AURUM METALLICUM – MATERIA MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS

🧠 GENIUS OF AURUM METALLICUM

Aurum stands for gold—and just like gold, it reflects both brilliance and heaviness. People needing Aurum are often serious, responsible, and accomplished, but carry a crushing emotional burden deep inside. The core of Aurum is depression—a profound, heavy sadness, often hidden under a mask of competence and duty.

Main idea: Loathing of life. “I’ve done everything, and yet… I feel nothing.”
Theme: Suicidal despair, often from loss of honor, failure in business, or broken relationships.

🧍‍♂️ MIND

Keynote	Description
Despair of life	Talks about suicide or shows reckless disregard for life.
Serious, closed-off	They don’t share feelings. Stoic but deeply wounded.
Responsibility-driven	Duty-bound, hard-working people; fall apart when they fail.
Sensitive to criticism	Take things too seriously—comments hit them at the soul.
Anger and rage	Harsh speech when emotionally overwhelmed.
Better in the evening	Mental clarity and emotional ease improve after sunset.

Compare with:

Natrum muriaticum: Also reserved and closed, but more tearful and sentimental. Aurum is more self-condemning.
Ignatia: Expresses grief in sobs; Aurum internalizes it and breaks silently.

🧍 BODY – SEAT OF ACTION

1. Heart & Circulation

Palpitations from grief or heart disease.
High blood pressure from suppressed emotions.

2. Bones – Especially Nose & Skull

Caries (decay) of bones, esp. nasal bones, palate, and mastoid.
Deep bone pains worse at night (like Mercurius or Syphillinum).

3. Eyes

Sensitive to light. Feeling as if eyes are being pushed out.
Deep eye pain (like Glaucoma).

4. Male Reproductive Organs

Impotence with depression.
Oversensitivity and enlarged testicles (orchitis).

5. Female Reproductive Organs

Prolapse of uterus with sadness.
Amenorrhea in melancholic girls or after grief.

6. Sleep

Sleeplessness from sadness or mental strain.
Dreams of death, funerals, or business failure.

🏥 MODALITIES

Aggravation	Amelioration
At night, in bed	Evening brings some relief
Cold weather	Warmth, walking slowly
Mental exertion	Music (sometimes), prayers, devotion

🔬 RELATIONSHIPS & REMEDY COMPARISONS

Remedy	Similarity	Difference
Natrum mur	Silent grief, dignified	Nat-m suppresses crying, Aurum suppresses living
Staphysagria	Sensitive, honor-wounded	Staphysagria reacts with tears, Aurum with suicide
Ignatia	Sadness from grief	Ignatia is more dramatic; Aurum more silent and deadly
Nux vomica	Driven worker	Nux fights, Aurum gives up when they fail
Syphilinum	Bone caries	Syph. is destructive, Aurum is more ethical, emotional layer involved

🧪 ESSENCE FLASHCARD

Aurum Metallicum

Theme: “What’s the point? I’ve failed. I must go.”
Sphere: Depression with suicidal thoughts, bone pains, heart disease.
Better: Evening, walking slowly
Worse: Night, cold, humiliation, business failure
Suited for: Stately, responsible, upright people who collapse after losing honor or purpose.

🧩 Teaching Tip

Imagine:
“Picture a dignified king who lost his kingdom—not just his land, but his sense of purpose. Now, he wears his crown, but he weeps inside. That’s Aurum.”