Gold, Aurum, Jin 金
Jin (TCM)Gser གསེར (Tibetan)
Tila (Unani)
Svara (Ayurveda)
Hortus sanitatis, 1491
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Native Gold British Mineralogy, Sowerby, 1811 |
Gold coins Krauterbuch, Lonitzer, 1578 |
The Latrobe Gold Nugget (717 grams)Photo by Gump Stump
Members CLICK HERE for the PRO VERSIONMineralogical name:
Aurum
Parts used:
1. Gold Leaf or Powder
2. ‘Potable Gold’ (Gold in dissolution)
3. Ash (Bhasma)
4. Gold chloride; Aurum muriaticum (prepared with Aqua Regia)
Temperature & Taste:
Neutral. Bitter, Sweet.
Pacifies all Humors and is a tonic to all the Body Tissues
Properties:
Nature: granular, dendrites, nuggets
Color: golden yellow
Streak: Bright Yellow
Cleavage: none
Fracture: hackly
Lustre: Metallic
Tenacity: very malleable, ductile
Transparency: Opaque
Hardness: 2.5–3
Specific Gravity: 19.3 (from 15.6–19.55 depending on admixture and processing method)
Melting Point: 1300 degrees C.
Uses:
1. Strengthens the Heart, Cheers the Spirits (TCM, West, Ayurveda, Tibetan):
2. Calms Wind, Stops Spasms (TCM, West, Ayurveda, Tibetan):
3. Benefits Yin and Yang, Nourishes Essence (TCM, West, Ayurveda, Tibetan):
4. Strengthens the Kidneys (TCM, West, Ayurveda):
5. Clears Heat and Poison from the Blood (TCM, West, Ayurveda, Tibetan):
6. Clears Phlegm, Resolves Masses:
7. Strengthens Spleen, Benefits Digestion:
8. Externally:
Dose:
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Main Combinations:
1. Epilepsy, Gold with … available in PRO version
2. Epilepsy, or for diseases of the Womb, Gold with … available in PRO version
3. To strengthen the Nerves, Gold with … available in PRO version
4. Fever, Influenza, Pneumonia, Plague etc., Gold with … available in PRO version
5. Syphilis:
i. Gold with … available in PRO version
ii. Gold with … available in PRO version
6. Scrofula, Gold with … available in PRO version
7. Glandular hardening and Fibroid Tumors, Gold with … available in PRO version
8. Cancerous Ulcers, Gold with … available in PRO version
9. Cervical Cancer: Gold with … available in PRO version
10. Ointment for hard swellings and fibroid tumors: Gold with … available in PRO version
Cautions:
None noted.
Avoid overdose of the Salts.
Main Preparations used:
Powder Gold; Leaf Gold; Precipitated Gold, Sugar of Gold, Syrup of Gold, Tincture of Gold, Gold Oxide, Ash (Bhasma); numerous other preparations
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Pliny on Gold ‘Gold is efficacious as a remedy in many ways, being applied to wounded persons and to infants, to render any malpractices of sorcery comparatively innocuous that may be directed against them. Gold, however, itself is mischievous in its effects if carried over the head; in the case of chickens and lambs more particularly. The proper remedy in such cases is to wash the Gold, and to sprinkle the water upon the objects which it is wished to preserve. Gold, too, is melted with twice its weight of Salt, and three times its weight of Misy; after which it is again melted with two parts of Salt, and one of the stone called ‘Schistos’. Employed in this manner, it withdraws the natural acridity from the substances torrefied with it in the crucible, while at the same time it remains pure and incorrupt; the residue forming an ash, which is preserved in an earthen vessel, and is applied with water for the curse of lichens on the face: the best method of washing it off is with bean-meal. These ashes have the property also of curing Fistulas, and the discharges known as Hemorrhoids: with the addition, too, of powdered Pumice, they are a cure of Putrid Ulcers and Sores, which emit an offensive smell. Gold, boiled in Honey with Melanthium and applied as a liniment to the navel, acts as a gentle purgative upon the bowels. M. Varro assures us that Gold is a cure for Warts’. (Pliny the Elder, 77AD, translated by Bostock and Riley) |
Salmon, Seplasium: ‘It is Cordial, mundifying, strengthening the Heart, cheers the Spirits, strengthens the Natural Balsam of Blood, and therefore is given successfully in all Diseases, wherein the Heat, Life, Vivacity and strength of both Body and Spirits need repairing; it is Sudorific, cleanses the Blood, discusses the Humors, and resists the Poison of Mercury, and other Mineral fumes’. ‘And as its Tincture, given in wine to 10 or 20 drops, does revive those that are at Deaths door; so also it is very good against the Falling-Sickness [Epilepsy], Apoplexy, Palsy, Vertigo, Megrim [Migraine], Lethargy, and other diseases of the Head, and destroys the root and seminaries of all Malignant and poisonous diseases; It resists Putrefaction and is prevalent against the Plague, and all sorts of Pestilential diseases’. ‘A plate of fine Gold, held upon the Tongue, is said to Quench Thirst in Fevers’. ‘And authors say, that Leaves of Gold, applied to Ulcers, consumes all superfluous flesh without pain or biting; and cauteries made of Gold are said much to exceed those made of steel’. ‘A powder of the Amalgama [with Mercury] given according to Art inwardly, and applied outwardly, is effectual against the Elephantiasis, Leprosy, and such like cutaneous diseases’. |
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