Borax Veneta

Borax has some very peculiar symptoms which will serve as keynotes to many

cases. Chief among them are: (/) 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. Otorrhcea and inflammation of auricle: "starts with the pains."

Nostrils ulcerated; soreness, pain and swelling of tip of nose. Aphthze; 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 aphthz. Child screams before

urinating (from inflammation of mucous membrane). Leucorrhcea 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.

• ▸Extreme anxiety, especially from motions which have a downward direction, rocking, being carried downstairs, laid down.
• ▸Anxious expression of face during the downward motions, starts and throws up hands on laying patient down, as if afraid of falling.
• ▸Excessively nervous; easily frightened.
• ▸Sensitive to sudden noises.
• ▸Violent fright from report of a gun, even at a distance.
• ▸Fear of thunder.

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.

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.

Aches, with nausea and trembling of whole body. Hair tangled at tips, cannot be separated, as in Plica Polonica (Vinca min).

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.

• ▸Lashes turn inward.
• ▸Visions of bright waves.
• ▸Eyelids inflamed, lids cut against eyeball.
• ▸Entropium.

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.

Very sensitive to slightest noise; not so much disturbed by louder ones.

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.
• ▸—A ffections of the 1.
• ▸ear particularly.
• ▸—Itching; stitches.

• ▸Red nose, of young women (Nat carb).
• ▸Red and shining swelling, with throbbing and tensive sensation.
• ▸Tip swollen and ulcerated.
• ▸Dry crusts.

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 hemorrhage, 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.

Pale, earthy, with suffering expression. Swollen, with pimples on nose and lips. Feeling of cobwebs.

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.

• ▸Aphthae.
• ▸White fungous like growth.
• ▸Mouth hot and tender; ulcers bleed on touch and eating.
• ▸Painful gumboil.
• ▸Crying when nursing.
• ▸Taste bitter (Bry; Puls; Cup).
• ▸Taste of "cellar mould".

Aphthez in the mouth and on the tongue, which bleed easily.—Spasmodic stiffness

and torpor of the tongue.—Skin of the palate hard and wrinkled.

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.

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

Distention after eating; vomiting. Gastralgia, depending upon uterine disturbance. Pain as if diarrhoea would result.

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.

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.

Pain in the hypochondria, mostly pressive and in the |. 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 diarrhcea—Accumulation of flatus in the abdomen, and

frequent escape of wind.

Loose, pappy, offensive stools in children. Diarrhoea, offensive, preceded by colic; stools mucous, with aphthous sore mouth.

Evacuations frequent, soft, or loose, with pinching and borborygmi in the

• ▸abdomen.
• ▸—Greenish evacuations (in children).
• ▸—Slimy diarrhcea.
• ▸—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.

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.

• ▸Hot, smarting pain in orifice.
• ▸Pungent smell.
• ▸Child afraid to urinate, screams before urinating (Sarsap).
• ▸Small red particles on diaper.

• ▸Labor pains with frequent eructations.
• ▸Galactorrhoea (Cal; Con; Bell).
• ▸In nursing, pain in opposite breast.
• ▸Leucorrhoea like white of eggs, with sensation as if warm water was flowing.
• ▸Menses too soon, profuse, with griping, nausea and pain in stomach extending into small of back.
• ▸Membranous dysmenorrhoea.
• ▸Sterility.
• ▸Favors easy conception.
• ▸Sensation of distention in clitoris with sticking.
• ▸Pruritus of vulva and eczema.

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.—Leucorrhea,

corrosive, and thick, like starch.—Sterility—Acrid leucorrhcea, 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 gonorrhcea.—False pains.—Labour pains: spasmodic; more in stomach than

in uterus; dart upwards, head of child goes back.—Griping and sometimes stitches in 1. 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.—Aphthe so tender they prevent child nursing.

Absence of sexual desire.—Erections, with painful tension, on

• ▸waking in the morning.
• ▸—Gonorrhcea.
• ▸—Chancres studding prepuce.
• ▸—Stitches.
• ▸—Sticking, sore

pain, < when touched.

• ▸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; is obliged to jump and catch breath, which causes pain in right side.
• ▸Out of breath on going up stairs.

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.

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.

Sensation as if the heart were on the r. side, and were going to be crushed.—Infants

cyanotic from birth.

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.

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.

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.

• ▸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 (Rhus).
• ▸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.

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 phagedezenic

vesicles.

Voluptuous dreams. Cannot sleep on account of heat, especially in head. Cries out of sleep as if frightened (Bell).

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 diarrhcea.—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.

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.

• ▸Aphthe.
• ▸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.

• ▸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.

Acetic acid, vinegar, and wine are incompatible.

Antidote: Cham; Coffea.

Compare: Calc; Bryon; Sanicula; Sulph ac.

• ▸First to third trituration.
• ▸In skin diseases continue its use for several weeks.
• ▸Locally, in pruritus pudendi.
• ▸A piece of borax, the size of a pea, dissolved in the mouth, acts magically in restoring the voice, in cases of sudden hoarseness brought on by cold, and frequently for an hour or so, it renders the voice silvery and clear.

Borax is one of those domestic remedies that has been long used

for local conditions as a soothing substance and for a healing purpose.

In "nursing sore mouth” of mother or child Borax has been used in

the families of old, in the form of Borax and honey, as a wash. The

extensive use that has been made of it would make the homoeopath

wonder if the people had not hit upon something, and it is a fact that

Borax will rapidly heal up a sore mouth. It is not strange that it

docs so, for Borax, in its proving, produces aphthous conditions of the

mouth, which extend to the throat and even into the stomach. It

cures where the genitalia and anus are covered with these aphthous

appearances.

Anxiety, fidgetiness, and sensitiveness are prominent in Borax. He

is anxious about trifles. He starts at every noise, on hearing unexpected news, from music, from excitement. This anxiety or nervousness, this indescribable feeling that is within him, is aggravated from

upward or downward motion. Such a motion as going up in one of

our elevators nearly drives him to distraction, but he is made worse

going down. All complaints are aggravated from downward motion.

It has been said in routine practice, that in all cases of sore mouth in

children, when the child is worse from downw^ard motion, Borax is

the remedy. When the mother is in the act of laying the child down

on the bed it often rouses up in its sleep and cries out in fright. The

anxiety may be better appreciated if you will go to the top of one of

these high buildings and go dowm in the elevator. It is natural for

every one to feel, with the rapid motion, an anxious feeling in the

stomach, a sensation of falling ; that is natural to the healthy man,

but if you exaggerate that intensely you have the Borax condition in

which the slightest downward motion, of even riding down hill or

walking down stairs, or, in the child, when being carried down stairs

in the mother's arms, produces a violent aggravation. All the nerves

are in a fret.

We notice that Borax has an intensified activity throughout the

body ; all of his senses are made more acute. His hearing is intensified, he is oversensitive to his surroundings, over-anxious. He has an

excitable spirit throughout. Riding dovm hill produces vertigo. On

nervous excitement, fear and apprehension. This is a strong feature

of Borax. It has many such symptoms, but the nervous elements

partake of this type. As we go through the remedy many other things

will be called out ; but this may be said to be the principal feature of

the mental state, and it is to a great extent the key to Borax cases.

“Anxious feeling during downward morion or rocking.’’ The diarrhoea will be cured when that state is present. Aphthae will be cured

when that state is present. The rheumatism, menstrual troubles and

numerous other complaints will disappear upon the administration of

Borax, when this key is present.

It has hysterical manifestations. “Changes from one work to another.” It has a restless, nervous, anxious, excitable state that runs

through his body. The child screeches and screams when it is dandled

and tossed up and down. The motion of the brain, the upward and

downward motion, as in swinging, rocking, etc., makes the patient lose

himself, he hardly knows where he is ; confusion and vertigo come

over him. If one rocks the child, it has an anxious expression of face.

“Very anxious on riding rapidly down hill.” “Anxiety increased until

• ▸1 1 p.
• ▸M.
• ▸” That I have noticed in Borax as a peculiar time of aggravation of the anxiety.
• ▸I have noticed it in women who had periods

of insanity, whose nervous trouble and mental state would keep up

until 1 1 p. M. You will notice sometimes in insane people that it seems

as if they were possessed of the devil : and at once a lucid interval will

come and they will talk just as if nothing had happened. So it is in

Borax that a great change may occur at 1 1 p. m. ; this state of anxiety

and nervous excitement may stop at that hour. “Fretful, ill-humored,

indolent” state increased until there is a stool and relieved by stool.

**He starts on hearing an anxious cry on hearing an unexpected

noise, on hearing something drop from a chair to the floor, or if a door

opens unexpectedly. This is all in keeping with the nature of Borax.

If you compare Borax with other Natrums you will find an astonishing

likeness in the nervous excitability ; Natrum carh, and Natnun niur.

Aggravation from noise, oversensitiveness to noise and overexcitement

of the nerves run through all the Sodium family. They are wonderfully intense people.

“While engaged in thinking at his work, strong nausea.” Borax has

many times cured this kind of trouble, I have seen it come up in this

way ; from 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.

With the aggravation from mental exertion, from noise, from excitement, from downward motion, we get the mental aspect of Borax.

A further examination of the sensorium shows: “Vertigo and fulness in head on descending a mountain or stairs.” This is a form of

the same anxious feeling. This remedy has a good deal of vertigo,

sometimes constant vertigo, which is made so intense on downward

motion that he must sit still, and do nothing. It has many congestive

headaches, pressive headaches and much heat in the head.

• ▸There are many eye symptoms.
• ▸“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." "Dillicult opening

of lids.'’

Like all the salts of Sodium the nose suffers Irom chronic inffamiiiation of the mucous membrane, a catarrhal state, with copious discharge, and crusts in the nose ; stoppage of the nose. The whole

Natrum family has these dry crusts in il)e nose, and copious discharges

from the nose. Natrum mur. predominantly produces white discharge,

and so does Borax ; Natr, sulph. produces yellow discharge, and so

does Borax ; Nair. sulpli. produces yellow discharge from the nose,

even yellowish-green. Borax is laid down as producing greenish discharge ; its characteristic discharge, which is a general of the remedy,

is a white discharge.

The face of the infant is pale, and clay-colored. “Children have

small vesicles around the mouth, and on the forehead.” Nair. mur.

produces herpetic eruptions around the mouth in all of its febrile

• ▸states, and when the patient takes cold.
• ▸Borax is sometimes forgotten, anti Natr.
• ▸mur.
• ▸is thought of because it is better known.
• ▸When

the Natrum constitution is present, then it becomes a process of individualization to determine which one of the Natrums is indicated.

“Aphthae in mouth and oti tongue.“ "Aphilue on tongue and inside of cheek.” This alone ia' not an indication for Borax, although

Borax is one among many medicines when the mouth is so sore that

the child lets loose its hold of the nipple or bottle. Many prescribers

give Borax on that indication alone ; but the constitutional state

ought to be hunted up, so that there may be constitutional founda«

• ▸tion for the remedy.
• ▸Sulph.
• ▸ac\ is more frequently indicated.
• ▸“Red

blisters on tongue.” “Vomiting after drinking.” This leads one

to expect that this aphthous state has traveled down the oesophagus

into the stomach. There are many stomach symptoms present that

are likely to be the result of some such condition. “Buccal mucous

membrane highly reddened.” The sore mouth, such as mothers

have and such as infants have, can be cured with Borax. “After'

every meal flatulent distension.” “Constant vomiting.” “Vomiting

of sour slime.” The Borax patient with stomach aphthae will gag

and retch and cough, and that is what is called a “stomach cough.”

Mothers say, “It is a stomach cough.” because the child gags and

retches with it. “Stomach cough with pain extending into region

of spleen,”

Little ones often get summer complaints when they need Borax.

All around about the anus you will see the aphthous appearances.

Great slimy stools are passed day and night ; the child keeps up a

pitiful crying ; the mouth is aphthous, child is emaciating, and holds

its head back. '‘Stools ; frequent, soft, light yellow, slimy.” Quantities of fluid like boiled starch are emitted from the anus ; Borax has

that as well as Argentum nitricum. There are also conditions of the

rectum producing thickening of the mucous membrane, with stricture, growing, smaller and smaller until finally a long thin stool is

passed, no larger than a pencil. This inflammatory stricture has

been cured l)y Borax,

In this over-sensitive child when the catarrhal state is general

the urine burns so when it passes that with the first urging (which

causes the child to realize it must soon urinate) it screams out ;

screams with the desire to urinate. That is what it means when it

says "Worse before urination.” It is not that the state of the urinary organs is worse before urinating, but the child in realizing that

it must urinate screeches and screams. "Frequent urination preceded

by cries.” The urine bums and you may know that the child must

soon urinate because it commences to cry. "Orifice of urethra pains

as if sore, after urinating,” "Desire to urinate without being able

to pass a drop.”

This remedy has cured gonorrhoea. Wherever there is mucous

membrane you may expect to find the aphthous patches. There is

another feature like Natr, mur, and Nair, carb, ; in both male and

female it takes away sexual desire ; it benumbs the patient, and

hence the mind and sexual organs are in a state of indifference.

Then we come to the most striking feature of Borax in regard

to the female sexual organs ; in the menstrual flow will be found

membrane. Borax cures the most violent forms of membranous

dysmenorrhoea, when there are violent labor-like pains before and

during the flow and it seems as if the uterus would expel itself from

the vagina. The flow starts slightly, but the same violent pains keep

on, until the expulsion of the membrane. I have known Borax to

cure when the membrane was a cast of the uterus. Such patients

are easily startled from downward motion ; let that be your guide to

Borax in membranous dysmenorrhoea. She dreads downward motion, and motions like swinging and rocking. "During menses ;

throbbing in head and rushing in ears.” "Pinching and griping in

abdomen that word does not describe it exactly, for it is like the

• ▸pain in labor ; "pain extending from stomach.
• ▸” Pain like the stabbing of a knife in the groin, and that may occur either before or during menstruation.
• ▸"Tired ; sweat after midnight.
• ▸” But, remember,

with such things you must have the mental state, the nervous, excitable state and then Borax will cure this dysmenorrhoea. Another

grand feature of Borax I read in the next sentence. Leucorrhoea

like the white of eggs.” It has albuminous leucorrhoea which feels

^iike a hot fluid, and flows down the legs. “White albuminous or

starchy leucorrhoea.*' “Acrid Icucorrhoea appearing for two weeks.,“

“Lcucorrhoea white as mucus, without any other ailment,” Now

from this acrid leucorrhoea, from the menstrual state, tiiis false

membrane forming and being thrown off, it is no wonder that women

are sterile. All these women are sterile, all who have such symptoms

are sterile and Borax has cured sterility when this condition was the

cause. You will find routinists prescribe Borax for all women who

are sterile, regardless of the state. When a remedy is given for

sterility, the state must be looked into which is peculiar to the remedy

given such a state as that remedy can produce upon the healthy

woman.

Another feature. Many times I have used Borax when the mother

could not nurse the child ,* she talks about always having a little,

thick milk. “The milk is too thick and tastes badly.” This condition

of the milk prevents the mother from nursing her child. This is a

constitutional state, and Borax, if given in the beginning of pregnancy,

to a Borax patient will so change the milk as well as the rest of the

constitution that the mother will be able to nurse the child. 1 have

a number of times, when a mother has brought forth several children

that she was unable to nurse, given Borax and it has so affected the

case that she could nurse the next child. This remedy also has

loathing of the breast in infanfe, due to the fact that the milk tastes

bad and not due to any defect on the part of the child. You might

think of prescribing for the in^nt, but if you examine into the case

you will find that the child wiU not take the milk because it is loathsome. The mother needs a dose of Borax, which will cure the child

of its diarrhoea and loathing of milk. “The infant becomes pale,

nearly earth-colored,” “The child throws up its hands when an attempt is made to put it down.” If the mother was a Borax mother,

the child very likely is a Borax child ; it is not an uncommon thing

for the mother and baby to need the same remedy ; many times I

have medicated the child through the mother’s milk if both needed

the same remedy. Another peculiar feature is that when the child

is nursing, there is pain in the opposite breast. Borax is not necessarily

limited to the state of confinement ; there is a practical use for Borax

among nervous women in all states of life.

Borax has cured pleurisy that very much resembled Bryonia,

especially on the right side like Bryonia; stitching or darting pains

from without inward as if through the upper right lung posteriorly ;

the stitching pains might make you think of Bryonia.

“Wilted, wrinkled skin.” “Skin pale or livid.” Emaciated ; flabby

child becomes emaciated. Children become ^ marasmic along with

the aphthous condition ; they cannot digest. They vomit or have