A comprehensive archive of homœopathic materia medica

Article

BORAX. – THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PURE MATERIA MEDICA By TIMOTHY F. ALLEN, A.M., M.D.

Main

<<<<<


BORAX.


THROAT.

► Much mucus
accumulates in the throat, which he must expectorate, [2].
► Tough mucus in the throat, which is difficult to loosen
(after eighteen days), [2]. ►
Much tough mucus in the throat, which he must hawk up with much exertion, so that he vomits
(after six days), [2]. ►
*Tough whitish mucus in the fauces, which is loosened only after great exertion

(for several days), (after five days), [2]. ► A piece of mucus streaked with blood is hawked up (after nine
days), [2]. ►
Hawking of mucus in the morning; the mucus is easily raised in lumps, [2]. ► Green loose mucus is hawked
from the throat (after twelve days), [2]. ► Dryness in the throat (after five days), [2]. ► Roughness in the throat, as
if a grater were in it, [2]. [180.]
► Throat rough in the morning, [1]. ► Burning in the throat; this
causes him to swallow saliva, which is painful (ninth day), [2].
► Rawness in the pit of the throat, with drawing stitches
in it when coughing and sneezing, and with relief after hawking up mucus (eleventh day), [2]. ► Scraping in the
throat, causing a dry cough (after first day), [2]. ► Tickling in the throat, provoking a dry cough (after four
weeks), [2].

STOMACH.

► Appetite.
► Great appetite in the evening, [1]. ► Increased appetite for
breakfast (fourth day), [2]. ►
Appetite much less than usual (after five days), [2]. ► Less hunger and appetite than usual (first five weeks), [2]. ► Diminished hunger
and appetite, frequently however hunger without real appetite (after five days), [2]. [190.] ► He eats very little, [2].
► He has less appetite, especially for supper (after
eight days), [2]. ►
She has very little appetite in the evening for several weeks (after eight days), [2]. ► Loss of appetite,
nausea, drawings in the head from the vertex to the temples, and drawings from the abdomen
toward the groin, every evening for several days (fifth week), [2]. ► No appetite for dinner
(after twelve days), [2]. ►
No more desire for tobacco (second day), [2]. ► Thirst in the morning; he must drink a great deal (fourteenth
day), [2]. ►
Longing for sour drinks (fourteenth and fifteenth days), [2].
► Hiccough and Nausea. ►
The infant hiccoughs very often, [2]. ► Severe hiccough, which makes the throat raw, [1]. [200.] ►
Hiccough after eating (eighth day), [2]. ► Nausea, [2]. ► Nausea during eating (after nineteen days), [2]. ► Nausea with periodic
inclination to vomit (fifth day), [2]. ► Nausea in the morning, with inclination to vomit; disappears
after dinner (sixth day), [2]. ►
Nausea immediately after waking, with great inclination to vomit, which however does not
follow until he drinks water, when he vomits a large quantity of mucus and some bitter
substance, with great exertion (seventeenth day), [2].
► Nausea followed by vomiting of mucus, with heat and
rapid feverish pulse (after twenty-three days), [2]. ► Nausea even to vomiting when riding (first day), [2]. ► Nausea and little
appetite (fourth day), [2]. ►
Nausea in the stomach, with pain in the sternum, from 3 o’clock in the afternoon till
evening, several days in succession (after five days), [2],
([3]). [210.] ► Nausea and sick feeling even to fainting, in the morning
(sixth day), [2]. ►
Frequent nausea and faintness in the afternoon (after twelve days), [2]. ► Nausea at the thought of
eating, at noon, with coldness, drawing headache and pain in the abdomen, followed by three
attacks of diarrhœa (after twenty days), [2]. ► Vomiting. ► Vomiting
tough fluid substance, [4]. ►
Vomiting of sour mucus, after breakfast (of cocoa), (second day), [2]. ► Heaviness in stomach,
diminished by walking in open air, [4]. ► Epigastrium. ► Pain in
the stomach, as from bad digestion, on external pressure on the pit of the stomach (second
day), [2]. ► *Pain in
the region of the stomach after lifting something heavy; the pain goes into the small of the
back, where it becomes sticking, so that she cannot turn without pain the whole night; in
the morning better
(two days before the menses), (thirteenth day), [2], ([3]). ► *After eating, which he relishes, great distension, discomfort, sick
feeling and ill-humor
; in the evening, on going into the open air, somewhat
relieved (after forty-one days), [2]. ► After eating apples, with mutton, fulness in the stomach,
with peevishness and ill-humor; fulness in the head, as if the blood forcibly pressed into
it (nineteenth day), [2]. [220.]
► Constrictive pain in the region of the stomach (after
six days), [2]. ►
Constrictive pain in the region of the stomach every day from four in the morning till
twelve at noon, a kind of winding-up sensation, which extends to the spine, where it causes
a sticking, for several days in succession, [2], ([3]). ► Pressure in the
stomach (first day), [3]. ►
Pressure in the stomach after every meal (first days), [2].
► After eating pears, especially in the morning or
forenoon, pressure in the pit of the stomach, with discomfort, [2]. ► Pressure in the pit of the
stomach, which disappears on walking, [2]. ► Pressive-sticking in the stomach, with oppression of the
chest, which compels him to take a deep breath, which, however, he cannot do on account of
sharp pinching pain in the right side of the chest, [2].

ABDOMEN.

► Hypochondria.
► A sensitive pressure in the region of the spleen (first
day), [2]. ► In the
left hypochondrium, a feeling as of violent pressure, as with the hands, when riding in a
carriage without springs, [2]. ►
Pressure, and sometimes a burning, with a sensation in the left hypochondrium on deep
breathing, as if something rose up into the chest from the region of the spleen, which sank
down again on expiration (after six days), [2]. [230.] ► A pressure in the
left hypochondrium, from the lowest ribs to the hip-bone, which is increased by external
pressure, after a midday sleep till evening (second day), [2].
► Pressive pain in the left hypochondrium, as if a stone
lay there, when dancing; on continuing to dance it disappears (after fifteen days), [2]. ► On the second day
after menstruation pressure, as from a stone in the right hypochondriac region, extending to
the shoulder-blade, from which place the pain extends spasmodically into the stomach and
small of the back, followed by vomiting, [2], ([3]). ► Cutting in the
right hypochondrium soon after breakfast, extending downward across through the bowels,
followed by diarrhœa; evacuation sudden (third day), [2].
► Cutting in the left hypochondrium on walking rapidly,
as if a hard, sharp, movable piece were there, with a sensation in the abdomen as if only
hard pieces were in it much mixed up (after six days), [2].
► The drawing-sticking pain in the right side of the
chest extends down into the right flank, where it becomes exceedingly painful on
hiccoughing, sneezing, coughing, and yawning (three weeks), [2].
► Abdomen. ►
Rumbling in abdomen, [4]. ►
Much rumbling in the abdomen at night, relieved by passing flatus upward and downward, [2]. ► After dinner,
rumbling in the abdomen and diarrhœa (third day), [2].
► Much flatulence, [2].
[240.] ► Much
discharge of flatus, [3]. ►
Formation of flatulence and frequent passage of it, [2].
► Abdomen distended after supper (fifth day), [2]. ► *Flatulent distension
after every meal
(after five days), [2]. ► Weakness in the abdomen (fourth day), [2]. ► *Pain in the abdomen several
times through the day, as if diarrhœa would result
, [2]. ► Immediately after eating,
pain in the abdomen, as if diarrhœa would come on; disappears after a midday nap (second
day), [2]. ► *Pinching
in the abdomen
, at different times, [2]. ► *Pinching in the abdomen, with diarrhœa (after twenty
days), [2]. ►
Pinching constrictive pain in the abdomen above the navel, so that she is obliged to bend
double, then it ceases; daily in the morning for five minutes (after eight days), [2]. [250.] ► Griping pains in the abdomen, with shivering and gooseflesh
(after six days), [2]. ►
During menstruation, spasmodic dragging and shooting pain in the groin, [1]. ► Stitching in the abdomen,
in the region of the uterus, in the evening, in bed (second day), [3]. ► *At the time of the menses,
pain in the groin like stitching and pressing
; at the next period they were
absent, on account of which she received, six weeks afterwards, two pellets of Borax 1st, whereupon the menses appeared on the following day,
with griping in the abdomen, [3].

RECTUM AND ANUS.

►
Contraction in the rectum, with itching (after forty days), [2].
► Stitches in the rectum in the evening (after two days),
[2], ([3]). ► A swollen vein in the anus as large as a pencil, and painless
(second and third days), [2]. ►
Brown mucus in the anus after the stool (after nine days), [2].
► Boring-sticking pain in the anus and small of the back
(after fifteen days), [2]. ►
Itching in the anus in the evening (seventh day), [2],
([3]). [260.] ► Itching in the anus, as from hæmorrhoidal mucus (sixteenth
day), [2].

STOOL.

► After smoking, a
feeling as though diarrhœa would come on (sixth day), [2].
► Frequent desire for stool, with rumbling in the abdomen
and diarrhœa-like discharges (first days), [2]. ► Frequent desire for stool, with pinching in the bowels, and
easy, pasty evacuations, [2]. ►
Desire for stool in the morning; at first hard, then diarrhœa like discharge, with burning
in the anus (first day), [2], ([3]). ► Very soft stool in the
morning; in the evening the usual evacuation (after seven days), [2]. ► Frequent very easy stool every
day
(first days), [2]. ► Two scanty, pasty stools, [4].
► Diarrhœa-like stool in the afternoon, with much wind,
following a hard stool in the morning (fifth day), [2].
► Diarrhœa, two or three times, without pain (after one
hour), [2], ([3]).
[270.] ► The child
has three stools a day, the last like yellow water, [2].
► Stool every hour, soft, slimy, without other symptoms
(third day), [2]. ►
Diarrhœa during the first three days (in a subject constantly troubled with constipation), [3]. ► Diarrhœa after
breakfast, four times in succession (fourth day), [2].
► *Diarrhœa six times, from the morning till 2 P.M., without
pain
(fifth day), [2], ([3]). ► Diarrhœa, with rumbling
in the abdomen (first days), [2]. ► Diarrhœa sudden toward noon, with rumbling and grumbling in
the abdomen (fourth day), [2]. ►
Diarrhœa, without pain, twice a day, followed by discharge of mucus and blood (sixteenth
day), [2]. ►
Diarrhœa immediately after eating, with weakness in the joints and legs, which is relieved
after walking (first day), [2]. ►
The primary action of Borax is diarrhœa, followed by no stool for several days, afterwards
a hard stool daily, [2]. [280.]
► Soft stool (first three days), [2]. ► Hard stool, with straining
(sixteenth day), [2]. ►
Pale mucus passes four times, with the stool once involuntarily (fourteenth day), [2]. ►► *Soft,
light-yellow, mucous stool
, three times a day, with
weakness and exhaustion
(first days), [2]. ► *Green stool in the infant preceded by crying (sixth
day), [2]. ►
Tenacious, glutinous, yellowish mucus with the stool (eighteenth and nineteenth days), [2]. ► Reddish liquid
mucus with the stool, as if it was colored with blood (twenty-first day), [2]. ► Passage of blood and mucus
from the anus (ninth day), [2]. ►
Passage of round worms, [1]. [290.]
► Constipation, with fæces like sheep-dung for ten days
(after several days), [2], [3].

URINARY ORGANS.

► Pressure
and sticking in the region of the kidneys, increased on turning (after three days), [2]. ► Dark-blue spots at
the orifice of the urethra, as if the skin was off, with biting pain on urinating (after
twenty-four days), [2]. ►
The orifice of the urethra seems agglutinated with gum, [2].
► Burning tension in the urethra after urinating, [2]. ► Smarting pain
along the urethra, especially when touched (after twenty-six days), [2]. ► Smarting in the urethra after
urinating
(fifteenth, twentieth, and thirtieth days), [2]. ► *The orifice of the urethra
pains as if sore after urinating, [2]. ► During involuntary emission, cutting pain in the urethra; the
semen was so thin that he thought he urinated, [2]. ► *Severe urgent desire to urinate, so that he can scarcely hold the
urine
(first days), [2]. [300.] ► Severe urging to
urinate at night, several times (twenty-fifth day), [2].
► *At night he must rise several times to urinate
(after thirty-four days), [2]. ►
After an emission, urging to urinate, and on urinating cutting in the urethra, [2]. ► *Desire to urinate,
without being able to pass a drop
, with cutting in the genitals and distension in
both hips, for two hours (first day), [2], ([3]). ► Frequent
urinating (first days), [2]. ►
*The infant urinates nearly every ten or twelve minutes, and
frequently cries and screams before the urine passes, for a long
time (after six days), [2]. ►►
*Hot urine in the infant
(after four days), [2].
► *Pungent smell of the urine (first days), [2]. ► Pungent peculiar
smell of the urine (first two weeks), [2].

SEXUAL ORGANS.

► Male.
► Tensive erection in the morning on waking (fourth day),
[2]. [310.] ► Frequent excitement of the genitals without desire for
coition (first day), [1]. ►
Stitches in the genitals, soon disappearing (first day), [3].
► Sticking sore pain, especially when touched on the
penis at the margin of the place where a chancre formerly existed (after twenty-four days), [2]. ► While resting his
hands in a kind way upon a sick female he had sensual sensations without desire for coition
(third day), [2]. ►
Indifference to coition (first five weeks), [2]. ► He is obliged to wait a long time during coition for the
discharge of semen (after five weeks), [1]. ► Emission with dream of coition, whereby the semen came very
rapidly, which woke him, [2]. ►
On coition, the semen passes very soon, and there is a continual irritation in the genitals
(after five weeks), [1]. ►
Female.
► Easy conception during the use of
Borax observed in five women, [2]. ► A woman who had been sterile fourteen years on account of a
chronic acrid leucorrhœa, in addition to other remedies at last took Borax; she became
pregnant and the leucorrhœa improved, [3], [2]. [320.] ► Sticking in the region of the uterus (second day), [2]. ► Sensation of
distension and sticking in the clitoris at night (sixth day), [2].
► Leucorrhœa, white, like mucus, without other symptoms,
fourteen days after menstruation (after fifteen weeks), [2].
► *Leucorrhœa thick as paste and white, for five days
(after four days), [2]. ►►
Leucorrhœa like the white of an egg, with sensation as if warm water were flowing down
,
several days (after twelve days), [2]. ► Menstruation appeared one day too soon, without any trouble
(after four days), [2]. ►
Menses three days too soon, without any pain (after seven weeks), [2]. ► Menstruation four days too
early, without any trouble; only the evening and the morning preceding its appearance
heaviness on the chest, with difficult breathing and much roaring in the ears (after
twenty-six days), [2]. ►
*Menses four days too soon and very profuse, with gripings in the abdomen, nausea and pain
in the stomach, extending into the small of the back
, which lasted till midnight,
when a profuse sweat broke out and she fell asleep (eighth day), [2]. ► The menses omitted the
second month after taking the drug, but after she had taken a dose of Borax in the sixth
week appeared the next day, with pinchings in the abdomen, [2].
[330.] ► The menses,
which had omitted six weeks, appeared immediately after taking Borax, lasted one day and
again disappeared; it was so copious, however, that it seemed more like a hemorrhage, [2]. ► Suppression of the
menses for fifty-four days, without any trouble, then they appear, without pains at first,
somewhat pale; in the afternoon, however, redder and more profuse; they cease on the third
day in the night and return again on the fourth (they should have appeared three weeks after
taking the drug), [2]. ►
Menses two days very scanty, the third day very profuse, with pale-red blood, until the
sixth day, with weakness, so that she could scarcely stand, [2].

 >>>>>

® 2000

Main