Stannum
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General EN
Stannum.
Stannum. Tin. Sn. (A. W., 118.8) Trituration of the pure metal.
Clinical EN
Anaemia. Asthma. Bronchitis. Chilblains. Colic. Consumption. Convulsions. Cramps. Debility. Dentition. Diaphragm, pains in. Dyspepsia. Ears, ring-holes, ulceration of. Epilepsy. Epistaxis. Gastralgia. Haematemesis. Haemoptysis.
Headache EN
Hectic fever.
Hemiplegia.
Hypochondriasis.
Hysteria.
Lachrymal fistula.
Lachrymal sac, suppuration of.
Milk, altered.
Nails, splitting.
Neuralgia.
Neurasthenia.
Opisthotonos.
Paralysis.
Phthisis pituitosa.
Ptosis.
Sleeplessness.
Styes.
Tapeworm.
Trachea, affections of.
Uterus, prolapse of.
Vagina, prolapse of.
Worms.
Characteristics EN
Stannum is the Jupiter of the alchymists. "The ancients have recorded wonderful cures of the most serious diseases with Tin," says Hahnemann, but in his day, until he proved it, its only use was as a vermifuge. Alston obtained indirectly from "a woman of Leith in Scotland" this prescription, of which he has witnessed the efficacy in a case of tapeworm: "Take an ounce and a half of Tin (pewter metal) and grind it small to powder, mix it with sugar syrup, and take, on a Friday before the change of the moon, one-half of it, the following day the half of the remainder, and the Sunday following the rest, but on the Monday a purgative." Alston also says, in his Materia Medica, that he has seen haematemesis cured by this as if by magic.
Hahnemann's proving appears both in his Materia Medica Pura and in his Chronic Diseases. A number of worm symptoms appear in the pathogenesis: Sinking, empty, all-gone feeling, diaphragmatic and abdominal pains; tendency to excessive mucous secretions; pale, sunken, sickly countenance, with dark rings round eyes; convulsions. Many of these symptoms occur in conditions not due to helminthiasis, and Stan. will be the remedy. Pains in the hypochondria, associated with the hypochondriac or hysterical mental state.
Diaphragmatic neuralgia. Colic > by hard pressure, as by laying the child with its abdomen across the knee or on the point of the shoulder. This is one of the keynotes of Stan.; but the most important one is in the type of the Stan. pains: they begin lightly, increase gradually to the highest point and then as gradually decline. Other remedies have pains of this type but not to the same characteristic degree.
This feature applies to the headaches, facial and dental neuralgias, abdominal and other pains. Another cardinal feature of Stan. is weakness: exhaustion of mind and body. The chest is so weak as to make talking impossible. The patient is so weak, she drops into a chair instead of sitting down.
While dressing in the morning has to sit down several times to rest. There is weakness and aching of the deltoid and arm, and this has the curious modality that it is felt when singing or otherwise using the voice. Stan. is an important remedy for singers and public speakers. The weakness of Stan. makes it an appropriate remedy for many states of neurasthenia, nervous exhaustion.
A peculiarity of the weakness is that it is felt much more on going down stairs than on going up. The relaxation of tissue is probably responsible for the weak, empty, sinking sensation felt at the epigastrium; and also for the uterine prolapse. In the dyspepsias of Stan. there is nausea and vomiting from the smell of cooking; and the gastralgia compels the patient to walk about for relief, yet the weakness is so great that he is soon compelled to rest. The weak, empty feeling in the chest is one of the notes of Stan. in phthisical conditions, and the stitches are another; hectic fever; deep, hollow, shattering cough; expectoration, profuse like white of egg, sweetish, salty; sour, putrid, musty; yellow-green pus; deep, husky, hollow voice, > for the time by hawking or expectorating mucus make up the rest of the picture.
Stan. is a low-spirited remedy, and when phthisical patients are despondent and without hope (they are usually the reverse) Stan. will most likely be needed. (The yellowness of the Stan. secretions is worth noting: The tongue is yellow; sputa and leucorrhoea are also yellow.) Palpitation and anxiety occur from ever so slight exertion, as giving directions about the household. Trembling of arms and legs; limbs as heavy as lead. The pains of Stan. are frequently compressive and cramp-like; and cramps and spasms are a marked feature of the Stan. effects.
The convulsions are opisthotonic; the thumbs are drawn in. They are such as are met within teething children; or in children who masturbate; or who have worms. A typical case of Stan. neuralgia is quoted in Clinique (xxi. 62): Man, 30, suffered for eight years off and on, and for some months continuously, with neuralgic headache. Pain centres over one or other eye (usually right) and extends over whole or part of head and is at times unbearable.
It begins in early morning 4 to 5 a.m.), increases gradually to noon, when it gradually declines to sunset, reappearing again the following morning. Two doses of Stan. cured in a fortnight. There is sexual excitement in both sexes. Emissions with excessive prostration.
In the female the menses are early and profuse. Orgasm is easily produced Scratching arm produces an intolerable sensation of pleasure in genital organs which extends to uterus and produces orgasm." The uterine and vaginal prolapse of Stan. has this distinguishing feature: it is < during stool; especially during pressure. Labour pains are spasmodic and put the patient out of breath. The milk of nursing woman is changed, and the child rejects it.
Hering gives as cured by Stan. "Monday constipation"—that is, constipation occurring on days following rest-days. Stan. has marked periodicity. T.
H. Urquhart (quoted H. R., iv. 147) cured in two months an affection of the nails characterised by breaking and splitting, a sequel of scurvy, by applying to them Stannum oleate on a narrow flannel bandage. Peculiar Sensations are: As if all objects were too far off.
As if forehead were shattered. As if forehead would be pressed inward. Pain as if from an ulcer in hypogastrium. As if there were a hole in his side.
As if there were no sensation in bladder. Chest, as if eviscerated; as if internally constricted. Epigastric region as if beaten. Tickling as from soreness in trachea.
Inclination to hawk as if mucus were in chest. As if she would faint. As if limbs beaten. As of a heavy load in affected arm and side of chest.
As if sweat would break out. The "girdle" sensation of Stan. accompanies yawning. The secretions of Stan. are bland. The symptoms are < by touch.
> By pressure. > Lying across something hard. < Rest. < Lying;
(but must lie down from weakness of chest). < Lying on r. side. Sitting bent over > (cough). Bending double >.
Walking > pains, but must soon rest. Motion > pains in head, but < other symptoms. < Using voice (laughing, talking, singing). < Going down stairs (faintness).
Blowing nose = shrieking noise in ear. Warm drink cough. Open air >; (< vertigo).
< During stool.
Relations EN
Antidoted by: Puls. Complementary: Puls. Follows well: Caust., Cina. Is followed well by: Calc., Phos., Sel., Sul., Bac.
Compare: Sour sensation in stomach, Chel., Pho., Sep. Weeps all the time, but crying < (Nat. m. < by consolation), Pul. (menses scanty, delayed), Sep.
< Descending; can go up well enough, Brx. (Calc. opp.). Pain increases and decreases gradually, Plat., Stro. c. (Arg. m. has headache increasing gradually and leaving off suddenly).
Weakness seems to proceed from chest; (from abdomen, pelvis, Pho., Sep.). Nausea from smell of cooking food, Ars., Colch. < Laughing, Arg. m.
< Warm drinks; (< cold drinks, Spo.). Weak from talking, Coccul., Ver., Sul., Calc. Prolapsus uteri < during stool, Pod.
(Pod. with diarrhoea, stool green and coming with a rush). Catarrhal phthisis, Sil. (more induration; old people), Pho. (more blood in sputa), Seneg.
(lungs feel pushed back to spine; fat persons of lax fibre), Colch., Bals. peruv., Eriodict., Teuc. scorod., Illic., Pix., Myos. Paralysis by emotions, Stph., Nat. m. > Hard pressure, Coloc., Pb. Pain like subcutaneous ulceration; bland discharges, Puls.
Claw sensation, Bell. Nausea in throat, Cycl., Ph. ac., Val.
Causation EN
Emotions. Fright. Masturbation. Dentition. Using voice.
Mind EN
Sad, hypochondriacal humour
Great agitation and anguish, melancholy and disposition to weep
Sad, despondent, feels like crying all the time, but crying <
Quiet fretfulness; answers unwillingly and abruptly
Continued restlessness with anxiety
Her distress of mind ceases as soon as menses begin to flow
Uneasy, does not know what to do with himself; pains > by walking, but so weak he soon must rest
Earnest application to business, with inability to complete anything undertaken
Discouragement
Ill-humour, with taciturnity and dislike to society and conversation; hopelessness
Sudden fits of passion
Nervous excitement.
Head EN
Vertigo, during which all objects seem too far off
Vertigo on sitting down, with loss of ideas
Headache, usually neuralgic, which comes on gradually and grows steadily < till it reaches its height or severest point, when it begins to grow > and goes away just as gradually as it came on—e.g., if it was twelve hours in coming on, it will be twelve hours in going off
Headache, with nausea and retching, sometimes with burning sensation in the sinciput, eyes and nose, or else in the morning, with ill-humour
Heaviness in head in evening
Heaviness and stunning pressure in head, esp. traversing forehead
Shooting pains in head, esp. in forehead, and < after a fit of coughing
Spasmodic pains in head, as from tension or squeezing (as from a band in whole upper part of head, and in forehead, slowly increasing and decreasing)
Intermittent tearing pain in r. half of forehead, < on stooping
Crushing pain in forehead
Sharp jerking in r. anterior lobe of brain, above orbit
Pressive drawing and tearing in the head
Boring pains in head
Throbbing pains in temples
Painful jerks through l. temple, forehead and cerebellum, < during rest, > from motion
Burning in forehead with nausea, > in open air
Painful shocks across head
Pain as from suppuration in head externally
Burning tension on scalp just above r. forehead.
Eyes EN
Eyes sore, and, as it were, excoriated by rubbing
Pressure in lids and canthi
Burning lancinations in lids
Itching, smarting, and burning sensation in eyes
Nocturnal agglutination of lids
Pressive pain in l. inner canthus, as from a stye
Styes
Ulcer in the internal canthi (pustular swelling of l. inner canthus) like a lachrymal fistula
Eyes dull (sunken), and clouded
Jerking and quivering of eyes
Convulsed or prominent eyes
Variegated areola round candle.
Ears EN
Earache, with drawing tearings
Ulceration of holes pierced for earrings
Tinkling in ears
Ringing. in l. ear
Cries (screeching) in ears, on blowing nose.
Nose EN
Heaviness, and sensation of obstruction, in upper part of nose
Inflammation of interior of nose
Burning sensation in nose
Epistaxis: on moving, on rising from bed; immediately on waking
Dry coryza on one side only, with soreness, swelling, and redness of nostrils
Over-sensitiveness of smell.
Face EN
Pale and wan countenance, with (deep, sunken) eyes; sickly expression; features elongated
Pains in the face, with pressive drawing, esp. in zygomatic process, and orbits
Burning, lancinating pain in muscles of face
Swelling of cheeks and upper jaw
Spasm in jaw
Painful swelling of submaxillary glands.
Teeth EN
Toothache after a meal, with jerking pain and heat in the face
Sensation of elongation and looseness in teeth
Ulcer on gums, with swelling of cheeks
Epileptiform convulsions from teething: child > lying with abdomen across something hard; clenching of thumbs.
Mouth EN
Fetid exhalation from mouth
Flow of acid saliva
Difficult, weak speech, occasioned by weakness, esp. on chest
Tongue coated with a yellowish mucus
Tongue yellow
Tongue red.
Throat EN
Sore-throat, as from an internal swelling, with drawing and tension
Sensation in velum pendulum as if a foreign body were there, or some mucus which could neither be hawked up nor swallowed; same sensation in posterior nares
Sensation of stinging dryness in throat, with lancinations (< when swallowing)
Cutting in pharynx and oesophagus on swallowing
Ulcerated sensation in r.—side of throat
Roughness and scraping in throat, esp. in evening
Accumulation of thick, viscid, greyish, bloody mucus in throat and mouth, with necessity to hawk, followed by a sensation of excoriation (efforts to expel it excite vomiting)
After hawking mucus the voice for singing is higher
Tobacco has a sharp, dry taste in the fauces
Permanent rawness and dryness in throat: during swallowing a painful feeling as of being denuded
Rawness and dryness in throat, without thirst
Nausea in fauces and pharynx.
Appetite EN
Bitter and sour taste
Bitter taste of all food (except water)
Bitter, herbaceous taste of beer
Increased hunger, which cannot be satisfied
Increased thirst
Nausea and vomiting after a meal
Excessive weakness of digestion.
Stomach EN
Bitter risings; or with a taste of rotten eggs
Sour risings, with scraping in throat
Frequent hiccough
Nausea and vomiting; in the morning; from odour of cooking food
Nausea, esp. after a meal, followed by bitter and watery vomiting
Vomiting: of bile; of blood
Violent retching, followed by vomiting of (undigested) food
Aching in stomach, sometimes very violent
Tensive pressure at scrobiculus, which is painful when touched, as from subcutaneous ulceration
Cramps in stomach, sometimes with bitter risings, sensation of hunger and diarrhoea, or else with nausea, and pale and sickly complexion
Squeezing, as from a claw in stomach, and umbilical region, with nausea
Sinking, gone, feeling in epigastrium.
Abdomen EN
Dull blows across hypochondria
Cramps in region of diaphragm
Pressure and burning sensation in hepatic region
Pressure, spasmodic pain, and shootings in the l. hypochondrium
Abdomen painfully distended, and sensitive to touch
Spasms (colic) in abdomen, with pains above and below navel
Hysterical spasms in abdomen
Digging, pinching, and griping in abdomen; before every stool
Burning sensation, and shootings in abdomen
Feeling of excoriation in abdomen, < by touch
Severe pain causing the patient to lie over the sharp corner of a table or sofa, or something hard, and to press the abdomen firmly against it, as in this way > is afforded
Griping as of something being torn away
Sensation as if stretched in (r.) abdominal muscles
Squeezing, as from a claw, in umbilical region, followed by nausea
Sensation of emptiness (hollowness) in abdomen; even after eating
Incarceration of flat us
Stitches from both sides through hips.
Stool And Anus EN
Haemorrhoidal pimple on l. side of anus, with painful soreness when touched
Violent shooting, like needle pricks at base of rectum extending to anus
Soreness and smarting at anus, with fine stitches, immediately after a stool
Itching stitch in rectum
A corroding pain about anus, while walking and sitting
Burning in anus; constant itching
Constipation
Frequent, ineffectual want to evacuate
Hard, dry, knotty faeces, or else scanty and greenish
Stools: green, curdy, with colic; insufficient with renewed desire afterwards
Slimy evacuations
Violent dysentery, urging and tormina, stools bloody, mucous with intolerable tenesmus
Violent diarrhoea
Passes worms; lumbrici; taenia.
Urinary Organs EN
Dull stitches inward in kidney region
Sensitive pressure in neck of bladder and urethra after urinating; seems as though more would follow; some drops pass when the pressure is <
Blister on margin of meatus
Retention of urine
Scanty emission of urine
Frequent want to urinate, sometimes with scanty emission
Absence of want to urinate, as from insensibility of bladder (only a sensation of fulness indicates the necessity to urinate).
Male Sexual Organs EN
Increase of sexual desire
Violent and voluptuous excitement during emission
Frequent pollutions; with excessive prostration.
Female Sexual Organs EN
Increased sexual desire; early orgasm
Catamenia too profuse
Before catamenia, anxiety and melancholy
During the catamenia, colic
Cramps in uterus
Prolapsus of the vagina, with hard stool
Bearing down in uterine region; prolapsus uteri et vaginae
Prolapsus strangulated tends to gangrene
Leucorrhoea of transparent or yellowish mucus, with considerable prostration of strength
Itching in vulva, < evening (Stan. mur.)
Spasmodic labour pains; they exhaust her, she is out of breath
A child leaves the breast of its mother, and will not suck.
Respiratory Organs EN
Hoarseness and roughness in larynx, with tickling, which excites a cough
Catarrh, with hoarse voice, sensation of fatigue in chest, obstructed respiration, and cough with expectoration
Great accumulation of mucus in trachea, which is easily detached
The voice is louder in singing, after having hawked up the mucus
Cough excited by laughter, talking, and singing, or by a tickling in chest; or by warm drinks
In chest affections, when talking, reading aloud, singing, &c.; they cause a very weak feeling in throat and chest, an exhausted, "given-out" sensation, and produce hoarseness; using the voice produces weakness in the arms between the elbow and shoulder, then the weakness extends all over the body.
The above symptoms are very often found in operatic singers, actors, auctioneers—all who use the voice a great deal
Dry, violent, shaking cough, in bed, in evening, until midnight, or more violent in morning
Shattering, deep cough
Fatiguing, paroxysmal cough, so that epigastric region was painful, as if beaten
Short cough from weakness of chest, having a hoarse, weak sound
Cough concussive, with paroxysms of these coughs
Cough excited by lying on the r. side
Cough, with retching and vomiting of food
Cough, with frequent expectoration of mucus.—(Cough coming after whooping-cough in girl, 9; very profuse, white, thick expectoration, hoarse, tongue coated, sleepless, no appetite, rapid emaciation and debility, with contracted chest and pleuritic adhesions
R.
T.
C.)
Expectoration when coughing (during the day, in morning expectoration is most profuse and) is greenish, sweetish, or yellow; saltish; or else viscid, and in lumps; or serous, and composed of liquid mucus, or of a putrid smell (after coughing and expectorating the patient feels hollow and empty)
During and after the cough, pain as of excoriation, and shootings in the chest
Phthisis pituitosa.
Chest EN
Obstructed respiration at night, esp. when lying down; or by day, on least movement
Dyspnoea, esp. in evening, with sensation of emptiness in scrobiculus, and anguish, which causes the patient (to loosen or) tear his clothes
Oppression at chest when walking or ascending
Asthma when attacks gradually come on, culminate, and gradually decline
Rattling of mucus and wheezing in chest
Agreeable sensation of lightness on taking a full inspiration
Contusive pain in chest
Heavy pressure in chest as by a weight
Tension in chest (hydrothorax)
Constriction of chest, sometimes in evening, with anguish
Lancinations in the l. side of the chest, during inspiration, or when lying on the r. side
Sharp, cutting stitches in l. side of chest, < from stooping
Burning stitches on l. chest, < on expectoration
Suddenly, a long stitch in l. side of chest beneath axillae, causing fright
Pain, as from excoriation, in chest
Sensation of weakness in chest, as if it were empty, esp. after speaking or expectorating
Itching-tickling in chest.
Heart EN
Pain in praecordial region and hiccough.—Pulse: frequent, small; indistinct, fluttering.
Neck And Back EN
Lancinations in the shoulder-blades, and nape of the neck
Weakness of the muscles of the nape of the neck, and cracking of the vertebrae of the neck when shaking the head
Opisthotonos
Stitches in back, in small of back, and into limbs
Violent tearing in lumbar vertebrae, from both sides into region of kidneys, < on every motion of trunk
Dull thrusts in lumbar region with a sensation of external coldness against him.
Limbs EN
Great heaviness and paralytic weakness in arms and legs
Swelling of hands and feet in evening
The pains in limbs < gradually and > in the same manner
Insupportable restlessness in all the limbs.
Upper Limbs EN
Paralytic pain in the shoulder-joint
Paralytic heaviness in the arms; if he holds a light weight even a short time
Pressive tearings in muscles of joints of the arms, hands, and fingers
Weakness and trembling of hands
Swelling of hands, esp. in evening
Jerking of hands
Violent burning sensation in hands
Small red spots on backs of hands
Chilblains on hands
Contraction of fingers
Retraction of thumbs
Shootings in joints of fingers
Stitches in finger-tips
Painful flaws in nails.
Lower Limbs EN
Drawing and pressive tearings in hips, extending to sacrum, and also to legs and knees
Paralytic lassitude and heaviness of legs
Bending of knees when walking
Stiffness and tension in ham
Sensation of heat, and burning sensation in feet
Swelling of ankles in evening
Swollen ankles in delicate girls (R.
T.
C.)
Tearing shocks in ankles, extending as far as toes
Swelling of feet, esp. in evening
Red swelling of feet.
Generalities EN
Pressive and drawing pains, esp. in limbs, gradually becoming very violent, and decreasing in the same way Affections in general of l. chest; l. side; trachea and inner chest; upper part of chest; inner surface of thighs Consumption.—< After moving; lying on side; using the voice; from motion; when descending.—> When lying on back; from loosening garments; from walking (except weakness) Attacks of epilepsy (in children during dentition), with retraction of thumbs, and tossing about of body; or else with throwing back of head, paleness of face, convulsive movements of hands and eyes, and loss of consciousness; the attacks come on sometimes in evening
Excessive emaciation Pain as if paralysed in extremities Paralysis (of arms and legs) Great heaviness and indolence
Excessive dejection (weakness), and physical and moral depression, with trembling, esp. during gentle exercise (or when talking), and with disposition to perspire easily Profuse debilitating sweat, night and morning; hot, even on slight movement; with mouldy, putrid smell Nervous excitement Hysterical spasms, with pain in abdomen and in diaphragm
Insupportable uneasiness in body Excessive fatigue after conversation The sufferings seem to disappear during a walk, with the exception of the depression, which is then excessive; they reappear as soon as the patient is at rest Extreme prostration; must sit or lie down continually
Faintness in going down stairs; can go up without difficulty Pains commence lightly, increase gradually to a very high degree, and decrease again as slowly.
Skin EN
Itching (burning) shootings over skin of whole body (or l. side)
Itching pimples; on face, sore to touch or on washing
Chilblains
Flaws in nails
Painful hang-nails.
Sleep EN
Tendency to sleep during day
Frequent yawning, with oppression of chest, as if it were encircled by a belt
Sleep retarded
Feeling, in morning, as after insufficient sleep
Deep sleep
Nocturnal agitation and many vivid dreams, anxious or lascivious
Moaning, weeping (timid supplications), and plaintive lamentations, while sleeping.
Fever EN
Shivering and shuddering in morning, with coldness in hands, and numbness of points of fingers
Chill every forenoon (10 a.m.)
Slight chilliness with violent chattering of teeth
Shivering in evening, which runs over back (preceded by heat with perspiration); or only in head, with thirst
Burning heat in limbs, esp. in hands
Sensation of anxious heat, on least movement
Heat every afternoon (4 to 5), with perspiration at the same time
Perspiration smells mouldy
Small, quick pulse
Debilitating perspiration from least exertion
Very debilitating perspiration at night
Profuse perspiration in morning.