If Cuprum were said to have "a real essence" it would have to be
spasmodic...
Chorea, epilepsy, spasm (of many types including asthmatic; whooping cough)
Whoever said that cuprum had "an essence" where it may be considered to be
"a want of self-confidence to prove they aren't worthless by holding
everything under their control, therefore lots of rigidity following thru in
the remedy"
-seems to have been off on an extremely fanciful lark.
One could allegorize psychological rigidity, though I think the only way a
person could fill-in the rest of this fanciful lark would be by bringing way
too much of their own psychological shadow to the table.
-or perhaps I am merely blind .. maybe someone can point out how the mentals
of Cuprum would lend credence to "want of self-confidence to
ove...etc" -I certainly don't see it in study of MM, and I certainly
didn't see it in the one notable cuprum case I had - a young woman who did
have a bit of "want of self-confidence" and a bit of self-deprecating
manner, but these facets were balanced out by apparently good self-esteem,
sense of humor, and adventurous outlook... In this case, I did not find an
extreme in the mental sphere.. the case was centered around a (strange,
exceptional, unusual, odd) symptom of cramping in calves at rest in
bed.."Cramps beginning in toes and extending to calves of leg, causing the
muscles to knot up in hard bunches" ..there was a concommittant metallic
taste. The cure of this symptom (which had been recurrent, but did not
recur within 3yrs after treatment) was attended by greater energy level &
reported general overall sense of wellbeing... none of which seem to be
"essentially" related to pre-existing state of rigidity.. nor do I think
I would've found this homeopathic cure assisted by allegorical
overly-mentalized so-called "essence."
Some mentals of cuprum, quickly located within EH-
N.M. Choudhuri Study on MM
The mental symptoms of Cuprum metallicum are important and should be
carefully studied.
Maliciousness is the predominant feature of the mental state.
They gloat over other people's misfortunes and they feel happy when they
find them in distress.
The feature is manifest even in mania and delirium.
They bite and strike and do everything to annoy their nurse or companion.
In delirium they manifest great fear and become afraid of anybody
approaching them.
They shrink away and try to escape from everybody. [Page 260. ]
Sometimes we find them bellowing like a calf, and at other times they are
seen to be in convulsive laughter.
The Cuprum mania is characterised by fierce rage, wild look and fear.
They try to bite and beat everybody near them and tear things to pieces.
They constantly protrude and retract their tongue in the mouth like that of
a snake, same as in Lachesis and Crotalus.
Marked loss of memory, unconquerable sadness constant restlessness
alternation of gaiety and depression are a few more of the mental
indications of Cuprum metallicum.
It should also be thought of in bodily and mental exhaustion brought on by
loss of sleep.
It is one of our remedies for the ill effects of fright.
Cases of chorea in girls after fright are cured with Cuprum.
A case of epilepsy in a boy after being locked up in the school, is also
reported to have been cured with Cuprum met.
Cuprum has congestion of brain as well marked as in Belladonna.
It is applicable in headache with convulsive motions of the extremities and
of the muscles of the face.
We think of it also in apoplexy when the above symptoms are present along
with half closed eyelids, heavy inspiration, and fixed state of the eyes.
It is particularly useful in brain diseases due to metastasis from other
organs.
Tossing about of head, immovability of pupils, quick rotation of eye-balls
under close lids, spasmodic distortion of face and frothing from mouth are a
few more indications worth remembering.
D.M. Gibson
Psychology
Emotional instability is prominent; 'flies off the handle' moods vary
sullen, loquacious, malicious, morose, often with fixed ideas, possibly a
terror of death. The spoiled child, tricky, changeable, disorderly,
dissatisfied. Sudden urge to injure, to scream, to run away, to escape.
Tendency to shrink from people; aptitude for mimicry. Wild-eyed, maniacal
fits of rage; or may lie like someone dead, blue and rigid.
T.F. Allen Encyclopedia
Mind
Emotional
- Immoderate laughter in the evening, [_a1].
- Spasmodic laughter, [_a1].
- Very cheerful;at night especially full of fun and laughter(curative
action), [a19].
- Crying like the croaking of frogs, [a6].
- Melancholy;she shuns the sight of people, seeks and loves to be alone,
and becomes anxious about her death, which she supposes imminent and
inevitable, [_a1].
- Great depression of spirits, [a55].
- * Slight attacks of deathly anxiety, without heat, [_a1].
- Fearful;want of courage, [a51].
- A kind of fearfulness;it seems as though he must tread lightly, in order
to avoid injuring himself or disturbing his companions in the room, [_a1].
- Feeling of general irritability, [a18].
- Fretful;he does not know what he wishes;he desires to be alone;after some
time this changes to cheerfulness, but the fretfulness soon returns, [a4].
- Aversion to everything, [_a3].
- Irresolute;satisfied with nothing;this only lasts as long as he is
fretful, [a4].
- Apathetic and inert, [a40].
Intellectual
- Disinclination to work, yet idling is burdensome to him, [a4].
- Loss of ideas, weakness of memory(after two hours), [a4].
- Confusion of mind;is fearful, and endeavors to escape, [a6].
- Senselessness;it seems as though he were in a half-waking dream, [a5]
T.F. Allen Handbook
Mind
- Delirium; with disconnected talking; in attacks with full, rapid hard
pulse, inflamed eyes wild look and disconnected talking, ending in sweat;
attack of surly; in attacks he fancies that he is a captain in the army,
fancies that he is selling green vegetables of that he is repairing old
chairs, merry singing, spitting in faces of attendants and laughing at it;
quiet, unintelligible murmuring interrupted by lamentation; furious.
- Rage in attacks, they tried to bite bystanders.
- Talking all the time.
- Crying like a child; C., out frequently.
- Howling in unexpected paroxysms.
- Spasmodic laughter; immoderate left in evening.
- Anxiety.- with tossing about (Arsen.); deathly in attacks, without heat;
that is peculiar to pain in pit of stomach.
- Fear; it seems as if he must tread lightly to avoid injuring himself or
disturbing his companions.
- Melancholy; with desire to be alone and anxiety about her death, which
she supposes imminent.
- Fretfulness, with irresolution and dissatisfaction with everything;
intermittent F., he does not know what he wishes, he desires to be alone.
- Apathy.
- Disinclination to work; yet idling is irksome.
- Aversion to everything.
- Taciturnity.
- Loss of sensitiveness and moping in a corner.
- Obliged to think a long time before they can answer.
- Loss of ideas, weakness of memory.
- Lethargic stupefaction.
- Coma.
- Semi-conscious, voice faint, eyes half open, fixed glassy, insensible to
light, pulse weak, in some quick, in others slow, difficult to arouse, when
aroused complaining of cold and of pain in abdomen.
- Senseless, he seems in a half-waking dream.
- Unconscious; and fell down in sudden convulsions
Boger - Boenninghausen
Mind
-Vanishing senses.
-Exaltation of.
-Spiteful, malicious insanity with hauteur, intermingled with clonic
spasms.
-Extraordinary anxiety as if afraid of death.
-Restless tossing about.
-Groaning.
-Desire to escape.
-Fearfulness.
-Frightened easily.
-Attacks of raving madness.
-Oversensibility of all senses.
-The attacks of frenzy end in sweat
Buck
Mind
- Melancholy-loves solitude ;
- Restless, uneasy-not disposed to do anything ;
- Senses vanish he lies down in a stupor ;
- Insensible ;
- or Exaltation, ecstasy-laughs, talks, delirious, incoherent ;
- Craziness;
- Delirium ;
- Imagines himself a great person
J.H. Clarke Dictionary
Mind
- Melancholy, with attacks of extreme anguish, like fear of death;
restlessness, groaning, and desire to escape.
- Want of moral courage.
- Anxiety and tears, alternating with buffoonery.
- Convulsive laughter.
- Incoherent, delirious talk.
- Mildness, alternating with obstinacy.
- Unfitness for exertion, with fear to be idle.
- Fits of abstraction, with fixed ideas of imaginary occupations at which
the patient labours, or with lively songs; or else with malice and
moroseness (with proud bearing, and at times interrupted by clonic spasms;
craziness), and often with quick pulse, red and inflamed eyes, wandering
looks, followed by sweat.
- Attacks of rage (wants to bite the bystanders).
- Furor.
- Dementia.
- Loss of sense and thought.
- Delirium.
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