Origin Mineral · Simple
Habitat metallic gold
ClarkePreparation Trituration.
Sources 14 entries across 13 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Allen …
Dose Boericke
3X–30X
Third to thirtieth potency. Latter potency especially for increased blood pressure
By regionHering
Mind ► Weak memory. ► Religious mania ; prays all the time. ► Uneasy, hurried, desire for mental and bodily activity ; cannot do things fast enough. ► Suicidal mood. ► Hallucinations ; sees dogs, a hand on the wall, etc., mania. ► Apprehensiveness, full of fear ; a more noise at the door makes him anxious. ► Melancholy, disposed to weep ; imagines he is unfit for this world, that he can never succeed. ► Great anguish, coming from the precordial region, driving him from place to place palpitation. ► Weary of life ; especially in evening, with longing for death. ► Has no confidence in herself, thinks others have none ; this makes her unhappy. ► Alternately peevish and cheerful. ► Contradiction excites wrath. ► Mental labor fatigues. ► Ailments from grief, disappointed love.
Inner Head ► Tearing headache deep in the forehead and temples, abating in the open air. ► Rush of blood to the head ; sparks before the eyes, and glossy, bloated face ; worse from mental exertion. ► Bruised pain, especially in the early morning or during mental labor, ideas become confused ; roaring in head. ► Headaches of students, with precordial anxiety and flashes of heat to the head. ► Megrim, stitching, burning pains, beating in one side of forehead ; nausea, even bilious vomiting. ► Fine tearing from the right side of the occiput through the brain to the forehead ; worse during motion.
Eyes ► Objects as if divided horizontally ; sees only half of an object, other half as if covered with a dark body. ► Tension in the eyes ; sees things double or mixed up. ► Fiery sparks before eyes ; optical illusions in bright colors. ► Pupils most frequently contracted. ► Cutting pain through the eyes. ► Iritis serosa and cornea spotted. ► Opacity of the cornea. θ After keratitis. ► Eyeballs protrude. ► Red sclerotica ; burning, stitching, drawing and itching at the inner canthus. ► Photophobia, profuse scalding tears on opening the eyes ; eyes very sensitive to touch. ► Pressive pain in orbit from above downward, within out. ► Bones around the eye feel bruised. ► Ulceration of the cornea in the course of pannus ; pains from within outwards ; worse from pressure. ► Little blisters turning into crusts on the edges of lids, with some trichiasis. ► Eyelids red, suppurating ; stinging, prickling, itching ; agglutination in the morning ; cilia fall out.
Stomach ► Burning sensation at stomach, with hot risings. ► Pressure in region of stomach, at noon. ► Pressure to the left of the scrobiculum, below cartilages of upper false ribs ; worse during expiration.
Female Sexual Organs ► Uterus prolapsed and indurated ; bruised pain, with shooting or drawing ; heaviness in abdomen ; after lifting a heavy load ; worse at time of menses. ► Sterility in syphilitic women ; also in the ill-nourished, who are mentally depressed because of their barrenness. ► Menses : too late, scanty ; preceded by swelling of axillary glands ; accompanied by colic ; prolapse of the rectum. ► Amenorrhoea, with prolapsus uteri and melancholy. ► Constant oozing from the vulva. ► Thick white leucorrhoea ; burning-smarting of the vulva ; labia majora red, swollen.
Lungs ► Shooting pains in chest after attacks of palpitation. ► Dull stitches in both sides of chest, with heat in the chest and dyspnoea ; increased by inspiration. ► Persistent dry catarrh on the chest, early in the morning, on walking ; with great difficulty he raises little phlegm, and this only after rising from bed.
Neck And Back ► Swollen cervical glands. ► Tension in neck, as if muscles were too short, even at rest, mostly when stooping. ► Spine disease, with gressus galinaceous. ► Pain in small of back as from fatigue. ► Tendons of lumber muscles so painfully stiff, that the thigh cannot be raised ; thigh feels paralyzed.
Limbs In General ► Limbs go to sleep, numb, insensible on awaking ; more lying than moving. ► Paralytic drawing in of the limbs in the morning when awaking ; also on getting cold. ► Has to seize hold of left arm during attacks of palpitation. ► Swelling of periosteum of forearm and thigh bones. ► Pain as from bruises in head and limbs, early in bed ; mostly at rest ; passes off after rising.
Sleep ► Sobs aloud during sleep ; frightful dreams about thieves, with loud screams. ► Awake all night, on pain ; no lassitude or sleepiness in the morning. ► Sleeplessness after midnight. ► Awakened by bone pains, suffering so great he despairs, does not want to live. ► Bruised feeling, mornings in bed.
Chill, Fever And Sweat ► Cold hands and feet ; sometimes lasting all night want of thirst. ► Chill lessened after getting out of bed ; shivering in bed ; legs cold as far as the knees. ► Coldness of whole body, nausea chill predominates. ► Heat only in face ; aversion to uncovering cold hands and feet. ► Heat alternating with chill. ► Auric fever : temperature raised, pulse frequent, then profuse, lasting sweats, salivation, sore mouth ; profuse urine, or turbid, fetid urine. ► Sweat early in morning, mostly on and around genitals.
Skin ► Violent itching, first in the soles of the feet and then over the whole body, from evening till midnight. ► Fine popular eruption on the face. ► Deep ulcers, affecting the bones ; after abuse of mercury. ► Small and large blotches, burning feeling like hard knots, of a dirty yellow color ; less in-doors than in open air.
Books*
Antidoted by Mercurius Solubilis 3, Aurum 2, Coffea Cruda 2 +13
Complementary —
Follows well Asa Foetida, Calcarea Carbonica, Platinum Metallicum +4
Compare Asa Foetida, Belladonna, Glonoinum +39
* Number of books that state the relation, where more than one. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works.
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