A. Hi George. What does the label say? – I’m not really asking for further detail – I’m making the point that things should be used only for their intended purpose. I feel an insecticide does not offer enough purity assurance to put in your eyes 🙂
When I was younger, boric acid was widely used as an eyewash, and in those days everyone thought it perfectly safe. Most families had a box of it and an eyecup in the hall closet.
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opinion! But today the pharmaceutical mega-corps own the FDA and our political system, which has made it impossible for the citizenry to know whether traditional cures are dangerous or whether the mega-corps just decided that cheap generic remedies should be outlawed to protect their $210 per dropper-full business … because the revolving door bureaucracy has set it up like this:
The FDA calls traditional cures “new drugs” – which means they can only be sold after multimillion dollar clinical trials. But because they are traditional, cheap, generic, and non-patentable, obviously there is no one who can recoup the millions of dollars that would be needed to do the testing, so the FDA is able to fulfill the wish of the pharma giants and simply pull the products. It’s happened to many traditional cures, although I don’t think boric acid powder is actually outlawed from sale like many other traditional cures are.
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If your government actually cared about high healthcare costs, they’d have the FDA run tests on traditional cures or give a grant to a university to run the tests, so we’d actually know – but it can’t happen until we refuse to vote for any politician who accepts donations from big pharma, the banks, and the megacorps 🙂
That leaves all of us here with “I would guess it’s safe, but I can’t really claim so, because no clinical tests have been run, nor will they ever be run under our corrupt system”.
We see the same corruption in the abuse of our patent system by the pharma industry. The original idea was that public monies would be used to protect an invention from being copied for a number of years in return for the public benefit of everyone being able to freely use it thereafter. But with pharma patent extensions and tweaks, it seems that no drug of value ever becomes public domain, does it? The benefit all flows in one direction, with your money & mine going to protect big pharma and their endless patent extensions, yet we keep voting for the same politicians who take big money from the industry 🙁
Ted Mooney, P.E.Striving to live Alohafinishing.com – Pine Beach, New Jersey
AMEN!
Albert Deruzzo – palo Alto, CaliforniaOctober 10, 2022
A. Boric acid has been used for many decades as an eye wash. When used, very diluted in water, it can be used as an emergency eye wash or as eye drops for eye infections. It can also be used safely as a pesticide. It is poisonous to bugs not to humans, and can be used as a pesticide around children. Boric acid also can get through many materials, such as wood and can have lasting effects as a pesticide. It is safe for your father to use this as an eye wash. This method was popularized in the 40’s and 50’s so his mother probably showed him this. However, why is he using this every day?
Nellie Eshleman- Gainesville, Florida
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