Stannum Metallicum

▲   GENERAL

General

Chief action is centered upon the nervous system and respiratory organs. Debility is very marked when Stannum Iodatum ^Stannum is the remedy, especially the debility of chronic bronchial and pulmonary conditions, characterized by profuse muco-purulent discharges upon tuberculosis basis. Talking causes a very weak feeling in the throat and chest. pains that come and go gradually, call unmistakably for Stannum. Paralytic weakness; spasms; paralysis.

Dose

Third to thirtieth potency.

▲   MODALITIES ETC

Worse

WORSE, using voice (i.e., laughing, talking, singing), lying on right side, warm drinks.

Better

BETTER, coughing or expectorating, hard pressure.

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

Compare

Compare: Stannum Iodatum ^{Stann. Iod}. 3X ( Valuable in chronic chest diseases characterized by plastic tissue changes. Persistent inclination to cough, excited by tickling dry spot in the throat, apparently at root of tongue. Dryness of throat. Trachial and bronchial irritation of smokers. Pulmonary symptoms; cough, loud, hollow, ending with expectoration ( Phellandrium ^Phellandrium.) State of purulent infiltration. Wood for the trees phthisis sometimes when Stannum Metallicum. Iodium ^Iod. has not taken effect, an additional dose of Iodium ^Iodine in milk caused the drug to have its usual beneficial effect ( Stonham.)

Compare: Causticum ^Caust.; Calc Carb ^Calc.; Silicea ^Sil.; Tuberculinum ^Tuberc.; Bacil.; Helonias Dioica ^Helon. Myrtus chekan (chronic bronchitis, cough of phthisis, emphysema, with gastric catarrhal complications and thick, yellow difficult sputum. Old persons with weakened power of expectoration.)

Complementary

Complementary: Pulsatilla ^Puls.

▲   MIND

Mind

Sad, anxious

Discouraged

Dread of seeing people.

Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition

unhappy; sadness, mental depression

unhappy; sadness, mental depression; before period

▲   HEAD

Head

Aching in temples and forehead

Obstinate acute coryza and influenza with cough

Ulceration of ring hole in lobe of ear.

Coldness

Headache

Pain worse motion; Gradually increasing and decreasing as if constricted by a band; forehead feels pressed inwards

Jarring of walking resounds painfully in head

Drawing pains in malar bones and orbits

Pain, headache

increasing gradually; and decreasing gradually

pressure

in forehead

pressing (see bursting, pulling); forehead; inward

pressing (see bursting, pulling); temples; increasing and decreasing gradually

pressing (see bursting, pulling); temples; inwards

pressing (see bursting, pulling); top of head (vertex)

increasing and decreasing slowly

▲   FACE

Face

Pain

gradually increasing and decreasing

▲   NOSE

Nose

Discharge from nose; thick and sticky, tough

▲   MOUTH

Mouth

Speech

difficult

difficult; from weakness (see voice); of throat

Taste

Taste

bitter; everything except water

offensive

▲   THROAT

Throat

Much adhesive mucus, difficult to detach; efforts to detach cause nausea

Throat dry and stings.

Catarrh

Irritation; trachea (wind pipe)

Mucus

trachea (wind pipe)

trachea (wind pipe); late morning

Pain

rawness; when swallowing

rawness; trachea (wind pipe, see chest)

sore; extending to chest

sore; air passages

sore; larynx

sore; trachea (wind pipe); on coughing

sudden, sharp; trachea (wind pipe)

Tickling in the air passages; in trachea (wind pipe)

Voice

hoarseness

weak

after talking

Wasting

larynx

larynx; short hacking cough and loss of voice

External throat; perspiration

▲   CHEST

Chest

Catarrh

Constriction, tension

Sensation of emptiness

Inflammation; bronchial tubes (bronchitis)

Lungs

haemorrhage (see expectoration)

tuberculosis

early stages

full of mucus

Pain

during a cough

pressing

rawness

sore, bruised

from coughing

stitching, sudden, sharp; sides; left

Weakness

from cough

after expectoration

when singing

on beginning to sing

when talking

Respiration

Hoarse; mucus expelled by forcible cough

Violent, dry cough in evening until midnight

Cough excited by Laughing, singing, talking; worse lying on right side

During day, with Copious green, sweetish, expectoration

Chest feels sore

Chest feels weak; can hardly talk

Influenzal cough from noon to midnight with scanty expectoration

Respiration short, oppressive; stitches in left side when breathing and lying on same side

Phthisis mucosa

hectic fever.

Deep; deep breathing relieves other symptoms

Difficult (dyspnea)

with cough

on movement

while walking

from weakness of respiratory organs

▲   COUGH

Cough

Evening

Night; before midnight

Cough from deep down

Exhausting cough

Hard cough

Hoarse

Sensations in throat and air passages (either from coughing, or causing coughing); from irritation in air passages; in wind pipe

scraping

Loose

morning

late morning

While lying down; on right side

Movement; of chest

From mucus

in chest

wind pipe

sensation of mucus

Comes on suddenly

Racking

Short

Tickling; chest

Violent

▲   EXPECTORATION

Expectoration

Late morning

Balls

Bloody, spitting of blood (see chest haemorrhage)

Greyish

Greenish

Yellow

morning

Copious

Easy

Globular

Mucous

late morning

Noticeable smell; offensive smell

Scanty

Noticeable taste; sweetish

Thick

morning

and sticky

Tough

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Stomach; Hunger

Bitter taste

Pain better pressure, but sore to touch

Sensation of Emptiness in stomach.

Cramp-like colic around navel, with a feeling of emptiness

Colic relieved by hard pressure.

Emptiness

Stomach

pain; from coughing

pain; gnawing, biting

pain; sore, bruised, beaten (tenderness); on coughing

tension

Nausea

nausea; in throat

Vomiting

Smell of cooking causes vomiting

▲   GENITALS ETC

Female

Pain in vagina, upward and back to spine

Female

vaginal discharge

vaginal discharge; copious

Womb

pain; bearing down; womb, and region of womb (see labour-like pains, also pains in abdomen)

Genitals

Bearing-down sensation

Leucorrhoea, with great debility.

Menses

Prolapsus, with Weak, sinking feeling in stomach ( Sepia ^Sep.) Menses early and profuse

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Paralytic weakness; drops things

Ankles swollen

Limbs suddenly Give out when attempting to sit down

Dizziness and weakness When descending

Spasmodic twitching of muscles of forearm and hand

Fingers jerk when holding Penthorum ^Pen

Neuritis

Typewriters’ paralysis.

Cramps; fingers; while writing

Movements and positions; trembling; hand

Pain

lower limbs

burning; hand; palm

pressing; upper arm

tearing; wrist

Weakness; upper limbs

▲   FEVER AND CHILL

Fever and chill

Heat in evening; Exhausting night-sweats, especially towards morning

Hectic

Perspiration, principally on forehead and nape of neck; debilitating; smelling musty, or offensive.

At certain time of day or night; from 10 a.m.

Perspiration with heat

One-sided; left

Stages of chill, heat and sweat; heat followed by chill

▲   GENERALITIES

Sleep and dreams

Sleeps with one leg drawn up, the other stretched out.

Sleeplessness, insomnia

Convulsions

Convulsions; internal

Perspiration

On movement

Sensation as if about to perspire, but no moisture appears

Generalities

Daytime

Late morning

Evening

Night; before midnight

Constriction; externally

Physical exertion

Emaciated (extremely thin)

Heaviness

externally

internally

Jerking; internally

Lying down; lying on side

Movement; after

Pain

appear gradually; and disappear gradually

burning externally

pinching; externally

pressing; externally

pressing; internally

pressing; inward

sore, bruised; internally

sudden, sharp; outward

tearing; muscles; pressing in muscles

Pulse; frequent, accelerated, elevated, exalted, fast, innumerable, rapid

Symptoms not symmetrical; left

Trembling; internally

Walking

Weakness (see lethargic, weariness)

nervous weakness

from talking

trembling

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