CUPRUM METALLICUM
Common
Name: Copper
Mental:
CRAMPS ON ALL LEVELS. Cramped emotions.
Too
serious, reservation with few but very intense outbursts of aggressive
behavior
Sense of
guilt is at the root of
its pathology. ‘They were not right, the things I was feeling when I was young’.
Physical:
Cramps
severe (this exists in almost any case), distressing, making the person shriek
from pain in lower extremities mainly, calves and soles agg.
night in bed (calc., caust.)
Convulsions,
cyanotic face and
lips during convulsions;
copious urination after convulsions
A copper taste in
the mouth with flow of saliva
Bad
effects of suppressed eruptions ; suppression of foot sweat resulting
in brain affections, spasms, convulsions, vomiting.
Epilepsy (one of
the main remedies)
Convulsions
with blue face and clenched thumbs.
Clonic spasms, beginning in fingers and toes, and spreading over entire body (Cicuta
has the reverse direction from center to the extremities.)
Paralysis of tongue; imperfect, stammering speech.
Facial grimaces.