CUPRUM METALLICUM (copper)

REMEDY OF THE DAY: CUPRUM METALLICUM (copper) SPASMS: is the word characterizing this remedy in Meningitis, Cholera cholera morbus, whooping cough, scarlatina, affections arising from suppressed skin troubles, especially from acute exanthemata. Cuprum is pre-eminently a convulsive remedy in every degree of violence, Opistostonos, clonic and tonic spasms, also during pregnancy puerperal convulsions before and after delivery The peculiarity of the remedy is cramps, and spasms, twitching or jerking convulsions that start in fingers and toes and ailments associated with blueness and coldness of surface of skin with metallic taste in the mouth. Moves eyes in all directions, Rage. Cramped, self critical, persecutory delusions, behaviour problems in children destructive spitting and bitting with alternating moods, timidity alternating with obstinacy. CNS damage or dysfunction including motor pathway. Mental and body overexertion of mind and loss of sleep. Extreme anguish, vertigo if reading, insanity. In Epilepsy the peculiarity is during the attack passes urine. Puerperal states before and after delivery with scanty and albuminous urine and during the progress of the labor the patient becomes blind. Has a desire of drinking cold water that betters all symptoms, even the wooping cough with rattling in chest and spasms. When menses are suppressed in puberty girls by cold bath and then convulsions appear. Dry hard difficult cough with spasms of the throat with sensation of constricted or swallowing until she suffocates. Also when copper poisoning, and the second stages of cholera. Beatrizhh June 23-2011 !