Cuprum Metallicum

Cuprum Metallicum
The following are the indications of Cuprum Metallicum, as it relates to this part. Strongest indications are in bold, the next strongest are in italics, and the remaining indications are in a plain typeface.

MIND

mind, behaviour, shrieking;

mind, behaviour, shrieking, before convulsions;

mind, dazed, from suppressed measles-like rash;

mind, emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition, weeping, crying, tearful mood (lamenting), while perspiring;

mind, intellectual faculties, impaired thinking, weakness of mind;

mind, restlessness, nervousness;

mind, restlessness, nervousness, tossing about in bed;

HEAD

Fixed ideas, malicious and morose

Uses words not intended

Fearful

Empty feeling

Purple, red swelling of head, with convulsions

Sensation as if water were poured over head

Giddiness accompanies many ailments, head falls forward on chest.

head, congestion (see pulsation);

Bruised pain in brain and eyes on turning them

head, pain, headache, in forehead, above root of nose;

head, pain, headache, dull pain, forehead;

EYES

Aching over eyes

Fixed, starry, sunken, glistening, turned upward

Crossed

Quick rolling of eyeballs, with closed eyes.

eye, lids, half open;

eye, lids, eyes closed, half open;

eye, pupils, insensitive to light;

EARS

hearing, impaired;

FACE

Distorted, Pale bluish, with blue lips

Contraction of jaws, with foam at mouth.

face, convulsions, spasms;

face, lips, discoloration, bluish;

face, skin, discoloration, bluish;

face, skin, discoloration, bluish, in cholera;

face, skin, discoloration, bluish, with convulsions;

face, skin, discoloration, pale;

NOSE

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

nose, congestion of blood to the nose;

MOUTH

Stammering speech.

mouth, froth, foam, from mouth;

Constant protrusion and retraction of the tongue, like a snake ( Lach.) Paralysis of tongue

mouth, dryness, tongue;

Strong metallic, slimy taste, with flow of saliva

mouth, taste, sweetish;

THROAT

throat, choking, constricting, larynx, during cough (see cough choking);

CHEST

Heart, Angina pectoris

Slow pulse, or hard, full and quick

Palpitation, precordial anxiety and pain

Fatty degeneration ( Phytol.)

chest, constriction, tension, convulsive;

chest, movements in and of chest, convulsions;

chest, oppressed feeling;

Cough has a gurgling sound, better by drinking cold water

Suffocative attacks, worse 3 a.m ( 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

Dyspnoea with epigastric uneasiness

Spasmodic dyspnoea before menstruation

Angina with asthmatic symptoms and cramps (Clarke).

respiration, accelerated;

respiration, asthma attack;

respiration, difficult (dyspnea);

respiration, difficult (dyspnea), with cough;

respiration, interrupted;

respiration, interrupted, coughing;

respiration, irregular;

respiration, rattling;

COUGH

cough, asthmatic;

cough, cold drinks;

cough, with constriction feeling, larynx;

cough, with convulsions;

cough, comes on suddenly;

cough, comes on suddenly, consisting of long coughs;

cough, comes on suddenly, attacks of disease are uninterrupted;

cough, persistent;

cough, intermittent;

cough, suffocating;

cough, violent;

SKIN

BLUISH, marbled

Ulcers, itching spots, and pimples at the folds of joints

Chronic psoriasis and lepra (Hughes).

BACK AND NECK

back, pain, extending to other parts, stomach;

back, spasms, opisthotonos (body bent backward and stiffened);

ABDOMEN

Stomach, Hiccough preceding the spasms

Strong metallic taste ( Rhus.) When drinking, the fluid descends with gurgling sound ( Laur.) Craves cool drink.

Tense, hot and tender to touch, Contracted

Neuralgia of abdominal viscera

COLIC, violent and intermittent

Intussusception.

abdomen, heat;

abdomen, abdominal muscles, muscle spasms;

abdomen, pain, comes on suddenly;

abdomen, pain, periodical;

abdomen, pain, pulling, behind lower ribs, left;

abdomen, pain, pulling, behind lower ribs, left, extending to hip;

abdomen, pain, pulling, behind lower ribs, extending to hip;

abdomen, tension;

abdomen, bladder, urination, unconscious, in mania;

abdomen, kidneys, suppression of urine, with convulsion;

abdomen, stomach, contraction;

abdomen, stomach, gurgling;

abdomen, stomach, gurgling, when drinking;

abdomen, stomach, pain, cramping, griping, constricting, people with tendency to get stomach cramps;

Nausea

Vomiting, relieved by drinking cold water, with colic, diarrhoea, spasms

RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

rectum, cholera;

Black, painful, bloody, with tenesmus and weakness

Cholera, with cramps in abdomen and calves.

stool, watery, like rice water;

GENITALS ETC

Also, from suppressed foot sweats ( Sil.) Ebullition of blood, palpitation

Chlorosis

After-pains.

genitals, female, pain, pains after giving birth;

Female, Menses too late, protracted

Cramps, extending into chest, before, during, or after suppression of menses

genitals, female, period, protracted;

EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Jerking, twitching of muscles

Coldness of hands

Cramps in palm

Great weariness of limbs

Cramps in calves and soles

Epilepsy, aura begins in knees

Clenched thumbs

Clonic spasms, beginning in fingers and toes.

extremities, limbs, coldness;

extremities, limbs, coldness, lower limbs, foot;

extremities, limbs, cramps;

extremities, limbs, cramps, hand, cholera;

extremities, limbs, cramps, fingers, with cholera;

extremities, limbs, cramps, fingers, during childbirth;

extremities, limbs, cramps, lower limbs;

extremities, limbs, cramps, leg;

extremities, limbs, cramps, calf;

extremities, limbs, cramps, calf, in cholera;

extremities, limbs, cramps, foot;

extremities, limbs, cramps, foot, in cholera;

extremities, limbs, hands and feet, clenching fingers (see extremities, convulsions, contraction);

extremities, limbs, hands and feet, clenching fingers (see extremities, convulsions, contraction), thumbs;

extremities, limbs, movements and positions, convulsion;

extremities, limbs, movements and positions, flexed, limbs feel pulled, inwards, thumbs;

extremities, limbs, movements and positions, flexed, finger (see extremities, hands and feet, clenching);

extremities, limbs, movements and positions, twitching, fingers;

extremities, limbs, skin, out-break on skin, elbow, herpes;

extremities, limbs, stiffness;

FEVER AND CHILL

chill, drinking;

chill, after epilepsy;

chill, icy coldness of the body;

GENERALITIES

generalities, lethargic, tired;

Profound, with shocks in body

During sleep constant rumbling in abdomen.

sleep, restless;

generalities, convulsions;

generalities, convulsions, rapid muscle spasm;

generalities, convulsions, convulsive movements;

generalities, convulsions, epileptic;

generalities, convulsions, when out-breaks on skin fail to break out;

generalities, convulsions, with falling;

generalities, convulsions, from stress;

perspiration, other symptoms relieved while perspiring;

generalities, blackness of external parts;

generalities, blood vessels, blue discoloration (from lack of oxygen in blood);

generalities, hypnosis, trance;

generalities, pain, pressing, internally;

generalities, in women, symptoms before period;

generalities, perspiration;

generalities, pulse, abnormal;

generalities, pulse, frequent, accelerated, elevated, exalted, fast, innumerable, rapid;

generalities, pulse, imperceptible;

generalities, pulse, small;

generalities, pulse, soft;

generalities, swelling, puffy;

generalities, touch;

generalities, twitching, twitching, involuntary movements (chorea);

generalities, vomiting;

generalities, weakness (see lethargic, weariness), mental exertion;