CUPRUM METALLICUM uses / Cuprum met uses [Cuprum uses]
Note: Wherever it is found, "<" denotes aggravation (worse by), ">" denotes amelioration (better by), "<->" denotes alternation (alternates with) and A/F is an abbreviation of, "Ailments from"
Cramps, spasms, convulsions. Chorea
Suppressions (physical and emotional)
Cyanosis. Cough > cold drinks
Metallic taste
Gurgling sound, when fluid descends down while drinking
COMMON NAME
Copper
FAMILY
Mineral, metal
PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTION
| - | Digestive organ - Violent gastroenteritis |
| - | Pneumogastric nerve - Violent emesis, convulsive respiration |
| - | Liver - Jaundice, fatty degeneration |
| - | Kidney - Albuminaria, suppression of urine |
| - | C. N. S - Cramps, convulsion, paralysis |
| - | C.V.S. - Decreased B.P., Vasomotor paralysis |
A/F
| - | Mental or physical overexertion |
| - | Loss of sleep |
| - | Attacks of unconquerable anxiety |
| - | Fright |
| - | Blow on head |
| - | Getting wet |
| - | Repercussed eruption |
| - | Suppressed foot sweat |
MODALITIES
| < | New moon |
| < | Cold air, wind |
| < | Night |
| < | Touch |
| < | Suppression foot sweat, exanthema or discharge |
| > | Swallowing cold water |
MIND
| - | Intense emotions and impulses are suppressed and
controlled making the patient rigidly closed. Extremely closed patient |
| - | Malicious, desire to injure |
| - | Unconquerable sadness and anxiety as if some misfortune were approaching |
| - | Mania - fiery rage. They try to bite, beat, tear things followed by
perspiration |
| - | Violent behaviour |
| - | Stupefaction from suppressed exanthema |
| - | Sadness when walking in open air, must stand still or sit down |
| - | Fixed ideas |
| - | Fear of company. Shuns everybody |
| - | Destructiveness |
| - | Ridiculous or foolish gestures |
| - | Spits on faces of people |
| - | Bashful, timidity |
| - | Fear of falling, of strangers, of fire |
| - | Mental dullness and slowness |
GUIDING INDICATIONS
| - | For fair haired people, prematurely old from
sexual excess, who are overtaxed both mind and body |
| - | Periodicity, complains appear from time to time |
| - | Cramps or spasms - violent begin in finger and toes and spread over whole
body |
| - | Cramps extort shrieks |
| - | Cases of whooping cough |
| - | Painful menstruation with spasms |
| - | Violence - that affected part |
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Bad effects of suppressed eruption, foot sweat, measles, suppressed by chill of exposure to wind |
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Leading to convulsions, epilepsy, metastasis to brain from other organs |
| - | Paralysis of tongue, speech, of isolated muscles |
| - | Relapsing, tendency to recur periodically |
| - | Mouth - Constant protrusion and retraction of tongue like a snake |
| - | Paralysis of tongue with imperfect stammering speech |
| - | A strong metallic, sweetish, coppery taste in mouth with flow of saliva |
| - | Respiratory system - Whooping cough, long lasting, suffocating, spasmodic,
unable to speak, with breathless, blue face |
| - | Attacks successively, vomiting of food after regaining consciousness |
| - | Cough has gurgling sound, as if water was being poured from a bottle >
drinking cold water |
| - | C.N.S. - Clonic spasm begin in fingers and toes and spread over entire
body |
| - | Epilepsy aura begins in knees and ascends |
| - | Uraemic convulsions with scanty urine |
| - | Female genitalia - For after-pains, especially of women who have borne many children |
KEYNOTES
NUCLEUS OF REMEDY
| - | Spasms or cramps - violence in nature, colic,
abdomen drawn in, violent headache |
| - | Blueness, Coldness, Collapse |
| - | Suppression or non-development of eruptions or foot sweat leading to
metastasis to brain |
| - | Paralysis |
| - | Relapsing tendency, periodicity every fortnight |
CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS
| - | Cramps begins in fingers and toes and then spread
to rest of the body |
| - | Epilepsy with aura beginning in knee and then ascending upwards |
| - | In between the attack, there is great restlessness, slimy metallic taste in mouth |
CLINICAL
| - | Angina pectoris, Asthma, Cholera, Chorea, Colic,
Cramps, Encephalitis, Gastrointestinal disorders, Headache, Meningitis,
Migraine, Nocturnal myoclonus, Seizure disorder, Tics, Twitches |
| - | In pure nervous asthma - Dr. Russell |
| - | For the vomitus of drinkers, Cupr should be thought of - Dr. Berlyn |
REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS
Complements: Calc
Follows Well: Agar, Ars, Bell, Calc, Caust, Cimic, Hyos, Sep, Stram,
Sulph, Verat
Compare: Ambr, Ambra, Anac, Apis, Arn, Ars, Bell, Bry, Calc, Camph,
Cann-i, Caps, Carb-v, Cic, Coloc, Gels, Hyos, Lach, Laur, Nux-v, Op, Phos,
Psor, Puls, Sec, Sil, Stram, Sulph, Valer, Verat, Zinc
Similar: Ant-t, Apis, Arn, Ars, Bell, Bry, Calc, Camph, Cic, Cina,
Coloc, Gels, Ip, Nux-v, Phos, Plb, Puls, Sec, Sil, Verat, Zinc
Antidoted By: Bell, Cham, Chin, Cic, Con, Dulc, Hep, Ip, Merc, Nux-v
It Antidotes: Aur, Merc, Op
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