Acidum Boracicum

Boric acid; formula 7 (B2O3

)54(H2 O)

Preparation , Solution of the crystals in alcohol.

Authority.

A. H. Z. 33, 15, S. J., took repeated doses of the third dil. (from Inaug. Dis. on Borax and the Borates).

HEAD

• Head unusually confused on waking in the morning.
• A gastric headache.

MOUTH AND THROAT

• Much cold saliva in the mouth.
• Hawking.

STOMACH AND ABDOMEN

• Great nausea and heaviness in the stomach, which disappears after walking in the open air.
• Retching and vomiting of tough mucus, with watery fluid which is very strongly alkaline.
• Vomiting of tough fluid substances strongly alkaline (after sixteen minutes).
• Heaviness and restlessness in the stomach till dinner.
• Rumbling in the abdomen in the afternoon, and two scanty pasty stools.

STOOL AND URINARY ORGANS. [10.]

• A pasty stool.
• A moderately transient pain in the region of the ureters.
• Frequent and urgent desire to urinate.
• Urine nearly double the normal in amount.

GENERALITIES AND SKIN

• General discomfort, which disappears after a walk of two hours.
• Some time after beginning the proving of the alkaline Borates, an eruption was noticed on the right thigh, consisting of vesicles, which continually extended and became covered with crusts; in the middle, a circumscribed spot as large as a ten-cent piece, surrounded by new vesicles, which were very moist when broken (Impetigo figurata, Willan ).
• After two months, this eruption extended to the right lower leg; it then passed over to the left lower leg and disappeared, eight months after first breaking out, and two months from the time of taking any medicine.

CONDITIONS

• Aggravation.
• ( Morning ), On waking, head confused.
• ( Afternoon ), Rumbling in the abdomen, etc.
• Amelioration.
• ( After walking in open air ), Nausea, etc., disappears.
• ( After a walk ), General discomfort disappears.