AURUM METALLICUM
Source indications
Allen's Keynotes
- sanguine, ruddy people, with black hair and eyes
- lively, restless, anxious about the future
- old people; weak vision; corpulent; tired of life
- constitutions broken down by bad effects of mercury and syphillis
- pining boys; low-spirited, lifeless, weak memories, lacking in boyish go; testes undeveloped, mere pendent shreds
- constantly dwelling on suicide
- profound melancholy: feels hateful and quarrelsome; desire to commit suicide; life is a constant burden; after abuse of mercury; with nearly all complaints
- uneasy, hurried, great desire for mental and physical activity; cannot do things fast enough
- ailments from fright, anger, contradictions, mortification, vexation, dread, or reserved displeasure
- oversensitive: least contradiction excites wrath; to pain; to smell, taste, hearing, touch
- headache of people with dark olive-brown complexion; sad, gloomy, taciturn; disposed to constipation; from least mental exertion
- falling of the hair, especially in syphillis and mercurial affections
- hemiopia; sees only the lower half
- syphilitic and mercurial affections of the bones
- caries: of the nasal palatine and mastoid bones; ozaena, otorrhoea, excessively fetid discharge, pains worse at night; drive to despair; of mercurial or syphilitic origin
- prolapsed and indurated uterus; from over-reaching or straining; from hypertrophy
- menstrual and uterine affections, with great melancholy; worse at menstrual period
- foul breath; in girls at puberty
- sensation as if the heart stood still; as though it ceased to beat and then suddenly gave on hard thump
- violent palpitation; anxiety, with congestion of blood to head and chest after exertion; pulse small, feeble, rapid, irregular; visible, beating of carotid and temporal arteries
- fatty degeneration of heart
- worse in cold air; when getting cold; while lying down; mental exertion; many complaints come on only in winter
- better in warm air, when growing warm, in the morning and during summer