Cuprum Metallicum


Cuprum Metallicum signs and symptoms of the homeopathy medicine from the Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by J.H. Clarke. Find out for which conditions and symptoms Cuprum Metallicum is used…


      Copper. Cu (A. W. 63). Trituration.

Clinical

After-pains. *Angina pectoris. *Asthma. Asthma miller. Cardialgia. Catarrh. Chlorosis. Cholera. Chorea. *Convulsions. Cough. *Cramps. *Croup. Cyanosis. Dentition. Dyspnoea. *Emissions. Epilepsy. Eruptions. Erysipelas. Fainting. Gastric disturbance. *Gout. Hematemesis. Herpes. Hysteria. Inflammations. Larynx, spasm of. Mania. Measles. Meningitis. Neuralgia. Palpitation. *Paralysis. Pneumonia. Psoriasis. Ringworms. Sleeplessness. Spasms. Spinal irritation. Ulcers. Whooping-cough. Yellow fever.

Characteristics

Metallic copper in an antipsoric remedy, working from within outwards. It ranks with the most important of those which relieve states arising from the ” striking inward” of diseases, or the failure of eruptions or discharge to appear. It is this power to relieve internal spasm which renders it appropriate to the collapse stage of cholera, of which it is also, like *Sulphur, a prophylactic either when worn next the skin, or when taken internally. *Cuprum produces many skin eruptions, and also foot- sweat, and it corresponds to these, and also to the effects of suppression of eruptions, exanthems, and foot-sweat, whether these effects be internal pains or spasms or oppression of the brain and mental disturbance. Mackechnie made a brilliant cure of psoriasis in a young girl with *Cuprum. The leading features of its symptomatology are: Cramps, convulsions, spasms of the most violent form, coming on from disappearance of pains, discharges, eruptions, mental derangement. With suppression of menses, patient screams. Tonic spasms of thumbs. Eyeballs turn up. Opisthotonos. Tonic and clonic spasms. ” Convulsions during pregnancy and puerperal convulsions which begin in the fingers or toes, and spread all over the body, or where there is great restlessness between the attacks, either filling up the entire interval, or only a part of the time.” Thus Guernsey. He also says that “a slimy metallic taste in the mouth” is one of the strongest indications for *Cuprum *Rhus is the only other remedy which has this symptom so marked. “Cramps or spasms beginning in hands and feet, extending to belly,” is confirmed by ***J. C. McLaren. Mossa regards *Cuprum as one of the remedies for the effects of fright, and relates the case of a girl who, after a fright, was affected by involuntary motions of left arm and leg developing into pronounced general chorea. *Cuprum brought about slow but decided recovery. Another girl, 12, who had recovered from whooping-cough got a kind of chorea from repeated frights on seeing an epileptic. To the muscular movements was added silly behavior: tongue heavy, speech slow, gait unwieldy. Frightened at night. Greediness in eating and drinking. *Ignatia, *Stramonium, *Sulph., did little good. She became ill-natured. *Cuprum every four days cured completely in three months. Mackechnie reports the case of a boy who became epileptic after being locked up in school. Very great improvement followed the administration of *Cuprum Schwencke cured a case of epilepsy of forty years’ standing with *Cuprum 6 after *Belladonna and *Hyoscyamus had done some little good. The patient was a man aged 45. The fits began suddenly towards morning with chewing motion of lower jaw, gnashing of teeth, becomes upright and rigid in bed, shrieks, limbs convulsed. After giving way to violent anger, attacks become more severe, arms and legs were thrown outwards and trunk arched upward. *Cuprum was now given. For a time the attacks continued severe, but gradually improvement set in, and in less than three months they ceased altogether. The “anger” in this case and the “ill-humour” in Mossa’s are noteworthy. Maliciousness is an indication for *Cuprum In a second case cured by Schwencke, that of a man, 38, epileptic seven years, a pressive headache preceded the attacks, ascending from nape to forehead, then there was profuse salivation, head turned to left, eyes closed, tongue in active motion in open mouth, trunk arched upward, slight spasms of right arm outward. After attack, dulness of head, and feeling in body as if beaten. *Cuprum first removed the fits and then the dulness of the head. *Cuprum has pains like knife-thrusts, worse on least motion, take away the breath, thinks he must die if they last. Speaks in a whisper. The thrusts go through to back from ensiform cartilage, from umbilicus. Restless tossing all night. Perfect stupor, with jerking of muscles. Paralysis of isolated muscles. Many unusual symptoms are produced, including maliciousness and desire to injure. Screaming, with cerebral or mental symptoms. Loquacious. Violent head pains worse over left eye. Brain seems paralysed. Chlorosis from abuse of iron. Vomiting, hiccoughs, and spasms better by drink of cold water. Over-sensitiveness of skin, especially in region of stomach and fourth and fifth dorsal vertebrae. Touch and pressure worse. worse Before menses, from vomiting. Symptoms are worse evening and night. Cold air and cold wind worse, cold drinks better (colic, cough, etc.). Wrapping head better headache. worse At new moon. Periodicity every 15, 30, or 60 minutes, every fortnight. Getting wet causes epileptic attacks. better From being mesmerized, during perspiration. Suited to fair-haired people, and the Carbo-nitrogenoid constitution. Women

who have borne many children (after-pains).

Relations.

*Is antidoted by: Sugar, or white of egg mixed with milk and given freely. Hepar, or potash soap may be used after poisoning from food prepared in copper vessels. Aggravations are better by smelling Camphor. *Dynamic antidotes: Belladonna, Chamomilla, Chi., Conium, Cicuta, Dulcamara, Hepar, Ip., Mercurius, Nux-v. v. *Antidote to: Aurum, Mercurius, Opium *Complementary: Calcarea *Compare: Other Copper preparations, Calcarea c., Gelsemium (overworked brain), Cicuta and Solanaceae (mental symptoms), Silica, (head pains better wrapping up head). Nux-v., Phosphorus, Coloc., Camph., Secale, Veratrum, Arnica, Apis., Zincum met., Pulsatilla, Arsenicum As if in a dream (Ambr., Anacardium, Calcarea, Cannabis indica, etc.) Loquacity (Hyoscyamus, Lachesis, Opium, Stramonium, Verat) Lack of reaction (Sulphur, Carb-v., Laur., Valer., Ambra, Caps., Psorinum, Opium, Belladonna, Stramonium, Bryonia, Apis).

Causation

Suppressions. Fright.

SYMPTOMS.

Mind

Melancholy, with attacks of extreme anguish, like fear of death, restlessness, groaning, and desire to escape. Want of moral courage. Anxiety and tears, alternating with buffoonery. Convulsive laughter. Incoherent, delirious talk. Mildness, alternating with obstinacy. Unfitness for exertion, with fear to be idle. Fits of abstraction, with fixed ideas of imaginary occupations at which the patient labours, or with lively songs, or else with malice and moroseness (with proud bearing, and at times interrupted by clonic spasms, craziness), and often with quick pulse, red and inflamed eyes, wandering looks, followed by sweat. Attacks of rage (wants to bite the bystanders). Furor. Dementia. Loss of sense and thought. Delirium.

Head

Vertigo on reading, and on looking into the air. Whirling vertigo, as if the head were going to fall forward ( worse during motion, better when lying down). Sensation (painful) as if the head were empty. Pain in the parietal bone, so as to cause crying out on putting the hand upon it. Pain as from a bruise in the brain, and in the orbits, on moving the eyes. Stupefying depression in the head, with tingling in the vertex. Aching in the temple, worse by the touch Pulling in the head, with vertigo, better by lying down. Headache, in consequence of an epileptic attack. External, burning shootings, in the side of the forehead, in the temples, and in the vertex. Pains in the occiput and in

the nape of the neck, on moving the head. Swelling of the head, with redness of the face. Distortion of the head on one side and backwards, the head is drawn to one side or falls forward, aggravated or renewed by each contact (hydrocephalus). Purplish. red swelling of the head, face purple-red and blue lips, convulsion and twitches in the limbs, worse when touched, which causes the swelling to pain.

Eyes

Itching (violent) in the eyes towards evening. Aching in the eyes and in the eyelids, worse by the touch. Eyes, red, inflamed, wandering or fixed (staring), sunken. Convulsions and restless movements of the eyes. Eyes are turned upward. Greater immobility of the pupils. Eyes prominent and sparkling. Eyes closed (weak and dim) Pupils insensible. Obscuration of the sight. Pains resembling a bruise in the orbits on turning the eyes.

Ears

Itching in the ears. Tearing in the ears. Pressure on the ears, as from a hard body. Boring pain in and behind the ear.

Nose

Strong congestion in the nose. Stoppage of the nose. Violent fluent coryza.

Face

Face pale (changed features, full of anguish), with eyes downcast and surrounded by a livid circle. Face bluish, bluish- red. Spasmodic distortion of the muscles of the face. Sad and anxious air. Redness of the face. Lips bluish. Excoriation of the upper lip. Aching of the lower jaw, increased by the touch. Spasm in the jaw.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica