Aurum Muriaticum

Auric chloride, Ascl3. Preparation, Solution in distilled water for the lower potencies. ,_ ..

Authorities. 1, Hahnemann, Ch. Kr., 1, 241; 2, Mch., ibid.; 3, Molin, d. 1. Sac. Med. Horn, de Paris, 1, 24; 4, Buchner, K Z. f. H. K., 4, 208 (proving with 2d cent, dil.) ; 5, Eberle, ibid, (proving with the 1st, 3d, and 6th dec. dil., and solution of the crude 1 to 16); 6, " A girl," ibid, (proving with 1st, 3d, and 6th dec. dil., and the crude solution and trituration); 7, "An officer," ibid, (proving with the 6th dec. dil.); 8, Christian from Wibmer (effects of ^th gr.) ; 9, Magendie’s, from Wibmer (effects of y^th gr.).

Mind

Excessive cheerfulness, carelessness

Great sadness

Sadness, frequent weeping

Sad mood, as though a great misfortune impended (several days)

Disgust for life; inclination to suicide

Unreasonable contrariety

Indisposition for mental work

Weakness of memory

Head

Confusion of the head

Frequent dizziness

Vertigo, and whirling before the eyes on every motion, with tearing pain over the eyes, aggravated by stooping, relieved in the open air ; lasts all day, and only goes off on going to bed at night

Frequent nodding of the head

Heaviness of the head

Headache, on rising, after a restless night

Pressure on the brain, along the sagittal suture

Throbbing headache, with heavy dreams

Burning in the forehead

Drawing headache in the forehead (after two hours)

Violent pain, like a toothache, in the left frontal eminence, extending towards the supraorbital foramen (the following day in the right side)

Beatings in the left side of the forehead

Tickling itching of the forehead (after one hour)

Drawing pain in the left temple, extending to the vertex

Tearing in the left temple, lasting several hours, and returning in bed

Violent tearing from the left temple towards the ear, with vertigo and tearing over the eye

Tearing pain in the left temporal region, extending to the right ; lasts all day, and only disappears in bed

Throbbing pain in the left temple after rising ; relieved by applying cold water; returning after midnight, and lasting four hours

Violent tearing in the right temple

Sensation of coolness on the top of the head

Burning and stitching in the back of the head

Eyes

Dryness of the eyes

Burning, pricking, and itching of the eyes

Severe pressure in the eyes in open air, and tearing in them, with complete blindness

Tearing pain in the left eye

Tearing pain, beginning above the left eye and extending toward the right ear, where it at last comes out ; the pain was so severe that she had to lie down in bed, when the pain immediately ceased

The eye symptoms appeared periodically for some time

If the eyes are covered with the hand the symptoms disappear

Redness and swelling of the eyelids

Morning-agglutination

Difficulty in keeping the eyes shut

Biting and itching in the right external canthus, obliges him to scratch

Burning, stitching, pricking, and smarting of the lids

Burning in the conjunctiva

Weakness of visual power

The letters disappear, at evening by candlelight, for some minutes ; instead of the letters, the paper was white as if not printed

Ears

Crusts behind the ears

Burning and itching behind the ear's especially at night

Sensation in the left ear, as if a plug were in it (lasted for several days during the proving)

Drawing pain in the right ear

Sticking pain in the left ear

Deafness in the ears (after six hours)

Deafness follows the ringing in the ears, as if the ears were wide internally and hollow, and so nothing could be heard distinctly

Nose p. 15

Redness and swelling of the nose

Red swelling in the right nostril and underneath, with a painless crust of ulcers internally, and a sense of obstruction, although air passes through

* Red swelling of the left side of the nose; the nasal cavity is ulcerated deep in, with dry, yellowish scurf, and sense of obstruction, although enough air passes through it

Redness and itching inflammation of the nose, with subsequent desquamation

Crusts in the nose, with constant inclination to pick at them with the fingers

* A bad-smelling, watery discharge from the nose, very irritating to the lip

Discharge of a yellow-greenish matter from the nose, without bad smell, for seven days (after ten days)

Much sneezing in succession, then tearing in the left nasal bone towards the eye, with much injection of the conjunctiva and profuse lachrymation, which suddenly appears, and is so violent that the tears spirt out

Thick, yellow coryza

Fluent coryza nights

Coryza, with much tickling in the throat

Fluent coryza, with rough throat and irritation to cough

Burning and itching of the nose

Burning and itching pain on the upper part of the nose externally

Crawling in the nose, as if something were running about iu it

Face p. 15

Red face

Lightning-like twitches in the right upper jaw

Mouth p. 15

Jerking toothache in the anterior and upper row of teeth

Jerking pain in the teeth, partly on one side, partly in the upper incisors

Redness and swelling of the gums, especially at night

Aphthse all over the mouth

Burning, itching, and smarting in the mouth

Flat taste, lasts all day, with great nausea, passing off at night in bed

Strong, metallic taste, with increased saliva, with frequent desire to swallow, and a feeling as if a plug were in the throat (after the undiluted solution)

Throat p. 15

Painful swelling of the submaxillary glands

Pain in the throat, and redness of the mucous membrane of the fauces

Scratching and pricking in the throat

Difficult deglutition

Stomach p. 15

Want of appetite

Loss of appetite

Thirst

Risings having a putrid taste

Inclination to vomit after eating

Nausea and inclination to vomit, mornings fasting, disappears after breakfast

Great nausea and vomiting of the water taken after the gold, with a trace of clear blood (from a grain of Aur. mur. in substance)

Vomiting (for a quarter of an hour), with violent retching and foul eructations, soon afterward cutting colic, and four watery stools

Violent gastritis

Slow digestion

Emptiness in the stomach

Distress at the stomach after eating

Burning, stitching, and gnawing and cutting pains in the stomach

Painful drawing in the pit of the stomach extends to the middle of the sternum ; as if a hard body were pressed into the cavity ; aggravated by stooping, eating, drinking; it appears only in paroxysms

Abdomen p. 15

Burning in the right hypochondrium

Constant disagreeable feeling in the right hypochondrium

Stitch in the left hypochondrium, as from running too fast

Redness, heat, itching, and smarting at the umbilicus

Distension of the abdomen

Swelling and inflation of the abdomen

Much flatus passes in the afternoon

Much flatulence, with colic and a fluid stool

Drawings in the entire abdomen

Drawing pain in the small intestines, returning the next day, relieved by fluid evacuations, eating, drinking, motion, but not by pressure with both hands on the abdomen

Dull colic

Violent constrictive colic obliges her to double up ; lasts three and a half hours, and only goes off in bed

The abdomen is tender to touch

Heat and pricking in the hypogastrium,8. .

Stool and Anus p. 16

* Haemorrhoids, with discharge of blood during stool

Diarrhoea very violent for several days

Diarrhoea, especially at night; gray-whitish stools

- Continued call to stool, with much rumbling in the bowels ; in spite of the desire, no satisfactory stool

Thin watery stools (immediately after taking it)

Thin frequent stools, with burning at the anus

Frequent thin stools, with tenesmus

Urinary Orfjans.-Beat and itching in the urethra

Burning on urinating; feeling as if the urine was too hot and acrid

Burning and smarting in the urethra while urinating

Feeling of heat in the urethra, with tenesmus vesicae; the urine felt too hot

Sticking pain through the whole length of the urethra on standing

Constant desire to urinate

Urine increased

Profuse urine for two and a half days

Scanty urine ; red thick urine, containing sand

The urine rapidly decomposes

Increase of urea and urates

Sexual Organs p. 16

(Male.)

Exhausting erections

Violent itching of the glans penis wakes at night

Drawing along the spermatic cords

Swelling and tension in the testicles

Painful drawing in the left testicle extends toward the inguinal ring, recurring by paroxysms

(Female.)

Redness and swelling of the labia

A few days before the menses, eruption of large red pimples on the labia majora

* Constant running from the vulva

* Burning and itching of the vulva3.

* Heat and itching in the vagina3.

Severe itching of the pudenda, transient

Menstruation too early, more profuse ; the blood was acrid, and made her sore ; before the menses she had leucorrhcea (formerly she had had it a short time only after menses)

Menses, seven days too early, lasted only two days (usually four days) ; blood bright (not so acrid as the last time)

* Leucorrhcea returned (it had ceased for some time) very profusely, and lasted four days; very acrid, making the thighs sore, with itching of the genitals

* Light-yellow leucorrhoea, especially in the morning3.

Respiratory Organs p. 16

Tickling in the air-passages, with dry cough, as from inspired dust

Difficult speech ; deep, hoarse voice

Frequent loud cough

Frequent cough, especially at night

Short dry cough in paroxysms, especially at night, followed by heat in the throat

Frequent hard cough, with white expectoration, mingled with threads of blood

Constant thick cough, with thick yellow expectoration

Difficult respiration

Short breathing and apparent obstruction of the larynx for a few days

On standing, heavy deep respiration, as if a stone lay on the chest

Sense of suffocation

Suffocative attacks at night

Chest p. 16

Great oppression of the chest, scarcely permitting breathing

Spasmodic drawing between the sixth and seventh ribs, with a sensation as though some one attempted to stretch out the heart

Burning pains in the left clavicle, transient

Drawing pains in both sides of the chest

The right side of the chest felt sprained on standing up ; touching the pectoral muscles was painful

Tearing in the right "chest from the middle of the sternum towards the right shoulder-joint ; increased by every inspiration (lasts a quarter of an hour)

Sticking tearing in the intercostal muscles of the right side, then of the left

Sticking in the right pectoral muscles; not increased by pressure, somewhat so by deep inspiration ; very much increased by motion of the upper part of the body

Sticking in the precordial region, extending toward the middle of the sternum, aggravated by every motion and deep inspiration (lasts four hours)

Heart and Pulse p. 17

Palpitation of the heart

Burning and pricking at the heart

Drawing and cutting pains at the heart

Wakened in the night by a sticking boring pain at the point of impulse of the apex of the heart, deep in, as if in the heart itself; it lasted some minutes ; the prover felt that he could not have longer endured it ; not changed by deep inspiration, but as soon as he pressed the hand tightly against the precordial region the pain disappeared ; immediately afterward a lancinating streaming pain extends from this place, and ends in the left hypochondrium ; only momentarily so severe that it interrupts respiration ; when he inspired more deeply, the pain disappeared

Oppression about the heart, compelling a deep breath, which relieves/.

A few stitches immediately over the heart

Neck and Back p. 17

Stiffness in the neck

Burning, pricking, cutting pains aud stiffness in the back

Bruised feeling in the small of the back, which makes stooping almost impossible

Painful fatigue in the loins

Pricking in the loins

Extremities in General p. 17

Unusual prostration of the limbs

Bruised feeling of the limbs

Upper Extremities p. 17

Stiffness in the arms

Burning and lancinations in the arms and forearms

Sensation as if the left arm were sprained

Involuntary shocks in the arms

Painful feeling in the shoulders and arms

Paralytic feeling in the left shoulder, after rising (lasts half an hour)

Drawing pain in the right shoulder-joint

Drawing and boring in the middle of the right upper arm, recurring three days in succession

Tearing in the left shoulder, lasts two hours ; the shoulder still, after two days, sensitive to touch

Drawing in the elbows, as if a tendon were violently drawn ; frequently returning for a moment, day and night

Tearing in the right arm from the elbow-joint to the tip of the little finger, so violent that it hinders work

Difficulty in clenching the hands

Burning and itching in the hands

Violent drawing in the balls of the right hand

Stiffness of the finger-joints

Tearing pain in the middle finger, after dinner

Swelling in the wrist, without pain, if left alone ; tensive only on bending the hand backwards ; stitches in the wrist upon seizing anything

Lower Extremities p. 17

Drawing tearing pain in the muscles of both hips, lasts some time

Lancinating paroxysmal pain beginning in the front and middle of both thighs, and extending toward the patellae, so severe that he must start up

Stiffness of the thighs and legs

Swelling of the knees

Heat, pricking, and lancinations in the knees

Spasmodic tearing in the leg, beginning below the popliteal space, and extending to the middle of the calf; lasts four hours severely, and then gradually disappears

Bruised sensation in the lower third of the right leg; it becomes so painful on continuing to walk that he has to limp home ; with the feeling as if it always more and more tended to the great toe, and would go off the end of it

Swelling of the feet

Burning in the feet

Redness of the toes

Tearing on the inside of the right great toe and right knee

Cutting pain in the toes when walking

Generalities p. 17

Laziness; aversion to all work

Weariness

Weariness during the whole proving, so great that often she could hardly go about, and had to rest frequently through the day

Great fatigue

Unending feeling of prostration in the limbs, indescribable weary-

Skin p. 17

2 ness in the whole body ; can scarcely rise from his seat

General erethisms

The excited condition lasted several years

Drawing tearing pains in various parts of the body, especially in the extremities

Skin p. 18

Pimples on the lips, with smarting and itching

Eruption of small red pimples above the pubis

Petechiae-hke exanthema on both legs, with a small pimple in the centre (disappears in five days)

Boils on the buttocks and thighs,3. .

Sleep and Dreams p. 18

Frequent yawning soon after taking a dose ; it disappears after eating, but returns and lasts two hours

Much yawning after eating

Sleepiness in daytime, even while at work

Sleepiness ; deep sleep

Sleep very restless, with frightful dreams the whole night

Waking with a start/.

Sleeplessness obstinate

Nocturnal sleeplessness

Troublesome dreams

Heavy dreams of impending unhappiness

Fever p. 18

Chilliness, with gooseflesh

Violent fever

Sweat increased

Conditions p. 18

Aggravation.

(Morning), On rising, after a restless night, headache; fasting, nausea, etc.; leucorrhcea.

(Night), Burning, etc., behind ears; redness, etc., of gums; diarrhoea; itching of glans penis; frequent cough ; short dry cough ; suffocative attacks; pain at apex of heart.

(In open air), Pressure in eyes,, etc.

(In bed), Tearing in left temple returns.

(After dinner), Pain in middle finger.

(Drinking), Drawing in pit of stomach.

(After eating), Inclination to vomit; distress at stomach; drawing in pit of stomach ; much yawning.

(Every inspiration), Tearing in right chest.

(Deep inspiration), Sticking in right pectoral muscles; sticking in precordial region.

(Motion), Vertigo, etc.; sticking in precordial region.

(Motion of upper part of body), Sticking in right pectoral muscles.

(Periodic), The eye-symptoms.

(After rising), Paralytic feeling in left shoulder.

( Upon seizing anything), Stitches in wrist.

( On standing), Pain through the urethra ; heavy, deep respiration ; right side of chest felt sprained.

(Stooping), Drawing in pit of stomach.

( Walking), Bruised sensation in right leg; cutting pain in toes.

Amelioration p. 18

(Night), In bed, flat taste, etc., passes off.

(In bed), Pain in temporal region disappears; colic goes off.

(After breakfast), Nausea, etc., disappears.

-(When covering eyes tooth hand), Eye-symptoms disappear.

(After eating), Yawning ceases.

(Deep inspiration), Pain at apex of heart disappears ; oppression at heart.

( On lying down in bed), Pain from above eye towards ear ceases.

(Pressing hand tightly against precordial region), Pain at apex of heart disappears.