CUPRUM METALLICUM

Synonym: Copper

Source: It is a metal which is easily available.

Proved by: Hahnemann

Description

• Metallic copper is one of the most important remedies where the diseased conditions 'Strike in' on account of the non-appearance or suppressions of eruptions and the discharges.
• It affects the nerves of the cerebrospinal axis and muscles causing spasmodic effects, cramps, convulsions, start in the knees toes or fingers and radiate over the whole body, violent, contractive, and intermitting 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.
• Epileptiform convulsions, nervous trembling, tottering, and falling unconscious without a scream; frothing from the mouth; followed by a headache.
• In epilepsy, aura begins at knees, ascends to hypogastrium; then unconsciousness, foaming, and falling.
• Audible gurgling of drink passing from the esophagus.
• Brain affections, convulsions etc, from suppressed eruptions, or during dentition.
• The pains are increased by movement and touch.
• Complaints begin on left side.
• Chorea from fright; periodical.
• Nausea greater than in any other remedy.

Mind

• Nervous, Uneasy.
• Mental dullness slowness.
• Fear of society shuns everybody.
• Afraid of everybody who approach him.
• Loquacious; then melancholy; with spells of fear of death.
• Fixed ideas, malicious and morose.
• Uses words not intended.
• Mania; violent behavior, bites; beats; tears the things.
• Fearful.
• Empty feeling.
• Weeps violently.
• Convulsive laughter.
• Delirium; cold sweat.
• Confusion.

Head

• Purple, red swelling of head, with convulsions.
• Bruised pain in brain and eyes on turning them.
• Empty feeling with pain.
• Can not hold head erect or bores into the pillow; meningitis.
• Sensation as if water were poured over the head with headache.
• Headache after epilepsy.
• Giddiness accompanies many ailments, head falls forward on chest.
• Shakes the head from side to side.

Eyes

• Loss of vision before the convulsion.
• Aching over eyes.
• Fixed, stary, sunken, glistening turned upward.
• Quick rolling of eyeballs, with closed eyes.
• Lids spasmodically closed.
• Twitching of lids and photophobia; asthma.

Face

• Distorted, pale bluish, with blue lips.
• Sunken pinched Icy cold.
• Contraction of jaws, with foam at mouth.

Nose

• Sensation of violent congestion of blood to nose (Melilot).

Mouth

• Firmly closed or open with tongue darting in and out like a snake (in convulsions).
• Grinds the teeth.
• Strong metallic, slimy taste, with flow of saliva.
• Loss of speech; stammering; paralysis of the tongue.
• Froth from mouth.
• Food tastes like clear water.

Throat

• Unable to talk on account of spasms of throat.
• Gurgling noise when swallowing fluids.

Stomach

• Desire for cold drinks.
• Hiccough preceding the spasms.
• Nausea, periodical attacks of vomiting.
• Vomiting relieved by drinking cold water; with colic, diarrhœa, spasms. Strong metallic taste (Rhus).

Abdomen

• Tense contracted hot and tender to touch
• Frightful colic with contraction of the abdomen.
• Neuralgia of abdominal viscera.
• Colic, violent and intermittent.
• Intussusception; with faecal vomiting.
• Diarrhoea; profuse; spurting out; of green water.
• Cholera; summer diarrhoea in children.
• Round; tape thread worms.
• Constipation with great heat of body.
• Spasmodic movements of abdominal muscles.
• Cirrhosis of liver.

Stool

• Black, painful, bloody, with tenesmus and weakness.
• Cholera; with cramps in abdomen and calves.

Urinary

• Suppression of urine (in cholera); uremic.
• Passes clear watery urine during or after spasms.

Male

• Cramps in calves prevent coition especially old men or nervous young men.

Female

• Menses too late, protracted.
• Violent cramps in abdomen extending into the chest before or during menses; or from suppressions of the menses; convulsions before menses.
• Puerperal convulsions with open mouth and opisthotonos.
• Most distressing after- pains especially in women who had borne many children.
• Ebullition of blood; palpitation. Chlorosis. After-pains.

Respiration

• Cough as a gurgling sound, better by drinking cold water.
• Suffocative attacks, worse 3 am (Am c).
• Spasm and constriction of chest; spasmodic asthma, alternating with spasmodic vomiting.
• Whooping-cough, better, swallow water, with vomiting and spasms and purple face.
• Spasm of the glottis.
• Dyspnœa with epigastric uneasiness.
• Spasmodic dyspnœa before menstruation.
• Intermittent aphonia in professional singers.
• Angina with asthmatic symptoms and cramps (Clarke).

Heart

• Angina with asthmatic symptoms and cramps.
• Palpitation before menses.
• Pulse slow hard full and quick.

Back

• Paralysis of all the muscles up to the neck.

Extremities

• Jerking in hands and feet.
• Clenching of thumb in palms.
• Cramps in palms calves and soles.
• Great weariness of limbs.
• Joints contracted.
• Ankles painfully heavy.
• Knees; aura begins in; feel as if broken.
• Ankylosis of shoulder joint.
• Knees double up involuntary when walking bringing him down.

Skin

• Suppressed or undeveloped eruptions.
• Ulcers; itching spots and pimples at the folds of joints.
• Severe itching without eruptions.
• Yellow scaly eruptions (bend of elbow) Chronic psoriasis.
• Leprosy

Sleep

• Profound sleep; with shocks in the body.
• Constant rumbling in abdomen during sleep.

Fever

• Icy coldness of skin.
• Chilly.
• Sweat; cold clammy at night; sour smelling after convulsions.

Modalities

• Worse, before menses; from vomiting, contact.
• Better, during perspiration, drinking cold water.

Relationship

• Antidotes: Bell; Hepar; Camph. Copper is found in Dulcam, Staphisag, Conium and some other plants. Also in King-crab (Limulus).

Complementary

• Calc.

Dose

• Sixth to thirtieth potency.