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safety- valve. If stopped suddenly convulsions will come on. That is like Cuprum. A woman hassuffered a long time with a copious leucorrhoea and some unwise doctor tells she must take injectionsand checks it up for a few days, hysterical convulsions, crampings and tearing of the muscles come on;contractions of the fingers and toes. Discharges from old ulcers, fistulae suppressed.Cuprum will re-establish a discharge that has been suddenly suppressed and convulsionsfollowed. It stops the convulsions and re-establishes the discharge. It has caries, it has senile gangrene,or the gangrene that belongs to old age: old shriveled up octogenarians, whose toes and fingers dark inspots; feeble circulation.In the Cuprum patient the nerves are all the time wrought up to the highest tension; want to fly,wants to do something dreadful. Impulsiveness. Compelled to do something; restless and tossing abouta constant uneasiness; nervous trembling; always tired. Great weakness of the muscles, and relaxationof the body when the convulsions are not on. Twitching and jerking and starting during sleep. Grindingof the teeth with brain affections. Inflammations cease suddenly and you wonder what has happened.All at once comes on insanity, delirium, convulsions, blindness; evidence of cerebral congestions andinflammation appearing with wonderful suddenness. Metastasis. A perfect change from one part of thebody to another. The same thing may occur from a suppressed eruption, or suppressed discharge, or asuppressed diarrhea and it goes to the brain, affects the mind and brings on insanity; a wild, active,maniacal delirium.Cuprum is not passive in its business. Violence is manifested everywhere. Violence in itsdiarrhea, violence in its vomiting, violence in its spasmodic action; strange and violent things in itsmania and delirium. Hysterical cramps and hysterical attitudes may change in a night or in a day to St.Vitus' dance, and go on with it as if nothing had happened. Such is the suddenness with which itchanges its character. This is not generally known of Cuprum-- this constant changing about.Spasmodic affections in general. Spasmodic coughs, spasms all over the body. The facebecomes purple. He loses his breath; suffocates. The mother thinks the child will never come to lifeagain. Spasms of the chest; spasms of the larynx; spasms of the whole respiratory system of such acharacter that the child seems to be choking to death.Whooping cough. With every spell of whooping cough comes this awful spasmodic state, thisspasmodic coughing. Jerking of the muscles. Cuprum has spasms of the limbs with all sorts ofcontractions such as are found in hysterical constitutions.Puerperal convulsions. Convulsions where a limb will first flex and then extend---an alternationof flexion and extension. In a child you will see the leg all at once shoot out with great violence, thenup against the abdomen again with great violence, and then again shoot out. It is hard work to findanother remedy that has that. Tabacum has it, but not many others. Convulsions with flexion andextension are common to Cuprum. Convulsions of the limbs, twitching and jerking of the muscles. Weget a part of the symptom-picture in one and part in another.Violent congestion in the head, violent pains in the head.Tingling pain in the vertex, severe pain in the vertex, bruised pain. Crawling sensation in vertex,stitches in the temples.Congestion of the brain. Meningitis. Head ache after epileptic attacks. Paralysis of the brainwith symptoms of collapse.Metastasis to the brain from other organs.About the face; convulsions, jerking of the eyes; twitching of the lids. Bruised pain in the eyes.Spasms of the muscles of the eye so that the eyes jerk and twitch, first from one side and then the other.Rolling of the eyes. Quick rotation of the balls with the lids closed. Lids spasmodically closed. Closedso that they seem to snap. "Inflammation of the periosteum about the eyes and cellular tissue of thelachrymal glands". Spots of ulceration on the cornea. Face and lips blue. The face is purple inconvulsions and whooping cough; lips blue.Inflammation of the tongue. Paralysis of the tongue. It is not an uncommon thing to findparalysis in Cuprum after convulsions.The violence of the convulsions seems to have brought about a reaction and paralytic weakness,a numbness and tingling, a loss of mobility. "Spasms of the throat, preventing speech. Sensation as ifconstricted on swallowing. Great thirst for cold drinks".Many complaints are ameliorated by drinking cold water. The spasms are sometimes mitigatedby drinking cold water. The cough is brought on sometimes by inhaling cold air, but stopped bydrinking cold water, like Coccus cacti. "Desire for warm food and drinks. Eats hastily". Indigestionfrom milk.Then there is nausea, vomiting and diarrhea connected more or less with spasms. Spasms of thestomach. Spasms of the chest with diarrhea and vomiting. Cramps of the calves and the fingers and