Borax


Borax signs and symptoms of the homeopathy medicine from the Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by J.H. Clarke. Find out for which conditions and symptoms Borax is used…


      Borax veneta. Natrum biboracicum. Sodium biborate. Na2 B4 O7 10H2O. Trituration and Solution.

Clinical

*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

*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 cling 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, better 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-humored, 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 worse in warm weather, worse after menstruation. Parts usually red turn white. Many *Natrum symptoms appear in the proving. Stitching pains predominate.

Relations.

*Compare: Calcarea, Nux-v., Bryonia, Lycopodium, Mercurius, Pulsatilla, Rhus-t, All- c., Silicea, Sulphur, Arsenicum, Belladonna, Graphites, Ignatia, Kali-bi., Phosphorus *Antidoted by: Chamomilla, Coffea *Similar to: Am-c. and Mag-m. (right nostril stopped), Calcarea (inclination to breathe deeply), Kali-bi. (tough mucus), Aurum and Pulsatilla (laughter alternately with weeping), Sarsaparilla, Lycopodium, Benz-ac. (strong urine, crying before urination, but these three have gravel: with Borax it is from inflammation of mucous membrane), Arum-t. (sore mouth), Graphites (trichiasis), Belladonna (hot leucorrhoea), Sepia (small ulcers about joints), Barayta carbonica (cobweb-sensation), Nat-s. (cheerful after stool). *Incompatible: Acet-ac., Vinegar, Wine.

Mind

Great anxiety, especially 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-humor and passion. Becomes vehement and swears. Does not wish to do anything. Dread of labor.

Head

Fits of vertigo, with fainting. Vertigo, with fullness in the head, especially 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. Fullness 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, especially above the eyes and the temples. Congestion in the head, especially 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

Pressure on the eyes. Itching in the eyes. The eyes burn and are contracted on putting on spectacles. Inflammation of the eyes, especially 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

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 left ear particularly. Itching, stitches.

Nose

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 right side of the chest. Accumulation of thick and greenish mucus in the nose.

Face

Complexion (in a suckling woman) wan, pale, and earth-coloured. Sensation in the right 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

Pressive and cramp-like pain in teeth which are carious, especially 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, better 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

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

Dryness in the throat. Tenacious mucus in the throat, with difficult expectoration.

Appetite

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, especially at supper. Nausea and uneasiness during a meal. After every meal inflation of the abdomen, with diarrhoea and colic. Fullness and pressure in the stomach, with uneasiness and ill-humor, after having eaten fruit (pears and apples). Colic, with tendency to diarrhoea after smoking tobacco.

Stomach

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

Pain in the hypochondria, mostly pressive and in the left side, and especially 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.

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.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica