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Aurum Metallicum

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General

Aurum Metallicum.

Aurum foliatum (metallic gold). Au (A. W. 196.8). Trituration.

Clinical

Alcohol, effects of. Amenorrhoea. Angina pectoris. Asthma.

Bone affections. Breath, offensive. Corpulency. Depression.

Ears, affections of. Erethism. Erysipelas. Eye, affections of.

Fevers. Gonorrhoea. Haemorrhages. Haemorrhoids.

Hemiopia. Hydrocele. Jaundice. Leucorrhoea.

Locomotor ataxy. Melancholy. Melanosis. Mercurial poisoning.

Naso-pharyngeal catarrh. Night terrors. Ozoena. Paralysis.

Phthisis. Pining boys. Scrofula. Smell, disordered.

Syphilis. Testicles, affections of; undeveloped. Tongue, nodules on. Tumours.

Uterus, induration of. Vertigo. Vision, disordered.

Characteristics

Gold affects profoundly the entire organism, exercising a solvent action on the tissues, producing ulcerations and the disappearances of new growths. Hence it is one of the best antidotes to Mercurial over-dosing, and especially in cases of syphilis. Scrofula and caries of bone also find in Aurum a remedy. It also produces rushes of blood and haemorrhages.

Boring pains and burning stitches predominate. No drug produces more acute mental depression than Aurum, and in any case where this profound melancholy is found, Aurum must be well studied. There is a condition of melancholy, hoplessness, profound depression, tendency to suicide and longing for death. Anthrophobia.

Aggravation from emotion. Complaints after grief, fright, anger, disappointed love, contradiction, reserved displeasure. Hysteria, laughs and cries alternately. The head is giddy, full, hot.

Rush of blood to the head. Vertigo as if turning in a circle when stooping, goes off on rising. As if drunk when walking in the open air. Sensation as if a current of air were rushing through the head, if not kept warm.

Bones of skull painful, especially lying down. Vertical half-sight. Fiery sparks. Caries of mastoid process of bones of nose.

Ozaena. In the abdominal region, as with Merc., there is swelling of liver, jaundice. Hernia, inguinal or umbilical; and in children. Onanism.

The sexual organs are markedly affected. Induration of testes. Undeveloped testicles in puny boys. Swelling or neuralgia of testicle (r).

Uterus prolapsed and indurated; the weight of it causes prolapse. (The chloride of gold and sodium acts more powerfully in these conditions.) Shelton has recorded as effects on girls working with gold leaf the occurrence of a "thick leucorrhoeal discharge, not offensive, white or yellowish, occasionally profuse, invariably < by walking." Suffocative attacks, with suffocative oppression of chest. Anxious palpitation from congestion to the chest. Palpitation, with anguish and tremulous fearfulness.

Pain in heart region extending down left arm to fingers. There are boring pains in bones, < at night. Over-sensitiveness to all pain. Hysterical spasms, with laughing and crying alternately.

Great ebullitions with congestion to the head and chest, and palpitation of the heart. Frightful dreams; he sobs aloud when asleep. Chilliness predominates; shivering in open air; coldness of hands and feet, sometimes lasting all night. Heat, only in the face.

Perspiration in the morning hours; mostly on and around the genitals. Ulcers which attack the bones. Warts, scrofulous, syphilitic, mercurial. "< From Sunset to sunrise" is a leading Condition of Aurum.

Paralytic drawing in the limbs in the morning when awaking; and on getting cold. < At night; in morning; on getting cold; by rest. Shivering on getting into bed. > Moving; walking; getting warm.

Suited to sanguine people with black hair and dark eyes, olive-brown complexion. Also light-haired scrofulous persons. Pining boys, girls at puberty, and old age. Syphilitic and mercurial patients.

Relations

Compare: Luet. (syphilis); Am. c., Arg. met., Arg. n., Ars.; Asaf.

(pains about eyes; but Asaf. has > from pressure; mercurial caries); Bell.; Caps. (caries of mastoid, corpulency);

Calc. c. (night terrors; leucophlegmatic; Aur. has more over-sensitiveness and erethism); Calc. ph.;

Coccul. (empty feeling); Chi. and Coff. (hyper-excitation) Cup.

(asthma); Dig., Fer.; Glon. (Hyperaemia of lung from heart) Hep., Iod.;

Kali bich. (deep ulcers, scrofulous ophthalmia, ozaena, syphilis); K. ca.; K. iod.

(syphilis); K. bro. (anguish at heart and desire to move about); Lach., Lyc., Merc., Nit ac.;

Nux v., (hernia; prolapsed uterus); Pallad., Platin., Puls., Spigel., Sol. nig., Sil., Sep., Sul.; Tarent. (heart as if turned round);

Thuj., Ver. v. Antidoted by: Bell., Chi., Coccul., Coff., Cup., Merc., Puls., Spi., Sol. nig. Antidote to: Merc., Spigel., Chronic effects of alcohol, Kali iod.

Causation

Mercury. Alcohol. Iodide of Potassium. Effects of grief; fright; anger; disappointed love; contradiction; reserved displeasure.

Mind

Melancholy, with inquietude and desire to die

Irresistible impulse to weep

Longing to see one's relations, resembling nostalgia

Imagines he has lost the affection of his friends; this makes him weep

Sees obstacles everywhere

Hopeless

Suicidal; desperate; inclined to jump off heights; to dash himself into a chair

Sad, feels that all is against her and life is not desirable, and the thought of death alone gives pleasure

Great anguish, which even induces a disposition to suicide, with cramp-like contractions in the abdomen

Excessive scruples of conscience

Despair of oneself, and of others

Ill-humour and aversion to conversation

Grumbling, quarrelsome humour

The least contradiction excites his wrath

Alternate peevishness and cheerfulness

Anger and passion

Alternation of gaiety, or of irritability with melancholy

Hypochondriacal humour

Weakness of the intellectual faculties

Weakness of the memory.

Head

Vertigo: when stooping, as if turning in a circle;

> on rising; as if drunk when walking in open air; feels as if he would fall to l.; must lie down, even then for some time it returns on slightest motion

Fatigue from intellectual labour

Sudden stupefaction, with loss of sense

Pain, like that of a bruise in the brain, esp. in the morning, or during intellectual labour, and sometimes inducing confusion of ideas

Pain in the head, as if the air passed over the brain, when it is not kept very warm

Acute drawing pains in the head

Beating and hammering pain on one side of the head

Congestion of blood to the head

Congestions to and heat in the head, with sparks before the eyes, and glossy bloatedness of the face, aggravated from every mental exertion

Buzzing in the head

Pain in the bones of the cranium, esp. on lying down

Exostosis on the head; on the r. vertex, with boring pain

Falling off of the hair.

Eyes

Pain in the eyes aggravated by touch, as if the ball of the eye were pressed inwards

Tension in the eyes, with diminution of sight

Burning pain and redness in the eyes

Obscuration of the sight

Black spots before the eyes

Eyes very prominent

Flames and sparks before the eyes

Vertical half-sight

Hemiopia; objects are seen cut in horizontal lines

Eyes better by moonlight and after violent muscular exercise

Objects seem smaller and more distant.

Ears

Hearing too sensitive

Pain in the ears, like internal tension

Caries of the mastoid process

Flow of fetid pus from the ears

Oversensitive to noises, but music >-Annoying dryness in ears and nose with difficult hearing

Hardness of hearing from hypertrophy of the amygdalae, with embarrassed speech

Humming in the ears

Roaring in the ears.

Nose

Pain in the nasal bones on being touched

Gnawing prickings

Inflammatory swelling and redness of the nose, followed by desquamation

Caries of the bones of the nose

Nasal cavities ulcerated and covered with thick crusts

Running from the nose of a fetid greenish-yellow matter

Stoppage of the nose

Fluent coryza

Nose red, swollen; tip knobby, red

Cancer

Furfuraceous desquamation of the epidermis of the nose

Increased sensibility, or absence of smell

Sweetish putrid smell, or smell of brandy before the nose

Fetid odour from the nose.

Face

Face puffed, and shining as if from sweat

Inflammation of the bones of the face

Parotids swollen, painful to touch as if pressed or bruised

Swelling of the cheeks

Swelling of the bones of the forehead, of the upper jaw, and of the nose

Red eruption, which peels off, on the forehead and on the nose

Traction in the jaws, with swelling of the cheeks

Tensive pain in the upper jaw

Painful swelling of the submaxillary glands.

Teeth

Odontalgia, with heat and congestion in the head

Looseness of the teeth

Ulcers in the gums, with swelling of the cheeks

Toothache < at night, < drawing cold air into mouth.

Mouth

Fetid smell of the mouth, like rotten cheese

Piercing pain in the velum palati

Tongue swollen; with scirrhus-like hardness; after biting tongue in sleep

Tongue coated; dry; ulcerated.

Throat

Caries in the palate, with ulcers of a bluish colour, esp. after the abuse of mercury

Tonsils swollen and ulcerated

Drinks find a passage through the nostrils

Stinging soreness in throat only when swallowing

Dull, pressive pain, either with or without swallowing, in a gland below angle of jaw.

Appetite

Milky or sweetish taste

Loathing of food, and esp. of meat

Great desire for coffee

Excessive hunger and thirst

No appetite for plain food in pining boys.

Stomach

Pain in the stomach, as if proceeding from hunger

Immoderate appetite and thirst, with qualmishness in the stomach

Sensation of indescribable uneasiness in the epigastrium

Swelling of the epigastrium and of the hypochondria, with shooting pains on being touched

Burning at stomach and hot eructations

Burning, drawing, and cutting pain; pressure

Pressure to l. of scrobiculum, below cartilages of upper false ribs;

< during expiration.

Abdomen

Burning heat and cutting pain in r. hypochondrium

Colic with sensation of great uneasiness and inclination to evacuate

Tensive aching and fulness in the abdomen

Abdomen inflated

Exostosis in the pelvis

Tendency of hernia to protrude, sometimes with cramp-like pains and incarcerated flatus

Swelling and suppuration of the inguinal glands from syphilis or the use of mercury

Windy colic by night, with pinching, grumbling, and borborygmi

Frequent emission of very fetid wind.

Stool

Copious evacuation

Nocturnal diarrhoea

Nightly diarrhoea, with burning in the rectum

Constipation; stool very large in size, or very hard and knotty.

Urinary Organs

Painful retention of urine, with urgent inclination to make water, and pressure on the bladder

Frequent emission of watery urine

Urine turbid, like butter-milk, with thick mucus-like sediment.

Male Sexual Organs

Sexual desire greatly increased

The whole genital system is strongly affected

Nocturnal erections and pollutions

Flow of prostatic fluid, with flaccidity of the penis

Swelling of the (lower part) of the testicle (r)

Swelling of the testes, with aching pain on touching and rubbing

Induration of the testes

Testes mere pendant shreds (in pining boys)

Hydrocele

Bubo

Chancre.

Female Sexual Organs

Pains in the abdomen, as if the catamenia were coming

Prolapsus and induration of the matrix

Uterine affections with depression and tendency to suicide

Menses too late; and scanty or absent

Drawing pain in pubes; r. inguinal region sore to touch

Before menses: swelling of axillary glands

During menses: colic; prolapse of rectum

Leucorrhoea: profuse and corroding, yellow; thick white, not offensive, < by walking

During pregnancy: suicidal melancholia; jaundice.

Respiratory Organs

Accumulation of mucus in the trachea and in the chest, which is expectorated with difficulty in the morning

Voice nasal

Cough from want of breath at night

Cough with tough yellow sputum on awaking in morning.

Chest

Great difficulty of respiration at night, and on walking in the open air, requiring deep inspirations

Paroxysms of suffocation, with constrictive oppression of the chest, falling, loss of sense, and bluish colour of the face

Pain, as if there were a plug placed under the ribs

Continuous aching in l. side of the chest

Incisive pain, and obtuse shootings, near the sternum

Great weight on chest; esp. heavy weight on sternum

Much congestion in the chest.

Heart

Anxious palpitation of the heart, from congestion to the chest

Beatings of the heart, irregular, or by fits, sometimes with anguish and oppression of the chest

Pain in heart region extending down l. arm to fingers

Floundering heart

When walking, the heart seems to shake as if it were loose

Sensation as if the heart stood still

Palpitation compels him to stop.

Neck And Back

Swollen cervical glands

Tension in neck as if muscles too short, even at rest;

< stooping

Stinging pains in small of back

Gressus gallinaceous (in spine disease)

Pain at lower part of spine

Pains, generally passive, or drawing and acute, in the back, chiefly in the morning, and sometimes so violent as to prevent any motion of the limbs.

Limbs

Limbs go to sleep; numb, insensible on waking; more when lying than moving

Has to seize hold of l. arm during attack of palpitation

Limbs swollen, painful, almost anchylosed.

Upper Limbs

Boring in l. shoulder

Aching pains in the arms and in the forearms

Cramp-like and acute drawing pains in the bones of the carpus and of the metacarpus

Acute drawing pains and paralytic weakness in the bones and joints of the fingers

Palms itch; herpes; nails turn blue.

Lower Limbs

Coxalgia

Sharp pains in the thighs, esp. morning and evening

Paralytic and painful weakness of the knees, as if a bandage were tightly compressed above them; they are feeble and give way

Drawing pains and acute pullings, with paralytic weakness, in the bones and the joints of the toes

Nodes; caries.

Generalities

Pain, like that of a bruise, with acute pullings, and paralytic weakness in the limbs in general, and chiefly in the joints, esp. on uncovering the part affected, in the morning, on waking and during repose, disappearing on getting up Darting pains in the limbs, with great dejection Inflammation of the bones, with nocturnal pains Exostosis on the head, on the arms and on the legs

Great acuteness and delicacy of sensation, with excessive sensibility to the least pain Over-sensitiveness to all pain, and to the cold air Hysterical spasms, sometimes with alternate tears and laughter Great sensibility to cold, or strong desire to go into the open air, even in bad weather, because it is found to be a relief

Great ebullitions, with congestions to the head and chest, and palpitation of the heart.

Sleep

Weary, but cannot rest or sleep

Drowsiness after meals

Nocturnal sleep till four o'clock in the morning only

Awakened by bone pains; in despair

Fatigue and weakness in the morning on waking

Restless sleep, with anxious dreams; of thieves

Nocturnal mumbling in the form of questions.

Fever

Pulse small, but accelerated

Febrile shiverings over the whole body, while in bed in the evening, followed neither by heat nor thirst

Cold of the entire body, with bluish colour of the nails, nauseous taste, with inclination to vomit, sometimes followed by an increase of heat

Heat of the face, with cold in the hands and feet

Copious general perspiration early in the morning; mostly about genitals.