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Aurum Metallicum
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Aurum Metallicum Reference Specimen
Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification
🧬 Remedy Miasm: Syphilitic Miasm
The Syphilitic miasm leads to destruction on both physical and mental levels. It presents as ulceration, bone decay, severe depression, and self-destructive tendencies.
🧠General & Mental Health
▲GENERAL
Source: Derived from metallic gold (Au), prepared for homeopathic use through potentization involving trituration, serial dilution, and succussion to render it non-toxic and therapeutically active.
Traditional Context : Historically employed in homeopathy for severe mental and emotional disorders, cardiovascular conditions, and chronic inflammatory states, particularly those involving deep depression, suicidal ideation, and systemic exhaustion.
It is noted for symptoms such as profound despair, self-loathing, cardiovascular complaints, and burning pains, often aggravated by cold, night, or emotional stress, and ameliorated by warmth, music, or open air.
Modern Context : Indicated for major depressive disorder (e.g., with suicidal ideation, guilt),.
bipolar disorder (depressive phase), cardiovascular disorders (e.g., hypertension, angina), and chronic inflammatory or pain syndromes (e.g., fibromyalgia, arthritis).
It suits patients with severe, chronic symptoms characterized by deep emotional distress , physical exhaustion , and burning or congestive symptoms , typically exacerbated by cold, isolation, or failure, and often seen in individuals with a history of perfectionism, overwork, or emotional trauma.
The remedy is particularly relevant for those with intense self-criticism, a sense of worthlessness, or cardiovascular complaints linked to stress, often presenting with a serious, reserved, or duty-driven personality.
COMMENTS-Boring pains and burni ng stitches predominate.
The head is giddy, full, hot.
Rush of blood to
the head.
Vertigo as if turning in a circle when stooping, goes away 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.
Decay of mastoid process of bones of nose.
Ozaena.
In the abdominal region
there is swelling of liver, jaundice (Merc.).
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.
Uterus prolapsed and indurated, the weight of it causes prolapses.
The chloride of gold
and sodium acts more powerfully in these conditions.
Suffocative attacks with oppression of chest.
Anxious palpitations from congestion to the chest.
Palpitation
with anguish and tremulous fearfulness.
Pain in heart region extending down left arm to fingers.
Boring pai ns
in bones, worse at night.
Hysterical spasms with laughing and cry ing alternately.
Hypersensitive to all pains.
Great ebullitions with
congestion to the head and chest and palpitation of the heart.
Frightful dreams, sobs aloud when asleep.
Chilliness pr edominates, 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.
Paralytic drawing in the limbs in the
morning when awaking and on getting cold.
Severe heart disease, arteriosclerosis, ce rebral arteriosclerosis, high blood pressure, with depression.
Sensation of the heart not beating or getting heart pains or that it is beating too fast.
Fear of heart disease.
Also for arthritis or for the ill effects of gold shots.
Tennis elbow.
Sinus infections, breaking down in nasal
septum.
Late stage syphilis.
Chronic, severe, unrelenting insomnia that no medication can help.
Hair falls out.
Suicidal depression or severe depression with no hope of recovery.
Giving Aurum is giving a ray of hope back,
that the actual remedy is like potentized light, because in their life there’s no light or hope.
May have history of attempted suicide from financial loss, from the loss of money and property, loss of lov e.
Manic depression.
Suicidal tendencies from pain.
Kent describes losing the will to live as the deepest illness
one can have
Religious mania with deep guilt (Nai rn.).
Depression after death of a loved one.
Over investment,
possessiveness followed by loss.
Over responsible, strong sense of duty and loyalty.
Keynote insomnia, drives a person crazy, particularly in the elderly.
Geriatric remedy for people who feel
they've lost their purpose or value in life, but act stoic.
“Hippocratic countenance,” as if their face was chiseled
out of stone.
Flat tone to voice, can have lack of emotion but with a happy façade.
Pathologically independent and can have difficulty expressing themselves.
Resigned to depression.
Introverted.
Kent gave the etiologies as prolonged anxiety, grief, and unusual responsibilities that were heaped
on someone and they failed.
Financial loss, abuse of mercury as a medicine, or a history of suppressed
syphilis.
Craves sunshine, finds dull, cloudy days unbearable.
Depressed, dejected, tired of life, discontented.
Depression worse at night.
Deep self-con
demnation, guilt complex, easily frightened, feels worthless.
Restless, hurried, fidgety.
Quarrelsome, may have wild outbursts of rage followed by remorse, worse contradiction.
Sensitive to pain and
cold.
Chilly, likes to be wrapped up but may still like fresh air.
Worse from sunset to sunrise.
May have a history
of syphilis, especially if there is bone pain.
Worse grief or emotional stress.
Temperature-Painfully sensitive to cold, shivering in bed.
Febrile chills over the whole body, while in bed in
the evening.
Coldness of the entire body, with bluish color of the nails, nauseous taste, with inclination to vomit.
Heat of the face, with cold in the hands and feet.
Ascites with heart disorders.
Colic, with sensation of great uneasiness and inclination to evacuate.
Incarcerated flatus.
Abdomen inflated.
Grumbling and rumbling.
Right hypochondrium hot and painful.
Swelling and suppuration of in guinal glands.
Inguinal hernia of children.
Tendency of hern ia to protrude.
Swelling and suppuration of the inguinal glands.
Frequent gas, very fetid wind.
Loathing of food.
Bulimia.
Loss of appetite in pining boys.
Appetite and thirst increased with
qualmishness.
Excessive hunger and thirst.
Aversion to meat.
Craves nothing but sour things.
Desire for milk
and coffee.
Desire for alcohol, wine.
Desire bread, delicacies such as pastries.
Water tastes foul.
Worse after
drinking.
Worse after wine
▲MODALITIES ETC
Worse from: Cold (air, weather, drinks), night (especially midnight to 3 a.m.), solitude,.
No remedy produces more acute mental depression than Aurum
met.
There is a condition of melancholy, hopelessness and profound depression.
Acute depression.
Future
looks dark.
Hopelessness with heart disease.
Want of self-confidence and thinks others have none which
makes her unhappy.
Complaints after grief, fright, anger, disappointed love, contradiction, reserved displeasure.
Ailments from
unusual responsibilities.
Duty-bound.
Workaholic, industrious, always busy and working, never finished.
Grief
and depression.
Financial loss.
Hopelessness.
Aggravation from strong emotions.
Forsaken feeling.
Sadness when alone.
Homesickness.
Despondent and great desire to com mit suicide.
Profound despondency, with increased blood pressure.
Loss of love of life.
Disgust of life and thoughts ofsuicide.
Despair from pain, wants to jump out of window.
Talks of committing suicide.
Every opportunity is sought for self-destruction.
Tendency to s uicide and
longing for death.
Mental derangements.
Weak memory.
Melancholy, imagines he is unfit for this world, never can succeed.
She
does everything wrong.
Thinks had neglected something, her friends, her duty.
Pining boys, low spirited,
lifeless, weak memory.
Self-reproach, self-criticism.
Feeling of selfcondemnation and utter worthlessness.
Peevish and vehement at least contradic tion ateful and quarrelsome.
Dictatorial.
Grumbling.
Boredom.
Indisposed to talk.
Vexed mood.
Enraged by least contradiction.
Oversensitive to contradiction, resulting in
explosive fits of anger and violence.
Anger at absent persons.
Hatred of persons who had offended.
Trembling
when he can't
Aurum metallicum satisfy his anger.
Changing moods.
Brooding melancholy, alternating with irritability and moroseness.
Excitement and confusion.
Hysteria, laughs and cries alternately.
Weeping when meeting people.
Weeping, because he imagines he has
lost the affection of his friends.
Anthrophobia.
Great fear of death.
Fears the least noise.
Fear of persons intruding.
Frightened easily on falling
asleep.
Oversensitive to pain, to smell, taste, hearing and touch.
Hypersensitive to noise, causes excitement,
confusion.
Excitement about absent persons during pain.
Loquacity.
Constant rapid ques tioning without
waiting for reply.
Rapid questioning without waiting for a reply.
Speaks continually in questions.
Cannot do
things fast enough.
Delirium with exaltation of strength.
Religious mania, imagines herself irretriev ably lost.
Violent hysteria, with
desperate actions, thrashes oneself about Weeping, praying and self-reproaching.
Delusion has neglected
his duty and deserves réproach.
Imagines to see obstacles in his way everywhere.
Wrings the hands.
Boredom.
▲SLEEP
Fatigue and weakness in the morning on waking.
Vivid, frightful dreams.
Fright ful dreams.
Restless
sleep, with anxious dreams of thieves.
Dreams of dead, death and corpses.
Dreams towards morning
👁️Head & Sensory Organs
▲VERTIGO, DIZZINESS
Stupefaction during vertigo when stooping.
Vertigo as if turning in a circle, better on rising.
Vertigo as if drunk when walking in open air, feels as if he would fall to left, must lie down.
Vision-Double vision.
Hemiopia, upper half of objects invisible.
Hemiopia from straining eyes.
Yellow
crescent bodies floating obliquely upward.
Sees fiery objects.
Sees fog or smoke before eyes.
Everything looks
blue.
Black spots, flames, sparks before the eyes.
Irregular pupils.
Optical illusions in bright colors
▲HEAD
Rush of blood to head.
Violent pain in head, worse during the night, outward pressure, causing
confusion.
Roaring in head.
Vertigo.
Tearing through brain to forehead.
Pain in bones extending to face.
Congestion to head hot, full.
Headache of students with precordial anxiety and flushes of heat to the
head.
As if air passed over the brain.
Exostosi s with boring pain.
Lumps under scalp.
Baldness from syphilis.
Boils on scalp.
Vertigo.
▲EYES
Orbits feel sore.
Feels tense.
Violent pains in bones around eye (Asaf.).
Intesti nal keratitis.
Vascular
cornea.
Pains from without inward.
Sticking pains inward.
Trachoma with pannus.
Glaucoma.
Extreme
photophobia.
Constant lachrymation.
Styes.
Eyes better moonlight and after active muscular exercise
▲EARS
Congestion to ears.
Burning, prickling, itching.
Decay of the mastoid process.
Obstinate fetid ottorrhea
after scarlatina.
Flow of fetid pus from the ears.
External meatus bathed in pus.
Labyrin thine disease due to
syphilis.
Menière's disease.
Nerve deafness with embarrassed speech.
Oversensitive to noise, but better
music.
Hardness of hearing with embarrassed speech.
Humming, buzzing and rushing in the ears.
Roaring in
the ears
▲FACE
Anxious expression.
Inflammation of the bones of the face.
Congested, bluish-red.
Face puffed, and shining as if from sweat.
Tearing in zygoma.
Mastoid and other facial bones inflamed.
Red eruption, which peels off, on the forehead and on the nose.
Painful swelling of the submaxillary glands.
Parotids swollen, painful to touch.
Swelling of the cheeks
🫁Respiratory & Throat
▲MOUTH
Aphthae on mouth.
Copious saliva sweetish.
Fetid smell of the mouth, like rotten cheese.
Foul
breath in girls at puberty.
Taste pu trid or bitter.
Metallic taste.
Milky or sweetish taste, foul even to water.
Ulceration of gums.
Ulcers on palate.
Inside of mouth blistered.
Gums swollen, dark red, bleeding.
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Nose red and swollen.
Inflammation of nose.
Decay with fetid discharge, purulent, bloody.
Red, knobby
tip of nose.
Ozaena.
Snubbed.
Ulcerated, painful, swollen, obstructed.
Boring pains in nose, worse at night.
Horrible odor from nose and mouth.
Putrid smell from nose.
Fetid discharge, purulent, bloody.
Complaints
from strong odors.
Sensitive smell (Carb-ac.).
Perspiration-Cold sweat and damp all over.
Sweat about genitals.
Copious gen eral perspiration.
Early
morning sweats, mostly about genitals.
Profuse sweat in endocarditis
▲THROAT
Voice nasal.
Stitches when swal lowing, pain in glands.
Decay of the palate.
Drinks come through
nose.
Stinging in throat when swallowing.
Tonsils swollen and ulcerated.
Red and swollen tonsils.
Tongue-Aphthae on tongue swollen, with scirrhus-like hardness.
Flabby taste with clean tongue trembling
and dry.
Tongue leathery, hard.
Tongue dry and coated.
Tongue coated at back.
Ulcers on tongue.
Warts on
tongue
▲CHEST
Palpitations or irregular heartbeat, often with a sensation of oppression or heaviness in the chest, resembling angina pectoris or stress-induced cardiomyopathy, worse at night or with emotional stress.
Hypertension or flushing, with a sensation of heat or congestion in the head or chest,.
often linked to suppressed emotions or overwork.
Sensation of the heart “stopping” or “skipping beats,” with anxiety or fear of sudden death, aggravated by cold or solitude.
Musculoskeletal/Inflammatory:.
Burning, aching, or boring pains in joints, muscles, or bones, resembling fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, or neuralgia, worse at night, in cold weather, or with rest.
Stiffness or swelling in joints, often with a sensation of heat or congestion,.
aggravated by cold, damp conditions or emotional stress.
Bone pains, particularly in the skull, spine, or long bones, with a deep, boring quality, worse at night or during depressive episodes.
Systemic:.
Profound fatigue or exhaustion, with a sensation of sinking vitality, resembling chronic fatigue syndrome or post-traumatic exhaustion, worse after emotional or physical exertion.
Extreme cold intolerance, with aggravation in cold, damp weather and a strong desire for warmth or open air (if not cold).
Night sweats or chills, often linked to emotional distress or systemic inflammation,.
worse during depressive or cardiovascular episodes.
Neurological:.
Headaches, often frontal or occipital, with a sensation of congestion, heat, or bursting, resembling tension-type headache or migraine, worse at night or with mental exertion.
Neuralgic or burning pains in the face, eyes, or limbs, often with a sensation of heat or pressure, aggravated by cold or stress.
Vertigo or dizziness, particularly during cardiovascular or depressive episodes, worse with motion or emotional stress.
Aurum metallicum (Metallic Gold) 206.
Dermatological:.
Burning or itching skin eruptions, often localized, resembling urticaria or stress-.
induced dermatitis, worse with cold, stress, or scratching.
Flushing or redness of the face or chest during emotional, cardiovascular, or inflammatory episodes, suggestive of vasomotor instability
🥗Digestive & Genitourinary
▲ABDOMEN
Swelling of epigastrium.
Burning at stomach and hot belchings.
Burning, drawing, and cutting pain,
pressure.
Pain in the stomach, as if from hunger.
Uneasiness in the epigastrium.
Stinging pain when touching
stomach.
Nausea from mental labor.
Sour eructations.
Teeth-Decay of teeth.
Toothache, with heat and congestion in the head.
Looseness of the teeth.
Sensation
as if too long.
Ulcers in the gums, with swelling of the cheeks.
Toothache worse at night, worse drawing cold
air into mouth.
Gums swollen, dark red, bleeding
▲GENITALS ETC
Pain and swe lling of testicles.
Chronic induration of testicles.
Atrophy of testicles in boys.
Undeveloped testes.
Itching of scrotum.
Hydrocele of children.
Orchitis.
Epididymitis.
Sarcocele.
Flow of prostatic fluid, with flaccidity of the
penis.
Bubo.
Chancre.
Condylomata around corona glandis.
Violent erections.
Sexual desire greatly increased.
Nocturnal erections and pollutions.
Ulcers on scrotum.
Amenorrhea with great sadness.
Delayed menarche.
Menses too late, and scanty or absent.
Before
menses, swelling of axillary glands.
Uterine troubles worse reaching high with arms.
Uterus enlarged and
prolapsed.
Induration and ulceration of the womb from re peated miscarriages.
Uterine disorders with
depression.
Prolapsus uterus with heaviness in abdomen.
Prolapsus uterus, with backache, worse during
menses.
Vaginismus.
Great sen sitiveness of vagina.
Burning-smarting of vulva.
Labia majora red, swollen.
Leucorrhea profuse and corroding.
Leu-corrhea yellow, thick white, not offensive.
Leucorrhea, worse walking.
Infertility, also of those women who are mentally depressed on account of their barrenness.
Depression during
pregnancy.
Despair from labor pains.
Labor pains make her desperate.
Suppressed breast-milk
🦴Musculoskeletal & Skin
▲EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
Holds the left arm during attack of palpitations.
Nightly leg pains.
All the blood seems to rush from
head to lower limbs.
Dropsy of lower limbs.
Orgasm, as if blood were boiling in all veins.
Paralyti c, tearing
pains in joints.
Knees weak.
Pains in both the knees as if tightly bandaged.
Paralytic feeling in legs.
Nails turn
blue.
Trembling feet.
Hot bruised soles, at night.
Cold foul foot sweat.
Liver region hot and painful.
Hepatitis.
Liver with heart symptoms.
Jaundice of pregnancy
▲BACK AND NECK
Stinging pains in small of back.
As if lower spine bulged backwards.
Lumbar muscles painfully stiff,
thigh cannot be raised.
Swollen cervical glands like knotted cord.
Tension in neck as if muscles too short, even
at rest, worse stooping.
Pains, drawing and acute, in the back and sometimes so violent as to prevent any
motion of the limbs.
Bones-Destruction of bones like second ary syphilis.
Pain in bone s of head, lumps under scalp, exostosis
with nightly pains in bones.
Decay of nasal, palatine and mastoid bones.
Soreness of affected bones, better in
open air, worse at night.
Profound fatigue or exhaustion, with a sensation of sinking vitality, resembling chronic fatigue syndrome or post-traumatic exhaustion, worse after emotional or physical exertion.
Extreme cold intolerance, with aggravation in cold, damp weather and a strong desire for warmth or open air (if not cold).
Night sweats or chills, often linked to emotional distress or systemic inflammation,.
worse during depressive or cardiovascular episodes.
Neurological:.
Headaches, often frontal or occipital, with a sensation of congestion, heat, or bursting, resembling tension-type headache or migraine, worse at night or with mental exertion.
Neuralgic or burning pains in the face, eyes, or limbs, often with a sensation of heat or pressure, aggravated by cold or stress.
Vertigo or dizziness, particularly during cardiovascular or depressive episodes, worse with motion or emotional stress.
Aurum metallicum (Metallic Gold) 206.
Dermatological:.
Burning or itching skin eruptions, often localized, resembling urticaria or stress-.
induced dermatitis, worse with cold, stress, or scratching.
Flushing or redness of the face or chest during emotional, cardiovascular, or inflammatory episodes, suggestive of vasomotor instability
📋 Remedy Stats
🏷️ Category🩺 Homeopathic
🧬 MiasmSyphilitic Miasm
🌡️ Temperament❄️ Chilly
🕒 Aggravation🌙 Night
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This clinical profile is compiled from: Robin Murphy, MD — Lotus Materia Medica, 3rd Edition; Samuel Hahnemann — Materia Medica Pura; William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica; and Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad — Homeopathy: Like Cures Like. Compiled in accordance with classical homeopathic provings and clinical practice.
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