Remedy

Cuprum metallicum

Copper

19 health issues Boericke 1927

Main symptoms

  • Chorea brought on by fright.
  • Nausea greater than in any other remedy.
  • Symptoms disposed to appear periodically and in groups.
  • Complaints begin in left side.
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  • Tape worm (colloidal Cuprum 3x).
  • Where rashes 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.

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What makes it better or worse

Worse

Before mensesFrom vomitingContact

Better

During perspirationDrinking cold water

Symptoms by body part

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. Giddiness accompanies many ailments, head falls forward on chest.

Eyes

Aching over eyes. Fixed, stary, sunken, glistening, turned upward. Crossed. Quick rolling of eyeballs, with closed eyes.

Face

Distorted, pale bluish, with blue lips. Contraction of jaws, with foam at mouth.

Nose

Sensation of violent congestion of blood to nose.

Mouth

Strong metallic, slimy taste, with flow of saliva. Constant protrusion and retraction of the tongue, like a snake. Stammering speech.

Stomach

Hiccough preceding the spasms. Nausea. Vomiting, relieved by drinking cold water; with colic, diarrhoea, spasms. Strong metallic taste. When drinking, the fluid descends with gurgling sound. Craves cool drink.

Abdomen

Tense, hot and tender to touch; contracted. Neuralgia of abdominal viscera. Colic, violent and intermittent. Intussusception.

Stool

Black, painful, bloody, with constant urge to pass stool and weakness.

Female

Menses too late, protracted. Cramps, extending into chest, before, during, or after suppression of menses. Also, from suppressed foot sweats. Ebullition of blood; palpitation. Chlorosis. After-pains.

Heart

Angina pectoris. Slow pulse; or hard, full and quick. Palpitation, praecordial anxiety and pain. Fatty degeneration.

Respiratory

Cough as a gurgling sound, better by drinking cold water. Suffocative attacks, worse 3 a.m. Whooping-cough, better, swallow water, with vomiting and spasms and purple face. Spasm of the glottis. Dyspnoea with epigastric uneasiness. Spasmodic dyspnoea before menstruation. Angina with asthmatic symptoms and cramps (Clarke).

Extremities

Jerking, twitching of muscles. Coldness of hands. Cramps in palms. Great weariness of limbs. Cramps in calves and soles. Clenched thumbs. Clonic spasms, beginning in fingers and toes.

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.

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