ACIDUM BORACICUM.
Boric acid; formula 7 (B2O3)54(H2O).
Preparation
, Solution of the crystals in alcohol.
Authority.
A. H. Z. 33, 15, S. J., took repeated doses of the
third dil. (from Inaug. Dis. on Borax and the Borates).
HEAD.
► Head unusually
confused on waking in the morning. ► A gastric headache.
MOUTH AND THROAT.
► Much
cold saliva in the mouth. ► Hawking.
STOMACH AND ABDOMEN.
►
Great nausea and heaviness in the stomach, which disappears after walking in the open air. ► Retching and vomiting of tough mucus, with watery fluid which
is very strongly alkaline. ► Vomiting of tough fluid
substances strongly alkaline (after sixteen minutes). ►
Heaviness and restlessness in the stomach till dinner. ►
Rumbling in the abdomen in the afternoon, and two scanty pasty stools.
STOOL AND URINARY ORGANS.
[10.]
► A pasty stool. ► A
moderately transient pain in the region of the ureters. ►
Frequent and urgent desire to urinate. ► Urine nearly
double the normal in amount.
GENERALITIES AND SKIN.
►
General discomfort, which disappears after a walk of two hours. ►
Some time after beginning the proving of the alkaline Borates, an eruption was noticed on
the right thigh, consisting of vesicles, which continually extended and became covered with
crusts; in the middle, a circumscribed spot as large as a ten-cent piece, surrounded by new
vesicles, which were very moist when broken (Impetigo figurata, Willan).
► After two months, this eruption extended to the right
lower leg; it then passed over to the left lower leg and disappeared, eight months after
first breaking out, and two months from the time of taking any medicine.
CONDITIONS.
► Aggravation.
► (Morning), On
waking, head confused. ► (Afternoon),
Rumbling in the abdomen, etc. ► Amelioration. ► (After walking in open air),
Nausea, etc., disappears. ► (After
a walk), General discomfort disappears.® 2000
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