AURUM
Aurum is renowned for its ability to cure the deepest imaginable depressions and suicidal states.  The patient may feel no connection to life, existing in a dark and isolated void.  Seeing a single patient overcome a lifetime of joyless existence and bloom into happiness after Aurum pays for every hour of our years of study.
This remedy that often suits people who are very intense, idealistic and who want to be the best and set high goals.  When these goals are frustrated in some way, the Aurum patient will go through a period of tremendous irritability, and may even have violent ideas or thoughts.  It is also a remedy which can be devastated by grief and disappointed love relations.  Often the patient will have deep religious convictions.  Finally, despite the spiritual work, the patient goes toward deep, clinical depressions and suicide.
Many prescribers shun the use of this powerful polycrest if suicidal feelings are not present.  However, many cases which require Aurum have no suicidal intent nor even conscious depression, instead the patient presents as an overly-serious and polished individual with abnormal focus on career and achievement.  Such individuals are also vulnerable to addictive behaviors and drug or alcohol abuse.  Nancy Herrick of the Hahnemann Clinic presented a medley of video taped cases emphasizing the desire for meditation practice and the deep spiritual longings of Aurum patients.  One of her cases was deeply disturbed and actively hallucinating.
Aurum is one of our main anti-syphilitic remedies.  The physical pathology often involves headache, sinusitis, and heart disease.