Borax

Sodium UUrate. 2BO^NaB^O^10H^O.

The i3rst proving was made by our very industrious Schroeder, a master in observing, and published in Hartlaub's Annalen, 1832, Val. Ill, p. 309; his 87 symptoms have been corroborated throughout.

In 1835 Hahnemann, in his Chronic Diseases, 2d edition, Val. II p., 280, added 342 to the above, 31 of his own.

In 1857 Bonninghausen called attention to the characteristics, and another proving was published in the Austrian journal by Anton Fischer.

Mind

Alternate laughing and weeping.

▌ Idles through the afternoon, does not really get at work; changes from one work to another, from one room to another ; without keeping to any object.

▌▌ 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.

8 B Very anxious on riding rapidly down hill, contrary to his custom he feels as though it would take away his breath.

▌▌ Anxious feeling during downward motion or rocking. θ Diarrhoea.

▌▌ Dread of downward motion.

▌ Great anxiety and sleepiness ; anxiety increased until 11 p.m.

▌ Fretful, ill-humored, indolent and discontented before the easy stool, in the afternoon ; after it, lively, contented, and looking cheerfully into the future.

Irritability and crying of children.

Easily startled by unusual sounds; at a distant shot, an anxious cry ; hawking, sneezing, etc.

▌ Fright; he starts in all his limbs on hearing an anxious cry.

Heading and writing aggravate the headache.

When writing in the morning, flickering before the eyes.

While engaged in thinking at his work, strong nausea, with trembling of whole body and weakness in the knees.

Sensorium

First, heaviness of head ; later, light, clear head.

Vertigo and fullness in head on descending a mountain or stairs.

Vertigo : with tendency to fall to the left side ; vertigo when driving down hill.

││ Giddy all the time.

Inner Head

Pain across his forehead for three days, with giddiness, then it passed to top of his head.

Pressive headache in forehead.

Headache in forehead with stinging in left ear, changing at times to the right.

Throbbing headache in both temples, or in occiput.

Twitching pain in forehead, with nausea and tearing in eyeballs.

Tearing ; also stitches in the vertex.

Aching in whole head, with nausea, inclination to vomit, and trembling in whole body, at 10 A.M.

Fleeting stitches in 1. side of head, in vertex, and later in female sexual parts, followed by voluptuous, disgusting dreams.

Headache, with dullness of the entire head ; stinging in 1. ear.

;fatal basilar meningitis, with constant sopor, from which the child, get. 13 months, could not be roused.

Outer Head p. 459

Tearing from parietal bone to forehead.

Headache in occiput throbbing as if something would suppurate ; shuddering over the whole body, lasting all night and the following day.

Hot head of infants, with heat of mouth and palms.

▌ Hot head and chilliness.

▌ Hot head. θ Diarrhoea.

Sensitiveness of external head to cold and change of weather.

Hair becomes entangled at the tips and sticks together, cannot separated ; if these bunches are cut off they form again ; the hair may split.

││ The hair is rough and frowsy, can't be combed smooth ; gets into all kinds of snarls.

Sight and Eyes p. 459

Worse from light, particularly candle-light.

Sensitiveness of eyes to candle-light, evenings.

Flickering before eyes in morning, when writing, so that he does not see distinctly ; there seem to be bright moving waves, now from right to left, again from above downwards.

Obscuration of sight in left eye.

Pain above the eyes.

Tearing in eyeballs, with twitching pain in forehead and nausea.

Several stitches in succession, in left eye.

Sensation of a foreign body in eye.

Burning of eyes and contraction as soon as spectacles are put on.

▌ Rheumatic ophthalmia.

Swelling of Meibomian glands.

Inflammation of eyes at canthi, with irregularity of the lashes ; nightly agglutination.

▌ The lashes turn inward toward eye and inflame it, especially at outer canthus, where the margins of lids are very sore.

││ Margin of lids affected ; eyelashes loaded with a dry, gummy exudation, stick together in the morning.

▌ Lower eyelids entirely inverted.

▌ Granulated lids.

▌ Entropion.

▌ Difficult opening of the lids.

Hearing and Ears p. 460

▌ Very sensitive to the slightest noise, as the rumpling of paper, fall of a door latch, etc. θ Diarrhoea.

Dull drumming in 1. ear, sounding as if over subterranean vault.

Ringing, piping, crackling, or roaring in ears, more in left.

Deafness, with tinnitus and discharge from ear.

Difficult hearing in the left ear.

Smacking, and sensation as if the ear opened and closed, while it contained a thick paste.

Stinging in left ear.

Inflamed and hot swelling of both ears.

Discharge of pus from both ears.

▌ Left ear particularly affected.

Smell and Nose p. 460

Bleeding from the nose, morning.

Sneezing and fluent coryza.

S Sneezing causes severe stitch in right side of chest.

Fluent coryza, with much crawling in the nose.

Discharge of much greenish, thick mucus from the nose.

▌ Dry crusts in the nose, re-form if removed.

▌ Nostrils inflamed and crusty, tip of nose shining red.

Red and shining swelling of the nose, with throbbing and tensive sensation.

▌ Red noses of young women.

▌ Painful pressing from above downwards, through the right nostril, as if all the brain would be forced out ; < lying ; sleepless night from suffocating dryness.

▌ Stoppage of r. nostril, with constant inclination to blow the nose.

In upper and forepart of left nostril, toward tip of nose, a small boil, with sore pain and swelling of tip of nose.

▌ Stoppage of nose, first r. then left, with lachrymation.

^ Face. Anxious face during downward motion.

Sensation on right side of face, by the mouth, as if cobwebs laid there.

Sickly, pale, earthy color of the face.

▌ The face of the infant looks pale, suffering, earthy.

▌ Pale, clay-colored face. θ Diarrhoea.

Swelling, heat and redness of face, with tearing pain in malar bone.

One-sided hard swelling of face.

▌ Erysipelas in face and on lower limbs. θ During pregnancy. θ While nursing.

▌ Erysipelas in face, usually 1. side, insupportably painful when moving the muscles in laughing.

Lower Face p. 460

Burning of upper lip beneath 1. nostril, in morning.

Transient burning in nether lip, in evening.

Sensation as if a bug were crawling over the under lip, at 4 a.m.

Red inflamed swelling, as large as a pea, on lower lip, with burning soreness when touched.

Crawling, like insects, on the lips.

▌ Children have small vesicles around the mouth, on the forehead, fingers and hands, which burst and spread.

▌ Herpetic eruption about the mouth.

Teeth and Gums p. 461

Neuralgic toothache.

Dull griping in a hollow tooth in wet weather.

Fine stinging in all the teeth, intermitting, mostly in 1. lower decaying molar, with stinging in 1. ear and frontal headache; in evening.

Inflamed large swelling on outer side of gum, which pains severely (gum boil), with dull pain in a hollow tooth ; swelling of cheek and whole left side of face, as far as below the eye, where there is formed a watery blister.

Dark redness in lower portion of gums beneath the roots of the teeth along the lower jaw ; and toothache as if the teeth were too long.

▌ Redness of gums above roots of teeth in front of upper jaw.

Taste and Tongue p. 461

Taste: flat and insipid; bitter; food and even saliva taste bitter.

Food has no taste.

Cramp, numbness and stiffness in tongue, impeding respiration.

▌▌ Aphthae in mouth and on the tongue.

▌ Red blisters on tongue, as if the surface was eroded; they pain from every motion of the tongue, or if anything salt or spiced touches them.

▌▌ Aphthae on the tongue and inside of cheek, bleeding when eating, θ Diarrhoea.

IBAphthfe are so tender that they prevent child from nursing.

Inner Mouth p. 461

The mucous membrane of forepart of palate is shrivelled, as if burnt, pains especially when chewing.

▌ Mouth very hot. θ Diarrhoea.

▌ Aphthae, with dry heat in mouth, great thirst and vomiting after drinking.

▌ Salivation with difficult dentition.

▌ Rapidly forming ulcers in mouth ; gangrenous.

▌ Buccal mucous membrane highly reddened and covered with cheesy aphthae.

▌▌ Aphthae with salivation.

▌▌ Aphtha : in the mouth ; on inner surface of cheek, bleeding easily ; with great heat and dryness of mouth ; with cracked tongue ; with salivation.

▌ Aphthae of old people, after partaking of sour or salty food.

Palate and Throat p. 461

Worse Avhen swallowing.

Palate wrinkled ; child cries frequently, when nursing.

Roughness and burning in throat.

▌ Tough whitish mucus in throat, which is loosened only after great exertion.

▌ The mucous membrane of the palate in front seems burnt and shrivelled, and is especially painful when chewing.

Scratching in throat, with pressure in chest and cough.

▌ Syphilitic ulcers in fauces.

Appetite, Thirst. Desires, Aversions p. 462

▌ Thirst; vomiting after drinking. θ Child with aphthae.

▌ Desire for acids ; for sour drinks, θ Diarrhoea.

No desire for his smoking tobacco.

▌ Loss of appetite. θ Diarrhoea.

Eating and Drinking p. 462

After eating apples with mutton, fullness in stomach, with peevishness and ill-humor, also fullness in head.

▌ After eating pears, especially morning or forenoon, pressure in pit of stomach, which disappears on walking. θ Diarrhoea.

Worse from wine, particularly chest symptoms.

Wine increased pain in r. chest and inguinal region.

Renewal of symptoms on taking vinegar, particularly stitch in chest.

Hiccough : after eating ; also of infants.

▌ After every meal, flatulent distention. θ Diarrhoea.

▌ After eating, which he relishes, great distension, discomfort, sick feeling and ill-humor.

After eating : desire for stool ; diarrhoea.

After breakfast : diarrhoea.

After smoking tobacco, sensation as if diarrhoea would set in.

Smoking tobacco relieves toothache.

Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting p. 462

The pains are accompanied by violent and frequent eructations.

Nausea : in morning ; immediately after waking, with inclination to vomit; after drinking water, mucous and bitter vomit.

Vomiting food and mucus.

Constant vomiting.

▌ Vomiting of sour slime, after chocolate. θ Diarrhoea.

Scrobiculum and Stomach p. 462

Nausea proceeding from stomach with pain in sternum, from 3 p.m. until evening.

Constricting pain in region of stomach, beginning daily at 4 A.M. and lasting until noon.

▌ Pain in region of stomach after lifting; pain extends to the small of back and there becomes a stitching ; so severe that during the night she cannot turn without pain ; better in the morning.

▌ Stomach cough, with pain extending into region of spleen; want of appetite with indigestion.

Hypochondria p. 462

Pain in region of diaphragm after lifting a light weight ; the pain extended to the spine,- where it became stinging; patient could not turn all night without pain ; > in the morning.

Pressure in right and left hypochondrium.

Cutting in right hypochondrium, extending downwards across the bowels, followed by diarrhoea ; evacuation sudden.

': Scirrhus of liver and spleen.

Cutting in left hypochondrium on walking rapidly, as if a hard, sharp, movable piece were there, with sensation in abdomen as if hard pieces were in it, and these were in motion.

Abdomen, Loins and Groins p. 463

Flatulent distention after every meal.

Pain in abdomen, as if diarrhoea would set in.

▌ Pinching in the abdomen. θ Diarrhoea.

Stinging in abdomen, evening in bed.

Stitching and pressing pain in groin.

; Mesenteric glands hardened and swollen.

Belly soft, flabby and sunken.

Scrobiculum and Stomach p. 463

Much discharge of flatus.

Urging to stool in morning ; the passage at first formed, then loose, with burning in anus.

Painless diarrhoea, with constant vomiting.

Diarrhoea six times, from morning till 2 P.M., without pain.

Frequent, very easy stool every day.

Stools : frequent, soft, light yellow, slimy, with faintness and weariness ; green or brown, diarrhoeic ; painless, at first frothy, thin and *brown ; later cadaverous-smelling, containing bits of yellow feces ; colorless or slimy ; green, preceded by crying (infant).

Painless stools, containing undigested food.

;obstinate green discoloration of stool.

▌ Greenish stools, day and night, with pitiful crying. θ Child with aphthae.

▌ Summer complaint of children mostly under a year old, twenty or thirty passages a day ; occasionally vomiting ; abdomen soft and wilted : stools brown, watery, containing small yellow lumps and smelling cadaverously ; apathetic, refusing nourishment ; emaciated to a skeleton ; soporous sleep.

71 After cholera infantum, thrush.

Constipation ; stool like sheep-dung.

▌ Stool, the thickness of a quill, became easy and an inch in diameter. θ Stricture of rectum.

Before stool : mental indisposition ; indolence ; urging.

▌ Burning in rectum during stool.

▌ Cheerful, contented mood after stool.

Several successive stitches in rectum, evenings.

Itching in anus, evening.

▌ Chronic mucous hemorrhoids.

▌ Stool before making water.

Urinary Organs p. 464

Violent, urgent desire to urinate, can scarcely hold the urine.

At night must rise several times to urinate.

Desire to urinate, without being able to pass a drop.

▌ The infant urinates nearly every ten or twelve minutes, and screams before the urine passes.

Before urinating, burning.

▌▌ Worse before urination.

▌ Frequent urination, preceded by cries. θ Diarrhoea.

Retention of urine in evening.

▌ Hot urine in the infant.

▌ The orifice of the urethra pains as if sore after urinating.

• Pungent smell of the urine.

Smarting in the urethra after urinating.

Male Sexual Organs p. 464

Indifference to coition.

Impotence.

▌ Gonorrhoea.

▌ Chancres studding the prepuce.

Female Sexual Organs p. 464

Sexual desire too weak.

Engorgement of uterus, with bearing down pains.

Menses too early, too profuse, and attended with colic and nausea.

▌ At time of menses, pain in groins like stitching and pressing.

Before menses : oppression ; catching of breath ; rushing sound in ears ; stitch-pain in right pectoral region ; pain from pit of stomach to small of back.

Menses four days too soon and very profuse, with griping in abdomen ; nausea and pain in stomach, extending into small of back.

Too profuse menses, and she is very nervous, starts at the least noise, and dreads a downward motion, like going down stairs, or the downward motion of a swing or rocking-chair.

During menses : throbbing in head and rushing in ears ; nausea ; pinching and griping in abdomen ; pain extending from stomach into back ; bearing down and stinging in groin ; lancinating pain in groin ; tired; sweat after midnight.

After menses : pressing in region of liver, extending into right shoulder-blade; cramp-like pain in stomach and back, and vomiting afterwards.

▌ Leucorrhoea like the white of egg, with sensation as if warm water were flowing down.

▌ Leucorrhoea thick as paste and white for five days.

;profuse, clear, glutinous, albuminous leucorrhoea relieving all other genital symptoms.

▌▌ White albuminous or starchy leucorrhoea.

▌▌ Acrid leucorrhoea, appearing for two weeks, between the catamenia, with swelling of the labia and inflamed and discharging Duvernis glands.

▌ Leucorrhoea -white as mucus, without any other ailment, a fortnight after the menses.

Stinging and distended feeling in clitoris.

;prolapsus by increased heat of vagina.

Pregnancy. Parturition. Lactation p. 465

Sterility.

During pregnancy, swelling, itching and burning of the vagina, with a discharge like gonorrhoea.

False or spasmodic labor-pains.

Labor-pains accompanied by violent and frequent eructations.

▌ Labor-pains spasmodic, more in stomach than in uterus.

▌ Labor-pains dart upwards, head of child goes back.

Griping and sometimes stitches in left mamma, and when the child has nursed she is obliged to compress the breast with the hand, because it aches on account of being empty.

▌ Disagreeable sensation of emptiness in mammae after suckling the child.

▌ Contractive pains in left breast when the child nurses the right..

▌ Aphthous nipples.

▌ Galactorrhoea ; milk coagulating.

Milk is too thick and tastes badly ; often curdles soon after it has been drawn.

▌ Milk too copious or too thick.

▌ The infant's palate was wrinkled, and it cried frequently when. nursing, θ Diarrhoea.

▌ The child at the breast sleeps more than usual, but wakes^ frequently.

▌▌ Aphthae so tender that they prevent child of nursing.

Colic of infants; they scream out if laid down, or show signs vertigo when carried down stairs.

▌ Loathing of the breasts in infants, θ Diarrhoea.

Green stool in the infant preceded by crying.

▌ The infant becomes pale, nearly earth-colored; the previously firm flesh becomes soft and flabby ; he cries a great deal; refuses the breast, and frequently screams out anxiously in his^ sleep.

▌ Child throws up its hands when an attempt is made to put it down.

"Larynx. Tearing in larynx extending to chest, exciting cough.

Respiration p. 465

Anxious feeling in chest in the evening in bed.

Shortness of breath after ascending steps, so that he cannot speak a word ; later when he speaks he has a stitch in right side of chest ; also on running or on any exertion of the body, which hurts him.

▌ Tension in chest, with inclination to deep breathing ; similar to Calcar.

▌ Pressure in lower 1. lateral region of chest, increased by exertion or a long breath.

▌ Every three or five minutes he is obliged to take a quick deep breath, which is every time followed by a stitch in right side of chest, with a subdued, painful sigh, and slow expiration.

Respiration difficult.

▌ Arrest of breath when lying in bed ; he is obliged to jump up and catch for breath every time he has a stitch in right side of chest.

When taking a deep breath, sensation in the hypochondrium as if something pulled from the region of spleen into chest, which sinks back again during exhalation ; sometimes pressure and burning in the part.

When taking a deep breath stinging pressure in sternum; drawing stitch in r. chest; stinging in chest; stitches into 1. side of chest, as with a knife.

▌ When yawning, coughing and breathing deeply, stitches in chest and pain in r. inguinal region.

When coughing or sneezing : roughness in throat pit and drawing-stinging.

Cough p. 466

Dry cachectic cough, especially in morning when rising and evening when lying down ; with stitching pain in right chest and right flank, relieved by pressure ; washing the chest with cold water affords the most relief; after drinking wine the pains are aggravated.

▌ Violent cough, with pain through r. chest, has to press the chest with both hands ; the cough is dry, occasionally raises small white or yellow lumps, θ Phthisis.

▌ With every paroxysm of cough sticking in right side of chest, in region of nipple, in evening.

▌ When coughing, is obliged to press right side of chest and flank with hand, whereby pains are tolerable.

Cough with mucous expectoration during the day ; •< in morning ; pain in hepatic region.

▌ Hacking and violent cough, with slight expectoration of a mouldy taste and of the same smell, from the chest, with every paroxysm of cough.

Musty expectoration, with pain through the chest to the back.

Cough, with expectoration of white mucus streaked with blood.

Cough after cold bathing.

Stinging in r. breast near the nipple, with each cough.

Inner Chest and Lungs p. 466

Tightness in chest.

Pressing in chest, with scratching in throat and cough.

Stitches in chest when yawning, coughing or breathing deeply.

Stitches in right side of chest in region of nipple, with every paroxysm of cough.

Knife-like stitches in 1. chest with every inhalation.

▌ Pleurisy.

▌ Stitches between ribs of right side, so that he cannot lie on that side on account of the pain, with sensitive drawing and obstruction of breathing, so that he has to catch for breath ; if he lies upon the painful side the pains immediately awaken him from sleep.

▌▌ Pleuritic pain in r. pectoral region ; the patient cannot move or breathe without a stitch.

During cough : stitches in chest and lumbar region, lessened by pressure; mouldy taste in throat.

Sudden stitching from within outwards in r. side of chest, on raising arms.

Stitching pains in r. lung, but mostly drawing stitches.

▌ Stitching or darting pain from without inward through upper r. lung, posterior to second rib.

Fine prickings, extending from back into chest, evenings.

Heart, Pulse and Circulation p. 467

> Cyanosis of infants from birth.

Circulation irregular; face bluish, especially around mouth, nose and eyes, with blue look of finger-ends and feet ; with attacks, during which the child became prostrate and as if suffocating.

Sensation as if heart were on r. side and were being squeezed.

Pulse somewhat accelerated.

Outer Chest p. 467

Stitches between ribs of right side ; cannot lie upon that side on account of the pain, with sensitive drawing and obstruction of breathing, has to catch for breath ; if during sleep he lies on the painful side, the pains awake him immediately.

Aching in pectoralis major, as from lying on a hard mattress ; painful to touch.

Soreness over front of chest and in middle of sternum to its end.

Little pricking pains all over chest, with difficulty of breathing and cough.

Neck and Back p. 467

Rheumatic drawing pains in nape of neck, extending to left shoulder and then into scapula ; evening when walking in open air.

Soreness of both sides of neck.

Pain in back : when walking ; like from pressure, when sitting or stooping.

Backache extending into the feet.

Upper Limbs p. 467

Pressure in shoulders.

Drawing and tearing pain in and between shoulders, so that he cannot stoop.

Burning pain on upper arm, a hand's breadth around whole arm.

Tearing and breaking sensation in right wrist.

Stinging in palm of hand; the whole hand numb to above wrist.

▌ Bran-like herpes on hands and arms.

Burning, heat and redness of fingers during slight cold, as if frost-bitten.

Throbbing pain in tip of thumb, day and night, frequently waking from sleep, at night.

▌ Hot palms. θ Diarrhoea.

Lower Limbs p. 468

Burning pain on left thigh, a hand's breadth around the whole limb.

Transient tearing pain in middle of r. femur, extending up and down.

Weak feeling in feet when ascending steps.

Great prostration and lassitude, with weakness in lower limbs.

Pain in the calves.

Erysipelatous inflammation and swelling of left leg and foot, after violent dancing, with tearing, tension and burning in it ; increased burning pain when touched ; on pressure the redness disappears for a moment.

Stitches in soles.

Burning, heat and redness of toes during slight cold, as if frostbitten.

Pain in the heel as if sore from walking.

ID Sensation as if warm water were running down thighs. θ Leucorrhoea.

Limbs in General p. 468

▌ Phagedenic ulcers on the joints of fingers and toes. Compare Sepia.

Rest. Position. Motion p. 468

Lying : pressure in nostril < ; arrest of breath ; cannot lie on right side. See 28.

Downward motion : child anxious ; women dread it during menses.

Dancing : anxious ; inflamed left leg.

Motion : stitches in chest worse.

Exertion : pressure in 1. chest.

Restless, cannot sit or lie long in one place. .

Nerves p. 468

Twitching.

Trembling in the whole body, especially in hands, with nausea and weakness of knees.

Weakness, especially in abdomen and limbs.

She is very nervous ; she does not sleep well.

▌ Debility. θ Diarrhoea.

Sleep p. 468

When yawning : stitches in chest.

Sleeps more than usual.

Lascivious dreams ; she dreams of coition.

Disturbed, restless sleep, with ebullitions.

Sweat increased during sleep.

Child cries out during sleep, as if frightened.

▌ A child, set. 5, turns about, cries the whole night, till four in the morning, and in morning is in a whining mood ; the infant frequently cries out in its sleep, and anxiously grasps its mother, as if it had been frightened by a dream.

• She wakes uncommonly early, at 3 oclock, she cannot fall asleep again for two hours on account of heat of whole body, especially in head, with sweat on thighs.

▌▌ Children may be sleeping quietly, and awake suddenly. screaming and holding on to the sides of cradle without any apparent cause for so doing.

▌ Starting from sleep with anxious screams, throwing hands about, seizing things, or clinging to the mother, θ Diarrhoea.

Time p. 469

Morning : pain in stomach > ; child is in a whining mood.

3 A.M.: awakens with heat of whole body.

Afternoon : idles the time away ; fretful, discontented ; stool.

Evening ; stitches in chest ; stool.

▌▌ P.M.: anxiety increases till then.

Night : pain in stomach <C ; child cries out.

Day and night : greenish stools.

Temperature and Weather p. 469

Warm weather : symptoms worse.

Cold : head sensitive.

Damp cold weather : generally worse.

Change of weather : head sensitive.

Wet weather : toothache.

Open air : rheumatism in neck and shoulder.

Washing with cold water: cough better when chest is washed.

▌ Inclination to uncover with the fever heat ; sometimes shuns it.

Chill. Fever. Sweat p. 469

Chill and chilliness mostly during sleep.

Chill predominating, especially in afternoon and evening.

Chill and heat alternating.

Chill from uncovering.

Chill passing downward.

Thirst not constant ; is generally wanting during the chill.

Flushes of heat, morning and evening.

Hot head, mouth and palms, of infant.

Heat or sweat, with inclination to uncover.

Sweat during the morning sleep.

Locality and Direction p. 469

Right : stitches side of chest when sneezing ; pressure through nostril ; stoppage of nostril ; stitches in chest ; pain in inguinal region when yawning, coughing, etc.

Right to left : stoppage of nostril.

Left : ear especially affected ; erysipelas of side of face ; contractive pain in breast when child nurses the right ; pressure in chest.

▌ Upper right lower left.

Above downward : pressing through right nostril.

Without inward: stitches in chest.

Sensations p. 469

As of a foreign body in eye.

As if the ear opened and closed.

As if all the brain would be forced out through r. nostril.

As of cobwebs : in r. side of face ; on hands.

As if hard pieces were in abdomen.

As if diarrhoea would set in.

As if something pulled from the spleen into chest.

As if heart were on r. side and squeezed.

As if warm water were running down thighs.

Cutting: in hypochondria.

Stitches : in vertex ; fleeting, in 1. side of head ; in female sexual parts ; in 1. eye ; in r. side of chest ; in small of back ; in groin ; in rectum ; in 1. mamma ; in soles.

Drawing-stitch : in r. chest.

Stinging : in 1. ear ; in teeth ; in abdomen ; in sternum ; in chest ; in r. breast, near nipple ; in palm of hand.

Pricking : from back into chest ; all over chest.

Tearing : in eyeballs ; in vertex ; from parietal bone to forehead; in molar ; in larynx ; between shoulders ; in r. wrist; in middle of r. femur ; in 1. leg and foot.

Twitching: in forehead.

Pinching : in abdomen.

Griping : in a hollow tooth ; in abdomen ; in 1. mamma.

Drawing : between shoulders.

Rheumatic drawing: in nape of neck; to I. shoulder, into scapulae.

Pressing : in forehead ; downwards through r. nostril ; in chest ; in hypochondria ; in groin ; in 1. chest ; in sternum.

Breaking : in r. wrist.

Burning : of eyes ; of upper lip ; in nether lip; in swelling on lower lip ; in throat ; in anus ; in rectum ; of vagina ; of fingers; on 1. thigh; in 1. leg; of toes.

Smarting: in urethra.

Soreness : of tip of nose ; over front of chest ; in middle of sternum ; both sides of neck ; in heel.

Aching: in whole head ; in pectoralis major.

Contractive pains : in 1. breast.

Constricting pain : in region of stomach.

Cramp : in tongue.

Dull pain : in hollow tooth.

Undefined pain : across forehead ; above eye's ; in swelling on gum ; in r. chest ; in inguinal region ; in region of stomach ; in spleen ; in diaphragm ; in calves.

Roughness : in throat ; in throat-pit.

Scratching : in throat.

Fullness : in head ; in stomach.

Emptiness : in mammae.

Throbbing : headache in temples ; in occiput ; in swelling of nose ; in tip of thumb.

Tension: in chest; in 1. leg.

Stith"ness : in tongue.

Contraction : of eyes.

Numbness : in tongue ; of hand.

Crawling: over under-lip ; on lips.

Heat : of mouth ; palms of hands ; of fingers ; of palms ; of toes.

Shuddering : over whole body.

Weakness : in feet ; in lower limbs.

Itching: in rectum; of vagina; on back of finger-joints.

Dryness: of mouth.

Tissues p. 471

Sensorium affected by downward motion.

Aphthous affection of the buccal mucous membrane.

Parts which are usually red, turn white.

▌ Emaciation ; flabby muscles, θ Diarrhoea.

The anxious feeling on downward motion is the chief distinction between Borax and Bellad.

Cough p. 471

Passive Motion. Injuries. Riding down hill : anxious ; vertigo.

Rocking : anxious.

Touch : swelling on lip burns and feels sore ; burning in lower limbs worse.

Pressure : chest pains relieved.

Lifting : pain in stomach.

Skin p. 471

Sensation as if a cobweb were lying upon the skin of face or hands.

Severe itching on back of finger-joints : must scratch them violently.

Red papulous eruption on cheeks and around chin.

Herpetic eruption on nates.

Furfuraceous peeling off of epidermis.

Skin getting callous.

▌ Skin pale or livid. θ Diarrhoea.

▌ Wilted, wrinkled skin, θ Children with aphthae.

Liver spots.

Unhealthiness of the skin ; slight injuries suppurate.

Old wounds and ulcers are inclined to reopen and suppurate.

Dingy, unhealthy skin, which ulcerates easily on being injured.

Ulcer in left axilla.

Phagedenic ulcers and boils.

Ulcerated places on the feet from rubbing of the shoe or boot.

Stages of Life, Constitution p. 471

Light hair ; skin and muscles lax.

▌▌ Period of dentition and infancy. θ Aphthae. θ Diarrhoea.

Relations p. 471

Antidotes to Borax: Ohamom., Cofea.

Compare : I ▌ Oalc. ostr., JVux vom., I Bryon., Lycof.θ Mercur., Pulsat., Rhus tox., Sepia, Silicea, Sulphur, I \Arsen., Bellad., Grraphit., Ignat., Kali hichr., and PhospJior.

Similar to ; Amm. carb. and Magn. mur. (stoppage of r. nostril) ; Calc. ostr. (inclination to breathe deeply).

Incompatibles : Acet. ac, vinegar, wine.