BORAX.
RESPIRATORY APPARATUS.
►
Tearing in the larynx, in the evening (third day), [2].
► Dry hacking in the child, [2]. ► *Hacking and violent cough,
with slight expectoration, of a mouldy taste and of the
same smell, from the chest, with every paroxysm of cough;
in the evening (third day), [2]. ►
Night cough, [1]. ►
Cough, with scraping in the throat and pressure in the chest (first day), [2]. ► *Dry cachectic cough, as in
old people, especially in the morning on rising and in the evening when lying down, with sticking in the right side of the chest and right flank;
washing the chest with cold water afforded the most relief, but
after drinking wine the pains were aggravated; for twelve days (after three
weeks), [2]. ►
Cough, with expectoration of mucus, mostly in the morning, with pain in the region of the
liver, which still continues until noon (fourth day), [2].
[340.] ► Streaks of blood
in the mucus, when coughing up a white mucus which is difficult to loosen
(eighteenth day), [2]. ►
Respiration difficult (after eighteen days), [2]. ► Respiration difficult; he is obliged to breathe deeply, which
he cannot do on account of stitches in the chest (the first days), [2]. ► *Every three or five minutes he
is obliged to take a quick, deep breath, which is every time followed by a stitch in the
right side of the chest, with a subdued painful sigh and slow expiration (after
seven days), [2]. ►
*Arrest of the breath when lying in bed; he is obliged to jump up and catch for breath every time he has a stitch in the right side of the chest (after
seven days), [2]. ►
Shortness of breath after ascending steps, so that he cannot speak a word, and when he
speaks he has every time a stitch in the right side of the chest;
so also in running or on any exertion of the body which heats him (after eight days), [2].
CHEST AND HEART.
► The milk
is increased (fourth day), [2]. ►
Much milk flows from the breast, so that the bed becomes wet (after thirty-two days), [1]. ► The milk which
flows from the breast becomes cheesy and curdled (the first days), [2]. ► Anxiety in the chest in the
evening, in bed (first day), [3]. [350.] ► Oppression of the
chest in the evening, in bed (first day), [2]. ► Heaviness on the chest, so that for a time she cannot breathe
(after six weeks), [2]. ►
Weakness in the chest, with dryness in the throat (ninth day), [2]. ► At every attempt to breathe
the chest becomes contracted (fourteenth, fifteenth, and seventeenth days), [2]. ► Tightness of the chest,
with constrictive oppression of the breath on ascending steps; he is then obliged to take a
deep breath, which is accompanied every time by a sensitive drawing stitch in the right side
of the chest (sixth day), [2]. ►
Pressive tightness, extending from the pit of the stomach into the chest when sitting
stooped; it impedes respiration and causes a sticking in the lung (seventh day), [2]. ► Drawing pain in a
small spot in the intercostal muscles, which changes on bending toward the left side into a
pain as from a severe blow, [2]. ►
Pressure in the chest, [2], ([3]). ► During a deep inspiration
a sensation as if something with a burning pressure arose from the left hypochondrium into
the chest and sank down again on expiration, [2]. ► Pressing on the chest, with scraping in the throat and cough
(first day), [3]. [360.]
► Pain in the pectoralis major muscle, as from a hard
bed, with soreness on touch, at night (third day), [2],
([3]). ► Tearing
from the larynx into the chest, provoking cough (after five weeks), [2]. ►► *With every cough and
deep inspiration sticking in the chest (after seven days), [2]. ► *Stitches in the chest as
from incarcerated flatus (first days), [2]. ► Stitches, as with fine needles, from the back of the chest,
in the evening (after eight days), [2]. ► Stitches in the chest when yawning, coughing, and breathing deeply
(seventh day), [2]. ►
When lying quietly stretched out upon the back the chest feels somewhat better, [2]. ► Pains in the chest
are mostly relieved by walking slowly about the room; he then feels most comfortable, [2]. ► *Contractive pains in
the left breast when the child nurses the right (first days), [2]. ► *Gripings and sometimes
stitches in the left mamma, and when the child has nursed she is obliged to compress the
breast with her hand, because it aches on account of being empty, [2]. [370.] ►
Drawing pain in the right intercostal muscles if he bend forward and to the right (after six
days), [2]. ► *With
every paroxysm of cough sticking in the right side of the chest in the region of the nipple;
in the evening (third day), [2], ([3]). ► Stitches
immediately in the right side of the chest if he raises the arm (seventh day), [2]. ► Stitches in the
left ribs, with soreness internally in the chest, [2].
► With every inspiration stitching in the left side of
the chest as with a knife (second day), [2]. ► *Stitches between the ribs of the right side, so that he cannot lie
upon that side on account of the pain, with sensitive drawing and obstruction of breathing,
so that he has to catch for breath; if he lies upon the painful side the pains immediately
awaken him from sleep (first four weeks), [2].
► Stitching in the region of the left ribs, with aching
in the chest; cough with expectoration of mucus several times during the day, especially in
the morning; with a pain in the region of the liver, which also continues without the cough
till noon (fourth day), [3]. ►
If he holds the painful side with the hand, on account of the pain in the chest, it is
somewhat relieved, [2]. ►
When coughing he is obliged to press the right side of the chest and flank with the hand,
whereby the pains are tolerable (the first three weeks), [2]. ► Sticking pressure on the
sternum after dinner, increased by deep inspiration (fortieth day), [2]. [380.] ►
A feeling as if the heart were on the right side and were being squeezed (seventh day), [2].
NECK AND BACK.
► Rheumatic
drawing pain in the neck, which extends to the left shoulder and then into the
shoulder-blade, in the evening when walking in the open air (forty-first day), [2]. ► Pain in the back,
when sitting and stooping, as from pressure (third day), [2].
► Pain in the back when walking (first day), [2]. ► Pain in the back,
with much mucous discharge with the stool (nineteenth day), [2].
► Burning in the back while sitting (fifth day), [2]. ► Dull backache when
stooping (sixth day), [2]. ►
Dull pressure in the back (seventh day), [2]. ► Pressive pain in the back on both shoulders, [2]. ► Stitches in the right
lumbar region, increased by stooping, in the morning, while walking, relieved when sitting
(first day), [2].
UPPER EXTREMITIES.
[390.] ► Drawing and tearing pain in the shoulder and between the
shoulders, so that he cannot stoop, for eight days (after five weeks), [2]. ► Momentary stitches as with
needles in the right shoulder, [2]. ► Pressure on both shoulders, [3].
► Burning pain in the upper arm a hand’s breadth around
the whole arm (second day), [2]. ►
Sticking in the palm, with a feeling in the whole hand, extending above the wrist, as if the
arm had gone to sleep, in the evening (second day), [2],
([3]). ► Tearing
and breaking sensation in the forepart of the right hand, as if rheumatic (after fifteen
days), [2]. ►
Burning heat and redness of the fingers, even from slight cold, as if they had been frozen
(after twenty-four days), [2]. ►
Throbbing pain in the tip of the thumb day and night, frequently waking him from sleep at
night (second and third days), [2].
LOWER EXTREMITIES.
►
Burning pain on the left thigh a hand’s breadth around the whole limb (eighth day), [2]. ► A burning in the
right thigh near the pudenda, which is increased by cough or laying the hand upon it (third
day), [2]. [400.] ► Transient tearing in the bone of the right thigh, extending
from the middle downward and up again, from morning till noon, and again in the evening
(seventh day), [2], ([3]).
► Erysipelatous inflammation and swelling of the left leg
and foot after violent dancing, with tearing tension and burning in it, and increased
burning pain when touched; on pressure with the finger the redness disappears for a moment
(seventeenth day), [2]. ►
Numb sensation with heat in the left lower leg, [1]. ► In the foot where the erysipelas was a tension on the back,
so that standing became difficult; she was not prevented from walking (twenty-second day), [2]. ► A feeling of
heaviness in the feet on ascending steps, in the evening (first day), [2], ([3]). ► Formication and trembling of the feet, with nausea and
tendency to faintness; disappears when walking in the open air (fourteenth day), [2]. ► Pain in the heel,
as if sore from walking, [2]. ►
Stitching in the sole of the foot (in two persons at the same time), (second
day), [2], ([3]).
► Inflammation and itching on the balls of the little
toes as from freezing (fifteenth day), [2]. ► Sensitive burning pain in the great toes, especially in the
balls, particularly when walking (after forty-one days), [2].
[410.] ► Pain in the
joints of the toes of the left foot on stepping, as if something pressed them (twentieth
day), [2]. ►
Frequent stitches in the corns, particularly in rainy weather (first days), [2]. ► Boring stitches in the
corns, relieved by pressing upon them (first five weeks), [2].
GENERALITIES.
► *The infant
becomes pale, nearly earthy-colored; the previously firm flesh becomes soft and flabby; he
cries a great deal, refuses the breast, and frequently screams out anxiously in his sleep
(first three weeks), [2]. ►
While meditating at his work, trembling in the whole body, especially in the hands, with
nausea and weakness of the knees (eighth day), [2]. ► Restlessness in the body, which does not permit him to sit or
lie long in one place (first day), [2]. ► After an animated conversation restlessness in the body,
nausea and stupefaction and vertigo (third day), [2]. ► During a meal restlessness in the whole body, with nausea, so
that he could only eat with effort; stretching backward afforded relief (after twenty days),
[2]. ► She feels
very weak and powerless (after five weeks), [1]. ► Weakness, especially in the abdomen and limbs (fourth day), [2]. [420.] ► Loss of power in the joints (fifth day), [2]. ► Prostrated, weak and tired,
with heaviness in the feet (first days), [2]. ► Weak, indolent, fretful, thirsty after the midday sleep, with
heat when walking in the open air, and worse on the head and face, with confusion of the
head, pressure in the forehead and eyes, which pain on touch as if sore; together with
inclination to breathe deeply, and when doing so, sticking in the intercostal muscles, with
hard, quick pulse, [2].
SKIN.
► *Unhealthiness of the
skin; slight injuries suppurate and ulcerate, [2].
► Two hard wartlike indurations on the inner surface of
the hand, after it had been beaten somewhat strongly with a stick (after thirty days), [2]. ► Whitish pimples,
as large as flaxseed, with red areola, on the chest and throat, as far as the nape of the
neck (sixth week), [2]. ►
Inflamed pimples on the back of the little toe, which pain like corns (fifteenth day), [2]. ► Papulous eruption
in the face (after four days), [2]. ► Red papulous eruption on the cheeks and around the chin, in
the infant (after five weeks), [2]. ► A corroding blister forms upon the nates (fifteenth day), [2]. [430.] ► Large herpetic spots upon the mouth, and the upper lip very
scurfy, follow burning heat, [1]. ► Herpetic eruption on the nates of the child (after four
weeks), [2]. ►
Pustule with red areola on the middle finger of the right hand, with swelling and stiffness
of the finger, which continues to suppurate and pain after the opening of the pustule (after
thirty days), [2]. ►
Old wounds and ulcers are inclined to suppurate, [2]. ► Long-continued suppuration of a place under the thumb nail,
where she had stuck a needle, with painfulness to touch, [2].
► A suppurating spot in the heel, which had been rubbed
by the shoe, [2]. ►
An ulcer in the left axilla, [1]. ► Violent itching and crawling on the os coccygis so that he
cannot help scratching, followed by a discharge of mucus from the anus (after thirty-two
days), [2]. ► A
feeling as if a cobweb were lying upon the skin of the hands, [2].
► Itching here and there on the backs of the hands, with
irritation to scratch, as if bitten by fleas, [2]. [440.] ► *Severe itching on the
backs of the finger joints, so that he is obliged to scratch them violently, [2]. ► Itching on the
malleoli (second, ninth, and tenth days), [2].
SLEEP AND DREAMS.
► Very
sleepy and tired in the evening, [1]. ► Sleepiness at midday, and deep sleep for two hours (eighth
day), [2]. ► Sleep
early in the evening, and long sleep in the morning, for four weeks (after eight days), [2]. ► *The child at the
breast sleeps more than usual, but wakes frequently (first days), [2]. ► Much sleep in the twilight,
but when he went to bed sleep disappeared, although during the day he had taken much
exercise, and had slept but little the night previous (after seven days), [2]. ► Falls asleep late and wakes
early (after six days), [2]. ►
He wakes before midnight, and cannot sleep till 2 o’clock, [2].
► He wakes at 1 o’clock in the night, and cannot sleep
again till 4, on account of much thinking (ninth day), [2].
[450.] ► *She wakes
uncommonly early, at 3 o’clock; she cannot fall asleep
again for two hours, on account of heat in the whole body, especially in the head,
with sweat on the thighs (eleventh and twelfth days), [2], ([3]). ► He wakes at 4 o’clock in the morning, and is quite wide
awake, so that he goes to work with cheerfulness (after five weeks), [2]. ► Very wide awake in the
evening, [1]. ►
Restless sleep; she could not sleep, but tossed about the bed (twenty-first day), [2]. ► Restless night; he
could not sleep well on account of rush of blood to the head, restlessness of the body,
rumbling in the abdomen and diarrhœa (first days), [2].
► *A child five years old tosses about, cries the whole night
till 4 in the morning, frequently out of its sleep, and in the morning is in a whining mood;
the infant frequently cries out of its sleep, and anxiously grasps
its mother, as if it had been frightened by a dream (first two weeks), [2], ([3]). ► Restless sleep, with thirst and coldness (first day), [2]. ► He can sleep only
on the left side; as soon as he turns upon the right side he is awakened by drawing-sticking
pains in the right intercostal muscles (seventh day), [2].
► A feeling as though he had not slept enough in the
morning, [1]. ►
Voluptuous dreams (thirtieth day), [2]. [460.] ► At night, lascivious
disgusting dreams (in a married woman), (first day), [3].
► She dreams of coition, but without pleasurable
sensation (fourth day), [2]. ►
Vexatious dreams, [2]. ►
A dream of sore throat and other diseases, [1].
FEVER.
► Shivering over the
whole body at night and the following day, with throbbing pain in the occiput, as from
suppuration (second day), [2], ([3]). ► Chilliness over the whole
body, especially in the back, without thirst, with flat taste, rawness of the larynx,
stitches in the chest when breathing, weakness, prostration, stretching of the limbs,
contracted quick pulse, together with heat, heaviness, and stupefaction, and in the head,
burning of the eyes, with sensitiveness to light (twenty-third day), [2]. ► A chill at night, from 2 to
4, with trembling, vomiting of the food, tearing in the thighs and pain in their bones, as
though they would be broken, followed after sleep by heat and thirst; afterwards, at
half-past eight in the morning, bitter vomiting, followed by sweat, with diminished thirst
(second day), [2]. ►
Coldness, with headache and subsequent heat, without thirst; on walking in the open air, the
headache ceases, and she feels quite well (fourteenth day), [2].
► Coldness every second day, in the afternoon, with
thirst and sleep, followed, on waking, by heat, with pressive pain in the inguinal ring,
without subsequent sweat (thirty-eighth day), [1]. ► With the erysipelatous inflammation of the lower leg, first
coldness, shivering, and thirst, with vomiting of food and bile, followed by heaviness in
the head and throbbing in the temples, with restless sleep at night, only slumbering, and
afterwards (on the sixth day) nose-bleed, [2]. [470.] ► Coldness in the
afternoon, from 2 to 6 (after thirst in the forenoon); then until going to sleep, heat, with
pressive pain in the left hypochondrium (fifth week), [2].
► Coldness immediately after eating, with more thirst
than appetite for dinner, and tensive drawing backward around the hypochondria, and heat
suddenly rising into the head on taking a deep breath; then heat in the evening, at 6,
during which he must lie down until 10, then sweat, and after the sweat thirst, for four
days (fifteenth day), [2]. ►
At one time coldness, at another heat, frequently with sweat in the face, during which
coldness runs up the back, with stretching of the limbs, with weariness and sleepiness, so
that he is obliged to lie down in the afternoon, without, however, being able to sleep; when
walking, he drags the feet, and is fretful and taciturn, [2].
► Heat if she puts the hands under the bed-covers; as
soon as she puts them out she becomes cold again (fifth day), [2].
► Heat in the evening, in bed, and sweat, but immediately
on rising he becomes chilly (seventeenth day), [2]. ► Burning heat and redness of the toes, with some coldness, as
after freezing (after twenty-four days), [2]. ► Flushes of heat frequently in the morning, with nausea and
inclination to vomit (second day), [2]. ► The infant has a hot head, hot mouth, and hot palms
(fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh days), [2]. ► Heat in the head in the evening, when writing, with thirst
and sensation as if sweat would break out (seventh day), [2].
► Burning heat and redness of the left cheek (after four
days), [2]. [480.]
► Perspiration at night, [1].
► Sweat during the morning sleep; when dressing he feels
cold, and is seized with a dry cough, with rawness in the chest, as after taking cold
(fifteenth day), [2].
CONDITIONS.
► Aggravation.
► (Morning), In bed,
vertigo; giddy, etc., feeling in head; at 10 o’clock, aching in
whole head, etc.; headache; pressure in right eye; when writing, flickering
before eyes; when washing in cold water, stitches in ears; on waking unusually early,
stitches in left ear; nose-bleed; in bed, burning in upper lip; hawking of mucus; throat
rough; thirst; nausea, etc.; after eating peas, pressure
in pit of stomach, etc., pinching, etc., in abdomen; desire for stool; till 2 P.M.,
diarrhœa; on waking, erection; on rising, dry cough, etc.; etc.; stitch in region of left
ribs; on stooping, while walking, stitch in lumbar region; flushes of heat; during sleep,
sweat. ► (Forenoon),
Cheerfulness, etc.; tearing in the vertex; from 4 o’clock till noon, pain in region of
stomach; after eating peas, pressure in pit of stomach, etc.; tearing in thigh-bone. ► (Toward noon), Diarrhœa,
etc. ► (Noon),
Nausea, etc.; sleepiness. ► (Afternoon),
At 4 o’clock, fretful; before stool, fretful, etc.; pain in forehead; boring in eye; tearing
in eyeballs; dryness of tongue; from 3 o’clock till evening, nausea, etc.; frequent nausea,
etc.; diarrhœa-like stool; every second day, coldness, etc.; from 2 to 6 o’clock, coldness.
► (Evening), Head
confused; when walking, vertigo; headache in forehead, etc.; headache in vertex etc.;
stitches in left eye; obscuration of left eye; stitching in left ear; when walking, itching
in left ear, etc.; pulsating headache; burning pain in lip; in cool air, boring in teeth;
sticking toothache, etc.; great appetite; very little appetite; loss of appetite, etc.; in
bed, stitching in abdomen; stitches in rectum; itching in anus; tearing in larynx; hacking,
etc.; on lying down, dry cough, etc.; in bed, anxiety in chest; in bed, oppression of chest;
stitches from back of chest; with every fit of cough, sticking in side of chest; when
walking in open air, pain in neck; sticking in palm, etc.; tearing in thigh-bone; on
ascending a height, heavy feeling in feet; in bed, heat, etc.; when writing, heat in head,
etc. ► (Night),
Rumbling in abdomen; urging to urinate; sense of
distension, etc., in clitoris; pain in pectoralis major; shivering; from 2 to 4 o’clock,
chill, etc.; perspiration. ► (On
ascending a height), Fulness of the head; shortness of breath; tightness of
chest, etc. ► (On bending
forward and to the right), Pain in intercostal muscles. ►
(After breakfast), Toothache; vomiting; cutting in right
hypochondrium; diarrhœa. ► (At
every attempt to breathe), Chest becomes constricted. ►
(On deep breathing), Sensation in left hypochondrium; stitches in chest; pressure on sternum. ►
(After animated conversation), Restlessness, etc. ► (Coughing), Stitches in
pit of throat; stitches in chest; pain in right side of
chest; sticking in chest; burning in right thigh. ► (Dancing), Anxiety; pain
in left hypochondrium; inflammation in leg. ► (After dinner), Rumbling in abdomen, etc. ►
(Eating), Nausea; hiccough; distension, etc.; apples
with mutton, fulness in stomach, etc.; pain in abdomen, etc.; diarrhœa; coldness, etc. ► (During involuntary emission),
Pain in urethra. ► (After an
emission), Urging to urinate. ► (In any exertion of body which heats), Shortness of breath. ► (Hiccoughing), Pain in
right side of chest. ► (White
every inspiration), Stitching in chest. ► (During deep inspiration), Sensation as of something rising into
chest; sticking in chest. ►
(Laying on of the hand), Burning in right thigh. ► (After lifting), Pain in
stomach. ► (When lying in bed),
Arrest of breathing. ► (During a
meal), Restlessness, etc. ► (After every meal), Pressure in stomach; flatulent
distension. ► (While
meditating), Trembling of whole body. ► (During menstruation), Throbbing in the head, etc.; pain in groin, etc. ► (On opening eyes), Pain in upper lid. ►
(On raising arm), Immediately, stitches on right side of
chest. ► (Reading),
Pain in forehead. ► (When riding),
Nausea. ► (When riding in
carriage without springs), Feeling as of pressure with hands. ► (When sitting), Fulness
in head, etc.; sensation in right eye; burning in back. ►
(Sitting stooped), Tightness from pit of stomach into
chest; pain in back. ► (Sneezing),
Stitches in throat; pain in side of chest. ► (After smoking), Feeling as though diarrhœa would come on. ► (On stepping), Pain in
joints of toes. ► (Stooping),
Pressure in frontal bone; dull backache. ► (After supper), Toothache; abdomen distended. ► (Touch), Pain in urethra;
pain in penis. ► (On turning),
Pressure, etc., in kidney region. ► (Urination), Tension in urethra; smarting in urethra; cutting in
urethra. ► (On waking),
Head confused; immediately, nausea, etc. ► (When walking), Pain in back; pain in great toes. ► (On walking rapidly),
Cutting in left hypochondrium. ► (In wet weather), Toothache in hollow tooth; stitches in the
corns. ► (In bad weather),
Aching in hollow teeth; pressure in hollow teeth. ► (Drinking wine), Pains in chest. ►
(Writing), Pain in forehead. ►
(Yawning), Pain in right side of chest. ► Amelioration. ► (Morning), Pain in stomach. ► (Afternoon), After stool, lively, etc. ►
(Evening), On going into open air, distension, etc. ► (Walking in open air),
Headache; fulness in head; heaviness in stomach; formication, etc.; of the feet. ► (On bending double), Pain
in abdomen ceases. ► (After
dinner), Nausea disappears. ► (On continuing to dance), Pain in left hypochondrium disappears. ► (Hawking up mucus),
Rawness in throat. ► (Holding
painful side with hand), Pain in chest. ► (When lying quietly stretched out upon the back), Chest feels
better. ► (After midday nap),
Pain in abdomen, etc.; weakness, etc. ► (Pressure), Stitches in groins. ►
(Rubbing), Sensation in eyes. ►
(Sitting), Stitches in lumbar region. ► (Tobacco smoking),
Toothache. ► (Walking),
Pressure in pit of stomach; weakness in joints, etc. ► (Walking slowly about room), Pains in chest; feels most
comfortable. ► (Washing chest
with cold water), Sticking in chest, etc.® 2000
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