Borax medical effect

borax is known to all have a large number of applications in industry and agriculture, probably know the application of borax in medicine is less, the following by appropriate chemical industry to introduce the role of borax in medicine, under the hope can help you understanding of borax:

1. Bacteriostatic action. There are reports, borax as a weak base, with the bacteriostatic action of boric acid has weakness. Use tablet method to make the medium containing 10% borax, on escherichia coli, pseudomonas aeruginosa, bacillus anthracis, entamoeba coli, shigella, salmonella typhi, paratyphoid, bacillus proteus, staphylococcus aureus and candida albicans were inhibition; With pieces of paper method has been proved that borax can inhibit corynebacterium diphtheriae, cattle brinell coli, pneumonic diplococcus, meningococcal and hemolytic streptococcus, etc.

2。 Anticonvulsants and antiepileptic effect. Experimental results show: borax to mice taking 130 mg/kg ~ 260 mg/kg has anticonvulsive effect, the effect can be increased with the increase of drug delivery times, the biggest anticonvulsive effect produced in about 1 week after the treatment. Injected can accelerate its anticonvulsive action. Intraperitoneal injection of 260 mg/kg, can fight electroconvulsive, its against the rate of 100%. Cooperate with other antiepileptic drugs, borax can quickly control the grand mal and status epilepticus.

3。 Other function. Borax is anticorrosive and protect the skin mucous membrane. Clinical use of this product flushing ulcer, abscess, especially the mucosal inflammation, such as conjunctivitis, gastritis, for it is alkaline, can make the mucous membrane to scale; Oral for urethral sterilization, especially when urine acid, can make it become the basic.