AURUM METALLICUM :

- Pulford

IDENTIFICATION
Profound acute mental depression, settled melancholy and suicidal mania, despair.


Gold metal

ESSENTIAL : 

Thoughts of suicide

 Profound sadness, horrible depression of spirits, hopeless, loathes life, longs for death and a constant feeling of neglect. No other remedy produces a more acute mental depression. Affections preeminently perverted. Want of self confidence. Weeps. Memory weak. Extremely irritable; always in a state of vexation. Extremely anxious with palpitation. Over sensitive to all pain, it drives one to despair, like Acon. Veins full. Pulse small, weak, rapid Pains: violent, tear, bones ache as if they would break; knifelike in periosteum. All glands of body more or less affected. Averse to uncovering. Desires open are, like Puls., but Puls. is mild, gentle, yielding, Aur. obstinate, irascible. Aggravation: night; sunset to sunrise, like Syph.; warm bed and evening. Amelioration: cold wet weather, reverse of Dulc. Erythism or vascular fullness characterizes all the complaints.

Mind
No confidence in oneself, thinks others have none, makes one unhappy; delusion that one needs reproach for neglect of duty; despair about others; excited during pain, or, about religion, laughs and loathes life alternately; speaks continually in questions; sadness and physical energy alternate, as do stupefaction and convulsions; weeps when meeting people, Lyc. when thanked. (L): Desires death evening; delusion of neglected duty; impulse to jump from a height, or, out of the window; moans during sleep; suicidal disposition during pain; weary of life, evening. Constant rapid questioning, waits for no replies. Depression from want of children. Melancholy; from supposed loss of friendship; feels hateful and quarrelsome; terribly so after abuse of Merc., sad, hopeless. Anguish; precordial distress. Excited furiously by contradiction or dispute, pugnacity aroused, face becomes red. Averse to one's occupation, weeps. Absolute loss of enjoyment in everything. Sits and broods; looks on the dark side of everything.

Vertigo
Of syphilitics.

Head :


Pain in vertex.

Tearing rending pain in sides of occiput aggravation motion. (L): Tearing pain in vertex. Ache: aggravation growing warm; maddening pain, often as of air blowing on one, looks to see where draught comes from though there is none, very sensitive; often wants Head covered up, though it feels hot; face bloated flushed shiny; occiput, in heart disease, circulation sluggish, face purple, skin dusky. Skull bones and periosteum sore to touch.