Aurum Metallicum - Boiron
From Boericke's materia medica:
(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 COMMIT SUICIDE. 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 homeopathy, 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 hyperesthesia. ARTERIOSCLEROSIS, 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 COMMITING 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. OVER SENSITIVENESS; (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 OTORRHEA after scarlatina. External meatus bathed in pus. Chronic nerve deafness; Labyrinthine disease due to 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 arteriosclerotic nature (Aurum 30).
Aurum is a homeopathic remedy indicated for:
- High blood pressure
- Depression
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Rheumatoid arthritis