CUPRUM METALLICUM
Source indications
Allen's Keynotes
- spasms and cramps: symptoms disposed to appear periodically and in groups
- mental and physical exhaustion from over-exertion of mind and loss of sleep
- attacks of unconquerable anxiety
- a strong, sweetish, metallic, copper taste in the mouth with flow of saliva
- constant prostration and retraction of the tongue, like a snake
- when drinking, the fluid descends with a gurgling sound
- cholera morbus or asiatic cholera, with cramps in abdomen and calves of legs
- bad effects of re-percussed eruptions, resulting in brain affections, spasms, convulsions, vomiting
- bad effects of suppressed foot-sweat
- convulsions, with blue face and clenched thumbs
- cramps in the extremeties
- pains, soles, calves with great weariness of limbs
- clonic spasms, beginning in fingers and toes, and spreading over entire body
- clonic spasms during pregnancy
- puerperal convulsions
- clonic spasms after fright or vexation
- clonic spasms from metastasis from other organs to brain
- paralysis of tongue
- imperfect stammering speech
- epilepsy: aura begins in knees and ascends
- epilepsy < at night during sleep
- epilepsy about new moon, at regular intervals menses
- epilepsy from a fall or blow upon the head
- epilepsy from getting wet
- cough has a gurgling sound, as if water was being poured from a bottle
- cough, > by drinking cold water
- whooping cough: long-lasting, suffocating, spasmodic cough
- whooping cough: unable to speak; breathless, blue face, rigid, stiff
- whooping cough: three attacks successively
- whooping cough: vomiting of solid food after regaining consciousness
- whooping cough: cataleptic spasm with each paroxysm
- after pains
- sever, distressing, in calves and soles
- < cold air; cold wind; at night; suppressed foot sweat or exanthema
- > nausea, vomiting and cough, by a swallow of cold water