THE WELL-KNOWN METAL

OBJECTIVES
• INTRODUCTION
• DOCTRINE OF SIGNATURE
• CONSTITUTION
• TEMPERAMENT
• MIASM
• PATHOPHYSIOLOGY
• EVOLUTION
• MIND
• PHYSICALS
INTRODUCTION
• HISTORY:
• Since the beginning
of discovery of gold,
its popularity has
spread world wide in
a short time.

ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ARTIFACT

• People started using gold in many forms and styles.
Even it is used as a measure like ‘golden rule’, gold
medal, gold trophy.
MEDICINAL USES IN ANCIENT TIMES:
• It is being used as an anti inflammatory drug
• One of its main uses were in treatment of rheumatoid
arthritis
• Also it is identified as an useful anti-cancer drug
• Used as an anxiolytic, i.e., for nervous disorders
(depression, migraine, epilepsy)
• Only gold salts and its radioisotopes were considered
to be of use in medicine as the metallic gold cannot
be digested by our stomach acid.

• In the book of ‘Chronic diseases’, Dr. Hahnemann

says that the old school only knows about material
aspects of the drugs and have had not investigated
and recorded its toxicological actions
Doctrine of signature
• According to astrology the metal gold is under the
reign of the sun. All life forms on earth depend on
the sun.

Aurum person feels that all people depend on them

and they have to take responsibility for all the
things.
• In astrology the sun symbolizes our core, our spirit,
our deepest self. The sun is associated with self
respect, self trust, nobleness, sense of honour,
human dignity.

A balanced and a healthy Aurum person has all

these qualities
• The sun is in the centre position or heart of solar
system

• Similarly the Aurum personalities have natural

leadership qualities
• Also has profound
action on heart
CONSTITUTION

•Angular shaped

•Gaunt face

•Stiff facial features

•Dark haired

•Knobby nose
 TEMPERMENT

Melancholic and irritable temperament

Doesn’t want to hurt others nor would want to get

hurt. Don’t show their inner feelings

It ranks with Pulsatilla in temperament says Pulford, but

Aurum is more irascible and obstinate
MIASM SYPHILIS

DEGENERATION AND
DESTRUCTION

Mainly affects the structure of

the human body rather than
functions
 PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTION
Congestion/ Hyperemia

• Affects bone and periosteum Leads to

inflammation of periosteum causing exostosis and
necrosis
• Irritation and inflammation of GIT Leads to
nausea, vomiting, flatulent colic and diarrhoea
• Glandular affections Congestion and
induration especially of testes
• On sexual organs priapism in males and
frequent menses in females
• Degenerates blood leads to haemorrhages
• It acts mainly on the emotional sphere than on the
intellectual sphere.
 AILMENTS FROM

• Fright
• Anger
• Contradiction
• Mortification
• Vexation
• Dread
• Reserved displeasure
EVOLUTION
 There is a strong syphilitic trait. They are
undeveloped child, by size and weight. Most of
them are males.

The child suffers from an undescended testes, a

poorly developed scrotum. The child is slow in
developing satisfactorily

So the Aurum child always gives an impression

of lifeless, low spirited, where there is absolute
lack of boyish go
 In school they are backward and has poor
memory. A 5th std child might look like a 3rd std
child

Children who grow under strict parents, who

have been brought up through punishment

Pleases parents for fear of rejection, which

makes them hard working
 Becomes more hardworking and
responsible, wants to be at the top

At work, very focused, irritable,

strict, rigid, tense

Overdo things leads to exhaustion and never

good enough feeling
The rigidity and tension is shown on the
physical level

Hyperamia of most susceptible areas=

blood, heart, lungs, nose, testes, skin

Leads to induration and degeneration

of these tissues
 Dengeneration and destruction at the
level of bone, skin and blood

Necrosis, arterio-sclerosis, malignancy

in old age

Syphilitic tendency shows itself from birth to

old age, who are weak and weary of life
 PERIODIC TABLE
HEAVY METAL / NOBLE METAL
6TH ROW AND 11TH JAN SCHOLTEN’S EVOULUTION
COLUMN ACCORDING TO PERIODIC TABLE
6th ROW GOLD SERIES

DEPICTS
RESPONSIBILITY
AND POWER
CONSTANTLY WORKING REACHES A HIGH
POSITION TO MAINTAIN HIGH POSITION THEY
OVERDO THINGS AND GET EXHAUSTED
Starts to doubt their ability and feels they
are still not good enough

Exhaustion and
Depression

Feels worthless,
worthless to live
 CAUSATION
HEALTH DISEASE
HEALTHY AURUM
SPOTTING THE AURUM PERSON

Doesn’t mind
what others think
about him
SHORT
PROFESSION
 POINTERS

Responsible
Workaholic
Depression/Pessimist
Suicidal
Feeling of worthlessness
 RESPONSIBLE

ELDEST CHILD: with no father (usually a male child)

• He has to take charge of his family and hence
becomes duty-bound and conscientious (wishing to
do his duty well)

ACCORDING TO
SHANKRAN
THE PLEASING CHILD/ oversensitive to criticism:
• The parents of Aurum child usually are very exact
and expect high things from their kids and hence
they reward their kids when they succeed and punish
them when they are not performing up to their
expectations.
 INDEPENDENT

• He had received only conditional love from his

parents, because of which he doesn’t share is
emotions to anyone and thus totally shuts down his
emotions, by sharing it, he thinks
that he might get hurt.
 RELATIONSHIP

• Inaccessible in terms of relationship, as he fears

opening up to a partner, might open up all the
emotional hurt he had experienced in his childhood
 RELATIONSHIP
• Romantic relationship: once the Aurum person feels
that he is ready for a relationship, he falls in love
thinking that he has another chance of being loved
for himself and hence of healing the wounds within
• As a father: if his relationship turns out well and if he
is able to open up to his partner then he becomes a
very good father and a good family person
 Obsession/ possessiveness-

in a way that they want to hear their voice everyday

and they somewhat turn to be more of a dominating
type of personality

partner is adjusting and understanding,

Aurum would enjoy their company

if the partner does not find this dominating nature

very comfortable and refuses to love him back
it reminds them of the same ‘neglect’
feeling felt by them as a child.

They burst out in anger now and then

WORKAHOLIC
 RAJAN SHANKARAN-
sense of right and wrong

• Aurum has the sense of right and wrong and are

easily provoked by wrong doings
• Has set high standards for himself
• Maintains time and expects his team members to
follow the same
•They have a fear of high places
 THE DRIVEN MEN

Living up to Works hard Workaholic

their parent’s to achieve and
expectations things in ambitious
life
Workaholic and • From parental
ambitious, very pressure
focused at work. • In order to cover
his lack of self
worth
• Pessimistic
Survival depends on fulfilling his duty
 AURUM- very strict and
cold with their team, like a
robot

ARS ALB- NUX VOM- not

FOCUSED AT WORK
associated with very strict with
restlessness and a the employees
little relaxed at
work KALI CARB- very similar to
Aurum, very focused and robot
like at work but not very exact
with his employees
NUX VOMICA • Generally open
• High self
Workaholic confidence
and ambitious • No self doubt
• Very optimistic
• Loves to work and
achieve things
• A born leader
NATRUM
MURIATICUM

Workaholic Not so ambitious as Aurum, and has a

and ambitious milder version depression.
WEALTH SELF WORTH WORKAHOLIC

Some Some
Aurums seek Aurums work
wealth hard to gain
a position
 RAGE
• A controlled man – never shows anger or
sadness in front of others
• Intolerance to contradiction = reminds them
of their childhood where they have been
neglected.
PESSIMISM/ DEPRESSION/
SUICIDAL
 CATHERINE COULTER

Aurum is more
comfortable in a
structured environment
Natrum mur is very similar to Aurum but
the former is more of adaptive kind and
easily adapts to new trend
Aurum people think that, they must perform
tasks which are usually impossible and beyond
their capacity. They set uncompromising goals
that are beyond the possible
 MENTAL DERANGEMENTS
Cannot do things fast enough

Constant questioning without waiting

for a reply

Over sensitiveness to noise, excitement,

confusion

Exhaustion and hopelessness

According to alchemist’s, Aurum is more of
masculine in character which represents ‘Ego’
which needs to be fortified

Self

‘I’ , ‘self’ = self

reproach, not satisfied
with himself
RELIGIOUS
•These people under
depression fear
doom or about their
salvation.
•Dreams of death and
corpses
Music ameliorates- they usually listen to music
which has deep meaning and responsibility and
sadness
 THE BLACKNESS
• Nothing is blacker than the depair of Aurum,
says Philip M Bailey
 FUNDAMENTAL LOVE, THE LOVE OF
LIFE
Desire to jump from
a height
he loses interest in his own life
and seeks death as his last
resort.
Very impulsive, does not have to
fight with himself unlike Nat.s, he just
jumps.
 Pessimism

Depression

Self condemnation

“SUNLESS OUTLOOK”
 SUICIDE
Aurum met constantly
dwells on it
Naja constantly dwells
on suicide, here unlike
Aurum its ‘suicidal
insanity’
Nux vom
constantly dwells
on suicide but is
afraid to die
KENT SAYS

Perversion of all the loves

of mankind= leading to
destruction

PULFORD
Profound mental
depression
Settled melancholy
Suicidal mania
Weary of life
Longs to die
 EXAMPLES
• Nepoleon bounaparte/ The
Little Corporeal
PHYSICALS
HEALTH

DISEASE
 BURNETT says,

THE GLANDS,
BONES,
SKIN AND
NOSE ARE THE MOST
AFFECTED IN GOLD AND IN
SYPHILIS
 Lacking boyish-go
IN PIN BOYS
•Testes
undecended
•Induration of
testes
•Inflammation of
testes
Low spirited
Lifeless
Memory loss
 LIVER AND CARDIAC
AFFECTIONS

ABUSE OF ‘BLUE MASS’ (as it is good for

liver) CHRONIC INTAKE WHICH HAS
LEAD TO MERCURIAL DISEASE IN THE
BODY
A GRAND CARDIAC REMEDY NEXT
TO ARNICA

ANGINA PECTORIS
& ASCITIS
 Congestion of blood to chest, head, after
exertion

Sensation as if the heart

stood still

As if they stopped beating and

gave a hard thump

Pulse: feeble, irregular, visible beats of carotid

and temporal arteries

Violent palpitations with anxiety

 EYES

Hemiopia, can see only lower half (lyco-

left half)
 Pressure in the eyes
causing severe pain on
touch
 BONES
•Syphilitic and mercurial affections
•Caries of nasal palantine bones with ozeana
•Otorhoea with excessively fetid discharge, severe
pain driving him to despair
NOSE
Necrosis of nasal bones

Caries of nasal
bones

Atrophic rhinitis with

ozeana
MODALITIES
< cold
< mental exertion
< winter
<NIGHT

>warm room
>in the morning
> During summer
 REFERENCES
• Article- Adjustment disorder and its homeopathic
management- homeobook.com
• ‘Drug of the month, Aurum metallicum’, journal
article from Scribd
• Homoeopathic materia medica of graphic drug
pictures by Pulford.
• Portriats of homeopathic materia medica by
Catherine B coulter.
• Comparitive materia medica by EA Farrington

• Clinical materia medica by EA Farrington

• Elements of homeopathy by Jan Scholten
• Rajan Shankaran’s Soul of remedies
• A dictionary of practical materia medica by JH Clarke
• Study of materia medica by Choudari

• Materia medica by JT Kent

• Gold a remedy in disease- A Monograph by Burnett

• Homeopathic drug pictures by ML Tyler
• Pocket manual of homeopathic materia medica by
William Boericke
• H.C. Allen’s keynotes
• Hering’s guiding symptoms
• The chronic disease by Dr. Sameul Hanhemann