====== AURUM MURIATICUM ====== {{anchor:s1}}Aurum Muriaticum. ====== Auric Chloride. AuCl3. ====== {{anchor:s4}}Hahnemann had, in his Materia Medica, 1818, published some symptoms obtained before the trituration was preferred. {{anchor:s5}}Dr. Molin published in the French journals, 1845, after a good proving of Aurum met., the first useful proving; he was followed by Buchner and others, contained, with the exception of Prasoberera, in Allen, vol. 2, p. 14, 1875. ====== MIND. [1] ====== {{anchor:s7}}Functions of mind in best order and clear in his views, except with regard to his health or disease; he imagines he has all possible diseases. {{anchor:s8}}~ Angina pectoris.\\ {{anchor:s9}}If left alone he thinks about nothing but his ailments, and gets more and more out of humor; desires company. {{anchor:s10}}~ Angina pectoris.\\ {{anchor:s11}}Inclined to suicide; frequent weeping; aversion to occupation.\\ {{anchor:s12}}Laziness. {{anchor:s13}}~ Albuminuria.\\ {{anchor:s14}}Great depression of mind. {{anchor:s15}}~ Dropsy.\\ {{anchor:s16}}Everything is disagreeable, dreary, even nature around.\\ {{anchor:s17}}Sadness, as when homesick; sad, as though a great misfortune impended.\\ {{anchor:s18}}Melancholic mood. {{anchor:s19}}~ Ozaena syphilitica.\\ {{anchor:s20}}Profound melancholy. {{anchor:s21}}~ Dropsy.\\ {{anchor:s22}}Great anxiety, with palpitation.\\ {{anchor:s23}}Loss of energy; diminished virility; unrefreshing sleep.\\ {{anchor:s24}}Full of whims and notions.\\ {{anchor:s25}}Irritable without cause; tired of life.\\ {{anchor:s26}}Insurmountable mental or bodily restlessness; he has to spend hours in street and in open air. {{anchor:s27}}~ Angina pectoris.\\ {{anchor:s28}}Thinking about his disease brings on palpitation. {{anchor:s29}}~ Angina pectoris.\\ {{anchor:s30}}After fright or vexation, palpitation, which he can feel and hear. {{anchor:s31}}~ Angina pectoris.\\ {{anchor:s32}}Ailments from violent chagrin. ====== SENSORIUM. [2] ====== {{anchor:s34}}Vertigo, as if he was walking in air.\\ {{anchor:s35}}Dullness of head. {{anchor:s36}}~ Albuminuria. ====== INNER HEAD. [3] ====== {{anchor:s38}}Dull frontal headache.\\ {{anchor:s39}}Drawing headache in forehead.\\ {{anchor:s40}}Drawing in left half of head.\\ {{anchor:s41}}Constant burning in whole head; agg. on left side.\\ {{anchor:s42}}Burning with stinging in occiput.\\ {{anchor:s43}}(In sick:) Sometimes a penetrating pain from forehead down to nose.\\ {{anchor:s44}}Throbbing, with heavy dreams; throbbing in left temple after rising; amel. by application of cold water.\\ {{anchor:s45}}Congestion to head increasing to delirium. ====== OUTER HEAD. [4] ====== {{anchor:s47}}Burning in forehead.\\ {{anchor:s48}}Head hot; limbs cool. {{anchor:s49}}~ Albuminuria.\\ {{anchor:s50}}Drawing, tearing in bones of skull from time to time; head feels insensible.\\ {{anchor:s51}}Pressure on brain, along sagittal suture.\\ {{anchor:s52}}Cool sensation on vertex.\\ {{anchor:s53}}Tickling itching on forehead.\\ {{anchor:s54}}(In sick:) Hair, eyebrows and beard fall out. ====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ====== {{anchor:s56}}Sudden blindness in childbed.\\ {{anchor:s57}}Amaurosis.\\ {{anchor:s58}}Cannot accommodate his eyes quickly for near or far objects.\\ {{anchor:s59}}Complete blindness, occurring suddenly after scarlet fever, with cold sweat; rapid, scarcely perceptible pulse; respiration rapid and unequal; abdomen burning hot; extremities cold and covered with sweat; pupils do not react to light.\\ {{anchor:s60}}Evening, candlelight, letters disappear; paper white, as if not printed upon.\\ {{anchor:s61}}Neuralgic pain in left eye.\\ {{anchor:s62}}Feeling as if eyes were drawn deep into head.\\ {{anchor:s63}}Sclerotica red, with sensation of burning heat and prickling.\\ {{anchor:s64}}Keratitis parenchymatosa; cornea very opaque, traversed by a dense mass of bloodvessels in cornea, tending towards staphyloma; ciliary injection, some photophobia, no vision.\\ {{anchor:s65}}Acute ophthalmia. {{anchor:s66}}~ Caries of nasal bones.\\ {{anchor:s67}}Burning, pricking, itching and tickling in eyes and lids.\\ {{anchor:s68}}Lachrymation.\\ {{anchor:s69}}Difficulty in keeping eyes shut.\\ {{anchor:s70}}Lids agglutinated in morning.\\ {{anchor:s71}}Chronic inflammation of edges of eyelids.\\ {{anchor:s72}}Fistula lachrymalis. ====== HEARING AND EARS. [6] ====== {{anchor:s74}}Buzzing in left ear and sensitiveness.\\ {{anchor:s75}}Ringing and roaring in ears, followed by deafness, with sensation as if ears were wide and hollow inside, could not hear distinctly.\\ {{anchor:s76}}Music relieves.\\ {{anchor:s77}}Ears reddened. {{anchor:s78}}~ Angina pectoris.\\ {{anchor:s79}}Scurf behind ears.\\ {{anchor:s80}}Burning and itching behind ears, particularly at night. ====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ====== {{anchor:s82}}Pressing pain in nose.\\ {{anchor:s83}}Burning and itching in nose.\\ {{anchor:s84}}Blows blood from nose.\\ {{anchor:s85}}Crawling in cavities, as if a coryza was breaking out; stinging itching on small places; right to left.\\ {{anchor:s86}}Coryza.\\ {{anchor:s87}}Snuffles of a baby.\\ {{anchor:s88}}Bad smelling, watery discharge, irritating upper lip.\\ {{anchor:s89}}Discharge from nose containing some blood at times. {{anchor:s90}}~ Dropsy.\\ {{anchor:s91}}Yellow-greenish discharge, not offensive, after ten days.\\ {{anchor:s92}}Ozaena scrofulosa, with unbearable odor.\\ {{anchor:s93}}Sudden running of pus from nose. {{anchor:s94}}~ Ozaena syphilitica.\\ {{anchor:s95}}Nostrils stuffed up with hard crusts. {{anchor:s96}}~ Syphilitic ozaena.\\ {{anchor:s97}}Red swelling of left side of nose; nasal cavity ulcerated deep in, with dry, yellowish scurf and sense of obstruction, although enough air passes.\\ {{anchor:s98}}Nasal bones sensitive; also upper middle of sinciput.\\ {{anchor:s99}}Burning and itching pain in upper part of nose, externally.\\ {{anchor:s100}}Redness and swelling of nose.\\ {{anchor:s101}}Hardness around corners of nose and lips. {{anchor:s102}}~ Ozaena.\\ {{anchor:s103}}Deep cracks in alae nasi; in old cases of ozaena.\\ {{anchor:s104}}Lupus attacking alae nasi.\\ {{anchor:s105}}Infant's nose dented in. ====== UPPER FACE. [8] ====== {{anchor:s107}}Red face. {{anchor:s108}}~ Angina pectoris.\\ {{anchor:s109}}Pale face with red spots.\\ {{anchor:s110}}Face pale; limbs cold; sudden blindness. {{anchor:s111}}~ In childbed.\\ {{anchor:s112}}Burning in face at times, mostly after shaving, with a dark redness of cheeks.\\ {{anchor:s113}}On different parts of face digging, gnawing, stitching pain.\\ {{anchor:s114}}Itching, as from tickling of a feather on various parts of face.\\ {{anchor:s115}}Acne rosacea.\\ {{anchor:s116}}Caries of upper jaw after typhoid fever; pain in bones and teeth.\\ {{anchor:s117}}Infant with ancient appearance. ====== LOWER FACE. [9] ====== {{anchor:s119}}Caries of lower jaw since scarlatina in second year of her age; aet. 18.\\ {{anchor:s120}}Exostosis of right cheek bone disappeared in two months after treatment.\\ {{anchor:s121}}(In sick:) Trembling of lower jaw and threatened with trismus.\\ {{anchor:s122}}Watery, offensive moisture inflaming upper lip.\\ {{anchor:s123}}Indurations in lips.\\ {{anchor:s124}}Burning like pepper on lips.\\ {{anchor:s125}}Pustule on lip.\\ {{anchor:s126}}Lips swollen, they burn and itch.\\ {{anchor:s127}}Cancerous ulcers on lips.\\ {{anchor:s128}}Lips deep red. {{anchor:s129}}~ Angina pectoris.\\ {{anchor:s130}}Painful swelling of submaxillary glands. ====== TEETH AND GUMS. [10] ====== {{anchor:s132}}Loose teeth.\\ {{anchor:s133}}Jerking pain in teeth.\\ {{anchor:s134}}Front teeth sensitive; metallic taste.\\ {{anchor:s135}}(In sick:) Great tenderness of gums and slight salivation.\\ {{anchor:s136}}Gums inflamed or white, bluish; painful in spots, even ulcerated.\\ {{anchor:s137}}Dental fistula. ====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ====== {{anchor:s139}}Metallic taste.\\ {{anchor:s140}}Flat, bad taste in mouth.\\ {{anchor:s141}}Taste entirely lost. {{anchor:s142}}~ Cancer.\\ {{anchor:s143}}Tongue as hard as leather, hardly movable.\\ {{anchor:s144}}(In sick:) Tongue became stiff and prevented articulation of certain words. {{anchor:s145}}~ Cancer.\\ {{anchor:s146}}Induration remaining after glossitis.\\ {{anchor:s147}}Redness, dryness, and excoriation of tongue.\\ {{anchor:s148}}Yellow, furred tongue.\\ {{anchor:s149}}Warts on tongue.\\ {{anchor:s150}}(In sick:) Tongue ulcerated in various places.\\ {{anchor:s151}}Cancer on tongue. ====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ====== {{anchor:s153}}Dry mouth.\\ {{anchor:s154}}Inflammation of mouth.\\ {{anchor:s155}}Burning itching and biting in mouth.\\ {{anchor:s156}}Saliva increased, frequent desire to swallow; metallic taste.\\ {{anchor:s157}}(In sick:) Mouth filled with aphthae. ====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ====== {{anchor:s159}}Fauces red, pain in throat.\\ {{anchor:s160}}Mucus in morning passes from head to throat. {{anchor:s161}}~ Ozaena.\\ {{anchor:s162}}Inflammation with hoarseness.\\ {{anchor:s163}}Suppurating ulcer on tonsils with loss of substance.\\ {{anchor:s164}}Scraping and pricking in throat.\\ {{anchor:s165}}Painful redness of fauces and pharynx.\\ {{anchor:s166}}Dryness in throat; difficult deglutition.\\ {{anchor:s167}}Frequent desire to swallow; feeling of a plug in throat; metallic taste; increased saliva. ====== APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] ====== {{anchor:s170}}Appetite increased or lost.\\ {{anchor:s171}}Thirst.\\ {{anchor:s172}}Sweetened coffee disgusts him.\\ {{anchor:s173}}Eating and Drinking ====== EATING AND DRINKING. [15] ====== {{anchor:s175}}After eating: nausea; distension and fullness of stomach; frequent yawning.\\ {{anchor:s176}}After breakfast: nausea leaves.\\ {{anchor:s177}}Slow digestion.\\ {{anchor:s178}}Diarrhea after eating.\\ {{anchor:s179}}Worse from coffee, tea, wine. ====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ====== {{anchor:s181}}Belching and nausea; risings have a putrid taste.\\ {{anchor:s182}}Nausea fasting, better after breakfast.\\ {{anchor:s183}}Vomiting of a green fluid. {{anchor:s184}}~ Albuminuria.\\ {{anchor:s185}}Vomiting of some white frothy matter (dogs). ====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ====== {{anchor:s187}}Pressure in scrobiculum.\\ {{anchor:s188}}Sensation of fullness in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s189}}Burning, cutting, stitching in stomach. {{anchor:s190}}~ Cardialgia.\\ {{anchor:s191}}Painful drawing in pit to middle of sternum; as if a hard body was pressed into cavity; worse stooping, eating, drinking; paroxysmal.\\ {{anchor:s192}}Slow digestion.\\ {{anchor:s193}}Cramps in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s194}}Increased warmth in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s195}}Inflammation of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s196}}Mucous membrane of stomach ulcerated; in dogs. ====== HYPOCHONDRIA. [18] ====== {{anchor:s198}}Burning in right hypochondrium, with heat and pricking in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s199}}Constant sensation of tension in right hypochondrium.\\ {{anchor:s200}}Induration of liver with dropsy.\\ {{anchor:s201}}Pressure in hypochondria.\\ {{anchor:s202}}Burning in right hypochondrium; constant disagreeable feeling; hepatic hyperemia and swelling. {{anchor:s203}}~ Ascites.\\ {{anchor:s204}}Spleen enlarged. {{anchor:s205}}~ Albuminuria.\\ {{anchor:s206}}Stitches in left hypochondrium, as after running. ====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ====== {{anchor:s208}}Abdomen distended; constrictive colic obliges her to double up; only goes off in bed.\\ {{anchor:s209}}Redness, heat, itching and biting at the umbilicus.\\ {{anchor:s210}}Dull bellyache.\\ {{anchor:s211}}Pain in bowels. {{anchor:s212}}~ Albuminuria.\\ {{anchor:s213}}Tympanitis.\\ {{anchor:s214}}Distension of single places in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s215}}Drawing pain in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s216}}Straining, tensive pain, as if laced.\\ {{anchor:s217}}Ascites. {{anchor:s218}}~ Liver affections. {{anchor:s219}}~ Albuminuria.\\ {{anchor:s220}}Tension in the loins.\\ {{anchor:s221}}Stiffness in region of the groins.\\ {{anchor:s222}}Eruption of small red nodules above the pubes.\\ {{anchor:s223}}Abdomen sensitive to touch.\\ {{anchor:s224}}(In sick:) Considerable swelling of inguinal glands. ====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ====== {{anchor:s226}}Frequent fluid stools.\\ {{anchor:s227}}Diarrhea: agg. at night; after eating; with pain in bowels.\\ {{anchor:s228}}Stools: greyish-white, yellow, watery.\\ {{anchor:s229}}Diarrhea. {{anchor:s230}}~ Albuminuria.\\ {{anchor:s231}}Obstinate costiveness.\\ {{anchor:s232}}Hemorrhoidal tumors; blood discharged during stool.\\ {{anchor:s233}}Condylomata at anus.\\ {{anchor:s234}}Excrescences near anus, with an abundant serous discharge.\\ {{anchor:s235}}Anal and intercrural excoriation in a baby.\\ {{anchor:s236}}Numerous circumanal condylomata, in a scrofulous, syphilitic baby.\\ {{anchor:s237}}Fistula in ano of five months' standing, in a young man, aet. 21, bilious, sanguine temperament. ====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ====== {{anchor:s239}}Scanty urine. {{anchor:s240}}~ Anasarca.\\ {{anchor:s241}}Urine turbid, with a red lateritious sediment.\\ {{anchor:s242}}Frequent urging to urinate; agg. at night. {{anchor:s243}}~ Albuminuria.\\ {{anchor:s244}}Incontinence of urine; agg. at night. {{anchor:s245}}~ Old man, after dropsy.\\ {{anchor:s246}}Burning on urinating; urine feels as if too hot; tenesmus vesicae.\\ {{anchor:s247}}Urine turbid. {{anchor:s248}}~ Dropsy.\\ {{anchor:s249}}Increased discharge of urine; urine has a peculiar odor and sediment.\\ {{anchor:s250}}If the bladder is filled in morning, he has strong erections but no sexual desire.\\ {{anchor:s251}}Pressing around waist; increased urine; renal hyperemia. {{anchor:s252}}~ Heart disease. {{anchor:s253}}~ Morbus Brightii.\\ {{anchor:s254}}Pains in region of kidneys; urine pale, clear. {{anchor:s255}}~ Albuminuria in pregnancy.\\ {{anchor:s256}}Heat, tickling and burning in urethra.\\ {{anchor:s257}}(In sick:) Suppressed urethral discharges are re-established.\\ {{anchor:s258}}Syphilitic gonorrhea. ====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ====== {{anchor:s260}}Diminished virility; melancholy.\\ {{anchor:s261}}Increased sexual desire.\\ {{anchor:s262}}Exhausting erections; hyperemia.\\ {{anchor:s263}}Testicles swollen, tense; drawing along the cords.\\ {{anchor:s264}}Gleet; worse mornings.\\ {{anchor:s265}}Warts on prepuce.\\ {{anchor:s266}}Chancre-like ulcers.\\ {{anchor:s267}}Condylomata on prepuce, anus and tongue.\\ {{anchor:s268}}Flat ulcers on scrotum, secreting a fetid ichor.\\ {{anchor:s269}}(In sick:) Chancres secrete an abundance of laudable pus; buboes become vast hearths of suppuration.\\ {{anchor:s270}}Chancres on prepuce and scrotum.\\ {{anchor:s271}}Bubo in left groin.\\ {{anchor:s272}}(In sick:) Excrescences extending from glans to os sacrum.\\ {{anchor:s273}}Excrescences on scrotum. {{anchor:s274}}~ Fistula in ano. ====== FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] ====== {{anchor:s276}}Sterility.\\ {{anchor:s277}}Painful induration of mouth of uterus.\\ {{anchor:s278}}Metritis.\\ {{anchor:s279}}Menses too early and profuse; blood acrid, makes her sore.\\ {{anchor:s280}}Before menses: leucorrhea; red pustules on labia.\\ {{anchor:s281}}Menses suppressed. {{anchor:s282}}~ Dropsy.\\ {{anchor:s283}}(In sick:) Amenorrhea.\\ {{anchor:s284}}Leucorrhea, light yellow, especially mornings; uterus prolapsed, indurated; chronic metritis, with mal-position and discharge.\\ {{anchor:s285}}Pudenda oversensitive.\\ {{anchor:s286}}Burning, itching of vulva.\\ {{anchor:s287}}Heat and itching in vagina.\\ {{anchor:s288}}Vaginitis.\\ {{anchor:s289}}Gonorrheal discharge and swelling of both groins. ====== PREGNANCY. PARTURITION. LACTATION. [24] ====== {{anchor:s293}}During pregnancy and after childbed: dropsical symptoms.\\ {{anchor:s294}}Infiltration of cellular tissue of legs in childbed. {{anchor:s295}}See 33. ====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ====== {{anchor:s298}}Voice rough or screeching.\\ {{anchor:s299}}Speaking is difficult.\\ {{anchor:s300}}Hoarseness, with violent fever and pleuritic symptoms.\\ {{anchor:s301}}Hoarseness, with inflammation of throat.\\ {{anchor:s302}}Chronic irritation of air passages. ====== RESPIRATION. [26] ====== {{anchor:s304}}Pressure on chest impedes breathing; agg. standing.\\ {{anchor:s305}}Anxious contraction of chest.\\ {{anchor:s306}}Long-lasting asthmatic symptoms.\\ {{anchor:s307}}Oppression as soon as clothes are fastened.\\ {{anchor:s308}}Anxious abdominal respiration; labored breathing. {{anchor:s309}}~ Anasarca.\\ {{anchor:s310}}Difficult breathing from stagnation of blood; heartbeats increased, too strong.\\ {{anchor:s311}}Suffocation at night.\\ {{anchor:s312}}Oppression compelled deep breathing, which relieves. ====== COUGH. [27] ====== {{anchor:s314}}Short, dry cough in paroxysms, especially at night, followed by heat in throat.\\ {{anchor:s315}}Frequent hard cough, with white sputa mingled with threads of blood.\\ {{anchor:s316}}Frequent, loud sounding cough.\\ {{anchor:s317}}Frequent night cough.\\ {{anchor:s318}}Loose cough, with thick yellow expectoration. ====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ====== {{anchor:s320}}Pressure under sternum; palpitation increases with every step, as if chest would burst. {{anchor:s321}}~ Hyperemia from stenocardia.\\ {{anchor:s322}}Pulmonary catarrh.\\ {{anchor:s323}}Stitches under ribs and other signs of pleurisy.\\ {{anchor:s324}}Inflammatory symptoms of lungs.\\ {{anchor:s325}}Pains in left side of chest, as in pleurisy; they change place and sometimes leave. ====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ====== {{anchor:s327}}Sore aching in cardiac region; burning, pricking.\\ {{anchor:s328}}Drawing and cutting in cardiac region.\\ {{anchor:s329}}Pressure in region of heart, with gnawing in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s330}}Awakened by a sticking, boring at point where impulse of apex is felt; feels as if he could not have endured it longer; deep breathing does not alter it; hand pressed lightly does; immediately afterwards lancinating streaming pain, thence to left hypochondrium.\\ {{anchor:s331}}Stitches directly above heart.\\ {{anchor:s332}}Peculiar sensation of heaviness and rigidity in heart, with sudden arrest of breathing.\\ {{anchor:s333}}Cardiac anguish. {{anchor:s334}}~ Endocarditis.\\ {{anchor:s335}}Angina pectoris (next to Arnic. indispensable).\\ {{anchor:s336}}Endocarditis rheumatica.\\ {{anchor:s337}}Heart disease accompanying carious affections of bones.\\ {{anchor:s338}}Beating of heart causes anxiety and sleeplessness, cannot rest until heart is quiet. {{anchor:s339}}~ Angina pectoris.\\ {{anchor:s340}}Percussion all along heart dull. {{anchor:s341}}~ Stenocardia.\\ {{anchor:s342}}Heartbeats irregular, with severe constriction of chest. {{anchor:s343}}~ Rheumatism, after disappearance of swelling of joints.\\ {{anchor:s344}}Palpitation: with anxiety; agg. from every mental emotion.\\ {{anchor:s345}}Heart contracts more strongly; first sound increased.\\ {{anchor:s346}}Heartbeats sharp and metallic, but no other abnormal sound. {{anchor:s347}}~ Angina pectoris.\\ {{anchor:s348}}Violent, irregular palpitation, with great oppression of heart. {{anchor:s349}}~ Endocarditis.\\ {{anchor:s350}}Throbbing in carotid and temporal arteries.\\ {{anchor:s351}}Pulse large. {{anchor:s352}}~ Angina pectoris.\\ {{anchor:s353}}Pulse small and frequent. {{anchor:s354}}~ Dropsy.\\ {{anchor:s355}}Heart's beat weak; apex felt indistinctly. {{anchor:s356}}~ Stenocardia.\\ {{anchor:s357}}Weak pulse and feeble heart. {{anchor:s358}}~ Dropsy. ====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ====== {{anchor:s360}}Hard swelling had twisted neck to right shoulder. {{anchor:s361}}~ After scarlatina; 2[c].\\ {{anchor:s362}}Dull drawing in neck while sitting.\\ {{anchor:s363}}Tension in dorsal vertebrae.\\ {{anchor:s364}}Burning, pricking, cutting and stiffness in back.\\ {{anchor:s365}}Very severe backache. ====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ====== {{anchor:s367}}Drawing in shoulders; agg. in bed.\\ {{anchor:s368}}Disagreeable sensation in shoulders and arms.\\ {{anchor:s369}}Tearing in left shoulder; in right arm, from elbow to tip of little finger.\\ {{anchor:s370}}Burning, lancinating in arms and forearms.\\ {{anchor:s371}}Involuntary concussive shocks in arms.\\ {{anchor:s372}}Spasmodic motion of arms.\\ {{anchor:s373}}Swelling in wrist, no pain, if left alone; tensive only when bending hand back; stitches on seizing anything.\\ {{anchor:s374}}Trembling of hands in morning.\\ {{anchor:s375}}Stiffness of arms and finger joints.\\ {{anchor:s376}}Tearing pain in middle finger after a meal.\\ {{anchor:s377}}(In sick:) Painful swelling of right hand. {{anchor:s378}}~ Endocarditis.\\ {{anchor:s379}}Burning and itching of hands.\\ {{anchor:s380}}The hands can be closed with less facility. ====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ====== {{anchor:s382}}Blood-boils on nates and thighs.\\ {{anchor:s383}}Stiffness in thighs and legs.\\ {{anchor:s384}}Heat, pricking and stinging in knees.\\ {{anchor:s385}}Knees painfully swollen; agg. stretching leg.\\ {{anchor:s386}}Exostoses, with bone pain in both shin bones. {{anchor:s387}}~ Secondary syphilis.\\ {{anchor:s388}}Right tibia, anterior aspect of bone denuded and black nearly its entire length, surrounding soft parts inflamed and swollen; with a boy, aet. 12, exfoliating and healing within six months. {{anchor:s389}}~ Necrosis.\\ {{anchor:s390}}Legs swollen and very tender along inside of tibia.\\ {{anchor:s391}}Left leg edematously swollen.\\ {{anchor:s392}}Infiltration of cellular tissue of legs; great tension, pain. {{anchor:s393}}~ Childbed.\\ {{anchor:s394}}Deep-seated, tensive pain in dorsum of left foot; agg. from motion, during evening and night, disturbing sleep; also from warmth.\\ {{anchor:s395}}A doughy, sharply defined, semicircular swelling on dorsum of left foot, extremely sensitive to touch.\\ {{anchor:s396}}Deep-seated, troublesome pain in left foot. {{anchor:s397}}~ After typhus.\\ {{anchor:s398}}Periostitis of left foot. {{anchor:s399}}~ After typhus. {{anchor:s400}}~ After mechanical injury.\\ {{anchor:s401}}Burning in feet.\\ {{anchor:s402}}Swelling of feet.\\ {{anchor:s403}}Cutting pain in toes when walking.\\ {{anchor:s404}}Redness and swelling of toes, with burning and stinging; cannot put feet down. ====== LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] ====== {{anchor:s406}}Drawing, tearing, especially in extremities.\\ {{anchor:s407}}Limbs cold, covered with sweat. {{anchor:s408}}~ After scarlatina. ====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ====== {{anchor:s412}}Lying: cannot lie on back. {{anchor:s413}}~ Anasarca.\\ {{anchor:s414}}Must lie doubled up: in colic.\\ {{anchor:s415}}Sitting: drawing in neck.\\ {{anchor:s416}}Standing: pressure on chest impeding breathing.\\ {{anchor:s417}}Stooping: pains in sternum worse.\\ {{anchor:s418}}Stretching leg: swollen knee worse.\\ {{anchor:s419}}Rising: throbbing left temple worse.\\ {{anchor:s420}}Motion: pain in left foot agg.; impossible in dropsy.\\ {{anchor:s421}}Walking: pain in toes.\\ {{anchor:s422}}Ascending a hill or stairs causes palpitation and dyspnea. {{anchor:s423}}~ Stenocardia.\\ {{anchor:s424}}Great restlessness; changes his position every moment; his friends call him "the quicksilver man.{{anchor:s425}}" ~ Neurosis cordis. ====== NERVES. [36] ====== {{anchor:s427}}(In sick:) Great nervous irritation.\\ {{anchor:s428}}Greatest exhaustion, mostly in limbs.\\ {{anchor:s429}}Frequent startings. {{anchor:s430}}~ Dropsy.\\ {{anchor:s431}}Restlessness with palpitation.\\ {{anchor:s432}}Weakness, fever and most violent symptoms, as if poisoned, after trituration in water, by teaspoonful, for syphilitic ulcers in throat.\\ {{anchor:s433}}Nervous affections, with disgust of life; insomnia and melancholy. ====== SLEEP. [37] ====== {{anchor:s435}}Yawning after eating.\\ {{anchor:s436}}Sleepy by day even at work.\\ {{anchor:s437}}Comatose sleep. {{anchor:s438}}~ Albuminuria.\\ {{anchor:s439}}Sleepless: from excitement; from palpitation.\\ {{anchor:s440}}Wakes with a start.\\ {{anchor:s441}}Dreams: with sadness; tormenting. ====== TIME. [38] ====== {{anchor:s443}}Morning: eyelids agglutinated; mucus passed from head to throat; erection if bladder is full; gleet agg.; leucorrhea agg.; trembling of hands. {{anchor:s444}}[B Day: sleepiness even while at work.\\ {{anchor:s445}}Evening: pain in left foot worse.\\ {{anchor:s446}}Night: burning and itching behind ears; diarrhea; urging to urinate; incontinence of urine agg.; suffocation; dry cough agg.; pain in foot; swelling of tissue worse. ====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ====== {{anchor:s448}}Cold washing: throbbing in left temple better.\\ {{anchor:s449}}Wet cold winter: improves.\\ {{anchor:s450}}Warmth: pain in left foot worse.\\ {{anchor:s451}}Cannot bear warmth of bedclothes, throws off covers. ====== FEVER. [40] ====== {{anchor:s453}}Slight chilliness over body.\\ {{anchor:s454}}Violent chill and fever.\\ {{anchor:s455}}Hectic fever: dropsy; after scarlatina; secondary syphilis.\\ {{anchor:s456}}Copious, offensive smelling sweat.\\ {{anchor:s457}}Sweat increased.\\ {{anchor:s458}}Copious cold sweat. {{anchor:s459}}~ After scarlatina.\\ {{anchor:s460}}Promotes sweat in smallpox. ====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ====== {{anchor:s462}}At times very much prostrated.\\ {{anchor:s463}}In paroxysms: drawing in stomach; short cough. ====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ====== {{anchor:s465}}Right: exostosis of cheek bone disappeared, tension and burning in hypochondrium; neck twisted to shoulder by hard swelling; tearing in arm; painful swelling of hand; tibia denuded and black.\\ {{anchor:s466}}Left: drawing in half of head; burning in side of head; throbbing in temple; neuralgia of eye; buzzing in ear; red swelling side of nose; stitches in hypochondrium; bubo in groin; pains side of chest; tearing in shoulder; pain dorsum of foot.\\ {{anchor:s467}}Right to left: stinging itching on small places.\\ {{anchor:s468}}Above downward: pain in forehead; pain in elbow.\\ {{anchor:s469}}Diagonally: pain from apex of heart. ====== SENSATIONS. [43] ====== {{anchor:s471}}As if eyes were drawn deep into head; as if ears were wide and hollow inside; feeling of a plug in throat; as if a hard body was pressed into epigastrium; as if chest would burst; disagreeable sensation in shoulders and arms.\\ {{anchor:s472}}Boring: in cardiac region.\\ {{anchor:s473}}Cutting: in cardiac region; in back; in toes; in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s474}}Lancinating: from cardiac region to left hypochonder; in arms.\\ {{anchor:s475}}Stitching: in face; in stomach; in left hypochonder; under ribs; above heart; in wrist.\\ {{anchor:s476}}Pleuritic pains: in chest.\\ {{anchor:s477}}Stinging: in occiput; in nose; in knees; in toes.\\ {{anchor:s478}}Pricking: in cardiac region; in back; in knees; in throat; in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s479}}Prickling: in eyes; in throat.\\ {{anchor:s480}}Burning: in head; in occiput; in forehead; in eyes; behind ears; in nose; in face; on lips; in mouth; in stomach; in right hypochonder; on urinating; in urethra; of vulva; in cardiac region; in back; in arms; in feet; in toes; of hands.\\ {{anchor:s481}}Biting: in mouth; at umbilicus.\\ {{anchor:s482}}Tearing: in bones of skull; in left shoulder; in right arm; from elbow to tip of little finger; in middle finger; in extremities.\\ {{anchor:s483}}Neuralgic pain: in left eye.\\ {{anchor:s484}}Digging: in face.\\ {{anchor:s485}}Jerking pain: in teeth.\\ {{anchor:s486}}Gnawing: in face; in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s487}}Scraping: in throat.\\ {{anchor:s488}}Drawing: in left half of head; in bones of skull; epigastrium to sternum; in abdomen; along spermatic cords; in cardiac region; in neck; in shoulders; in extremities.\\ {{anchor:s489}}Pressure: on brain; in nose; in scrobiculum; around waist; on chest; under sternum; in cardiac region; in hypochondria; in region of kidneys.\\ {{anchor:s490}}Aching: in cardiac region.\\ {{anchor:s491}}Penetrating pain: from forehead to nose.\\ {{anchor:s492}}Undefined pain: in throat; in bowels; in kidneys; in left foot; in chest.\\ {{anchor:s493}}Throbbing: in left temple.\\ {{anchor:s494}}Concussive shocks: in arms.\\ {{anchor:s495}}Constrictive colic.\\ {{anchor:s496}}Cramps: in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s497}}Contraction: of chest.\\ {{anchor:s498}}Tension: in loins; in vertebrae; in legs; in right hypochondrium; in foot.\\ {{anchor:s499}}Straining, tensive pain, as if laced: in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s500}}Stiffness: in groins; in back; in arms and finger joints; in thighs and legs.\\ {{anchor:s501}}Rigidity: in cardiac region.\\ {{anchor:s502}}Crawling: in nasal cavities.\\ {{anchor:s503}}Tickling: itching on forehead; in eyes; on face; in urethra.\\ {{anchor:s504}}Itching: in eyes; behind ears; in nose; on face; of lips; in mouth; at umbilicus; of vulva; in vagina; of hands.\\ {{anchor:s505}}Fullness: in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s506}}Heaviness: in cardiac region.\\ {{anchor:s507}}Heat: at umbilicus; in urethra; in vagina; in knees.\\ {{anchor:s508}}Coldness: on vertex.\\ {{anchor:s509}}Dryness: in throat. ====== TISSUES. [44] ====== {{anchor:s511}}Hyperemia from overaction of heart; consequent congestion of liver, kidneys, genitals.\\ {{anchor:s512}}Violent rheumatic fever, with painful swelling of joints; leaving joints and attacking heart.\\ {{anchor:s513}}Dropsies: from heart disease; from liver affections; with albuminuria; after scarlatina; with intermittent fever.\\ {{anchor:s514}}Swellings characterized by heat, hardness, tension, etc.; sensitiveness to touch; agg. at night, disturbing sleep.\\ {{anchor:s515}}Emaciation, especially in syphilis.\\ {{anchor:s516}}Indurations. {{anchor:s517}}See Nose, Lips, Teeth, Uterus, etc.\\ {{anchor:s518}}Cancerous glands.\\ {{anchor:s519}}Bones: periosteum affected; exostoses; caries, especially after abuse of mercury; syphilitic caries.\\ {{anchor:s520}}Caries of joints, with gnawing, boring deep in.\\ {{anchor:s521}}Ascites.\\ {{anchor:s522}}(In sick:) Morbid secretions are at once re-established. ====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ====== {{anchor:s526}}Touch: abdomen sensitive; swellings sensitive.\\ {{anchor:s527}}Light pressure: pain at apex of heart better.\\ {{anchor:s528}}Tight clothing: oppression of breathing worse.\\ {{anchor:s529}}Stepping: palpitation worse.\\ {{anchor:s530}}Cannot put foot to ground: toes red, swollen.\\ {{anchor:s531}}After mechanical injury: periostitis of foot.\\ {{anchor:s532}}Cured ascites even after three successive tappings. ====== SKIN. [46] ====== {{anchor:s534}}Eczema.\\ {{anchor:s535}}Skin dry and shrunken. {{anchor:s536}}~ Dropsy. {{anchor:s537}}~ Albuminuria.\\ {{anchor:s538}}Small red itching elevations, leaving spots after they disappear.\\ {{anchor:s539}}Whole body covered with ulcers and scurf, with hectic fever. {{anchor:s540}}~ Secondary syphilis.\\ {{anchor:s541}}(In sick:) Eruptions of pimples; crops of pustules all over body. ====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ====== {{anchor:s543}}Lymphatic, scrofulous constitution, with dropsy after scarlatina and albuminuria.\\ {{anchor:s544}}Girl, aet. 12, with hypertrophy of heart, with dilatation and insufficiency of valves. {{anchor:s545}}~ Hydropsia.\\ {{anchor:s546}}Woman, aet. 24, lymphatic constitution, scrofulous habit. {{anchor:s547}}~ Hydropsia.\\ {{anchor:s548}}Man, aet. 32, sanguine; robust. {{anchor:s549}}~ Secondary syphilis.\\ {{anchor:s550}}Woman, aet. 40, after rheumatism and endocarditis, fatty degeneration. {{anchor:s551}}~ Stenocardia.\\ {{anchor:s552}}A man, aet. 57, well-preserved, lively temperament, had gonorrhea. {{anchor:s553}}~ Angina pectoris.\\ {{anchor:s554}}After syphilis, maltreated by mercury. {{anchor:s555}}~ Osteocopus.\\ {{anchor:s556}}Mercurial affections.\\ {{anchor:s557}}(In sick:) Symptoms whose suppression had caused serious mischief reappear.\\ {{anchor:s558}}A stout young man, subject to rheumatic attacks. {{anchor:s559}}~ Endocarditis. ====== RELATIONS. [48] ====== {{anchor:s561}}Gold salts and mercury salts both loosen cohesion of organic tissue. {{anchor:s562}}Both stimulate the absorbent, secreting and excreting functions of skin, kidneys and salivary glands. {{anchor:s563}}Employed for a longer period they initiate a peculiar metamorphosis of plastic life. {{anchor:s564}}They differ from the mercurials in stimulating more the activity of heart and bloodvessels, but not fluidly organic tissue so powerfully as dry mercury.\\ {{anchor:s565}}Similar to: Acon., Amm. carb. (hyperemia of chest from heart disease); Arg. met., Arg. nitr., Arsen. (dropsy, albuminuria, heart); Bellad., Cinnab. (syphilis); Ferrum, Glonoine (intermediate remedy in neurosis cordis); Lycop., Mercur., Nitr. ac., Phosphor., Platin., Silic., Sulphur.\\ {{anchor:s566}}Incompatible: sulphur springs.\\ {{anchor:s567}}Antidotes: Bellad., Cinnab., Mercur. ---- ====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ====== ^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 02, 1880 | ^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r217|Aurum muriaticum]] | ^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r217|Aurum muriaticum]] | ^ Author: | Hering, C. | ^ Year: | 1880 | ^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting | ^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}