Stannum Metallicum stann.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Fetid smell from mouth.

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

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

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

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.

Hæmatemesis, 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.
Leucorrhœa: with great debility; of yellow, white or transparent mucus.

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

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.

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 dyspnœa; must loosen the clothing.
Crowing, snorting respiration.
Oppressed breathing, from every movement, when lying down and in the evenings.

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.

Tension across upper part of chest, with emptiness in lower.
Chest so weak he cannot talk; empty feeling in chest.
Hæmoptysis, 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.

Pulse frequent and small.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Open air: 2, 4, 8.

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.

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

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

Touch: 17. Pressure: 17, 19.

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.