Cuprum aceticum
as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927
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General
Acetate of Copper Hay-fever, with burning excoriation, paroxysmal cough; tough, tenacious mucus, and fear of suffocation. Protracted labor. Chronic psoriasis and lepra.
Modalities
Worse, mental emotions, touch. Better, chewing, pressure, night, lying on affected side, and warmth.
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.
Relationships
Acts similarly to Cuprum met but is more violent in action.
Dose
Third to sixth trituration.
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Create a free accountCite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Cuprum aceticum — General. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/cuprum-aceticum. Published 1927: public domain in the US (since 2023) and in India (author died 1929). Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.