Materia Medica

BORAX

borax
Written by George Vithoulkas

George Vithoulkas presents an in-depth materia medica of the homeopathic remedy Borax.

boraxExcerpted from Materia Medica Viva (12 Volumes) by George Vithoukas.

Borax veneta – Nahum biboracicum -Sodium biborate. Na2B4O7 10H2O.

Trituration and Solution

 

THE ESSENTIAL FEATURES OF BORAX

 

Borax primarily affects the nervous system and the mucous membranes, both to an equal degree. The typical Borax patient is a very excitable, anxious, and oversensitive individual whose mucous membranes exhibit an aphthous condition; the membranes ulcerate and deteriorate, forming white patches or ulcers. Moreover, these cases suffer from an aggravation from downward movement.

 

The Aphthae

 

The mucous membranes of the mouth, tongue and cheek are often affected by aphthous formations, accompanied by offensive breath, hot mouth and salivation. The irritation goes right through the alimentary canal but strangely enough affects mostly the beginning (mouth) and the end (anus/rectum) of the digestive tract. The area surrounding the anus has an aphthous appearance, and the thickening of the mucous membranes of the rectum creates a stricture. The stool is slimy, of a greenish or yellowish colour, and frequent both day and night. This evidence of an irritation of the alimentary canal suggests that some kind of ulceration is going on inside the intestines as well. Great quantities of fluid, like boiled starch, are passed through the anus.

The action of Borax includes all mucous membranes, and you may expect to see this aphthous appearance in all areas where such a membrane is present. The labia may be affected by white patches. Membranous dysmenorrhoea (cham., Lac-c.) comes under the action of Borax, and indeed this remedy is one of the best in the materia medica for this condition, which is typically accompanied by very strong pain as if in labour, while the woman feels as though the uterus were about to come out through the vagina. Such pain starts before the flow but also continue during the flow.

 

The Nervous System

 

The effect on the nervous system is equally pronounced. Borax patients are highly excitable individuals with a great intensity in both their emotions and thoughts. Their thoughts and feelings can be so confused that they cannot be separated one from the other. They are people who do not understand what it is to be cool and phlegmatic.

There is a resemblance to phosphorus in the vulnerability to external impressions and stimulus. However Borax patients are not as receptive and sympathetic as Phosphorus.

You may dub the Borax state hysteria, although it does not fulfil the hysterical touchstone of consciously dissociated extrojected complexes. What we see here is an oversensitivity and a weakness on the surface of the nervous system, and not a profound trouble at a deeper level of the mind. This condition is not a true psychoneurosis, it is simply annoying, and it hinders the individual from serious thought and concentration.

An analogy may be drawn between the irritation from pain felt by the patient suffering from an aphthous condition the moment he starts eating, and the excitability and restlessness which assail him the moment the thinking process starts. In the first case the patient is compelled to stop eating, causing him to starve, and in the second, he has to stop thinking, clear his mind, and generally abandon all attempts at serious thought, getting up and walking around the room and stretching his body backward in order to feel better. In the text we read: ‘While engaged in thinking at work, strong nausea. Every time he is engaged in any sort of meditation he becomes nauseated and excitable and must leave his work and rest a little while, and then he goes at it again until he becomes sick at the stomach and so must rest again’.

This nausea is produced by the intense feelings that arise while engaged in serious thought. It shows an oversensitive state of the mind and feelings, which does not allow the individual to do any continuous or deep thinking. As soon as he starts, intense feelings are produced by his reflections, and these bring about a state of over-excitement accompanied by a stomach upset or possibly nausea. He then has to get up and walk around to calm his thoughts and take his mind away from the subject he was engaged on. As soon as he tries to go back to work, the nausea returns.

 

Aggravation from Downward Movement

 

The great key-note of Borax is of course the aggravation from downward movement, a unique symptom that can serve as a sure pointer to this remedy. For a fuller comprehension of this symptom, it is useful to consider what may be termed a ‘loose connection’ between the etheric and the physical bodies, a paradigm described fully in my book, ‘A New Model for Health and Disease’. This loose connection can explain the tremendous anxiety felt by Borax patients when experiencing a downward motion. All mental complaints such as nervousness, anxiety and apprehension are aggravated from upward or downward motion. Whether the patients find themselves in a lift going down, on a rough sea, riding in a car on a slope, in an aeroplane that drops in an air pocket, on a swing or a rocking chair, the feeling is always unbearable. As well as experiencing fear and anxiety, they suffer from vertigo and confusion and tend to ‘go to pieces’, not knowing where or who they are. These patients will avoid lifts and boat-rides at all costs.

The slightest downward motion, as when putting an infant to bed, causes the child to scream in a great fright and to try to hold on to the mother as if trying to stop this terrifying downward motion. It seems as though the experience of the ‘etheric body’ moving upward while the physical body goes downward causes an experience of disconnection. The soul appears to be trying to escape through the stomach and mouth, causing a very frightening feeling. This feeling simulates the moment of death when the soul (or etheric body, or energy body), leaves the physical body.

Borax has the same reaction on waking suddenly during the night.The patient wakes up in a terrible fright, as if his end had arrived. The etheric body returns to the physical body with a jerk and produces this frightening experience. Similarly, hearing a sudden noise brings about this frightened reaction. The patient gives the impression of being absent minded at that moment and out of touch with the environment; this sudden noise brings him back to his body with a fright.

This reaction may be brought about by hearing a cry or an unexpected noise, such as something dropping from a chair or a door closing unexpectedly. Hearing, someone hawk or sneeze may provoke a fright, as may even very slight noises like the crumpling of paper, or the rustling of silk. Other fears to be found in Borax include fear of impending disease, fear of infection, and fear of falling.

The Mental-Emotional State

 

The Borax patient is typically prone to extreme inner restlessness, coupled with anxiety. He cannot remain concentrated on one project for long. The emotions are easily aroused, which then give way to an anxious, nervous and excitable state, followed by fear and apprehension. This condition typically becomes worse as the day progresses. The time of aggravation is at 4 p.m. At this time the patient is at his worst; he is fretful, irritable fault-finding and critical to those around him. The aggravation culminates at 11 p.m.; at around that time a sudden change takes place, allowing calmness and tranquillity to supervene.

 

Kent states:

‘It is in Borax that a great change may occur at 11 p.m.; this state of anxiety and nervous excitement may stop at that hour.’After that the patient grows lively again, with clearness of mind, tranquil and joyful. The same kind of tranquillity may also be experienced after stool, while previously there was discontent and annoyance. This remedy is characterised by strong discontent, indolence, dullness, pessimism and bad mood in general, but especially at around 4 p.m., and before stool. After passing stool there is liveliness, contentment and cheerfulness. Confusion of mind can prevail in the evening, while walking, but passing stool ameliorates this condition. Where the future looks grim, the evacuation of the bowel provides optimism with regard to the future.This calmness is not due to the stool being hard or difficult and finding relief, but it is the peculiarity of this remedy to have such a condition. In this it is equal to Calc-c. and Nat- s.

 

These changes of mood are frequent. The patient may feel weary of life and discontented for a number of hours; later the mood alternates with cheerfulness. Moroseness alternates with laughter, and weeping or irritability with cheer.

A feeling of liveliness in the morning, with an affectionate mood and desire for work may be replaced by indolence and aversion to work in the afternoon, especially after a siesta. Moreover, nosebleed ameliorates the psychological state.

Excitability and restlessness are aggravated by heat, and in a room kept hot at night sleep is difficult. You may also find restlessness ebullitions, especially after talking. On going to bed the patient starts getting excited, and if the room is heated, or he feels heat in the head he becomes so restless that he cannot sleep. The main hours of sleeplessness are after midnight. The patient usually finds that he cannot sleep from 1-4 a.m., from 2-5 a.m. or after 4 a.m. Sleeplessness from heat may last all night.

You will consider this remedy after having prescribed the different Natrum’s, like Natrum mur., Nat-s., Nat-p., or phos. Borax is not a social being like phosphorus. He is a serious individual who does not enjoy talking or joking. He is taciturn, timid and indisposed to talk, and in this respect resembles Natrum mur. He exhibits dullness in the morning, and excitement in the evening in bed. In general there is amelioration from walking in open air, and aggravation from mental exertion.

On being obliged to concentrate on some serious business the Borax patient becomes irritable, fretful, discontented and morose. He may want to leave or not go to an appointment, particularly if the business is to take place in the afternoon at around 4 p.m. He suffers from irritability after eating. The general bad mood that prevails often makes him quarrelsome, vehement and even violent and abusive. Violence, scolding and swearing take over with small cause, sometimes turning to malice. There may be a disposition to be critical of others and to slander. The mood may turn to weeping, particularly before coughing, before urination and during stool.

As the pathology progresses, Borax patients suffer from weakness of memory and delusions. In general the Borax memory is in a bad condition. You will find vanishing of thoughts; a patient will be obliged to reflect long and hard before being able to remember what he has done through the day, being uncertain for a long time whether he was at a particular place yesterday or today. Mistakes in both space and time may occur. The patient may moreover be suspicious, and have delusions that he is possessed by a devil or that he is going to be robbed.

In cases where the above mental state is present, the aphthous condition is not necessary in order to prescribe this remedy. You will often find, however, that the history of the patient reveals suppressed aphthae. After suppression of aphthae Borax should be seriously considered.

 

Sexuality

 

In this remedy the sexual sphere is characterised by great excitability. This state of sexual arousal can reach such extremes that a man may have an org-asm by merely touching a woman. Such a patient will in fact tell you that he is more interested in caressing a woman than in having normal intercourse with her. You will find strong desire, though not for coitus. This may be due to pain in the urethra after coitus. Burning pain in urethra when se-men is discharged is characteristic of Borax. Sometimes the seminal discharge appears later than the pleasure. The patient has dreams of coitus with orgasms. There are strong erections in the morning on waking.

Women also experience an intense desire, but, eventually, due to grief and disappointment, they may exhibit indifference or even aversion to coitus. It is characteristic for this remedy that women become pregnant very easily. However, due to heavy leucorrhoea and membranous dysmenorrhoea, a decline in desire is experienced, replaced eventually by indifference and frigidity.

The Borax Child

 

Borax is a remedy that is used primarily in children in cases where they exhibit the grand key-note of this remedy: aggravation from downward motion. For example, when the mother is in the act of laying the child down onto the bed, it may rise up in its sleep and cry out in fright. Lifting up an infant’s feet to change a nappy will aggravate the child, who will start to shout. Borax children in general have a tendency to shout or scream rather than cry. An infant being laid down will start and throw up its hands as if afraid of falling, and some nights it may be impossible to put the child down at all. When laying the child down on the couch or in the cradle, it cries and clings to the mother. Children who are lifted or rocked may suffer from arrested respiration. They cannot bear a downward motion, even in sleep. When dandling a child up and down or when rocking it in the arms, you may find that it makes an anxious face during the downward motion.

Borax children also exhibit another important symptom, fright during sleep. They may scream and shout during sleep. Children wake up suddenly, screaming and grasping the sides of the cradle, without apparent cause. They start in sleep, as if frightened.

The infant frequently cries out in its sleep and anxiously grasps its mother, as if it had been frightened by a dream. There is frequent waking in the newborn, and screaming during fever when the head becomes hot.

Another interesting point in these children is that they cry and shriek with pain before urinating or passing a stool. You may find cases of colic in babies, after suppressed aphthae. They suddenly scream and kick and equally suddenly turn quiet for ten to twenty minutes, and then start again. They want to be carried about but the fits are not prevented. In cases of enteritis the child cries a great deal, its mouth is very sore, greenish stool passes every hour or two, a white coat covers the tongue and inside the cheeks, and a red eruption appears on the face.

Hot urine in the infant and burning urine in children are frequent. The infant urinates nearly every ten or twelve minutes, and frequently cries and screams before the urine passes. Children are so afraid to urinate, that they almost have convulsions when the desire to urinate comes on.

Excessively nervous, these children are especially affected by noise. A slight noise will wake them up. They are frightened on hearing a distant noise and start in every limb on hearing an anxious cry. They start at hawking or sneezing or paper rustling. The slamming of a door would cause the child to start and then scream with fright. The child is frightened during thunderstorms.

Borax children may be affected by aphthae. The infant’s palate is wrinkled and it cries frequently when nursing. The child has an aphthous sore mouth, the ulcers bleed on eating or on touch. The mouth is very tender in nursing children; it may be very hot, with thirst and vomiting. The child’s mouth feels hot to mother’s nipple; the child lets go of the nipple and cries with pain and vexation, or else refuses the breast altogether. Children become marasmic because of the aphthous condition; they cannot digest.

Further symptoms to be found in Borax children include: slowness in learning to talk; weeping tearful mood at night; prolonged sleep. The child at the breast sleeps more than usual, but wakes up frequently. Sleep is fitful in small children. Aversion to drinks. Carphology during fever. Finally, the child’s hair becomes entangled at the tips and sticks together so that it cannot be separated. If these bunches are cut off they form again.

 

Key-notes

 

The three main key-notes on which Borax is usually prescribed are:

  1. Aggravation from downward motion.
  2. Fretfulness, ill-humour, indolence and discontent before stool; but lively, contented, and cheerful after stool.
  1. Amelioration of mental and physical symptoms after 11 p.m.

 

Other key-notes:

 

Ingrowing of lashes, tangled hair that sticks together.

Exhilaration after coitus.

Mouth very hot in aphthae.

Greenish stool day and night.

Tip of nose shining red. Red noses of young women.

Waking as from fright.

Mother cannot nurse child due to thickened milk which tastes bad.

Generalities

 

There is a morning aggravation that resembles Natrum mur.; 9-12 a.m., more precisely 10 a.m. Symptoms such as headaches, weakness or trembling of the whole body are aggravated at 10 a.m. We also find an evening aggravation of mental conditions at 4 p.m. that resembles Lycopodium, as well as an aggravation after midnight and around 3-5 a.m.

Faintness from noise, during stool, on walking in open air. Faintness in the afternoon, better in open air.

Flushes of heat.

Sensation of heat in single parts.

Sensation of a cobweb.

Increased mucous secretions: hot; with musty, mouldy, herby smell.

Stretching during fever.

Shuddering from nervous headache.

Trembling on slight exertion, from conversation, from mental exertion.

Weakness in the afternoon after sleep.

Lassitude during stool.

Weariness during menses.

Urination after morning.

Frequent pulse by night but slow by day.

Re-opening of old cicatrices.

Extreme seasickness has often been found to be relieved by Borax.

Symptoms are worse in warm weather, worse after menstruation.

Turning sideways aggravates.

Thought of food aggravates.

Aggravation from mutton, pears, apples, chocolate. Pears cause diarrhoea, indigestion, stomach pain.

Motion downward, walking downstairs, riding in a car downhill aggravate.

Stretching backward ameliorates.

Better in the open air at the seashore.

The infant becomes pale and nearly earth-coloured, flesh soft and flabby, cries much, refuses the breast and screams out anxiously in sleep.

Vertigo

 

Vertigo in the morning in bed; when ascending in lifts; ascending stairs; ascending an eminence; on descending; from rocking; before menses; while talking; on turning in bed to left side.

Vertigo followed by epistaxis, which relieves.

Vertigo with swaying towards the left on walking in open air.

Fullness of head during vertigo.

Head

 

Headache in morning, at 10 a.m. [Natrum mur.].

Aching in the whole head, with nausea, and trembling in the whole body, in the morning at 10 a.m.

Reading and writing aggravate the headache.

There is a lot of pain in head which is usually ameliorated by walking outside in the open air, or after stool.

Headache appears usually before and during menses.

Headache mostly in the forehead and temples.

Sensation of a current of wind above the eyes.

Congestion before and after eating.

Constriction in forehead over the left eye.

Pain ameliorated after stool.

Pain extending to nose.

Pain in occiput as if suppurating.

Pain in spots of vertex.

Drawing pain in forehead when reading, when stooping, when writing.

Twitching of muscles of head in the afternoon.

Drawing pain in vertex extending to temple.

Intermittent, rhythmical, pressing and stitching pain in temples.

Fullness of head on ascending, on descending, after eating.

Heat of head when taking a deep breath, during chilliness, during diarrhoea.

Heat in head and in palms.

Hair tangled at the tips, so that it cannot be separated, as in plica polonica, and if these bunches are cut off they form again.

 

Eyes

 

Inversion of lids. Entropium.

Inflammation of the edges of the eyelids, which turn inward towards the ball, so that the lids rub against the ball. The eyelashes turn inward toward the eye and inflame it, especially in the outer canthus, where the margins of the lid are very sore.

Inflammation of the right outer canthi, with irregularity of lashes, and at night agglutination of the eyes; inflammation of the left inner canthi with nightly agglutination.

Closing the eyes difficult in the evening.

Hair falling from eyebrows.

Ulceration of external canthi.

Swollen meibomian glands.

Sore pain on touch; sore pain in outer canthi; sore pain in margins of lids.

Stitching pain in the evening.

Tearing pain in the afternoon.

Dim vision of left eye.

Dim vision in the evening.

Flickering vision in the morning when writing so that he does not see

distinctly; there seem to be bright moving waves, now from the right to the left side, now from above downward.

Photophobia during chill.

 

Ears

 

Very sensitive to slightest noise. Acute hearing to noises of paper being crumpled.

Different sounds seem to appear mostly before and during menses. Patient seems to hear piped music; roaring before menses.

Itching in the evening while walking.

Cold applications aggravate pain.

Sore pain in the evening.

Stitching pain in ear while walking, in the morning on waking, in the morning, when washing in cold water. Stitches in the left ear.

Impaired hearing in left ear.

Chronic otorrhoea.

Mucous discharges.

Sensation like a valve opening and closing.

 

Nose

 

Sudden redness of nose. Tip of nose shining red. Red noses of young women.

Red and shining swelling of the nose, with throbbing and tensive sensation.

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

Many dry crusts in the nose, will constantly form again after being removed.

Dryness inside of nose in the night that prevents sleep. Obstruction, first right then left.

Obstruction with lachrymation.

Epistaxis before headache.

Pain in nose while strongly breathing.

Pin in nose worse lying down.

Pressing pain in nose as if brain were forcing its way out.

Itching nose; rubs it constantly.

 

Face

 

Pale, earthy (in an infant), with suffering expression.

Anxious expression of face during downward motion.

Erysipelas in the face, on the left side, while nursing, during pregnancy.

Erysipelas of face, with feeling of cobwebs on it.

Eruptions on lower lips.

Eruption of boils under tip of nose.

Eczema on chin.

Herpes on forehead; around mouth.

Vesicles on forehead and around mouth.

Red discolouration of left side of face.

Heat of left side of face.

Heat of face during chilliness.

Pain in face when laughing.

Burning at corner of mouth.

Sore bruised pain of lower lip.

Formication of lips.

Twitching below right eye.

Twitching at corners of mouth.

Swelling of right side.

Hot red swelling.

 

Mouth

 

Alveolitis, severe pain after extraction of tooth.

Sensitive and bleeding aphthae on tongue and on the inside of the cheek.

White aphthae in mouth.

Aphthae, bleeding easily.

Red blisters on the tongue, as if the skin were eroded; they pain on every motion of the tongue, or if anything salt or sour touches them.

Red vesicles on tongue.

Ulcers in mouth, forming rapidly.

Gangrenous ulcers.

Mercurial ulcers.

The mucous membrane of the forepart of the palate is shrivelled as if burnt, and hurts, especially when chewing.

Blood oozes from mucous membrane, palate excoriated, shrivelled as if burnt.

The mouth of the infant is very hot.

Pain in palate while nursing.

Spasms of tongue.

Sensation of large and swollen teeth.

Intermittent, paroxysmal toothache.

Smoking tobacco ameliorates toothache.

Intermittent stitching, stinging in teeth.

Tearing pain in teeth on touch, extending to side of head.

Griping in the hollow of tooth in rainy weather.

Dark redness of gums.

Painful gum abcess on outer side, with pain in a hollow tooth and with swelling of the cheek and whole left side of face, as far as below the eye, where there was an oedematous swelling.

Heat in mouth.

The taste is flat and insipid.

Patient had no taste when she ate anything, for several weeks.

Bitter taste; if she eats anything or swallows saliva everything tastes bitter.

Musty taste in throat.

Throat

Tough whitish mucus in the fauces, which is loosened only after great exertion.

Mucus in throat: albuminous; bloody; greenish.

Roughness from hiccup.

Choking when clearing the throat.

Dryness of throat in the morning when waking.

 

Stomach

 

Appetite diminished in the evening.

Aversion to food at noon.

After eating, which he relishes, great distension, discomfort, sick feeling and ill humour.

Thirst after sleep.

Thirst during and after perspiration.

Perspiration on pit of stomach.

Constriction extending to back and spine.

Contraction in the morning until noon.

Contraction of stomach extending to spine.

Emptiness in the afternoon.

Eructations during labour.

Eructations when pressing painful parts of stomach.

Heaviness ameliorated on walking in open air.

Indigestion and pressing pain after pears.

Nausea in the morning on waking.

Nausea at 10 a.m., nausea at 3 p.m. until evening.

Nausea at thought of food, after mental exertion, ‘while talking.

Thinking of nausea aggravates it.

Bitter vomiting after drinking.

Bitter vomiting in the morning.

Sour vomiting after breakfast.

Difficult vomiting.

Vomiting when hawking up mucus.

Vomiting after menses.

Pain in stomach before menses; after menses.

Pain in stomach ameliorated while walking.

Pain after fruit, after pears.

Pain after lifting.

Pain in the region of the stomach after lifting something heavy; the pain goes into the small of the back, where it becomes sticking, so that she cannot turn without pain the whole night; in the morning better.

Cramping pain from 4 a.m. till noon daily.

Cramping, pressing pain after menses.

Cramping pain while sitting bent.

Pressing pain, walking ameliorates.

Pressing pain in stomach after menses, after pears.

Pressing pain while sitting, while sitting bent.

Stitching pain in stomach extending to back.

 

Abdomen

 

A really peculiar symptom is a diarrhoea which starts after smoking tobacco or/and pain after tobacco.

Pain in the abdomen several times through the day, as if diarrhoea would result.

Pinching with diarrhoea.

Pain is as of hard sticks.

Cramping, griping pain in hypochondria and inguinal region after menses.

Dragging, bearing down pain in the evening during menses.

Lancinating, stitching and pressing pain in inguinal region during and after menses.

Stitching pain in hypogastrium during menses.

Pain in the afternoon, ameliorated by a short sleep.

Pain in the evening during stool.

Pain when rapidly walking.

Pain in inguinal region on coughing, when yawning, extending to right shoulder blade.

Drawing pain in the inguinal region in the evening.

Pain in left side extending to vagina.

Pain in spleen from a jar, during heat.

Burning pain in left hypochondrium on deep breathing.

Cutting pain after breakfast and distension after supper in hypochondria.

Cutting pain in hypochondria extending downward to umbilicus.

Pressing pain in left hypochondria when deep breathing, while riding, and extending to scapula.

Stitching pain in sides, aggravated by wine.

Rumbling before and after evening meal, ameliorated by eructations and passing flatus.

Flatulence after every meal.

Heaviness in inguinal region as from a load.

Sensation of a hard body moving in abdomen. The abdomen has a shrivelled appearance.

 

Rectum

 

Diarrhoea from sudden noise is a great key-note.

Diarrhoea; six times from morning to 2 p.m without pain.

Aphthous condition of anus with itching in the evening and moisture after stool.

Frequent very easy stool every day.

Diarrhoea after chocolate, after pears, which is aggravated from emotions or smoking.

Soft, light-yellow, or albuminous/mucous stool, three times a day, with weakness and exhaustion.

Slimy, mucous stool like boiled starch or brown, red, tenacious, transparent, white.

Green stools (in an infant) preceded by crying. Frequent and easy.

Stools alternating hard and soft; long, narrow with cadaverous odour.

 

Urinary organs

 

Retention of urine in the evening with violent urging to urinate at night and frequent urination at night, seldom during the day.

Difficult urination at night causing the person to cry before the urine passes. Frequent micturition (in infants).

Severe urgent desire to urinate, so that he can scarcely hold the urine.

Ineffectual urination.

Desire to urinate, without being able to pass a drop, but copious urine in the afternoon.

Sudden urging to urinate during menses.

Urging to urinate after seminal emission.

Pressing pain in region of kidneys.

Blue spot on meatus.

Pain in meatus after urination, soreness of meatus after coitus.

Haemorrhoids of bladder.

Pain in the orifice of the urethra as if sore, after urinating.

Burning, cutting pain in urethra when se-men is discharged with a burning pain in the urethra when touching it.

Urine has odour of cat’s urine or is acrid and pungent.

 

Genitalia – male

 

Emissions when touching a woman, and when dreaming of coitus.

Sexual passion increased, but without desire for coitus.

Strong erections in the morning on waking.

Seminal discharge too late.

Biting pain in prepuce after urination.

Cutting, stitching pain.

Sore, bruised pain in penis.

Genitalia – female

Easy sexual arousal.

Desire lacking, indifference.

Leucorrhoea membranous, lumpy or transparent, thick as white paste like or boiled starch.

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

Hot, burning albuminous leucorrhoea

Leucorrhoea during pregnancy. Loathing of the breast in infants because of the state of the milk, which is thick and tastes bad.

Galactorrhoea.

Menses too soon, profuse, or only at night, or too short, lasting only one day.

Menses during lactation.

Downward motion aggravates menses.

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

Membranous menses.

Membranous dysmenorrhoea.

Burning pain in va-gina during pregnancy.

Itching in va-gina during pregnancy.

Labour pains running upward with pain felt more in the stomach than in the uterus.

Cutting pain in the ovaries during menses; lancinating pain felt before and during the menses.

Pain in ovaries, extending to shoulder blade.

Stinging pain in ovaries.

Stinging, stitching pain in clitoris at night with sensation of distension.

Stitching pain in uterus before menses.

Aphthae.

Easy conception.

In nursing, pain is felt in the opposite mamma.

Vaginitis and endomitritis are covered by this remedy.

 

Chest

 

Larynx and trachea: pain in larynx on sneezing.

Stitching in throat pit.

Tearing pain in larynx, in the evening, on coughing.

Whining voice, in the morning.

Respiration: impeded respiration on descending.

Arrested respiration in the act of lying down.

Respiration difficult in open air; before menses; after running.

Respiration short after ascending steps, so that he cannot speak, and every time he speaks a stitch in the right side of chest.

Catching respiration before menses.

Every three or five minutes he is obliged to take a quick, deep breath, which is every time followed by a stitch in the right side of the chest, with a subdued painful sigh and slow expiration.

Arrest of the breath every time he has a stitch in the right side of the chest.

Cough and expectoration: changing position in bed ameliorates.

Must hold chest with both hands while coughing because of pain.

When coughing he is obliged to press the right side of the chest and flank with the hand, whereby the pain is tolerable. Bathing chest in cold water ameliorates cough.

Cough from cold bathing.

Cough from irritation in epigastrium.

Cough with difficult expectoration of white mucus streaked with blood.

Violent and hacking cough in the evening.

Hacking and violent cough, with slight expectoration, of a mouldy taste and of the same smell, from the chest, with every paroxysm of cough.

Dry cachectic cough with sticking in the right side of the chest and right flank; aggravated after drinking wine.

Dry cough in the morning after rising.

Dry cough in the evening on lying down.

Musty odour and taste of expectoration.

Offensive odour of expectoration.

 

Inner and outer chest: anxiety felt in chest in the evening, in bed.

Oppression in bed in the evening.

Coldness, must wrap up the chest.

Constriction of chest on breathing.

Oppression before menses.

Washing chest with cold water relieves chest symptoms.

Walking slowly ameliorates pain in chest.

Pressing, stitching pain during inspiration, when sneezing, on coughing, when raising arm, when touched, when yawning. Stitches between the ribs of the right side, if he lies upon the painful side the pain immediately wakes him from sleep. Pressure ameliorates stitching pain in right side.

Pain in sides from annoyance and from wine.

Pressing pain in sternum on deep respiration, when sitting stooped, in sternum after evening meal.

Rawness in the morning.

Sore pain, holds chest with hands during cough.

With every cough and deep inspiration sticking in the chest.

Stitching pain in sides on exertion, during menses.

Stitching when yawning; in the region of the right nipple in the evening, with every paroxysm of cough; between right ribs, worse lying on right side, with drawing and obstruction of breathing.

Stitching pain in sides ameliorated on washing with cold water.

Sensation of constriction of left mamma, when child nurses from right.

Sensation of emptiness in mammae after child nurses.

Drawing, stitching pain in opposite mamma than the one child nurses.

Pulsation of mammae.

Stitching pain in right nipple.

Stitching pain in mammae during cough.

Griping pain in mammae.

Griping and sometimes stitches in the left mamma, and when the child has nursed she is obliged to compress the mamma with her hand, because it aches on account of being empty.

Aching in mammae when empty.

Pain in the right mamma when coughing, ameliorated by pressure and pain in the right flank, ameliorated by walking slowly about the room.

Child refuses mother’s milk.

Stringy milk. Milk is thick and tastes bad. Cheesy milk.

Increased milk.

Milk in non-nursing women.

Cyanosis.

Scirrhous, stinging, burning ulcer of mammae, with odour of old cheese,

Bleeding aphthae of nipples.

White pimples with red areola.

Ulcer in axilla, boils.

Inflammation of right pleura.

Walking slowly ameliorates.

 

Heart: sensation as if heart is on right side, as if heart is swimming in water.

Pain in heart as from sprain, deep breathing aggravates.

Squeezing sensation of heart.

Palpitation of heart, motion of arms aggravates.

Pleurisy in upper part of right chest, with cough, expectoration of a mouldy smell.

 

Back

 

Formication and itching in the sacrum.

Easy straining of the back with pain from lifting, ameliorated by sitting.

Pain in back after menses; tearing pain in the spine.

Pain extending to feet.

Pain in cervical region extending to left shoulder while walking.

Pain in scapulae extending to stomach; tearing pain between scapulae, stooping aggravates.

Pain in sacral region, with an inability to stoop.

Pain with chill in right scapula, extending to lumbar region and stomach.

Pain in lumbar region when coughing, pain with chill when stooping, when sitting, when turning body, extending to feet, ameliorated by sitting.

Stitching pain in lumbar region in the morning, in the evening, at night, after lifting, when stooping, when turning body in bed, extending to chest,on coughing, on walking, sitting ameliorates.

Drawing pain in head and left shoulder while walking in open air.

Bloody scabs and eruptions on the coccyx. Itching of coccyx.

 

Extremities

 

Upper limbs: Redness of forearm in spots; itching of the anterior part of the forearm

Bran-like eruption on upper limbs.

Pain in upper limbs in daytime, as if sprained.

Tearing pain in shoulder on stooping.

Stitching pain in right shoulder on and from coughing.

Drawing pain in shoulder when stooping.

Sensation as if cold water were running from clavicle down to toes along a narrow line.

Sensation as if upper arm would break.

Eruption of herpes on elbow and hand.

Eczema and pustules of fingers with loss of nails.

Felon in thumb, beginning in nail.

Blue coldness of the hands and finger tips or heat of fingers.

Sensation on hands of a cobweb; formication on back of hand.

Itching of the finger joints or the back of finger joints.

Lameness in fingers with numbness in upper limbs and hand in the evening.

Sensation as if hand were broken.

Pain in fingers at night, tearing pain in left thumb.

Pulsating Pain in tip of thumb.

Pulsation of fingers and thumbs and the tips of both.

Burning stinging in palm of hand’ stitching pain in the evening.

Drawing Paroxysmal Pain in wrist.

Stiffness and swelling in second finger, suppuration of fingers.

Ulcers of finger joints and fingernails.

Trembling in the hand on mental exertion.

Warts in palm of hand and horny callosities on the hands.

 

Lower limbs: purple discolouration in spots on lower limbs.

Corroding vesicles on lower limbs

Erysipelatous inflammation of leg after dancing’ with epistaxis.

Heat of thigh.

Perspiration of thigh.

Restlessness in leg during heat.

Trembling of lower limbs with anxiety.

Trembling while meditating.

Tension and numbness in the left leg.

Sensation as if drops of cord water trickled down front of thighs.

Weakness of joints after diarrhoea, after walking, walking ameliorates.

Weakness in lower limbs during diarrhoea, walking ameliorates.

Weakness in knee on mental exertion.

Pain in lower limbs in wet weather.

Pain in thigh during chill; pain in the leg on touch.

Burning pain in thigh, coughing, touch aggravate.

Burning pain in thigh near female genitalia.

Herpes, corroding vesicles, and ulcers on the nates.

Chilblains on toes; chilliness of the toes; blueness of the foot and redness of the toes; pimples on toes.

Corns in rainy weather and painful as if ulcerated.

Formication of foot ameliorated when walking in open air.

Burning heat in toe.

Itching of ball of fifth toe.

Pain in foot, walking ameliorates; pain in foot as from chilblains; touching aggravates.

Pain in joints of toes, in the ball of the foot on stepping, and pressing pain in the ankle on stepping.

Burning pain in sole of the left foot; stitching in the soles of the feet.

Burning pain in toes as if frost bitten and in the first toe while walking.

Sensation of suppuration in heel.

Ulcers on foot from rubbing of the shoes.

Phagedenic ulcers of joints of toes.

Tension in back of foot.

Trembling of foot, walking in open air ameliorates.

Weakness in foot when ascending stairs and after walking in open air.

 

Sleep

 

Sleeplessness in the evening after going to bed.

Sleeplessness after midnight from heat, during heat in head.

Sleeplessness after midnight until 2 a.m.

Sleeplessness after midnight until 1-4 a.m, from 2-5 a.m.

Sleeplessness during dentition; with difficult respiration.

Waking from sleep while lying on painful side.

She wakes uncommonly early, at 3 o’clock; she cannot fall asleep again for two hours on account of heat in the whole body, especially in the head, with sweat on the thighs.

Waking before midnight; waking early and falling asleep late and waking by erection.

Seep disturbed by coldness.

Sleep after perspiration.

Seeps on side, on the left side or impossible to sleep on side.

Deep sleep in noon and afternoon.

Sleepiness in the evening at twilight, falling asleep late and difficult.

Sleepiness in children.

The child at the breast sleeps more than usual, but wakes frequently.

The child tosses about, cries until 4 a.m., frequently out of its sleep, and in the morning is in a whining mood.

An infant cries out of sleep and anxiously grasps its mother, as if frightened by a dream.

Sleepiness during evening meal; falling asleep early.

Falling asleep late with early waking and with sleepiness in the daytime and evening.

Yawning while sitting.

Dreams: coitus; sore throat.

Fever

 

Chill in the morning after rising, chill from 2-4 a.m.

Chill from 2-6 p.m. and in the evening on rising.

Shaking chill with perspiration and pulsating pain in occiput.

Chill in the afternoon after evening meal, on rising from bed, before urination and beginning in and extending from the face.

Chill during sleep; absent after midnight.

Trembling and shivering at night.

Hot head in infants.

Fever in the afternoon after sleep, in the evening at 6 p.m., in bed with sweat.

Fever at night at 2 a.m.

Fever and chilliness from putting hands out of bed.

Perspiration at night, 10 p.m. during menses; while writing; in the morning during sleep and during mental exertion.

 

Skin

 

Unhealthiness of the skin, with dirty discolouration.

Erysipelas in face.

Cicatrices break open.

Severe itching on the backs of the finger joints, so that he is obliged to scratch them violently.

Eruption of pustules with red areola.

Eruptions with moist white discharge; phagedenic vesicular eruptions; whitish eruptions; eruptions which itch in the evening.

Serpiginous; serpiginous ulcers.

Psoriasis.

Hard skin peeling off, like callosities.

Skin aggravated before menses.

 

CLINICAL

 

Aphthae. Aphthous ulceration of mucous membranes. Genitalia and anus are covered with aphthous appearances. Gastro-intestinal irritation.

Stomach problems with salivation, nausea, vomiting. Sea-sickness. Diarrhoea with pain or soft yellow stools accompanying aphthae.

Albuminuria, haematuria. Delirium, visual changes. Epilepsy. Leucorrhoea clear, copious, albuminous, unnaturally hot, acrid. Dysmenorrhoea membranous.

Menstruation painful (membranous). Sterility.

Painful nursing; empty feeling in mammae; ameliorated by pressure. Sore nipples.

Herpetic eruptions. Pleurisy with expectoration of a mushy, mouldy odour.

Entropion. Infections of eyes. Trichiasis. Ulcers on finger joints.

Erysipelas. Herpes. Psoriasis. Ulcers. Infections of nose. Plica-polonica.

About the author

George Vithoulkas

George Vithoulkas is an Honorary Professor of the Moscow Medical Academy, Professor in the Kiev Medical Academy, Honorary Professor at the University of the Aegean, Greece, Collaborating Professor in Basque Medical University (2001-2004) and Doctor Honoris Causa of "Doctor ViktorBabes" University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Timisoara in Romania. In 1995, he established International Academy of Classical Homeopathy in Alonissos, of which he is the director. In 1996, he was honored with the Right Livelihood Award (also known as Alternative Nobel Prize) "for his outstanding contribution to the revival of homeopathic knowledge and the training of homeopaths to the highest standards".

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