Cuprum Metallicum

General

CUPRUM METALLICUM. [Cuprum] Metallic Copper. Hahnemann. Cu.

Mind

► Saying words not intended, forerunner of apoplexy. ► Full of erroneous, anxious ideas, one following the other quickly ; thickly ; thinks he is a great military commander. ► Weeps often. ► Mania : with biting and beating ; tearing things to pieces ; with anxiety. ► Delirium : afraid of every one who approaches him, shrinking from them ; tries to escape. ► Unconquerable sadness, constant-restlessness, as if some misfortune were approaching ; fears he will lose his reason. ► Paroxysms of anxiety ; full of fears. ► Changeable mood ; children cross and irritable, or indifferent and dull, in brain affections. ► Senses less acute. θ Cholera. ► Acuteness of senses ; oversensitive. θ Whooping-cough. ► Restless tossing about. ► Mental and bodily exhaustion, from over-exertion of mind or loss of sleep.

Sensorium

► Vertigo : with weariness, the head has a tendency to sink forward ; worse from motion, better lying down.

Inner Head

► Pain in the head, as if follow. ► Strange tingling pain in the vertex ; menses omitting. ► Violent continuous headache, increased periodically. ► Violent dull headache over the glabella. ► Stitches in the temples, with redness of the eyes. ► Congestion to brain, with convulsive motions of extremities. ► Affections of the brain, in children with catarrhal fever, difficult dentition, or exanthematic diseases. ► Exacerbation in brain affections, evenings. ► Headache after epileptic attacks.

Outer Head

► Tossing about of the head. ► Children cannot hold the head up. θ Brain affections.

Eyes

► Sight obscured. ► Eyes : dim ; lustreless ; sunken, with blue rings around. ► Great itching in the eyes toward evening. ► Pressing pain in the eyes. ► Bruised pain in the orbits when moving the eyes. ► Eyes red, inflamed. ► Eyeballs red, move like a pendulum from side to side. ► Quick rotation of the balls, with lids closed.

Ears

► Difficult hearing. ► Boring in and behind ears, pressing pain in front of ears. ► Swelling of the meatus externus.

Nose

► Sensation of great congestion of blood to the nose. ► Nosebleed : on right side only. ► Copious fluent coryza. ► Stoppage of the nose.

Face

► Expression : said, depressed ; of suffering ; prostration. ► Face : very red, eyelids closed and balls constantly rotating ; blue ; pale ; greyish ; dirty ; sunken features, pinched ; icy-cold.

Lower Face

► Mouth firmly closed. ► Lips blue. ► Froth from the mouth.

Teeth

► Rending pain from teeth to temples. ► Gums ulcerated.

Tongue, Etc

► Taste : sweet or sweetish ; metallic ; coppery. ► Tongue : red ; dry and rough, papillae enlarged ; coated white, yellowish or brown. ► Chronic glossitis.

Mouth

► Frothy saliva, with cough. ► Dry mouth. θ In brain affections. ► Induration of the salivary gland ; with or without fistula.

Throat

► Palate red, fauces inflamed. ► Tonsils inflamed. ► Dull, piercing pain in left tonsil, increased by external touch. ► Gurgling noise of the drink passing down the oesophagus.

Desires And Aversions

► Loss of appetite, great thirst for cooling drink.

Eating And Drinking

► A swallow of cold water relieves the cough, or vomiting. ► Milk brings on water-brash.

Nausea And Vomiting

► Hiccough : precedes vomiting ; begins attack of asthma. ► Constant eructations. ► Nausea and vomiting after taking cold. ► Nausea, vomiting and cramps during catamenia. ► Frequent nausea and fearful vomiting, catamenia omitting. ► Nausea, vomiting and torpid stool, with brain affections. ► Vomiting : in gushes of whey-like fluid ; frothy mucus ; bilious ; bloody.

Stomach

► Deathly feeling, with pain behind ensiform cartilage. ► Pressure in pit of stomach. ► Pressure at the stomach, with nausea. ► Eructations, rumbling in stomach. ► Sensation as of a round ball going to and fro under ribs, with different sounds worse from fluid food ; better from tight clothing or bandage around abdomen, and when lying quiet. ► Burning in epigastric region, which is sore to touch. ► Sensation as though something bitter were in the stomach. ► Sensation as though the clothing were lying too hard on pit of stomach.

Hypochondria

► Drawing pain from left hypochondrium to him.

Abdomen

► Cramps in the abdomen. ► Violent colicky, cutting, drawing pains in abdomen ; abdomen drawn in ; colic not increased by pressure. ► Violent spasms in abdomen and upper and lower limbs, with penetrating, distressing screams. ► Intussusception of the bowels, with singultus, violent colic stercoraceous (fecal) vomiting and great agony. ► Big belly, of children. ► Inguinal gland swollen. ► Spasmodic movements of the abdominal muscles.

Stool, Etc

► Constipation, alternating with diarrhoea. ► Diarrhoea : profuse, squirting out ; much wind passing. ► Stools : gray, with flocculent matter in cholera, also masses of whey-like fluid. ► Summer complaints of children, with brain affections. ► Thread-worms. ► Rounds worms.

Urine

► Must urinate during the night. ► Scantiness or entire suppression of urine. ► Urine : acid ; straw-colored, after standing turbid, and a reddish, thin sediment adheres to the vessels.

Male Sexual Organs

► Gonorrhoea, with a changeable discharge, now more, again less ; orifice or urethra sticking together.

Female Sexual Organs

► Menses not appearing after the suppression of foot-sweat. ► Before menses spasmodic dyspnoea. ► Before or during menses, or after suppression, violent, unbearable cramps in abdomen, extending up into chest ; causing nausea, vomiting, and sometimes convulsion of limbs and piercing shrieks. ► Vaginismus.

Pregnancy

► Spasms during parturition, with violent vomiting ; or with every paroxysm, opisthotonos, spreading out the limbs and opening the mouth. ► Clonic spasms during pregnancy, when attack commences in one part, as in fingers, or a limb, and gradually spreads. ► Most distressing after-pains, particularly of women who have borne many children. ► Cramping after-pains, which often produce cramp in the extremities. ► After confinement rash and convulsions. ► Swelling and induration of the mammae.

Larynx

► Hoarseness as soon as he breathes dry cold air. ► Talking is difficult, voice powerless. ► Contraction of the larynx with the cough.

Breathing

► Breathing : whistling ; quick, rattling ; short, panting ; seems to be interrupted, in the throat. ► Dyspnoea ; short, superficial, quick respirations, aggravated by coughing, laughing, bending upper part of body backwards, walking quickly, or inhaling acrid vapors. ► Violent asthmatic attacks came on suddenly, lasting from one to three hours, and cease suddenly. ► Beginning paralysis of the lungs ; indicated by sudden difficulty of breathing, followed by great prostration.

Cough

► Cough : dry ; dry, suffocative, worse nights ; evening dry, morning slight expectoration of phlegm, with dark blood of putrid taste and smell ; uninterrupted, cannot speak a word, discharge of bloody mucus from the nose ; after sea wind ; worse inhaling cold air ; taking deep breath ; laughing ; after eating solid food ; when bending backwards ; better by drinking cold water ; with whooping, children get stiff, breathing ceases, spasmodic twitchings, after a while consciousness returns, they vomit and recover, but slowly.

Lungs

► Shooting pains in sides of chest, must cry out.

Heart And Pulse

► Anxious feeling about the heart. ► Stitches below the heart. ► Boring pain in region of heart. ► Palpitation of the heart. ► Fatty degeneration, slow pulse, feeble cardiac action ; even angina. ► Pulse : very changeable ; thready, tense ; small, hard and moderately frequent.

Neck And Back

► Glands of the neck indurated. ► Paralysis of all muscles of back up to neck ; also of limbs ; lower limbs oedematous, but retain their sensibility.

Upper Limbs

► Anchylosis of the shoulder-joint. ► Numbness and lameness of arms. ► Twitching in the hands and fingers. ► Stitching, rending or drawing pains. ► Stiffened and inflamed hands and fingers. ► In the bend of the elbow, better, with yellow scabs ; itching violently, particularly in the evening. ► Little vesicles on tips of fingers, oozing watery fluid.

Lower Limbs

► Paralysis of lower limbs from psoas abscess. ► Twitching in the lower limbs ; drawing them backwards. ► Lameness of lower limbs, with contraction of the muscles. ► Great weakness of the legs, the knees give away. ► Spasms and cramps in the calves. ► Drawing and digging pain in the calf. ► Burning in the soles. ► Suppressed foot-sweat. ► Icy-coldness of the feet.

Limbs In General

► Cramps in the limbs. ► Weariness of the limbs. ► Contraction of the joints. ► Limbs cyanotic.

Position, Etc

► Tossing about : 1, 4; Head tends to sink forward : 2. Motion : 2. Moving eyes : 5. Walking : 26. Lying : 2. Lying quiet : 17. Cannot hold head up : 4. Bending body backward : 26, 27. Body bent forward : 36.

Nerves

► Weariness of long duration. ► Great weakness of the muscles. ► Great prostration with nervous excitability, constant restlessness driving our of bed. ► Nervous trembling with very great acuteness and sensitiveness of the senses. ► Twitching, jerkings or startings during sleep. ► Stiffness of the whole body ; body bent forward. ► Contraction of muscles and tendons. ► Clonic spasms ; accompanying brain affections ; beginning in the fingers or toes. ► Epileptic convulsions : trembling, tottering and falling unconscious, without a scream ; preceded by drawing in left arm ; aura epileptica ; with froth at the mouth, opisthotonos, limbs abducted ; followed by headache ; during sleep at night ; each new moon ; after spasms, turns and twists until another comes. ► Eclampsia of children, during dentition. ► Child lies on belly and spasmodically thrusts breech up.

Sleep

► Sleep heavy, even to comatose state. ► Sleepy, without being able to sleep. ► Sleep full of dreams.

Time

► Morning : 27. Evening : 3, 5, 27, 32. Night : 21, 27, 36, 40.

Temperature And Weather

► Dry cold air : 25, 27.

Chill, Fever And Sweat

► Feverish sensation, as if a cold wind were blowing out from the skin. ► Chill over the whole body, severe on the extremities. ► Chill after every attack of indisposition. ► Icy coldness of the whole body. ► Skin : moist and cool, particularly extremities ; dry, burning hot ; warm, dry and withered. ► Burning in the soles. ► Flushes of heat. ► Debilitating, exhausting internal heat. ► Cold sweat at night. ► Many attacks end in sweat. ► Foot-sweat, also suppressed foot-sweat.

Attacks

► Periodically : 3. Coming suddenly, ceasing suddenly : 26. New moon : 36.

Sides

► Right : 7. Left : 13, 19, 29, 35. Below upward : 10, 23, 31. Above downward : 13, 18.

Tissues

► Pain in the bones, as if they would break. ► Promotes suppuration in swellings. ► Inflammation of the cellular tissues. ► Caries.

Contact, Injuries, Etc

► Touch : 13, 17. Pressure : 19. ► Tight clothing or bandage : 17.

Skin

► Skin : inelastic ; dough-like. ► Unbearable itching, without eruption. ► Measle-eruption develops, and day cough ameliorated. ► Repercussion of eruption, with convulsions, vomiting or gagging ; pale face and twitching of limbs. ► Tetters : spreading, oozing ; in the bend of the elbow. ► Old ulcers.

Relationship

► Antidotes to Cuprum : sugar or white of egg against massive doses. ► Hepar s. c., or potash soap, after poisoning from food containing copper. ► If Cuprum aggravates, smelling of alcoholic solution of Camphor relieves. ► Dynamic antidotes : Bellad., Cinchon., Conium, Dulcam., Hepar, Ipec., Mercur., Nux vom. ► Veratr. follows well after Cuprum in whooping-cough. ► Cuprum is complementary to Calc. ostr. in the same forms of disease. ► Cuprum ars. excellent in severe burning, cramping pains within the abdomen (many cases).