CUPRUM ACETICUM

HOMŒOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D. Presented by Médi-T

Remedy Origin / Source
Natural

Clinical Applications

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

Key Symptoms & Indications

  • Hay-fever, with burning excoriation, paroxysmal cough; tough, tenacious mucus, and fear of suffocation. Protracted labor. Chronic psoriasis and lepra.

Physical Symptoms

Head

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.

Face

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

Stomach

Violent spasmodic pains in stomach and abdomen. Vomiting. Slimy brown diarrhœa. Violent tenesmus. Cholera.

Respiratory

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

Skin

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

Modalities (Better / Worse)

Worse (Aggravation)

, mental emotions, touch

Better (Amelioration)

, chewing, pressure, night, lying on affected side, and warmth

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CUPRUM ACETICUM

Acetate of Copper

Hay-fever, with burning excoriation, paroxysmal cough; tough, tenacious mucus, and fear of suffocation. Protracted labor. Chronic psoriasis and lepra.

Head

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.

Face

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

Stomach

Violent spasmodic pains in stomach and abdomen. Vomiting. Slimy brown diarrhœa. Violent tenesmus. Cholera.

Respiratory

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

Skin

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

Modalities

Worse, mental emotions, touch. Better, chewing, pressure, night, lying on affected side, and warmth.

Relationship

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

Dose

Third to sixth trituration.

Cuprum Aceticum.

Acetate of Copper. Verdigris. Cu 2(C2 H3 O2) H2O. Solutions.
Clinical

Angina pectoris. Apoplexy. Brain, affections of. Brow ague. Cerebro-spinal meningitis. Cholera Asiatica. Chorea. Croup. Diarrhœa. Eruptions. Erysipelas. Hallucinations. Hydrocephalus. Mania. Measles. Paralyses. Scarlatina. Small-pox. Strabismus. Tapeworm. Uræmia. Whooping-cough.

Characteristics

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 homœopathic 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 (H. 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.

Relations

In poisoning cases it is antidoted by: sugar, or white of egg, given freely. Homœopathic antidotes: Bell., Chi., Con., Cicut., Dulc., Hepar, Ipec., Merc., Nux v. Complementary: Calc., Gels. (overworked brain): Cicut. and Solanaceæ (mental symptoms); Zinc. (hydrocephalus and convulsions from suppressed exanthems).

Causation

Overworked brain. Repelled eruptions.

1. Mind

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.

2. Head

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.

3. Eyes

After riding several hours in railroad car sudden indistinct and double vision (paralysis of l. abducens nerve).

5. Nose

Discharge of blood from the nose.

6. Face

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.

8. Mouth

Constant protrusion and retraction of tongue.

9. Throat

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

11. Stomach

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, dyspnœa, and irregular and frequent pulse.Vomiting, with loose evacuations.Bloody vomiting, following frequent retching.Tearings in the precordial region.Periodical contraction of the stomach.

12. Abdomen

Abdomen retracted, slightly sensitive to pressure.Violent colic, attended by vomiting and diarrhœa.Nocturnal colic with vomiting.Great inflation of the abdomen, with copious evacuation of fæcal matter.Abdomen hard, puffed up, and painful to the touch.

13. Stools

Stools with many worms, blackish or mixed with bloody mucus.Stools accompanied by tenesmus and general weakness.

14. Urinary Organs

Urine turbid, of a deep red, with yellow sediment, attended by much thirst and general uneasiness.

16. Female Sexual Organs

Catamenia too copious and violent.

17. Respiratory Organs

Dyspnœa.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.

19. Heart

Deathly feeling behind ensiform cartilage.Frequent attacks of angina pectoris coming on from exertion or excitement.

21. Limbs

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.

22. Upper Limbs

Numbness and lameness of l. hand.

23. Lower Limbs

Cramps in calves.Drags l. foot in walking.

24. Generalities

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 dyspnœa.Jaundice.Inflammation and swelling (by external applications).

25. Skin

Cyanosis.Scarlatina.Measles.Miliaria.Small-pox.Erysipelas.Psoriasis.

27. Fever

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.

Cuprum aceticum

Cuprum aceticum

Generalities

• Head reels when in a high-ceiled room.

• Facial neuralgia in cheek bone, upper jaw and behind the ear amel. by chewing; pressure and hot applications.

• Chorea; periodical, with melancholy and dread of society.

• Chronic psoriasis and leprous-like eruption over whole body, in spots of various sizes, without itching.

• In epilepsy aura begins in the knee and ascends to hypogastrium.

• Protracted labour.

Worse

• Heat.

• Motion.

• Mental emotions.

• Touch.

Better

• Chewing.

• Pressure.

• Warmth.

Clinical Tips & Practitioner Insights

"In cramps of the calves, I have never known CUPRUM to fail (giving it in the 12th dilution)."

By Dr. Jousset Cramps in Calves

"Dr. Bayes and Dr. Holland have both reported cases of angina pectoris cured by CUPRUM ACETICUM. It is doubtless of great value in this terrible affection."

By Dr. Nixon, M.R.C.S. Angina Pectoris

"For puerperal convulsions. During the process of labour, the patient suddenly becomes blind. All light seems to disappear from the room, the labour pains cease and convulsions come on, commencing in the fingers and toes; with the urine being scanty and albuminous."

By Dr. J.T. Kent, M.D. Puerperal Convulsions

"Only one remedy has the typical symptoms of normal labour; CUPRUM: It does often help to give a dose of 200 in normal labour. If they are restless, CUPRUM ARS. is better."

By Dr. Krichbaum, M.D Normal Labor

Remedy Profile

  • Type Remedy
  • Common Name HOMŒOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D. Presented by Médi-T
  • Origin Source Natural
Dosage & Potency

Third to sixth trituration.

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