Cuprum metallicum
as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931
Copper
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Keynotes
Sub-oxidation, affecting the centers of the medulla. Violent effects; in recurring symptom groups. CRAMPS AND SPASMS; of all kinds; radiating from or of single parts; extort cries; tonic, knotting the muscles; twisting the head awry; with trismus or hiccough; then deathly exhaustion, chills, spasmodic laughter, etc.; in chest; behind sternum; of fingers; calves > stretching leg out, or soles, etc.; nocturnal; < at menses; epileptic. Jerkings; during sleep. Pains; pressive, < touch; as from blows, being broken, etc.; in racking darts, through whole body. Continued weakness. Poor reaction. Easy relapses. Latency. Blueness. .................... Hypersensitive: every drug overacts, without curing. Uneasy. Nervous. Sense of losing consciousness. Impulsive. Piercing shrieks. Delirium; loquacious; then cold sweat. Confusion. Melancholy; with spells of fear of death. Sullen; tricky; alternately yielding and headstrong. Vertigo; with internal tremor, > stool. Can't hold head erect or bores it into pillow. Crawling on vertex. Pulls her hair. Meningitis. Eyeballs oscillate behind closed lids. Face livid, pale or distorted. Closed mouth. Grinds teeth. Metallic taste. Puts tongue out like a snake. Loss of speech. Noisy swallowing. Nausea. Vomiting; violent; tormenting; > drinking; with agonizing colic, diarrhœa and shrieks or convulsions. Painful transfixion cramp. Hard pressure in epigastrium. Lies on stomach and jerks buttocks up. Tense abdomen. Frightful colic, > pressure, < raising arms. Spurting stools; of green water. Cholera. Suppressed urine. Cramps prevent coition. After-pains. Spasm of glottis. Dyspnœa; can't bear anything near mouth; < coughing or laughing. Asthma. Cough; in violent paroxysms; coughs herself out of breath; > cold drinks (Caus.), < deep breathing or bending back; with cramps, spasms (Zin.) or lachrymation. Whooping cough. Chest; loud rattle in; painful, constriction of (lower). Jerking hands and feet. Clenches thumbs into palms. Heavy ankles. Repressed or undeveloped eruptions, discharges, etc. (Zin.). Yellow, scaly eruptions. Slow pulse. Icy cold; afebrile. Chilly. Cold, clammy sweat; at night. Collapse.
Worse
Emotions: Anger. Suppressions. Overtax. Motion. Hot weather. Vomiting. Loss of sleep. Touch. Raising arm.
Better
Cold drinks. Pressure over heart.
Region
NERVES: Cerebro-spinal axis. Digestive tract. Epigastrium. Abdomen. Muscles. Blood.
Relationships
Complementary: Calc-c. Related: Ver-a.
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 Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- 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.
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Create a free accountCite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Cuprum metallicum — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/cuprum-metallicum. Author died 1935: public domain in India. The catalogue records 1931; a 1931 edition is public domain in the US from 1 Jan 2027 at the latest — the edition this transcription follows is not stated in the file. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.