4.11.1 Cuprum aceticum, Case 1All cases mentioned below reacted very well to
Cuprum aceticum. There were many more of them but it was impossible to remember them all.
1. A 30 year old man is completely exhausted on the second day. He is lying on the ground and is frequently shifting his position. He has cramp in his thumbs which are clenched into a fist. He is sweating profusely and you can see a salty deposit forming on the sides of his body. He is hyperventilating and he is unable to slow down his breath or breathe into his abdomen. His blood pressure is low, his pulse hardly perceptible. He is not aware of his surroundings. He wants to drink cold water which is vomited almost immediately.
To my surprise I saw him dancing again the next day, all he had taken the night before was a dose of
Cuprum aceticum and a little bit of fruit juice.
2. Cramp in thighs and buttocks.
3. Cramp in thighs and calves.
4. Intestinal cramps with dehydration.
5. A man with cramp in the thighs, medial, > stretching legs, > continuing his dancing.
6. Stomach cramps << fasting.
7. Weakness, nausea, dizziness.
8. Numbness of the thigh muscles, on the front, doesn’t know how to move his legs, they feel stiff.
9. A man with stiffness and numbness in the thigh muscles, doesn’t know how to move them.
10. Weakness and dizziness, with nausea. All he wants to do is sleep, wants to die, doesn’t want to dance anymore.
11. Cramp in toes at night.
12. Cramp in legs at night.
13. Cramp in soles of feet and thighs.
14. Cramp in knees, < medial side.
15. Cramp and numbness of the muscles.
16. Cramp in stomach, feeling of tension and constriction, = posture, = pressure.
17. Cramp in stomach, feeling of tension.
18. Cramp in back, sacral region, wants to lie down, moves and turns slowly. Completely exhausted, wants to die. Restless, groaning, wants to sleep.
19. Cramping, constricting feeling in stomach. This man has two other complaints that, unfortunately, weren’t touched by the remedy: left sided sciatica with numbness and headache in neck and left temple. He has had these complaints since childhood and they keep coming back from time to time.
20. Cramp around the heart with the feeling that he is going to die.
21. Diarrhoea with intestinal cramps before stool, the day after the ritual when he started to take food and drink again.