Cuprum Aceticum

• ▸Cupr.
• ▸acet.
• ▸produces the leading features of Cupr.
• ▸met.
• ▸—cramps, griping

pains, spasms, paralytic affections, and convulsions. Attacks come on suddenly and periodically.

It corresponds to the results of repelled eruptions. Dr. Burnett has cured with it a case of left-

sided brow ague of many years' standing. He used Rhademacher's Tincture of Copper. The pain

was described as boring, screwing and was spoken of by the patient as "awful." Dr. Burnett is

unable to say whether the cure was strictly homeeopathic or "whether the Cuprum acted on the

• ▸basis of the Paracelsic Universalia of which it is one.
• ▸" A man, 50, was cured with Cupr.
• ▸ac.
• ▸5 trit.

of a tonic spasm of the toes of the right foot, very painful, lasting for hours, brought on by

friction, standing on cold floors, &c. There was no traceable cause, and no other derangement of

• ▸health.
• ▸Complete cure in five days, after months of previous suffering (17.
• ▸R.
• ▸, ii.
• ▸71).
• ▸Petroz

recommended its use in small-pox and verified his induction in practice. As pointed out by

General Phelps (H. W., October, 1896), the "Crimson Cross Ointment" used successfully by

Fielden in the Gloucester epidemic of small-pox owes its virtues to the Cupr. acet. which it

contains. In epilepsy the aura begins in the knees and ascends to hypogastrium, when patient

becomes insensible. The symptoms are < by heat and by motion. The patient frequently changes,

posture. It is suited to the carbo-nitrogenous constitution.

Memory weak; brain functions decreased.—Absent-minded.—Fixed ideas: he sees

policemen come to seize him.—Hallucinations of all kinds of figures and grimaces, esp. in

evening when going to bed and shutting eyes —Delirium; wants to go home.—Maniacal talk;

wakes screaming and scolding; tries to escape.—Fear: of falling; of persons approaching; of

death.—Talkative.—Extreme anguish, with vomiting, colic, thirst, coldness of the limbs, and

quick and spasmodic pulse.—Grief and dejection, with eyes sunken, tongue humid, insipid taste

in the mouth, want of appetite, continual hawking, risings, with taste of copper, violent thirst,

and smallness of pulse.

Lassitude, with trembling and want of appetite; great weakness sometimes

attended by convulsions; inability to stand upright.—Insensibility and weakness; stiffness of the

limbs and of the body; paralysis of the limbs.—Lying on the side (in animals), with anguish, with

intestinal evacuations, greenish and frothy; the animal is stretched out, almost without

respiration, with inclination to vomit (speedily followed by death).—In epilepsy aura begins in

knees, ascending till it reaches hypogastric region, when unconsciousness ensues, foaming at the

mouth and falling down convulsed.—As soon as patient goes into a high-ceilinged room, the head

reels and she loses her senses.—Position, on the back, with the head thrown backwards; great

agitation and frequent cries.—Trismus, with spasms in the palate, and dumbness; convulsive

starts, with movements, as in eating and swallowing, painful vomiting and

dyspnoea.—Jaundice.—Inflammation and swelling (by external applications).

• ▸Violent throbbing and lancinating pains in forehead.
• ▸Left-sided brow ague.
• ▸Brain seems void.
• ▸Inclined to gape and cry.
• ▸Loses consciousness; head reels when in high-ceiled room.
• ▸Constant protrusion and retraction of tongue (Laches).
• ▸Neuralgia with heaviness of head, burning, stinging and stitching in temples and forehead.

Vertigo with stupefaction; > by evacuation of bowels.—Violent cephalalgia, with thirst

and violent colic——Agonising headache at distinct intervals like paroxysms, lancinating pains,

sometimes in forehead, sometimes in vertex, sometimes in temples or occiput, < least

pressure.—Inflammation of brain: prostration, breathing short and anxious; face puffed and pale;

when drinking, child bit glass or spoon; following disappearance of rash—Heaviness in the head,

and slight deafness.

After riding several hours in railroad car sudden indistinct and double vision (paralysis

of 1. abducens nerve).

Collapsed, hippocratic. Facial neuralgia in cheek-bone, upper jaw, and behind right ear. Better by chewing, pressure, and external warmth.

Tetanic condition of jaws.—Neuralgia behind r. ear, in cheek-bone and upper jaw, <

moving; at night; from mental exertion, > by pressure, and by wrapping up head; feeling of

coldness in head.—The face wears an expression of great anguish.

Inflammation of tonsils; or, when they are enlarged will cause suppuration and

favour healing.

• ▸Violent spasmodic pains in stomach and abdomen.
• ▸Vomiting.
• ▸Slimy brown diarrhoea.
• ▸Violent tenesmus.
• ▸Cholera.

Copper-like taste, and tongue covered with a greyish film.—Loathing of food and

drink (with animals), sometimes with retching.—Risings, with copper-like taste and constant

hawking.—Constant inclination to vomit, sometimes with cough and convulsive respiration, or

else with frequent emission of urine.—Vomitings, sometimes very frequent, with colic and

convulsions.—Vomitings, which are greenish, white, and frothy.—Frequent vomits of a bluish

colour, followed by retching, dyspnoea, and irregular and frequent pulse.-—Vomiting, with loose

evacuations.—Bloody vomiting, following frequent retching.—Tearings in the precordial

region.—Periodical contraction of the stomach.

Abdomen retracted, slightly sensitive to pressure.—Violent colic, attended by

vomiting and diarrhoea —Nocturnal colic with vomiting —Great inflation of the abdomen, with

copious evacuation of faecal matter—Abdomen hard, puffed up, and painful to the touch.

Stools with many worms, blackish or mixed with bloody mucus.—Stools

accompanied by tenesmus and general weakness.

Urine turbid, of a deep red, with yellow sediment, attended by much thirst

and general uneasiness.

• ▸Attacks of angina pectoris coming on when excited.
• ▸Violent spasmodic cough.
• ▸Short, difficult respiration.
• ▸Spasmodic constriction of chest.
• ▸Dyspnoea.

Dyspnoea.—Chest spasmodically constricted, impeding respiration,

and increasing her anxiety —Frequent violent dry cough, with tearing pains in head: cough

followed by violent palpitation lasting several minutes; anxiety and pressure in chest, < sitting;

cough between eleven and one at night.—Red face, blue round mouth and lips during attack;

starting in sleep; fretful crying with paroxysms of cough.

Deathly feeling behind ensiform cartilage.—Frequent attacks of angina pectoris

coming on from exertion or excitement.

Leprous-like eruption, without itching, over whole body, in spots of various sizes.

Fever, with swelling of the belly and constipation; heat, with hard pulse, cephalalgia,

difficulty in swallowing, and inflation of the abdomen; pulse small and contracted.—Measles,

with bronchitis.

• ▸Angina pectoris.
• ▸Apoplexy.
• ▸Brain, affections of.
• ▸Brow ague.
• ▸Cerebro-spinal

• ▸meningitis.
• ▸Cholera Asiatica.
• ▸Chorea.
• ▸Croup.
• ▸Diarrhoea.
• ▸Eruptions.
• ▸Erysipelas.
• ▸Hallucinations.

• ▸Hydrocephalus.
• ▸Mania.
• ▸Measles.
• ▸Paralyses.
• ▸Scarlatina.
• ▸Small-pox.
• ▸Strabismus.
• ▸Tapeworm.

Ureemia. Whooping-cough.

In poisoning cases it is antidoted by: sugar, or white of egg, given freely.

• ▸Homeopathic antidotes: Bell.
• ▸, Chi.
• ▸, Con.
• ▸, Cicut.
• ▸, Dulc.
• ▸, Hepar, Ipec.
• ▸, Merc.
• ▸, Nux v.

• ▸Complementary: Calc.
• ▸, Gels.
• ▸(overworked brain): Cicut.
• ▸and Solanaceze (mental symptoms);

Zinc. (hydrocephalus and convulsions from suppressed exanthems).

Acts similarly to Cuprum met but is more violent in action.

Third to sixth trituration.

Violent drawing and tension in limbs with shuddering and chilliness though skin is

not cold.—Periodic, spasmodic, painful contraction of fingers and toes, frequently so severe that

the fingers could scarcely be extended by any force ——Cramps and coldness.