Aurum Muriaticum

Auric chloride, AuCl3.

Preparation , Solution in distilled water for the lower potencies.

Authorities.

1 , Hahnemann, Ch Kr. 1, 241; 2 , Mch., ibid.; 3 , Molin, d. l. Soc. méd. Hom. de Paris, 1, 24; 4 , Buchner, N. Z. f. H. K., 4, 208 (proving with 2d cent. dil.); 5 , Elberle, 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 , Chrestien from Wilmer (effects of 1/10th gr.); 9 , Magendie, from Wibmer (effects of 1/10th gr.).

MIND

• Excessive cheerfulness, carelessness, 3.
• Great sadness, 6.
• Sadness, frequent weeping, 3.
• Sad mood, as though a great misfortune impended (several days), 5.
• Disgust for life; inclination to suicide, 3.
• Unreasonable contrariety, 3.
• Indisposition for mental work, 4.
• Weakness of memory, 4.

HEAD

• Confusion of the head, 4. [10.]
• Frequent dizziness, 3.
• 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, 6.
• Frequent nodding of the head, 3.
• Heaviness of the head, 3.
• Headache, on rising, after a restless night, 6.
• Pressure on the brain, along the sagittal suture, 4.
• Throbbing headache, with heavy dreams, 6.
• Burning in the forehead, 3.
• Drawing headache in the forehead (after two hours), 1.
• Violent pain; like a toothache, in the left frontal eminence, extending towards the supraorbital foramen (the following day in the right side), 5. [20.]
• Beatings in the left side of the forehead, 3.
• Tickling itching of the forehead (after one hour), 1.
• Drawing pain in the left temple, extending to the vertex, 5.
• Tearing in the left temple, lasting several hours, and returning in bed, 6.
• Violent tearing from the left temple towards the ear, with vertigo and tearing over the eye, 6.
• Tearing pain in the left temporal region, extending to the right; lasts all day, and only disappears in bed, 6.
• Throbbing pain in the left temple after rising; relieved by applying cold water; returning after midnight, and lasting four hours, 6.
• Violent tearing in the right temple, 5.
• Sensation of coolness on the top of the head, 3 . Burning and stitching in the back of the head, 3.

EYES. [30.]

• Dryness of the eyes, 4.
• Burning, pricking, and itching of the eyes, 3.
• Severe pressure in the eyes in open air, and tearing in them, with complete blindness, 6.
• Tearing pain in the left eye, 1.
• 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, 6.
• The eye symptoms appeared periodically for some time, 6.
• If the eyes are covered with the hand the symptoms disappear, 6.
• Redness and swelling of the eyelids, 3.
• Morning-agglutination, 3.
• Difficulty in keeping the eyes shut, 3. [40.]
• Biting and itching in the right external canthus, obliges him to scratch, 5.
• Burning, stitching, pricking, and smarting of the lids, 3.
• Burning in the conjunctiva, 4.
• Weakness of visual power, 4.
• The letters disappear, at evening by candlelight, for some minutes; instead of the letters, the paper was white as if not printed, 4.

EARS

• Crusts behind the ears, 3.
• Burning and itching behind the ears, especially at night, 3.
• Sensation in the left ear, as if a plug were in it (lasted for several days during the proving), 5.
• Drawing pain in the right ear, 5.
• Sticking pain in the left ear, 5. [50.]
• Deafness in the ears (after six hours), 1.
• Deafness follows the ringing in the ears, as if the ears were wide internally and hollow, and so nothing could be heard distinctly, 1.

NOSE

• Redness and swelling of the nose, 3.
• Red swelling in the right nostril and underneath, with a painless crust of ulcers internally, and a sense of obstruction, although air passes through, 2.
• 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, 1.*
• Redness and itching inflammation of the nose, with subsequent desquamation, 1.
• Crusts in the nose, with constant inclination to pick at them with the fingers, 3.
• A bad-smelling, watery discharge from the nose , very irritating to the lip, 3.*
• Discharge of a yellow-greenish matter from the nose, without bad smell, for seven days (after ten days), 1.
• 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, 6. [60.]
• Thick, yellow coryza, 3.
• Fluent coryza nights, 6.
• Coryza, with much tickling in the throat, 5.
• Fluent coryza with rough throat and irritation to cough, 5.
• Burning and itching of the nose, 3.
• Burning and itching pain on the upper part of the nose externally, 1.
• Crawling in the nose, as if something were running about in it, 1.

FACE

• Red face, 3.
• Lightning-like twitches in the right upper jaw, 5.

MOUTH

• Jerking toothache in the anterior and upper row of teeth, 2. [70.]
• Jerking pain in the teeth, partly on one side, partly in the upper incisors, 1.
• Redness and swelling of the gums, especially at night, 3.
• Aphthæ all over the mouth, 3.
• Burning, itching, and smarting in the mouth, 3.
• Flat taste, lasts all day, with great nausea, passing off at night in bed, 6.
• 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), 5.

THROAT

• Painful swelling of the submaxillary glands, 3.
• Pain in the throat, and redness of the mucous membrane of the fauces, 6.
• Scratching and pricking in the throat, 3.
• Difficult deglutition, 3.

STOMACH. [80.]

• Want of appetite, 3.
• Loss of appetite, 6.
• Thirst, 3.
• Risings having a putrid taste, 3.
• Inclination to vomit after eating, 3.
• Nausea and inclination to vomit, mornings fasting, disappears after breakfast, 6.
• 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), 6.

• Vomiting (for a quarter of an hour), with violent retching and foul eructations, soon afterward cutting colic, and four watery stools, 6.
• Violent gastritis, 9.
• Slow digestion, 3.
• Emptiness in the stomach, 5. [90.]
• Distress at the stomach after eating, 3.
• Burning, stitching, and gnawing and cutting pains in stomach, 3.
• 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, 5.

ABDOMEN

• Burning in the right hypochondrium, 3.
• Constant disagreeable feeling in the right hypochondrium, 3.
• Stitch in the left hypochondrium, as from running too fast, 3.
• Redness, heat, itching, and smarting at the umbilicus, 3.
• Distension of the abdomen, 1.
• Swelling and inflation of the abdomen, 3.
• Much flatus passes in the afternoon, 6. [100.]
• Much flatulence, with colic and a fluid stool, 6.
• Drawings in the entire abdomen, 3.
• 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, 5.
• Dull colic, 3.
• Violent constrictive colic obliges her to double up; lasts three and a half hours, and only goes off in bed, 6.
• The abdomen is tender to touch, 3.
• Heat and pricking in the hypogastrium, 3.

STOOL AND ANUS

• *Hæmorrhoids, with discharge of blood during stool, 3.
• Diarrhœa very violent for several day, 7.
• Diarrhœa, especially at night; gray-whitish stools, 3. [110.]
• Continued call to stool, with much rumbling in the bowels; in spite of the desire, no satisfactory stool, 6.
• Thin watery stools (immediately after taking it), 6.
• Thin frequent stools, with burning at the anus, 5.
• Frequent thin stools, with tenesmus, 5.

URINARY ORGANS

• Heat and itching in the urethra, 3.
• Burning on urinating; feeling as if the urine was too hot and acrid, 5.
• Burning and smarting in the urethra while urinating, 3.
• Feeling of heat in the urethra, with tenesmus vesicæ; the urine felt too hot, 5.
• Sticking pain through the whole length of the urethra on standing, 5.
• Constant desire to urinate, 4. [120.]
• Urine increased, 8.
• Profuse urine for two and a half days, 4.
• Scanty urine, red thick urine, containing sand, 3.
• The urine rapidly decomposes, 4.
• Increase of urea and urates, 4.

SEXUAL ORGANS

• Male.
• Exhausting erections, 9.
• Violent itching of the glans penis wakes at night, 5.
• Drawing along the spermatic cords, 3.
• Swelling and tension in the testicles, 3.
• Painful drawing in the left testicle extends toward the inguinal ring, recurring by paroxysms, 5.
• Female.
• Redness and swelling of the labia, 3.
• A few days before the menses, eruption of large red pimples on the labia majora, 3.
• Constant running from the vulva, 3.*
• Burning and itching of the vulva, 3.*
• Heat and itching in the vagina, 3.*
• Severe itching of the pudenda, transient, 6.
• Menstruation too early, more profuse; the blood was acrid, and made her sore; before the menses she had leucorrhœa (formerly she had had it a short time only after menses), 6.
• Menses, seven days too early, lasted only two days (usually four days); blood bright (not so acrid as the last time), 6.
• Leucorrhœa returned (it had ceased for some time) very profusely, and lasted four days; very acrid, making the thighs sore, with itching of the genitals, 6.*
• Light-yellow leucorrhœa, especially in the morning, 3.*

RESPIRATORY APPARATUS

• Tickling in the air-passages, with dry cough, as from inspired dust, 5.
• Difficult speech; deep, hoarse voice, 3.
• Frequent loud cough, 3. [130.]
• Frequent cough, especially at night, 3.
• Short dry cough in paroxysms, especially at night, followed by heat in the throat, 3.
• Frequent hard cough, with white expectoration, mingled with threads of blood, 3.
• Constant thick cough, with thick yellow expectoration, 3.
• Difficult respiration, 3.
• Short breathing and apparent obstruction of the larynx for a few days, 1.
• On standing, heavy deep respiration, as if a stone lay on the chest, 6.
• Sense of suffocation, 3.
• Suffocative attacks at night, 3.

CHEST

• Great oppression of the chest, scarcely permitting breathing, 5. [140.]
• Spasmodic drawing between the sixth and seventh ribs, with a sensation as though some one attempted to stretch out the heart, 5.
• Burning pains in the left clavicle, transient, 5.
• Drawing pains in both sides of the chest, 5.
• The right side of the chest felt sprained on standing up; touching the pectoral muscles was painful, 5.
• Tearing in the right chest from the middle of the sternum towards the right shoulder-joint; increased by every inspiration (lasts a quarter of and hour), 6.
• Sticking tearing in the intercostal muscles of the right side, then of the left, 5.
• 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, 5.
• Sticking in the præcordial region, extending toward the middle of the sternum, aggravated by every motion and deep inspiration (lasts four hours), 6.

HEART AND PULSE

• Palpitation of the heart, 3.
• Burning and pricking at the heart, 3. [150.]
• Drawing and cutting pains at the heart, 3.
• 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 præcordial 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, 5.
• Oppression about the heart, compelling a deep breath, which relieves, 4.
• A few stitches immediately over the heart, 1.

NECK AND BACK

• Stiffness in the neck, 5.
• Burning, pricking, cutting pains and stiffness in the back, 3.
• Bruised feeling in the small of the back, which makes stooping almost impossible, 5.
• Painful fatigue in the loins, 3.
• Pricking in the loins, 3.

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL

• Unusual prostration of the limbs, 6. [160.]
• Bruised feeling of the limbs, 4.

UPPER EXTREMITIES

• Stiffness in the arms, 3.
• Burning and lancinations in the arms and forearms, 3.
• Sensation as if the left arm were sprained, 6.
• Involuntary shocks in the arms, 3.
• Painful feeling in the shoulders and arms, 3.
• Paralytic feeling in the left shoulder, after rising (lasts half an hour), 6.
• Drawing pain in the right shoulder-joint, 5.
• Drawing and boring in the middle of the right upper arm, recurring three days in succession, 5.
• Tearing in the left shoulder, lasts two hours; the shoulder still, after two days, sensitive to touch, 6. [170.]
• Drawing in the elbows, as if a tendon were violently drawn; frequently returning for a moment, day and night, 5.
• Tearing in the right arm from the elbow-joint to the tip of the little finger, so violent that it hinders work, 6.
• Difficulty in clenching the hands, 3.
• Burning and itching in the hands, 3.
• Violent drawing in the balls of the right hand, 5.
• Stiffness of the finger-joints, 3.
• Tearing pain in the middle finger, after dinner, 1.
• Swelling in the wrist, without pain, if left alone; tensive only on bending the hand backwards; stitches in the wrist upon seizing anything, 1.

LOWER EXTREMITIES

• Drawing-tearing pain in the muscles of both hips, lasts some time, 5.
• Lancinating paroxysmal pain beginning in the front and middle of both thighs, and extending toward the patellæ, so severe that he must start up, 5. [180.]
• Stiffness of the thighs and legs, 3.
• Swelling of the knees, 3.
• Heat, pricking, and lancinations in the knees, 3.
• 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, 6.
• 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, 5.
• Swelling of the feet, 3.
• Burning in the feet, 3.
• Redness of the toes, 3.
• Tearing on the inside of the right great toe and right knee, 6.
• Cutting pain in the toes when walking, 3.

GENERALITIES. [190.]

• Laziness; aversion to all work, 3.
• Weariness, 3.
• Weariness during the whole proving, so great that often she could hardly go about, and had to rest frequently through the day, 6.
• Great fatigue, 5.
• Unending feeling of prostration in the limbs, indescribable weariness in the whole body; can scarcely rise from his seat, 5.
• General erethism, 8.
• The excited condition lasted several years, 9.
• Drawing-tearing pains in various parts of the body, especially in the extremities, 5.

SKIN

• Pimples on the lips, with smarting and itching, 3.
• Eruption of small red pimples above the pubis, 3. [200.]
• Petechiæ-like exanthema on both legs, with a small pimple in the centre (disappears in five days), 5.
• Boils on the buttocks and thighs, 3.

SLEEP AND DREAMS

• Frequent yawning soon after taking a dose; it disappears after eating, but returns and lasts two hours, 6.
• Much yawning after eating, 3.
• Sleepiness in daytime, even while at work, 3.
• Sleepiness; deep sleep, 4.
• Sleep very restless, with frightful dreams the whole night, 5.
• Waking with a start, 3.
• Sleeplessness obstinate, 9.
• Nocturnal sleeplessness, 3. [210.]
• Troublesome dreams, 3.
• Heavy dreams of impending unhappiness, 6.

FEVER

• Chilliness, with gooseflesh, 6.
• Violent fever, 8, 9.
• Sweat increased, 8.

CONDITIONS

• Aggravation.
• ( Morning ), On rising, after a restless night, headache; fasting, nausea, etc.; leucorrhœa.
• ( Night ), Burning, etc.; behind ears; redness, etc., of gums; diarrhœa; 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 præcordial region.
• ( Motion ), Vertigo, etc.; sticking in præcordial 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 in through the urethra; heavy, deep respiration; right side of chest felt sprained.
• ( Stooping ), Vertigo; drawing in pit of stomach.
• ( Walking ), Bruised sensation in right leg; cutting pain in toes.
• Amelioration.
• ( 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 with hand ), Eye-symptoms disappear.
• ( ), Yawning ceases.