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Boricum Acidum

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Boric Acid · "The Antiseptic Mucous Membrane Remedy"
bor-ac.MineralUncommonPsoric
🎯 Acts as an antiseptic and disinfectant that influences the urinary tract and skin.
📖 Boericke writes:
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.
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧴SKIN
Indicated for various skin rashes and swelling around the eyes.
Multiform of trunk and upper extremities; around eyes.
Exfoliating ; of tissues around eyes.
💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

3X
Decimal
📝Third trituration
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Amylenum NitrosumLachesis Mutus

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Boricum Acidum is listed in 14 rubrics across 6 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 3 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Urinary System5Female Sexual System3Face2Tongue2Skin1Locomotor System1