Aurum [Aur]
The greatest among the suicide remedies, and a remedy of the deepest depression.
Melancholy: imagines he is unfitted for the world: filled with intense delight when he thinks of death, so that he longs to die.
Meditates on death: on suicide: wants to get out of the world, to destroy himself. Has no love for his life, which he thinks worthless.
Morose: indisposed to talk. Sulky.
Sits apart in deepest melancholy. The slightest contradiction excites anger and he forgets himself; with quarrelling.
Discontent with his circumstances: with himself; hopeless: “people find him no good.”
Great anxiety felt in the precordium.
Feels hateful and quarrelsome: anxious palpitation with desire to commit suicide.
“Among the causes of the Aurum mental state of insanity, grief and hopelessness, syphilis is a common one; loss of property is another. -Kent.
Lack of gold has driven many to suicide: potentized gold has brought many back to life and hope. (See p. 46.).
Drosera [Dros]
Dejected about the malice of others; disheartened and concerned about the future.
Extremely uneasy, sad disposition: imagined he was being deceived by spiteful, envious people.
Anxiety as if his enemies would not leave him quiet; envied and persecuted him.
Anxiety, especially in the evening; impelled to jump into the water to take his own life not impelled to any other mode of death.
Takes insults resentfully. Trifles excites him so much that he is beside himself with rage.
Restlessness: reading, cannot stick long to one subject-must always go to something else.
“Curative reaction of vital powers,-happy, stead fast disposition: dreads no evil because conscious of having acted honourably.”
Particularly useful where there is a T.B. history. Drosera breaks down, and therefore enhances resistance to tubercle. (See p.46).
