BORAX


Borax homeopathy medicine – drug proving symptoms from Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica by TF Allen, published in 1874. It has contributions from R Hughes, C Hering, C Dunham, and A Lippe….


Introduction

Natrum biboracicum (2BO2Na. B2O310H2O). Sodium biborate. Preparation: Triturations.

Mind

Voluptuous mood (after weeks). Very cheerful, lively, affectionate, with desire and liking for all work, in the forenoon (sixth day). The child cries at intervals very violently, ceases after a few minutes, and is again contended and playful. Very earnest (after one day). Low-spirited and peevish (second day). Very anxious on riding rapidly down a hill, contrary to his custom; he feels as though it would take away his breath (first five weeks). The child becomes anxious when dancing; if one rocks it in the arms it has an anxious expression of the face during the downward motion (the first three weeks). Anxiety with rumbling in the bowels (after ten hours). Great anxiety, with great sleepiness; the anxiety increased until 11 o’clock in the evening, when the person became dizzy and sleepy, and fell asleep. Anxiety, with weakness and trembling in the feet, and palpitation (when mesmerizing), (after three days). Fright; both he and she start up at a distant shock. Fright; he starts in all his limbs on hearing an anxious cry (after four weeks). The baby is frightened at hawking and sneezing. Dread and fear of contagion. Irritable during important business (after eight days). The child is fretful, whines and cries, contrary to its custom (first day). Very fretful in the afternoon at 4 o’clock, and peevish, although he was in good humor previously; he rebukes people for trifles, for several days (eighth day). Before the easy stool in the afternoon, fretful, ill- humored, indolent, and discontented; after it, lively, contented with himself and the world, and looking cheerfully into the future (after twenty days). Violent; he scolds and swears at trifles (first day). Violent, fretful, ill-humored (first day). He does not become offended, and is indifferent to things which usually vex him very much (curative action), (fifteenth day). Pleasure and activity in the his business (curative action), (after five weeks). At times his thoughts vanish (fourth day). He idles through the afternoon, does not really get at his work; changes from one business to another, from one room to another; does not keep at one business. Disinclined to work; he does only what he is obliged to as if by force (the first five weeks). He is obliged to reflect a long time, until he knows everything that he has done through the day; for a long time he is not certain whether he had been at a place yesterday or to-day (sixth day).

Head

On walking, head confused. The whole head confused, with stitching in left ear, evening (first day). Vertigo, in the morning in bed (fifth day). Vertigo in the evening when walking, as if some one pushed him from the right side towards the left (fifth day). Attacks of vertigo, with loss of presence of mind (third day). Giddy and full feeling in the forehead in the morning, so that he immediately lost his good humor (fourth day). Light, clear head (sixth day). Heaviness in the head (first day). Headache, with confusion of the whole head, and sticking in the left ear (first day). Fullness of the head on ascending a mountain or steps (fifth day). Fullness in the head and pressure about the eyes, as if they were held fast, so that he can scarcely move them. Fullness in the head and pressure in the small of the back when sitting, together with a sleepy sensation in the eyes (seventeenth day). Fullness in the head in morning, with lack of clear ideas and presence of mind, so that he is unable to perform any mental work, and has no desire for it; after walking in the open air he is better, but still feels great weakness in the feet and joints (second day). Aching in the whole head, with nausea, inclination to vomit, and to vomit, and trembling in the whole body, in the morning at 10 o’clock (in two female provers at the same time), (second day). Dull pressive headache in the morning, especially in the forehead (first day). During menstruation, throbbing in the head and roaring in the ears. Headache in the forehead, with sticking in the left ear, and a hollow lower back tooth on the left side, in the evening (fourteenth day). Drawing pain in the forehead extending towards the eyes (fourth day). Pressive drawing headache in the forehead above the eyes and towards the root of the nose, at times extending into the nape of the neck; on stooping a severe pressure in the frontal bone; when writing and reading the pain becomes much more violent, with pressure in the region of the spleen (sixth day). Dull pressure in the forehead (sixth day). Pressive headache above the eyes; soon disappears when walking in the open air (fourth day). Sticking headache over the eyes and in the temples, alternating with head and coldness, so that at one time the hands were very hot, at another quite blue, with sticking in the swollen glands in the neck, which afterwards became softer and smaller (fourteenth day). Twitching pain in the forehead, with nausea and tearing in both eyeballs, in the afternoon ( (first day). Throbbing in the forehead. Sticking from the right temple to the left half of the forehead. Pressive sticking in the right temple (fortieth day). Rhythmical pressive dull sticking in the right temple (fortieth day). Throbbing in both temples (fourth day). Throbbing headache in both temples, especially in the right (sixteenth day). Headache in the vertex and forehead, in the evening (second day). Boring in a small spot in the vertex (twentieth day). Tearing in the vertex in the forenoon, with a great roaring in the ears (eighth day). Stitches, transient, in the left side of the head in the vertex, afterwards transient stitches in the genitals, and in the following night lascivious disgusting dreams, in a married woman (first day). Stitches deep in the right side of the head, with discharge of pus from the right ear; stitches so violent that he involuntarily drew back his head, together with tickling in the left ear, such as precedes a discharge, followed by very acute hearing (thirty-second day)(60). Tearing in the left half of the head, starting in a hollow tooth (fourth day). Throbbing headache in the occiput, as if it would suppurate there, with shivering over the whole body, lasting the whole night and following day (second day). Pulsating rush of blood into the occiput (sixteenth day). Sensitiveness of the external head to cold and change of weather. As in Plica Polonica, the child’s hairs become entangled at the tips and stick together, so that very cannot be separated; if these bunches are cut off they form again (for ten weeks).

Eyes

The infant becomes very red around the eyes when crying (fourth day). Sensation in eyes as if something had fallen into them, which disappears on rubbing, first in the right eye, then in the left, four times during half the day, and returning next day at noon (seventh day). Burning in the eyes and momentary contraction of them as soon as he removes the glasses (after six days). Pressive burning in the right eye, in the afternoon (third day). Pressure above the eyes from time to time (tenth day). Pressure in the right eye very painful, as if it would be pressed into the orbit, in the morning (after five weeks). Sensation in the right eyelids, while sitting, as if something pressed out from within, from between the skin coming from the temples; immediately followed by pressure around eyes (fourth day). Cutting in the left eye lengthwise, coming and going suddenly (thirty-seventh day). In the left eye, three stitches in succession (third day). Itching in the eyes, with a sensation at times as if sand were in them (fourth day). The lashes turn inward toward the eye and inflame it, especially in the outer canthus, where the margins of the lid are very sore (sixth week). Inflammation of the margins of the lid in an infant; he rubs the eyes and at night they are agglutinated (first day). Inflammation of the left eye in the inner canthus, with nightly agglutinations (first days). Inflammation of the right eye in the external canthus, with irregularity of the lashes; agglutination of the eye at night (thirty-fifth day). At night the eyes are agglutination of the eye at night (thirty-fifth day). At night the eyes are agglutinated with hard, dry mucus, which irritates the eyes like sand (fifth week). In the morning the eyes are agglutinated and lachrymatous (fifth day). In the evening it is difficult to close the lids, and in the morning difficult to open them (fifth week). Pressive pain in the upper lid on opening the eye. Soreness in the external canthi (after five weeks). Lachrymation of the eyes (eighth day). Itching in the internal canthus, so that she must frequently rub it (first days). Tearing in both eyeballs, with a twitching in the forehead, an nausea in the afternoon. Stitches in the eyeball, with contraction in the right upper lid (eighth day). Obscuration of the left eye in the evening; she was obliged to make great exertion, but still saw nothing (ninth day). Sensitiveness of the eyes to the candlelight in the evening (third day). Flickering before the eyes 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, several mornings in succession (after twenty-four days).

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.