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Cuprum aceticum (Cupr‑acet.)

Cuprum aceticum (Cupr‑acet.) appears in 218 rubrics in the Repertory. Of these, 13 are single-remedy rubrics in which only this remedy is listed, and 20 are small rubrics with no more than two other remedies. The emphasis lies on Fear, Delusions, Anxiety, Delirium and Speech, followed by Moaning and Wailing. From these emerges the picture of a person who falls into fear and delusion, whose speech disintegrates and whose expression is lost in the spasm of the disease.

Fear and Anxiety

Fear is the largest block. It concerns death, including death from cholera, and injury: a single-remedy rubric describes that the person does not want to stay in bed because she fears being hurt. Anxiety combines with coldness of the limbs and with restlessness in bed, from which the person tosses about or, in mania, jumps out. A single-remedy rubric records a compulsive side, the anxiety of not being able to stop after too much studying.

Delusions

The delusions are strikingly artisanal and everyday. The person believes she is repairing old chairs and armchairs, selling green vegetables, or is a general. Alongside stand delusions of imaginary and immaterial objects in the room. The delirium shows itself as raving in sleep and as a desire to go home; escaping on waking is also listed. Mania combines with inflamed eyes and with a full, hard pulse. One rubric that stands apart from the rest calls the person a liar: "Liar – describes some symptoms truthfully, misrepresents others".

Speech and Sound

Speech breaks apart in various ways. It is incoherent in mania, in delirium and in such a way that it ends in sweat, and it is distorted. Sounds detach from the word: "Croaking – frogs, like" and "Cawing – frogs, like". Teasing animals points in the same direction. Moaning, groaning and wailing are listed in whooping cough and in cholera.

Spasmodic Illness and Irritability

Whooping cough runs through several areas: Morose and Irritable during cough, Moaning, Wailing. Chorea is also found, as Eccentricity in chorea. Here appear mental states that are recognizably tied to a physical event.

Summary

In the Repertory Cuprum aceticum shows a picture strongly marked by spasm and illness. Anxiety and fear of death drive the person about, the delusion is composed of everyday objects, and speech loses coherence and human sound. Where a mental picture arises, it is closely bound to the states of the body.

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