Cuprum metallicum
as H.C. Allen recorded it in Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 1899
Copper
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Keynotes
Cuprum metallicum
Copper. CN.
Spasms and cramps : symptoms disposed to appear periodically and in groups.
Mental and physical exhaustion from over-exertion of mind and loss of sleep (Coc., Nux) ; attacks of unconquerable anxiety.
A strong, sweetish, metallic, copper taste in the mouth with flow of saliva (Rhus).
Constant prostration and retraction of the tongue, like a snake (Lack.).
When drinking, the fluid descends with a gurgling sound (Ars., Thuja).
Cholera morbus or Asiatic cholera, with cramps in abdomen and calves of legs.
Bad effects of re-percussed eruptions (of non-developed, Zinc. ) , resulting in brain affections, spasms, convulsions, vomiting; of suppressed foot-sweat (Sil., Zinc.).
Convulsions, with blue face and clenched thumbs.
Cramps in the extremities; pains, soles, calves with great weariness of limbs.
Clonic spasms, beginning in fingers and toes^ and spreading over entire body; during pregnancy; puerperal convulsions; after fright or vexation; from metastasis from other organs to brain (Zinc.).
Paralysis of tongue; imperfect, stammering speech.
Epilepsy: aura begins in knees and ascends; < at night during sleep (Bufo) ; about new moon, at regular intervals (menses) ; from a fall or blow upon the head; from getting wet.
Cough has a gurgling sound, as if water was being poured from a bottle.
Cough, > by drinking cold water (Caust. — < by drinking cold water, Spong.).
Whooping-cough : long-lasting, suffocating, spasmodic cough; unable to speak; breathless, blue face, rigid, stiff; three attacks successively (Stan.); vomiting of solid food after regaining consciousness (Can.) ; cataleptic spasm with each paroxysm.
After pains; severe, distressing, in calves and soles.
Compare: Ars. and Ver. in cholera and cholera morbus ; Ipecac, the vegetable analogue.
Ver. follows well in whooping-cough and cholera.
Apis and Zinc, in convulsions from suppressed exanthems.
pressed foot sweat or exanthem.
Amelioration. — Nausea, vomiting and cough, by a swallow of cold water.
What the other books say about Cuprum metallicum
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Cuprum metallicum in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Cuprum metallicum in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
- Cuprum metallicum in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
- Cuprum metallicum in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Cite this page. H.C. Allen. Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica. 3rd edition (1910). Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. Cuprum metallicum — Keynotes, pp. 109–112. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/cuprum-metallicum. Published 1910: public domain in the US (before 1931) and in India (author died 1909). Replaces B. Jain's 2005 "rearranged and classified" edition (© the publisher), per the owner's decision of 13 Sep 2026. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.