{"id":670,"remedy_name":"Borax","remedy_type":"Homeopathic Remedy","alternative_names":[""],"miasm":"Syphilitic Miasm","temperament":"Hot","aggravation_time":"Morning","keynote_indications":"Source: Derived from sodium borate (Na\u2082B\u2084O\u2087\u00b710H\u2082O), a naturally occurring mineral, prepared for. homeopathic use through potentization involving serial dilution and succussion to eliminate toxicity. and enhance therapeutic action. Traditional Context : Historically employed in homeopathy for  mucocutaneous, neurological,. and  psychological  disorders,  particularly  those  involving  hypersensitivity  to  noise,  fear  of. downward motion, and mucous membrane affections. It is noted for symptoms such as oral ulcers,. vertigo, and anxiety, often aggravated by downward motion, noise, or warmth, and ameliorated by. rest, cool air, or pressure. Modern Context : Indicated for  mucocutaneous conditions  (e.g., aphthous ulcers, candidiasis),. neurological  disorders (e.g.,  vertigo,  sensory  hypersensitivity),  and  psychological  conditions. (e.g., anxiety disorders, phobias). It suits patients with acute or chronic symptoms characterized by. mucous  membrane  irritation,  vertigo,  hypersensitivity  to  stimuli,  and  anxiety,  typically. exacerbated by downward motion, noise, or warmth, and often seen in individuals with a history of. oral ulcers, sensory sensitivities, or stress-related disorders. The remedy is particularly relevant for. those with a sensitive, nervous constitution, often presenting with physical symptoms like mouth. sores or dizziness alongside emotional traits like fearfulness or irritability, commonly observed in. children,  women  with  hormonal  imbalances,  or  patients  with  chronic  mucocutaneous  or. neurological complaints.","modalities":"Worse from: Downward motion (e.g., descending stairs, looking down), noise, warmth. (air, weather, rooms), touch, hormonal changes (e.g., menses, ovulation), stress, spicy\/salty. foods, damp weather, night, sudden movement.","symptoms_by_system":{"Mind":"Great anxiety  and sleepiness. Dread of downward motion, causes anxiety. Afraid of \nfalling.Excessively nervous, easily frightened. Fear of thunder.  Fear of being infected by some contagious \ndisease. Fear of falling. \nSensitive to sudden noises.  Startles from hearing bad news or from excitement. Easily frightened and \nstartled with least noise. Frightened easily at sneezing. Starting at hawking, at sneezing. Oversensitive to \nnoise during labor. Violent fright from sound of a gun, even at a distance. \nFretful, ill-humored, ipdolent and discontented. Irritability. Fault finding. Changes from one business to another \nfrom one room to another. Confusion, better after stool. Disposition to be angry, with ill humor and passion. \nBecomes vehement and swears. Does not wish to do anything. Dread of labor. \nFidgety, fickle. Irritable before stool, cheerful and happy after. Babies cry and scream, when nursing or before \npassing stool or urine. Children awake, suddenly, scream, hold the sides of cradle without any apparent cause. \nAll the mental symptoms are better at 11 p.m. Laughing alternating with weeping. Great anxiety  and sleepiness. Dread of downward motion, causes anxiety. Afraid of \nfalling.Excessively nervous, easily frightened. Fear of thunder.  Fear of being infected by some contagious \ndisease. Fear of falling. \nSensitive to sudden noises.  Startles from hearing bad news or from excitement. Easily frightened and \nstartled with least noise. Frightened easily at sneezing. Starting at hawking, at sneezing. Oversensitive to \nnoise during labor. Violent fright from sound of a gun, even at a distance. \nFretful, ill-humored, ipdolent and discontented. Irritability. Fault finding. Changes from one business to another \nfrom one room to another. Confusion, better after stool. Disposition to be angry, with ill humor and passion. \nBecomes vehement and swears. Does not wish to do anything. Dread of labor. \nFidgety, fickle. Irritable before stool, cheerful and happy after. Babies cry and scream, when nursing or before \npassing stool or urine. Children awake, suddenly, scream, hold the sides of cradle without any apparent cause. \nAll the mental symptoms are better at 11 p.m. Laughing alternating with weeping.","Vertigo":"Fits of vertigo with fainting. Vertigo, with fullness in the head. Ver tigo, worse from ascending stairs \nor any elevation. \nCOMMENTS - A piece of borax, the size of a pea, dissolved in the mouth, acts magically in restoring the voice \nin cases of sudden hoarseness brought on by cold and frequently for an hour or so, it renders the voice silvery \nand clear. It has even cured \u201cshot-shyness \u2019\u2019 in sporting dogs. \nHerpetic eruptions, pleuritic symptoms (upper right chest) and cough with expec toration of a mushy, moldy \nodor. Parts usually red turn white. White fungus -like growths. Stitching pains predominate. Starts with pain. \nCobweb sensations. Restlessness with ebullitions, especially after talking with nausea.  \nSore muco -cutaneous surfaces. Ingrown eyelashes. Otorrhea and inflammation of auricle, \u201cstarts with the \npains.\u201d Nostrils ulcerated, soreness, pain and swelling of \ntip of nose. For oral thrush, oral candida. Aphthous ulcers, round and white, like canker sores. Thrush in AIDS \ncases, with or without aphthous ulcers. \nDysmenorrhea with excessive pain during flow. Leucorrhea preceding and following menses, albuminous, \nacrid (Graph.). \nFor infected or cracked nipples while nursing. For babies with sores from nurs ing (Nat-m., and Sul -ac.), hot \nand burning. Diaper rash, ulcers and sores around the rectum, candida rashes of the anus. Diarrhea, offensive \nstools, excoriating. Child screams out in sleep, wakes frightened and clinging. \nLaughter alternating with weeping. Idles through the afternoon, does not really get to work, changes from one \nbusiness to another from one room to another. Fretful, ill humored, indolent and discontented before easy stool \nin the afternoon, after it, lively, contented and cheerful. Excessively nervous, a slight noise arouses. Patients \ntend to pale, earthy, fleshy and flabby.","Head":"Headache, with shootings in the ears. Headache with nausea and trembling of the whole body. Fullness \nin the head, and pressure above the eyes. Hot head in babies. Hair tangled, cannot be separated, as in plica \npolonica (Vine.). Headache, with shootings in the ears. Headache with nausea and trembling of the whole body. Fullness \nin the head, and pressure above the eyes. Hot head in babies. Hair tangled, cannot be separated, as in plica \npolonica (Vine.).","Eyes":"Itching in the eyes. Redness about eyes. Pressure on the eyes. Eyelashes turn inward.  Entropion. \nGummy, crusty, sticky eyelids. Granular eyelids. Eyelids inflamed, lids cut against eyeball. Visions of bright \nwaves. Sparkling before the eyes when writing. Sensitivity to candlelight.","Ears":"Inflammation and swelling of the ears. Shootings in the ears, with pain as of excoriation. Very sensitive \nto slightest noise, not so much disturbed by louder ones. Buzzing and murmuring in the ears. As if ear opened \nand closed.","Face":"Erysipelas in face. Pale, earthy with suffering expression. Swollen with pimples on nose and lips. Puffy \nface, bluish in infants. Cobweb sensation. As of a bug crawling over lip. Anxious during downward motion.","Mouth":"Mouth hot and tender. Aphthous ulcers in the mouth and on the tongue, which bleed easily. Aphthous \nafter taking sour or salty food. Oral thrush. White fungus-like growth. Dry cracked or puffy indented tongue. \nBitter taste in the mouth on eating or on swallowi ng the saliva (Bry., Puls., Cupr.). Palate, hard and wrinkled, \nas if burnt, pains when chewing, while nursing in children. \nNose - Itching in the nose with tingling. Acrid coryza. Nostrils ulcerated. Dry scabs in the nose. Sneezing. \nStoppage of nostrils alt ernately with lachrymation. Red nose of young women (Nat -c.). Red and shining \nswelling with throbbing and tensive sensation. Tip swollen and ulcer ated. Blood follows on blowing the nose. \nAccumulation of thick and greenish mucus in the nose. \nPerspiration - Perspiration during the morning sleep.","Throat":"Dryness in the throat. Hoarseness in the throat with drawing shootings on coughing and sneezing. \nTenacious mucus in the throat with difficult expectoration.","Chest":"Pain in chest, better lying on back, washing with cold water, or pressure. Sharp pains in chest with \ninspiration and cough. Pleurodynia, worse upper part of right chest. Sticking pain in chest (intercostal), worse \ncoughing, inspiration, yawning or any physical exertion. Sneezing with violent shootings in right side of the \nchest. \nConstitutions - Suited to the period of dentition, to persons with light hair, lax skin and muscles, wrinkled skin, \nconsequences of getting cold in cold and wet weather, riding, or eating fruit. Violent palpitations. Feels as if on right side and being squeezed. Infants cyanotic from birth.  \nKidneys - Nephritis. Cystitis. Urgent incli nation to urinate. Frequent emission of urine even in the night. \nIneffectual urge to urinate. Hot acrid, smarting urin e of pungent smell. Child afraid to urinate, screams before \nurinating (Sars.). Small red particles on diaper. Shortness of breath, worse ascending stairs, stitches on speaking. Arrest of breathing when lying, is \nobliged to jump and catch breath, which causes pain in right side. Dry, hectic cough, caused by a tickling and \nscraping in the throat. Hacking and violent cough. Expectoration, blood streaked or moldy taste and smell.","Stomach & Abdomen":"Fullness and pressure in the stomach after having eaten fruit, pears and apples. Gastralgia, reflex \nfrom uterine troubles. Belchings, on pressing painful part. Nausea, when thinking hard with trembling of body \nand weakness of knees. Vomiting of sour mucus after drinking. Pain in the region of stomach after heavy lifting. \n \n \nStitching, extending to small of back. Sweat on stomach. \nTeeth - Toothache, worse wet weather, better by smoking. Shooting pains in decayed teeth. Pressive tingling \nin the teeth, im mediately after supper or breakfast. Ulcers in the gums with swelling of the cheek. Bleeding \ngums. Painful gumboil. \nTemperature - Flushes of heat. Shivering, shuddering or cold with trembling. Chilli ness especially during \nsleep. Thirst before or during the cold, or else after the sweat. Heat in the evening in bed, with shivering on \nbeing the least uncovered. Colic with tendency to diarrhea after smoking tobacco. Accumulation of flatus in the abdomen, \nand frequent escape of wind. After every meal inflatio n of the abdomen with diarrhea and colic. Belly soft, \nflabby, sunken. Distention after eating, vomiting. Pain as if diarrhea would set in. Pulling from spleen to chest. \nCatch in \ngroin on coughing. Stitching pains in the groins before or during menses. Appetite moderate, especially at sup per. Loss of taste. Thirst in the morning. Desire for acid drinks, \nsour things.","Urinary & Genital":"Indifference to sex, low sexual desire. Erections, with painful tension, on waking in the morning. \nGonorrhea. Chancres studding prepuce. Sticking, sore pain, worse when touched. Labor pains with frequent belch - ings. Leucorrhea, like egg whites, with sensation as if warm water \nwas flowing. Menses too soon, profuse, with gripping. \nnausea and pain in stomach extending into the small of back. Membranous dysmenorrhea. Itching of vulva \nand eczema. Sensation of distention in clitoris with sticking. Indifference to sex. Infertility. Easy conception.","Extremities":"Want of strength, especially in joints. Limbs tremble at 10 a. m. As if warm water running down thighs. \nWeakness in calves. Sharp pains in sole. Pain in heel. Burning pain in great toe, inflammation of balls of toes. \nEczema of toes and fingers with loss of nails. Feeling as of cobwebs on hands. Palms hot. Itching on back of \nfinger joints and hands. Throbbing pain in tip of thumb.","Neck & Back":"Pain in back, inability to stoop. Sharp and drawing pains between the shoulder blades. Furunculus in \nthe armpit. Itching and crawling, aching or burning in the sacrum, when seated or stooping.  \nBreasts - Galactorrhea, flow of milk, which curdles speedily (Calc., Con.. Bell.). When nursing, pain in \nopposite breast. Empty feeling in breasts after child nurses with stitches better compressing. Mother\u2019s milk is \nthick and tastes badly. Aphthae so tender they prevent child nursing.","Skin":"Chronic fatigue or weakness, with a sensation of heaviness or prostration, resembling. chronic fatigue syndrome or post-inflammatory exhaustion, worse after exertion,. warmth, or stress. Heat intolerance, with aggravation in warm, humid weather and a desire for cool air. or open spaces. Profuse, hot, or sticky sweating, particularly during anxiety or vertigo episodes,. worse at night or in warm conditions. Borax (Sodium Borate) 325. Mild fever or chills during acute mucocutaneous or neurological episodes, with a. sensation of internal heat, worse in warmth or after exertion. Gynecological:. Painful  menses  or  ovulation,  with  vaginal  irritation  or  discharge,  resembling. dysmenorrhea or candidiasis, worse with warmth or hormonal shifts. Sensation  of  heat  or  burning  in  the  pelvic  region,  often  linked  to  mucosal. inflammation, worse during rest or at night. Irregular  menses,  with  heavy  or  scanty  flow,  resembling  hormonal  imbalances,. aggravated by stress or warmth.","Sleep":"Anxious cries of chi ldren during sleep with convulsive movements of the hands. Child cries out in \nsleep, as if frightened (Bell.). Voluptuous dreams, dreams of sex. Cannot sleep on account of heat, especially \nin head. Starts from deep as if to fall. Sleepiness during the \nday and sleeplessness at night."},"schema_version":"1.0","api_provider":"Allahshafi"}