Aurum metallicum is a valuable and important homoeopathic medicine prepared from metallic gold, known for its strong action on the mind, bones, glands, cardiovascular system, and sexual organs. It is especially suited for cases involving deep mental depression, bone caries, glandular swellings, high blood pressure, and syphilitic or mercurial affections. The medicine is characterized by feelings of self-condemnation, nightly bone pains, fetid discharges, and a general disgust for life, often accompanied by a strong desire to commit suicide. It is also notable for its effects on the skull, nasal bones, genital system, and heart, making it a multifaceted medicine for both mental and physical degenerative conditions.
Common Name: Metallic Gold, SBL's Aurum metallicum can be helpful in the following conditions:
- Suicidal Depression with Self-Condemnation. Indicated in profound despondency, self-condemnation, and thoughts or talk of suicide. Helps in fear of death, disgust for life, mental derangements, and oversensitivity to noise and contradiction. Useful in anthropophobia, restless talking, and inability to act quickly or concentrate.
- Musculoskeletal Soreness. Aurum metallicum manages destruction and soreness of bones, particularly nasal, cranial, and palatine bones. Indicated in exostosis, night bone pains, and better in open air, worse at night. Helps in paralytic tearing pain, knee weakness, dropsy of lower limbs, and vascular orgasms.
- Foul Breath and Painful Gland. Useful in foul breath during puberty, putrid or bitter taste, and ulceration of gums. Helps in painful glands, stitching in throat while swallowing, and caries of the palate.
- High Blood Pressure and Cardiac Disturbances. Beneficial in sensation as if the heart stopped, followed by a tumultuous rebound and sinking at the epigastrium. Supports in palpitation, rapid and irregular pulse, hypertrophy, and high blood pressure. Indicated in valvular lesions, arterio-sclerosis, and ascites linked to heart complaints.
- Sexual Hyperæsthesia and Genital Disorders. Helps in pain and swelling of testicles, chronic induration, atrophy in boys, and hydrocele. Indicated in violent erections, sexual hyperæsthesia, and mental depression following excitement. In women, supports uterine enlargement, prolapse, sterility, and vaginismus.
- Head Pressure, Roaring, and Facial Bone Pain. Aurum metallicum is indicated in violent head pain, worse at night, with outward pressure and roaring in the head. Sensation of tearing through the brain to the forehead, and pain extending to the facial bones. Supports in boils on the scalp, exostosis, and nightly bone pains, especially in cranial, nasal, and palatine bones. Visual and Eye Complaints with Intense Pain. Assists in extreme photophobia, pain around the eyes, and soreness of the eyeballs. Useful in double vision, fiery visual illusions, and vascular cornea. Indicated in interstitial keratitis, pains from without inward, and trachoma with pannus.
- Putrid Secretions and Ulceration. Helps in caries of ossicles and mastoid bones, with fetid otorrhœa after scarlatina. Indicated in ulcerated, painful, and swollen nose with putrid, purulent, and bloody discharge. Supports in boring pains in the nose, putrid smell, and knobby tip of the nose.
- Digestive Irritation and Abdominal Swellings. Indicated in increased appetite and thirst, with qualmishness and burning in the stomach. Supports in hot eructations, painful swelling of the epigastrium, and incarcerated flatus. Helps in inguinal gland swellings, right hypochondrium pain, and suppuration.
- Constipation, Diarrhœa, and Urinary Sediment. Assists in turbid urine resembling buttermilk, with thick sediment and painful retention. Manages hard, knotty constipation, nocturnal diarrhœa, and burning sensation in rectum.
- Dyspnea and Painful Chest. Useful in dyspnœa at night, frequent deep breathing, and stitching pain behind the sternum.
- Sleep Disturbances and Frightful Dreams. Supports in sleeplessness, sobbing aloud during sleep, and frightful, disturbing dreams.
- General Weakness and Chronic States. Aurum metallicum helps in malaise, mental dullness, lifelessness, and weak memory. Indicated in secondary syphilis, effects of mercury, scrofulous constitution, and sclerosis of the liver, arteries, and brain. Especially suited for pining boys, and those with low spirits and degenerative disorders.
