Aurum metallicum

Gold

Region
MIND. VASCULAR SYSTEM. Nerves. Heart [r.] Bones [NASAL; skull; patellae;
joints]. Glands. Liver. Kidneys. * RIGHT SIDE. Left side.

Modalities
Worse: Emotions [depressing; disordered affections]. Mental exertion. Cold. Night
[sunset to sunrise]. Ascending stairs. Menstrual period. Right side.
Better: Cool, open air. Cold bathing. Becoming warm. Walking. Warmth [during
pains]. Rest.

Leading symptoms
M - DEPRESSIVE, MELANCHOLIC MOOD [everything is black inside]; suicidal or
[whether conscious or subconscious] looking for risks and dangers. SUICIDAL
DISPOSITION [better when thinking of suicide - feeling of freedom - cheerful when
thinking of death; planning his suicide in silence]. SUICIDAL from PAINS [out of
despair] - throwing himself from a height, from a window.
M - OVERSENSITIVE TO CONTRADICTION; resulting in explosive fits of anger and
violence.
M - General oversensitivity [odours, taste, noise, touch, music]. Fears the least
noise.
M - Ailments from fright, anger, contradiction, vexation, WOUNDED HONOR, LOSS
OF PROPERTY, UNUSUAL RESPONSIBILITIES.
M - DUTY-BOUND. ANXIETY OF CONSCIENCE, GUILTY FEELING AND REMORSE
[delusion he has neglected his duty]. Praying during profound depression; religious
affections.
M - WORKAHOLIC; INDUSTRIOUS; always busy and working, never finished. Strong
sense of honor; wants to be the best; AMBITION.
M - DESPAIR [from pain]; VIOLENT [from pain, contradiction or frustration].
M - Lack of self-confidence [thinks he cannot succeed], pessimistic, delusion of
failure; self-reproach, self-depreciation and low self-esteem. Oversensitive to the
opinion of others. FORSAKEN FEELING.
M - Closed and serious; laughing and having fun is difficult. Reserved and alone; no
friends, or just a few superficial acquaintances.
G - agg. NIGHT. amel. EVENING.
G - Desire for OPEN AIR and open air amel., yet COLD air and becoming cold agg.
[WINTER agg. [3]].
G - Pains amel. warmth.
G - HYPERAEMIA and congestion of various organs: EBULLITIONS with intense
palpitation; SURGING of blood to the head with clearly visible carotids and temporal
arteries; flushes easily. Sensation of HEAT in BLOOD VESSELS.
G - Orgasm of blood after emotions [2].
G - TREMBLING from anger [2], fright [2], vexation [2].
G - amel. MOTION; amel. WALKING; amel. WALKING SLOWLY. G - LIVER affections
and HEART symptoms.
P - Hemianopsia; upper half of visual field lost. P - Foetor ex ore ["like old cheese"].
P - Paroxysmal pain behind sternum at night [like angina pectoris] [characteristic for
Aur., according to Charette]. Dyspnoea agg. laughing. Oppression at heart; as if to
stop, then gives one hard thump.
P - PAIN IN BONES, especially AT NIGHT. Pain as if bones were broken.
P - Many eye diseases [diplopia, hemianopsia, cataract; mainly caused by
congestion of the brain, or of syphilitic origin]; injected blood vessels of eyes
[characteristic]; sensitivity and pain around orbits.
P - Cryptorchy, mostly RIGHT-SIDED. Chronic orchitis.
P - Endocarditis after rheumatism.
P - Jaundice during pregnancy.

Repertory
Mind
Anger, absent persons, at [2], trembling, with [2]. Delusions, friends, has lost the
affection of [2], lost, fancies herself [2], neglected his duty, that he has [3],
reproach, has neglected duty and deserves [2/1], right, does nothing [2]. Despair,
pains, with the [3]. Excitement, religious [2/1]. Hatred, persons of, who had
offended [2]. Jumping, impulse to jump, from a height [3]. Loquacity, night [2].
Music, amel. [3]. Weary of life, evening [3].
Vertigo
Rising, on, amel. [2].
Head
Air or wind [2/1]. Congestion, anxiety, with [2]. Pain, confusion, mental, with [2].
EYES: Infected, cornea [3]. Moonlight, amel. eye symptoms [2/1]. Pain, close, must
[2].
Vision
Dim, looking long; steadily amel. [2]. Exertion, physical amel. [2/1]. Hemiopia, lower
lost [2]; upper lost [3]. Moonlight amel. [2/1].
Ear
Caries, threatened [3]. Hearing Acute, music to, amel. [3].
Nose
Knobby tip [2/1]. Odors, offensive, blowing nose, on [2].
Face
Bloated, under the eyes [2].
Abdomen
Hernia, inguinal, children, in [3].
Bladder
Urging to urinate, ineffectual, menses during, agg. [2/1].
Respiration
Difficult, motion amel. [2]. Sobbing, in sleep [3].
Chest
Anxiety, heart region of, moving about amel. [2]. Fullness, heart, ascending stairs
[3]. Oppression, walking in open air, while [2]. Pain, heart, lying agg. [2], wandering
from joint to joint and then locates in [2/1].
Extremities
Bandaged, sensation as if, knee [3]. Blood, rush of to, lower limbs [3]. Coldness,
hands, night [2]; foot, soles, evening in bed [2]. Fullness [2]. Paralysis, sensation of,
lower limbs [3]. Pain, joints, morning [2]; motion amel. [3].
Generalities
Weakness, reading, from [2].

Food
Aversion: Meat [2].
Desire: Alcohol [2]; bread [2]; coffee [2]; delicacies [2]; milk [2]; rich food [2]; bread,
dry [1]; cold drinks [1]; meat [1].
Nucleus
1. Exaggerated sense of duty [Carc.]. Self-reproach, guilty feeling, anxiety of
conscience; delusion of failure and neglecting duty. Suicidal disposition [in silence].
2. Strong, sudden fits of anger and violence.
3. Florid, robust complexion. Congestions, flushes of heat; red face.
4. Oversensitive to external influences.
5. Cardiac and vascular complaints. General aggravation at night [after sunset].
Notes