Boracicum Acidum bor-ac.

Boracic Acid

Used as an antiseptic disinfectant, since it arrests fermentation and putrefaction.

Pain in region of ureters, with frequent urging to urinate. Coldness (Heloderm). Diabetes, tongue dry, red, and cracked. Cold saliva.

Multiform erythema of trunk and upper extremities. Œdema around eyes. Exfoliating dermatitis. Œdema of tissues around eyes.

Climacteric flushings (Lach; Amyl nit). Vagina cold, as if packed with ice. Frequent urination with burning and tenesmus.

Third trituration.

When the diplococcus of Weichselbaum is present in the sputum of pharyngitis or bronchitis, pneumonia with tenacious sputum, hacking cough and pain, five-grain doses six times daily. A solution of Boracic Acid, as an injection, in chronic, cystitis, or, a teaspoonful to a glass of hot milk, taken internally. Boro-Glyceride in solution (1:40) is a powerful antiseptic. Styes, 15 gr to 1 oz water externally. As a dusting powder on ulcerated surfaces. In cystitis as an irrigating fluid.

Boric Acid. H 3 BO 3 . Solution of crystals in alcohol.

Antiseptic. Climacteric flushings. Erythema. Eyes, affections of. Headache. Impetigo. Œdema. Renal colic. Vomiting. Whitlow. Wounds.

Poisonings and provings with Bor. ac . have caused: headache; vertigo; noises in the ears; prostration; cold saliva; vomiting of tough, greenish stuff; uncontrollable vomiting; sweat on scrobiculus cordis; hiccough; pasty stool; pain in region of ureters or increased urine and increased call to urinate; albuminuria; erythematous eruption on face, body, and thighs followed by pearly vesicles on face and neck. Three cases of poisoning have been reported from packing the vagina with the dry acid, kept in by tampons till liquefaction took place. Symptoms were: Formication of hands and feet, later of face. Sad spirits, great nervous depression. Burning skin; it became swelled and charred, and all motion was painful. One case went into collapse; temperature subnormal; sighing and weeping by turns. The patients were cold; vagina felt "cold as if packed with ice." Coldness is a prominent feature, as cold saliva. In the 3x Cooper has found it give great relief in climacteric flushings. In connection with the skin effects may be mentioned the case of a woman who took gr. xxx per diem of the acid for a month, when there appeared a multiform erythema of trunk extending to upper limbs; at the same time there appeared a painful swelling of upper lids with conjunctivitis and photophobia. Finally the œdema was so intense as to close the eyes and give the appearance of sclerosed tissue. The symptoms began to abate when the Bor. ac . was discontinued, and disappeared in a week. Bor. ac . has been largely used as an antiseptic dressing for wounds, as a lotion for the eyes and for whitlow, and as a wash in catarrh of the bladder. It is much less irritating than Carbolic acid . But it also has produced skin eruptions. Symptoms > after walking in open air.

Compare: Borax, Carbolic acid, Kali bi. (tough mucus).

Low spirits, nervous depression. — Sighing and weeping by turns. — Apathetic.

A gastric headache. — Headache, vertigo, noise in ears.

Intense œdema closing eyes, conjunctivitis and photophobia.

Much cold saliva. — Tongue dry, furred, difficulty in moving it; dryness in throat.

Nausea and heaviness in stomach > after walking in open air. — Vomiting of tough mucus, strongly alkaline. — Vomits greenish stuff.

Pain in region of ureters. — Frequent and urgent desire to urinate. — Quantity of urine doubled. — Albumen in urine.

Vagina packed with it felt cold as if ice had been used. — Climacteric flushings.

Collapse. — Formication of hands and feet; later of face.

Impetigo figurata first on r. thigh then on left. — Burning skin. — Multiform erythema and hard œdema.

Coldness; temperature subnormal.

For internal use a solution of the crystals may be made (1 to 99), or trituration for the first decimal.

General discomfort, amel. walking. ▶ Confusion of head in morning on waking. ▶ Gastric headache. ▶ Much cold saliva. ▶ Hawking. ▶ Nausea, amel. walking in open air, with heaviness in stomach. ▶ Retching, with vomiting of tough mucus and alkaline fluid. ▶ Heaviness and restlessness in stomach till dinner. ▶ Rumbling in abdomen in afternoon and two scanty, pasty stools. ▶ Pasty stools. ▶ Pain in region of ureters. ▶ Frequent urging to urinate. ▶ Copious urine. ▶ On right thigh vesicles, which continually extended and became covered with crusts, in middle, a spot surrounded by new vesicles, which were moist when broken, afterwards this eruption extended to right leg, then passed over to left leg.

A solution of Boracic acid is frequently used as an injection in chronic cystitis, with marked benefit.