- Source: Derived from metallic copper🌿 CopperMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. (Cuprum metallicum), a naturally occurring element,.
- Prepared for homeopathic use through triturationGrinding raw substance into powderThe process of grinding an insoluble dry substance with milk sugar (lactose) in a mortar to prepare the base of a remedy., serial dilutionPotentized liquid homeopathic medicineA solution prepared by repeatedly diluting and shaking (succussing) a substance to enhance healing power while removing toxicity., and succussionVigorous shaking of homeopathic dilutionThe process of vigorously shaking a liquid homeopathic solution against a firm surface during dilution to potentize it. to eliminate toxicity and enhance therapeutic action.
- Traditional Context: Historically employed in homeopathy for neurological, muscular,.
- Respiratory, and psychological disorders , particularly those involving spasms, convulsions, and emotional rigidity.
- It is noted for symptoms such as cramps, seizures, and suppressed emotions,.
- Often aggravated by heat, touch, or emotional stress, and ameliorated by cold, pressure, or solitude.
- Modern Context: Indicated for neurological conditions (e.g., epilepsy🩺 EpilepsyClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., muscle spasms), muscular conditions (e.g., cramps, dystonia), respiratory conditions (e.g., asthma🩺 AsthmaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., whooping cough),.
- Psychological conditions (e.g., anxiety, obsessive-compulsive tendencies), gastrointestinal conditions (e.g., colic, nausea), and systemic conditions (e.g., fatigue, hypersensitivity).
- It suits patients with acute or chronic symptoms characterized by spasmodic tendencies, muscular rigidity, respiratory distress, or emotional suppression, typically exacerbated by heat, touch, or emotional triggers, and often seen in individuals with neurological disorders, respiratory conditions,.
- Or stress-related tension.
- The remedy is particularly relevant for those with a chillyHypersensitive to cold temperaturesA constitutional state of feeling exceptionally cold, lacking vital heat, and needing warmth or heavy blankets., intense constitution, often presenting with physical symptoms like convulsions or asthmaChronic respiratory disease causing difficulty breathingA condition characterized by spasms in the bronchi of the lungs, causing difficulty in breathing, typically from an allergic reaction or hypersensitivity. alongside psychological symptoms like anxiety or rigidity, commonly observed in patients with epilepsyNeurological disorder causing seizuresA neurological disorder marked by sudden recurrent episodes of sensory disturbance, loss of consciousness, or convulsions.,.
- Asthma, or obsessive-compulsive disorder🩺 Obsessive-Compulsive DisorderClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- COMMENTS-Metallic copper is an anti-psoric remedy, working from within outwards.
- It is one of the most important remedies that relieve states arising from the “striking inward’’ of diseases🌿 DiseasesMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. or the failure of eruptions or discharge to appear.
- Suppressed discharges that lead to spasms and convulsions.
- Relieve internal spasms which renders it appropriate to the collapse stage of cholera🩺 CholeraClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. (Sulph.).
- Aprophylactic either when worn next the skin or when taken internally.
- Maliciousness and a desire to injure.
- Screaming with cerebral or mental symptoms.
- Loquaciousness.
- Violent head pains that are worse over the left eye.🌿 Eye.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.
- Brain seems paralyzed.
- Over-sensitiveness of the skin, especially in the region of the stomach and fourth and fifth dorsal vertebrae.
- Cramps, spasms, twitches, and convulsions.
- Twitches of little muscles spread into the major muscles and can ultimately go into aconvulsion.
- Face will turn blue🌿 BlueMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., fingers and toes cramp🌿 CrampMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., thumb will go into the hand and lock.
- B ack arches, neck goes back.
- Drawing in the fingers.
- Sudden and severe flexion and extension of the limbs.
- Cramps and convulsions in meningitis🩺 MeningitisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., cholera, whooping cough and spa smatic asthma.
- Spasms of the stomach that lead to nausea and vomiting.
- Severe spasms after a vexation or a fright (Op.).
- Vomiting, hiccoughs and spasms better by drinking cold water🌿 WaterMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines..
- Whooping cough.
- Violent, spasmodic coughing, worse cold air (Rumx.).
- Whee zing and spasm.
- Spasmodic breathing with rattling in the chest.
- Asthma with bluish lips and spasms and constriction of the chest.
- Constriction pains with stress of asthma (Cact.🌿 Cact.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).
- Constriction below the xiphoid process.
- Feels as if stuck with the knife from the xiphoid to the back.
- Cramps at pubertyAdolescent sexual maturity phaseThe stage of physical growth and hormonal changes when a child's body matures into an adult body capable of reproduction., better bathing in Cuprum metallicum cold water.
- Convulsions during menses.
- Dysmenorrhea🩺 DysmenorrheaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. associated with cramps in the fingers, severe cramps and spasms In the uterus.
- Labor pains are so severe they start convu lsing.
- Or they feel the labor pains and their hands and feet start cramping up or spasms outside the uterus.
- Sudden blindness during labor.
- Senile gangreneDeath of body tissue from lack of blood flowLocalized death and decomposition of body tissue, resulting from either obstructed circulation or bacterial infection. with the toes and fingers due to poor circulation, with cramps and spasms in the fingers and toes (Ars.🌿 Ars.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., Sec.🌿 Sec.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., Agar.🌿 Agar.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).
- Chlorosis from abuse of iron.🌿 Iron.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.
- J. C. McLaren noted “Cramps or spasms beginning in hands and feet, extending to belly.” Guernsey said that “a slimy metallic taste in the mouth” is one of the strongest indications for Cupr.
- (Rhus-t.🌿 Rhus-T.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).
- ParalysisLoss of voluntary muscle functionThe loss of the ability to move (and sometimes to feel anything) in part or most of the body. of the tongue, stammering (Caust., Merc.🌿 Merc.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).
- Grinds teeth at night.
- Thirst for cold drinks and ameliorated by cold drinks.
- Worse inhaling cold air.
- Mackechnie made a brilliant cure of psoriasis🩺 PsoriasisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. in a young girl with Cupr.
- The leading features of its symptomatology are cramps, convulsions, violent spasms, coming on from disappearance of pains, discharges, eruptions, mental derangement.
- Patient screams with suppression of menses.
- Tonic spasms of thumbs.
- Eyeballs turn up.
- Opisthotonos.
- Tonic and clonic spasms.
- Convulsions during pregnancy.
- Puerperal convulsions which begin in the fingers or toes and spread all over the body.
- Can also have a great restlessness between the attacks, either filling up the entire interval or only a part of the time.
- Mossa regarded Cupr as one of the rem edies for the effects of fright, and relates the case of a girl who after a fright was affected by involuntary motions of left arm and leg developing into pronounced general chorea.
- Cupr brought about slow but decided recovery.
- Another girl, 12, who had recovered from whooping cough got a kind of chorea from repeated frights on seeing an epileptic.
- To the muscular movements was added silly behavior including a heavy tongue, slow speech and unwieldy gait.
- Frightened at night.
- Greediness in eating and drinking.
- Ign.🌿 Ign.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., Stram., Sulph., did little good.
- She became ill-natured.
- Cupr every four days cured completely in three months.
- Mackechnie reported the case of a boy who became epileptic after being locked up in school.
- Very great improvementfollowed the administration of Cupr.
- Schwencke cured a case of epilepsy of forty years' standing with Cupr.
- 6c after Bell, and Hyos had done little good.
- The patient was a man aged 45.
- The fits began suddenly towards morning with chewing motion of lower jaw, gnashing of teeth, becomes upright and rigid in bed, shrieks, limbs convulsed.
- After giving way to violent anger, attacks become more severe, arms and legs were thrown outwards and trunk arched upward.
- Cupr was given.
- For a time the attacks con tinued, but gradually improvement set in and in less than three months they ceased altogether.
- The “anger” in this case and the “ill-humor” in Mossa's are noteworthy as maliciousness is an indication for Cupr.
- In a second case cured by Schwencke, that of a man, 38, epileptic seven years, a pressive headache preceded the attacks, ascending from nape to forehead, then there was profuse salivation, head turned to left, eyes closed tongue in active motion in open mouth, trunk arched upward, slight spasms of rig ht arm outward.
- After the attack, there was a dullness in the head and a feeling in the body as if beaten.
- Cupr first removed the fits and then the dullness of the head.
- Temperature-Chilly.
- Icy coldness of skin.
- Sweat, cold, clammy, at night, sour smell ing after convulsions.
- Desire for cold drinks, which ameliorate.
- Milk🌿 MilkMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. causes belching.
- Food tastes sweetish, or metallic, acid, or salt, watery.
- Desire for cold food in preference to hot
