# Boricum Acidum

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
Bor-ac. has been largely used as an antiseptic dressing for wounds, as a lotion for the eyes 
and whitlow, and as a wash in catarrh of the bladder. Arrests fermentation and putrefaction. It is much less 
irritating than Carbolic acid, but it has also produced skin eruptions. 
Bor-ac. affects the skin causing an extensive exfoliative dermatitis. 
Pain along ureters with frequent urination. Edema around the eyes. Diabetes. Tongue dry, red and cracked. 
Coldness (Helo.). Cold saliva. Vagina cold as if packed with ice. Useful in menopausal flushing.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better from walking in open air.

## Symptoms by System

### Eyes
- Conjunctivitis.
- Edema of tissues around eyes.

### Urinary & Genital
- Menopausal flushings (Lach., Amyl-n.).
- Vaginal coldness, as if packed with ice.
- Kidneys - Frequent urination with burning and tenesmus.

### Skin
- Exfoliating dermatitis.
- Multiform erythema of trunk and upper limbs.
- COMMENTS - Poisonings and provings with Bor -ac.
- have caused headache, vertigo, noises in the ears, 
 
 
prostration, cold saliva, vomiting of tough, greenish stuff, uncontrollable vomiting, hiccough, pasty stool, pain 
in region of ureters or increased urine and increased call to urinate, albuminuria, and an erythematous eruption 
on face, body and thighs followed by pearly vesicles on face and neck.
- Three cases of poisoning have been re ported from packing the vagina with the dry acid, kept in by tampons 
until liquefaction took place.
- Symptoms included formication 
of hands and feet, later of face.
- Sad spirits, great nervous depression.
- Burning skin, became swollen and charred and all motions were painful.
- One case went into collapse, temperature subnormal, sighing and weeping by turns.
- Prominent coldness, 
vagina felt “cold as if packed with ice.” 
In the 3x potency.
- Cooper found it give great relief in menopausal flushings.
- One woman took 30 grains of boric acid per day for a month, when there appeared a multiform erythema of 
trunk extending to upper limbs, at the same time there ap peared a painful swelling of upper lids with 
conjunctivitis and photophobia.
- Finally the edema was so intense as to close the eyes and give the appearance of sclerosed tissue.
- The 
symptoms began to abate when the Bor-ac.
- was discontinued and disappeared in a week.