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RED ONLY – Cuprum Metallicum. – THE GUIDING SYMPTOMS OF OUR MATERIA MEDICA By CONSTANTINE HERING, M.D.

Main * Cupr.

[1] Mind.
[2] Sensorium.
[3]
Inner head.
[4] Outer head.
[5] Sight and eyes.
[6] Hearing and ears.
[7] Smell and nose.
[8]
Upper face.
[9]
Lower face.
[10] Teeth and gums.
[11] Taste, speech, tongue.
[12] Inner mouth.
[13] Palate and throat.
[14] Appetite, thirst. Desires..
[15] Eating and drinking.
[16] Hiccough, belching, nausea..

[17] Scrobiculum and stomach.
[18] Hypochondria.
[19]
Abdomen and loins.
[20]
Stools and rectum.
[21] Urinary organs.
[22] Male sexual organs.
[23] Female sexual organs.
[24]
Pregnancy. Parturition..
[25] Voice and larynx. Trachea..
[26] Respiration.
[27]
Cough.
[28] Inner chest and lungs.
[29] Heart, pulse and circulation.
[30] Outer chest.
[31] Neck and back.
[32] Upper limbs.

[33] Lower limbs.
[34] Limbs in general.
[35] Rest. Position. Motion.
[36]
Nerves.
[37] Sleep.
[38] Time.
[39] Temperature and weather.
[40] Fever.
[41] Attacks, periodicity.
[42] Locality and direction.
[43] Sensations.
[44] Tissues.
[45] Touch. Injuries..
[46] Skin.
[47] Stage of life, constitution.
[48] Relations.

Cupr. * Full text (95 Ko) * Red and blue only (65 Ko) * Red only

MIND. [1] [Cupr.]

Mental and bodily exhaustion, from overexertion of mind or loss of sleep ; pulse feeble, somewhat frequent, unequal ; skin moist, feet generally cold ; attacks of unconquerable anxiety ; head giddy and internally painful, feels as if he would lose his senses ; sleep full of dreams, restless, unrefreshing.
   

INNER HEAD. [3] [Cupr.]

Violent dull headache over glabella.
Congestion to brain, with convulsive motions of extremities and of muscles of face ; eyes turned up, fixed ; half-closed lids ; pupils unaltered, insensible ; skin flabby and cool ; pulse small, and could not be counted ; slow, heavy inspiration ; quick, moaning expiration.
   

UPPER FACE. [8] [Cupr.]

Face and lips blue.
   

LOWER FACE. [9] [Cupr.]

Froth from mouth.
   

SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] [Cupr.]

Violent pressure at stomach, with contractive pains at intervals.
   

ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] [Cupr.]

Abdomen tense, or contracted, hot, and tender to touch.
Violent intermittent colic.
Spasmodic movements of abdominal muscles.
   

STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] [Cupr.]

Cholera asiatica, spasmodic stage ; violent spasms, peculiar contractions of fingers and toes ; painful pressure in scrobiculum, < by touch ; audible gurgling noise of drink passing down ; contraction of chest before vomiting.
   

PREGNANCY. PARTURITION. LACTATION. [24] [Cupr.]

Most distressing after-pains, particularly in women who have borne many children.
   

COUGH. [27] [Cupr.]

Cough with interrupted, almost suppressed respiration.
Cough in children ; threatening to suffocate.
Cough > by drinking cold water.
   

LOWER LIMBS. [33] [Cupr.]

Spasms and cramps in calves.
   

NERVES. [36] [Cupr.]

Spasms with blue face and thumbs clenched across palms of hands.
Spasms after vexation or fright.

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