Borax Veneta
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General EN
Borax.
Borax veneta. Natrum biboracicum. Sodium biborate. Na2 B4 O7 10H2O. Trituration and Solution.
Clinical EN
Aphthae. Corns. Dentition. Diarrhoea. Ear-discharge. Entropion. Erysipelas. Eyes, affections of. Finger joints, ulcers on. Herpes. Menstruation, painful (membranous). Nipple, sore. Nose, affections of. Pleurisy. Plica-polonica. Psoriasis. Screaming. Sea-sickness. Sterility. Syphilitic sore-throat. Taste, disordered. Trichiasis. Ulcers. Urine, strong-smelling. Vertigo. Zoster.
Characteristics EN
Borax has some very peculiar symptoms which will serve as keynotes to many cases. Chief among them are: (1) Sensitiveness to sudden noises, as a distant shot, which causes violent starting. (It has cured "shot-shyness" in sporting dogs.) (2) Intolerance of downward motions a child screams when nurse puts it into cot, or when she rocks it symptoms are worse going downstairs; sea-sickness (when the downward motion is felt most: "Every time the ship goes down, everything in me comes up").
Restlessness with ebullitions, especially after talking, with nausea. Laughter alternating with weeping. Cobweb sensations; sore mouth; infant pale, earthy, flesh flabby; screams out in sleep, wakes frightened and clings to nurse; excessively nervous, a slight noise arouses. Starts with pain.
Muco-cutaneous surfaces are sore; in the eyelids there is ingrowing of lashes. Otorrhoea and inflammation of auricle: "starts with the pains." Nostrils ulcerated; soreness, pain and swelling of tip of nose. Aphthae; mouth of child feels hot to mother's nipple; child lets go nipple and cries with pain and vexation, or else refuses breast altogether. Diarrhoea with pain or soft yellow stools accompanying aphthae.
Child screams before urinating (from inflammation of mucous membrane). Leucorrhoea clear, copious, albuminous, unnaturally hot. Painful nursing; pain after nursing; empty feeling in breasts; they ache because they are empty, > by pressure: this is characteristic. Dysmenorrhoea (may be membranous), pain excessive during flow.
Leucorrhoea preceding and following menses, albuminous, acrid. Herpetic eruptions; pleuritic symptoms (upper right chest) and cough, with expectoration of a mushy, mouldy odour. A notable symptom is: Before the easy stool in afternoon, fretful, ill-humoured, indolent, and discontented; after it, lively, contented, and cheerful. Another mental symptom is: Idles through the afternoon does not really get to work; changes from one business to another from one room to another.
It is suited to the period of dentition; to persons with light hair; lax skins and muscles; wrinkled skin consequences of getting cold in cold and wet weather; riding eating fruit. Symptoms are < in warm weather, < after menstruation. Parts usually red turn white. Many Natrum symptoms appear in the proving.
Stitching pains predominate.
Relations EN
Compare: Calc., Nux, Bry., Lyc., Merc., Puls., Rhus All. c., Sil., Sul., Ars., Bell., Graph., Ign., Kali bi., Phos. Antidoted by: Cham., Coff. Similar to: Am. c. and Mag. m. (right nostril stopped);
Calc. (inclination to breathe deeply); Kali bi. (tough mucus);
Aur. and Puls. (laughter alternately with weeping); Sars., Lyc., Benz. ac. (strong urine, crying before urination; but these three have gravel: with Borax it is from inflammation of mucous membrane);
Arum tri. (sore mouth); Graph. (trichiasis);
Bell. (hot leucorrhoea); Sep. (small ulcers about joints);
Bar. c. (cobweb-sensation); Nat. sul. (cheerful after stool).
Incompatible: Acet. ac., Vinegar, Wine.
Mind EN
Great anxiety, esp. when riding in a carriage or descending a mountain
Dread of downward motion; child has anxious countenance when laid in cot, or carried downstairs
Easily frightened and startled with least noise
Before stool irritable, cheerful and happy after
Fear of being infected by some contagious disease
Strong tendency to be frightened
Irritability
Disposition to be angry, with ill-humour and passion
Becomes vehement and swears
Does not wish to do anything
Dread of labour.
Head EN
Fits of vertigo, with fainting
Vertigo, with fulness in the head, esp. when going upstairs, or to any elevation whatever
Headache, with shootings in the ears
Headache (all over, with trembling of the body), with nausea and inclination to vomit, mostly at ten o'clock in the morning
Fulness in the head, and pressure above the eyes
Aching and drawing pains in the forehead, and as far as the root of the nose and the nape of the neck, increased by writing, by reading, and by stooping
Successive drawing pains in the forehead, with nausea, and acute drawing pains in the eyes
Shootings in the head, esp. above the eyes and the temples
Congestion in the head, esp. in the occiput, with pulsative pains
Sensibility of the teguments of the head to cold and to bad weather
Hair entangled, as in plica polonica; is rough and frowsy, splits; sticks together.
Eyes EN
Pressure on the eyes
Itching in the eyes
The eyes burn and are contracted on putting on spectacles
Inflammation of the eyes, esp. in the canthi, with excoriation of the edges of the eyelids, trichiasis, and nocturnal agglutination
Granular eyelids
Sparkling before the eyes when writing
Too great sensibility of the eyes to candle-light.
Ears EN
Shootings in the ears, with pain as of excoriation
Inflammation and swelling of the ears, with discharge of pus and shooting cephalalgia
Fits of stoppage of the ears and of deafness
Buzzing and murmuring in the ears, with acute, drawing pains in the top of the head
Affections of the l. ear particularly
Itching; stitches.
Nose EN
Itching in the nose, with tingling
Nostrils ulcerated, with swelling and pain, as of excoriation at the point of the nose
Dry scabs in the nose
Blood follows on blowing the nose
Red shining tip of nose; red noses of young women
Nasal haemorrhage, with pulsative pains in the head
Sneezing, with violent shootings in r. side of the chest
Accumulation of thick and greenish mucus in the nose.
Face EN
Complexion (in a suckling woman) wan, pale, and earth-coloured
Sensation in the r. side of the face as if it were covered with cobweb
Muscular palpitation in the corners of the mouth
Erysipelatous inflammation and swelling of the cheeks, with acute, drawing pains in the cheek-bone, aggravated by laughter
Eruption of pimples on the face, the nose, and the lips
Smarting in the lips
Tettery spots round the mouth, and scabs on the upper lip
Swelling of the lower lip, with burning and pain as of excoriation
Red papulous eruption on cheeks and around chin.
Teeth EN
Pressive and cramp-like pain in teeth which are carious, esp. in damp weather, sometimes with inflammatory swelling of the cheek, or swelling of the gums
Acute drawing pains in the teeth which are carious, spreading over the head, when they are touched with the tongue, or when cold water is applied to them
Pressive tingling in the teeth, immediately after supper, or breakfast, > by smoking tobacco
Shooting pains in teeth which are carious, with shootings in the ears, and headache
Ulcers in the gums, with inflammatory swelling of the cheek
Bleeding of the gums.
Mouth EN
Aphthae in the mouth and on the tongue, which bleed easily
Spasmodic stiffness and torpor of the tongue
Skin of the palate hard and wrinkled.
Throat EN
Dryness in the throat.—Tenacious mucus in the throat, with difficult expectoration.
Appetite EN
Bitter taste in the mouth on eating, or on swallowing the saliva
Loss of taste
Thirst in the morning
Desire for acid drinks
Appetite moderate, esp. at supper
Nausea and uneasiness during a meal
After every meal inflation of the abdomen, with diarrhoea and colic
Fulness and pressure in the stomach, with uneasiness and ill-humour, after having eaten fruit (pears and apples)
Colic, with tendency to diarrhoea after smoking tobacco.
Stomach EN
Nausea, with inclination to vomit, when riding in a carriage
Vomiting of sour mucus, when fasting in the morning or after breakfast
Pressure in the stomach after every meal
Contractive pains in the stomach, or a sensation such as would follow a strain in the loins, with shootings in the vertebral column and loins
Pain in region of stomach, after lifting heavy weights, extending into the small of back, quite incapacitating one.
Abdomen EN
Pain in the hypochondria, mostly pressive and in the l. side, and esp. when riding in a carriage
Pressure and shootings in the lumbar region
Pains in the hypochondria and in the lower part of the abdomen, as if hard and cutting bodies were moving in them
Pinching in the abdomen, with diarrhoea
Accumulation of flatus in the abdomen, and frequent escape of wind.
Stool And Anus EN
Evacuations frequent, soft, or loose, with pinching and borborygmi in the abdomen
Greenish evacuations (in children)
Slimy diarrhoea
Abundant flow of pale, yellowish, or brownish slime, and of blood from the anus, with pains in the loins
Itching, contraction, and shootings, in the anus and in the rectum.
Urinary Organs EN
Ineffectual urgency to urinate, with incisive pains in the urethra, and swelling in the lumbar region
Urgent inclination to urinate
Frequent emission of urine even in the night
Hot urine
Acrid fetor of urine
Soreness in the urethra after micturition, and esp. on being touched, even when not making water.
Male Sexual Organs EN
Absence of sexual desire
Erections, with painful tension, on waking in the morning
Gonorrhoea
Chancres studding prepuce
Stitches
Sticking, sore pain, < when touched.
Female Sexual Organs EN
Catamenia premature and too copious, of a pale red colour
During the catamenia, pulsative pains in the head, buzzing in the ears, nausea, with pains in the stomach and in the loins, or shootings and aching in the groin
Leucorrhoea, corrosive, and thick, like starch
Sterility
Acrid leucorrhoea, appearing for two weeks between catamenia, with swelling of labia and inflamed and discharging Duverney's glands
Stinging and distended feeling in clitoris
During pregnancy, swelling, itching, and burning of vagina, with a discharge like gonorrhoea
False pains
Labour pains: spasmodic; more in stomach than in uterus; dart upwards, head of child goes back
Griping and sometimes stitches in l. mamma, and when child has nursed she is obliged to compress the breast with the hand because it aches from being empty
Pain in the breasts when suckling
Flow of milk, which curdles speedily
Aphthae so tender they prevent child nursing.
Respiratory Organs EN
Acute, drawing pains in the larynx, extending to the chest, with inclination to cough
Hoarseness in the throat, with drawing shootings on coughing and sneezing
Dry cough, caused by a tickling and scraping in the throat, with pressure on the chest
Dry, hectic cough, with shootings in the r. side of the chest, and the groins, relieved by washing with cold water, increased by drinking wine
Nocturnal cough
Cough, with expectoration of the smell and taste of mould
On coughing, expectoration of mucus with streaks of blood.
Chest EN
Difficult respiration, with urgent want to inspire deeply, and shootings in the r. side of the chest
Constrictive oppression of the chest, esp. on going upstairs
Shortness of breath after having ascended the stairs, with shootings in the chest on speaking
Feeling of congestion, with heaviness in the chest
Shootings in the chest, esp. on the r. side, and principally on yawning, on coughing, on breathing deeply, on running, and during every physical effort
Drawing shootings in the intercostal muscles of the r. side, extending to the groins, augmented by the least movement of the chest or arms, with inability to remain lying on the side affected
Pains in the chest >, esp. when lying quietly on the back, or on walking slowly, and pressing the part affected with the hand.
Heart EN
Sensation as if the heart were on the r. side, and were going to be crushed.—Infants cyanotic from birth.
Neck And Back EN
Sharp and drawing pains between the shoulder-blades, on the shoulder, and in the nape of the neck, with inability to stoop
Furunculus in the arm-pit
Itching and crawling in the sacrum
Aching and burning pains in the sacrum, esp. when seated and when stooping.
Upper Limbs EN
Sensation in the hands, as if they were covered with cobweb
Pulsative pains in the extremity of the thumb, day and night, preventing sleep
Burning pains, heat and redness of the fingers, like chilblains
Pustules on the fingers, with swelling and suppuration of the affected limb.
Lower Limbs EN
Ulcerating vesicles on the buttocks
Burning pain in the thighs
Sensation as if warm water were running down thighs
Erysipelatous inflammation and swelling of the leg and of the foot, principally after having danced a long time, and sometimes with drawing pains, burning and tensive, esp. when touched
Great weakness and debility of the lower extremities
Shootings in the soles of the feet
Pain, as of excoriation, in the heel
Suppuration of a spot in the heel, where the rubbing of the shoe had occasioned a wound
Burning pains, heat and redness of the toes, as if from chilblains
Shooting piercing in the corns, esp. in rainy weather.
Generalities EN
Parts which are usually white, turn red Shooting and drawing pains Commencement and aggravation of sufferings from damp and unsettled weather, or during and subsequent to a meal Sufferings from riding in a carriage or from eating fruit
Uneasiness in the whole body, which does not permit one to remain long in the same place Restlessness and ebullitions, esp. after talking, with nausea Uneasiness, trembling nausea, giddiness, and vertigo, after an animated conversation, or when thinking Want of strength, esp. in the joints
Attacks of syncope, with tingling, trembling of the feet, and nausea.
Skin EN
Skin difficult to heal; dingy, unhealthy-looking skin; every injury tends to ulceration
Erysipelatous inflammations, with swelling and tension of the part affected, and fever
Erysipelatous inflammation on the lower leg, with chilliness, followed by heaviness and pulsation in the head; later, bleeding of the nose
Tendency of old wounds to suppurate
Whitish pimples, with red areola
Herpetic eruptions
Purulent and phagedaenic vesicles.
Sleep EN
Sleepiness during the day, and sleeplessness at night
Inclination to sleep long before the usual hour, and too long sleep in the morning
Restless sleep, in consequence of ebullition of the blood, of colic, and of diarrhoea
Waking too early, with difficulty in going to sleep again, from heat and too great a flow of ideas
Anxious cries of children, during sleep, with convulsive movements of the hands.
Fever EN
Shivering, shuddering, or cold with trembling, heaviness and weakness, or with cephalalgia and pains in the periosteum of femur, followed by heat
Chilliness, esp. during sleep
Flushes of heat (morning and evening)
Perspiration during the morning sleep
Coldness, most frequently in the afternoon; afterwards heat, with headache or pain in the hypochondria, sometimes followed by sweat
Thirst before or during the cold, or else after the sweat
Heat in the evening in bed, with shivering on being on the least uncovered
Moisture of the body during the night.