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CUPRUM METALLICUM
The element copper
Clinical Picture:Spasms and cramps; symptoms appear periodically in groups.
Mental and physical exhaustion from over-exertion and loss of sleep (Cocculus indicus, Nux vomica); attacks of anxiety.
A strong, sweetish, metallic, coppery taste in the mouth and saliva (Rhus toxicodendron).
Pains in the extremities; cramps in the soles and calves, with great weariness of limbs.
Paralysis of the tongue; imperfect, stammering speech.
Epilepsy; aura begins in knees and ascends; increases at night during sleep (Bufo rana); about new moon, at regular intervals (menses); from a fall or blow on the head; from getting wet.
Whooping cough; long lasting, suffocating, spasmodic cough; unable to speak, breathless, blue face, rigid, stiff; attacks occur successively (Stan-num metallicum); vomiting of solid food after regaining consciousness (Cantharis); cataleptic spasms with each paroxysm.
Modalities:
Worse:
Cold air.Better:
Cold wind.
At night.
Suppressed foot sweat or exanthemata.
By swallowing of cold water.
Relations:
Complementary to Calcarea carbonica.
Similar to Arsenicum album and Veratrum album in cholera and other diarrheas; Ipecacuanha is the vegetable analogue.
Summary of Indications:
Exhaustion - cramps - stammering - epilepsy - whooping cough.
Antidotes:
Belladonna atropa
Camphora officinalis
Cicuta virosa
Cocculus indicus
Conium maculatum
Hepar sulphuris calcareum
Staphysagria