Materia Medica de A a Z

STANNUM METALLICUM (stann)

Region

NERVES. MUCOUS MEMBRANES. CHEST. FEMALE ORGANS.

Worse

Using voice. Cold. 10 A.M. MOTION (After. Gentle. Lying on right side).

Better

Rapid motion. Hard pressure; over an edge. Expectoration.

General

Repeated short attacks. EXTREME WEAKNESS; agg. IN CHEST; in throat, stomach, upper arms and thighs; drops into a chair; can't even talk; trembles on moving. Paralytic heaviness. Profuse, muco-purulent secretions. Emaciation. PAINS INCREASE GRADUALLY, THEN SLOWLY SUBSIDE. Pressive drawing. Neuralgias. Cramps. Spasms. Hysteria..................... Anxious, nervous and sad; agg. before menses. Weak and miserable, and discouraged. Pressive, stupefying headache. Pale face, with sunken eyes. Malar neuralgia. Faceache. Tickling at root of tongue. Vomiting; violent; early morning, with odor of ingesta. Burning in liver. Painful, pinching colic, amel. hard pressure and stool, which exhausts. Child wants to be carried over shoulder. Worms. Atony of bladder. Easy sexual orgasms. Pollutions. Before menses, mania erotica. During menses, strong odor of body. Gushes of debilitating leucorrhoa. Prolapse, of vagina or uterus, agg. stool. Much mucus in trachea. Deep, hollow voice. Short breath, from every effort; must loosen clothes. Cough; easily expectorates quantities of sweet or bright yellow pus or balls of mucus. Catarrhal phthisis. Chest feels raw or hollow. Tremulous knees. Swelled hands and ankles. Chill at 10 A.M.; with numb fingertips. Burning palms and soles. Hectic. Debilitating, musty sweat at 4 A.M. Night-sweats.

Antidotes: Hep, Puls.

Related: Lach, Nat-m.