# Cuprum Metallicum ## Remedy Classification - **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy - **Miasm:** Tubercular Miasm - **Temperament:** Chilly - **Aggravation Time:** Night ## Keynote Indications Source: Derived from metallic copper (Cuprum metallicum), a naturally occurring element,. prepared for homeopathic use through trituration, serial dilution, and succussion 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, muscle spasms), muscular. conditions (e.g., cramps, dystonia), respiratory conditions (e.g., asthma, 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 chilly, intense. constitution, often presenting with physical symptoms like convulsions or asthma alongside. psychological symptoms like anxiety or rigidity, commonly observed in patients with epilepsy,. asthma, or obsessive-compulsive disorder. ## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations) Worse from: Heat (weather, environments, drinks), touch, emotional stress, warm stuffy. rooms, night, exertion, lying down (in respiratory cases), dietary indiscretions (e.g., rich. foods, alcohol), sensory stimuli (e.g., noise, light), emotional triggers, cold drafts (in. muscular cases). ## Symptoms by System ### Mind - Nervous. - Uneasy. - Fixed ideas, mali cious and mor ose. - Sullen, tricky, alternating yielding and head - strong. - Imitates, mim ics. - Speaks in a whisper because of pain. - Uses words not intended. - Sense of losing consciousness. - Attacks of rage, wants to bite the bystand ers. - Mania, bites, beats, tears the things . - Delirium, cold sweat. - Piercing shrieks. - Weeps violently. - Convulsive laughter. - Fearful. - Confu sion, afraid of everybody who approaches him. - Loquacious, then melancholy with fear of death. - Fear of society, shuns everybody. - Abdomen - Tense, hot and tender t o touch. - Neuralgia of abdominal viscera. - Spasmodic movements of abdominal muscles. - Frightful colic with contraction of the abdomen. - Better pressure, worse raising arms. - Intussusception, with fecal vomiting. - Nervous. - Uneasy. - Fixed ideas, mali cious and mor ose. - Sullen, tricky, alternating yielding and head - strong. - Imitates, mim ics. - Speaks in a whisper because of pain. - Uses words not intended. - Sense of losing consciousness. - Attacks of rage, wants to bite the bystand ers. - Mania, bites, beats, tears the things . - Delirium, cold sweat. - Piercing shrieks. - Weeps violently. - Convulsive laughter. - Fearful. - Confu sion, afraid of everybody who approaches him. - Loquacious, then melancholy with fear of death. - Fear of society, shuns everybody. - Abdomen - Tense, hot and tender t o touch. - Neuralgia of abdominal viscera. - Spasmodic movements of abdominal muscles. - Frightful colic with contraction of the abdomen. - Better pressure, worse raising arms. - Intussusception, with fecal vomiting. ### Vertigo - Giddiness accompanies many ailments, head falls forward on chest. - Vertigo with internal tremors, head sinks forwards on the chest, better stool, lying down, worse looking up. - 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 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 (Sulph.). - Aprophylactic either when worn next the skin or when taken internally. - Maliciousness and a desire to injure. - Screaming with cerebral or mental symp toms. - Loquaciousness. - Violent head pains that are worse over the left eye. - 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, fingers and toes cramp, 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, 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. - 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.). - Constriction below the xiphoid process. - Feels as if stuck with the knife from the xiphoid to the back. - Cramps at puberty, better bathing in Cuprum metallicum cold water. - Convulsions during menses. - Dysmenorrhea 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 gangrene with the toes and fingers due to poor circulation, with cramps and spasms in the fingers and toes (Ars., Sec., Agar.). - Chlorosis from abuse of iron. - 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.). - Paralysis of the tongue, stammering (Caust., Merc.). - Grinds teeth at night. - Thirst for cold drinks and ameliorated by cold drinks. - Worse inhaling cold air. - Mackechnie made a brilliant cure of psoriasis 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., 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. ### Head - Meningitis, cannot hold head erect or bores into the pillow. - Pulls her hair. - Shakes the head from side to side. - Strange tingling, crawling in the vertex (sup pressed menses). - Headache after epilepsy. - Sensation as if water were poured over the head with headache. - Empty feeling with pain. - Purple, red swelling of head with convulsions. - Bruised pain in brain and eyes on turning them. - Meningitis, cannot hold head erect or bores into the pillow. - Pulls her hair. - Shakes the head from side to side. - Strange tingling, crawling in the vertex (sup pressed menses). - Headache after epilepsy. - Sensation as if water were poured over the head with headache. - Empty feeling with pain. - Purple, red swelling of head with convulsions. - Bruised pain in brain and eyes on turning them. ### Eyes - Aching over eyes. - Fixed, staring, sunken, glistening, turned upwards. - Eyeballs rotate quickly behind closed lids or roll fro m side to side. - Bruised pain in the orbits, worse moving the eyes. - Lids spasmodically closed, twitching of lids (left). - Photophobia. ### Face - Distorted,pale bluish, livid, sunken, pinched. - Icy cold. - Lips blue. - Chewing mo tion of the lower jaw. - Lockjaw. - Contraction of jaws with foam at mouth. ### Mouth - Strong metallic, slimy taste with flow of saliva. - Froth from mouth. - Grinds the teeth. - Food tastes like clear water. - Stammering speech, loss of speech. - Paralysis of tongue. - Firmly closed or open with tongue darting in and out like a snake in convulsions. - Nose - Stoppage of the nose. - Sensation of violent congestion of blood to nose (Meli.). - Violent, fluent coryza. ### Throat - Swelling of the glands of the neck. - Spasms of throat. - Unable to talk on account of spasms of throat. - Dryness of the throat, with thirst. - Inflammation of the pharynx. - Audible sound of drinking (gurgling), while swallowing it. - Intermittent aphonia in professional singers. ### Chest - Dyspnea or shortness of breath, with a sensation of constriction or suffocation,. - resembling asthma or bronchospasm, worse with heat, night, or emotional stress. - Spasmodic cough, with violent, paroxysmal episodes, resembling whooping cough,. - aggravated by warm rooms, lying down, or emotional triggers. - Wheezing or chest tightness, with a tendency to mucus production, resembling. - chronic bronchitis, worse with heat or exertion. - Tendency to respiratory hypersensitivity, with aggravation from warm, stuffy. - environments or emotional stress. - Psychological:. - Anxiety or nervousness, with a sensation of inner tension or impending doom,. - resembling generalized anxiety disorder, worse with heat, touch, or emotional. - triggers. - Obsessive-compulsive tendencies, with repetitive thoughts or rigid behaviors,. - resembling obsessive-compulsive disorder, aggravated by emotional stress, isolation,. - or night. - Cuprum metallicum (Copper) 794. - Emotional suppression or rigidity, with a tendency to bottle up feelings, resembling. - adjustment disorder, worse with social interaction or fatigue. - Tendency to emotional hypersensitivity, with aggravation during physical or. - spasmodic flare-ups. - Gastrointestinal:. - Colic or abdominal cramps, with sharp, spasmodic pain, resembling irritable bowel. - syndrome or gastroenteritis, worse with heat, dietary indiscretions, or emotional. - stress. - Nausea or vomiting, with a metallic taste or aversion to food, resembling cyclic. - vomiting syndrome, aggravated by warm drinks, exertion, or emotional triggers. - Diarrhea or constipation, with spasmodic bowel movements, resembling functional. - gastrointestinal disorders, worse with heat or fatigue. - Tendency to digestive hypersensitivity, with aggravation from emotional or physical. - stress. - Systemic:. - Fatigue or weakness, with a sensation of heaviness, resembling chronic fatigue. - syndrome or post-viral exhaustion, worse after exertion, heat, or emotional stress. - Hypersensitivity to external stimuli (e.g., touch, heat, noise), resembling sensory. - processing disorder, aggravated by warm environments or fatigue. - Chills or coldness, with aggravation in warm, stuffy conditions and a desire for cold. - drinks or air. - Tendency to systemic irritability, with aggravation in neurological or spasmodic. - states. ### Stomach & Abdomen - Painful crampy pressure in epi gastrium, worse touch and movement. - Lies on stomach and jerks the buttocks up (col ic, convulsions). - Whendrinking, thefluid descends with gurgling sound (Laur.). - As if something bitter we re in stomach. - Hiccough, before vomiting, convulsions, spasms or asthma. - Pronounced nausea. - Periodical attacks of vomiting. - Vomiting, violent tormenting with agonizing colic, diarrhea, shrieks or convulsions, better cold drinks. - Vomits always on waking up in morning, on least motion. - Temperature - Chilly. - Icy coldness of skin. - Sweat, cold, clammy, at night, sour smell ing after convulsions. - Desire for cold drinks, which ameliorate. - Milk causes belching. - Food tastes sweetish, or metallic, acid, or salt, watery. - Desire for cold food in preference to hot. ### Urinary & Genital - Cramps in calves prevents sex. - especially in old or nervous young men. - Menses too late, protracted. - Men ses absent due to suppression of foot sweat. - Violent cramps in abdomen extending into the chest before or during menses, or from suppressions of the menses ,or from suppressed fo ot sweats (Sil.). - Convulsions before menses. - Puerperal convulsions with open mouth and opisthotonos. - After- pains. - especially in women who had borne many children. - Ebullition of blood, and palpitations. - Chlorosis. ### Extremities - Cramps in calves, soles, and palms. - Jerking, twitching of muscles in hands and feet. - Clonic spasms, beginning in fingers and toes. - Clenching of thumbs in palms. - Joints contracted. - Great weariness of limbs. - Knees double up involuntary when walking, bringing him do wn. - Ankles painfully heavy. - Ankylosis of shoulder joint. - Coldness of hands. - Epilepsy, aura begins in knees, feel as if broken. - Liver - Cirrhosis of liver. ### Neck & Back - Paralysis of all the muscles up to the neck. - Sensation of heaviness in the axillary glands. - Swelling of the glands of the neck. - Hyperesthesia of spinal column. - Backache top of sacrum. - Causations - Ailments from emotions, anger, fright, suppressions, loss of sleep, mentally and bodily over - work. - Chorea from fright. - Getting wet causes epileptic attacks. ### Skin - Fatigue or weakness, with a sensation of heaviness, resembling chronic fatigue. - syndrome or post-viral exhaustion, worse after exertion, heat, or emotional stress. - Hypersensitivity to external stimuli (e.g., touch, heat, noise), resembling sensory. - processing disorder, aggravated by warm environments or fatigue. - Chills or coldness, with aggravation in warm, stuffy conditions and a desire for cold. - drinks or air. - Tendency to systemic irritability, with aggravation in neurological or spasmodic. - states. ### Sleep - Lethargic sleep. - Profound sleep, with shocks in the body and starting in the limbs. - Constant rumbli ng in abdomen during sleep.