CUPRUM METALLICUM


An excellent compilation of symptoms of homeopathic medicine Cuprum Metallicum from the book Pearls of Homeopathy by M.E. Douglass, published in 1903….


Restless tossing about and constant uneasiness.

Sunken deep eyes, with blue rings around them

Desire for warm food and drinks.

Violent pressure at stomach, with contractive pains at intervals.

Desire feeling of constriction beneath the sternum.

Violent spasms in the abdomen and upper and lower limbs, with piercing screams.

Violent intermittent colic.

Cough with interrupted, almost suppressed, respiration.

Spasms of the throat, preventing speech.

Dyspnoea so intense that he cannot bear a handkerchief before the face.

Violent coldness and blueness of the surface with long- continued general cold sweat and great prostration.

General convulsions, with continued vomiting and violent colic.

Uraemic eclampsia with loquacious delirium followed by apathy, cold tongue and breath, and collapse.

Spasms, with blue face and thumbs clenched across the palms of the hands.

Melford Eugene Douglass
M.E.Douglass, MD, was a Lecturer of Dermatology in the Southern Homeopathic Medical College of Baltimore. He was the author of - Skin Diseases: Their Description, Etiology, Diagnosis and Treatment; Repertory of Tongue Symptoms; Characteristics of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica.