# Cuprum Arsenicosum

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Morning

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better rest and worse motion, but stiffness of back and tingling of hands are better from motion. 
Damp weather causes neuralgia of abdomen.

## Symptoms by System

### Mouth
- Tongue thickly coated, dirty brown, white, metallic taste, thirst.
- Dry mouth.

### Chest
- Cardiac rhythm and force altered due to defective elimination.
- Kidneys - Diabetes.
- Kidney inefficiency and uremia.
- Garlic odor of urine.
- Urine of high specific gravity 
increased, acetones and diacetic acid.

### Extremities
- Cramps in calves of legs, worse after midnight, only relieved by getting 
out of bed and standing.
- Gangrene ulcers.
- Male - Perspiration of scrotum is constantly damp and moist.
- Boils 
on scrotum.
- Purulent discharge of a white color from urethra, tingling and burning in urethra.
- Pain in prostate, 
pains in penis.

### Neck & Back
- Persistent lameness.
- Pain in lumbar region, lower left shoulder blade, chest tight.

### Skin
- Icy cold sweat and skin even when dry.
- Cold, clammy perspiration of an in termittent nature.
- Acne, 
pustules on face and in the genital region, ulcers look like chancre.
- Gangrene, carbuncles.
- COMMENTS - Salzer showed that “cold, clammy perspiration of intermittent nature” is unique and 
characteristic.
- He found it most valuable in the collapse stage of cholera, where intermittent cold,  clammy 
sweat was noted.
- The skin is very sensitive to touch and pressure worse all symptoms.
- Weakness and 
restlessness.
- Periodicity in the symptoms.