Borax Veneta

Sodium UUrate. 2BO^NaB^O^10H^O.

The i3rst proving was made by our very industrious Schreter, a master in observing, and published in Hartlaub's Annalen, 1832, Vol. Ill, p. 309; his 87 symptoms have been corroborated throughout.

In 1835 Hahnemann, in his Chronic Diseases, 2d edition, Vol. II p., 280, added 342 to the above, 31 of his own.

In 1857 Bonninghausen called attention to the characteristics, and another proving was published in the Austrian journal by Anton Fischer.

^ Mind. Alternate laughing and weeping.

I Idles through the afternoon, does not really get at work;

changes from one work to another, from one room to another ; without keeping to any object.

I I 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.

8 B Very anxious on riding rapidly down hill, contrary to his custom he feels as though it would take away his breath.

IB Anxious feeling during downward motion or rocking. d Diarrhoea.

1 1 Dread of downward motion.

■ Great anxiety and sleepiness ; anxiety increased until 11 p.m.

I Fretful, ill-humored, indolent and discontented before the easy stool, in the afternoon ; after it, lively, contented, and look- ing cheerfully into the future.

Irritability and crying of children.

Easily startled by unusual sounds; at a distant shot, an anxious cry ; hawking, sneezing, etc.

B Fright; he starts in all his limbs on hearing an anxious cry.

Heading and writing aggravate the headache.

When writing in the morning, flickering before the eyes.

While engaged in thinking at his work, strong nausea, with trembling of whole body and weakness in the knees. ^ Sensorium. First, heaviness of head ; later, light, clear head.

Vertigo and fullness in head on descending a mountain or stairs.

Vertigo : with tendency to fall to the left side ; vertigo when driving down hill.

I I Giddy all the time. ^ Inner Head. Pain across his forehead for three days, with giddiness, then it passed to top of his head.

Pressive headache in forehead.

459 BORAX.

Headache in forehead with stinging in left ear, changing at times to the right.

Throbbing headache in both temples, or in occiput.

Twitching pain in forehead, with nausea and tearing in eyeballs.

Tearing ; also stitches in the vertex.

Aching in whole head, with nausea, inclination to vomit, and trembling in whole body, at 10 A.M.

Fleeting stitches in 1. side of head, in vertex, and later in fe- male sexual parts, followed by voluptuous, disgusting dreams.

Headache, with dullness of the entire head ; stinging in 1. ear.

;rFatal basilar meningitis, with constant sopor, from which the child, get. 13 months, could not be roused. ^ Outer Head. Tearing from parietal bone to forehead.

Headache in occiput throbbing as if something would suppu- rate ; shuddering over the whole body, lasting all night and the following day.

Hot head of infants, with heat of mouth and palms.

I Hot head and chilliness.

I Hot head. ^Diarrhoea.

Sensitiveness of external head to cold and change of weather.

Hair becomes entangled at the tips and sticks together, cannot- be separated ; if these bunches are cut off they form again ; the hair may split.

I I The hair is rough and frowsy, can't be combed smooth ; gets into all kinds of snarls. ® Sight and Eyes. Worse from light, particularly candle-light.

Sensitiveness of eyes to candle-light, evenings.

Flickering before eyes in morning, when writing, so that he does not see distinctly ; there seem to be bright moving waves, now from right to left, again from above downwards.

Obscuration of sight in left eye.

Pain above the eyes.

Tearing in eyeballs, with twitching pain in forehead and nausea.

Several stitches in succession, in left eye.

Sensation of a foreign body in eye.

Burning of eyes and contraction as soon as spectacles are put on.

■ Rheumatic ophthalmia. Swelling of Meibomean glands.

Inflammation of eyes at canthi, with irregularity of the lashes ;

nightly agglutination. I The lashes turn inward toward eye and inflame it, especially

at outer canthus, where the margins of lids are very sore. I I Margin of lids affected ; eyelashes loaded with a dry, gummy

exudation, stick together in the morning.

■ Lower eyelids entirely inverted.

■ Granulated lids.

■ Entropion.

■ Difficult opening of the lids.

BORAX. 460

* Hearing and Ears. iVery sensitive to the slightest noise, as the rumpling of paper, fall of a door latch, etc. 6 Diarrhoea.

Dull drumming in 1. ear, sounding as if over subterranean vault.

Ringing, piping, crackling, or roaring in ears, more in left.

Deafness, with tinnitus and discharge from ear.

Difficult hearing in the left ear.

Smacking, and sensation as if the ear opened and closed, while it contained a thick paste.

Stinging in left ear.

Inflamed and hot swelling of both ears.

Discharge of pus from both ears.

I Left ear particularly affected. ' Smell and Nose. Bleeding from the nose, morning.

Sneezing and fluent coryza.

S Sneezing causes severe stitch in right side of chest.

Fluent coryza, with much crawling in the nose.

Discharge of much greenish, thick mucus from the nose.

I Dry crusts in the nose, re-form if removed.

I Nostrils inflamed and crusty, tip of nose shining red.

Red and shining swelling of the nose, with throbbing and ten- sive sensation.

I Red noses of young women.

I Painful pressing from above downwards, through the right nostril, as if all the brain would be forced out ; < lying ; sleepless night from suffocating dryness.

■ Stoppage of r. nostril, with constant inclination to blow the

In upper and forepart of left nostril, toward tip of nose, a small boil, with sore pain and swelling of tip of nose.

■ Stoppage of nose, first r. then left, with lachrymation. ^ Face. Anxious face during downward motion.

Sensation on right side of face, by the mouth, as if cobwebs

laid there. Sickly, pale, earthy color of the face.

■ The face of the infant looks pale, suffering, earthy.

■ Pale, clay-colored face. ^Diarrhoea.

Swelling, heat and redness of face, with tearing pain in malar

bone. One-sided hard swelling of face.

■ Erysipelas in face and on lower limbs. ^During pregnancy.

d While nursing. ■Erysipelas in face, usually 1. side, insupportably painful when

moving the muscles in laughing. ® Lower Part of Face. Burning of upper lip beneath 1. nostril,

461 BORAX.

Red inflamed swelling, as large as a pea, on lower lip, with

burning soreness when touched. Crawling, like insects, on the lips.

■ Children have small vesicles around the mouth, on the fore-

head, fingers and hands, which burst and spread.

■ Herpetic eruption about the mouth.

^^ Teeth and Gums. Neuralgic toothache.

Dull griping in a hollow tooth in wet weather.

Fine stinging in all the teeth, intermitting, mostly in 1. lower decaying molar, with stinging in 1. ear and frontal headache; in evening.

Inflamed large swelling on outer side of gum, which pains severely (gum boil), with dull pain in a hollow tooth ; swell- ing of cheek and whole left side of face, as far as below the eye, where there is formed a watery blister.

Dark redness in lower portion of gums beneath the roots of the teeth along the lower jaw ; and toothache as if the teeth were too long.

I Redness of gums above roots of teeth in front of upper jaw.

I I Aphthae in mouth and on the tongue.

I Red blisters on tongue, as if the surface was eroded; they

pain from every motion of the tongue, or if anything salt or spiced touches them.

I I Aphthae on the tongue and inside of cheek, bleeding when eating, d Diarrhoea.

IBAphthfe are so tender that they prevent child from nursing. ^^ Inner Mouth. The mucous membrane of forepart of palate is shrivelled, as if burnt, pains especially when chewing.

■ Mouth very hot. ^Diarrhoea.

■ Aphthse, with dry heat in mouth, great thirst and vomiting

after drinking.

■ Salivation with difficult dentition.

■ Rapidly forming ulcers in mouth ; gangrenous.

■ Buccal mucous membrane highly reddened and covered with

cheesy aphthae.

■ lAphthge with salivation.

■ ■ Aphtha : in the mouth ; on inner surface of cheek, bleeding

easily ; with great heat and dryness of mouth ; with cracked tongue ; with salivation.

■ Aphthae of old people, after partaking of sour or salty food. ^* Palate and Throat. Worse Avhen swallowing.

Palate wrinkled ; child cries frequently, when nursing. Roughness and burning in throat.

BORAX. 462

I Tough whitish mucus in throat, which is loosened only after

great exertion. I The mucous membrane of the palate in front seems burnt

and shrivelled, and is especially painful when chewing. Scratching in throat, with pressure in chest and cough.

■ Syphilitic ulcers in fauces.

" Thirst, Desires, Aversions. ■ Thirst; vomiting after drink- ing. 0 Child with aphthae.

■ Desire for acids ; for sour drinks, d Diarrhoea. No desire for his smoking tobacco.

■ Loss of appetite. ^Diarrhoea.

^^ Eating and Drinking. After eating apples with mutton, full- ness in stomach, with peevishness and ill-humor, also fullness in head.

■ After eating pears, especially morning or forenoon, pressure in

Hiccough : after eating ; also of infants.

■ After every meal, flatulent distention. ^Diarrhoea.

■ After eating, which he relishes, great distension, discomfort,

sick feeling and ill-humor.

After eating : desire for stool ; diarrhoea.

After breakfast : diarrhoea.

After smoking tobacco, sensation as if diarrhoea would set in.

Smoking tobacco relieves toothache. ^^ Nausea and Vomiting. The pains are accompanied by violent and frequent eructations.

Nausea : in morning ; immediately after waking, with inclina- tion to vomit; after drinking water, mucous and bitter vomit.

Vomiting food and mucus.

Constant vomiting.

■ Vomiting of sour slime, after chocolate. 6 Diarrhoea.

■ Pain in region of stomach after lifting; pain extends to the

small of back and there becomes a stitching ; so severe that during the night she cannot turn without pain ; better in the morning.

■ Stomach cough, with pain extending into region of spleen;

want of appetite with indigestion. ^^ Hypochondria. Pain in region of diaphragm after lifting a light weight ; the pain extended to the spine,- where it be-

463 BORAX.

came stinging; patient could not turn all night without

the bowels, followed by diarrhoea ; evacuation sudden. ': Scirrhus of liver and spleen. Cutting in left hypochondrium on walking rapidly, as if a hard,

sharp, movable piece were there, with sensation in abdomen

as if hard pieces were in it, and these were in motion. ^^ Abdomen, Loins and Groins. Flatulent distention after every

meal. Pain in abdomen, as if diarrhoea would set in.

; Mesenteric glands hardened and swollen.

Belly soft, flabby and sunken. ^^ Rectum and Stool. Much discharge of flatus.

Urging to stool in morning ; the passage at first formed, then loose, with burning in anus.

Painless diarrhoea, with constant vomiting.

Diarrhoea six times, from morning till 2 P.M., without pain.

Frequent, very easy stool every day.

Stools : frequent, soft, light yellow, slimy, with faintness and weariness ; green or brown, diarrhoeic ; painless, at first frothy, thin and *brown ; latgr cadaverous-smelling, contain- ing bits of yellow feces ; colorless or slimy ; green, preceded by crying (infant).

Painless stools, containing undigested food.

;rObstinate green discoloration of stool.

iGrreenish stools, day and night, with pitiful crying. ^ Child with aphthae.

■ Summer complaint of children mostly under a year old, twenty

or thirty passages a day ; occasionally vomiting ; abdomen soft and wilted : stools brown, watery, containing small yel- low lumps and smelling cadaverously ; apathetic, refusing nourishment ; emaciated to a skeleton ; soporous sleep.

71 After cholera infantum, thrush.

Constipation ; stool like sheep-dung.

I Stool, the thickness of a quill, became easy and an inch in diameter. 6 Stricture of rectum.

Before stool : mental indisposition ; indolence ; urging.

■ Burning in rectum during stool.

■ Chronic mucous hemorrhoids.

■ Stool before making water.

BORAX. 464

I The infant urinates nearly every ten or twelve minutes, and

screams before the urine passes. Before urinating, burning.

I I Worse before urination.

B Frequent urination, preceded by cries. 6 Diarrhoea.

Retention of urine in evening.

I Hot urine in the infant.

I The orifice of the urethra pains as if sore after urinating.

• Pungent smell of the urine.

Smarting in the urethra after urinating. ^^ Male Sexual Organs. Indifference to coition.

Impotence.

I Gonorrhoea.

I Chancres studding the prepuce. ^^ Female Sexual Organs. Sexual desire too weak.

TrEngorgement of uterus, with bearing down pains.

Menses too early, too profuse, and attended with colic and nausea.

I At time of menses, pain in groins like stitching and pressing.

Before menses : oppression ; catching of breath ; rushing sound in ears ; stitch-pain in right pectoral region ; pain from pit of stomach to small of back.

Menses four days too soon and very profuse, with griping in abdomen ; nausea and pain in stomach, extending into small of back.

Too profuse menses, and she is very nervous, starts at the least noise, and dreads a downward motion, like going down stairs, or the downward motion of a swing or rocking-chair.

During menses : throbbing in head and rushing in ears ; nau- sea ; pinching and griping in abdomen ; pain extending from stomach into back ; bearing down and stinging in groin ; lancinating pain in groin ; tired; sweat after midnight.

After menses : pressing in region of liver, extending into right shoulder-blade; cramp-like pain in stomach and back, and vomiting afterwards.

iLeucorrhoea like the white of egg, with sensation as if warm water were flowing down.

iLeucorrhoea thick as paste and white for five days.

;rProfuse, clear, glutinous, albuminous leucorrhoea relieving all other genital symptoms.

IB White albuminous or starchy leucorrhoea.

IB Acrid leucorrhoea, appearing for two weeks, between the catamenia, with swelling of the labia and inflamed and dis- charging Duvernis glands.

465 BORAX.

iLeucorrhoea -white as mucus, witliout any other ailment, a

fortniglit after the menses. Stinging and distended feeling in clitoris. ;rProlapsus by increased heat of vagina. 24 Pregnancy and Parturition, i Sterility.

During pregnancy, swelling, itching and burning of the vagina,

with a discharge like gonorrhoea. False or spasmodic labor-pains.

child has nursed she is obliged to compress the breast with

the hand, because it aches on account of being empty.

■ Disagreeable sensation of emptiness in mammae after suckling

the child. I Contractive pains in left breast when the child nurses the right..

■ Aphthous nipples. iGalactorrhoea ; milk coagulating.

Milk is too thick and tastes badly ; often curdles soon after it

nursing, d Diarrhoea. I The child at the breast sleeps more than usual, but wakes^

frequently. llAphthge so tender that they prevent child of nursing. Colic of infants; they scream out if laid down, or show signs-

of vertigo when carried down stairs.

■ Loathing of the breasts in infants, d Diarrhoea. Green stool in the infant preceded by crying.

■ The infant becomes pale, nearly earth-colored; the previously

firm flesh becomes soft and flabby ; he cries a great deall; re- fuses the breast, and frequently screams out anxiously in his^ sleep.

■ Child throws up its hands when an attempt is made to put it

speak a word ; later when he speaks he has a stitch in right

side of chest ; also on running or on any exertion of the

body, which hurts him.

■ Tension in chest, with inclination to deep breathing ; similar

to Calcar.

■ Pressure in lower 1. lateral region of chest, increased by ex-

ertion or a long breath.

■ Every three or five minutes he is obliged to take a quick deep

VOL. II. — 30.

BORAX. 466

breath, which is every time followed by a stitch in right side of chest, with a subdued, painful sigh, and slow expiration.

Respiration difficult.

I Arrest of breath when lying in bed ; he is obliged to jump up and catch for breath every time he has a stitch in right side of chest.

When taking a deep breath, sensation in the hypochondrium as if something pulled from the region of spleen into chest, which sinks back again during exhalation ; sometimes press- ure and burning in the part.

When taking a deep breath stinging pressure in sternum; drawing stitch in r. chest; stinging in chest; stitches into 1. side of chest, as with a knife.

■ When yawning, coughing and breathing deeply, stitches in

■ Violent cough, with pain through r. chest, has to press the

chest with both hands ; the cough is dry, occasionally raises small white or yellow lumps, d Phthisis.

I With every paroxysm of cough sticking in right side of chest, in region of nipple, in evening.

I When coughing, is obliged to press right side of chest and flank with hand, whereby pains are tolerable.

Cough with mucous expectoration during the day ; •< in morn- ing ; pain in hepatic region.

■ Hacking and violent cough, with slight expectoration of a

mouldy taste and of the same smell, from the chest, with

Stinging in r. breast near the nipple, with each cough. ^^ Inner Chest and Lungs. Tightness in chest.

paroxysm of cough. Knife-like stitches in 1. chest with every inhalation.

■ Pleurisy.

■ Stitches between ribs of right side, so that he cannot lie on

that side on account of the pain, with sensitive drawing and obstruction of breathing, so that he has to catch for breath ;

467 BORAX.

if he lies upon the painful side the pains immediately awaken him from sleep.

■ B Pleuritic pain in r. pectoral region ; the patient cannot move

or breathe without a stitch. During cough : stitches in chest and lumbar region, lessened

by pressure; mouldy taste in throat. Sudden stitching from within outwards in r. side of chest, on

raising arms. Stitching pains in r. lung, but mostly drawing stitches.

■ Stitching or darting pain from without inward through upper

birth. Circulation irregular; face bluish, especially around mouth,

nose and eyes, with blue look of finger-ends and feet ; with

attacks, during which the child became prostrate and as if

upon that side on account of the pain, with sensitive draw- ing and obstruction of breathing, has to catch for breath ; if

during sleep he lies on the painful side, the pains awake him

immediately. Aching in pectoralis major, as from lying on a hard mattress ;

and cough. ^^ Neck and Back. Rheumatic drawing pains in nape of neck,

extending to left shoulder and then into scapula ; evening

JJrawing and tearing pain in and between shoulders, so that he

frost-bitten. Throbbing pain in tip of thumb, day and night, frequently

waking from sleep, at night.

BORAX. 468

I Hot palms. ^Diarrhoea.

'^ Lower Limbs. Burning pain on left thigh, a hand's breadth

around the whole limb. Transient tearing pain in middle of r. femur, extending up and

after violent dancing, with tearing, tension and burning in

it ; increased burning pain when touched ; on pressure the

redness disappears for a moment. Stitches in soles.

6 Leucorrhoea. ^^ Limbs in General. iPhagedenic ulcers on the joints of fingers

Trembling in the whole body, especially in hands, with nausea

the morning, and in morning is in a whining mood ; the

infant frequently cries out in its sleep, and anxiously grasps

its mother, as if it had been frightened by a dream. • She wakes uncommonly early, at 3 o'clock, she cannot fall

asleep again for two hours on account of heat of whole body,

especially in head, with sweat on thighs.

I I Children may be sleeping quietly, and awake suddenly.

469 BORAX.

screaming and holding on to the sides of cradle without any apparent cause for so doing.

■ Starting from sleep with anxious screams, throwing hands

about, seizing things, or clinging to the mother, d Diarrhoea. ^* Time. Morning : pain in stomach > ; child is in a whining

sneezing ; pressure through nostril ; stoppage of nostril ;

stitches in chest ; pain in inguinal region when yawning,

coughing, etc. Right to left : stoppage of nostril.

Left : ear especially affected ; erysipelas of side of face ; con- tractive pain in breast when child nurses the right ; pressure

in chest.

■ Upper right lower left.

BORAX. 470

As if diarrhoea would set in.

As if something pulled from the spleen into chest.

As if heart were on r. side and squeezed.

As if warm water were running down thighs.

Cutting: in hypochondria.

Stitches : in vertex ; fleeting, in 1. side of head ; in female

sexual parts ; in 1. eye ; in r. side of chest ; in small of back ;

scapulae. Pressing : in forehead ; downwards through r. nostril ; in chest ;

lower lip ; in throat ; in anus ; in rectum ; of vagina ; of

gum ; in r. chest ; in inguinal region ; in region of stomach ;

471 BORAX.

Crawling: over under-lip ; on lips.

Heat : of mouth ; palms of hands ; of fingers ; of palms ; of

■ Emaciation ; flabby muscles, d Diarrhoea.

Ulcerated places on the feet from rubbing of the shoe or boot. *'' Stages of Life, Constitution. Light hair ; skin and muscles lax.

■ B Period of dentition and infancy. ^Aphthae. ^Diarrhoea. *^ Relationship. Antidotes to Borax: Ohamom., Cofea.

I ■ Oalc. ostr., JVux vom., I Bryon., Lycof.^ Mercur., Pulsat., Rhus tox., Sepia, Silicea, Sulphur, I \Arsen., Bellad., Grraphit., Ignat., Kali hichr., and PhospJior.

Incompatibles : Acet. ac, vinegar, wine.

BOVISTA. 472