Cuprum Aceticum

Description

Hay-fever, with burning excoriation, paroxysmal cough; tough, tenacious mucus, and fear of suffocation. Protracted labor. Chronic psoriasis and lepra.

Dose

Dose.--Third to sixth trituration.

Face

Face.--Collapsed, hippocratic. Facial neuralgia in cheek-bone, upper jaw, and behind right ear. Better by chewing, pressure, and external warmth.

Head

Head.--Violent throbbing and lancinating pains in forehead. Left-sided brow ague. Brain seems void. Inclined to gape and cry. Loses consciousness; head reels when in high-ceiled room. Constant protrusion and retraction of tongue (Laches). Neuralgia with heaviness of head, burning, stinging and stitching in temples and forehead.

Modalities

Modalities.--Worse, mental emotions, touch. Better, chewing, pressure, night, lying on affected side, and warmth.

Relationship

Relationship.--Acts similarly to Cuprum met but is more violent in action.

Respiratory

Respiratory.--Attacks of angina pectoris coming on when excited. Violent spasmodic cough. Short, difficult respiration. Spasmodic constriction of chest. Dyspnea.

Skin

Skin.--Leprous-like eruption, without itching, over whole body, in spots of various sizes.

Stomach

Stomach.--Violent spasmodic pains in stomach and abdomen. Vomiting. Slimy brown diarrhea. Violent tenesmus. Cholera.