Aurum metallicum

as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931

Gold

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Keynotes

Vaso-motor mobility; erratic ebullitions and venous congestion, more to head and chest. Vascularity. Weak, yet sensitive to pain. Pains wander, impel motion, finally attack heart (Benz-ac. Colch.); boring, cutting osteocopic. Indurations; glandular. Sclerosis; coronary. Necrosis. Chronicity. Mercurio-syphilitic dyscrasia. Extremely violent symptoms. Heart feels loose on walking. As of air blowing on part. .................... Intense, hopeless depression and suicidal anguish. Brooding melancholy; alternating with irritability or moroseness. Praying and self-reproaches; starting from heart. Weak memory. Vexed mood; enraged by least contradiction. Loquacity. Rapid questioning. Fears the least noise. Violent confusing headache; syphilitic. Hemiopia upper horizontal. Sore orbits. Congested, bluish-red face. Pains in zygomæ. Red knobby nose. Ozœna. Foul breath. Bulimy. Soreness over liver. Hepatitis. Ascites. Jaundice, of pregnancy. Liver, with heart symptoms. Chronic orchitis. Crushing weight under sternum < ascending. Dyspnœa; < laughing. Oppression at heart; as if to stop, then gives one hard thump. Violent palpitation; at puberty. Cardiac hypertrophy. Angina pectoris. Aortic disease. As if lower spine bulged backward. Pott's disease. Nightly leg pains. Painfully sensitive to cold. Sweat about genitals. Cold and damp all over.

Worse

Emotions: Depressing. Disordered affections. Mental exertion. Cold. Night: Sunset to sunrise. Abuse of Merc. or Kali-iod. Cloudy weather.

Better

Cool; open air. Cold bathing. Becoming warm. Music. Walking.

Region

MIND. Nerves. VASCULAR SYSTEM. Heart (R). Bones: NASAL. Skull. Patellæ. Joints. Glands. Liver. Kidneys.

Relationships

Related: Merc. BADIAGA Cough; excited by sweets, candy, etc. (Med. Spo. Zin.). EXPECTORATION; flies from mouth (Kali-c.).

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 Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
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.

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Cite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Aurum metallicum — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/aurum-metallicum. Author died 1935: public domain in India. The catalogue records 1931; a 1931 edition is public domain in the US from 1 Jan 2027 at the latest — the edition this transcription follows is not stated in the file. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.