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RED ONLY – Aurum Metallicum. – THE GUIDING SYMPTOMS OF OUR MATERIA MEDICA By CONSTANTINE HERING, M.D.

Main * Aur.

[1] Mind.
[2]
Sensorium.
[3] Inner head.
[4]
Outer head.
[5]
Sight and eyes.
[6]
Hearing and ears.
[7]
Smell and nose.
[8]
Upper face.
[9] Lower face.
[10]
Teeth and gums.
[11] Taste, speech, tongue.
[12]
Inner mouth.
[13]
Palate and throat.
[14] Appetite, thirst. Desires..
[15] Eating and drinking.
[16] Hiccough, belching, nausea..

[17] Scrobiculum and stomach.
[18] Hypochondria.
[19]
Abdomen and loins.
[20] Stools and rectum.
[21] Urinary organs.
[22]
Male sexual organs.
[23]
Female sexual organs.
[24] Pregnancy. Parturition..
[25] Voice and larynx. Trachea..
[26] Respiration.
[27] Cough.
[28]
Inner chest and lungs.
[29]
Heart, pulse and circulation.
[30] Outer chest.
[31] Neck and back.
[32] Upper limbs.

[33] Lower limbs.
[34] Limbs in general.
[35]
Rest. Position. Motion.
[36]
Nerves.
[37]
Sleep.
[38]
Time.
[39] Temperature and weather.
[40] Fever.
[41] Attacks, periodicity.
[42] Locality and direction.
[43] Sensations.
[44]
Tissues.
[45] Touch. Injuries..
[46] Skin.
[47]
Stage of life, constitution.
[48] Relations.

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MIND. [1] [Aur.]

Looks on dark side, weeps, prays, thinks she is not fit for this world, longs for death, strong inclination to commit suicide ; desperate, desires to jump from a height. θ Prolapsus or induration of uterus. θ Pregnancy.
Melancholy, feels hateful and quarrelsome ; anxious palpitation and desire to commit suicide.
Terrible melancholy after abuse of mercury ; patient pining away on account of bodily and mental anxiety.
Hopelessness.
Weary of life ; especially in evening, with longing for death.
Mental labor fatigues ; headache from least mental exertion.
Ailments from grief, disappointed love.
   

SENSORIUM. [2] [Aur.]

Vertigo. θ Syphilis.
   

OUTER HEAD. [4] [Aur.]

Falling out of hair, especially in syphilis.
   

SIGHT AND EYES. [5] [Aur.]

Cornea opaque ; leukoma ; gray or yellow spots, always marked by a surrounding network of enlarged bloodvessels ; after keratitis, syphilitic or scrofulous cases.
Scrofulous ophthalmia, with great photophobia.
   

HEARING AND EARS. [6] [Aur.]

Oversensitive to noises ; but music relieves.
Caries of mastoid process ; obstinate otorrhœa ; burning, pricking, itching ; boring pain behind left ear.
Fetid otorrhœa ; especially with caries of ossicula. θ After scarlatina.
   

SMELL AND NOSE. [7] [Aur.]

Nasal catarrh, with melancholy, or even suicidal mood.
Ulcerated, agglutinated, painful nostrils, cannot breathe through nose.
Crusts in nose. θ Ozæna.
Nose feels obstructed, as in dry coryza, yet air passes through freely.
Ozæna, excessively fetid discharge ; severe frontal headache. θ Scrofula. θ Mercurio-syphilis.
Caries of nasal bones ; right nasal bone and adjoining parts of upper jaw painful to touch.
Nose red, swollen. θ Scrofula. θ Abuse of mercury.
   

UPPER FACE. [8] [Aur.]

Inflammation of bones of face ; caries, with tearing, boring and burning stitches.
   

TEETH AND GUMS. [10] [Aur.]

Toothache at night. θ Heart disease.
Violent tearing toothache, affects the heart.
   

INNER MOUTH. [12] [Aur.]

Foul breath. θ Girls at puberty.
   

PALATE AND THROAT. [13] [Aur.]

Syphilitic ulcers in palate and throat.
   

ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] [Aur.]

Inguinal hernia ; also with children.
   

MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] [Aur.]

Secondary syphilis ; also infantile ; especially after abuse of mercury (and probably of potash).
   

FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] [Aur.]

Sterility after depression of spirits.
Amenorrhœa with great melancholy ; her mind constantly inclines to suicide. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Uterus prolapsed and indurated ; bruised pain, with shooting or drawing ; heaviness in abdomen ; after lifting a heavy load ; worse at menstrual period.
Prolapsus : with backache, < during menses ; with heat of vagina ; from reaching high ; from straining ; with induration of uterus and bruised, shooting or drawing pains.
   

INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] [Aur.]

Great weight on chest, especially a heavy weight on sternum. θ Angina pectoris.
   

HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] [Aur.]

Violent palpitation, anxiety and congestion of blood to head and chest. θ After uterine hemorrhage.
Violent beating of heart after exertion.
Fatty degeneration of heart.
Pulse small, but accelerated ; small, feeble, rapid ; irregular.
Pulse quick, full, corresponding to beat of heart, and omitting before single strong beat. θ Heart disease.
   

REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] [Aur.]

Inclined to be active.
   

NERVES. [36] [Aur.]

Hypochondriasis and hysteria.
   

SLEEP. [37] [Aur.]

Sleeplessness. θ Headache.
Awakened by bone pains, suffering so great he despairs, does not want to live.
   

TIME. [38] [Aur.]

Night : boring, aching in left eye < ; toothache ; diarrhœa ; difficult breathing ; cough from want of breath ; feeling of lump in throat ; constantly awake ; cold hands and feet ; bone pains ; colic and passing wind.
   

TISSUES. [44] [Aur.]

Exostoses of skull and other bones.
Boring in bones ; caries especially after mercury ; pains drive to despair.
   

STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] [Aur.]

Constitutions broken down by combined influence of syphilis and mercury.
Often indicated with old people ; weak vision ; corpulency, etc.
Syphilitic and mercurial patients.

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