The Travails of my friend Aurum-metallicum
NATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY 2005 Mar / Apr VOL VIII NO 2.
Dr S C Mishra
'Aur-met
One of my most bosom friends, a jovial Maratha boy Mr Arun-Metalike after doing post graduation in computer application from Govt Engineering college, Jabalpur, went to United States in search of his golden pastures. He got a job in company and was stationed in World Trade Centre of the US. He earned a lot of money and in every trip to India he used to bring huge quantities of gold. He lived there like a king and enjoyed his lavish life. But as it is very true that immense money begets some bad company and bad habits, so it came to pass for Arun.
He fell in love with an American girl who ditched him and ran away with his valuable goods and gold. He became very sick and disappointed of love. Somehow, he recovered from this shocking and depressing experience. After this he came in contact with so many girls. He married one of them, yet he was not very satisfied with her. He got the bad habit of enjoying illicit relations defying his wife and had regular sex with some prostitutes; as a result he soon succumbed to syphilis though it was not AIDS. In the meantime, the WTC was attacked on 11th September 2001 and he lost his job and was compelled to come back to India. By that time he was blessed with one son.
When I made a courtesy visit to him I saw his face puffy, anxious and shining as if from sweat. I called him- "Arun" He stared at me with a lusterless eyes as if he was trying very hard to recognize me and remember who I was. I asked him, "How are you?" "Oh, doctor," he replied with a cold lifeless voice, "I don't see your upper part of the body but can see only your lower half. I am sorry, my memory is also failing, I don't remember things very clearly". He started weeping.
I saw his wife and son were very ill. The wife had enlargement and indurations of uterus with prolapses. She was totally misfit for her day to day domestic work; she suffered mostly from abdominal pain with too late menstruation, white thick and corroding leucorrhoea worse on walking. She looked very sad, depressed, morose with no charm of life. I have never seen such a charmless lady before.
Their son was born with undescended testes. He looked sick and lacking his natural boyish activities.
My friend lost all his wealth and foreign money during very hurried transit to India and naturally he was very shocked to lose all his fair-weather friends who do not visit him after his return to India. Even his parents and relatives did not welcome him due to his current poor condition! He became very depressed and awfully anxious as to how he would live here without a job. A hopeless feeling prevailed upon him. Gradually he started avoiding company of others and withdrew from society limiting himself to his small room sitting in one corner and brooding for his misfortune.
If somebody happened to contradict what he says, he became very furious in anger. He did not like to talk with people. He just turned his face from every light and good things. He wallowed in his dark joyless and depressing state. He wanted to finish himself. Life had no meaning for him. It is worthless. He thinks that he has done some unpardonable sins of enormous magnitude when young which he realizes now and repents for his misdeed. He is very anxious, worried for his family, for his future. There is no ray of hope all around him- it is dark on all side - there is no light, no Sun, no Moon. Sun is the gold of universe. At night he could hardly sleep.
He lost all hopes to survive with the meager amount of gold to support himself and his family. This deplorable financial condition caused endless sleepless nights. Sometimes he had to get up and sit on his bed due to much of turmoil in his heart region. The palpitation kept him awake for hours and he could not sleep again. His heart was enlarged perhaps due to overstrain, constant suffering from sadness and over activities of the heart. Someone prescribed him some "gold drops". Very often he dreamt. His wife told me that sometimes he was found sobbing aloud in dreams.
Also he had caries in mastoid bone and nasal septum which the doctor called ozone. For his nightly bone and joints pains, the orthopedic gave gold injection to his affected joints which gave short-lived relief.
While in America he had contracted syphilis due to bad association and had been treated for several months with mercury which suppressed his chancre. Later he had been treated for jaundice with hepatomegaly (liver enlargement) and umbilical hernia.
Nostalgia on his past glory made him sad, depressed and melancholic with no hope to survive. He contemplated suicide due to losing his position in the society. He despaired of salvation; has become completely disgusted of life and dwells constantly on suicidal thoughts. As he broods, his pulse becomes very feeble but rapid and irregular. His temporal arteries and carotid veins are seen throbbing.
Most of his complaints are aggravated after sunset till morning. He has loose motion at night. He gets pain in bones especially in skull bones, nasal palatine and mastoid bone which increases at night. He has also developed Hydrocoele after his gonorrhea was checked. One morning he found to his utter surprise that one of his leg had refused to support his body (Locomotors ataxia) to stand on the ground. The poor fellow. After losing all of his gold, he lost support one by one from all around and all his body parts. He fell down to the surrounding with an utter hopelessness like Duryodhan, defeated badly in the struggle of life.
