Acidum Boracicum
By Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
Boric acid; formula 7 (B2O3
)54(H2 O)
Preparation , Solution of the crystals in alcohol.
Authority.
A. H. Z. 33, 15, S. J., took repeated doses of the third dil. (from Inaug. Dis. on Borax and the Borates).
HEAD
- Head unusually confused on waking in the morning.
- A gastric headache.
MOUTH AND THROAT
- Much cold saliva in the mouth.
- Hawking.
STOMACH AND ABDOMEN
- Great nausea and heaviness in the stomach, which disappears after walking in the open air.
- Retching and vomiting of tough mucus, with watery fluid which is very strongly alkaline.
- Vomiting of tough fluid substances strongly alkaline (after sixteen minutes).
- Heaviness and restlessness in the stomach till dinner.
- Rumbling in the abdomen in the afternoon, and two scanty pasty stools.
STOOL AND URINARY ORGANS. [10.]
- A pasty stool.
- A moderately transient pain in the region of the ureters.
- Frequent and urgent desire to urinate.
- Urine nearly double the normal in amount.
GENERALITIES AND SKIN
- General discomfort, which disappears after a walk of two hours.
- Some time after beginning the proving of the alkaline Borates, an eruption was noticed on the right thigh, consisting of vesicles, which continually extended and became covered with crusts; in the middle, a circumscribed spot as large as a ten-cent piece, surrounded by new vesicles, which were very moist when broken (Impetigo figurata, Willan ).
- After two months, this eruption extended to the right lower leg; it then passed over to the left lower leg and disappeared, eight months after first breaking out, and two months from the time of taking any medicine.
CONDITIONS
- Aggravation.
- ( Morning ), On waking, head confused.
- ( Afternoon ), Rumbling in the abdomen, etc.
- Amelioration.
- ( After walking in open air ), Nausea, etc., disappears.
- ( After a walk ), General discomfort disappears.