BORAX

Homeopathic Materia Medica & Symptoms

Boericke's Materia Medica

  • Gastro-intestinal irritation
  • Salivation
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Colic
  • Diarrhea
  • Collapse
  • Albuminuria
  • Casts
  • Vesical spasm
  • Delirium
  • Visual changes
  • Hematuria
  • Skin eruptions
  • Dread of downward motion
  • Nervous symptoms
  • Epilepsy
  • Aphthous ulceration of mucous membranes
  • Extreme anxiety
  • Anxious expression of face during downward motions
  • Starts and throws up hands on laying down
  • Excessively nervous
  • Easily frightened
  • Sensitive to sudden noises
  • Violent fright from report of a gun
  • Fear of thunder
  • Aches with nausea and trembling
  • Hair tangled at tips
  • Lashes turn inward
  • Visions of bright waves
  • Eyelids inflamed
  • Lids cut against eyeball
  • Entropium
  • Very sensitive to slightest noise
  • Red nose of young women
  • Red and shining swelling with throbbing and tensive sensation
  • Tip swollen and ulcerated
  • Dry crusts in nose
  • Pale earthy face
  • Suffering expression
  • Swollen face with pimples on nose and lips
  • Feeling of cobwebs on face
  • Aphthae
  • White fungous like growth in mouth
  • Mouth hot and tender
  • Ulcers bleed on touch and eating
  • Painful gumboil
  • Crying when nursing
  • Bitter taste
  • Taste of cellar mould
  • Distention after eating
  • Gastralgia depending upon uterine disturbance
  • Pain as if diarrhea would result
  • Loose pappy offensive stools in children
  • Diarrhea offensive preceded by colic
  • Stools mucous with aphthous sore mouth
  • Hot smarting pain in orifice
  • Pungent smell of urine
  • Child afraid to urinate
  • Screams before urinating
  • Small red particles on diaper
  • Labor pains with frequent eructations
  • Galactorrhea
  • Pain in opposite breast during nursing
  • Leucorrhea like white of eggs
  • Sensation as if warm water was flowing
  • Menses too soon profuse with griping nausea and pain in stomach extending into small of back
  • Membranous dysmenorrhea
  • Sterility
  • Favors easy conception
  • Sensation of distention in clitoris with sticking
  • Pruritus of vulva and eczema
  • Hacking and violent cough
  • Expectoration moldy taste and smell
  • Stitches in chest with inspiration and cough
  • Cough with moldy taste breath smells moldy
  • Pleurodynia worse upper part of right chest
  • Arrest of breathing when lying
  • Out of breath on going up stairs
  • Feeling as of cobwebs on hands
  • Itching on back of finger-joints and hands
  • Throbbing pain in tip of thumb
  • Stitches in sole
  • Pain in heel
  • Burning pain in great toe
  • Inflammation of balls of toes
  • Eczema of toes and fingers with loss of nails
  • Psoriasis
  • Erysipelas in face
  • Itching on back of finger-joints
  • Unhealthy skin slight injuries suppurate
  • Herpes
  • Erysipelatous inflammation with swelling and tension
  • Chilblains relieved in open air
  • Trade eruptions on fingers and hands itching and stinging
  • Ends of hair become tangled
  • Voluptuous dreams
  • Cannot sleep on account of heat especially in head
  • Cries out of sleep as if frightened

Kent's Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

  • Aphthous conditions of the mouth extending to the throat and stomach
  • Genitalia and anus covered with aphthous appearances
  • Anxiety about trifles
  • Starts at every noise
  • Starts on hearing unexpected news
  • Starts from music
  • Starts from excitement
  • Anxiety aggravated from upward or downward motion
  • Worse from downward motion
  • Child cries out in fright when being laid down
  • Anxious feeling during downward motion or rocking
  • Intensified activity throughout the body
  • All senses are made more acute
  • Hearing is intensified
  • Oversensitive to surroundings
  • Over-anxious
  • Excitable spirit
  • Riding downhill produces vertigo
  • Nervous excitement
  • Fear and apprehension
  • Hysterical manifestations
  • Changes from one work to another
  • Restless
  • Nervous
  • Anxious
  • Excitable state
  • Child screeches and screams when dandled and tossed up and down
  • Motion of brain causes patient to lose himself
  • Confusion
  • Vertigo from motion
  • Anxious expression of face when rocked
  • Very anxious on riding rapidly downhill
  • Anxiety increased until 11 P.M.
  • Fretful
  • Ill-humored
  • Indolent state increased until there is a stool and relieved by stool
  • He starts on hearing an anxious cry
  • He starts on hearing an unexpected noise
  • He starts on hearing something drop
  • Aggravation from noise
  • Oversensitiveness to noise
  • Overexcitement of the nerves
  • While engaged in thinking at his work, strong nausea
  • Vertigo and fullness in head on descending a mountain or stairs
  • Constant vertigo, made intense on downward motion
  • Granular lids
  • Lashes turn inward towards eye and inflame it
  • Entropion
  • Granulation and thickening of the mucous membrane of the lid
  • Contractions and scars and drawing inward
  • Lower lids entirely inverted
  • Difficult opening of lids
  • Chronic inflammation of the mucous membrane of the nose
  • Catarrhal state with copious discharge from the nose
  • Crusts in the nose
  • Stoppage of the nose
  • White discharge from the nose
  • Yellow discharge from the nose
  • Greenish discharge from the nose
  • Face of the infant is pale and clay-coloured
  • Children have small vesicles around the mouth and on the forehead
  • Aphthae in mouth and on tongue
  • Red blisters on tongue
  • Vomiting after drinking
  • Buccal mucous membrane highly reddened
  • After every meal flatulent distension
  • Constant vomiting
  • Vomiting of sour slime
  • Stomach cough with pain extending into region of spleen
  • Frequent, soft, light yellow, slimy stools
  • Quantities of fluid like boiled starch are emitted from the anus
  • Thickening of the mucous membrane of the rectum
  • Stricture of the rectum
  • Urine burns so when it passes
  • Worse before urination
  • Frequent urination preceded by cries
  • Orifice of urethra pains as if sore, after urinating
  • Desire to urinate without being able to pass a drop
  • Takes away sexual desire
  • Benumbs the patient
  • Indifference

Allen's Keynotes

  • dread of downward motion in nearly all complaints
  • great anxiety from downward motion
  • when laying the child down on a couch or in the crib, cries and clings to the nurse
  • when rocking, dancing, swinging
  • going down stairs or rapidly down hill
  • horseback riding
  • children awake suddenly, screaming and grasping sides of cradle, without apparent cause
  • excessively nervous, easily frightened by the slightest noise or an unusual sharp sound, a cough, sneeze, a cry, lighting a match, etc
  • hair becomes frowsy and tangled
  • splits, sticks together at the tips
  • if these bunches are cut off, they form again, cannot be combined
  • eyelashes loaded with dry, gummy exudation
  • agglutinated in morning
  • turn inward and inflame the eye, especially at outer canthus
  • tendency to wild hairs
  • nostrils crusty, inflamed
  • tip of nose shining red
  • red noses of young women
  • stoppage of right nostril, or first right then left with constant blowing of nose
  • aphthae in the mouth, on the tongue, inside of the cheek
  • easily bleeding when eating or touched
  • prevents child from nursing
  • with hot mouth, dryness and thirst
  • cracked and bleeding tongue
  • salivation, especially during dentition
  • aphthous sore mouth
  • is worse from touch
  • eating salty or sour food
  • of old people, often from plate of teeth
  • child has frequent urination and screams before urine passes
  • leucorrhoea profuse, albuminous, starchy, with sensation as if warm water were flowing down
  • for two weeks between the catamenia
  • skin unhealthy, slight injuries suppurate
  • worse from downward motion
  • worse from sudden, slight noises
  • worse from smoking, which may bring on diarrhoea
  • worse from damp, cold weather
  • worse before urinating
  • better from pressure
  • better from holding painful side with hand

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