Cuprum aceticum

Cuprum aceticum
(acetate of copper)
* Hay-fever, with burning excoriation, paroxysmal cough; tough, tenacious mucus, and fear
of suffocation.
* Protracted labor.
* Chronic psoriasis and lepra.
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.
Face
- Collapsed, hippocratic.
- Facial neuralgia in cheek-bone, upper jaw, and behind right ear.
- Better by chewing, pressure, and external warmth.
Stomach
- Violent spasmodic pains in stomach and abdomen.
- Vomiting.
- Slimy brown diarrhoea.
- Violent tenesmus.
- Cholera.
Respiratory
- Attacks of angina pectoris coming on when excited.
- Violent spasmodic cough.
- Short, difficult respiration.
- Spasmodic constriction of chest.
- Dyspnoea.
Skin
- Leprous-like eruption, without itching, over whole body, in spots of various sizes.
Modalities
- Worse, mental emotions, touch.
- Better, chewing, pressure, night, lying on affected side, and warmth.
Relationship
- Acts similarly to Cuprum met. but is more violent in action.
Dose
- Third to sixth trituration.