GEORGE LOUKAS "A STUDY ON THE PSYCHISM OF HOMEOPATHIC REMEDIES- VOLUME 1"

The following symptoms help us to understand the mind picture of Cuprum.

• Delusions, that he is a general.
• Delusions, being a commander.
• Delusions, thinks he is repairing old chairs.
• Delusions, thinks he is selling green vegetable.
• Delusions, is great person.
• Delusions, that he is an officer.
• Delusions, thinks himself a person of rank.
• Delusions, gathering herbs.

The “General” is a symbol of social prestige. Repairing old chairs of selling green vegetables or being a civil servant are jobs of rank which are not appreciated and admired in society.

So, the Cuprum person is someone, who is very much interested in having a prominent social position. The social prestige is very important for him. Jobs like general, politician, artist, have a good social prestige.

The social prestige of an employee or a grocer or a greengrocer oppress him (or her). So, he tries to succeed in having a prominent social prestige. If it is possible, for example to work somewhere that he could achieve this, he works systematically in order to achieve his target.

He starts working very hard to conquer as much social prestige as he can. In this effort he uses any possible mean. He becomes competitive towards his colleagues. He becomes reserved towards others. He becomes suspicious. He is insecure about his conquests. he believes that he could loose his social position. This makes him anxious about what could happen to him. If he does not express his aggression against others, hypochondriacal symptomatology could be present. He becomes dictatorial in his house. He cannot stand his wife or children to contradict him.

Many times, the person has also many sensitivities, which make him repent and have remorse about his behaviour. These sensitivities are not expressed so the person suffers them alone. He becomes irritable and sometimes he gets excited. He can even be violent when he is angry.

The above are concluded form the symptoms:

• Ailments from anger.
• Ailments from anger with anxiety.
• Ailments from bad news.
• Anxiety about future.
• Anxiety hypochondriacal.
• Brooding corner or moping, b. in a.
• Contradict, disposition to.
• Cowardice.
• Death, presentiment of.
• Deceitful.
• Delusions is about to be arrested.
• Delusions, pursued by enemies.
• Delusions, pursued by police.
• Dictatorial.
• Discontented, with everything.
• Fear, approaching him of others.
• Fear, of falling.
• Fear of people.
• Haughty.
• Hatred.
• Megalomania.
• Occupation amel.
• Rage, with striking.
• Rage, violent.
• Remorse.
• Sentimental.

Overfatique could occur because of this overtrying. So he has aversion to work, difficulty in concentrating, he cannot work mentally. He is slow in all his reactions and he is interested in nothing. Such symptomatology could occur also in organic mental disturbance. The symptoms are:

• Ailments from mental work.
• Answers, aversion to answer.
• Answers, reflects long.
• Answers, slowly.
• Concentration difficult.
• Confusion of mind as if intoxicated.
• Exertion agg., from mental.
• Indifference, apathy.
• Indolence, aversion to work.
• Sit, inclination to.
• Slowness.

But if the environment does not help him to have a prominent social prestige the person feels that he is unsuccessful. He feels that he is not appreciated by others. Oppression could occur, usually accompanied with anxiety, restlessness, fear of death and tendency to escape.

The symptoms are:

• Brooding corner or moping b. in a.
• Death, thoughts of.
• Fear of impending death.
• Escape attempts to.
• Prostration of mind, mental exhaustion, with sleeplessness.
• Restlessness anxious.
• Restlessness, tossing about in bed.
• Sadness, company aversion to, desires for solitude.
• Weeping, after light emotion.
• Weeping, involuntary.

The Cuprum person could have very violent symptomatology. This could occur in a psychotic disorder, or in an epileptic excitement or in any other organic mental disorder. The person could beat, bite, destroy, spit, or could want to kill. Sometimes there are intervals of calmness which follow the violent episodes. Other times, the symptoms of brain fatique are prominent, with tendency for laughing and prattling. The symptoms are:

• Bite, desires to, during convulsions.
• Bite desires to, during delirium.
• Bite, desires to, bites spoon etc.
• Delirium anxious.
• Delirium, bed escapes, springs up suddenly from.
• Delirium with crying.
• Delirium quiet.
• Delirium raging.
• Delirium violent.
• Delirium wild.
• Destructiveness.
• Dream, as if in a.
• Insanity, with anxiety.
• Insanity, cheerful.
• Insanity, malicious.
• Insanity, puerperal.
• Kill, desire to.
• Laughing, immoderately.
• Laughing, after overwork.
• Mania, with rage.
• Pull one’s hair, desires to.
• Rage, with biting.
• Rage, with epilepsy.
• Rage, with shrieking.
• Rage, violent.
• Rage, at sight water.
• Shrieking, before convulsions.
• Shrieking, epileptic.
• Spitting desires to, in faces of people.
• Striking, about him at imaginary objects.
• Violent, deeds of violence, rage leading to.
• Wildness.

Cuprum is also indicated to mental retardation. The child is cowardice and fearful. It might be afraid of water or fire. These words could be one of the first words that the child learns. When this happens, we suggest that beyond the interest for these words, there is a fear for the meaning of the words. The symptoms are:

• Company, aversion to, avoids the sight of people.
• Development of children arrested.
• Dullness with sleepiness.
• Fear, approaching him of others, children cannot bear to have anyone come near them.
• Fear of strangers.
• Fear of water.
• Fear things will catch fire.