- Source: Derived from pure metallic tin (Stannum), prepared for homeopathic use through triturationGrinding raw substance into powderThe process of grinding an insoluble dry substance with milk sugar (lactose) in a mortar to prepare the base of a remedy. and serial dilutionPotentized liquid homeopathic medicineA solution prepared by repeatedly diluting and shaking (succussing) a substance to enhance healing power while removing toxicity. to enhance therapeutic action while eliminating material toxicity, in accordance with homeopathic pharmacopeia standards.
- Traditional Context: Historically employed in homeopathy for respiratory, neurological, and psychological disorders, particularly those involving chronic cough, neuralgicRelating to sharp nerve painDescribe symptoms or pain that radiates along the path of one or more nerves. pains, and profound exhaustion.
- It is noted for symptoms such as weak, hollow cough, shooting pains, and aggravationWorsening of symptomsAn increase in severity or intensity of symptoms, often caused by environmental factors or after taking a remedy. from talking, often worsened by talking, exertion, or warmth, and ameliorated by rest, lying down,.
- Or cold applications.
- Modern Context: Indicated for respiratory conditions (e.g., chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, tuberculosis🩺 TuberculosisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options.), neurological conditions (e.g., neuralgiaSharp nerve pain along a nerve pathIntense, shooting, or burning pain that radiates along the course of one or more nerves., peripheral neuropathy),.
- Psychological conditions (e.g., major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder), and constitutional conditions (e.g., chronic fatigue syndrome, debility).
- It suits patients with acute or chronic symptoms characterized by weak cough, neuralgic pains, exhaustion, sadness, or talking sensitivity, typically exacerbated by talking, exertion, warmth, or emotional stress, and often seen in individuals with debilitated, sensitive constitutions.
- The remedy is particularly relevant for those with respiratory or neurological conditions, often presenting with symptoms like hollow cough or shooting pains, commonly observed in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease,.
- Neuralgia, or major depressive disorder🩺 Major Depressive DisorderClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. triggered by talking, exertion, or emotional stress.
- COMMENTS-Hahnemann’s Stann provingTesting a remedy on healthy volunteersThe systematic method of administering a substance to healthy subjects to observe and record the symptoms it produces. appears in his Materia MedicaEncyclopedia of homeopathic remediesA comprehensive body of collected knowledge describing the origin, preparation, and detailed symptom profiles of healing substances. Pura and in his Chronic Diseases🌿 DiseasesMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines..
- A number of worm symptoms appeared, including a sinking, empty, all-gone feeling, and diaphragmatic and abdominal pains.
- Tendency to exces-sive mucus secretions.
- Pale, sunken, sickly countenance with dark rings around the eyes.
- Convulsions.
- Hectic fever.
- Compressive and cramp🌿 CrampMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.-like pains.
- Cramps and spasms.
- Opisthotonic convul sions, thumbs are drawn in, particularly in teething children, in children who masturbate, or who have worms.
- Pains associated with the hypochondriac or hysterical men tal state.
- Pains begin lightly, increase gradually to the highest point and then gradually decline, particularly in headaches, facial and dental neuralgias, abdominal and other pains.
- Diaphragmatic neuralgia.
- Characteristic weakness, exhaustion of mind an d body.
- Nervous weakness with trembling.
- NeurastheniaNervous exhaustion and chronic fatigueAn ill-defined medical condition characterized by chronic physical and mental fatigue, headaches, and irritability..
- Depressed and hopeless with lung problems.
- Low spirited, despondent and without hope.
- Trembling of arms and legs, limbs as heavy as lead.
- PalpitationsSensation of rapid or irregular heartbeatA noticeably rapid, strong, or irregular heartbeat due to agitation, exertion, or physical conditions. and anxiety occur from slightest exertion.
- The ch est is so weak as to make talking impossible.
- Weakness in the throat in singers and speakers.
- Weakness and aching of the deltoid and arm, felt when using the voice.
- The patient will drop into a chair instead of sitting down.
- Must sit down several times to rest while dressing in the morning.
- Weakness felt more going down stairs than on going up.
- Weak, empty, sinking sensation felt at the epigastrium.
- Characteristic respiratory or lung weak ness.
- Last-stage tuberculosis remedy, used historically tuberculosis epidemics.
- Last stages of respiratory illnesses heading to ward lung failure.
- Emphysema🩺 EmphysemaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- Pneumonia🩺 PneumoniaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- Hoarseness, laryngitis🩺 LaryngitisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., hollow voice.
- Keynote weakness in the lungs and breathing.
- Patient talks extremely weakly, must put ear to patient’s mouth to hear.
- Weak, empty feeling in the chest, in tubercular conditions.
- Stitches in the chest.
- Shortness of breath on exertion.
- Deep, hollow, shattering cough (Spong.).
- Deep, husky, hollow voice, better by hawking or expectorating mucus.
- Profuse expectoration, like a n egg white🌿 WhiteMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. (Nai rn.), sweetish, salty, sour, putrid, musty, yellow🌿 YellowMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.-green🌿 GreenMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. pus.
- Thick globs of green sputum.
- Coughs up green pus and globs of green mucus (Kali-b.🌿 Kali-B.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).
- Yellow secretions, including sputa, leucorrheaWhitish or yellowish vaginal dischargeA whitish or yellowish discharge of mucus from the vagina, often indicating congestion or mild infection. and coating on the tongue.
- DyspepsiaIndigestion or upper abdominal discomfortDiscomfort or pain in the upper abdomen, often associated with nausea, bloating, heartburn, or acid reflux., with na usea and vomiting from the smell of cooking.
- Stomach pain compels the patient to walk about for relief, yet the weakness is so great that he is soon compelled to rest.
- ColicSevere fluctuating pain in the abdomenSevere, often fluctuating pain in the abdomen caused by gas, spasm, or obstruction in the intestines, common in infants., better by hard pressure, as by laying the child with its abdomen across the knee or on the point of the shoulder.
- Menses are early and profuse.
- Uterine and vaginal prolapse, worse during stool, especially during pressure.
- Labor pains are spasmodic and put the patient out of breath.
- The milk🌿 MilkMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. of nursing woman is changed and the child rejects it.
- Sexual excitement in both sexes.
- Emis sions with excessive prostrationExtreme physical weakness or exhaustionA state of extreme physical weakness, collapse, or exhaustion, often accompanying severe illness..
- Orgasm is easily produced, “Scratching arm produces an intolerable sensation of pleasure in genital organs which extends to uterus and produces orgasm.” Clinique quoted a typi cal case of a neuralgia cured by Stann. A man, 30, suffered for eight years off and on and for some months continuously with neuralgic headache.
- Pain centered over one or the other eye (usually the right) and extended over whole or part of head and was at limes unbearable.
- It began in the early morning (4 to 5 a.m.), increased gradually to noon, when it gradu ally declined to sunset, reappearing again the following morning.
- Two doses of Stann cured in a fortnight.
- Hering gave as cured by Stann.
- “Monday co nstipation,” that is, constipationInfrequent or difficult bowel movementsA condition where stool is dry, hard, and difficult or painful to pass. occurring on days following rest-days.
- Stann has marked periodicity.
- T. H. Urquhart cured an affection of the nails characterized by breaking and splitting, and a sequel of scurvy, with an application of Stannum oleate on a narrow flannel bandage.
- All symptoms were cured in two months.
- Alston obtained indirectly from “a woman of Leith in Scotland” this prescription of which he had 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 noted in his Materia Medica that he had seen hematemesis cured by this remedy.
- Temperature-Chill 10 a.m with numb fingertips.
- Burning palms and soles.
- Heat in evening🌿 EveningMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., exhausting night sweats, towards the morning.
- Abdomen painfully distend ed and sensitive to touch.
- Incarceration of flatus.
- Cutting, pinching, cramp-like colic, around navel.
- Colic with hunger, diarrheaFrequent, loose, and watery stoolsA state of having three or more loose or liquid bowel movements per day. and a feeling of emptiness, exhausting, relieved by hard pressure.
- Colic in children, better by carrying them on shoulder.
- Sp asmodic pain in abdomen, hysterical.
- Increased hunger, which cannot be satisfied.
- Increased thirst.
- Bitter🌿 BitterMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. taste of all food.
- Bitter, herbaceous taste of beer.
- Smell of cooking causes vo miting.
- Excessive weakness of digestion.
- Nausea and vomiting after a meal
