Cuprum Metallicum
Dewey, Essentials of Homœopathic Materia Medica, 1894, p. 218
Questions
Give the general physiological action of Cuprum. In general Cuprum causes cramps, dyspnoea, coldness of the body, convulsions, inflammatory colic, etc.
What are the indications for Cuprum in Cholera ?
Coldness and blueness of the surface of the body. Cramps of the muscles, those of the calves and thighs are drawn up into knots; there is distress in the pit of the stomach and great dyspnoea. Give indications for Cuprum in Colic. Knife-like, violent pains in the abdomen, which are better from pressure, but are not better from heat; there is neuralgia of all the abdominal nerve-es, as if a knife were drawn through to the back.
What are the indications for Cuprum in Spasms?
When from suppressed eruptions; violent delirium there is blueness of the face and lips, the eyeballs are distorted, and there is frothing at the mouth, and they may be ushered in by a shriek or cry. Convulsions following cholera.
What is there characteristic of the cough of Cuprum ?
It is relieved by a drink of cold water; cold water also relieves the vomiting; whooping cough, the attacks coming on in quick succession, relieved by a drink of water, accompanied perhaps by spasms, threatening suffocation.
What other drug has cough relieved by a drink of water ?
Causticum.
What is the chief indication for Cuprum arsenicosum ?
Terrible enteralgias or abdominal neuralgias, with great restlessness.