Aurum sulphuricum
Gold sulphate · Mineral
The Aurum Sulphuricum patient combines the deep melancholy and self-destructive tendencies of Aurum with the skin and circulatory features of Sulphur. There is desire for solitude, disgust for life, and marked physical prostration. The patient may present with trembling nodding head movements, goitre, impotence, and disturbed female sexual organs.
Key symptoms
- Constant nodding of the head suggesting paralysis agitans
- Lancinations in the occiput
- Redness and swelling of nose with great sensitiveness to touch
- Nocturnal enuresis
- Impotence with frequent erections that cease immediately
- Swelling of breasts painful to touch with cracked nipples
- Staggering gait and weariness
- Desire for solitude and disgust for life
Worse (aggravation)
- Night (scalp itching, cough, enuresis)
- Ascending a height (palpitation)
Auric sulphide. Au2 S3.
Clinical
Enuresis. Goître. Head, nodding of. Impotence. Jaundice. Mammæ, affections of. Nightmare. Nose, swelling of. Paralysis agitans. Pruritus vulvæ. Staggering.
Characteristics
This is a valuable gold preparation which I have used with success in Aurum cases with some Sulphur indications. It has been proved, and the most striking symptoms are the following: Constant nodding of head (suggesting paralysis agitans). Lancinations in occiput. Redness and swelling of nose; crusts; dry coryza; great sensitiveness to least contact. Sensitiveness to touch was observed in other parts. Inclined to vomit after eating. Nocturnal enuresis. Impotence. Lancinations in penis. Heaviness in genitals. Heat, lancinations, and itching of vulva. There is swelling of the breasts; they are painful to touch; nipples are cracked; lancinating pain in point of nipples. Thick yellowish leucorrhœa, especially in morning. Staggering gait. Weariness. Frightful dreams: thieves, &c.
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