Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

proving, produces aphthous conditions of the mouth, which extend to the to the stomach. It cures wherethe genitalia and anus are covered with these aphthous appearances.Anxiety, fidgetiness,and sensitiveness are prominent in Borax.He is anxious about trifles. He starts at every noise, on hearing unexpected news, from music,from excitement. This anxiety or nervousness, this indescribable feeling that is within him, isaggravated from upward or downward motion. Such a motion as going up in one of our elevatorsnearly drives him to distraction, but he is made worse going down. All complaints are aggravated fromdownward motion. It has been said in routine practice, that in all cases of sore mouth in children, whenthe child is worse from downward motion, Borax is the remedy. When the mother is in the act of layingthe child down on the bed it often rouses up in its sleep and cries out in fright. The anxiety may bebetter appreciated if you will go to the top of one of these high buildings and go down in the elevator. Itis natural for everyone to feel, with the rapid motion, an anxious feeling in the stomach, a sensation offalling; that is natural to the healthy man, but if you exaggerate that intensely you have the Boraxcondition in which the slightest downward motion, of even riding down hill or walking down stairs, or,in the child, when being carried down stairs in the mother's arms, produces a violent aggravation. Allthe nerves are in a fret.We notice that Borax has an intensified activity throughout the body; all of his senses are mademore acute. His hearing is intensified, he is oversensitive to his surroundings, over- anxious. He has anexcitable spirit throughout. Riding down hill produces vertigo. On nervous excitement fear andapprehension.This is a strong feature of Borax. It has many such symptoms, but the nervous elements partakeof this type. As we go through the remedy many other things will be called out; but this may be said tobe the principal feature of the mental state, and it is to a great extent the key to Borax cases. "Anxiousfeeling during downward motion or rocking". The diarrhea will be cured when that state is present.Aphthae will be cured when that state is present. The rheumatism, menstrual troubles and numerousother complaints will disappear upon the administration of Borax, when this key is present.It has hysterical manifestations. "Changes from one work to another". It has a restless, nervous,anxious, excitable state that runs through his body. The child screeches and screams when it is dandledand tossed up and down. The motion of the brain, the upward and downward motion, as in swinging,rocking, etc., makes the patient lose himself, he hardly knows where he is; confusion and vertigo comeover him. If one rocks the child, it has an anxious expression of face. "Very anxious on riding rapidlydownhill". "Anxiety increased until 11 P.M.". That I have noticed in Borax as a peculiar time ofaggravation of the anxiety. I have noticed it in women who had periods of insanity, whose nervoustrouble and mental state would keep up until 11 P.M. You will notice sometimes in insane people that itseems as if they were possessed of the devil and at once a lucid interval will come and they will comeand they will talk just as if nothing had happened. So it is in Borax, that a great change may occur at 11P.M. this state of anxiety and nervous excitement may stop at that hour. "Fretful, ill-humored, indolent"state increased until there is a stool and relieved by stool. "He starts on hearing an anxious cry;" onhearing an unexpected noise, on hearing something drop from a chair to the floor, or if a door opensunexpectedly. This is all in keeping with the nature of Borax. If you compare Borax with otherNatrums you will find an astonishing likeness in the nervous excitability; Natrum carb.and Natrum mur. Aggravation from noise, oversensitiveness to noise and overexcitement of thenerves run through all the Sodium family. They are wonderfully intense people."While engaged in thinking at his work, strong nausea". Borax has many times cured this kindof trouble. I have seen it come up in this way; from any sort of meditation he becomes nauseated andexcitable and must leave his work and rest a little while, and then he goes at it again until he becomessick at the stomach and so must rest again. With the aggravation from mental exertion, from noise,from excitement, from downward motion, we get the mental aspect of Borax.A further examination of the sensorium shows: "Vertigo and fullness in head on descending amountain or stairs". This is a form of the same anxious feeling. This remedy has a good deal of vertigo,sometimes constant vertigo, which is made so intense on downward motion that he must sit still, and donothing. It has many congestive headaches, pressive headaches and much heat in the head.There are many eye symptoms. "Granular lids". "Lashes turn inward towards eye and inflame it.Entropion". Granulation and thickening of the mucous membrane of the lid; contractions and scars anddrawing inward. "Difficult opening of lids".Like all the salts of Sodium the nose suffers from chronic inflammation of the mucousmembrane, a catarrhal state, with copious discharge, and crusts in the nose; stoppage of the nose.The whole Natrum family has these dry crusts in the nose,and copious discharges from the nose.Natrum mur predominantly produces white discharge, and so does Borax; Natr-sulf.