AURUM MURIATICUM


AURUM MURIATICUM symptoms from Manual of the Homeopathic Practice by Charles Julius Hempel. What are the uses of the homeopathy remedy AURUM MURIATICUM…


INTRODUCTION

AUR. MUR. – The Muriate of Gold. Hahnemann’s “Chronic Diseases,” II

(Symptoms of Jahr, Noack, and Trinks,.).

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

Spasms and convulsions. Inflammatory affections of internal organs. Seething of the blood. Haemorrhages. Fainting fits. Aggravation of the syphilitic symptoms.

SKIN

Purple redness of the skin. – Condylomata.

SLEEP

Obstinate sleeplessness.

FEVER

Violent chills. Increase of the animal heat and of the turgor- vitalis; general erethism and acceleration of the circulation. Profuse sweats. Violent fever; fever, with excessive and continual heat of the skin; febrile paroxysm, with shuddering pain in the limbs, back, and stomach, terminating in critical sweat, sediment in the urine, and ptyalism; febrile paroxysm, with irritated pulse, slight chilliness, heat, thirst, redness of the skin, terminating in a critical sweat which continued for several days; urine, ptyalism, diarrhoea, blennorrhoea, and ulcers; fever, with hard, spasmodic pulse and great restlessness; the fever resembles the Mercury, but still more the Iodine fever. Feverish, full, strong pulse; pulse 80, 90, 100 a minute.

MORAL SYMPTOMS

Violent anguish. Sadness. Cheerfulness.

HEAD

Vertigo. Titillation in the forehead. Drawing pain in the forehead. Congestion of the blood to the head, increasing to delirium. Throbbing in the carotids and temporal arteries.

EYES

Lacerating in the left eye. – Amaurosis.

EARS

Tingling and humming in the ears, followed by hardness of hearing.

NOSE

Creeping and crawling in the nose; *redness and inflammation, with itching of the nose, and subsequent desquamation; *red swelling of the left side of the nose, ulceration of the inner cavity; *ozoena, with discharge of a yellowish-green pus, *also with discharge of blood from the nose.

TEETH

Darting pain in the teeth, partly on one side of the jaw, partly in the upper incisors. (N.B. According to Chrestien, the Muriate of Gold acts more violently than Corrosive Sublimate, but irritates the gums less).

MOUTH

Frequent accumulation of saliva in the mouth; mild, inodorous, watery salivation, with slight inflammation of the buccal cavity. Dry mouth. Painful irritation of the parts over which the food passes. Inflammation of the buccal cavity. Dryness of the tongue. Red tongue. excoriation of the tongue. Warts on the tongue. Blueness of the mucous membrane of the mouth and the tongue protruded from the mouth (in dogs). *Ulceration and swelling of the lips and nose, particularly in scrofulous persons.

PHARYNX AND OESOPHAGUS

Dryness of the fauces. Redness of the fauces and pharynx.

APPETITE AND TASTE

Metallic taste. Loss of appetite. Increased appetite.

STOMACH

Nausea. Vomiting; vomiting of white, frothy matter, or of a small quantity of livid-colored matter. Feeling of increased warmth in the stomach. Pressure in the region of the stomach. Cardialgia. – Gastric irritation. Most violent gastritis.

ABDOMEN

Distension of the abdomen. Contractive, tensive pain of the abdomen. Pains in the abdomen and diarrhoea.

STOOL AND ANUS

Constipation. Frequent liquid stools. Diarrhoea and pain in the bowels. Warts and condylomata at the anus.

URINE

Increased secretion of urine, the urine having a peculiar smell and sediment. Turbid urine, with brick-dust sediment.

GENITAL ORGANS

Increased sexual instinct. exhausting erections. Warts and condylomata on the prepuce. Flat ulcers on the scrotum. The menses appear sooner and are more profuse.

LARYNX

Feeling of obstruction in the larynx, with shortness of breath; *affections of the larynx in syphilitic persons, or from abuse of Mercury. Hoarseness, with violent fever.

CHEST

Deep, labored breathing; oppressed breathing. strong noise at every expiration. labored, whistling, panting breathing, threatening suffocation. Great oppression in the chest. Suffocation, with great pain. Sticking pain below the ribs, with all the symptoms of pleurisy. Inflammatory condition of the thoracic viscera; pneumonia. A few stitches directly above the heart. Peculiar feeling of heaviness and hardness in the heart, with frequent and sudden arrest of breathing. Palpitation of the heart. Inflammation of the heart.

EXTREMITIES

Swelling on the writ-joint, with tension when bending the hand backwards, and stitches in the swelling when grasping anything.

Charles Julius Hempel
Charles Julius Hempel (5 September 1811 Solingen, Prussia - 25 September 1879 Grand Rapids, Michigan) was a German-born translator and homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. While attending medical lectures at the University of New York, where he graduated in 1845, he became associated with several eminent homeopathic practitioners, and soon after his graduation he began to translate some of the more important works relating to homeopathy. He was appointed professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1857.