Cuprum Sulphuricum

Sulphate of Copper. Cu SO 4 5 H 2 O. Trituration.

Clinical

Alopecia / Diarrhœa / Dysentery / Eyes, granular lids; catarrhal and purulent conjunctivitis / Itch / Syphilis / Trachoma

Characteristics

Sulphate of Copper is a well-known emetic and caustic. It causes forcible vomiting and much nausea. Paleness of face; or jaundiced appearance; pale skin generally; a peculiar diarrhœa; enlarged liver. J. D. Tyrrell (Med. Adv., xix. 14) mentions the case of a lady who could not use Cupr. sul. for "stamping" fancywork, because it "made her face hurt and swell so she could scarcely see, and her lips became everted, "turned inside out," she said." It is a well-known application in allopathic practice for stimulating flabby granulations, and it has cured itching eruptions, and manifestations of syphilis. Rest > pains.

Relations

It is antidoted by: Milk; eggs; pure yellow prussiate of potash. Compare: Kali bich. (cough) and Merc.

1. Mind

Anxiety; or great apathy. Remarkable disturbance of mind, every utterance distorted.

2. Head

Bald spot over r. parietal bone, not depending on any discoverable cause.

3. Eyes

Twitching of closed lids. Eyes stiff and dim.

6. Face

Lips pale, bluish, at corners and internal edges. Face painful and swollen so she can scarcely see; lips turned inside out.

8. Mouth

Tongue cold; coated, bluish. Greenish tint along free border of gums. Burning in mouth and œsophagus in morning.

11. Stomach

Excessive nausea; forcible vomiting returning from time to time; vomits greenish-brown mucus. Violent pain in stomach followed by faintness.

12. Abdomen

Tearing pains in hypochondria, on inspiration, painful to touch as if bruised. Liver enlarged. Abdomen drawn in.

13. Stool

Four pultaceous greenish-yellow stools, without the least trace of blood. Stool pultaceous, brown-red, with streaks of blood and tenesmus during stool. Constipation.

17. Respiratory Organs

Hacking cough which impedes respiration. Croupy cough with very tenacious mucus.

19. Heart

Feeling as of a throbbing lump in heart internally, beating of heart seems louder; lasted five minutes and went away gradually.

21. Limbs

Limbs cold, nearly cyanotic. Dull aching soreness in middle of tibia, when walking; > at rest; tenderness on pressure.

25. Skin

Pale, colourless. Icterus. Itching nodules on shoulders. Itchiness; a kind of dry itch.