STANNUM METALLICUM
Tin (STANNUM)
Chief motion is established upon the apprehensive device and respiratory organs. Debility is very marked when Stannum is the remedy, in particular the debility of persistent bronchial and pulmonary conditions, characterised with the aid of profuse muco-purulent discharges upon tuberculosis basis. Talking reasons a very vulnerable feeling in the throat and chest. Pains that come and go gradually, name unmistakably for Stannum. Paralytic weakness; spasms; paralysis.
Mind.–Sad, anxious. Discouraged. Dread of seeing people.
Head.–Aching in temples and forehead. Obstinate acute coryza and influenza with cough. Pain worse motion; steadily growing and lowering as if constricted by way of a band; brow feels pressed inwards. Jarring of taking walks resounds painfully in head. Drawing pains in malar bones and orbits. Ulceration of ringhole in lobe of ear.
Throat.–Much adhesive mucus, hard to detach; efforts to detach reason nausea. Throat dry and stings.
Stomach.–Hunger. Smell of cooking motives vomiting. Bitter taste. Pain higher pressure, however sore to touch. Sensation of vacancy in stomach.
Abdomen.–Cramp-like colic round navel, with a feeling of emptiness. Colic relieved by way of tough pressure.
Female.–Bearing-down sensation. Prolapsus, with weak, sinking feeling in belly (Sep). Menses early and profuse. Pain in vagina, upward and returned to spine. Leucorrhoea, with exceptional debility.
Respiratory.–Hoarse; mucus expelled by using forcible cough. Violent, dry cough in nighttime till midnight. Cough excited with the aid of laughing, singing, talking; worse mendacity on proper side. During day, with copious green, sweetish, expectoration. Chest feels sore. Chest feels weak; can hardly ever talk. Influenzal cough from midday to middle of the night with scanty expectoration. Respiration short, oppressive; stitches in left facet when respiration and mendacity on equal side. Phthisis mucosa. Hectic fever.
Sleep.–Sleeps with one leg drawn up, the different stretched out.
Extremities.–Paralytic weakness; drops things. Ankles swollen. Limbs all at once supply out when trying to sit down down. Dizziness and weak point when descending. Spasmodic twitching of muscle mass of forearm and hand. Fingers jerk when preserving pen. Neuritis. Typewriters’ paralysis.
Fever.–Heat in evening; hard night-sweats, particularly in the direction of morning. Hectic. Perspiration, basically on brow and nape of neck; debilitating; smelling musty, or offensive.
Modalities.–Worse, the use of voice (i.e, laughing, talking, singing), mendacity on proper side, heat drinks. Better, coughing or expectorating, tough pressure.
Relationship.–Complementary: Puls.
Compare: Stann iod. 3x (Valuable in persistent chest illnesses characterised by way of plastic tissue changes). Persistent inclination to cough, excited by using tickling dry spot in the throat, curiously at root of tongue. Dryness of throat. Trachial and bronchial inflammation of smokers. Pulmonary symptoms; cough, loud, hollow, ending with expectoration (Phellandrium). State of purulent infiltration. Advanced phthisis every so often when Stann jod has no longer taken effect, an extra dose of Iodine in milk brought on the drug to have its typical advisable impact (Stonham). Compare: Caust; Calc; Sil; Tuberc; Bacil; Helon. Myrtus chekan (chronic bronchitis, cough of phthisis, emphysema, with gastric catarrhal issues and thick, yellow hard sputum. Old men and women with weakened electricity of expectoration).
Dose.–Third to thirtieth potency.
