distention.
After smoking tobacco sensation as if diarrhœa would set in.
After eating pears, especially morning or forenoon, pressure in pit of stomach, which disappears on walking.

Hiccough after eating (also of infants).
Nausea: in morning; immediately after waking, with inclination to vomit; after drinking water, mucus and bitter vomit.
Vomiting food and mucus.

Pain in region of stomach after heavy lifting; pain extends to the small of back where it is of a stitching character; so severe that during the night she cannot turn without pain; better in the morning.

Pressure in left hypochondrium.
Cutting in left hypochondrium on walking rapidly, as if a hard, sharp, movable piece was there with sensation in abdomen as if only hard pieces in it, and these were in motion.
Pressure in right hypochondrium.
Cutting in right hypochondrium, extending downwards across bowels, followed by diarrhœa, evacuation sudden.

Flatulent distention after every meal.
Pain in abdomen, as if diarrhœa would set in.
Pinching in abdomen with diarrhœa.
Stitching and pressing pain in groin.
Belly soft, flabby and sunken.

Stools: frequent, soft, light yellow, slimy with faintness and weariness; region or brown diarrhœic; painless, at first frothy, thin and brown, later cadaverous-smelling, containing bits of yellow feces; colorless or slimy; green, preceded by crying (infant).

Severe, urgent desire to urinate.
At night must rise several times to urinate.
Desire to urinate, without being able to pass a drop.
The infant urinates every ten or twelve minutes, and frequently cries and screams before the passage.
Hot urine.
Pungent smell of the urine.
Smarting in the urethra after urinating.

Indifference to coition.

Menses too early, too profuse, and attended with colic and nausea.
Leucorrhœa like the white of egg, with sensation as if warm water were falling down; leucorrhœa and sterility; acrid leucorrhœa midway between menstrual periods.

Labor-pains accompanied by violent and frequent eructations.
Milk is too thick and tastes badly; often curdles soon after it has been drawn.
Constrictive pains in left mamma when child nurses the right one.
Griping and sometimes stitches in left mamma, and when the child has nursed she is obliged to compress the breast with the hand, because it aches on account of being empty.

Tearing in larynx extending to chest, exciting cough.

Respiration difficult.
Obliged, every few minutes, to take a quick, deep breath, which is every time followed by a stitch in right side of chest, with a subdued painful sigh and slow exhalation.
Shortness of breath after ascending stairs, so that he cannot speak a word; later, when he speaks, has stitch in right side of chest.

Hacking and violent cough, with slight expectoration from the chest, of moldy taste and smell.
Musty expectoration, with pain through the chest to back.
Dry, cachectic cough, especially in morning when rising and evening when lying down; with stitching pain in right chest and right flank, relieved by pressure; washing the chest with cold water affords the most relief; after drinking wine the pains aggravated.
Cough with expectoration of white mucus streaked with blood.

Tightness in the chest.
Stitches in chest when yawning, coughing or breathing deeply.
Stitches in right side of the chest in the region of the nipple, with every paroxysm of cough.

Circulation irregular, face bluish, especially around the mouth, nose and eyes with blue look of finger-ends and feet; with attacks, during which the child became prostrate and as if suffocating.
Sensation as if the heart were on the right side and were being squeezed.
Pulse somewhat accelerated.

Stitches between the ribs of the right side; cannot lie upon that side on account of the pain, with sensitive drawing and obstruction of breathing, has to catch for breath; if during sleep, he lies on the painful side, the pains awake him immediately.

Rheumatic drawing pains in the nape of the neck, extending to the left shoulder and then into the scapula; evening, when walking in the open air.
Pain in the back; when walking; as from pressure, when sitting, or stooping.

Drawing and tearing pain in and between the shoulders, so that he cannot stoop.
Tearing and breaking sensation in right wrist.
Burning, heat and redness of the fingers during slight cold, as if frost-bitten.
Throbbing pain in the tip of thumb, day and night, frequently waking from sleep, at night.

Erysipelatous inflammation and swelling on the left leg and foot, after violent dancing, with tearing, tension and burning in it; increased burning pain when touched; on pressure redness disappears for a moment.
Pain in the hill as if sore from walking.
Stitches in sole.
Burning, heat and redness of the toes during slight cold, as if frost-bitten.

Restlessness in the body, which does not permit him to sit or lie long in one place.
Walking: 15, 18, 31, 33. Downward motion: 8. Ascending: 2, 26. Motion of tongue: 11. Sitting: 31. Stooping: 31, 32. Lying on painful side: 30.

Weakness especially in abdomen and limbs.
Trembling in the whole body, especially in hands, with nausea and weakness of knees.

Sleeps more than usual.
Wakes uncommonly early, 3 A.M., cannot fall asleep again for two hours, on account of heat in the whole body, especially in the head, with sweat on the thighs.
Child cried out during sleep, as if frightened.
Lascivious dreams, she dreams of coition.

Day and night: 32. Morning: 5, 7, 15, 16, 17, 27, 40. 10 A.M.: 3. Forenoon: 15. Afternoon: 1, 40. Evening: 5, 27, 31, 40. Night: 5, 17, 21, 32. 11 P.M.: 1. 3 A.M.: 37.

Symptoms worse in very warm weather.
Open air: 31. Cold: 4. Change of weather: 4. Wet weather: 10. Washing with cold water: 27.

Chill and chilliness mostly during sleep.
Chill predominating, especially in afternoon and evening.
Chill and heat alternating.
Chill from uncovering.
Flushes of heat morning and evening.
Hot head, mouth and palms, of infant.
Sweat during the morning sleep.

Every few minutes: 26.

Right: 5, 6, 7, 8, 18, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 32. Left: 5, 6, 7, 10, 18, 24, 31, 33, 46. Right to left: 5. Above downwards: 5, 18, 31. Upper right and lower left.

General emaciation.
Parts which are usually red, turn white.

Touch: 9, 33. Pressure: 24, 27, 33; of teeth (chewing): 12. Scratching: 46. Lifting: 17.

Sensation as if a cobweb were lying upon the skin of face or hands.
Unhealthiness of the skin; slight injuries suppurate.
Severe itching on the back of the finger-joints, must scratch them violently.
Excellent remedy in psoriasis.
Red papulous eruption on the cheeks and around the skin.
Herpetic eruption on the nates.
Old wounds and ulcers are inclined to reopen and suppurate.
Ulcer in the left axilla.

Antidotes to Borax: Chamom., Coffea.
Inimical to Borax: Acetum, Vinum.

Dilutions are made from a solution composed of one part dissolved in ninety-nine parts of distilled water.

A tissue remedy, allied to the potashes and to Silicea. ▶ Its action on mucous membranes is marked by a tendency to aphthous ulceration (Compare Mercury). ▶ The peculiar nervous phenomena are very characteristic and unlike any other remedy.

Study in close relationship Silicea.

▶ The infant became pale and nearly earthy-colored, flesh soft and flabby, cries much, refuses the breast and screams out anxiously in sleep. ▶ General trembling, especially in hands, while meditating at his work, with nausea and weakness of knees. ▶ Restlessness; while eating, amel. stretching backward, with nausea; after animated conversation, with nausea, stupefaction and vertigo.

Weakness; with heaviness of feet; with indolence, fretfulness, thirst after the midday sleep, heat when walking in open air, sweat on head and face, confusion of head, pressure in forehead and eyes, which pain on touch as if sore, inclination to breathe deeply, and when doing so sticking in intercostal muscles, with hard, quick pulse; of joints; especially in abdomen and limbs.

Violence; with scolding and swearing at trifles. ▶ Fretfulness; every day at 4 P.M.; in afternoon before the easy stool, with indolence and discontent, after it liveliness, contentment and cheerfulness in regard to the future; F., with whining and crying. ▶ Irritability during important business. ▶ Crying violently at intervals (in a child).

▶ Anxiety increased till 11 P.M. with sleepiness, then vertigo and sleep; A. (In a child) when dancing and if rocked in the arms anxious expression of face during the downward motion; on riding down hill, feeling as if it would take away his breath; with rumbling in abdomen. ▶ Fright, with starting at a distant shot; with starting in every limb on hearing an anxious cry; (in a baby) at hawking and sneezing; on waking, the rustling of a paper or dress or the slamming of a door would cause the child to start, scream and seem badly frightened, when laying her down she would start and throw up her hands as if afraid of falling, and some nights they could not put her down at all. ▶ Fear of contagion.

▶ Idling through the afternoon, changing from one business to another and from one room to another. ▶ Disinclination to work. ▶ Earnestness. ▶ Liveliness in forenoon, with affectionate mood and desire for work. ▶ Voluptuous mod. ▶ Vanishing of thoughts. ▶ Obliged to reflect long before he can remember what he has done through the day, and for a long time is uncertain whether he was at a place yesterday or to-day.

Extreme anxiety, especially in children, especially from motion which have a downward direction, rocking, being carried down-stairs or laid down, there is starting as in great fright; this dread of a downward motion is extremely characteristic of the drug.

Aching in morning, especially in forehead; at 10 A.M., with nausea and trembling in whole body; evenings, with confusion of head and sticking in left ear. ▶ Throbbing during menses, with roaring in ears. ▶ Lightness, clearness. ▶ Confusion of waking. ▶ Heaviness. ▶ Fulness in morning, amel. after walking in open air, with lack of clear idea of presence of mind and of desire for mental work, leaving weakness in feet and joints; F. on ascending a mountain or steps; with pressure about eyes as if held fast, so that he can scarcely move them; with pressure in small of back when sitting and with sleepiness in eyes. ▶ Vertigo in morning in bed; in morning, with full feeling in forehead, so that he lost his good humor; in evening when walking, as if some one had pushed him from right side towards left ; in attacks, with loss of presence of mind.

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Weakness and emaciation.
General malnutrition.
A child becomes pale and soft, cries and refuses to nurse, and screams out in sleep.

Great inclination to start, especially fear of falling.
Anxiety during a downward motion.
A child starts in fright on attempting to lay it down, or on carrying it downstairs.
Fright at every noise, and starting in every limb.
Fretfulness; much anxiety.

Confused aching, with nausea and trembling of the whole body.
The hair becomes tangled at the tip, so that it cannot be combed out; and if the tangles are cut off, they readily form again.

The eyelashes turn inward and inflame the eye.
The margins of the lids become very sore near the outer corner.
Agglutination at night.

Stitches in the ears.
Roaring in the ears.

Ulceration in the left nostril toward the tip, with sore pain and swelling.
Dry crusts constantly form in the nose.

Face pale, earthy, with suffering expression.

Hollow teeth become painful, particularly in wet weather.
The gums become painful, boils form, with swelling of the cheek and side of the face.
The tongue becomes aphthous.
Red blisters on tongue.
Pain on every motion or touch.
Palate wrinkled.
Palate shriveled, as if burnt, with pain on eating.
Aphthæ on the side of the cheek.
Bleeding with eating.
Infant's mouth becomes very hot; child cries when nursing.
Taste bitter or lost.

Tough, white mucus collects in the throat, which it is difficult to expectorate.

Distention after eating, with ill humor and general sick feeling.
Pain after lifting; extends to the small of the back.

Flatulent distention after each meal.
Pains, as if diarrhœa would ensue.

Diarrhœa soft, light yellow.
Diarrhœa morning.
Evacuations, preceded by crying from colic.

Frequent urging to urinate, ineffectual.
A child cries before urinating, and holds the urine as long as possible, seeming to dread it.
Urine hot; smarting after urinating.
Urine of pungent odor.

Menstruation too early, and profuse, with griping and nausea; pain extending to small of back.
Leucorrhœa like the white of an egg, with sensation as of warm water flowing.
(Membranous dysmenorrhœa. Leucorrhœa precedes and follows the menses, albuminous and acrid.)

Cough, hacking and violent, and with every paroxysm expectoration, having a mouldy taste and smell.
Expectoration sometimes streaked with blood.
Stitching pains in the chest, caused by a deep breath, which the patient must take frequently.
Arrest of breath when lying down; must jump up and catch the breath, which causes a stitch in the right side.
The stitching pain in the right side of the chest > washing the chest in cold water, worse from taking wine.

Contractive pains in the left breast when the child is nursing the right.

Stitching pains, particularly in the soles of the feet, and in old corns.

Cannot sleep after 3 A. M. on account of heat, especially of the head.
The infant cries out of sleep, and anxiously grasps its mother, as if frightened.
Worse especially after 4 A. M.

BORAX VENETA. BIBORATE OF SODA.

This crystalline salt is useful for soldering and as flux in technical works. This salt in its crude form was originally for several centuries, brought by the Venetians from the East Indies, especially from lakes in Thibet ; therefore it is still called borax veneta ; it afterwards was refined by the Dutch, by a process which they kept secret, and was then brought into commerce. In later times, however, it has been manufactured by the French, by an addition of soda to a kind of boracic acid brought from some hot springs and lakes of Tuscany in the neighborhood of Sasso. Borax consists of 22 parts boracic acid, 32 parts soda and 46 of water in the hundred ; it is consequently not fully neutralized by its acid (acidum boracicum, sal sedativum Hombergii), which appears in shiny scales, of a taste slightly acid, and which is yet to be proved as to its pure, and surely important, symptoms. In household practice, borax has been for a long time empirically used in solution against the aphthæ of children and for facilitating the labor-pains of parturient women. Antidotes of borax are : Coffea cruda against its sleeplessness and headache ; Chamomilla against the pains of the swelling of the cheeks. Wine aggravates the symptoms, especially those of the chest, and vinegar reproduces the ailments that have been already removed, especially the stitches in the chest. The symptoms marked (Sr.) were observed by Dr. Schréter, of Hungary, in various persons.

[] Borax appears for the first time in this edition, and Hahnemann's symptoms contributed to its pathogenesis were doubtless observed on patients. Some at least of "the several persons" on whom Schréter observed his symptoms would seem to have been of this kind, though 107 of the latter, first appearing in Hartlaub and Trink's Annalen, may have come from provings on the healthy with the usual 30th dilution. -Hughes*.

Great anxiety with great drowsiness ; the anxiety increased till 11 P.M. when the person became dizzy and went to sleep.

Anxiety, with weakness, trembling in the feet and palpitation (while being mesmerized) (3d d.). [Sr.].

Anxiety with rumbling in the abdomen (aft. 10 h.). [Sr.].

Very timid, in driving down a mountain ; quite at variance with his customary bearing ; he felt as if it would take his breath away (the first 5 weeks). [Sr.].

[5] The child is timid while being dandled ; when it is rocked up and down in the arms it makes a very frightened face during the downward motion (the first 3 w.). [Sr.].

Apprehension and fear of infection.

Timid, both the and she are startled by a shot at a distance. [Sr.].

Timid, an anxious scream causes terror to fall on all his limbs (aft. 4 w.). [Sr.].

The suckling is startled at expectoration and sneezing. [Sr.].

[10] Irritability in an important business (8th d.). [Sr.].

Very serious (1st d.). [Sr.].

Peevish and cross (2d d.). [Sr.].

The child is cross, weeps and cries, contrary to its habit (the first days). [Sr.].

Very cross at 4 P.M. and peevish, even when he was in a good humor before, and the then reproaches people for slight matters, for several days (aft. 8 d.). [Sr.].

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Bor. / Boer.

Borax- Thou doth soon erase,
Sense of cobweb on the face.
Cure a case of Aphthae sure,
Or a cankered aperture.
Burning palms, or urine hot,
Or in chest a stitching spot.
Dread of downward motion steep,
Or an out-cry in the sleep.
Pains before the monthly drain,
Pains that ease from pressure gain.

The Boer,-Has Sense of Cobweb on the face.

The Boer, Alf Gray, is a brother to the barber, Rans.

This Boer,- Who is subject to Aphthae,- Is in hiding with the Sour Kid McPhyto, the Arab.

Sense of Cobweb on the Face: Bor., Alu., Graph., Brom., Bar. c., Ran. s.

Aphthae-Mouth Canker: Bor., Hyd., Mur. a., Nit. a., Kal. i., Mer. c., Phyt., Ars.

Indicated in diseases of children, especially in aphthous sore mouth, usually accompanied with diarrhoea; here the nervous dread of the downward motion is a reliable indication; Has been highly recommended in epilepsy and membranous dysmenorrhoea.

Child cannot bear downward motion as in swinging, rocking, being carried downstairs. For the same reason it awakens when fast asleep as soon as the nurse puts it into bed.

Anxious expression of the face; easily frightened; nervous.

Sensitiveness to sudden noises.

Feeling of cobwebs on the face.

Hair rough and frowzy; cannot be combed smooth; gets into snarls; splits; sticks together.

Granulated eye-lids; lashes are gummed together in the morning; eyes are sore and itch in the canthi.

Mouth hot and tender; aphthae: ulcers in the mouth, tender and bleed easily when touched on account of the sore mouth the child refuses to nurse or eat.

Diarrhoea of soft, light yellow, slimy, pappy stools. Diarrhoea of green stools in children.

Sterility.

Leucorrhoea like the white of egg and with a sensation as though there were an escape of warm water.

Worse from downward motion; from sudden noises; in warm weather.

Better from pressure; in the evening; from cold water.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Stinging, or drawing, stinging pains.

Weakness in the joints.

Nausea and giddiness from exertions of the mind.

Aphthae of the mouth and tongue, which bleed easily.

Parts which are usually red, turn white.

Unhealthy, easily suppurating skin.

Aggravation from descending (fear of falling in children when they are carried downstairs) - from laughing, or after menstruation.