AURUM.
Aurum foliatum, metallic gold. Preparation,
Triturate pure gold with sugar of milk.
Authorities.
1, Hahnemann
(Chr. Kr., 1, 214); 2, Franz, ibid.; 3, Gross, ibid.; 4, Fr.
Hahnemann, ibid.; 5, Hempel, ibid.; 6, Hermann, ibid.; 7,
Langhammer, ibid.; 8, Lehmann, ibid.; 9, Michler, ibid.; 10,
Rummel, ibid.; 11, Wislicenus, ibid.; 12, Schulze, ibid. (reference not obtainable); 13, Eph. Nat. Cur. Cent. X, ibid. (no observation about Aur.
found here); 14, Eph. N. C., Dec. II, ibid. (a casual
mention); 15, Molin, proving, Bull. d. l. Soc. Méd.
Hom. de Paris, 1, 19; 16, Lembke, N. Z. f. H. K., 11, 17
(took the 100th); 17, Robinson, B. J., 25, 32 (took the
12th and 200th).
MIND.
► Religious
excitement, [15]. ►
In a reverie he says something absurd, [1]. ► The child woke after three o’clock, early
in the morning, and spoke rapidly in a strong voice, and with red face, thus: “Mother,
thou art my jewel of a daughter! What sort of a dog is that? What sort of a head is that at
the wall? What is running about there in the room?” and many other such foolish
questions, [1]. ►
Desire for solitude, [15]. ►
(Loathing of life), [1]. ►► *Disgust for life, suicidal tendency, [15]. ► Good humor the
whole day, with talkativeness and self-satisfaction (reaction), [7]. ► Tolerable degree of
cheerfulness, agreeable ease (after two hours), [3]. ► Frequent weeping, [15].
[10.] ► *She howls and
screams, and imagines herself irretrievably lost, [1].
►► *Despondent, [1]. ►► *Melancholy; he imagines he is unfit for this world, and longs for death, which he
contemplates with internal delight, [2]. ►► *Despondent melancholy, he
imagines he cannot succeed in anything, [11].
► *Dejected, and full of melancholy, [1]. ► *He is dejected, and
seeks solitude, [1]. ► *He imagines he has lost the affections of his friends; this makes
him sad, even unto tears, [2]. ► Discouraged, and out of humor with himself, [1]. ► The least trifle makes him
discouraged, [1]. ►
He feels discouraged and despondent; he imagines he does everything wrong, and cannot
succeed in anything, [5]. [20.]
► He is dissatisfied with everything; he imagines
obstacles everywhere in his way, partly occasioned by adverse fate, partly by himself; this
latter makes him morbidly depressed, [5]. ► *Great anguish coming from the præcordial region, and driving him
from place to place, so that he can remain nowhere, [2]. ► Excessive anguish, with
palpitation of the heart, weariness in all the limbs, and sleepiness, [1]. ►► Great anguish,
increasing unto self-destruction, with spasmodic contraction of the abdomen, [1]. ► Uneasiness, and
hurried desire for bodily and mental activity; he cannot do anything fast enough, and cannot
live so as to be satisfied with himself, [5]. ► He feels uneasy and uncertain, without orgasm, he constantly
imagines he neglects something, and deserves reproaches in consequence; he appears to carry
this uneasiness about him in his mind, and it deprives him of all energy and perseverance, [5]. ► While eating, the
anxiety of mind leaves him, [2]. ►
Timidity, [1]. ►
*Apprehensiveness; a mere noise at the door made him anxious; he feared lest some one would
come in; anthropophobia, [1]. ► Constant sullen mood and taciturnity, [7]. [30.] ►
Unsociable mood, [1]. ►
Weariness; causeless vexation, [15]. ► Some persons are offensive to him, [1]. ► Peevishness, and want of
disposition to speak, [6]. ►►
*Peevish and vehement; the least contradiction excites his wrath, [3]. ► Impatience; anger, [15]. ► Choleric and
quarrelsome, [1]. ►
Violent anger and vehemence, [1]. ► Extreme disposition to feel offended; he was deeply affected
and provoked by the least thing that seemed to grieve him, [5].
► He becomes angry while thinking of some absent persons,
[1]. [40.] ► He quarrels with every one, and says coarse things, [1]. ► She alternately
weeps and laughs, as if not conscious of herself, [1].
► Silent peevishness and cheerfulness, often alternate
(after one and three hours), [6]. ► If left alone, he sits still, taciturn, apparently
melancholy, in a corner by himself; but the slightest contradiction excites his wrath, which
he first manifests by disputing and talking a good deal, afterwards by uttering a few
detached words (after three days), [6]. ► The intellectual faculties are more acute, and the memory
more faithful (reaction), [1]. ►
She is anxious to reflect deeply about this or that subject; this, however, makes her quite
weak, tremulous, cold, and damp over the body, [1]. ► Memory impaired, [15].
HEAD.
► Confusion of the
head, [6]. ►
Confusion of the head, early on rising, with heaviness in the occiput, [11]. ► When standing, vertigo,
forcing him to sit down, [6]. [50.]
► Great vertigo, when stooping, [15]. ► *Vertigo, when stooping, as if
turning in a circle; it goes off on raising the head, [7]. ► *When walking in the open air,
vertigo, as if he were drunk, and would fall to the left side he was forced to lie down, but
even the for some time the vertigo returned on the slightest motion (after
forty-three hours), [7]. ►
His head shakes sideways and up and down, [1]. ► Headache as from an incipient cold, [1]. ► Pains in the head, caused
by intellectual exertions, [15]. ►
Headache, sometimes as from a contusion, sometimes like a painful pressure in one part of
the brain, sometimes like a tearing; it has increased ever since morning, and disappears at
3 P.M. (after twenty-four hours), [1]. ► Burning heat of the whole head, worse at the occiput, [15]. ► *Rush of blood to the
head, [1]. ►
Great determination of blood to the brain (after three-quarters of an hour), [1]. [60.] ►
Violent rush of blood to the head when stooping; it passes off after raising the head again
(after eight days), [6]. ►
A kind of hypochondriacal intoxication; the head feels full of compressed air,
especially towards the nape of the neck, [1]. ► Boring in different parts of cranial bones, [16]. ► *The bones of the head pained
him on lying down, as if broken, so that all his vital energy seemed affected, [1]. ► Stunning, pressive
headache, as from violent wind, [7]. ► Pressive tearing in he head here and there, especially in the
forehead, with feeling of vertigo, [6]. ► Headache, ever since morning, as from a bruised brain; when
reflecting or reading, especially when talking or writing, the headache increases to the
utmost violence, and a perfect confusion of ideas; when ceasing to reflect, speak, or write
the headache ceases, until it disappears entirely at 7 in the evening (after six hours), [1]. ► Small, bony tumor
on the upper part of the left side of the forehead, [1].
► Burning in skin of forehead, [16]. ► Pressive pain on the
forehead externally (after ten hours), [6]. [70.] ► Boring in left side of
frontal bone, [16]. ►
Boring in left side of forehead, [16]. ► Pressure in left side of forehead (after an hour and a half),
[6]. ► Fine tearing
in the forehead, [6]. ►
Very frequent tearing in forehead, [16]. ► Tearing headache in front, in the forehead and temples,
deep in the brain, abating in the open air, [3]. ► Tearing in the left side of the forehead, more violent during
motion, [6]. ► A
stitch on the frontal bone like a slow drawing (after six hours), [2]. ► Stitch in the centre of the
forehead, where the hair begins, [1]. ► Prickings, as from pins, in the forehead externally (after
twenty-four hours), [6]. [80.]
► Tingling sensation in the forepart of the head, [1]. ► Small, bony tumor on
the right side of the vertex, with boring pain that grows worse when the tumor is touched,
[1]. ► Burning in
skin of right temple, [16]. ►
Pressive pain in the temples, [1]. ► Pressive pain on the left temple externally (after thirty-two
hours), [6]. ►
Pressure on the left temple, worse by touch (after a quarter of an hour), [6]. ► Tearings in the left
temple, [2]. ► Severe
and constant burning heat on the top of the head, [15]. ► Tearing pressure
in the left side of the vertex, more violent during motion, [6].
► Tearing in the right side of the vertex (after three
hours), [6]. [90.]
► Tearing in the left side of the vertex (after one and a
half hours), [6]. ►
Cutting-tearing pain in the right side of the vertex (after seventeen days), [6]. ► Drawing in right side of
head, [16]. ►
Pressive tearing in the right side of the head, from the occiput to the forehead (after
three hours), [6]. ►
One-sided, sharply throbbing, hacking headache, [1]. ► Grinding, boring, and slight throbbing in one side of the
head, early in the morning shortly after waking, increased by coughing, and bending the head
backwards, [1]. ►
Megrim returning every three or four days, with stitching, burning,
and beating in one side of the forehead, qualmishness, nausea and even bilious vomiting, [15]. ► Tearing pressure
in the right occiput, [6]. ►
*Fine tearing from the right side of the occiput through the brain as far as the forehead;
more violent during motion (after one hour), [6].
EYES.
► Prominent,
protruding eyes, [1]. [100.]
► Sensation of weakness and pressure in the eyes, [1]. ► A kind of burning
in the eyes, [1]. ►
*Tension in the eyes, which makes seeing difficult (after one hour), [6]. ► Excessive tension
in the eyes, with diminution of sight; more violent when fixing the eyes upon something;
less when closing them (after nine days), [6]. ► Pressure in the eyes, as from a foreign body, [1]. ► Pressure upon the
left eye from without inwards (after eight days), [6].
► Sensation in his eyes when looking, as of violent heat,
as if the blood pressed upon the optic nerve, [1]. ► Constant feeling of sand in the eyes, [15]. ► Burning, stitching, drawing,
and itching in the inner canthus of the eyes, [15].
► Drawing above the right eye, [16]. [110.] ► Excessive spasmodic pressure in the posterior segment of the
left orbit, [3]. ►
Fine tearing in the right orbit, close to the external canthus (after five hours), [6]. ► Dull stitch in the
lower part of the left orbit, from within outwards, [1].
► Redness of the lids at the approach of the menses, [15]. ► Bluish appearance
of the inner canthi, [1]. ►
Swelling of the lower lids, [4]. ► *Morning agglutination, [15].
► Burning, stitching, and itching of the eyelids, [15]. ► Biting pain in
the left upper eyelid, [1]. ►
Several single stitches in the internal canthus and lid of the left eye (after thirty-six
hours), [6]. [120.]
► Itching and burning in the right canthus, [1]. ► *Constant lachrymation,
[15]. ► *Redness of the
sclerotica, [15]. ►
Sensation of pressing out in the internal and superior angle of the left eyeball, [2]. ► Pressive pain in
the right eyeball, from without inwards; more violent during motion (after six hours), [6]. ► Dilatation of the
pupils (after three hours and a half), [7]. ► Contraction of the pupils (after two and four hours), [7]. ► Indistinct sight,
as if a black veil were drawn before the eyes (after six days), [6]. ► Half-sightedness, as
if the upper half of the vision were covered with a dark body,
so that he can only see lower objects with the inferior half;
upper objects remain invisible, [6]. ► His sight is lost for a moment, [1]. [130.] ►
Fiery sparks before the eyes, [1]. ► *He cannot distinguish anything clearly, because he sees everything double, and
one object is seen mixed with the other, with violent tension in the eyes, [6].
EARS.
► Moisture behind the
ears, [15]. ►
Burning, pricking, and itching behind the ears, [15]. ► Boring behind the left ear, [16].
► Burning and stitching in the ears, [15]. Tension in the ears, [1].
► Pressive tearing in the left meatus auditorius
externus, [6]. ►
Hardness of hearing, [15]. ►
Sense of deafness (12th), [17]. [140.] ► Crackling in the left
ear, [1]. ► Humming
before the left ear, [1]. ►
Humming, whistling, and ringing in the ears, [15]. ► Raging and roaring in the head, as if sitting close to
roaring water (after fourteen days), [1]. ► Roaring in the ears, early in the morning, in bed, [1].
NOSE.
► *Redness and swelling
of the nose, [15]. ►►
*Ulcerated, agglutinated, painful nostrils, so that he
cannot breathe through the nose, [1]. ► *Swelling and redness of the right nostril, and underneath,
[4]. ► Swelling of the
nose, in the room, after walking in the open air, [1].
► Dark, brownish-red, slightly elevated spots upon the
nose, which ache only when touched (after twenty-four hours), [6].
[150.] ► *Crusts in the
nose, [15]. ►
Crusts, as from ulcers, in the right nostril, yellowish, almost painless, and
dry, [4]. ►
Frequent sneezing, [15]. ►
Coryza, [4]. ►
Violent fluent coryza, [1]. ►
Coryza, with thick discharge like white of egg, [15]. ► *The nostril appears obstructed, although air passes through it,
[4]. ► *Sense of
obstruction of the nose, as in dry coryza; nevertheless, the air passes freely through the
nose (after two and a half hours), [7]. ► Burning and itching on the exterior of the nose, [15]. ► Violent burning
in right wing of nose, [16]. [160.]
► *Burning, itching, stitching, and smarting in the nose,
[15]. ► Boring in
cartilage of nose, [16]. ►
*Boring in left side of nasal bone, toward upper maxilla, [16]. ► *Feeling of soreness in the
nose, [4]. ►►
*Soreness in both nostrils, especially when touching
them, [1]. ►►
*The right nasal bone and the as adjoining part of the upper jaw are painful to the touch,
especially at the place where the infraorbital nerve comes out, [1]. ► Shootings in the septum of
the nose, from above downwards, [11]. ► Biting pain in the lower part of the nose, [4]. ► Biting pain in the lower
part of the nose, so that the tears came into his eyes, as when desiring to sneeze, excited
by strong sunlight, or exalted, pious grief, or the highest degree of pity, [2]. ► Itching of the nostrils, [1]. [170.] ► Itching titillation in the wings of the nose, as in a cold,
sometimes with desire to scratch, [7]. ► *Sensitive smell; everything smells too strong for him, [1]. ► The smoke of the
lamp is offensive, [1]. ►
Frequently, a sweetish smell in his nose, [1]. ► Momentary smell of brandy in the nose, with dyspnœa, [1]. ► *Putrid smell in the
nose when blowing it, [1].
FACE.
► (When speaking, he
smiles involuntarily), [1]. ►
Redness of the face, [15]. ►
Flushes face, [15]. ►
Red and blue spots on the face, [15]. [180.] ► Bloated face, shining
as from sweat, with prominent protruding eyes, [1]. ► *Drawing tearing on the left side of the face, [11]. ► Itching pricking,
as from pins, on the right side of the face, [1]. ► Swelling of both cheeks, with swelling of the lips and nose,
early in the morning, [1]. ►
Swelling of one cheek, with drawing and tearing in the upper and lower jaws, and
sensation of hacking, and grumbling pain in the teeth, which appear too long, [1]. ► Tension in the malar bone
and ears, [1]. ►
Violent tearing in the zygoma, [3]. ► Painful stitches in one cheek (after first day), [1]. ► *Burning stitches in
the zygoma, [1]. ►
*Violent boring in right zygomatic process, when walking, [16]. [190.] ► Burning vesicle upon the vermilion border of the lower lip, [1]. ► Burning in lips, [16]. ► Pain in a gland
of the lower jaw, as if swollen, [1]. ► Boring in left side of upper jaw, [16]. ► Boring in right side of
lower jaw, [16]. ►
Tearing pressure at the right lower jaw, going off by pressing upon it, [6]. ► Tearing in the right half
of the chin, [3]. ►
Intermittent, dull stitches in the external border of the lower jaw, [3].
MOUTH.
► Looseness of the
teeth, even the anterior, in sudden paroxysms, [1]. ► Sensation of dulness of the molar teeth (after half an hour),
[1]. [200.] ► The upper front teeth are very painful when chewing, [1]. ► *Toothache caused by
drawing air into the mouth, [1]. ► Hacking and grumbling pain in the teeth, with swelling of the
cheeks, [1]. ► Dull
tearing in the two posterior; molar teeth of the right upper jaw, excited by touch and
eating, with painful swelling of the gums, [6]. ► When chewing, suddenly a painful dulness in one of the upper; molar
teeth, [1]. ►
Single stitches in the teeth, [1]. ► Shooting pain in the upper row, [4]. ► Redness and swelling of the
gums, [15]. ►
Swelling of the gums of the molar teeth of the right upper jaw, with pressive soreness when
touched, or when eating, [6]. ►
Painful pustules on the gums, as if a fistula dentalis would form, [1]. [210.] ►
Ulcer on the gums, with swelling of the cheeks (after ten days), [1]. ► The gums bleed easily, [15]. ► Violent burning
in tip of tongue, [16]. ►
Stitching and burning in the tip and on the edge of tongue, and on its under surface, [16]. ► Aphthæ in the
mouth, [15]. ►
Mouth blistered inside (200th), [17]. ► Smell from the mouth as of old cheese, [1]. ► *Putrid smell from the mouth,
[1]. ► Fetid odor from
the mouth, in the evening and at night, unperceived by himself, [1]. ► Difficulty in eating, [15]. [220.] ► Heat and smarting in the mouth, [15]. ► A kind of pressure in the
region of the palate, for several hours, [1]. ► Agreeably sweetish saliva accumulates in the mouth, [2]. ► The taste is
insipid, [1]. ►
Agreeable, milky taste in the mouth, [1]. ► Sweet taste on the anterior part of the tongue, [1]. ► Sometimes, sourish
taste in the mouth (after two and a half hours), [1]. ► *Bitter taste in the mouth, with sensation of dryness
(after eight hours), [7]. ►
*Putrid taste in the mouth, as of spoiled game, between meals, [1].® 2000
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