Boricum acidum
Boric acid · Boric acid, boracic acid, orthoboric acid · Mineral
Low spirits, sighing and weeping, and a state of mental and physical collapse are all indications of the suitability of Boric ac. All parts of the body feel cold, although paradoxically the remedy may be used for menopausal hot flashes.
Typical symptoms treated by Boric ac. include a heavy, nauseous feeling in the stomach, with profuse, cold saliva and a dry, furred tongue and throat. It is also prescribed for headaches accompanied by nausea, for dizziness, and for eyes that are prone to swelling and conjunctivitis, and aggravated by light.
Boric ac. is also taken for its antiseptic properties. It is used to halt putrefaction in
wounds, and for skin eruptions that are accompanied by flaking, itching, and hard, red, swollen patches.
Key symptoms
- Pain in region of ureters with frequent urging to urinate
- Diabetes with tongue dry, red, and cracked; cold saliva
- Coldness of body as a prominent symptom
- Vagina cold as if packed with ice
- Climacteric flushings
- Multiform erythema of trunk and upper extremities
- Oedema around eyes; exfoliating dermatitis
Worse (aggravation)
Better (amelioration)
Boracic Acid
Used as an antiseptic disinfectant, since it arrests fermentation and putrefaction.
Pain in region of ureters, with frequent urging to urinate. Coldness (Heloderm). Diabetes, tongue dry, red, and cracked. Cold saliva.
Skin
Multiform erythema of trunk and upper extremities. Œdema around eyes. Exfoliating dermatitis. Œdema of tissues around eyes.
Female
Climacteric flushings (Lach; Amyl nit). Vagina cold, as if packed with ice. Frequent urination with burning and tenesmus.
Dose
Third trituration.
Non-homeopathic Uses
When the diplococcus of Weichselbaum is present in the sputum of pharyngitis or bronchitis, pneumonia with tenacious sputum, hacking cough and pain, five-grain doses six times daily. A solution of Boracic Acid, as an injection, in chronic, cystitis, or, a teaspoonful to a glass of hot milk, taken internally. Boro-Glyceride in solution (1:40) is a powerful antiseptic. Styes, 15 gr to 1 oz water externally. As a dusting powder on ulcerated surfaces. In cystitis as an irrigating fluid.
Boric Acid. H3 BO3. Solution of crystals in alcohol.
Clinical
Antiseptic. Climacteric flushings. Erythema. Eyes, affections of. Headache. Impetigo. Œdema. Renal colic. Vomiting. Whitlow. Wounds.
Characteristics
Poisonings and provings with Bor. ac. have caused: headache; vertigo; noises in the ears; prostration; cold saliva; vomiting of tough, greenish stuff; uncontrollable vomiting; sweat on scrobiculus cordis; hiccough; pasty stool; pain in region of ureters or increased urine and increased call to urinate; albuminuria; erythematous eruption on face, body, and thighs followed by pearly vesicles on face and neck. Three cases of poisoning have been reported from packing the vagina with the dry acid, kept in by tampons till liquefaction took place. Symptoms were: Formication of hands and feet, later of face. Sad spirits, great nervous depression. Burning skin; it became swelled and charred, and all motion was painful. One case went into collapse; temperature subnormal; sighing and weeping by turns. The patients …
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