Aurum metallicum
as H.C. Allen recorded it in Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 1899
Gold
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Keynotes
Aurum metallicum
Gold The Element.
Sanguine, ruddy people, with black hair and eyes ; lively, restless, anxious about the future.
Old people ; weak vision ; corpulent ; tired of life.
For constitutions broken down by bad effects of mercury and syphilis.
Pining boys; low-spirited, lifeless, weak memories, lacking in ‘‘boyish go;” testes undeveloped, mere pendent shreds.
Constantly dwelling on suicide (Naj a — but is afraid to die, Nux).
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 (Arg. n.).
Ailments from grief, disappointed love, with longing for death and suicide.
Ailments from fright, anger, contradictions, mortification, vexation, dread, or reserved displeasure ( Staph. ) .
Oversensitive : least contradiction excites wrath (Con.) ; to pain; to smell, taste, hearing, touch (Anac.).
Headache of people with dark olive-brown complexion ; sad, gloomy, taciturn ; disposed to constipation ; from least mental exertion.
Falling of the hair, especially in syphilis and mercurial affections.
Hemiopia; sees only the lower half (sees only the left half, Lith. c., Lyc. ).
Syphilitic and mercurial affections of the bones.
Caries : of the nasal palatine and mastoid bones ; ozoena, otorrhoea, excessively fetid discharge, pains worse at night; drive to despair; of mercurial or syphilitic origin (Asaf.).
Prolapsed and indurated uterus ; from over-reaching or straining (Pod., Rhus) ; from hypertrophy (Con.).
Menstrual and uterine affections, with great melancholy; < 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 one hard thump (Sep.).
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 (Bell., Glon.).
Fatty degeneration of heart (Phos.).
Relations. — Aurum follows, and is followed well by Syphilinum.
Similar: to, Asaf., Cal., Plat., Sep., Tar., Ther., in bone, uterine disease.
Aggravation. — In cold air; when getting cold; while lying down ; mental exertion ; many complaints come on only in winter.
Amelioration. — In warm air, when growing warm, in the morning, and during summer.
What the other books say about Aurum metallicum
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Aurum metallicum in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Aurum metallicum in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
- Aurum metallicum in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
- Aurum metallicum in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Cite this page. H.C. Allen. Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica. 3rd edition (1910). Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. Aurum metallicum — Keynotes, pp. 52–54. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/aurum-metallicum. Published 1910: public domain in the US (before 1931) and in India (author died 1909). Replaces B. Jain's 2005 "rearranged and classified" edition (© the publisher), per the owner's decision of 13 Sep 2026. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.