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Aurum iodatum (Aur‑i.)

Aurum iodatum (Aur‑i.) appears in 56 rubrics in the Repertorium. Of these, 1 is a single rubric in which only this remedy is listed, and 2 are small rubrics with at most two other remedies. The emphasis is on Fear, Anxiety, Insanity, Dementia and Despair, and also on a strikingly unfounded cheerfulness.

Dark side: fear, despair, decline

The core is formed by Fear and Anxiety, followed by Despair and by rubrics that describe mental decline: Dementia and Insanity. In addition come oversensitiveness, exhaustion from mental exertion and a desire to bite. The only single rubric links madness with physical suffering: "Insanity, madness – heart, with enlargement of".

Sudden cheerfulness

The counterpole stands in two small rubrics: cheerfulness that comes "in fits", and one "without cause". Both rubrics describe a cheerfulness without occasion that stands abruptly opposite the gloom of the other rubrics.

Summary

Aurum iodatum stands for a person between depression and sudden brightening: fear, despair and mental decline determine the picture, and cheerfulness breaks through in it without reason. With only 56 rubrics the picture remains incomplete.

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