AURUM METALLICUM


Respiratory symptoms of homeopathic remedy Aurum Metallicum, described by Van Denburg in his book, Therapeutics of Respiratory system, cough & coryza, published in 1916….


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TEMPERAMENT-

Melancholy, depressed, suicidal.

CORYZA.

Dry coryza.

Nose feels as if stopped up, but is not so. Violent fluent coryza.

Coryza with thick discharges like white of egg.

Ozena, excessively fetid discharge, severe head-ache. (Chronic.)

DISCHARGES-

None; nose dry.

Crusts in nose with sneezing.

Fluent watery coryza.

Thick, like the white of an egg; frequent sneezing.

NOSE-

Sensitive to odors, everything smells too strong.

Putrid smell when blowing the nose.

Thick, yellow, dry firm pieces blown from nose, Always with offensive odor.

COUGH.

DRY COUGH-

Spasmodic cough, severe and racking; worse at night.

Lasting all night, from sunset to sunrise.

Morning, cough on awakening; with tough, yellow sputum.

With great dyspnea at night. (Organic heart disease.)

Morning; continues till he gets up, and finally raises a little bit of phlegm.

SPUTA-

None; or, difficult, thick, adhesive; from the larynx or the trachea.

WORSE-

In warm air, and wet weather; congestive asthma.

At night: not easy anywhere: cough; breathing.

In morning, on waking; till little phlegm is raised.

All night, sunset to sunrise; dry cough.

CHEST AND RESPIRATION-

Great weight on chest, especially on sternum (angina pectoris).

Violent rush of blood to the chest.

Asthma, from congestion to chest; face, bluish-red.

Morning asthma, face blue; worse in wet weather and in warm air.

Difficult breathing at night; not easy anywhere.

TEMPERAMENT-

Greatly depressed; very low-spirited.

Peculiar to women; uterine cough.

SENSATIONS-

Very sensitive to odors; everything smells too strong.

Great weight and oppression of chest: breathing difficult.

Extreme tightness of chest, with difficult breathing.

M.W. Van Denburg
M. W. (Marvin W.) VAN DENBURG, A.M., M.D.
Author of "A homoeopathic materia medica on a new and original plan ... A sample fascicle containing the arsenic group."
"Therapeutics of the respiratory system, cough and coryza, acute and chronic : repertory with index, materia medica with index"