BORAX
Source indications
Allen's Keynotes
- dread of downward motion in nearly all complaints
- great anxiety from downward motion
- when laying the child down on a couch or in the crib, cries and clings to the nurse
- when rocking, dancing, swinging
- going down stairs or rapidly down hill
- horseback riding
- children awake suddenly, screaming and grasping sides of cradle, without apparent cause
- excessively nervous, easily frightened by the slightest noise or an unusual sharp sound, a cough, sneeze, a cry, lighting a match, etc
- hair becomes frowsy and tangled
- splits, sticks together at the tips
- if these bunches are cut off, they form again, cannot be combined
- eyelashes loaded with dry, gummy exudation
- agglutinated in morning
- turn inward and inflame the eye, especially at outer canthus
- tendency to wild hairs
- nostrils crusty, inflamed
- tip of nose shining red
- red noses of young women
- stoppage of right nostril, or first right then left with constant blowing of nose
- aphthae in the mouth, on the tongue, inside of the cheek
- easily bleeding when eating or touched
- prevents child from nursing
- with hot mouth, dryness and thirst
- cracked and bleeding tongue
- salivation, especially during dentition
- aphthous sore mouth
- is worse from touch
- eating salty or sour food
- of old people, often from plate of teeth
- child has frequent urination and screams before urine passes
- leucorrhoea profuse, albuminous, starchy, with sensation as if warm water were flowing down
- for two weeks between the catamenia
- skin unhealthy, slight injuries suppurate
- worse from downward motion
- worse from sudden, slight noises
- worse from smoking, which may bring on diarrhoea
- worse from damp, cold weather
- worse before urinating
- better from pressure
- better from holding painful side with hand