18 Aug 2010

– Jan Scholten

Cuprum aceticum is described in Boericke and Clarke.

I have had a most unusual opportunity to get to know this remedy.

I had been invited to attend the sun dance ritual of the Lakota Indians in South Dakota. This ritual is performed over 4 days during which time the dancers don’t eat or drink anything. The medicine man had asked me beforehand whether I would be able to assist if there were any problems with the sun dancers, who often developed cramps during these rituals. I immediately thought of Cuprum and asked Rienk Stuut to send me some. This he did, choosing Cuprum aceticum as the most likely remedy, considering the ascetic aspect of the occasion.

Concepts

Cuprum Aceticum

Serious Ascetic

Cramp Hardship

Ritual Abstinence

Containing Deprivation

Guarding Lonely

Telling tales Stark

Being observed (

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4 Mar 2010

– Boericke W.

– Acetate of Copper.

General
Hay-fever, with burning excoriation, paroxysmal cough; tough, tenacious mucus, and fear of suffocation. PROTRACTED LABOR. Chronic psoriasis and lepra.
Head
Violent throbbing and lancinating pains in forehead. Left-sided brow ague. Brain seems void. Inclined to gape and cry. Loses consciousness; HEAD REELS WHEN IN HIGH-CEILED ROOM. Constant protrusion and retraction of tongue. [LACHES.] Neuralgia with heaviness of head, burning, stinging and stitching in temples and forehead.
Face
Collapsed, hippocratic. Facial neuralgia in cheek-bone, upper jaw, and behind right ear. Better by chewing, pressure, and external warmth.
Stomach
Violent spasmodic pains in stomach and abdomen. Vomiting. Slimy brown diarrhoea. Violent tenesmus. Cholera.
Respiratory
Attacks of angina pectoris coming on when excited. Violent spasmodic cough. Short, difficult respiration. Spasmodic constriction of chest. Dyspnoea.
Skin
Leprous-like eruption, without itching, over whole body, in spots of various sizes.
Modalities
WORSE, mental emotions, touch. BETTER, chewing, pressure, night, lying on affected side, and warmth.
Relationship
Acts similarly to CUPRUM MET. but is more violent in action.
Dose
Third to sixth trituration.

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