Sources 13 entries across 11 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Allen …
Dose
6X–30X
Sixth to thirtieth potency.
Reason for useBoericke
Spasmodic affections, cramps, convulsions, beginning in fingers and toes, violent, contractive, and intermittent 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 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 (Laches). Tape worm (colloidal Cuprum 3x). Where eruptions trike in, as in scarlet fever, complaints may result, such as excessive vomiting, stupor, convulsions, which come within the sphere of this remedy. The pains are increased by movement and touch.
▲ Worse before menses; from vomiting, contact
▼ Better during perspiration, drinking cold water
By regionBoericke
Head Fixed ideas, malicious and morose. Uses words not intended. Fearful. Empty feeling. Purple, red swelling of head, with convulsions. …
Eyes Aching over eyes. Fixed, stary, sunken, glistening, turned upward. Crossed. Quick rolling of eyeballs, with closed eyes.
Stomach Hiccough preceding the spasms. Nausea. Vomiting, relieved by drinking cold water; with colic, diarrhoea, spasms. Strong metallic taste (Rhus). …
Female Menses too late, protracted. Cramps, extending into chest, before, during, or after suppression of menses. Also, from suppressed foot sweats (Sil). …
Respiratory Cough as a gurgling sound, better by drinking cold water. Suffocative attacks, worse 3 am (Am c). …
Extremities Jerking, twitching of muscles. Coldness of hands. Cramps in palms. Great weariness of limbs. Cramps in calves and soles. …
Skin Bluish, marbled. Ulcers, itching spots, and pimples at the folds of joints. Chronic psoriasis and lepra (Hughes).
Sleep Profound, with shocks in body. During sleep constant rumbling in abdomen.
Books*
Antidoted by Belladonna 2, Camphora 2, Conium Maculatum 2+13
Follows well Apis Mellifica, Veratrum Album, Zincum Metallicum
Compare Veratrum Album, Arsenicum Album, Silicea Terra +34
* Number of books that state the relation, where more than one. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works. homeopathylibrary.com/remedy/cuprum-metallicum