Materia Medica

Cuprum Aceticum

Acetate of Copper

Hay-fever, with burning excoriation, paroxysmal cough; tough, tenacious mucus, and fear of suffocation Protracted labor.

Head

Violent throbbing and lancinating pains in forehead. Lift-sided brow ague. Brain seems void. Inclined to gape and cry. Loses consciousness; head cels when in high-ceiled room. Constant protrusion and retraction of tongue. [Laches.]

Face

Collapsed, hippocratic. Facial neuralgia in cheek-bone, upper jaw, and behind right ear. Better by chewing, pressure, and external warmth.

Stomach

Violent spasmodic pains in stomach and aidomen. Vomiting. Slimy brown diarrhcea. Violent teilesmus. Cholera.

Respiratory

Violent spasmodic cough. Short, diffi- cult respiration. Spasmodic constriction of chest. Dyspnoea.

Skin

Leprous-like eruption, without itching, over whole body, in spots of various sizes.

Modalities

Worse, mental emotions, touch. Better, chewing, pressure, night, lying on affected side, and warmth.

Relationships

Acts similarly to Cuprum met. but is more violent in action.

Dose

Third to sixth trituration.

Source: Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 8th ed. by William Boericke (1922), p. 280. Public domain.

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