Aurum Muriaticum.
Chloride of Gold. Na Cl, Au Cl3, 2H2O.
Clinical.─
Albuminuria. Amaurosis. Angina
pectoris. Anus, fistula of. Asthma. Bubo. Cancer. Caries. Chancre. Condylomata. Dropsy.
Eczema. Fistula. Gonorrhœa. Hæmorrhage. Hair falling out. Heart, affections of.
Indurations. Liver, affections of. Morvan’s disease. Ophthalmia. Ozæna. Periostitis.
Phthisis. Pudenda, over-sensitiveness of. Spinal sclerosis. Spleen, enlarged. Sterility.
Syphilis. Uterus, tumours of; hæmorrhage from. Vagina, heat, burning and itching of. Voice,
hoarse. Warts.
Characteristics.─
This salt has been proved. The
symptoms are in the main identical with those of the metal, but some are peculiar or more
pronounced in the one than in the other. The Muriatic element is seen in the heart symptoms;
violent palpitations, sore aching, heaviness and sensation of rigidity in heart, hyperæmia
from heart disease. Catarrhal and glandular affections are marked. Warts appear in various
parts: on the tongue, on the genitals. Digestion is slow. Diarrhœa after eating. Aur. mur. is a sycotic remedy causing suppressed discharges to
reappear. Halbert has given Aur. mur. 2x with much
success in cases of sclerotic and exudative degeneration of the nervous system. He narrates
a case of disseminated sclerosis, the result of a fall; one of exudative localised
meningitis; and one of Morvan’s disease greatly improved under its use. This patient, a man
cook, had hypertrophy of all the fingers. In some of them this had progressed till painless
whitlows appeared. Analgesia and anæsthesia were present, and some atrophy of the muscles
of the hand and arm. Brachial neuritis appeared to be the causative factor in the case.
Remarkable improvement occurred under Aur. mur. 2x. Aur. mur. is particularly valuable in hæmorrhages from the womb
at climacteric and after, which are frequently of sycotic origin. Violent chill and fever.
Hectic fever. Ascending stairs < Cold washing and
cold weather >. Warmth <;
throws off bed-covers. Suited to: Lymphatic, scrofulous
constitutions. Gold salts, like mercury salts, dissolve organic tissues; they stimulate the
heart more, but act on fluid tissues less powerfully than mercury.
Relations.─
Compare:
Aco., Am. c., Arg., Arg. n., Ars., Bell., Cannab., Fer., Glon., Hecl., Lyc., Merc., Nit.
ac., Pho., Plat., Sil., Sul. Sulphur springs are incompatible. Antidoted
by: Bell., Cannab., Merc.
Causation.─
Chagrin. Fright. Vexation.
SYMPTOMS.
2. Head.─
Constant burning in whole head, < l. side.─Head hot; limbs cold.─Pulling
pains in forehead; tingling itching in that part.
3. Eyes.─
Sudden blindness in childbed.─Neuralgic
pains in l. eye.─Scrofulous phlyctenular ophthalmia.─Chronic
inflammation of margins of lids.─Fistula lachrymalis.
4. Ears.─
Music relieves.─Burning
and itching behind ears < night.─Tinkling
sound in ears followed by deafness, as if interior of ears were large and empty.
5. Nose.─
Pressing pain in nose.─Ozæna
scrofulosa.─Tingling, burning, and itching in nose; redness and
inflammation, with itching, followed by desquamation; red swelling with ulcerated nostrils;
dry yellow crusts and sensation of stoppage; yellow pus, sometimes below.─Deep
crack in alæ nasi; lupus.
6. Face.─
Red face.─Hair
falling out of eyebrows and head.─Exostosis of (r.) cheek-bone.
7. Teeth.─
Teeth loose.─Dental
fistula.─Toothache with thrilling pains.
8. Mouth.─
Indurated tongue; warts; cancer;
ulcers.
9. Throat.─
Frequent desire to swallow; feeling of
a plug in throat; metallic taste; increased saliva.
11. Stomach.─
Burning, cutting, stitching in
stomach; cramps.─Slow digestion.
12. Abdomen.─
Liver indurated.─Spleen
enlarged.─Swelled abdomen; ascites.─Stiffness in
region of groins.─Swelling of inguinal glands.
13. Stool and Anus.─
Diarrhœa; < night; after eating; with pain in bowels.─Hæmorrhoids,
bleeding during stool.─Condylomata.─Anal and
inter-crural excoriation.─Fistula.
15. Male Sexual Organs.─
Diminished virility.─Increased
desire.─Exhausting erections.─Violent itching of
glans penis wakes him at night.─Drawing along spermatic cord.─Painful
drawing in l. testis extends towards inguinal ring, recurring by paroxysms.─Chancres.─Condylomata.─Excrescences
from glans up to sacrum.─Warts on prepuce.
16. Female Sexual Organs.─
Constant running from
vulva.─Burning stitching of vulva.─Heat and itching
in vagina.─Hæmorrhage at and subsequent to the climacteric.─Leucorrhœa,
light yellow, esp. mornings.─Leucorrhœa acrid, excoriating thighs, with
itching of genitals.─Gonorrhœal discharge with swellings in each groin.
17. Respiratory Organs.─
Hoarseness; speaking
difficult.─Dyspnœa; sensation in larynx as if closed; laryngeal
affections in syphilis and mercurio-syphilis.─Pressure under sternum.─Loud
cough with thick yellow expectoration.─Anxious contraction of chest.─Asthma
< at night.─Pleuritic pains l.
side of chest; changing place.
19. Heart.─
Lancinating pains above the heart.
22. Upper Limbs.─
Swelling of the wrists, with
tension on reversing the hand, and lancinations in grasping an object; tearing pains in
middle finger after meals.
23. Lower Limbs.─
Legs swollen and very tender
along inside of tibia.─Exostosis.─Periostitis; after
typhoid.
24. Generalities.─
Great restlessness; changes his
position every moment; his friends call him “the quicksilver man.”.─Laziness,
aversion to all work.─Indescribable weariness in whole body.─Drawing
pains in various parts, esp. the extremities.® 2000
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