Cuprum sulphuricum
Copper(II) sulfate · Human-made/chemical
Cuprum sulphuricum is indicated in patients with marked nausea and forcible vomiting, jaundice, and liver enlargement. Skin pallor or jaundiced color is characteristic, along with granular eye disease and syphilitic conditions. Rest improves the pains.
Key symptoms
- Forcible vomiting with much nausea; greenish-brown mucous vomit
- Face painful and swollen on exposure; lips turned inside out
- Twitching of closed eyelids; eyes stiff and dim
- Greenish tint along free border of gums; burning in mouth and esophagus morning
- Enlarged liver with tearing pain in hypochondria on inspiration
- Bald spot over right parietal bone without discoverable cause
- Itching nodules on shoulders; dry itching eruptions
- Dull aching soreness in tibia on walking, better at rest
Better (amelioration)
- Better at rest (tibia pain)
Sulphate of Copper. Cu SO4 5H2O. 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.
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