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Cramps, spasms, convulsions. Chorea.
Suppressions (physical and emotional).
Cyanosis. Cough > cold drinks.
Metallic taste.
Gurgling sound, when fluid descends down while drinking.
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COMMON NAME
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Copper
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FAMILY
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Mineral, metal.
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PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTION
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| - | Digestive organ - Violent gastroenteritis
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| - | Pneumogastric nerve - Violent emesis, convulsive respiration
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| - | Liver - Jaundice, fatty degeneration
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| - | Kidney - Albuminaria, suppression of urine
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| - | C. N. S. - Cramps, convulsion, paralysis
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| - | C.V.S. - Decreased B.P., Vasomotor paralysis |
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A/F
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| - | Mental or physical overexertion. |
| - | Attacks of unconquerable anxiety |
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MODALITIES
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| < | Suppression foot sweat, exanthema or discharge
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MIND
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| - | Intense emotions and impulses are suppressed and
controlled making the patient rigidly closed. Extremely closed patient.
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| - | Malicious, desire to injure.
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| - | Unconquerable sadness and anxiety as if some misfortune were approaching.
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| - | Mania - fiery rage. They try to bite, beat, tear things followed by
perspiration.
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| - | Stupefaction from suppressed exanthema.
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| - | Sadness when walking in open air, must stand still or sit down.
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| - | Fear of company. Shuns everybody.
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| - | Ridiculous or foolish gestures.
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| - | Spits on faces of people.
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| - | Fear of falling, of strangers, of fire.
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| - | Mental dullness and slowness. |
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GUIDING INDICATIONS
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| - | For fair haired people, prematurely old from
sexual excess, who are overtaxed both mind and body.
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| - | Periodicity, complains appear from time to time.
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| - | Cramps or spasms - violent begin in finger and toes and spread over whole
body.
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| - | Cases of whooping cough.
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| - | Painful menstruation with spasms.
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| - | Violence - that affected part |
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Bad effects of suppressed eruption, foot sweat,
measles, suppressed by chill of exposure to wind.
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Leading to convulsions, epilepsy, metastasis to
brain from other organs.
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| - | Paralysis of tongue, speech, of isolated muscles.
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| - | Relapsing, tendency to recur periodically.
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| - | Mouth - Constant protrusion and retraction of tongue like a snake.
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| - | Paralysis of tongue with imperfect stammering speech.
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| - | A strong metallic, sweetish, coppery taste in mouth with flow of saliva.
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| - | Respiratory system - Whooping cough, long lasting, suffocating, spasmodic,
unable to speak, with breathless, blue face.
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| - | Attacks successively, vomiting of food after regaining consciousness.
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| - | Cough has gurgling sound, as if water was being poured from a bottle >
drinking cold water.
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| - | C.N.S. - Clonic spasm begin in fingers and toes and spread over entire
body.
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| - | Epilepsy aura begins in knees and ascends.
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| - | Uraemic convulsions with scanty urine.
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| - | Female genitalia - For after-pains, especially of women who have borne
many children. |
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KEYNOTES
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- Cough comes in paroxysms of three, suffocative,
produces a gurgling sound > drinking cold water.
- Spasm and cramps begin in fingers and toes and then spread.
- Epileptic aura begins in knees and ascends upwards.
- Frequently the thumbs are clenched across the palms of hands during the
convulsions.
- Sweetish, metallic taste in mouth.
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NUCLEUS OF REMEDY
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| - | Spasms or cramps - violence in nature, colic,
abdomen drawn in, violent headache.
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| - | Blueness, Coldness, Collapse.
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| - | Suppression or non-development of eruptions or foot sweat leading to
metastasis to brain.
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| - | Relapsing tendency, periodicity every fortnight. |
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CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS
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| - | Cramps begins in fingers and toes and then spread
to rest of the body.
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| - | Epilepsy with aura beginning in knee and then ascending upwards.
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| - | In between the attack, there is great restlessness, slimy metallic taste
in mouth. |
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CLINICAL
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| - | Angina pectoris, Asthma, Cholera, Chorea, Colic,
Cramps, Encephalitis, Gastrointestinal disorders, Headache, Meningitis,
Migraine, Nocturnal myoclonus, Seizure disorder, Tics, Twitches.
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| - | In pure nervous asthma - Dr. Russell.
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| - | For the vomitus of drinkers, Cupr should be thought of - Dr. Berlyn. |
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REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS
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Complementary: Calc
Follows Well: Agar, Ars, Bell, Calc, Caust, Cimic, Hyos, Sep, Stram,
Sulph, Verat
Compare: Ambr, Ambra, Anac, Apis, Arn, Ars, Bell, Bry, Calc, Camph,
Cann-i, Caps, Carb-v, Cic, Coloc, Gels, Hyos, Lach, Laur, Nux-v, Op, Phos,
Psor, Puls, Sec, Sil, Stram, Sulph, Valer, Verat, Zinc
Similar: Ant-t, Apis, Arn, Ars, Bell, Bry, Calc, Camph, Cic, Cina,
Coloc, Gels, Ip, Nux-v, Phos, Plb, Puls, Sec, Sil, Verat, Zinc
Antidoted By: Bell, Cham, Chin, Cic, Con, Dulc, Hep, Ip, Merc, Nux-v
It Antidotes: Aur, Merc, Op
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