Aurum Iodatum

Pharmacy

Aur-i. Aurum iodatum. Gold iodide. Historical dose: Trituration and all potencies.

Clinical

Arteriosclerosis. Larynx spasm. Leucorrhea. Lupus. Myomata uterus. Osteitis. Ovarian cysts. Ozaena. Palpitations. Pericarditis. Senile paresis. Syphilis. Thyroid, enlarged. Valvular diseases.

Homeopathic

Aur-i. is another unproved gold salt brought forward by Hale and used by him with success in cases of chrome pericarditis, valvular diseases, arteriosclerosis, ozaena, lupus, osteitis, ovarian cysts, and myomata uterus. Senile paresis.

Obstruction of nose, thick, yellow, purulent, offensive discharge. Nostrils ulcerated. Strong desire for and feels better in open air. Constriction of chest. Tumultuous palpitations. Thyroid enlarged, right side, pulse rapid, eyes protrude. Ravenous appetite. Extreme thirst. Constipation. Aching in testes. Induration of uterus and ovaries. Leucorrhea with thick, yellow discharge.

Mind

Excited. Restlessness. Sensitive to noise. Aversion to company.

References

Clarke. Hale.

Ascites often in conjunction with heart disorders. Ozaena. Sexual hypersensitivity. Arteriosclerosis. High blood pressure. Nightly paroxysms of pain behind sternum. Sclerosis of liver, arterial system, brain.

Shelton has recorded effects on girls working with gold leaf, including the occurrence of a "thick leucorrheal discharge, not offensive, white or yellowish, occasionally profuse invariably worse by walking."

Mind

Mental states of great depression. No remedy produces more acute mental depression than Aurum met. There is a condition of melancholy, hopelessness, and profound depression. Acute depression. Future looks dark. Hopelessness with heart disease. Want of self-confidence and thinks others have none which makes her unhappy.

Complaints after grief, fright, anger, disappointed love, contradiction, reserved displeasure. Ailments from unusual responsibilities. Duty-bound. Workaholic, industrious, always busy and working, never finished. Grief and depression. Financial loss. Hopelessness. Aggravation from strong emotions. Forsaken feeling. Sadness when alone. Homesickness.

Despondent and great desire to commit suicide. Profound despondency, with increased blood pressure. Loss of love of life. Disgust of life and thoughts of suicide. Despair from pain, wants to jump out of window. Talks of committing suicide. Every opportunity is sought for self-destruction. Tendency to suicide and longing for death.

Mental derangements. Weak memory. Melancholy, imagines he is unfit for this world, never can succeed. She does everything wrong. Thinks had neglected something, her friends, her duty. Pining boys, low spirited, lifeless, weak memory. Self-reproach, self-criticism. Feeling of self-condemnation and utter worthlessness.

Peevish and vehement at least contradiction. Hatefully and quarrelsome. Dictatorial. Grumbling. Boredom. Indisposed to talk. Vexed mood. Enraged by least contradiction. Oversensitive to contradiction, resulting in explosive fits of anger and violence. Anger at absent persons. Hatred of persons who had offended. Trembling when he can't satisfy his anger.

Changing moods. Brooding melancholy, alternating with irritability and moroseness. Excitement and confusion. Hysteria, laughs and cries alternately. Weeping when meeting people. Weeping because he imagines he has lost the affection of his friends.

Anthrophobia. Great fear of death. Fears the least noise. Fear of persons intruding. Frightened easily on falling asleep.

Oversensitive to pain, to smell, taste, hearing, and touch. Hypersensitive to noise, causes excitement, confusion. Excitement about absent persons during pain. Loquacity. Constant rapid questioning without waiting for reply. Rapid questioning without waiting for a reply. Speaks continually in questions. Cannot do things fast enough.

Delirium with exaltation of strength. Religious mania, imagines herself irretrievably lost. Violent hysteria, with desperate actions, thrashes oneself about. Weeping, praying, and self-reproaching. Delusion has neglected his duty and deserves reproach. Imagines to see obstacles in his way everywhere. Wrings the hands.

Abdomen

Ascites with heart disorders. Colic, with sensation of great uneasiness and inclination to evacuate. Incarcerated flatus. Abdomen inflated. Grumbling and rumbling. Right hypochondrium hot and painful. Swelling and suppuration of inguinal glands. Inguinal hernia of children. Tendency of hernia to protrude. Swelling and suppuration of the inguinal glands. Frequent gas, very fetid wind.

Back

Stinging pains in small of back. As if lower spine bulged backwards. Lumbar muscles painfully stiff, thigh cannot be raised. Swollen cervical glands like knotted cord. Tension in neck as if muscles too short, even at rest, worse stooping. Pains, drawing and acute, in the back and sometimes so violent as to prevent any motion of the limbs.

Bones

Destruction of bones like secondary syphilis. Pain in bones of head, lumps under scalp, exostosis with nightly pain in bones. Decay of nasal, palatine, and mastoid bones. Soreness of affected bones, better in open air, worse at night.

Causations

Illeffects of grief, fright, anger, disappointed love, contradiction, reserved displeasure. Prolonged anxiety, unusual responsibility. Loss of property.

Chest

Aching in left side of the chest.

Crushing weight under sternum, worse ascending. Stitches in the sternum. Constrictive oppression of the chest. Pain, as if there were a plug placed under the ribs. Much congestion in the chest. Oppression of chest with face ache. Inflammatory swelling of axillary glands.

Constitutions

Suited to sanguine people with black hair and dark eyes, olive-brown complexion. Syphilitic and mercurial patients. When syphilis is implanted on the scrofulous constitution.

Constitutions

It is adapted to nervous, hysterical women, girls at puberty. Also light-haired scrofulous persons. Pining boys and old age. Old people with heart disease. Persons who are low-spirited, lifeless, weak memory, yet sensitive to pain, which drives them to despair.

Cough

Cough from want of breath at night. Cough with tough yellow sputum on awaking in the morning. Dry, nervous spasmodic cough, peculiar to women from sunset to sunrise. Cough from want of breath, at night.

Ears

Congestion to ears. Burning, prickling, itching. Decay of the mastoid process. Obstinate fetid otorrhea after scarlatina. Flow of fetid pus from the ears. External meatus bathed in pus. Labyrinthine disease due to syphilis. Meniere's disease. Nerve deafness with embarrassed speech. Oversensitive to noise, but better music. Hardness of hearing with embarrassed speech. Humming, buzzing, and rushing in the ears. Roaring in the ears.

Eyes

Orbits feel sore. Feels tense. Violent pains in bones around eye (Asaf.). Intestinal keratitis. Vascular cornea. Pains from without inward. Sticking pains inward.

Trachoma with pannus. Glaucoma. Extreme photophobia. Constant lachrymation. Styes. Eyes better moonlight and after active muscular exercise.

Face

Anxious expression. Inflammation of the bones of the face. Congested, bluish-red. Face puffed, and shining as if from sweat. Tearing in zygoma. Mastoid and other facial bones inflamed. Red eruption, which peels off, on the forehead and on the nose. Painful swelling of the submaxillary glands. Parotids swollen, painful to touch. Swelling of the cheeks.

Female

Amenorrhea with great sadness.

Delayed menarche. Menses too late, and scanty or absent. Before menses, swelling of axillary glands. Uterine troubles worse reaching high with arms. Uterus enlarged and prolapsed. Induration and ulceration of the womb from repeated miscarriages. Uterine disorders with depression. Prolapsus uterus with heaviness in abdomen. Prolapsus uterus, with backache, worse during menses. Vaginismus. Great sensitivity of vagina. Burning-smarting of vulva. Labia majora red, swollen. Leucorrhea profuse and corroding. Leucorrhea yellow, thick white, not offensive. Leucorrhea, worse walking. Infertility, also of those women who are mentally depressed on account of their barrenness. Depression during pregnancy. Despair from labor pains. Labor pains make her desperate. Suppressed breast milk.

Food

Loathing of food. Bulimia. Loss of appetite in pining boys. Appetite and thirst increased with qualmishness. Excessive hunger and thirst. Aversion to meat. Craves nothing but sour things. Desire for milk and coffee. Desire for alcohol, wine. Desire for bread, delicacies such as pastries. Water tastes foul. Worse after drinking. Worse after wine.

Head

Rush of blood to head. Violent pain in head, worse during the night, outward pressure, causing confusion. Roaring in head. Vertigo. Tearing through brain to forehead. Pain in bones extending to face. Congestion to head. Head hot, full. Headache of students with precordial anxiety and flushes of heat to the head. As if air passed over the brain. Exostosis with boring pain. Lumps under scalp. Baldness from syphilis. Boils on scalp.

Heart

Angina pectoris. Oppression at the heart. High blood pressure. Carotids and temporal arteries throb visibly. Valvular lesions of arteriosclerosis. Heart feels loose on walking. Palpitations compel him to stop. Violent palpitation, at puberty. Sensation as if heart stopped beating for two or three seconds, immediately followed by tumultuous rebound with sinking at the epigastrium. Palpitations with rush of blood to chest. Heart bruised, sore, worse suppressed foot sweat. Aortic disease. Fatty degeneration of heart. Hypertrophy. Endocarditis. Carotids and temporal arteries throb visibly. Pulse rapid, feeble, irregular. Pulse small but accelerated.

Kidneys

Nephritis with cardiac and hepatic diseases. Painful retention of urine with urgent inclination to urinate. Pressure on the bladder. Constant urging. Urine turbid, like buttermilk. Urine scanty, greenish-brown. Urine with thick mucus-like sediment. Frequent emission of watery urine. Hematuria. Urine increased, pale.

Limbs

Holds the left arm during attack of palpitations. Nightly leg pains. 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. Pains in both the knees as if tightly bandaged. Paralytic feeling in legs. Nails turn blue. Trembling feet. Hot bruised soles, at night. Cold foul foot sweat.

Liver

Liver region hot and painful. Hepatitis. Liver with heart symptoms. Jaundice of pregnancy.

Lungs

Asthma, from congestion to chest. Cardiac asthma with weak pulse, mental depression, and great debility. Asthma worse in open air. Suffocative attacks, with spasmodic constriction of chest. Dyspnea worse laughing, at night. Always takes a deep breath and cannot get enough air. Frequent deep breathing, stitches in sternum. Accumulation of mucus in the trachea, which is expectorated with difficulty. Tough yellow mucus on awaking in the morning.

Male

Pain and swelling of testicles. Chronic induration of testicles. Atrophy of testicles in boys. Undeveloped testes. Itching of scrotum. Hydrocele of children.

Orchitis. Chronic induration of testicles. Epididymitis. Sarcocele. Flow of prostatic fluid, with flaccidity of the penis. Bubo. Chancre. Condylomata around corona glandis. Violent erections. Sexual desire greatly increased. Nocturnal erections and pollutions. Ulcers on scrotum.

Modalities

Better from cool, open air.

Better cold bathing. Better becoming warm. Better music. Better walking. Better moonlight. Worse from emotions, depressing affections. Worse mental exertion. Worse in cold weather. Worse when getting cold. Worse cloudy weather, winter. Worse at night. Worse sunset to sunrise. Worse mercury, alcohol, iodide.

Mouth

Aphthae on mouth. Copious saliva. Saliva sweetish. Fetid smell of the mouth, like rotten cheese. Foul breath in girls at puberty. Taste putrid or bitter. Metallic taste. Milky or sweetish taste, foul even to water. Ulceration of gums. Ulcers on palate. Inside of mouth blistered. Gums swollen, dark red, bleeding.

Nose

Nose red and swollen. Inflammation of nose. Decay with fetid discharge, purulent, bloody. Red, knobby tip of nose. Ozaena. Snubbed. Ulcerated, painful, swollen, obstructed. Boring pains in nose, worse at night. Horrible odor from nose and mouth. Putrid smell from nose. Fetid discharge, purulent, bloody. Complaints from strong odors. Sensitive smell (Carb-ac.).

Perspiration

Cold sweat and damp all over. Sweat about genitals. Copious general perspiration. Early morning sweats, mostly about genitals. Profuse sweat in endocarditis.

Rectum

Fetid flatus. Constipation, stool very large in size, or very hard and knotty. Constipation better during menses. Copious stool. Offensive stool during pregnancy. Stools offensive, painful, greyish, ashy. Diarrhea alternating with constipation. Nightly diarrhea with burning in the rectum. Hemorrhoids with rectal catarrh. Hemorrhoids bleed during stool. Prolapse of rectum during menses. Warts around the anus.

Skin

Acne. Large red pimples. Lipoma.

Violent itching. Indurations under the skin, like wheals. Pustules in the face and on the neck and chest. Formication here and there, over the body. Transient but intense itching of the abdomen, hips, knees, arms, and wrists. Fine papular eruption on face. Deep ulcers. Warts.

Sleep

Weary, but cannot rest or sleep.

Sleeplessness after midnight. Chronic insomnia with depression. Nocturnal mumbling in the form of questions. Sobs aloud in sleep. Moaning and crying out in sleep. Sobs aloud in sleep. Disturbed by sexual excitement. Drowsiness after meals. Awakened by bone pains with despair. Unrefreshing sleep.

Sleep

Fatigue and malaise in the morning on waking. Vivid, frightful dreams. Frightful dreams. Restless sleep, with anxious dreams. Dreams of thieves. Dreams of dead, death, and corpses. Dreams towards morning.

Stomach

Swelling of epigastrium. Burning at stomach and hot belchings. Burning, drawing, and cutting pain, pressure. Pain in the stomach, as if from hunger. Uneasiness in the epigastrium. Slinging pain when touching stomach. Nausea from mental labor. Sour eructations.

Teeth

Decay of teeth. Toothache, with heat and congestion in the head. Looseness of the teeth. Sensation as if too long. Ulcers in the gums, with swelling of the cheeks. Toothache worse at night, worse drawing cold air into mouth. Gums swollen, dark red, bleeding.

Temperature

Painfully sensitive to cold.

Shivering in bed. Febrile chills over the whole body, while in bed in the evening. Coldness of the entire body, with bluish color of the nails. Nauseous taste, with inclination to vomit. Heat of the face, with cold in the hands and feet.

Throat

Voice nasal. Stitches when swallowing, pain in glands. Decay of the palate. Drinks come through nose. Stinging in throat when swallowing. Tonsils swollen and ulcerated. Red and swollen tonsils

Tongue 

Aphthae on tongue, Tongue swollen with scirrhus-like hardness. Flabby taste with clean tongue. Tongue trembling and dry. Tongue leathery, hard. Tongue dry and coated. Tongue coated at back. Ulcers on tongue. Wans on tongue.

Vertigo

Stupefaction during vertigo. Vertigo when stooping. Vertigo as if turning in a circle, better on rising. Vertigo as if drunk when walking in open air, feels as if he would fall to left. Must lie down.

Vision

Double vision. Hemiopia, upper half of objects invisible. Hemiopia from straining eyes. Yellow crescent bodies floating obliquely upward. Sees fiery objects. Sees fog or mole before eyes. Everything looks blue. Black spots, names, sparks before the eyes. Irregular pupils. Optical illusions in bright colors.

Comments

Boring pains and burning stitches predominate. The head is giddy, full, hot. Rush of blood to the head. Vertigo as if turning in a circle when stooping goes away on rising. As if drunk when walking in the open air. Sensation as if a current of air were rushing through the head if not kept warm. Bones of skull painful, especially lying down.

Vertical half

Sight. Fiery sparks. Decay of mastoid process of bones of nose. Ozaena. In the abdominal region there is swelling of liver, jaundice (Mere.). Hernia inguinal or umbilical and in children. Onanism.

The sexual organs are markedly affected. Induration of testes. Undeveloped testicles in puny boys. Swelling or neuralgia of testicle. Uterus prolapsed and indurated, the weight of it causes prolapses. The chloride of gold and sodium acts more powerfully in these conditions.

Suffocative attacks with oppression of chest. Anxious palpitations from congestion to the chest. Palpitation with anguish and tremulous fearfulness. Pain in heart region extending down left arm to fingers. Boring pains in bones, worse at night.

Hysterical spasms with laughing and crying alternately. Hyper-sensitive to all pains. Great ebullitions with congestion to the head and chest and palpitation of the heart.

Frightful dreams, sobs aloud when asleep. Chilliness predominates, shivering in open air, coldness of hands and feet, sometimes lasting all night. Heat, only in the face.

Perspiration in the morning hours, mostly on and around the genitals. Paralytic drawing in the limbs in the morning when awaking and on getting cold.

Severe heart disease, arteriosclerosis, cerebral arteriosclerosis, high blood pressure, with depression. Sensation of the heart not beating or getting heart pains or that it is beating too fast. Fear of heart disease.

Also for arthritis or for the ill effects of gold shots. Tennis elbow. Sinus infections, breaking down in nasal septum. Late stage syphilis. Chronic, severe, unrelenting insomnia that no medication can help. Hair falls out.

Suicidal depression or severe depression with no hope of recovery. Giving Aurum is giving a ray of hope back, that the actual remedy is like potentized light, because in their life there's no light or hope.

May have history of attempted suicide from financial loss, from the loss of money and property, loss of love. Manic depression. Suicidal tendencies from pain. Kent describes losing the will to live as the deepest illness one can have.

Religious mania with deep guilt (Nat-m.). Depression after death of a loved one. Over-investment, possessiveness followed by loss. Over-responsible, strong sense of duty and loyalty.

Keynote insomnia drives a person crazy, particularly in the elderly. Geriatric remedy for people who feel they've lost their purpose or value in life, but act stoic. "Hippocratic countenance," as if their face was chiseled out of stone. Flat tone to voice, can have lack of emotion but with a happy façade.

Pathologically independent and can have difficulty expressing themselves. Resigned to depression. Introverted. Kent gave the etiologies as prolonged anxiety, grief, and unusual responsibilities that were heaped on someone and they failed. Financial loss, abuse of mercury as a medicine, or a history of suppressed syphilis.

Craves sunshine, finds dull, cloudy days unbearable. Depressed, dejected, tired of life, discontented.

Depression worse at night. Deep self-condemnation, guilt complex, easily frightened, feels worthless. Restless, hurried, fidgety. Quarrelsome, may have wild outbursts of rage followed by remorse, worse contradiction. Sensitive to pain and cold. Chilly, likes to be wrapped up but may still like fresh air.

Worse from sunset to sunrise. May have a history of syphilis, especially if there is bone pain. Worse grief or emotional stress.

Relations

• Antidoted by: Bell., Chin., Cocc., Coff., Cupr., Mere., Puls., Spig., Soln.
• Antidote with: Mere., Spig., Chronic effects of alcohol, Kali-i.
• Compare: (1) Aur-ars.
• (2) Aur-mur-kali - in uterine induration and hemorrhage.
• (3) Aur-sulph.
• (4) Also, Asaf. - in decay of bones of ears and nose.
• (5) Syphilis, Kali-i., Hep., Merc., Mez., Nit-ac., Phos., Syph.
• (6) Bell., Caps. - Caries of mastoid, corpulency.
• (7) Calc. - night terrors, leuco-phlegmatic.
• (8) Dig., Ferr., Glon. - hyperemia of lung from heart.
• (9) Kali-br. - anguish at heart and desire to move about.
• (10) Lach., Lye., Mere., Nit-ac.
• (11) Nux-v. - hernia, prolapsed uterus.
• (12) Tarent. - Heart as if turned around.

References

Boericke, Clarke, Murphy.