|  Discovered
: known since prehistoric times.
Origin : The name is the Anglo-Saxon word for
the metal and the symbol comes from the Latin ‘aurum’,
gold.
Description:
A soft metal with a characteristic colour and since it is chemically
unreactive, one of the few elements to occur in a natural state.
It will dissolve in aqua regia (royal water), a mixture of nitric
and hydrochloric acids. It can be beaten into very thin sheets (gold
leaf) to be used as architectural ornament. Another use is in jewellery
and some is also employed in the electronics industry and to colour
glass or make it reflect heat . About 1500 tonnes of gold are mined
each year, chiefly in South Africa and Russia, and most of this
is stored as bullion. There is a lot of gold in the sea, but with
only 1 gramme in 1,000,000 tonnes of seawater, schemes to reclaim
gold from the oceans have always failed.
THE AURUM GROUP
This group has been neglected by homeopaths because of insufficient
knowledge about it. We are starting with Aurum metallicum which
expresses the basic characteristics of the group and then we shall
describe the salts of the group starting with the ones that have
been most often used.
AURUM METALLICUM
Here we find the occurrence of visions in excess. Having
a vision (in life) and working for it is a prerequisite of success.
When a person possesses the tendency to pursue visions for the betterment
of society and does this without the motive of personal gain, he
approaches the state of the gold of the alchemist's stone.
APOLLO, GOD OF CREATION IS RELATED WITH AURUM METALLICUM.
The psychological state of Aurum is quite different from that
state, as this one is a state of excessive envisioning propelled
by selfish motives. The person wishes to always be the best and
spares no effort to achieve this goal. He works the whole day in
order to realize his ambition to reach the top. Aurum is a very
hard-working person. He works in a tireless and methodical manner.
He possesses an inner strength which pushes towards the materialization
of the vision. He takes it as a great failure if he comes second.
Aurum cannot stand defeat, either. When defeated he gets sick, as
he always wants to be the winner.
In this painting you see an Aurum person admiring himself in the
lake.
Aurum is serious, talks sparingly, is very responsible and gets
easily offended. He cannot stand being doubted. He does not gives
anyone the right to do something like that. He is consistent and
hurried as well. He wants his job to be done well and fast. Therefore,
he could be misidentified for Argentum. Here some clarification
is needed: when we talk about consistency we must keep in mind that
a lot of other concepts can be connected with it; someone may be
consistent because he does not wish to lose public acclaim, another
so that the vision may be fulfilled, another because he may be in
fear of punishment, another because he wishes to appear perfect,
another because he fears abuse, another because he wants to avoid
being abandoned. etc.
Therefore, when we search for and examine concepts while getting
the medical record, we have to find out whether a concept held by
the person is primary or secondary in the sense of it being derived
from another concept. In Aurum, consistency derives from his vision
(goal). In Argentum, consistency is due to the reign of reason;
the person is consistent simply because this is the right thing
and this is how we should be. This is why we consider that Argentum
expresses the concept of consistency in a more direct way. In Zincum,
consistency is due to fear of punishment and when that consistency
is due to punishment then it becomes false. Thus the Greek name
"pseudosilver" is a perfect fit to this psychological
characteristic of the homeopathic remedy we make from this metal.
Coming back to Aurum we see that the person has an inner strength
perceived by others. So, he easily becomes the leader in a group
or family. Everybody leans on him. He offers others the steadfastness
of a rock and is a refuge for them, a haven. He constantly offers
himself to others, works for others but all these efforts are not
selfless. He offers to all and everyone but at the same time needs
to have others by his side. The result is that he may easily feel
neglected, abandoned, he may feel that he has lost their love, and
can get very angry because of these feelings.
The fact that he feels this way can be deduced from the symptoms:
ANGER irascibility.
absent persons while thinking of them, at
contradiction, from
trembling, with
trifles, at
violent
ANXIETY
conscience, as if guilty of a crime
future, about
CARES worries, full of
trifles, about
CENSORIUS critical
CONFIDENCE want of self
CONSCIENTIOUS about trifles
CONTRADICT disposition to
CONTRADICTION is intolerant, of, agg.
CONTRARY
CONVERSATION agg.
COWARDICE
DECEPTION causes grief and mortification
DELUSIONS
affection of friends, has lost
best, wants to be the
confidence in him, his friends have lost all
deserted, forsaken is
neglected his duty, he has
reproach, has neglected duty and deserves
unfit for the world, he is
vision, he is after a
DISCONTENTED displeased, dissatisfied
himself, with
EGOTISM self-esteem
EXCITEMENT excitable
trembling, with
FASTIDIOUS
FORSAKEN FEELING
HATRED
persons who had offended him, of
revenge, and
HAUGHTY
HURRY HASTE
IMPATIENCE
INDUSTRIOUS mania for work
INTROSPECTION
IRRITABILITY
absent persons, with
OBSTINATE headstrong
OCCUPATION diversion amel.
OFFENDED easily; takes everything in bad part
PRAYING
SENSITIVE oversensitive
SERIOUS earnest
Aurum is very sensitive in spite of the inner strengths that he
possesses and shows to others. He can be easily hurt and disappointed,
can easily feel humiliated, neglected, underestimated or may get
angry easily. He may be violent when angry. On such occasions his
behavior does not remind others of the character they have been
used to dealing with. However, the anger does not usually manifest
itself. Then, the person develops hypochondriac symptoms. He exhibits
the picture of someone with an imaginary serious disease. For example,
he may think that he has a heart problem, or "is often subject
to heart attacks".
The hypochondriac symptoms are an unconscious punishment of others
for their "indifference". Yet, this strategy is accompanied
by pain and other ailments which give him some kind of morbid self
satisfaction that someone(himself), at least, is interested.
A hypochondriac symptomatology may present itself after a failure
of the individual to be the best, a failure that brings disappointment
and low self-esteem. However, no matter what the deeper cause is,
hypochondriasis is a defense which protects from intense melancholia
and/or suicide.
We find in Aurum the following symptoms:
AILMENTS FROM anger, vexation
anxiety, with
fright, with
indignation, with
silent grief, with
contradiction
disappointment
excitement, emotional
fright
grief
love disappointed
mortification
scorn, being scorned
violence
ANGER irascibility
absent persons while thinking of them, at
contradiction, from
trembling, with
trifles, at
violent
COMPLAINING
DESPAIR
others, about
EXCITEMENT excitable
trembling, with
FEAR apprehension dread
death, of
heart arising from
organic, of
disease of
stomach, arising from
tremulous
HYPOCHONDRIASIS
IRRITABILITY
absent persons, with
REPROACHES others
RUDENESS
SADNESS friends, as if lost affection of
THINKING complaints agg., of
It is worth the while to study the main action of this remedy as
it used to be described in the Materia Medica of our time until
recently. Here we are talking about melancholia. The term requires
some clarification. The word "melancholia" comes from
the words "μέλας-melas" and "χόλος-holos". The adjective
“melas” means black, dark, gloomy, terrible, dark-souled,
vague, inauspicious. The noun “holos" means bite, wrath,
anger, indignation, rage. Black color symbolizes mourning, it is
the color of death and destruction. Therefore, according to the
above the term "melancholia" describes the psychological
state of destructive wrath.
As we write in our comparative study titled "Roots-Principles
for the Unification of Human Sciences", black bile corresponds
to the syphilitic miasm. (The correspondence is blood-psora, sycosis-phlegm,
yellow bile- tubercular, black bile-syphilitic).
Therefore, melancholia is the syphilitic sadness.
Now, lets go back to Aurum. When melancholic the patient loses
every interest in life. Everything seems to him futile meaningless,
sad. He wants to end his life. He feels that he is to blame for
everything, that he has made mistakes, that he has neglected his
duties, that his friends have lost their trust in him. He feels
deep despair and wishes to give an end to his life. This may be
done either by falling from a high place or driving in the opposite
direction or crashing the car against a wall, or by using a gun,
getting drowned or hanging. The suicidal wish is often fulfilled.
When this happens no one in the family realizes anything. Aurum
is the person who works late and after work goes and does away with
himself. Aurum as a remedy can also be prescribed in cases of minor
depression without suicidal ideation.
In such cases it is possible that after ingesting the remedy, the
individual should tell you that he has observed having suicidal
ideation which was not insistent and did not last long, while he
did not have such ideas before. This is not due to a proving of
the remedy but it is due to the realization of repressed suicidal
tendencies. When this happens, it means that the patient is doing
well, as after an increase of awareness the general condition is
improved. Such cases need adept treatment and readiness on the part
of the therapist. On other occasions depression is covert and the
person becomes desperate, feels tired out and fed up with life as
a result of his physical ailments. Alternatively the remedy may
be indicated in bipolar disorder where we have an alternation between
depressive and manic symptoms.
The above are evident from the clinical symptoms:
ANXIETY
salvation, about
suicidal disposition, with
weary of life, with
BROODING
corner or moping, b. in a
CHEERFUL gay, mirthful
alternating with anger
sadness
violence
CONTEMPTOUS self, of
DEATH desires
evening
convalescence, during
thoughts of
DELUSIONS
confidence in him, his friends have lost all
doomed
fail, everything will
melancholy
mortification, after
neglected his duty, he has
religious
right, does nothing
succeed, he cannot, does everything wrong
wrong, he has done
DESPAIR
lost, thinks everything is
pains, with the
periodical
religious d. of salvation
DISGUST
everything, with
INDIFFERENCE
IRRITABILITY
sadness, with
LOATHING
life, at
life, evening
LOQUACITY rapid questioning
MANIA
MELANCHOLY brooding
MOOD alternating
changeable, variable
PRAYING
PROSTRATION of mind
RELIGIOUS affections
melancholia
remorse, from
REPROACHES himself
SADNESS
suicidal disposition, with
SELF criticism
SUICIDAL disposition
drowning, by
hanging, by
hypochondriasis, by
pains, from
sadness, from
shooting, by
thoughts
throwing himself from a height
throwing himself windows from
TALK indisposed to, desire to be silent, taciturn
others agg., talk of
WEARY OF LIFE
AURUM SULFURATUM
The remedy has the characteristics of Aurum but the influence
of sulphur is strong. There is a resemblance with Aurum sulphuricum
as well. The person has the feeling that he is not appreciated by
others and exercises great efforts to be appreciated, to obtain
praise and admiration. It is an important antisycotic remedy. As
we have stated in the unified theory of idiosyncrasy, the sycotic
miasm corresponds to fixation at the anal developmental stage of
psychoanalytic theory.
The above characteristics show us a general tendency for stagnation,
for immobility. They direct us towards a certain group of remedies
which can help a lot with differential diagnosis but do not help
us prescribe the absolutely similar remedy.
When Kent stated that there were three main remedies for the sycotic
miasm, that is Thuja, Natrum sulphuricum and Meddhorinum, he did
not possess knowledge of many important remedies known today, of
the sulphur compounds, for instance. Whenever the homeopath, finds
out that sycosis is prominent in one of his patients, he prescribes
one of the basic antimiasmatic remedies, Natrum sulfuricum, for
example in order to effect a clearer picture.
He has then used a partly similar remedy. In such a case, he prescribes
for the outer "layer" of symptoms. After the latter have
subsided he will prescribe for the next "layer" and so
forth. This is a method which Hahnemann used to employ a lot because
he had very few remedies at his disposal. However, the more remedies
we know of in depth, the more possible it is to approach the similar
remedy. Aurum sulfuratum is one of the remedies which has not been
prescribed as often as required, because there has been an undue
stress on the layers approach. In one case, for example, the patient
had taken Sulfur, Nitric acid and Aurum over a period of eight years.
He had improved; however, as soon as he was given Aurum sulfuratum,
he felt a lot better, he experienced great change in his life and
a fuller and more permanent improvement of his symptoms. Due to
the above findings, I believe that a deep understanding of this
kind of study of the periodic table will help a lot with the evolution
of our therapeutic art.
Let us come back to Aurum sulfuratum. These are people who are
visionaries and have the tendency to be the best in everything they
undertake; however, they often feel they are not appreciated in
spite of all their efforts. They may be strong individuals who function
as a support to those around them; however, they feel that they
are actually not as appreciated as they should be. They constantly
strive to win this appreciation. When they do not manage this in
spite of their efforts, they become irritable and very critical
of others. We find quite a number of sycotic characteristics in
their personalities; their physical characteristics are very similar
to those of Natrum sulfuricum.
A depressive state may appear when the individual's efforts to
implement his visions or to win the appreciation of others are not
effective. Here we must distinguish between this state and the depression
of Aurum metallicum in that the element of control is developed,
and, consequently, the suicidal ideation is rarely implemented.
Sycotic characteristics, when they exist in a depressive person,
are among the positive signs that make suicide less probable. However,
these same characteristics obstruct psychotherapy as they contribute
to a lack of flexibility.
The above are shown in the symptomatology below:
AILMENTS FROM grief
ANXIETY
conscience, as if guilty of a crime
fear, with
salvation, about
CENSORIOUS critical
dearest friends, with
CONFIDENCE want of self
COWARDICE
DEATH desires
DELUSIONS, best, wants to be the
vision, he is after a
EXCITEMENT excitable
HURRY, haste
OFFENDED easily, takes everything in bad part
PROSTRATION of mind
RUDENESS
SADNESS
SUICIDAL thoughts
AURUM SULFURATUM NATRONATUM
When the Aurum person intensely seeks appreciation in relationships,
the remedy is Aurum sulfuratum natronatum.
AURUM SULFURATUM KALINATUM
When the person intensely seeks appreciation from his own people,
the people he is closed related to, then the remedy is Aurum sulfuratum
kalinatum.
AURUM SULFURATUM CALCAREATUM
When an Aurum person, together with the need for appreciation
feels an intense need for protection, safety, security then the
remedy is Aurum sulfuratum calcareatum.
AURUM SULFURATUM MAGNESIATUM
It is about people who are trying to overcome the feeling of being
an orphan via appreciation and creation.
AURUM IODATUM
This salt present in addition to the characteristics of Aurum,
also present those of Iodum. The main characteristic is that the
person lives with the intense feeling that he will be abandoned.
Consequently, what we have here is a person who, all along with
the dynamism and the visions of Aurum also harbours a delusion that
he will be abandoned by those who support him. As he fears abandonement,
he forms too strong an attachment to other people and spares no
efforts to keep them by his side.
In Aurum iodatum we have a preponderance of the tubercular miasm.
We have a person with a need for change as he easily becomes bored.
For example, he likes travelling a lot. This is quite an amorous
person; however, he feels that the partner may abandon the relationship.
When we are dealing with a person which is very emotional, a person
for whom the most important thing in life is the relationship with
a love partner and in addition to that there is a feeling of insecurity,
a feeling that the love partner will abandon the relationship, then
the remedy needed is Natrum iodatum. When the person bonds himself
with the group, that is with family or friends and harbours a feeling
of insecurity stemming from a fear that they will abandon him, then
the remedy is Kali iodatum.
Each and everyone of us has some life principles, some ideas about
his and other people's identity, about his relationship with others.
Each one of us prioritizes various aspects of life in a different
order. This prioritization has to do with our imaginary experience
of reality. Consequently, in order to conceive a remedy in depth
we have to understand the principles this remedy expresses, we have
to conceive the concepts it is connected with. This is the true
essence of the remedy and it is very important to truly conceive
this essence. If we have a deep understanding of the remedy then
we can prescribe it with ease. On the contrary, if we know a remedy
only superficially and this happens when we base our knowledge on
behaviors then, we easily confuse certain remedies.
Let us go back to Aurum iodatum. The feeling of insecurity coming
from fear of abandonment makes this person giving to others; however
he does this in a bothersome way. As the behavior of others is often
interpreted as abandonment, the individual becomes irritable. The
results of the above may be hypochondriasis or depression.
AURUM IODATUM NATRONATUM
If we are dealing with a person whom we perceive as Aurum iodatum
and we see that abandonment is focused on the relationship
with the life partner then the remedy should be Aurum iodatum natronatum.
He tries his best not to be abandoned by his/her partner.
AURUM IODATUM KALINATUM
Similarly, if we have a person who fits well Aurum iodatum and
we see that he fears he will be abandoned by friends or family,
then the remedy is Aurum iodatum kalinatum. He tries his best not
to be abandoned by friends.
AURUM IODATUM CALCAREATUM
When an Aurum iodatum person needs safety and protection the remedy
is Aurum iodatum calcareatum. Therefore, Aurum iodatum calcareatum
children are afraid of being abandoned if they are not creative
or the best.
AURUM IODATUM MAGNESIATUM
The main concept of Aurum iodatum magnesiatum is the occurrence
of visions in excess to avoid abandonment due to their orphanhood.
AURUM IODATUM SULFURATUM
When an Aurum iodatum person needs intensely appreciation too,
the remedy is Aurum iodatum sulfuratum.
AURUM MURIATICUM
Here we have diffuse disappointment. It is the disappointment of
a person whose visions have not been fulfilled either because of
life adversities or because others did not do their duty. The disappointment
of an Aurum person may have to do with the people he has helped
and supported. It may be that no actual events have taken place
but this "visionary" may report that he gets easily disappointed.
He may tell you that he is afraid he will be disappointed by those
he supports, by those he constantly offers himself to and works
for.
He is an introvert and does not express his complaints to others.
He cannot stand being answered back and wishes that others should
obey. Whenever this does not happen he gets angry at them. Hypochondriasis
is the result of not expressing his anger. The person thinks he
has some serious disease and goes from one doctor to another. This
remedy may also be indicated in depressive and suicidal states.
Wider experience with Aurum muriaticum is expected in the future.
For the time being we can recognize the following symptoms:
SINGLE SYMPTOMS
ANGER thinking of his ailments, when
MOROSE thinking of his ailments when alone, on
RESTLESSNESS angina pectoris, in
COMMON SYMPTOMS
ABSENT MINDED starts when spoken to
AILMENTS FROM anger, vexation
disappointment
excitement, emotional
fright
grief
mortification
ANXIETY excitement, from
mental exertion, from
BUSINESS averse to
CAPRICIOUSNESS
CHEERFUL gay, mirthful
afternoon
COMPANY DESIRE for, aversion to solitude, company am.
CONFUSION of mind
CONTRADICT disposition to
DEATH desires
DELIRIUM
congestion, with
headache, from h., delirium
DELUSIONS
best, wants to be the
disease, he has every
vision, he is after a
DISCONTENTED, displeased, dissatisfied
EXCITEMENT excitable
EXERTION agg. from mental
FEAR evil, of
palpitation, with
suffocation night
HEEDLESS
HORRIBLE things, sad stories, affect her profoundly
HYPOCHONDRIASIS
INDOLENCE aversion to work
IRRITABILITY
LOATHING life at
MEMORY WEAKNESS OF
MOOD changeable, variable
MUSIC am.
RELIGIOUS melancholia
RESTLESSNESS
air, a.m. In open
walking air, in open
SADNESS
climaxis, during
mercury, after abuse of
SHRIEKING screaming, shouting
STARTING startled
sleep, during
sleep, from
spoken to, when
waking suffocated, as if
SUICIDAL disposition
THINKING complaints agg., of
WEARY OF LIFE
WEEPING tearful mood
WORK aversion to mental
AURUM MURIATICUM NATRONATUM
This salt is an important remedy and has been used a lot less
than is necessary, because its psychopathology is not well known.
When we have the basic characteristics of Aurum and we also hear
of frequent disappointment in this person's love life or of his
feeling insecure due to fear of such disappointment, then the remedy
indicated is Aurum muriaticum natronatum.
As the person deludes himself into believing that he will be disappointed
in his love relatioship he becomes very selective in his love life.
He may get involved only superficially and avoid serious involvements.
This is a very good remedy for people who cannot decide to get married.
Together with the above there is always the tendency for envisioning
and its relevant psychopathology which we have described in Aurum.
The individual often feels that he must be the best in order not
to be disappointed in the relationship. This is often found in puberty
which is a very disturbed period and the issue of a love relationship
is timely. Aurum muriaticum natronatum is a very useful remedy in
cases of depression due to disappointment at this age. There may
exist suicidal ideation or even a suicide attempt. It is one of
the best remedies for suicidal tendencies after disappointment in
a love relationship. However, such disappointment is not necessary
to exist as a provoking factor in order to prescribe this remedy.
It may be indicated in any age in cases of suicidal ideation with
any provoking factor. But then, we have chronic disappointment in
love relationships.
Involution is another phase during which relationship issues come
to the fore. Women with a chronic disappointment in their love life
run the danger of having an uterine problem like a fibromyoma or
cancer. For this reason, this particular remedy has been used for
diseases of the uterus, a lot. Men with a corresponding psychopathology
are prone to enlargement and/or cancer of the prostate gland. There
we have to say that there are other important compounds which could
be useful for the management of such problems, such as Argentum
muriaticum muriaticum, Zincum muriaticum natronatum, Cuprum muriaticum
natronatum, Baryta muriatica natronata, Platinum muriaticum natronatum,
Plumbum muriaticum natronatum etc. Their basic characteristics we
described elsewhere.
We have found that the following symptoms are covered by this remedy:
AILMENTS FROM
anger, vexation
disappointment
grief
love disappointed
mortification
rudeness of others
scorn, being scorned
ANXIETY
AVERSION
husband, to
sex, to opposite
COMPANY AVERSION TO
CONFIDENCE want of self
DELUSIONS
best, wants to be the
doomed, being
vision, he is after a
DISCONTENTED
DISCOURAGED
DWELLS on past disagreeable occurences
recalls disagreeable memories
EXCITEMENT
EXERTION agg. from mental
GRIEF
cry, cannot
silent
HATRED
revenge, h. and
INDIFFERENCE
everything, to
recovery, about his
INDUSTRIOUS
IRRESOLUTION
marry, to
IRRITABILITY
JEALOUSY
LAUGHING
convulsions before, during or after
LOATHING life, at
LOVE
sadness from
silent grief, with
OFFENDED easily
PROSTRATION of mind
PUBERTY mental affections in
READING unable, to read
REMORSE
REPROACHES himself
SADNESS
grief, after
love from disappointed
puberty, in
suicidal disposition, with
weep, cannot
SENSITIVE
SIGHING
SUICIDAL DISPOSITION
sadness, from
AURUM MURIATICUM KALINATUM
The Aurum muriaticum kalinatum is the Aurum person who deludes
himself into believing that he will be disappointed from love from
his own people, the people he is closed related to, his friends
or family.
AURUM MURIATICUM CALCAREATUM
When an Aurum person, is easily disappointed and feels an intense
need for protection, safety, security then the remedy is Aurum muriaticum
calcareatum.
AURUM MURIATICUM MAGNESIATUM
The main concept of Aurum muriaticum magnesiatum people is a need
for creation to overcome their deep inner disappointment due to
their orphanhood (imaginary or real). |
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