BORAX.
Natrum biboracicum (2BO2Na.B2O.310H2O). Sodium biborate.
Preparation
, Triturations.
Authority.
1, Hahnemann,
H. Ch. Kn., 2, 281; 2, Schreter, ibid.; 3, Fischer, Z. f. V. Œst., 1857, p. 217, provings with tinct. of
Borax (Borax 5 grs., Alcohol 100 drops), on pellets; 4,
Dr. J., Inaug. dis., Berlin, 1845, experiments with powdered Borax.
MIND.
► Voluptuous mood
(after five weeks), [2]. ►
Very cheerful, lively, affectionate, with desire and liking for all work, in the forenoon
(sixth day), [2]. ►
The child cries at intervals very violently, ceases after a few minutes, and is again
contented and playful, [2]. ►
Very earnest (after one day), [2]. ► Low-spirited and peevish (second day), [2]. ► *Very anxious on riding rapidly
down a hill, contrary to his custom; he feels as though it would take away his breath
(first five weeks), [2]. ►
The child becomes anxious when dancing; if one rocks it in the arms it has an anxious expression of the face during the downward motion
(the first three weeks), [2]. ►
Anxiety with rumbling in the bowels (after ten hours), [2].
► *Great anxiety, with great sleepiness; the anxiety
increased until 11 o’clock in the evening, when the person became dizzy and
sleepy, and fell asleep, [1]. [10.]
► Anxiety, with weakness and trembling in the feet, and
palpitation (when mesmerizing), (after three days), [2].
► *Fright; both he and she start up at a distant shock,
[2]. ► *Fright; he
starts in all his limbs on hearing an anxious cry (after four weeks), [2]. ► *The baby is
frightened at hawking and sneezing, [2]. ► Dread and fear of contagion, [1].
► Irritable during important business (after eight days),
[2]. ► The child is
fretful, whines and cries, contrary to its custom (first day), [2]. ► Very fretful in the
afternoon at 4 o’clock, and peevish, although he was in good humor previously; he rebukes
people for trifles, for several days (eighth day), [2].
► *Before the easy stool in the afternoon, fretful,
ill-humored, indolent, and discontented; after it, lively, contented with himself and the
world, and looking cheerfully into the future (after twenty days), [2]. ► Violent; he scolds and
swears at trifles (first day), [2]. [20.] ► Violent, fretful,
ill-humored (first day), [2]. ►
He does not become offended, and is indifferent to things which usually vex him very much
(curative action), (fifteenth day), [2]. ► Pleasure and activity in his business (curative action),
(after five weeks), [2]. ►
At times his thoughts vanish (fourth day), [2]. ► *He idles through the afternoon, does not really yet at his work;
changes from one business to another, from one room to another; does not keep at one
business, [2]. ►
Disinclined to work; he does only what he is obliged to as if by force (the first five
weeks), [2]. ► He
is obliged to reflect a long time, until he knows everything that he has done through the
day; for a long time he is not certain whether he had been at a place yesterday or to-day
(sixth day), [2].
HEAD.
► On walking, head
confused, [4]. ►
The whole head confused, with stitching in left ear, evening (first day), [3]. ► Vertigo, in the morning in
bed (fifth day), [2]. ►
Vertigo in the evening when walking, as if some one pushed him from the right side towards
the left (fifth day), [2]. [30.]
► Attacks of vertigo, with loss of presence of mind
(third day), [2]. ►
Giddy and full feeling in the forehead in the morning, so that he immediately lost his good
humor (fourth day), [2]. ►
Light, clear head (sixth day), [2]. ► Heaviness in the head (first day), [2]. ► Headache, with confusion of
the whole head, and sticking in the left ear (first day), [2].
► Fulness of the head on ascending a mountain or steps
(fifth day), [2]. ►
Fulness in the head and pressure about the eyes, as if they were held fast, so that he can
scarcely move them, [2]. ►
Fulness in the head and pressure in the small of the back when sitting, together with a
sleepy sensation in the eyes (seventeenth day), [2]. ► Fulness in the head in the morning, with lack of clear ideas
and presence of mind, so that he is unable to perform any mental work, and has no desire for
it; after walking in the open air he is better, but still feels great weakness in the feet
and joints (second day), [2]. ►
Aching in the whole head, with nausea, inclination to vomit, and trembling in the whole
body, in the morning at 10 o’clock (in two female provers at the same time),
(second day), [2], [3].
[40.] ► Dull pressive
headache in the morning, especially in the forehead (first day), [2]. ► During menstruation,
throbbing in the head and roaring in the ears, [2]. ► Headache in the forehead, with sticking in the left ear, and
a hollow lower back tooth on the left side, in the evening (fourteenth day), [2], ([3]). ► Drawing pain in the forehead extending towards the eyes
(fourth day), [2]. ►
Pressive drawing headache in the forehead above the eyes and towards the root of the nose,
at times extending into the nape of the neck; on stooping a severe pressure in the frontal
bone; when writing and reading the pain becomes much more violent, with pressure in the
region of the spleen (sixth day), [2]. ► Dull pressure in the forehead (sixth day), [2]. ► Pressive headache above the
eyes; soon disappears when walking in the open air (fourth day), [2]. ► Sticking headache over the
eyes and in the temples, alternating with heat and coldness, so that at one time the hands
were very hot, at another quite blue, with sticking in the swollen glands in the neck, which
afterwards became softer and smaller (fourteenth day), [2].
► Twitching pain in the forehead, with nausea and tearing
in both eyeballs, in the afternoon (first day), [2], ([3]). ► Throbbing in the
forehead, [2]. [50.]
► Sticking from the right temple to the left half of the
forehead, [2]. ►
Pressive sticking in the right temple (eleventh day), [2].
► Rhythmical pressive dull sticking in the right temple
(fortieth day), [2]. ►
Throbbing in both temples (fourth day), [2]. ► Throbbing headache in both temples, especially in the right
(sixteenth day), [2]. ►
Headache in the vertex and forehead, in the evening (second day), [2], ([3]). ► Boring in a small spot in the vertex (twentieth day), [2]. ► Tearing in the
vertex in the forenoon, with a great roaring in the ears (eighth day), [2]. ► Stitches, transient, in the
left side of the head in the vertex, afterwards transient stitches in the genitals, and in
the following night lascivious disgusting dreams, in a married woman (first day), [2]. ► Stitches deep in
the right side of the head, with discharge of pus from the right ear; stitches so violent
that he involuntarily drew back his head, together with tickling in the left ear, such as
precedes a discharge, followed by very acute hearing (thirty-second day), [2]. [60.] ►
Tearing in the left half of the head, starting in a hollow tooth (fourth day), [2]. ► Throbbing headache
in the occiput, as if it would suppurate there, with shivering over the whole body, lasting
the whole night and following day (second day), [2], ([3]). ► Pulsating rush of
blood into the occiput (sixteenth day), [2]. ► Sensitiveness of the external head to cold and change of
weather, [1]. ► *As in
Plica Polonica, the child’s hairs become entangled at the tips and stick together, so that
they cannot be separated; if these bunches are cut off they form again (for ten
weeks), [2].
EYES.
► The infant becomes
very red around the eyes when crying (fourth day), [2].
► Sensation in eyes as if something had fallen into them,
which disappears on rubbing, first in the right eye, then in the left, four times during
half the day, and returning next day at noon (seventh day), [2],
[3]. ► Burning in
the eyes and momentary contraction of them as soon as he removes the glasses (after six
days), [2]. ►
Pressive burning in the right eye, in the afternoon (third day), [2]. ► Pressure above the eyes
from time to time (tenth day), [2]. [70.] ► Pressure in the right
eye very painful, as if it would be pressed into the orbit, in the morning (after five
weeks), [2]. ►
Sensation in the right eyelid, while sitting, as if something pressed out from within, from
between the skin coming from the temples; immediately followed by pressure around the eyes
(fourth day), [2]. ►
Cutting in the left eye lengthwise, coming and going suddenly (thirty-seventh day), [2]. ► In the left eye,
three stitches in succession, evening (third day), [2],
([3]). ► Itching in
the eyes, with a sensation at times as if sand were in them (fourth day), [2]. ► *The lashes turn inward toward
the eye and inflame it, especially in the outer canthus, where the margins of the lid are
very sore (sixth week), [2]. ► Inflammation of the margins of the lid in an infant; he rubs
the eyes and at night they are agglutinated (first day), [2].
► Inflammation of the left eye in the inner canthus,
with nightly agglutinations (first days), [2]. ► *Inflammation of the right eye in the external canthus, with
irregularity of the lashes; agglutination of the eye at night (thirty-fifth day),
[2]. ► At night the
eyes are agglutinated with hard, dry mucus, which irritates the eyes like sand (fifth week),
[2]. [80.] ► In the morning the eyes are agglutinated and lachrymate
(fifth day), [2]. ►
In the evening it is difficult to close the lids, and in the morning difficult to open them
(fifth week), [2]. ►
Pressive pain in the upper lid on opening the eye, [2].
► Soreness in the external canthi (after five weeks), [2]. ► Lachrymation of
the eyes (eighth day), [2]. ►
Itching in the internal canthus, so that she must frequently rub it (first days), [2]. ► Tearing in both
eyeballs, with a twitching in the forehead, and nausea in the afternoon [2], ([3]). ► Stitches in the eyeball, with contraction in the right upper
lid (eighth day), [2]. ►
Obscuration of the left eye in the evening; she was obliged to make great exertion, but
still saw nothing (ninth day), [2], ([3]). ► Sensitiveness of the eyes
to the candlelight in the evening (third day), [2]. [90.] ► *Flickering before the
eyes in the morning when writing, so that he does not see distinctly; there seem to be
bright moving waves, now from the right to the left side, now from above downward, several
mornings in succession (after twenty-four days), [2].
EARS.
► Inflamed hot
swelling of both ears, with a discharge of pus from them (twenty-seventh day), [2]. ► Purulent discharge
from both ears preceded by itching in the occiput (nineteenth day), [2]. ► A purulent discharge from
the ears, with sticking headache (after thirty-two days), [2].
► A previous discharge from the ears ceases (curative
action), [2]. ►
Suddenly a sensation as if the ear were enveloped or stopped, [1].
► Pain in the ear; a sensitive pressure behind the right
ear (after six days), [2]. ►
Stitches in the ears (after six weeks), [2]. ► Stitches in the ears in the morning when washing in cold
water (after three days), [2]. ►
Stitches in the left ear, on waking unusually early (fourth day), [2], ([3]). [100.] ► Stitches in the left ear,
in two provers (after fourteen days), [2]. Stitching
in left ear (in a man), (fourteenth day), [3]. ► Stitching in the left ear, with headache in the forehead, and
stitching in left, lower, hollow, molar tooth (in a female), evening (fourteenth day), [3]. ► Sore pain in the
ear on boring in with the finger (thirty-second day), [2].
► Itching in the left ear, and sore pain after removing
the ear-wax, in the evening, when walking; at the same time a kind of sticking in the left
side of the neck (nineteenth day), [2]. ► Difficult hearing in the left ear, in a child five years old
(ninth day), [2]. ►
Crackling in the left ear, as if thick wax were in it which stopped the ear, which the
opened again, in the evening (tenth day), [2], ([3]). ► Dull drumming in
the left ear, as if over a suterranean vault (fourteenth day), [2], ([3]). ► Ringing and piping in the right ear, which afterward changed
to a roaring (twentieth day), [2]. ► Roaring and ringing in right ear (eighth day), [2], ([3]). [110.] ► Roaring in the ears,
and much difficult hearing (eighteenth and nineteenth days), [2].
► Rushing in the left ear as from a storm (third and
fourth days), [2].
NOSE.
► The infant rubs his
nose vigorously with the hands, and then the eyes (fifteenth day), [2]. ► (*Red and shining swelling of
the nose, with throbbing and tensive sensation), [1].
► *In the upper and forepart of the left nostril, towards the
tip of the nose, a small boil, with sore pain and swelling of the tip of the nose
(tenth day), [3]. ►
*Ulceration in the left nostril, in the forepart, in the tip, with sore pain and swelling of
the tip of the nose (tenth day), [2]. ► *Many dry crusts in the nose, which constantly form again after
being removed (after sixteen days), [2]. ► Sneezing, with great painfulness; he tries to stop it, since
it causes severe sticking in the right side of the chest; for three weeks (after six days), [2]. ► Sneezing and
fluent coryza (first days), [2]. ►
Fluent coryza with much crawling in the nose (after sixteen days), [1]. [120.] ►
Discharge of much greenish thick mucus from the nose, [2].
► Bleeding from the nose (after twenty-five days), [2]. ► Bleeding of the
nose in the morning, and in the evening pulsating headache (after six days), [2]. ► Some blood is usually
discharged on blowing the nose, preceded by itching in the nose (eighteenth day), [2]. ► Itching and
crawling in the nose; he is obliged to put his finger into it (after twelve days), [2].
FACE.
► *Erysipelas in the face
(after thirty-four days), [2]. ► *The face of the infant looks pale, suffering, earthy
(first day), [2]. ►
Swelling of the face with pimply eruptions on the nose and lips (first days), [2]. ► Swelling, heat and redness
of the face, with tearing pain in the malar bone, and severe pain in the swelling when
laughing (thirty-first and thirty-second days), [2]. ► A feeling in the right side of the face, by the mouth, as if
cobwebs had formed there, [2]. [130.] ► Dull tearing in the
left cheek, starting from a hollow tooth, with pressure in the forehead and in both eyeballs
(after four days), [2]. ►
Red inflamed swelling as large as a pea on the lower lip, with burning soreness when touched
(forty-first day), [2]. ►
Twitching of the muscles near the right corner of the mouth several times, [2]. ► Burning in the upper lip
below the left nostril, in the morning in bed (seventh day), [2],
([3]). ► Burning
pain in the lower lip, soon passing away, in the evening (third day), [2], ([3]). ► 4 A.M., sensation in the lower lip like the crawling of
insects (fourth day), [3]. ►
Crawling on the lips as from beetles (second day), [2].
MOUTH.
► Teeth and Gums.
► A piece broke out of a hollow tooth of itself (after
six days), [2]. ►
The teeth seem too long (first day), [2]. ► Toothache in an upper hollow tooth, with burning of the
cheek, which pains as if tense when touched (after seven days), [2]. [140.] ►
Constrictive griping in a hollow tooth (after four days), [2].
► Toothache in a hollow tooth, dull griping, in wet rainy
weather, in five provers, [2]. ► Aching in the hollow teeth in bad weather (after forty days),
[1]. ► Dull,
pressive boring in the hollow teeth in the evening, in cool air (first day), [2]. ► Pressive-digging toothache,
after every supper and breakfast; is relieved by tobacco smoking; for several days (after
forty days), [2]. ►
Drawing pain in the teeth, [1]. ►
Fine intermitting stickings in all the teeth, mostly in a hollow back tooth in the left
lower jaw (second day), [2], [3]. ► Sticking toothache in a
left lower hollow back tooth, with sticking in the left ear and headache in the forehead, in
the evening (after fourteen days), [2], [3]. ► Tearing from the hollow
teeth into half of the head, if they are touched with the tongue, or if cold water is taken
into the mouth, [2]. ►
Tearing and griping in an upper hollow tooth, which seems to be larger than natural, so that
she cannot bite or clench the teeth; with inflammation and swelling of the gum as if a
gum-boil would form; in the evening the pain extends into the lower teeth, and then
disappears on going to sleep (fourth day), [2]. [150.] ► Crawling and tickling
in the lower incisors, followed by accumulations of saliva in the mouth (after seven days), [2]. ► Swelling of the
gum for three days, with pressure in the hollow teeth in bad weather (after forty days), [2]. ► *Inflamed large
swelling on the outer side of the gum, which pains severely (gum-boil), with dull pain in a
hollow tooth; swelling of the cheek and whole left side of the face, as far as below the
eye, where there is an elevated œdematous swelling (smelling of Chamomilla
relieves the pain), (after thirty-six days), [2]. ► The gums of the upper teeth bleed without pain (after six
days), [2]. ► Tongue.
► *An aphtha on the tongue (after thirty-three
days), [2]. ► *Red
blisters on the tongue, as if the skin were eroded; they pain on every motion of the tongue,
or if anything salt or sour touches them (after five weeks), [2]. ► Dryness of the tongue in
the afternoon (third day), [2]. ►
Falling asleep of the tongue, so that respiration is impeded, [3].
► Cramp in the tongue, as if stiff and gone to sleep, so
that breathing is impeded thereby), [2], ([3]). ► Mouth. ► *Aphthæ in the mouth (after four weeks), [2]. [160.] ► *An aphtha in the inner side of the cheek, which bleeds when eating
(after thirty days), [2]. ►
*The infant’s palate was wrinkled and it cried
frequently when nursing (after four weeks), [2].
► The mucous membrane of the forepart of the palate is
shrivelled as if burnt, and pains, especially when chewing, for several days
(after six days), [2]. ►
Slimy mouth (first day), [2]. ►►
*The mouth of the infant was very hot, [2].
► Pain in the corners of the mouth, as if they would
ulcerate (after twenty days), [2]. ► Copious cold saliva, [4].
► Taste. ► *The
taste is flat and insipid (after five days), [2].
► *She had no taste when she ate anything, for several weeks
(after eight days), [2]. ►
The soup has no taste at dinner; it causes sweat (eighth day), [2]. [170.] ► *Bitter taste; if she eats anything or swallows saliva everything
tastes bitter (second day), [2], ([3]).® 2000
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