Aurum Metallicum

William Boericke 1922

Right hypochondrium hot and painful. Incarcerated flatus. Swelling and suppuration of inguinal glands. Urine. — Turbid, like buttermilk, with thick sediment. Painful retention.

Gentle Pills monograph

Pain in bones of the face and extremities, worse at night; caries of nasal and palatine bones in old syphilitic states.

Gentle Pills monograph

Medium to high potencies classically, repeated cautiously in deep states.

William Boericke 1922

Caries of ossicula and of mastoid. Obstinate fetid otorrhoea after scarlatina. External meatus bathed 112

William Boericke 1922

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 inward. Sticking pains inward. Trachoma with pannus.

William Boericke 1922

Tearing in zygoma. Mastoid and other facial bones inflamed.

William Boericke 1922

Congestion to

William Boericke 1922

Great sensitiveness of vagina. Uterus enlarged and prolapsed. Sterility; vaginismus.

William Boericke 1922

especially cranial, nasal, and palatine. Glands swollen in scrofulous subjects. Palpitation and congestions. 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 wellnigh 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 be especially suited to the vile combination. Ennui. Ozaena; sexual hyperaesthesia. Arteriosclerosis, high •blood pressure; nightly paroxysms of pain behind sternum. Sclerosis of liver, arterial system, brain.

William Boericke 1922

in pus. Chronic nerve deafness; Labyrinthine disease due to syphilis.

Gentle Pills monograph

Boring pains in the bones, particularly the nasal and frontal bones; ozoena with crusting; vision threatened by choroiditis in gouty subjects.

William Boericke 1922

Boils on scalp.

William Boericke 1922

Violent pain in

William Boericke 1922

Vertigo. Tearing through brain to forehead. Pain in bones extending to

William Boericke 1922

worse at night, outward pressure. Roaring in

William Boericke 1922

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.

Gentle Pills monograph

Sensation as if the heart stopped then bounded; violent palpitations on motion; hypertension with arteriosclerotic changes in the traditional picture.

Gentle Pills monograph

Deep depression of serious, responsible people — often with suicidal impulses, cardiac complaints and bone pains.

William Boericke 1922

Pain and szvclling of testicles. Chronic induration of testicles. Violent erections. Atrophy of testicles in hoys. Hydrocele.

William Boericke 1922

Profound despondency, with thorough di.tgust of life, and thoughts of suicide. Talks of comniiting suicide. Great fear of death. Peevish and vehement at least contradiction. Anthropophobia. Mental derangements. Constant rapid questioning without waiting for reply. Pining boys; low spirited, lifeless, v/eak memory. Cannot do things fast enough. Oversensitiveness; [Staph.] to noise, excitement, confusion.

Gentle Pills monograph

Profound melancholy with self-reproach and longing for death, yet a hidden fear of it. Hopeless about recovery; disgust with life alternating with religious fervour. Aggravated at night and in winter.

Gentle Pills monograph

Worse: night, winter, mental exertion, emotions. Better: open air, exercise, morning sunshine.

William Boericke 1922

Knobby tip of

William Boericke 1922

Foul breath in girls at puberty. Taste putrid or bitter. Ulceration of gums.

William Boericke 1922

worse at night. Putrid smell from

William Boericke 1922

Sensitive smell. [Carhol. ac.] Horrible odor from nose and

William Boericke 1922

Ulcerated, painful, swollen, obstructed. Inflammation of

William Boericke 1922

caries; fetid discharge, purulent, bloody. Boring pains in

William Boericke 1922

Constipation, stools hard and knotty. Nocturnal diarrheea, with burning in

Gentle Pills monograph

Compare Aurum muriaticum (with uterine involvement), Platina (pride with contempt), Nitric acid (splinter pains, despair without the violence).

William Boericke 1922

Appetite and thirst increased, with qualmishness. Swelling of epigastrium. Burning at stomach and hot eructations.

William Boericke 1922

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 commit suicide. Every opportunity is sought for self-destruction. Exostosis, caries, nightly bone-pains,

William Boericke 1922

Stitches when swallowing ; pain in glands. Caries of the palate.