BORAX
The strongest characteristic of this drug is the great
fear of a downward motion of any kind. Children will spring up suddenly on being
laid down on the bed; patient is afraid to go downstairs; can’t swing, ride horseback, or
use a rocking-chair, so great is the dread of downward motion.Easily startled by any sudden noise, as the snap of a match, fall of a
door latch, rustling of a dress.Pleurisy-like pain in the right pectoral region, so the patient can’t
move or breathe without a stitching pain. Children may be sleeping quietly, when they awaken
very suddenly, screaming and holding on to the sides of the cradle, without any apparent
cause for their so doing.
Mental.–
Anguish and fear; peculiar; finds fault; becomes
vehement, swears. Does not wish to do anything.
Head.–
The hair is rough and frowzy, can’t be combed smooth;
gets into all kinds of snarls; splits; sticks together. Much vertigo; head aches all over,
with trembling of whole body and nausea.
Eyes.–
Affections of the margins of the eyelids and eyelashes;
the lashes become loaded with a dry gummy substance, so that they stick together in the
morning; granular eyelids. The eyelids turn in upon the eye. Cutting, stitches, itching in
eyes and canthi; very sore.
Ears.–
Affections of the left ear particularly. Itching;
stitches; discharge of pus.
Nose.–
Mucous nasal secretion; scabs and thick crusts in; also
green, thick mucus.
Mouth.–
Affections of the gums. Tender aphthć, so tender as
to prevent the child from nursing. Dull, griping pain in decayed teeth, in wet, rainy
weather; much of this sort of feeling.
Pharynx.–
Much tenacious mucus causing vomiting to detach.
Gastric.–
Distension from flatus after every meal; pain in
region of stomach, after lifting heavy weights, extending into small of back, quite
incapacitating one.
Stool.–
Mucous stool; light colored; brown watery; green in
infants. Three times a day with exhaustion. Stool before making water. Pinching in abdomen
with diarrhśa.
Sexual.–
Female:
Complaints after menstruation. Mucous leucorrhśa; transparent mucus after menses, feels as
if warm water were flowing. Sterility with concomitant symptoms.
Generalities.–
Parts which are usually white, turn red. Dingy,
unhealthy looking skin, which ulcerates easily on being injured.
Worse.–
In warm weather; after menstruation; from laughing:
before urinating; on descending; from sudden noises even though slight; smoking (which may bring on a
diarrhśa); damp cold weather.
Medicines which follow are:–
Calc.
carb., Nux vom.
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