BORAX

BORAX

GENERALS

Affinity for Young woman/infant/mucous membrane

NOTE:  Borax is not just for mouth ulcer

hot  (will go together with CAUSTICUM—chilly)

THIRSTY (LYCO— thirstless)

RIGHT-SIDED

Nervous, frightened by downward motion, sudden noise, aphthous soreness of ANY MUCOUS MEMBRANE (mouth/nose/anus/vagina — PID/cervical erosion—ASAFETIDA—heavy belching)

A child crying before urination or stool

DREAD OF DOWNWARD MOTION-vomits/downstairs/ropeway/lift/airplane/giant wheel/laid down in cradle

Startled by any sudden noise/thunder (crackers/door banging/gunfire even from a distance)

Anxiety from rocking or dancing

Child awakes terrified, screams, clings to mother/father/relative/thought/mobile/laptop/GF/BF

EASILY BLEEDING aphthae in mouth/tongue/inner surface of cheeks with great heat & dryness —child can’t nurse—(epistaxis/after coitus/rectal bleeding/bleeding from itching)

Aphthae in nursing child with all discharges hot  (like BELLADONNA)

ULCERS FROM MOUTH TO RECTUM (ulcerative colitis/IBS/Crohn’s disease)

Fungus of GIT in immunocompromised host (diabetes/thyroid/HIV)

Child ulcer or nipple ulcer can’t tolerate suckling

Aphthous ulcer with diarrhea

Before urination, the child cries (inflammation of mucous membrane)

ALL DISCHARGES ARE hot /ACRID/WHITE/COPIOUS/ALBUMINOUS/LIKE EGG WHITE/STARCHY/LIKE WARM WATER—bronchiectasis

 

GENERALS

Hair tangles at the tips, sticks together, and if cut off, they form again, split hair (perspiration sticky)

Plica Polonica—after chemotherapy

Sensation of emptiness in mammae after sucking, better pressing

Pain in opposite mammae when child nurses

WHITENESS OF PARTS THAT ARE USUALLY RED

Any thrush (oral thrush/candidiasis/fungal infection)

Violent membranous dysmenorrhea with sterility (tubal blockage)

Eructation which comes on pressure of the painful part, causes amelioration

Eyelashes turn inward, margins of eyelid red.

Dry skin, non-healing ulcer (immunocompromised) (ARSENIC)

Mother’s milk is thick and tastes badly/Mother’s milk curdles easily

All mucous membranes shriveled

KEY NOTES

Syphilis–Chancres studding prepuce, pain on touch

Sexual desire absent/indifference to coition

hot  head of babies

Infant cyanotic (valvular heart disease —cyanotic is borax/acyanotic) from birth

Salivation during birth

Vertigo aggravation by ascending stairs

Red nose of young women

Obstruction alternate with lachrymation

Epistaxis on blowing nose (psoriasis developed after Tinea cruris bleeds easily)

Cobweb sensation as if a bug crawling over the lip (ALUMINA)

Pain after lifting heavy objects, gastralgia, reflex from UTERINE TROUBLES (CONCOMITANT OF BORAX)

STOOLS GREEN like boiled starch (CHAMOMILLA, THUJA)

Green stool after vaccination (THUJA)

Urine hot  and acrid —loose, pappy, repulsive stool

Smarting nephritis (APIS)/cystitis

Lying down aggravates (jump up for breath)

Feels heart on right side and being squeezed

SQUEEZING PAIN with membranous dysmenorrhea/renal stone/colicky pain before stool

Heavy leucorrhea (uses pads for leucorrhea) and it is hot

Pleurisy with pain in the right pectoral region, cannot breathe or move without a stitch (BRYONIA—dry—Borax has copious discharge)

Must hold chest with both hands while coughing (BRYONIA)

Sleep during the day and sleepless at night

Corns, shooting, piercing pain esp. in any weather (BORAX/PHOS with right-sided bleeding, LACHESIS with left-sided bleeding)

Menses profuse, pale

False labor pain (ALUMINA, CYCLAMEN, CAULOPHYLLLUM, ACTEA RACEMOSE/CIMICIFUGA) pain darts upwards, head of child goes back.

CAUSATIONS

Uterine trouble—gastralgia

Fungal infection

Touch of affected part—bleeding

Immunocompromised host

Grief/vexation/anger suppression/recurrent infections

MODALITIES

AGGRAVATION

downward or upward motion

Rocking/being dangled up and down

Sudden noise

Issues after menses

Nursing children

Damp weather

Riding in carriage

Eating fruits (PHOS)

AMELIORATION

Cold weather/11 pm/ pressure/after stool, menses, urine or any discharge/after spitting in mouth ulcers (SULPHUR 11 pm aggravation)

MIND

Great anxiety when descending

Dread of downward motion

Child cries when laid in cradle or taken downstairs

Easily frightened and startled with the least noise

Small things affect a lot

Irritable before stool and cheerful and happy after

Fear of being infected by some contagious disease (ARS/CALC/SYPHILINUM)—ARS & CALC chilly

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