AURUM METALLICUM

AURUM METALLICUM. [Aurum] Common Gold. Hahnemann. Au.

► Weak memory. ► Religious mania ; prays all the time. ► Uneasy, hurried, desire for mental and bodily activity ; cannot do things fast enough. ► Suicidal mood. ► Hallucinations ; sees dogs, a hand on the wall, etc., mania. ► Apprehensiveness, full of fear ; a more noise at the door makes him anxious. ► Melancholy, disposed to weep ; imagines he is unfit for this world, that he can never succeed. ► Great anguish, coming from the precordial region, driving him from place to place palpitation. ► Weary of life ; especially in evening, with longing for death. ► Has no confidence in herself, thinks others have none ; this makes her unhappy. ► Alternately peevish and cheerful. ► Contradiction excites wrath. ► Mental labor fatigues. ► Ailments from grief, disappointed love.

► Vertigo : when stooping, as if turning in a circle, goes off no rising ; as if drunk, when walking in open air ; feels as if he would fall to left side ; must lie down ; even then for some time it returns on slightest motion.

► Tearing headache deep in the forehead and temples, abating in the open air. ► Rush of blood to the head ; sparks before the eyes, and glossy, bloated face ; worse from mental exertion. ► Bruised pain, especially in the early morning or during mental labor, ideas become confused ; roaring in head. ► Headaches of students, with precordial anxiety and flashes of heat to the head. ► Megrim, stitching, burning pains, beating in one side of forehead ; nausea, even bilious vomiting. ► Fine tearing from the right side of the occiput through the brain to the forehead ; worse during motion.

► Skull bones painful, as if broken ; worse lying down. ► Exostoses on the head ; boring pains ; worse from touch. ► Falling out of hair.

► Objects as if divided horizontally ; sees only half of an object, other half as if covered with a dark body. ► Tension in the eyes ; sees things double or mixed up. ► Fiery sparks before eyes ; optical illusions in bright colors. ► Pupils most frequently contracted. ► Cutting pain through the eyes. ► Iritis serosa and cornea spotted. ► Opacity of the cornea. θ After keratitis. ► Eyeballs protrude. ► Red sclerotica ; burning, stitching, drawing and itching at the inner canthus. ► Photophobia, profuse scalding tears on opening the eyes ; eyes very sensitive to touch. ► Pressive pain in orbit from above downward, within out. ► Bones around the eye feel bruised. ► Ulceration of the cornea in the course of pannus ; pains from within outwards ; worse from pressure. ► Little blisters turning into crusts on the edges of lids, with some trichiasis. ► Eyelids red, suppurating ; stinging, prickling, itching ; agglutination in the morning ; cilia fall out.

► Roaring in the ears ; oversensitiveness to noises. ► Annoying dryness in ears and nose, with difficult hearing. ► Caries of the mastoid process ; obstinate otorrhoea. ► Burning, prickling, itching ; boring pain behind left ear. ► Parotids swollen ; painful to touch as if pressed or contused.

► Complaints caused by strong odors. ► Sensitive smell ; everything smells too strong. ► Putrid smell when blowing nose ; want of smell. ► Ulcerated, agglutinated, painful nostrils, cannot breathe through the nose ; crusts in the nose. ► Nose feels obstructed as in dry coryza, yet air passes through freely. ► Ozoena, excessively fetid discharge ; severe frontal headache. ► Coryza, thick discharge, like the white of egg ; frequent sneezing. ► Carries of nasal bones ; right nasal bone and adjoining parts of upper jaw painful to touch. ► Boring in left side of nasal bone, toward the maxilla. ► Burning, itching, stitching, smarting ; feeling of soreness in nose, especially when touched. ► Mucous discharges from the posterior nares in the morning. ► Tip of the nose "knobby", red. ► Nose red and swollen.

► Bloated, glossy, worse from mental exertion ; cyanotic. ► Drawing, deep seated tearing in the left side of the face. ► Swelling of one cheek, with drawing and in tearing in upper and lower jaws ; teeth feel too long. ► Inflammation of bones of face ; caries of cheek-bones ; tearing, boring, burning stitches in the zygoma. ► Violent tearing in the malar bone. ► Fine eruption on lips, face or forehead.

► Painful swelling of submaxillary glands.

► Toothache caused by drawing air into the mouth. ► Gums swollen, dark red, sore when touched or when eating ; bleed easily.

► Bitter taste ; putrid taste, as of spoiled game, between meals. ► Loss of taste, with complete immovability of the tongue, which is hard as leather. ► Aphthae on tongue and mouth. ► Ulcers on the tongue.

► Copious saliva ; saliva sweetish. ► Inside of mouth blistered. ► Stench from the mouth ; smell like old cheese. ► Offensive odor ; girls at puberty.

► Red and swollen tonsils. ► Boring in the hard palate ; caries of roof, palate and nose. ► Stinging soreness in throat only during deglutition. ► Difficult raising of phlegm. ► Dull, pressive pain, with or without swallowing, in a gland below angle of jaw.

► Hunger, immoderate ; relishes his meal but appetite not appeared. ► Immoderate appetite and thirst, with qualmishness in the stomach. ► Appetite for milk, wine, coffee. ► Aversion to meat.

► Eructations of gas relieve attacks of palpitation. ► Nausea from mental labor.

► Burning sensation at stomach, with hot risings. ► Pressure in region of stomach, at noon. ► Pressure to the left of the scrobiculum, below cartilages of upper false ribs ; worse during expiration.

► Burning heat and cutting in right hypochondrium. ► Painful accumulation of gas below left ribs, causing stitching pains. ► Pressure in hypochondria, as from flatulence ; worse after food or drink and motion.

► Colic, frequent discharge of wind. ► Spasmodic contraction of abdomen with great anguish, inclined to suicide. ► Tensive pain, as if laced together. ► Heaviness in abdomen, with icy coldness of hands and feet. ► Ascites from disturbances of abdominal organs.

► Passes fetid flatus. ► Stools offensive, painful ; greyish, ashy. ► Nightly diarrhoea, with burning pain in the rectum. ► Hard, knotty or large stools ; constipation worse during menses. ► Piles with rectal catarrh ; costive ; external piles bleed during stool.

► Constant urging to urinate. ► Urine scanty, greenish-brown, in jaundice ; clear, gold-colored, in dropsy. ► Turbid, like buttermilk ; much sediment of mucus. ► Urine ammoniacal, decomposes rapidly, smells like the otorrhoea. ► Paralysis of the bladder with retention of urine. ► Ischuria painful, with pressure in bladder.

► Discharge of prostatic fluid from a relaxed penis ; settled melancholy, with suicidal mania. ► Right testicle swollen, pressive pains when touching or rubbing. ► Testes indurated ; testes undeveloped ; boy pining, depressed, weak. ► Itching of the scrotum. ► Ulcers on the scrotum ; cutting and singing in perineum. ► Inguinal glands suppurate.

► Uterus prolapsed and indurated ; bruised pain, with shooting or drawing ; heaviness in abdomen ; after lifting a heavy load ; worse at time of menses. ► Sterility in syphilitic women ; also in the ill-nourished, who are mentally depressed because of their barrenness. ► Menses : too late, scanty ; preceded by swelling of axillary glands ; accompanied by colic ; prolapse of the rectum. ► Amenorrhoea, with prolapsus uteri and melancholy. ► Constant oozing from the vulva. ► Thick white leucorrhoea ; burning-smarting of the vulva ; labia majora red, swollen.

► Suppressed milk. ► Palpitation following metrorrhagia after a mole or in childbed, after overexertion. ► Labor-pains make her desperate, she would like to jump from the window or dash herself down ; often with congestion to head and chest ; palpitation.

► Voice : nasal ; husky, as if he had a cold. ► Phlegm deep in the larynx, not easily hawked.

► Dyspnoea : with dull stitches in chest when inspiring ; cannot be relieved in any position ; takes deep breaths. ► Asthma from congestion to chest : great oppression at night and when walking in the open air ; suffocative fits, with spasmodic constriction of chest ; face bluish red ; palpitation ; falls down unconscious. ► Morning asthma : face cyanotic ; light-haired persons ; worse after mercury ; in wet weather and warm air.

► With tough yellow sputa on walking in morning. ► Cough from want of breath, at night. ► Dry, spasmodic, nervous cough, peculiar to women ; periodically, every night from sunset to sunrise.

► Shooting pains in chest after attacks of palpitation. ► Dull stitches in both sides of chest, with heat in the chest and dyspnoea ; increased by inspiration. ► Persistent dry catarrh on the chest, early in the morning, on walking ; with great difficulty he raises little phlegm, and this only after rising from bed.

► Frequent attacks of anguish about the heart, the tremulous fearfulness ; palpitation with great agony. ► Strong beating of heart, with anxiety and congestion to the head, after metrorrhagia ; also after exertion. ► When riding or walking, palpitation compels him to stop. ► Palpitation, with irregular, intermittent pulse ; short breathing. ► Pain in region of heart, extends down left arm to fingers. ► Pains wander from joint to joint, and finally become fixed in the heart, must sit upright ; feels as though heart ceased and then suddenly gave one hard thumb. ► Puls small, but accelerated. ► Weak pulse, cardiac asthma, mental depression ; great debility.

► Swollen cervical glands. ► Tension in neck, as if muscles were too short, even at rest, mostly when stooping. ► Spine disease, with gressus galinaceous. ► Pain in small of back as from fatigue. ► Tendons of lumber muscles so painfully stiff, that the thigh cannot be raised ; thigh feels paralyzed.

► Boring in left shoulder. ► Inflammatory swelling of axillary glands. ► Difficult movement of arms ; they feel fatigued ; forearms feel heavy. ► Severe bone pains in right elbow. ► Boring in right forearm. ► Cramp-like tearing in bones of both wrists. ► Palms itch. θ Herpes of the palms. ► Boring in finger-joints.

► All the blood appeared to rush from her hand into lower limbs ; they feel paralyzed, she has to sit down. ► Tottering of the knees ; stiffness, paralytic feeling ; they pain as if firmly bandaged, when sitting. ► Right knee becomes weak from walking ; drawing when walking or setting foot on floor. ► Boring in tibiae : ankles ; dorsum of feet. ► Swelling of legs and feet when getting up in the morning, better after walking. ► Toes red. ► Itching on soles.

► Limbs go to sleep, numb, insensible on awaking ; more lying than moving. ► Paralytic drawing in of the limbs in the morning when awaking ; also on getting cold. ► Has to seize hold of left arm during attacks of palpitation. ► Swelling of periosteum of forearm and thigh bones. ► Pain as from bruises in head and limbs, early in bed ; mostly at rest ; passes off after rising.

► Rest : 31, 34. Sitting : 33. Lying : 34. Must lie down : 2. Walking : 29, 33. Walking in open air : 2, 26.

2, 3, 18, 34, 36. Exertion : 29. Stooping : 2, 31. Rising : 2, 28, 33, 34, 40. Setting foot on floor : 33. In bed : 37.

► In the morning completely exhausted, as if he had not slept at all. ► Tremulous agitation, as in joyous hope. ► Hysterical spasms ; alternate laughter and crying. ► When thinking of a motion, he makes small motions without knowing it ; when speaking he smiles involuntarily. ► Sensation of internal emptiness and weakness of whole body. ► Great nervous weakness.

► Sobs aloud during sleep ; frightful dreams about thieves, with loud screams. ► Awake all night, on pain ; no lassitude or sleepiness in the morning. ► Sleeplessness after midnight. ► Awakened by bone pains, suffering so great he despairs, does not want to live. ► Bruised feeling, mornings in bed.

► Morning : 3, 5, 7, 26, 27, 28, 33, 34, 36, 37, 40. Morning and evening : 27. Noon : 17. Night : 5, 20, 26, 27, 37, 40. Sunset to sunrise : 27. Evening till midnight : 46.

► Very sensitive to cold. ► Generally better growing warm. ► Warmth : 26. Room : 46. Cold : 34. Air : 10. Wet weather : 26. Open air : 3, 26, 46. ► Many symptoms disappear after washing.

► Cold hands and feet ; sometimes lasting all night want of thirst. ► Chill lessened after getting out of bed ; shivering in bed ; legs cold as far as the knees. ► Coldness of whole body, nausea chill predominates. ► Heat only in face ; aversion to uncovering cold hands and feet. ► Heat alternating with chill. ► Auric fever : temperature raised, pulse frequent, then profuse, lasting sweats, salivation, sore mouth ; profuse urine, or turbid, fetid urine. ► Sweat early in morning, mostly on and around genitals.

► Sunset to sunrise : 27. Every three or four days : 3. ► Every two or three weeks : palpitation. Evening till midnight : 46.

► Right : 18, 22, 32, 33. Left : 2, 6, 8, 17, 18, 27, 29, 31, 32, 34. Behind forwards : 4. Without in : 5. Within out : 5. Above downwards : 5.

► Oversensitive to all pain, pains drive to despair, does not want to live. ► Susceptible to all sorts of pains ; on thinking of them, he imagines he already feels them. ► Boring pains, mostly in the bones.

► Violent orgasm ; plethora. ► Cold at first causes a feeling of strength, even of buoyancy ; later come depression, sense of illness, etc. ► Cancerous ulcers. ► Pus yellow, with cheesy flocculi ; lumbar abscess. ► External parts become black. ► Dropsy. ► Exostoses of skull and other bones. ► Boring in the bones ; caries especially after mercury ; pains drive to despair ; worse at night. ► Corpulency ; fat about the heart. ► Glands painfully swollen ; scrofula, ruddy complexion.

► Touch : 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 22. Pressure : 5. Chewing : 10. Seize hold of left arm : 34. Rubbing : 22. Riding in carriage : 29.

► Violent itching, first in the soles of the feet and then over the whole body, from evening till midnight. ► Fine popular eruption on the face. ► Deep ulcers, affecting the bones ; after abuse of mercury. ► Small and large blotches, burning feeling like hard knots, of a dirty yellow color ; less in-doors than in open air.

► Women nervous cough. ► Girls at puberty pre-pubic boys, 22. ► Open indicated with old people ; weak vision ; corpulency ; heart disease. ► Scrofula ; light haired ; sanguine temperament ; ruddy complexion. ► Syphilitic and mercurial patients ; especially advanced cases with melancholy, malnutrition and excessive debility. Syphilis in the strumous after abuse of mercury.

► After daily use of whisky, blind. ► Antidotes to Aurum : Bellad., Cinchon., Coccul., Coffea, Cuprum, Mercur., Pulsat., Spigel., Sol. nigr. ► Aurum antidotes : Mercur., Spigel.