Mineral
Aurum Metallicum
Metallic Gold
Repertory abbreviation: Aur.
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 vio- tim of syphilis, mental states of great depression are produced by it. Hopeless, despondent, and great desire to commit suicide. Every opportunity is ought for self-destruction. Exostosis, caries, nightly bone-pains, especially cranial, nasal, and palatine. Glands swollen i
Mind
Profound despondency, with thorough di.s-. gus of life, and thoughts of suicide. Talks of com- iting suicide. Great fear of death. Peevish and vehement at least contradiction. Anthropophobia. Men- tal derangements. Constant rapid questioning without waiting for reply. Pining boys; low spirited, lifeless, weak memory. Cannot do things fast enough. Over- sensitiveness; [Staph.] to noise, excitement, confusion.
Head
Violent pain in head; worse at night, out.. ward pressure. Roaring in head. Vertigo. Tearing through brain to forehead. Pain in bones extending to
Eyes
Extreme photophobia. Great soreness all about the eyes and into eyeballs. Double vision; uppei half of objects invisible. Feel tense. Sees fiery objects. Violent pains in bones around eye [Asaf.] Interstitial keratitis. Vascular cornea. Pains from without in- ward. 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 due to syphilis.
Nose
Ulcerated, painful, swollen, obstructed. In- fammation of nose; caries; fetid discharge, purulent, bloody. Boring pains in nose; worse at night. Putrid smell from nose. Sensitive smell. [Carbol. ac.] Bor- rible odor from nose and mouth. Knobby tip of nose.
Face
Congestion to head. Boils on scalp. Tearing in zygoma. Mastoid and other facial bones inflamed.
Mouth
Foul breath in girls at puberty. . Taste putrid or bitter. Ulceration of gums.
Throat
Stitches when swallowing; pain in glanris. Caries of the palate.
Stomach
Appetite and thirst increased, with qualmishness. Swelling of epigastrium. Burning at stomach and hot eructations. ) Aur. mur. Kali.— Double chloride of Potassium and gold. (In uterine induration and hamorrhage.) Aur. iod. (Chronic pericarditis, valvular diseases, arteriosclerosis, oz?na, lupus, osteitis, ovarian cysts. myomata uteri, are pathological lesions, that offer fa- vorable ground for the action of this powerful drug Senile paresis.) Aur. sulph. (Paralysis agitans; constant nodding of the head ; affections of mamme; swelling, pain, cracked nipples with lancinating pains.) Also, Asafet. (in caries of bones of ears and nose). Syphilin; Kali iod.; Hep.; Merc.; Mes.; Nit. ac.; Phosph. Antidotes: Bcll.: Cinch.: Cupr.; Merc.
Abdomen
Right hypochondrium hot and painful. Incarcerated flatus. Swelling and suppuration of in- guinal glands. Urine. -- Turbid, like buttermilk, with thick sediment. Painful retention.
Rectum
Constipation, stools hard and knotty. Nocturnal diarrhcea, with burning in rectum.
Male
Pain and szvclling of testicles. Chronic in- duration of testicles. Violent erections. Atrophry of testicles in boys. Hydrocele.
Female
Great sensitiveness of vagina. Uterus en- larged and prolapsed. Sterility; vaginismus.
Respiratory
Dyspnoea at night. Frequent, dee! breathing; stitches in sternum. Bones. — Destruction of bones, like secondary syph- ilis. Caries of the nasal, palatine, and mastoid bones.
Heart
Sensation as if the heart stopped beating for two or three seconds, immediately followed by a tumultuous rebouud, with sinking at the epigastrium Palpitation. Pulse rapid, feeble, irregular. 1 Hyper- trophy.
Extremities
All the blood seems to rush from head to lower limbs. Dropsy of lower limbs. Orgasm, as if blood were boiling in ail veins. Paralytic, tearing pains in joints. Knees weak.
Sleep
Sleepless. Obs loud in sleep. Frightful
Modalities
Worse, in cold weather when getting cold. Many complaints come on only in winter, from sunset to sunrise.
Relationships
Compare: Aur. ars. (chronic aortitis ; lupus, phthisis) in syphilitic headaches; also in anami1 and chlorosis. It causes rapid increase of appetite. Aur. brom. (in headaches with neurasthenia, megrim, night terrors, valvular diseases). Aur. mur. (Burning, yellow, acrid leucorrhcea; heart symptoms, glandular affections; warts on tongue and genitals; sclerotic and exudative degeneration of the nervous system. Multiple sclerosis. Morvan's dis- ease. Second trituration. Aur. mur. is a sycotic rem- edy, causing suppressed discharges to reappear. Val- able in climacteric hamorrhages from the womb. [Hy- drastinin.] S Stitching pain in left side of forehead Weariness, aversion to ail work. Drawing feeling in
Dose
Third to thirtieth potency.