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Stannum

13 entries across 13 books
PreparationTrituration of the pure metal. Clarke
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No dose stated in the library’s booksDose · T. F. Allen

Reason for use

Paralytic heaviness of the extremities.

Aching and drawing in the limbs, often with burning heat.

Extreme weakness, both of body and of mind, with tremulousness, especially on moving about.

Emaciation.

Spasms like hysteria, with abdominal pains.

General aggravation during rest and relief during motion (except the weakness).

Pains usually increase and diminish slowly and gradually.

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Mind

Very sad, anxious, discouraged mood.

Dread of seeing people and easily vexed.

Complete hopelessness.

Head

Stupefying pain across the forehead, as if the head were constricted by a band, gradually increasing and diminishing.

Aching in the temples.

Constriction of the whole upper part of the head.

Headaches, always < motion, gradually increasing and diminishing.

Face

Generally pale, with deep lines and sunken eyes.

Drawing pains in the malar bone and orbits, increasing and diminishing slowly.

Throat

Much hawking of mucus, with soreness ; mucus greenish or gray, often bloody, seems to adhere tightly to the throat, and is very difficult to expel ; tenacious, grayish mucus, expelled with sudden efforts, dryness and cutting in the pharynx ; rawness ; efforts to expectorate cause nausea.

Dryness and stinging in the throat, provokes cough.

Stomach

Increased appetite and thirst, usually.

Food has a bitter taste, bitter vomiting after eating, of food, of blood.

Ulcerative pain in the stomach, with soreness to touch, but > hard pressure.

Abdomen

Painful.

Cramp-like colic, above and below the navel, often with a feeling of emptiness, > hard pressure, though < slightest motion.

Stool

Green mucus stools, followed by constipation, with hard dry feces.

Sexual Organs

Seminal emissions.

Bearing down in the uterine region, like prolapsus.

Clinical

Prolapsus of the uterus, with weak, sinking feeling in the stomach ; early and profuse menses, melancholia, neuralgia.

Leucorrhoea, with great debility ; yellow, transparent, or thin and watery.

Respiratory organs :

Hoarseness, with weakness and emptiness in the chest, must frequently breathe deeply, hoarseness > expulsive cough.

Violent dry cough in the evening till midnight ; during the day with copious green or sweetish expectoration, at times, salty or sour smelling.

Mucus in the larynx and trachea expelled by a forcible cough, with weakness of the chest and of the whole body.

Cough fatiguing and paroxysmal, so that the epigastric region feels beaten.

Cough caused by scraping, low down in the trachea, with greenish expectoration, of a sweet taste, < evening until midnight.

Expectoration of hard globules of thick mucus or of thick, viscid mucus, either of food or salty.

Respiration short, oppressive, with a feeling of great weakness in the chest and emptiness in the stomach.

Stitches in the left side of the chest when breathing and lying on the same side.

Whole external chest is painfully sore.

Oppression of the chest when coughing, with emptiness in the pit of the stomach.

Extremities

Great weariness at times, with swelling of the ankles.

Burning in the feet.

Paralytic weakness, even of the arms, so that things drop from the hands.

Fever

Heat in the evening, especially on the slightest effort ; exhausting night sweats, especially after 4 A. M.

Complete text of the Stannum entry in T. F. Allen - A Primer of Materia Medica; origin and preparation from Clarke. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works.
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Research (5)

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  1. Stability of Homeopathic Stannum metallicum 30x against Pulsed Electromagnetic GHz Radiation: A Real-World StudyDoesburg P, Scherr C, Andersen JO et al. · Homeopathy : the journal of the Faculty of Homeopathy · 2026 · doi
  2. Multidimensional Outcome Parameters in a Cress Seedling-CuCl2 Crystallization Assay to Corroborate Specific Effects of Stannum metallicum 30x Compared to Lactose 30xDoesburg P, Andersen JO, Scherr C et al. · Homeopathy : the journal of the Faculty of Homeopathy · 2025 · doi
  3. Empirical investigation of preparations produced according to the European Pharmacopoeia monograph 1038Doesburg P, Andersen JO, Scherr C et al. · European journal of pharmaceutical sciences : official journal of the European Federation for Pharmaceutical Sciences · 2019 · doi
  4. Development of a biocrystallisation assay for examining effects of homeopathic preparations using cress seedlingsBaumgartner S, Doesburg P, Scherr C et al. · Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2012 · doi
  5. Stannum metallicumFARIS RS · Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy · 1950

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Clinical (Clarke)