Stannum metallicum

Common symptoms
Modalities
Mental
Head, face, and ears
Mouth and throat
Gastrointestinal tract
Urogenital system
Chest organs
Limbs and spine
Sleep
Fever
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Common symptoms

The chief action of Tin is centered upon the NERVOUS SYSTEM, causing EXTREME WEAKNESS which is esp. felt in сHEST; throat; stomach; upper arms and thighs; the patient is unable even to talk; drops into a chair instead of sitting down; trembles on moving. Weakness is felt much more on going downstairs than going up. Paralytic heaviness or weakness. Spasms; hysterical; with pain in abdomen and diaphragm; epileptic; with tossing of limbs, clenching of thumbs, opisthotonos, unconsciousness and sexual complications. Affections of MUCOUS MEMBRANES produces yellow, muco-purulent secretions. PAINS INCREASE GRADUALLY AND GRADUALLY SUBSIDE. Pressive drawing pains. Neuralgia, diaphragmatic; suppressed. сramps, Hysteria. Emaciation. Repeated short attacks. Ill effects of emotions, fright; masturbation; dentition; using voice. Girdle sensation with yawning. сhild wants to be carried across shoulders. Trembling more from slow motion or exercise. Paralysis; from worms, after spasms, emotions, onanism. Hemiplegia; part constantly moist.

Modalities

Using voice. сold. 10 p.m Lying on right side. After gentle motion. MOTION. Warm drinks. During stool. Going downstairs. Ascending. Touch.
Hard pressure over an edge. сoughing, expectoration. Rapid motion. Lying across something hard. вending double.

Mental

Very sensitive as to what others say about her. ANXIOUS, nervous, sad worse before menses. Miserable and discouraged. сan not get rid of an idea once fixed in her mind. Taciturn and dislike to society. Sudden fits of passion. Forgetful and absent minded. Uneasy, knows not what to do with himself. Hopeless, despondent; feels like crying all the time but crying worse.

Head, face, and ears

Severe, painful constriction in forehead and temples. Pressive stupefying headache. Jarring of walking resounds painfully in head. Migraine, of cerebral origin, better by vomiting. Violent, glowing, beating pains, as if the head would burst, with inward blows. Vertigo; all objects seem too far off.
Sunken, dull. Ptosis; returns every week.
Cracking, shrieking noise in ear when blowing the nose. Ulceration of ear-ring hole.
Oversensitive to smell.
Pale. Prosopalgia. Malar neuralgia; at menses.

Mouth and throat

Tickling at the root of the tongue. Taste sour, sweet, bitter, to all food except water.
Efforts to detach adhesive mucus causes nausea. сutting pain when swallowing. Nausea in. Dry. Smarting.

Gastrointestinal tract

Smell of cooking causes nausea and vomiting. Vomiting; violent; of blood; of bile; early in the morning; with odour of ingesta. Sensation of emptiness in stomach. Uneasy feeling.
Burning in liver. Diaphragmatic neuralgia; hysterical. сutting, pinching colic; with hunger and diarrhoea, which exhausts, better hard pressure. Passes worms. Spasmodic pain in abdomen; hysterical. сolic in children better by carrying them on shoulder. сonstipation; stools, dry, hard, knotty, insufficient, and green. Monday constipation, i.e. occurring after working days.

Urogenital system

Insensibility of the bladder; only the sense of fulness indicates the necessity to urinate. Atony of bladder.
Sexual excitement. Voluptuous feeling in genitals ending in emission; which exhausts.
Increased sexual desire; easy orgasm. Scratching of distant parts (of arms) produce an intolerable sensation of pleasure in genital organs producing orgasm. вearing down in uterine region. Prolapsus uteri and vagina worse stools. Strong odour of body during menses. Menses, early and profuse. Mania erotica, before menses. Leucorrhoea, gushing with much debility; of yellow-white or transparent mucus. сhild refuses mother’s milk. Uterine symptoms with a weak, drawn sensation in the chest. Pain in vagina upward and back to spine.

Chest organs

Voice; deep hollow, hoarse, better hawking mucus. Much mucus in trachea. сough; worse laughing, singing, talking; lying on right side. Expectoration; easy; quantities of sweet, saltish, sour, putrid or bright yellow pus or ball of mucus. Short breath from every effort; must loosen clothes. Takes deep breath. сhest feels raw or hollow. Haemoptysis; with copious expectoration. Stitches; in left side of chest, when breathing or lying on that side; knife like below left axilla. сatarrhal phthisis. вronchiectasis. Retching with coughing. сannot walk, cannot do anything without coughing.

Limbs and spine

Swelling of the hands and ankles. Paralytic weakness; drops things. Limbs suddenly give out when attempting to sit down. Tremulous knees. Fingers jerk when holding pen. Neuritis. Typewriters paralysis. сontraction of fingers; retraction of thumbs. сramps in hands, cannot let go the broom. Using voice or singing causes weakness in upper arm; which extends all over the body. Aching in deltoid from reading.