Cuprum Arsenicosum

• ▸Cupr.
• ▸ars.
• ▸combines the characters of its two metallic components.
• ▸Intense

neuralgic pains in abdomen; awful distress in epigastric region; burning along cesophagus and in

• ▸urethra; numbness; creeping, itching, and chilly sensations.
• ▸According to J.
• ▸N.
• ▸Majumdar, who

gives a case, the great characteristic of Cup. ars. in choleraic conditions is "icy-coldness of the

• ▸whole body, with cramps and an obstinate hiccough.
• ▸" B.
• ▸L.
• ▸Bhaduri pointed this out to him.

Salzer has shown that "cold, clammy perspiration of intermittent nature" is unique and

characteristic. He has found it most valuable in the collapse stage of cholera, where intermittent

cold, clammy sweat was noted. The skin is very sensitive to touch; and pressure < all symptoms.

Rest > and motion < most symptoms; but motion > stiffness of back and tingling of hands. Damp

weather = neuralgia of abdomen. Weakness and restlessness. There is a periodicity in the

symptom.

Vertigo, confusion of ideas and headache between temples.—Fulness in head, brain

seems to expand and press against frontal bone.—Sharp pain in temples, < in 1.—Headache

between temples; the pain seems to meet in centre of forehead and pass thence down

nose.—Dulness and soreness of head in morning after washing.

Face haggard; expression of great suffering —Violent twitching and jerking of muscles

of |. side of face between eye and corner of mouth.—Soreness of bones.

Tongue thickly coated, dirty brown, white, metallic taste; thirst. Dry mouth.

Mouth very dry; frequently called for something to wet his mouth.—Shooting in

upper |. molars, extending upward into superior maxillary line-—Back part of tongue thickly

coated.—Tongue, dry and tremulous.—Bad breath.

Moderate thirst; but drink of any kind increased the nausea; a few mouthfuls

satisfied; desire for drink seemed rather due to dry mouth than thirst —Intense thirst —Nausea and

vomiting, < after eating; < after study.—Obstinate hiccough.—Nausea and awful distress at

• ▸epigastrium.
• ▸—Burning.
• ▸—Cutting in stomach while eating.
• ▸—Cramp in stomach and bowels,

followed by tonsillitis.

• ▸Gastro-enteritis.
• ▸Violent abdominal pain.
• ▸Diarrhoea in phthisis.
• ▸Cholera (Ars; Verat; Camph).
• ▸Rumbling and sharp cutting pain.
• ▸Dark liquid stools.

Burning, cramping, colic pains—Spasmodic and neuralgic pains, accompanied

by screams and cramps in fingers and toes —Cramping pains in lower bowels, with extreme

vesical and rectal tenesmus; micturition frequent causing great suffering.—Attacks of

excruciating pains in bowels occurring every two or three weeks.

Vomiting and purging, with cramps and collapse.—Rectal tenesmus, with

almost constant mucous discharges.—Chronic slimy diarrhoea during summer, with cramps in

abdomen.

Pain in sacral region, with frequent urging to urinate.—Dark red urine;

burning pain during and after urination. —Strong smelling urine; odour of garlic.

• ▸Renal inefficiency and uraemia.
• ▸Garlicky odor.
• ▸Diabetes.
• ▸Urine of high specific gravity; increased, acetones and diacetic acid.

About close of menses, worked out of doors during a moist,

drizzling day; during night agonising pains in lower abdominal region; tender spot over |. ovary;

tongue heavily coated white-—During pregnancy constant nausea, rejects everything; weak, very

nervous; pulse quick and feeble; spasmodic uterine pain; at one time tenesmus and dysenteric

stools.

Perspiration of scrotum; is constantly damp and moist. Boils on scrotum. Purulent discharge of a white color from urethra; tingling and burning in urethra; pain in prostate; pains in penis.

White purulent discharge from urethra; soreness of penis, with pain

in prostate gland; tingling and burning in urethra.—Perspiration of scrotum, which is constantly

moist and damp.—Boils frequently forming on scrotum.

Voice altered; speech difficult.—Oppression of chest as if

constricted—Weight on chest, with difficult breathing. —Soreness of small spot in |. scapula,

extending into |. lung, followed by dull, sticking pains in 1. chest, between sixth and seventh ribs,

• ▸<on deep inspiration; weak, Dumb feeling in 1.
• ▸chest, 1.
• ▸side of back, 1.
• ▸shoulder and arm.
• ▸—Dull

soreness in r. side of chest, with dull pains in back, < from deep inspiration.

Cardiac rhythm and force altered due to defective elimination.

Heart's action weak and hurried; pulse small, compressible, weak, and frequent,

though quite regular—Sudden debility, with dull pain in heart, and sense of oppression; |. chest

feels too small; long involuntary inspiration; empty feeling in stomach, with vertigo and

confusion of ideas, and headache between temples.—Palpitation of heart, with trembling of

limbs.—Palpitation moving walls of chest up and down.—Cardiac chorea: at one time heart beats

very irregular and feeble, at another time violent and irregular; attacks appear in paroxysms,

action being normal in intervals.

Persistent lameness. Pain in lumbar region and in lower left shoulder-blade; chest feels tight.

Soreness of glands of neck, with stiffness of neck; pain < on moving

• ▸head.
• ▸—Severe pains under lower angle of |.
• ▸scapula < from motion or breathing.
• ▸—Stiffness and

lameness of back, < by motion > by rest; returns after sitting awhile——Lameness of lumbar

• ▸region.
• ▸—Pain in r.
• ▸lumbar region, and in anterior portion of r.
• ▸thigh.

Cramps in calves of legs, worse after midnight, only relieved by getting out of bed and standing. Ulcers; gangrene.

• ▸Icy cold.
• ▸Sweat, and skin even when dry.
• ▸Cold, clammy perspiration of an intermittent nature.
• ▸Acne, pustules on face and in the cruro-genital region; ulcers look like chancre.
• ▸Gangrene; carbuncles.

Whole surface covered with cold moisture; skin pale like death.—Icy coldness of

whole body, with cramps and obstinate hiccough.—Intermittent, cold clammy sweat (in cholera

collapse).

• ▸Cholera.
• ▸Cholerine.
• ▸Chorea.
• ▸Diarrhoea.
• ▸Enteralgia.
• ▸Paralysis (left side).
• ▸Uterine

neuralgia. Vomiting.

For antidotes see under Arsen. Compare: Arsenical and Copper preparations; Acon.;

• ▸Act.
• ▸r.
• ▸(angina pectoris, numbness of left side of body, paresis of left arm); Merc.
• ▸cor.
• ▸(diarrhoea

and tenesmus); Iris. v.

Third trituration.

L. arm feels numb and powerless; similar feeling in 1. leg —Spasms in extremities;

coldness.—Itching of arms and legs.—Pustular tumours in wrists and ankles, and excessive

sensitiveness and irritability of skin.

24. Generalities—Tremulousness of whole body, very noticeable on attempting to

walk.—Quivering, impossible to control.—Great prostration; as from traumatic shock.