Mineral
Cuprum Metallicum
Copper
Repertory abbreviation: Cupr.
Spasmodic affections, cramps, convulsions, beginning in fingers and toes, violent, contractive, and intermit- ting pain, are some of the more marked expressions of the action of Cuprum; and its curative range therefore includes tonic and clonic spasms, convulsions, and epi- leptic attacks. ( Chorea brought on by fright. Nausea greater than in any other remedy. In epilepsy, aura begins at knees, ascends to hypogastrium; then uncon- sciousness, foaming, and falling. Symptoms disposed e e in left side. [Laches.] Where eruptions strike in, as in scarlet fever, com- plaints may result, , such as e
Head
Fixed ideas, malicious and morose. Uses words not intended. Fearful. Empty feeling. Purple, red swelling of head, with convulsions. Bruised pain in brain and eyes on turning them. Meningitis. Sensation as if water were poured over head.
Eyes
Fixed, tary, sunken, glistening, turned up- ward. Crossed. Quick rolling of eyeballs, with closed cyes.
Nose
Sensation of violent congestion of blood to [Melilot.]
Face
Distorted, pale bluish, with blue lips. Con- tractior of jazws, with foam at mouth.
Mouth
Strong nctallic, slimy taste. with flow of saliva. Constant protrusion and retraction of the tongue, like a snake. [Lach.] Paralysis of tongue. Stammer- ing speech.
Stomach
Hiccough preceding the spasms. Nausea. Vomiting, relieved by drinking coid water; with colic, diarrhoea, spasms. Strong metallic taste. [Rhus.] When drinking, the fluid descends vith gurgling sound. [Laur.] Craves cool drink.
Abdomen
Tense, hot and tender to touch; con- tracted. Neuralgia of abdominal viscera. Colic, violent and intermittent. Intussusception. 289
Stool
Black, painful, bloody, with tenesmus and weakness. Cholera; with cramps in abdomen and calves.
Female
Menses too late, protracted. Cramps, ex- tending into chest, before, during, or after suppression of menses. Also, from suppressed foot sweats. [Sil.] Ebullition of blood; palpitation. Chlorosis. After- pains.
Respiratory
Cough has a gurgling sound, better by drinking cold water. Suffocative attacks, worse 3 A. M. [Am. c.] Constriction of chest; spasmodic asthma, al- ternating with spasmodic vomiting. Whooping-cough, —better, swallow water [Caust.] -— with vomiting and spasms and purple face. Spasm of the glottis. Dyspnoea with epigastric uneasiness. Spasmodic dysp- ncea before menstruation.
Heart
Angina pectoris. Slow pulse; or hard, full and quick. Palpitation, pracordial anxiety and pain. Fatty degeneration. [Phytol.]
Extremities
Jerking, twitching of muscles. Cold- ness of hands. Cramps in palms. Great weariness of limbs. Cramps in calves and soles. Epilepsy; aur be- ins in knees. Clenched thumbs. ( Clonic spasms, be- ginning in fingers and toes.
Skin
Bluish, marbled. Ulcers, itching spots, and pimples at the folds of joints.
Sleep
Profound, with shocks in body. During sleep constant rumbling in abdomen.
Modalities
Worse, before menses; from voiniting. Better, during perspiration, drinking cold water.
Relationships
Antidotes: Bell.; Hepar; Camph. Copper is found in Dulcum., Staphisag., Conium and some other plants. Complementary : Calc. Compare: Cupr. sulph. (burning at vertex; incessant, spasmodic cough; worse at night; tongue and lips bluish; locally, Cupr. sulph. in 1-3 per cent. sol. in in- operable sarcoma). Cupr. cyan. (meningitis basilaris) ; Cholas tcrrapina (cramps in calves and feet; rheuma- tism, with cramp-like pains) ; Plumb.: Nux; Veratr.
Dose
Sixth to thirtieth potency. Cuprum o.rydatum nigrum 1x (all kinds of worms, including tape-worms and trichinosis according to Zopfy's 60 years' experi- ence).