Stannum Metallicum stann.
Characteristic
Extreme exhaustion of mind and body.
Sinking, empty, all-gone sensation in stomach (Chel., Phos., Sep.).
Sad, despondent, feels like crying all the time, but crying makes her worse (Nat., Puls., Sep.); faint and weak, especially when going down stairs; can go up well enough (Bor.—rev. of Cal.).
Headache or neuralgia; pains begin lightly and increase gradually to the highest point and then gradually decline (Plat.).
Colic: > by hard pressure, or by laying abdomen across knee or on shoulder (Col.); lumbrici; passes worms.
Menses; too early, too profuse; sadness before; pain in malar bones, during.
Leucorrhœa; great debility; weakness seems to proceed from chest (from abdomen and pelvis, Phos., Sep.).
Prolapsus, worse during stool (worse with diarrhœa, Pod.); so weak she drops into a chair instead of sitting down.
While dressing in the morning has to sit down several times to rest.
Nausea and vomiting; in the morning; from the odor of cooking food (Ars., Colch., Sep.).
When singing or using the voice, aching and weakness in deltoid and arms.
Great weakness in chest; < from talking, laughing, reading aloud, singing; so weak, unable to talk.
Cough: deep, hollow, shattering, strangling; concussive, in paroxysms of three coughs (of two, Mer.); dry, while in bed, in evening; empty sensation in chest.
Expectoration: profuse, like the white of an egg; sweetish, salty (Kali i., Sep.); sour, putrid, musty; yellow-green pus (heavy, green, salty, Kali i.); during day.
Hoarseness: deep, husky, hollow voice; relieved for the time by coughing or expectorating mucus.
Sweat: mouldy, musty odor; after 4 A. M. every morning; on neck and forehead; very debilitating.
Relations
Complementary: Pulsatilla.
Aggravation
Laughing and singing, talking, using the voice; lying on right side; drinking anything warm (from cold drinks, Spong.).
Amelioration
Coughing or expectoration relieves hoarseness; hard pressure (Col.).
Type
Suppressed by quinine or some anti-periodic; low fever, with bronchial or pulmonary complications.
Time
10 A. M.; 4-5 P. M.
Chill
Over whole body at 10 A. M.; with coldness of the hands, deadness of the fingers, and numbness of the finger tips (Paris, Sep.); in the evening over the back; slight, but with chattering of the teeth, as from convulsion of the masseter muscles; only in left arm, or left leg (Carbo v.—right arm, Mercurialis); knees and feet very cold (Carbo v.).
Heat
From 4-5 P. M., with sweat; of single parts, of back, chest, abdomen, limbs.
Anxious heat, as if sweat would break out.
Burning heat in limbs. Hectic fever.
Sweat
Profuse after 4 A. M. every morning.
Morning sweat, chiefly on the neck, nape of the neck and forehead; mouldy, musty odor; debilitating from the least movement.
Tongue
Red; yellow; coated with yellow mucus.
Taste; sour; sweetish; offensive; everything bitter but water.
Fetid odor from mouth.