Cuprum Metallicum

▲   GENERAL

General

Spasmodic affections, cramps, convulsions, beginning in fingers and toes, violent, contractive, and intermitting pain, are some of the more marked expressions of the action of Cuprum Metallicum; and its curative range therefore includes tonic and clonic spasms, convulsions, and epileptic attacks. Chorea brought on by fright. Nausea greater than in any other remedy. In epilepsy, aura begins at knees, ascends to hypogastrium; then unconsciousness, foaming, and falling. Symptoms disposed to appear periodically and in groups. Complaints begin in left side ( Lachesis ^Laches.) Tape worm (colloidal Cuprum 3x) Where eruptions strike in, as in scarlet fever, complaints may result, such as excessive vomiting, stupor, convulsions, which come within the sphere of Cuprum Metallicum. The pains are increased by movement and touch.

▲   MODALITIES ETC

Worse

WORSE, before menses; from vomiting, contact.

Better

BETTER, during perspiration, drinking cold water.

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

Antidotes

Antidotes: Belladonna ^Bell.; Hep Sulph Calc ^Hepar; Camphora ^Camph. Cuprum Metallicum is found in Dulcamara ^Dulcamara., Staphysagria ^Staphisag., Conium Mac ^Conium and some other plants. Also in king-crab (Limulus).

▲   MIND

Mind

Behaviour

shrieking

shrieking; before convulsions

Dazed; from suppressed measles-like rash

Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition; weeping, crying, tearful mood (lamenting); while perspiring

Intellectual faculties; impaired thinking; weakness of mind

Restlessness, nervousness

tossing about in bed

▲   HEAD

Head

Fixed ideas, malicious and morose

Uses words not intended

Fearful

Empty feeling

Purple, red swelling of head, with convulsions

Sensation as if water were poured over head

Giddiness accompanies many ailments, head falls forward on chest.

Congestion (see pulsation)

Headache

Bruised pain in brain and eyes on turning them

Pain, headache

in forehead; above root of nose

dull pain; forehead

▲   EYES

Eyes

Aching over eyes

Fixed, starry, sunken, glistening, turned upward

Crossed

Quick rolling of eyeballs, with closed eyes.

Lids

half open

eyes closed; half open

Pupils; insensitive to light

▲   EARS

Hearing

Impaired

▲   FACE

Face

Distorted, Pale bluish, with blue lips

Contraction of jaws, with foam at mouth.

Convulsions, spasms

Lips; discoloration; bluish

Skin

discoloration; bluish

discoloration; bluish; in cholera

discoloration; bluish; with convulsions

discoloration; pale

▲   NOSE

Nose

Sensation of violent congestion of blood to nose ( Melilotus Officinalis ^Melilot.)

Congestion of blood to the nose

▲   MOUTH

Mouth

Stammering speech.

Froth, foam, from mouth

Tongue

Constant protrusion and retraction of the tongue, like a snake ( Lachesis ^Lach.) Paralysis of tongue

Dryness; tongue

Taste

Strong metallic, slimy taste, with flow of saliva

Taste; sweetish

▲   THROAT

Throat

Choking, constricting; larynx; during cough (see cough choking)

▲   CHEST

Chest

Heart; Angina pectoris

Slow pulse; or hard, full and quick

Palpitation, precordial anxiety and pain

Fatty degeneration ( Phytolacca Decandra ^Phytol.)

Constriction, tension; convulsive

Movements in and of chest; convulsions

Oppressed feeling

Respiration

Cough has a gurgling sound, better by drinking cold water

Suffocative attacks, worse 3 a.m ( Am)

c.) spasm and constriction of chest; spasmodic asthma, alternating with spasmodic vomiting

Whooping-cough, better, swallow water, with vomiting and spasms and purple face

Spasm of the glottis

Dyspnoea with epigastric uneasiness

Spasmodic dyspnoea before menstruation

Angina with asthmatic symptoms and cramps (Clarke).

Accelerated

Asthma attack

Difficult (dyspnea)

with cough

Interrupted

coughing

Irregular

Rattling

▲   COUGH

Cough

Asthmatic

Cold drinks

With constriction feeling; larynx

With convulsions

Comes on suddenly

consisting of long coughs

attacks of disease are uninterrupted

Persistent

Intermittent

Suffocating

Violent

▲   SKIN

Skin

BLUISH, marbled

Ulcers, itching spots, and pimples at the folds of joints

Chronic psoriasis and lepra (Hughes).

▲   BACK AND NECK

Back

Pain; extending to other parts; stomach

Spasms; opisthotonos (body bent backward and stiffened)

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Stomach; Hiccough preceding the spasms

Strong metallic taste ( Rhus Tox ^Rhus.) When drinking, the fluid descends with gurgling sound ( Laurocerasus ^Laur.) Craves cool drink.

Tense, hot and tender to touch; Contracted

Neuralgia of abdominal viscera

COLIC, violent and intermittent

Intussusception.

Heat

Abdominal muscles; muscle spasms

Pain

comes on suddenly

periodical

pulling; behind lower ribs; left

extending to hip

pulling; behind lower ribs; extending to hip

Tension

Bladder; urination; unconscious; in mania

Kidneys; suppression of urine; with convulsion

Stomach

contraction

gurgling

when drinking

pain; cramping, griping, constricting; people with tendency to get stomach cramps

Nausea

Nausea

Vomiting

Vomiting, relieved by drinking cold water; with colic, diarrhoea, spasms

▲   RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Rectum

Cholera

Stool

Black, painful, bloody, with tenesmus and weakness

Cholera; with cramps in abdomen and calves.

Watery; like rice water

▲   GENITALS ETC

Genitals

Also, from suppressed foot sweats ( Silicea ^Sil.) Ebullition of blood; palpitation

Chlorosis

After-pains.

Female

pain; pains after giving birth

Menses

Menses too late, protracted

Cramps, extending into chest, before, during, or after suppression of menses

Female; period; protracted

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Jerking, twitching of muscles

Coldness of hands

Cramps in palm

Great weariness of limbs

Cramps in calves and soles

Epilepsy; aura begins in knees

Clenched thumbs

Clonic spasms, beginning in fingers and toes.

Coldness

lower limbs; foot

Cramps

hand

cholera

fingers; with cholera

fingers; during childbirth

lower limbs

leg

calf

in cholera

foot

in cholera

Hands and feet

clenching fingers (see extremities; convulsions, contraction)

clenching fingers (see extremities; convulsions, contraction); thumbs

Movements and positions

convulsion

flexed; limbs feel pulled; inwards; thumbs

flexed; finger (see extremities; hands and feet; clenching)

twitching; fingers

Skin; out-break on skin; elbow; herpes

Stiffness

▲   FEVER AND CHILL

Fever and chill

Drinking

After epilepsy

Icy coldness of the body

▲   GENERALITIES

Fatigue

Lethargic, tired

Sleep and dreams

Profound, with shocks in body

During sleep constant rumbling in abdomen.

Restless

Convulsions

Convulsions

rapid muscle spasm

convulsive movements

epileptic

when out-breaks on skin fail to break out

with falling

from stress

Perspiration

Other symptoms relieved while perspiring

Generalities

Blackness of external parts

Blood vessels; blue discoloration (from lack of oxygen in blood)

Hypnosis, trance

Pain; pressing; internally

In women; symptoms before period

Perspiration

Pulse

abnormal

frequent, accelerated, elevated, exalted, fast, innumerable, rapid

imperceptible

small

soft

Swelling; puffy

Touch

Twitching; twitching, involuntary movements (chorea)

Vomiting

Weakness (see lethargic, weariness); mental exertion

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