Borax
By Adolph von Lippe โ Text Book of Materia Medica
Mind and Disposition
Easily frightened, and starting from the least noise.
Anxiety, with sleepiness, increased towards evening.
The child feels an anguish when rocked in a cradle, has an anxious countenance during the downward motion, (when carried down stairs).
Parts, which are usually red, turn white.
Head
Vertigo in the morning, in bed.
Headache in the forenoon, (10 A.M.) with nausea and trembling of the body.
Hot head (hot mouth and hands) of the infant.
Eyes
The eyelashes turn inward into the eye, inflaming it, especially in the external canthus, where the borders of the lids are quite sore.
Itching in the external canthus of the eye.
Ears
Discharge of pug from the ears, with hardness of hearing; with roaring in the (left) ear.
Nose
Dry scabs in the nose.
Face
Tetter around the mouth.
Burning heat and redness of the left cheek.
Mouth and Throat
Aphthรฆ in the mouth, and on the tongue, bleeding when eating.
Tenacious, whitish phlegm in the throat, which can only be loosened with great exertion.
Stomach and Abdomen
Distention from flatulence after every meal.
Hiccough after dinner.
Stool and Anus
Frequent soft, light-yellow, slimy stools.
Diarrhลa after breakfast.
Stitches in the rectum.
Urinary Organs
Frequent micturition, (acrid-smelling urine).
Hot urine in infants.
Sexual Organs
Men. During coition, the semen escapes either too early or too late.
Women. Catamenia too early, and too profuse.
During the catamenia, spasmodic pressure and stitches in the groin.
Sterility, or easy conception.
Fluor albus, like the white of an egg, or acrid.
Stitches in the region of the uterus.
Sensation of contraction in the left mamma, while the child nurses from the right.
Aphthรฆ on the nipples, they bleed.
Chest
Stitches in the chest, whenever he coughs, or takes a deep inspiration.
Extremities
Lower. Stitches in the solos of the feet.
Suppuration of a spot in the heel, where the rubbing of the shoe had occasioned a wound.
Frequent stitches in the corns.
Great weakness and debility of the lower extremities.
Generalities
Restlessness and ebullitions, especially after talking, with nausea.
Sleep
Sleepiness during the day, and sleeplessness at night.
The child starts from his sleep, and cries.
Fever
Chilliness, especially during sleep.
Flushes of heat, (morning and evening).
Perspiration during the morning sleep.
Skin
Unwholesome skin, small wounds suppurate and ulcerate.
Erysipelatous inflammation on the lower leg, with chilliness, followed by heaviness and pulsation in the head; later, bleeding of the nose.
Conditions
Consequences from getting cold when the weather in wet and cold.
Bad effects from riding; from eating fruit, (apples, pears).
Aggravation after menstruation.