Aurum Muriaticum

This salt has been proved. The symptoms are in the main identical with those

of the metal, but some are peculiar or more pronounced in the one than in the other. The Muriatic

element is seen in the heart symptoms; violent palpitations, sore aching, heaviness and sensation

of rigidity in heart, hypereemia from heart disease. Catarrhal and glandular affections are marked.

Warts appear in various parts: on the tongue, on the genitals. Digestion is slow. Diarrhoea after

• ▸eating.
• ▸Aur.
• ▸mur.
• ▸is a sycotic remedy causing suppressed discharges to reappear.
• ▸Halbert has

given Aur. mur. 2x with much success in cases of sclerotic and exudative degeneration of the

nervous system. He narrates a case of disseminated sclerosis, the result of a fall; one of exudative

localised meningitis; and one of Morvan's disease greatly improved under its use. This patient, a

man cook, had hypertrophy of all the fingers. In some of them this had progressed till painless

whitlows appeared. Analgesia and anesthesia were present, and some atrophy of the muscles of

the hand and arm. Brachial neuritis appeared to be the causative factor in the case. Remarkable

• ▸improvement occurred under Aur.
• ▸mur.
• ▸2x.
• ▸Aur.
• ▸mur.
• ▸is particularly valuable in hemorrhages

from the womb at climacteric and after, which are frequently of sycotic origin. Violent chill and

• ▸fever.
• ▸Hectic fever.
• ▸Ascending stairs < Cold washing and cold weather >.
• ▸Warmth <; throws off

bed-covers. Suited to: Lymphatic, scrofulous constitutions. Gold salts, like mercury salts,

dissolve organic tissues; they stimulate the heart more, but act on fluid tissues less powerfully

than mercury.

Great restlessness; changes his position every moment; his friends call him

• ▸"the quicksilver man.
• ▸".
• ▸—Laziness, aversion to all work.
• ▸—Indescribable weariness in whole

body.—Drawing pains in various parts, esp. the extremities.

• ▸Constant burning in whole head, < |.
• ▸side.
• ▸—Head hot; limbs cold.
• ▸—Pulling pains in

forehead; tingling itching in that part.

Sudden blindness in childbed.—Neuralgic pains in 1. eye-—Scrofulous phlyctenular

ophthalmia.—Chronic inflammation of margins of lids.—Fistula lachrymalis.

Music relieves.—Burning and itching behind ears < night.—Tinkling sound in ears

followed by deafness, as if interior of ears were large and empty.

Pressing pain in nose.—Ozzena scrofulosa—Tingling, burning, and itching in nose;

redness and inflammation, with itching, followed by desquamation; red swelling with ulcerated

nostrils; dry yellow crusts and sensation of stoppage; yellow pus, sometimes below.—Deep crack

in alz nasi; lupus.

Frequent desire to swallow; feeling of a plug in throat; metallic taste; increased

saliva.

• ▸Liver indurated.
• ▸—Spleen enlarged.
• ▸—Swelled abdomen; ascites.
• ▸—Stiffness in

region of groins.—Swelling of inguinal glands.

Diarrheea; < night; after eating; with pain in bowels.—Hemorrhoids,

• ▸bleeding during stool.
• ▸—Condylomata.
• ▸—Anal and inter-crural excoriation.
• ▸—Fistula.

Constant running from vulva.—Burning stitching of vulva.—Heat

and itching in vagina.—Heemorrhage at and subsequent to the climacteric —Leucorrheea, light

yellow, esp. mornings.—Leucorrheea acrid, excoriating thighs, with itching of

genitals—Gonorrhceal discharge with swellings in each groin.

Diminished virility.—Increased desire.—Exhausting

erections.—Violent itching of glans penis wakes him at night.—Drawing along spermatic

cord.—Painful drawing in 1. testis extends towards inguinal ring, recurring by

• ▸paroxysms.
• ▸—Chancres.
• ▸—Condylomata.
• ▸—Excrescences from glans up to sacrum.
• ▸—Warts on

prepuce.

Hoarseness; speaking difficult—Dyspncea; sensation in larynx as if

closed; laryngeal affections in syphilis and mercurio-syphilis.—Pressure under sternum.—Loud

cough with thick yellow expectoration.—Anxious contraction of chest—Asthma < at

night.—Pleuritic pains |. side of chest; changing place.

Swelling of the wrists, with tension on reversing the hand, and lancinations

in grasping an object; tearing pains in middle finger after meals.

Legs swollen and very tender along inside of tibia —Exostosis.—Periostitis;

after typhoid.

• ▸Albuminuria.
• ▸Amaurosis.
• ▸Angina pectoris.
• ▸Anus, fistula of.
• ▸Asthma.
• ▸Bubo.
• ▸Cancer.

• ▸Caries.
• ▸Chancre.
• ▸Condylomata.
• ▸Dropsy.
• ▸Eczema.
• ▸Fistula.
• ▸Gonorrhoea.
• ▸Heemorrhage.
• ▸Hair falling

• ▸out.
• ▸Heart, affections of.
• ▸Indurations.
• ▸Liver, affections of.
• ▸Morvan's disease.
• ▸Ophthalmia.
• ▸Ozzena.

• ▸Periostitis.
• ▸Phthisis.
• ▸Pudenda, over-sensitiveness of.
• ▸Spinal sclerosis.
• ▸Spleen, enlarged.
• ▸Sterility.

• ▸Syphilis.
• ▸Uterus, tumours of; haemorrhage from.
• ▸Vagina, heat, burning and itching of.
• ▸Voice,

hoarse. Warts.

• ▸Compare: Aco.
• ▸, Am.
• ▸c.
• ▸, Arg.
• ▸, Arg.
• ▸n.
• ▸, Ars.
• ▸, Bell.
• ▸, Cannab.
• ▸, Fer.
• ▸, Glon.
• ▸, Hecl.
• ▸, Lyc.
• ▸,

• ▸Merc.
• ▸, Nit.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, Pho.
• ▸, Plat.
• ▸, Sil.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸Sulphur springs are incompatible.
• ▸Antidoted by: Bell.
• ▸,

Cannab., Merc.

The mental symptoms are largely such as are found in Aurum. It

has the same suicidal disposition. His mind dwells upon his broken

health until he becomes low-spirited and desires death. He loathes

his life. Weeping and aversion to his occupation. Indolence, The

melancholia of old syphilitics. Extremely anxious with palpitation.

Said to be “full of whims and notions.'* Extremely irritable.

Nothing can be done to please him. Constant fretting. Extreme

mental and physical restlessness. He walks the streets slowly, to be

in the open air which ameliorates ; he is much worse in the house, and

in the warm room. Thinking about his complaint caused the heart to

beat strong and fast. Symptoms worse after fright, vexation and

mortification. When the general symptoms mentioned above strongly

predominate it will cure the particulars in the various parts below.

It cures violent syphilitic headaches with vertigo. Violent left-sided

• ▸headaches.
• ▸Intense ache in forehead.
• ▸Burning in occiput.
• ▸Cerebral

• ▸congestion.
• ▸Pulsating in the head.
• ▸Pain ameliorated by cold application.
• ▸His forehead is hot.
• ▸Heat of the head and cold extremities.

Great soreness of the periosteum and exostoses of the skull. Tearing

pains in the skull. Worse nights.

It cures chronic eye troubles due to syphilis. The mucous membrane

of the lids and ball is red, thickened and very vascular. The lids stick

together in the morning. Dii^ vision in the evening by artificial light.

• ▸Loss of vision after syphilis, and after scarlet fever.
• ▸Very slow accommodation.
• ▸Amaurosis, chronic inflammation of margin of lids.
• ▸Burning pain in the eyes.

Buzzing, ringing and roaring in the ears followed by deafness. A

sensation as if the ears were open. Music relieves the ear symptoms.

Eczema behind the ears. Burning and itching behind the ears at night.

It is one of the most useful remedies for catarrh of the nose in patients who are sensitive to the warm room. It classes with Pulsatilla

and Kali sulphuricum, as both of these are better in the open air. The

discharges of the remedy are thin or thick like pus, very offensive and

• ▸sometimes bloody, and there are many hard crusts in the nose.
• ▸Bleeding of the nose on blowing out of the crusts.
• ▸Yellow, greenish discharge.
• ▸It cures the most stubborn syphilitic catarrh.
• ▸The nasal bones

become sensitive to pressure. Caries of the bones of the nose. Red,

swollen nose. Deep cracks about the wings of the nose. Lupus of the

wings of the nose. Infants with inherited syphilis with snuffles and

indented nose.

The circumscribed red face with pallor of face and neck in heart

complaint, palpitation on slight exertion, pressure behind the sternum

when walking, suffocates in a close room, wants cool air, ameliorated

by gentle motion and we have a combination that this remedy often

cures. The pale face with red spot on each cheek is not that which

is found in consumption, but in heart complaint. The infant's face

looks old. Acne on the face. There is often a red, healthy look on’

the face of very sickly people. Red faced from venous stasis; it is a

false plethora, like that described in Aurum. CJaries of the lower jaW

• ▸like Phosphorus and exostosis of right cheek bone.
• ▸Burning and swelling of the lips.
• ▸Indurated lips.
• ▸Cancerous ulcer of the lips.
• ▸Painful

swelling of the submaxillary gland.

It has been useful in cancer of the tongue. Inflammation of the

tongue followed by induration. Dry, red, excoriated tongue. Warts on

the tongue. Metallic taste and salivation.

Pains in the throat and ulceration. Ulceration of the tonsils. Inflammation with dryness in throat.

The stomach is very weak and digestion is slow. Nausea, distension

• ▸and diarrhoea after eating.
• ▸Coffee, tea and wine disagree.
• ▸Eructations putrid.
• ▸Nausea in the morning, better after breakfast.
• ▸Vomiting

of green fluid. Gastritis, cramps in stomach. Sharp pains in the stomach with burning, intense thirst.

Enlargement of liver and spleen. Chronic inflammation of the liver.

The liver is large and hard. Burning in the liver. Tight feeling in

the region of the liver. Liver troubles associated with heart disease with

albumin in the urine and dropsy of the limbs.

Abdominal dropsy. Drawing pains and distension from gases.

Great tenderness of abdomen.

Frequent fluid stools, grayish, white, bileless. Diarrhcea with liver

• ▸affection, or with Bright's disease.
• ▸Diarrhoea worse at night.
• ▸Haemorrhoids with bleeding at stool.
• ▸A heavy ring of warts around the anus

with copious moisture. Marked excoriation around the anus. It has

cured fistula in ano. Fig warts of the anus with ulceration.

Frequent urination day and night, but worse during the night.

• ▸Urine dribbles.
• ▸Increased flow of urine.
• ▸Urine turbid, reddish sediment.
• ▸Gonorrhoea in old syphilitic subjects where they have been badly treated.
• ▸Chancre on the prepuce and scrotum.
• ▸Fig warts on the

penis, scrotum or anus. Bubo in left groin. Surceased sexual desire.

Induration of testes.

• ▸Enlargement and great hardness of uterus.
• ▸Indurated cervix.
• ▸Chronic inflammation of uterus and ovaries.
• ▸Menses frequent and profuse,

flow excoriating. Leucorrhoea copious, yellow. Uterus prolapsed and

heavy. Inflammation of vagina and labia. Gonorrhoea and swelling of

glands in the groin. Heat, burning and itching of the vagina and labia.

Suffocation in a warm room, from the clothing, from ascending

stairs and from walking fast. Dyspnoea at night. Dry paroxysmal

• ▸cough at night.
• ▸Heart cough.
• ▸Loose cough with thick yellow expectoration.
• ▸Most distressing pressure under the sternum as if it would