Borax veneta
as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931
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Keynotes
Tough, bloody mucus. Tousy persons (Med. Sul.): frowsy hair, tangles at ends. Frightened at every noise; starts from sleep, as if to fall. Restless in afternoon. Gummy, crusty eyelids and nostrils. Raw tarsi. Acrid coryza. Red nose of young women. Dirty complexion. Puffy face. Dry cracked tongue. Palate hard and wrinkled. Eructations when painful parts are pressed. Poorly nourished, soft and flabby. Aphtous, catarrhal tendency. Clear, thick, hot, biting discharges. Heat in single parts; mouth, vagina, palms, etc. Sticking or drawing pains; intercostal, in soles, etc. Shrivelled skin or mucous membranes. Marasmus. .................... Nervous, anxious, fidgety, fickle. Fretful, before stool. Fears downward motion. Starts at trifles, sudden sounds, etc. Anxious cries during sleep. Hot head of babies; they cry and scream when nursing or before passing stool or urine. Entropion. Red about eyes. Dry, tender, aphthous mouth. Puffy, indented tongue. Griping toothache, < wet weather. Nausea when thinking hard. Catch in groin on coughing. Stools: turning green; like boiled starch. Mucous diarrhœa, then weakness. Loose, pappy, repulsive stools. Hot, acrid, smarting urine. Nephritis. Cystitis. Easy conception. Membranous dysmenorrhœa. Albuminous leucorrhœa. Clear, hot, pasty leucorrhœa. Empty feeling in mammæ, after child nurses. Averse to coition. Pain in opposite breast, as child nurses. Mother's milk is thick and tastes badly. Blood-streaked or mouldy expectoration. Limbs tremble, at 10 A.M. Itching on back of hands. Eczema. Weak calves. DRY SKIN; festers easily, won't heal. Sweat on stomach. Stitch in right chest, < deep breath and > hard pressure. Heart feels as if on right side. Violent palpitation.
Worse
DOWNWARD MOTION. Sudden noises. Cold; wet. Least uncovering. Nurslings. Children. Fruit.
Better
11 P.M.
Region
Occiput. NUTRITION: NERVES. MUCOUS MEMBRANES. MOUTH. Skin. Kidneys. Bladder.
Relationships
Related: Bell.
What the other books say about Borax veneta
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Borax veneta in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Borax veneta in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- Borax veneta in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
- Borax veneta in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
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Create a free accountCite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Borax veneta — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/borax-veneta. Author died 1935: public domain in India. The catalogue records 1931; a 1931 edition is public domain in the US from 1 Jan 2027 at the latest — the edition this transcription follows is not stated in the file. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.