Antimonium Sulphuratum Auratum

Golden Sulphuret of Antimony

by William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory

A remarkable remedy for many forms of chronic nasal and bronchial catarrh. Acne. Amaurosis.

Nose and throat

Nosebleed on washing . Increased secretion in nose and throat. Rough and scrapy feeling. Loss of smell. Metallic styptic taste.

Respiratory

Tickling in larynx. Increased mucus with fullness in bronchi. Respiration difficult, pressure in bronchi, with constriction. Tough mucus in bronchi and larynx. Dry hard cough. Congestion of upper lobe of left lung. Winter coughs patient is sore all over. Pneumonia, when hepatization occurred and resolution failed to take place.

Skin

Acne (pustular variety). Itching on hands and feet.

Dose

Second or third trituration.

Antimonium Sulphuratum Auratum across the other classic books

Antimonium Sulphuratum Auratum appears in 4 of the 13 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“Antimonic persulphide, Sb2S5 . Golden sulphuret of antimony. antimony. Preparation , Trituration. Authorities. Apprehensiveness, 1. Head confused, 1. Confused head on account of the severe urging in the abdomen, 1. Pressive headache, 1. Forepart of the head affected, 1. Forehead feels confused, 1. Headache one sided…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Golden Sulphuret of Antimony. Sb 2 . S 5 . Trituration. Acne / Amaurosis / Catarrh / Constipation / Cornea, spots on / Diarrhœa / Indigestion / Iris, prolapse of / Itching / Nose-bleed / Lung, congestion of Ant. sul. aur. has been proved. Its most notable effects were produced on the eye and chest. Burning in head…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Golden Sulphuret of Antimony. Sb 2 S 5 . Introduced by Glauber, 1654, and abused as a purgative and an emetic. Proved by Mayrhoffer, in 1845 ; published by Buchner, in 1874. Apprehensiveness with heaviness in precordium. Pressive headache. Burning in head. θ Eye complaints. Reddish swelling behind right ear, leaving a…”

Antimonium Sulphuratum Auratum in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Antimonium Sulphuratum Auratum in 43 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in EXTREMITIES (8), BACK (7), MALE GENITALIA (5), NOSE (4), MIND (3).

SKIN - ERUPTIONS - pustules
FACE - ERUPTIONS
NOSE - CATARRH
BACK - PAIN - Spine - midnight - after
BACK - PAIN - drawing - Spine - midnight - after
RESPIRATION - LOUD - midnight,on waking
EXTREMITIES - HEAVINESS, - Upper Limbs - morning
EXTREMITIES - STIFFNESS - Joints - morning
EAR - DISCOLORATION - redness - behind ears
MALE GENITALIA - TENSION - Penis
NOSE - EPISTAXIS - washing face,from
MALE GENITALIA - ERUPTIONS - Scrotum - pustules
STOMACH - PAIN - pressing - waking,on
MALE GENITALIA - PAIN - sore,burised
MIND - SENSITIVE, - children
FEVER - ALTERNATING with - chills - evening
MALE GENITALIA - REDNESS,glans - Scrotum
URETHRA - TWITCHING
EAR - SWELLING - behind
BACK - ERUPTIONS - Cervical region

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