Aurum metallicum is a remedy for people experiencing profound melancholy and a constant desire for suicide. They are ambitious, responsible, and honest but are also highly sensitive, introverted, and easily hurt. They strive for high achievement but experience depression when they fail due to their high expectations. This suppressed depression can manifest as rage, violence, and suicidal tendencies.

1. GUIDED BY: SUBMITED By
Deepti Gautam
DEPARTMENT OF
MATERIA MEDICA
SESSION 2013-14

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3. AURUM METALLICUM
Aurum mettalicum derives its names from gold
‘shining dawn 'the glorious color of light as
sunrises. The early morning of light s often
associated with freshness and purity and so as
the gold .

4. The gold is a noble metal which remains pure in its
natural state unchanging ,uncorrupted and also
has been signified as symbol for its purity &
royalty

5. •The aurum type persons are Honest , Correct ,
Well Educated , Disciplined and Highly
Ambitious ; at the same time Sensitive ,
Refined , Easily Hurt , Sensitive to any
Criticism . They are Introverted , don’t share
Emotions , Serious with a touch of Sadness .
Emotional weakness , Mentally Strong , Out-
bursts of temper .
Aurum Metallicum – Remedy Picture

6. The aurum type typically represents as a successful
ambitious responsible honest industrious people, who
wants to lead rise and shine, they rise into situation
where people become dependent on them and they feel
to maintain there power .

7. they strive for high achievement ,they are very hard
working they have very high expectations on themselves
and when they fail in their goals they see themselves as
failures which leads them to depression this suppressed
depression occurs outwardly as rage and violence and
lastly this can lead to suicidal tendency.

8. Aurum patient is that he is neat in appearance ,
Conservatively dressed in an old fashion ,
Sometimes with a religious mark on his forehead .
He is very punctual in his appointments ,
maintains the Case form or prescription very neatly
, he brings all his medical reports filed in sequence ,
date wise , and he has taken the medicines
scrupulously , not missing out even a single dose .
He has been checking up on his health very
regularly . He describes his ailments correctly - date
wise and talks confidently , not too much ( Sulph )
, and not too little ( Ars ) .

9. •He has a Strong sense of right or wrong - “
Anxiety , Conscience of ” , and the wrong doing of
others provoke his anger
•He is very punctual , If we delay him in our
waiting room , he may quarrels and reproaches and
asks or advises us to maintain the Time .

10. Spheres of action :-
Aurum
metallicum
mind
nerves
bones
Cardio
vascular
system
Genito
urinary
organ
glands

11. pathogenesis
Its action on the and brain manifest a strong
tendency to profound melancholy and
inclination to constantly dwelling on suicide . It
affects bones and glands tending to destruction
of tissues while its action on hearts results in
degeneration of the tissues and their reflex
symptoms. It degenerates even blood and causes
hemorrhage.

12. Constitution
Make up of the body : Aurum met. Is suited to
sanguine Person ,ruddy people, with black hair
and eyes, they are very cheerful like pulsatilla,
fair complexion reddish people, they live for love
and affection, old people who are tired of life
due to misdeeds having no desire to live and low
spirited ,lifeless pinning boys. Constitution
broken-down by bad effects of mercury and
syphilis.

13. Temperament: melancholic an irritable
temperament
Relation with heat and cold: very chilly
patient
Miasm: syphilis is background.
Diathesis: scrofulous.

14. Guiding symptoms
 Suited to old people, who are tired of life, in whom
syphilis is implanted on a scrofulous constitution.
 Profound melancholy and constantly dwelling upon
suicide.
 Hurried and worried; uneasy and restless.
 Aggravation from sunset to sunrise.
 Oversensitive to pain, smell, taste, hearing , touch.
 Desire to be alone and aversion to company,
melancholic, desire coffee and alcohol and aversion for
meat.

16. Aurum Met
Mind

17. Mind
 The main idea essential to Aurum is DEPRESSION and
LOATHING OF LIFE.
 Ultimately, this person does not want to live. This idea will be
found in practically every Aurum case, whether the patient
admits it openly or not.
 Aurum patients are closed people. They are not easily able to
confess their innermost feelings.
 In the end, they may freely use the word "depression" but they
may be incapable of describing their state more specifically.

18. .
They are the people who feel themselves quite
separate from the world, lives alone, do not have
any close friends to whom they can tell their
feelings when they are troubled.


19. Usually, these people are very proper and correct
in their dealings
They are people who are just, honest, fair, and
responsible.

20. •They would never willingly inflict an injustice
on others. They tend to be quite intelligent, hard
working and successful.
•They often attain high positions in society.
•Yet, even, these people display a despondency –
a dissatisfaction with life in general, especially
regarding social and inter-personal
relationships.

21. .
 Aurum patients are characteristically sensitive to any
criticism. They are serious minded and they take to
heart whatever comments are made about them. And
due to this, they come to a point where derive no
pleasure at all from social or emotional contact.
 They become joyless nothing excites them.

22. •Aurum patients usually feel they have given a lot to others but
not in emotional sense. they often quite wealthy and given there
wealth to other others but in return they have been hurt and due
to this they build up negative feelings ,they never tell there
feelings to others , and try to suppress them and when this
suppression fails ,it comes out as irritable and rage.
•They will become cruel and unfeeling to others ,they never curse
an one but they will say very violent to others.

23. .
To suppress these violent things they start doing more
mental activity and this why they are very hard
working ,industrial people
 Aurum patients values money (gold) a lot that is why
they are very industrious .

24. •Some time aurum patients may thinks that they are
completely failed in life ,does not worth those duties
responsibility ,wealth .and hence they may jump out of
from the high window.

25. •When the work strategy fails in them the feeling which was
coming outwards as rage becomes inwards .at this stage they
become completely depressed and dark ,suicidal impulse comes
in there mind they think “one jump and there will be relief”
•In Aurum met there is one interesting behavior they always
pray and weep a lot.

26. .
one more interesting is comprehend between
emotional level and cardiac disease. The aurum
patients finds a solution to his problems by other
means by divorce or new love etc. and there may
be appearance of heart problems.
He has fear of heart disease but he will never
show this to anyone.

27. Headache
Violent pain in head; worse at night, outward
pressure. Roaring in head. Vertigo. Tearing pain
through brain to forehead. Pain in bones
extending to face. Congestion to head. Boils on
scalp.

28. CAUSATION:
Headache from least mental exertion,
fear fright ,anger or contradiction .Headache from
constipation.
CHARACTER:
Intense congestive headache with
heat. Tearing pain to the brain to forehead, boring
and tearing in skull bones

29. MODALITIES: Headache worse from every
mental exertion and better in open air.
CONCOMITTANT: Falling of hair especially in
syphilitic and mercurial affection.

30. Eyes
Extreme photophobia. Great soreness all about
the eyes and into eyeballs. Double vision; upper
half of objects invisible. Feel tense. Sees fiery
objects. Violent pains in bones around eye
(Asaf). Interstitial keratitis. Vascular cornea.
Sticking pains inward.

31. Ears
Caries of ossicula and of mastoid.
Obstinate fetid otorrhœa after
scarlatina. External meatus bathed in
pus. Chronic nerve deafness;

32. Nose
Ulcerated, painful, swollen, obstructed.
Inflammation of nose; caries; fetid
discharge, purulent, bloody. Boring pains
in nose; worse at night. Putrid smell from
nose. Sensitive smell ,Horrible odor from
nose and mouth. Knobby tip of nose.

33. Mouth
 Foul breath in girls at puberty. Taste putrid or bitter.
Ulceration of gums.
FACE
• Tearing in zygoma. Mastoid and other
facial bones inflamed.

34. Stomach
Appetite and thirst increased, with
qualmishness. Swelling of epigastrium. Burning
at stomach and hot eructation's.

35. THROAT
• Stitches when swallowing; pain in glands.
Caries of the palate.

36. Abdomen
Right hypochondrium hot and painful.
Incarcerated flatus. Swelling and suppuration
of inguinal glands.
URINE:
Turbid, like buttermilk, with thick sediment.
Painful retention.

37. Rectum
 Constipation, stools hard and knotty. Nocturnal diarrhea,
with burning in rectum.
MALE:
Pain and swelling of testicles. Chronic indurations of
testicles. Violent erections. Atrophy of testicles in boys.
FEMALE:
Great sensitiveness of vagina. Uterus enlarged and
prolapsed. Sterility; vaginismus.

38. Heart
 CAUSATION: Heart diseases are caused by syphilitic and
mercurial affection with scrofulous base.
 SENSATION :as if the heart stopped beating for two or three
seconds, immediately followed by a sudden hard thumb,
 with sinking at the epigastrium. Palpitation.
 Pulse rapid, feeble, irregular.
 Hypertrophy.
 High Blood Pressure-Val vular lesions of arteriole-sclerotic
nature

39. Bones
 CAUSATION: Syphilitic and mercurial affection.
Destruction of bones, like secondary syphilis. Pain in
bones of head, lumps under scalp, exostosis with
nightly pains in bones. Caries of nasal, palatine and
mastoid bones. Soreness of affected bones, better in
open air, worse at night.
RESPIRATARY:
Dyspnœa at night. Frequent, deep breathing;
stitches in sternum

40. Extremities
All the blood seems to rush from head to
lower limbs. Dropsy of lower limbs.
Orgasm, as if blood were boiling in all
veins. Paralytic, tearing pains in joints.
Knees weak.

41. Sleep
 Sleepless. Sobs aloud in sleep. Frightful dreams.

42. GENERAL MODALITIES:
AGGRAVATION : From sunset to sunrise,
and cold air , when getting cold, while lying
down ,mental exertion, Many complaints
come on only during winter.

43. SUMMARY

44. Relationship
COMPARE: Aurum arsenicum
Aurum bromatum (in headaches with
neurasthenia, migraine, night terrors,
valvular diseases).
ANTIDOTTED TO : Mercurias
ANTIDOTED BY: coffea , kali iod.