Stannum

General

STANNUM. [Stannum] Tin. Hahnemann. Element.

Mind

► Forgetful and absent-minded. ► She cannot get rid of an idea once fixed in her head. ► Visions by day of fancied things. ► Feels like crying all the time, but crying makes her worse. ► Sadness, with aversion to men and disinclination to talk. ► Continued restlessness and anxiety. ► Cannot muster sufficient courage to do anything. ► Sullen, answers unwillingly and shortly. ► Thinking makes her feel wretched. ► From giving directions in her domestic affairs, great palpitation of the heart, and anxiety.

Sensorium

► Vertigo : when reading, with loss of thought ; worse walking in open air or raising head.

Inner Head

► Headache every morning, over one or the other eye, mostly left, gradually extending over whole forehead, increasing and decreasing gradually ; often with vomiting. ► Migraine, cerebral in origin, rather than gastric ; atrocious pains with congestion, severe, painful constriction in forehead and temples ; coldness of trunk and limbs ; vomiting followed by marked relief. ► Painful jerks through left temple, forehead and cerebellum, leaving a dull pressure ; worse during rest, better from motion. ► Throbbing headache in temples. ► Heaviness in head, during rest and motion, evenings.

Outer Head

► Burning in forehead, with nausea, better in the open air.

Eyes

► Weak, lusterless eyes. ► Pupils contracted. ► Pustular swelling at inner canthus of left eye, like a lachrymal fistula. ► Pressive pain in inner canthus, as from a stye. ► Biting in eyes, as from rubbing with a woolen cloth. ► Agglutination of lids at night.

Ears

► Ringing in left ear. ► Shrieking noise in ear when blowing the nose. ► Ulceration of ear-ring hole.

Nose

► Oversensitive to smell. ► Stuffed feeling and heaviness, high up in nostrils. ► Dry coryza on one side, with soreness, swelling and redness of the nostril.

Face

► Flushes of heat in face from any movement, better in open air ; one cheek hot and red. ► Face pale, sunken eyes, mind dull. ► Prosopalgia : pains increase and decrease gradually ; after suppressed chills by quinine.

Teeth

► Feel loose, elongated, with painful jerking shortly after eating.

Tongue, Etc

► Taste : sour ; sweet ; offensive ; everything bitter but water. ► Difficult, weak speech, occasioned by weakness. ► Tongue : red ; with yellow mucous coating.

Mouth

► Fetid smell from mouth.

Throat

► Cutting in throats as from knives, when swallowing. ► Hawks mucus, with soreness in throat ; voice then becomes clearer and higher for singing.

Desires And Aversions

► Hunger, except in evening ; cannot eat enough. ► Appetite irregular, with hypochondriasis. ► Aversion to beer ; it tastes flat or bitter.

Eating And Drinking

► After eating : 10, 16, 19. Warm drinks : 27.

Nausea And Vomiting

► Eructations bitter, after eating. ► Nausea after eating, followed by vomiting of bile ; or undigested food. ► Vomiting : of blood ; of bile and mucus on awaking in morning : of water when smelling cooking.

Stomach

► Haematemesis, worse when lying, better from pressure on stomach : slight touch causes a feeling of subcutaneous ulceration. ► Cardialgia, pains gradually come and go, extend to navel, and are better from hard pressure ; sickly expression. ► Uneasy, knows not what to do with himself ; pains relieved by walking, yet so weak he must soon rest. ► Sinking, "gone" feeling in epigastrium.

Hypochondria

► Occasionally through day, great epigastric weakness and hunger, but cannot eat. ► Burning in hepatic region ; stinging. ► Boring stitches in left hypochondrium. ► Hysteric spasms in region of diaphragm.

Abdomen

► Empty feeling after eating. ► Cutting about navel, with bitter eructations, hunger and diarrhoea ; better from hard pressure. ► Hernia, better from pressure on abdomen. ► Abdomen sore as from subcutaneous ulceration.

Stool, Etc

► Stools ; green, curdy, with much colic ; with bitter eructations ; hard, dry, knotty or insufficient, with renewed desire afterwards. ► Rectum inactive ; much urging even with soft stool. ► Passes worms ; colic ; sickly face.

Urine

► Profuse and pale, then scanty, brown and sometimes white, like milk. ► After urination continued urging. ► Deficient urging, as from insensibility of bladder, which feels dull, yet the secretion is scanty.

Male Sexual Organs

► Voluptuous feeling in genitals, ending in an emission. ► Emissions without dreams.

Female Sexual Organs

► Menses too early and too profuse ; preceded by melancholy ; pain in malar bones, which continues during menses. ► Bearing down in uterine region ; prolapsus uteri. ► Displacement of vagina ; worse during stool ; feels so weak she must drop down suddenly, but can get up quite readily. ► Leucorrhoea : with great debility ; of yellow, white or transparent mucus.

Pregnancy

► Spasmodic labor-pains ; they exhaust her, she is out of breath. ► Child refuses the mother's milk.

Larynx

► Voice deep, hoarse ; hollow, higher, after hawking up mucus. ► Roughness and hoarseness, the latter momentarily better by coughing. ► Laryngeal phthisis, with constant, short, irritating, hacking cough and aphonia ; empty feeling in chest.

Breathing

► Attacks of asthma, preceded by symptoms of ordinary cold, 4 to 5 A.M. ; attacks increase and decrease gradually. ► Disposition to take a deep breath ; causing a feeling of lightness. ► Evening dyspnoea ; must loosen the clothing. ► Crowing, snorting respiration. ► Oppressed breathing, from every movement, when lying down and in the evenings.

Cough

► Dry, evening in bed ; concussive, in paroxysms of three coughs ; caused by mucus in chest, and by stitches and dryness in trachea ; sputa like the white of an egg or yellow-green pus, sweetish, putrid, sour or saltish ; during the day, with copious, green, salty sputa ; most profuse in morning. ► Accumulation of much mucus in trachea, easily thrown off by coughing ; afterward soreness or stitches in chest. ► Cough caused by talking, singing, laughing, lying on (right) side and from drinking anything warm.

Lungs

► Tension across upper part of chest, with emptiness in lower. ► Chest so weak he cannot talk ; empty feeling in chest. ► Haemoptysis, with tendency to copious expectoration. ► Phthisis mucosa, with the characteristic cough, weakness and sputa ; profuse sweats. ► Stitches in left side of chest, when breathing or lying on that side ; knife-like below left axilla. ► Great sore feeling in chest.

Heart And Pulse

► Pulse frequent and small.

Neck And Back

► Weakness of nape of neck. ► Stitches in back ; in small of back and into limbs.

Upper Limbs

► Jerking in muscles of arm when resting it ; fingers jerk when holding the pen. ► Weakness and heaviness of arms, especially the right ; worse from motion. ► Swelling of the hands, evening. ► Painful hang-nails.

Lower Limbs

► Weakness and heaviness, especially of thigh and knee-joint, must sit down. ► Swelling of ankles, evenings.

Limbs In General

► Paralytic heaviness of limbs ; worse using the arm or walking, particularly descending. ► Insupportable restlessness of all the limbs.

Position, Etc

► Motion : 3, 8, 26, 32, 34, 40. Exercise : 36. Holding pen : 32. Exertion of dressing : 37. Walking : 2, 17, 34. Descending : 34, 36. Raising head : 2. Must drop down suddenly : 23. Must sit down : 33. Rest : 3, 32. Must rest : 17. Lying down : 26 ; on right side : 37 ; on left side : 28. ► Always lies on her back with one leg stretched out and the other drawn up. θ Pregnancy. ► Must lie on right side, with pleuritic effusion.

Nerves

► Feels as if she would faint. ► Paralysis mostly left-sided ; feeling of a load in affected arm and corresponding side of chest ; from emotions, spasms, or onanism. ► Faint sensation after going down stairs, can go up well enough. ► Trembling, worse from slow exercise. ► Hysterical spasms, with pain in abdomen and in diaphragm. ► Epilepsy : with tossing of limbs, clenching thumbs, opisthotonos ; unconsciousness ; with sexual complications ; during dentition, with symptoms of worms.

Sleep

► Sleepy during day ; goes to sleep late at night. ► Restless, the child moans during sleep, or supplicates in a timid manner. ► So weak on awaking, it puts her out of breath to dress.

Time

► Morning : 3, 16, 27. 4 to 5 A.M. : 26. 10 A.M. : 40. 4 to 5 P.M. : 40. Evening : 14, 26, 27, 32, 33, 40. Night : 5, 37. Night and morning : 40. Day : 1, 18, 27, 37.

Temperature And Weather

► Open air : 2, 4, 8.

Chill, Fever And Sweat

► Chill : 10 A.M., finger-tips numb, or in the evening over the back ; only on head, with thirst ; slight, but with chattering teeth, as from convulsion of masseter muscles. ► Heat from 4 to 5 P.M., with sweat. ► Burning heat in limbs, mostly in hands, every evening. ► Anxious heat, as if sweat would break out. ► Thirst after the heat. ► Sweat : smells mouldy, musty ; debilitating, night and morning, most profuse on neck ; debilitating, from least movement. ► Hectic fever.

Attacks

► Every morning : 3. Every evening : 40. Gradual increase and decrease : 3, 8, 17, 26.

Sides

► Right : 18, 32. Left : 3, 6, 28, 36. Above downward : 31.

Contact, Injuries, Etc

► Touch : 17. Pressure : 17, 19.

Relationship

► Stannum follows well after Caustic. ► Similar to : Silphium (later has profuse thin, stringy, sputa), Myosotis (in phthisis mucosa, sweat, emaciation, etc.) Silic., Phosphor., etc. ► Complementary to Pulsat. ► Antidoted by Pulsat.