Aurum metallicum

Latin name: Aurum metallicum

Short name: Aur

Common name: Metallic Gold | Pure Gold | Elemental Gold

Primary miasm: Syphilitic   Secondary miasm(s): Psoric

Kingdom: Minerals

Family: Element | Noble Metal

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  • Symptomatology
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  • Differentiation & Application

Aurum metallicum is prepared from pure elemental gold (Au), a noble metal known for its incorruptibility and luster. In ancient traditions, gold was associated with the sun, immortality, and the divine. Chemically, gold is inert and does not tarnish or corrode. In homeopathy, it is triturated into a fine powder and potentised to unlock deep psychological and systemic healing effects.

Historically used in alchemy, religious ceremonies, and currency. In medicine, colloidal gold and gold salts have been used in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and tuberculosis.

Historically used in alchemy, religious ceremonies, and currency. In medicine, colloidal gold and gold salts have been used in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and tuberculosis.

  • Mind and emotions – despair, depression, suicidal tendencies
  • Heart and circulatory system – hypertension, palpitations, valvular defects
  • Bones and periosteum – pain, swelling, caries of nasal and palatine bones
  • Liver – enlargement and congestion
  • Genitalia (male) – sexual excesses, testicular atrophy
  • Mucous membranes – catarrhal affections, ulceration
  • Nasal bones and palate – syphilitic destruction
  • Right side – symptoms often affect the right side more strongly
  • Glands – induration and swelling, particularly cervical and parotid
  • Mind and emotions – despair, depression, suicidal tendencies
  • Heart and circulatory system – hypertension, palpitations, valvular defects
  • Bones and periosteum – pain, swelling, caries of nasal and palatine bones
  • Liver – enlargement and congestion
  • Genitalia (male) – sexual excesses, testicular atrophy
  • Mucous membranes – catarrhal affections, ulceration
  • Nasal bones and palate – syphilitic destruction
  • Right side – symptoms often affect the right side more strongly
  • Glands – induration and swelling, particularly cervical and parotid
  • Night, particularly after midnight (mental aggravation)
  • Warmth of bed
  • Mental exertion
  • Contradiction or reproach
  • Grief, loss of honour, or failure
  • Suppressed discharges
  • Sexual excesses or abstinence

Aurum is a remedy of depth, despair, destruction, and regeneration. It acts profoundly on the heart, mind, bones, and genitals, making it indispensable in cardiac affections, syphilitic bone diseases, and suicidal depression. A keynote is great prostration from grief, failure, or suppressed emotion, often manifesting physically as bone pains, ulcers, or cardiac dysfunction. Worse at night, emotionally and physically.

  • Complementary: Belladonna, Natrum mur., Aurum mur.
  • Antidotes: Mercurius, Camphor
  • Follows well: Aconitum in cardiac crises; after grief or loss
  • Inimical: Syphilinum (may interfere with long-term action)

Aurum metallicum carries the archetype of the fallen king—one who has tasted glory, now crushed by inner torment. The patient strives for perfection, meaning, honour, and spiritual truth, but when these fail or are lost, despair swallows the soul. It is this fall—from purpose to purposelessness—that defines the Aurum state. Yet, just as gold is refined by fire, the patient may rise from the ashes if the vital force is stirred. Aurum brings light to those consumed by internal darkness, reconnecting them with value, self-worth, and purpose.

  • First remedy to consider in deep suicidal depression
  • Excellent in valvular heart diseases with emotional origin
  • Use in syphilitic bone caries, especially of the nasal and palatine bones
  • Effective in ovarian and uterine tumours with sadness and heaviness
  • Consider in grief from loss of position, honour, or loved ones
  • In children with precocity, sadness, and perfectionism

Mind

  • Despair of recovery
  • Suicidal, throws himself from a height
  • Religious mania or sadness
  • Weeping involuntarily

Heart / Chest

  • Palpitations from emotions
  • Valvular heart disease
  • Angina pectoris
  • Pulse full, bounding

Bones / Face / Nose

  • Caries of nasal bones
  • Swelling of maxilla
  • Ulcers on palate
  • Pains in cranial bones at night

Skin

  • Coppery eruptions
  • Ulcers deep, offensive
  • Night sweats
  • Cracks and fissures

Generalities

  • Worse at night
  • Worse from grief or failure
  • Better from cold air
  • Offensive discharges
  • Samuel Hahnemann – Materia Medica Pura: Original proving, with mental and bone affections
  • C. Hering – Guiding Symptoms: Detailed cardiac, suicidal, and syphilitic features
  • James Kent – Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica: Mental characteristics, suicidal despair, heart
  • William Boericke – Pocket Manual: Clinical guidance on cardiac, hepatic, and emotional conditions
  • John Henry Clarke – Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica: Expanded repertorial guidance and mental states

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