BORAX

Biborate of soda

Clinical Picture:
A children's remedy.
Dread of downward motion. Great anxiety develops from downward motion or when lying (the child) down on a cot or in the crib; child cries and clings to the parent when rocking, dancing, swinging, going downstairs or rapidly going downhill.
Children wake suddenly, screaming and grasping the sides of the cradle without an apparent cause.
Excessively nervous, easily frightened by the slightest noise or unusual sharp sound such as a cough, sneeze or lighting of a match. Eyelashes are loaded with dry, gummy, offensive exudate; agglutinated in the mornings; lashes turn inwards and inflame the eye by mechanical irritation.

Modalities:
Worse:

Downward motion.
Noise.
Smoking.
After menstruation.

Better:

Pressure.
Evening.

Relations:
Borax follows Calcarea carbonica, Psorinum or Silicea as a complementary remedy, incompatible with and should not be used before or after Aceticum acidum, vinegar or wine.

Summary of Indications:
Anxiety of children - blepharitis.

Antidotes:
Chamomilla
Coffea cruda