Aurum metallicum

Aurum metallicum
(metallic gold)
* Given full play, Aurum develops in the organism,by attacking the blood, glands, and bone,
conditions bearing striking resemblance to mercurial and syphilitic infections; and it is just for
such deteriorations of the bodily fluids and alterations in the tissues, that Aurum assumes
great importance as a remedy.
* Like the victim of syphilis, mental states of great depression are produced by it.
* Hopeless, despondent, and great desire to commitsuicide.
* Every opportunity is sought for self-destruction.
* Exostosis, caries, nightly bone-pains, especially cranial, nasal, and palatine.
* Glands swollen in scrofulous subjects.
* Palpitation and congestions.
* Ascites often in conjunction with heart affections.
* Frequently indicated in secondary syphilis and effects of mercury.
* This use of gold as an anti-venereal and anti-scrofulous remedy is very old, but has been
well-nigh forgotten by the old school until rediscovered and placed on its scientific basis by
homoeopathy, and now it can never be lost again.
* When syphilis is implanted on the scrofulous constitution, we have one of the most
intractable morbid conditions, and gold seems to beespecially suited to the vile combination.
* Ennui.
* Ozaena; sexual hyperaesthesia.
* Arterio-sclerosis, high blood pressure; nightly paroxysms of pain behind sternum.
* Sclerosis of liver, arterial system, brain.
* Pining boys; low spirited, lifeless, weak memory.
Mind
- Feeling of self-condemnation and utter worthlessness.
- Profound despondency, with increased blood pressure, with thorough disgust of life, and
thoughts of suicide.
- Talks of committing suicide.
- Great fear of death.
- Peevish and vehement at least contradiction.
- Anthropophobia.
- Mental derangements.
- Constant rapid questioning without waiting for reply.
- Cannot do things fast enough.
- Oversensitiveness; [Staph.] to noise, excitement, confusion.
Head
- Violent pain in head; worse at night, outward pressure.
- Roaring in head.
- Vertigo.
- Tearing through brain to forehead.
- Pain in bones extending to face.
- Congestion to head.
- Boils on scalp.
Eyes
- Extreme photophobia.
- Great soreness all about the eyes and into eyeballs.
- Double vision; upper half of objects invisible.
- Feel tense.
- Sees fiery objects.
- Violent pains in bones around eye. [Asaf.]
- Interstitial keratitis.
- Vascular cornea.
- Pains from without inward.
- Sticking pains inward.
- Trachoma with pannus.
Ears
- Caries of ossicula and of mastoid.
- Obstinate fetid otorrhoea after scarlatina.
- External meatus bathed in pus.
- Chronic nerve deafness; Labyrinthine disease dueto syphilis.
Nose
- Ulcerated, painful, swollen, obstructed.
- Inflammation of nose; caries; fetid discharge, purulent, bloody.
- Boring pains in nose; worse at night.
- Putrid smell from nose.
- Sensitive smell. [Carbol. ac.]
- Horrible odor from nose and mouth.
- Knobby tip of nose.
Mouth
- Foul breath in girls at puberty.
- Taste putrid or bitter.
- Ulceration of gums.
Face
- Tearing in zygoma.
- Mastoid and other facial bones inflamed.
Throat
- Stitches when swallowing; pain in glands.
- Caries of the palate.
Stomach
- Appetite and thirst increased, with qualmishness.
- Swelling of epigastrium.
- Burning at stomach and hot eructations.
Abdomen
- Right hypochondrium hot and painful.
- Incarcerated flatus.
- Swelling and suppuration of inguinal glands.
Urine
- Turbid, like buttermilk, with thick sediment.
- Painful retention.
Rectum
- Constipation, stools hard and knotty.
- Nocturnal diarrhoea, with burning in rectum.
Male
- Pain and swelling of testicles.
- Chronic induration of testicles.
- Violent erections.
- Atrophy of testicles in boys.
- Hydrocele.
Female
- Great sensitiveness of vagina.
- Uterus enlarged and prolapsed.
- Sterility; vaginismus.
Heart
- Sensation as if the heart stopped beating for two or three seconds, immediately followed by
a tumultuous rebound, with sinking at the epigastrium.
- Palpitation.
- Pulse rapid, feeble, irregular.
- Hypertrophy.
- High Blood Pressure - Valvular lesions of arterio-sclerotic nature (Aurum 30)
Respiratory
- Dyspnoea at night.
- Frequent, deep breathing; stitches in sternum.
Bones
- Destruction of bones, like secondary syphilis.
- Pain in bones of head, lumps under scalp, exostosis with nightly pains in bones.
- Caries of nasal, palatine and mastoid bones.
- Soreness of affected bones, better in open air, worse at night.
Extremities
- All the blood seems to rush from head to lower limbs.
- Dropsy of lower limbs.
- Orgasm, as if blood were boiling in all veins.
- Paralytic, tearing pains in joints.
- Knees weak.
Sleep
- Sleepless.
- Sobs aloud in sleep.
- Frightful dreams.
Modalities
- Worse, in cold weather when getting cold.
- Many complaints come on only in winter; from sunset to sunrise.
Relationship
- Compare : Aur. ars. (chronic aortitis; lupus, phthisis in syphilitic headaches; also in anaemia
and chlorosis. It causes rapid increase of appetite.)
- Aur. brom. (in headaches with neurasthenia, megrim, night terrors, valvular diseases).
- Aur. mur. (Burning, yellow, acrid leucorrhoea; heart symptoms, glandular affections; warts
on tongue and genitals; sclerotic and exudative degeneration of the nervous system. Multiple
sclerosis. Morvan's disease. Second trituration. Aur. mur. is a sycotic remedy, causing
suppressed discharges to reappear. Valuable in climacteric haemorrhages from the womb.
Diseases of frontal sinus. Stitching pain in left side of forehead. Weariness, aversion to all
work. Drawing feeling in stomach. Cancer, tongue ashard as leather; induration after
glossitis).
- Aur. mur. kali.
- -Double chloride of Potassium and gold. (In uterine induration and haemorrhage.)
- Aur. iod.(Chronic pericarditis, valvular diseases, arterio-sclerosis ozaena, lupus, osteitis,
ovarian cysts, myomata uteri, are pathological lesions, that offer favorable ground for the
action of this powerful drug. Senile paresis.)
- Aur. sulph. (Paralysis agitans; constant noddingof the head; affections of mammae;
swelling, pain, cracked nipples with lancinating pains.)
- Also, Asafaet. (in caries of bones of ears and nose).
- Syphilin : Kali iod.; Hep.; Merc.; Mez.; Nit. ac.; Phosph.
- Antidotes : Bell.; Cinch.; Cupr.; Merc.
Dose
- Third to thirtieth potency.
- Latter potency especially for increased blood pressure.