CUPRUM METALLICUM
Source indications
Boericke's Materia Medica
- Spasmodic affections
- cramps
- convulsions beginning in fingers and toes
- violent contractive and intermittent pain
- tonic and clonic spasms
- epileptic attacks
- chorea brought on by fright
- nausea greater than in any other remedy
- aura begins at knees ascending to hypogastrium then unconsciousness foaming and falling
- symptoms appear periodically and in groups
- complaints begin in left side
- tape worm
- excessive vomiting
- stupor
- pains increased by movement and touch
- 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
- aching over eyes
- fixed stary sunken glistening eyes turned upward
- crossed eyes
- quick rolling of eyeballs with closed eyes
- distorted face
- pale bluish face
- blue lips
- contraction of jaws with foam at mouth
- sensation of violent congestion of blood to nose
- strong metallic slimy taste with flow of saliva
- constant protrusion and retraction of the tongue like a snake
- paralysis of tongue
- stammering speech
- hiccough preceding the spasms
- vomiting relieved by drinking cold water
- colic
- diarrhea
- strong metallic taste
- fluid descends with gurgling sound when drinking
- craves cool drink
- tense hot and tender abdomen to touch
- contracted abdomen
- neuralgia of abdominal viscera
- violent and intermittent colic
- intussusception
- black painful bloody stool with tenesmus and weakness
- cholera with cramps in abdomen and calves
- menses too late protracted
- cramps extending into chest before during or after suppression of menses
- cramps from suppressed foot sweats
- ebullition of blood
- palpitation
- chlorosis
- after-pains
- angina pectoris
- slow pulse or hard full and quick pulse
- precordial anxiety and pain
- fatty degeneration of heart
- cough as a gurgling sound better by drinking cold water
- suffocative attacks worse 3 am
- 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
- dyspnea with epigastric uneasiness
- spasmodic dyspnea before menstruation
- angina with asthmatic symptoms and cramps
- 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
- bluish marbled skin
- ulcers itching spots and pimples at the folds of joints
- chronic psoriasis
- lepra
- profound sleep with shocks in body
- constant rumbling in abdomen during sleep