Antimonium sulphuratum auratum
Antimony pentasulfide · Mineral
The Antimonium Sulphuratum Auratum patient suffers from chronic catarrh of the nasal passages and bronchi with accumulation of tough mucus and difficult respiration. Pustular acne, eye affections including commencing amaurosis, and recurrent winter coughs with general soreness are constitutional features. Disordered digestion with pasty mouth in the morning is also characteristic.
Key symptoms
- Nosebleed on washing
- Increased secretion in nose and throat with rough scrapy feeling and loss of smell
- Metallic styptic taste
- Increased tough mucus in bronchi and larynx with difficult respiration
- Dry hard cough with congestion of upper lobe of left lung
- Winter coughs with soreness all over body
- Acne of pustular variety with itching on hands and feet
- Commencing amaurosis with spots on cornea
Golden Sulphuret of Antimony
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.
Golden Sulphuret of Antimony. Sb2. S5. Trituration.
Clinical
Acne. Amaurosis. Catarrh. Constipation. Cornea, spots on. Diarrhœa. Indigestion. Iris, prolapse of. Itching. Nose-bleed. Lung, congestion of.
Characteristics
Ant. sul. aur. has been proved. Its most notable effects were produced on the eye and chest. Burning in head (with eye complaints). Amaurosis (commencing). Spots on cornea and hypopion. Acute and chronic nasal and bronchial catarrh. Acne. Nose-bleed on washing. As with the other antimonies there is disordered digestion, pasty mouth and taste in morning. Increase of tough mucus in larynx and bronchi, respiration difficult. Dry, hard cough with passive congestion of upper lobe of left lung. Itching on hands and feet.
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