# Cuprum Aceticum

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Tubercular Miasm
- **Temperament:** Hot
- **Aggravation Time:** Night

## Keynote Indications
Burnett cured with Cupr-acet. a case of left -sided brow ague of many years' standing. He 
used Rademacher's T incture of Copper. The pain was described as boring, screwing and was spoken of by 
the patient as “awful.” 
Burnett was unable to say whether the cure was strictly homeopathic or whether the Cuprum acted on the 
basis of the Paracelsus's Universalia, of which it is one. 
Cupr-acet. produces the leading features of Cupr., including cramps, griping pains, spasms, paralytic disorders 
 
 
and convulsions. Attacks come on suddenly and periodically. Protracted labor. 
Facial neuralgia in cheekbone, upper jaw and behind the ear better by chewing, pressure and hot applications. 
Chorea, periodical with melancholy and dread of society. In epilepsy, aura begins in the knee and ascends to 
hypogastrium. 
Chronic psoriasis and leprous -like erup tion over whole body in spots of va rious sizes without itching. It 
corresponds to the results of repelled eruptions. Hay fever with burning excoriation. Paroxysmal cough with 
tough, tenacious mucus and fear of suffocation. Constitutions - Suited to the carbo-nitrog- enous constitution.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better chewing. Better pres sure. Better night. Better lying on affected side and warmth. Worse 
from heat. Worse motion. Worse emotions. Worse touch.

## Symptoms by System

### Vertigo
- Head reels when in a high-ceilinged room.
- COMMENTS - A man, 50, was cured with Cupr -acet.
- 5c trituration, of a tonic spasm of the toes of the right 
foot, very painful, lasting for hours, brought on by friction, standing on cold floors, etc.
- There was no traceable 
cause and no other derangement of health.
- Complete cure in five days after months of previous suffering.
- Petroz recommended its use in smallpox and verified his induction in practice.
- As pointed outby General 
Phelps, the “Crimson Cross Ointment” which was used success fully by Fielden in the Gloucester epidemic of 
smallpox owes its virtue to the Cupr-acet.
- which it contains.
- In epilepsy, the aura begins in the knees and ascends to hypogastrium, when patient becomes insensible.
- The 
symptoms are worse by heat and motion.
- The patient frequently changes posture.

### Head
- Neuralgia with heaviness of head, burning, stinging and stitching in temples and forehead.
- Violent 
throbbing and sharp pains in forehead.
- Left -sided brow ague.
- Brain seems void.
- Inclined to gape and cry.
- Loses consciousness, headreels when in large room.
- Constant protrusion and retraction of tongue (Lach.).
- Neuralgia with heaviness of head, burning, stinging and stitching in temples and forehead.
- Violent 
throbbing and sharp pains in forehead.
- Left -sided brow ague.
- Brain seems void.
- Inclined to gape and cry.
- Loses consciousness, headreels when in large room.
- Constant protrusion and retraction of tongue (Lach.).

### Face
- Collapsed, hippocratic.
- Facial neu ralgiain cheekbone, upper jaw and behind right ear.
- Better by 
chewing, pressure and external warmth.

### Chest
- Spasmodic constriction of the chest.
- Violent spasmodic cough.
- Short, difficult respiration.
- Dyspnea.
- Attacks of angina pectoris coming on when excited.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Violent spasmodic pains in stom ach and abdomen.
- Vomiting.
- Violent te nesmus.
- Slimy brown 
diarrhea.
- Cholera.

### Skin
- Leprous-like eruption over whole 
body in spots of various sizes, without itching.