STANNUM METALLICUM 30

Action of Medicine:

• This remedy is indicated where there is profound prostration of the nervous system. Complete exhaustion of the mind and body.
• The patient is sad, despondent, feels like crying all the time but crying makes her worse. She feels weak when going downstairs; can go up well enough.
• It is of service in neuralgic headache when the pain begins lightly and increases gradually to the highest point and then gradually declines.
• It is useful in Chronic bronchitis, Bronchorrhoea, when there is great weakness of the chest. He is so weak he cannot talk, laugh, sing or read aloud.
• The cough is deep, hollow, strangling and in paroxysms. The expectoration is profuse, sweetish, salt, sour; or putrid, yellow, green pus.
• There is usually some hoarseness which is relieved for a time by coughing or expectorating.
• It should be remembered in prolapsus uteri and leucorrhoea when there is extreme weakness. She must sit down several times while dressing.

References: A Manual Of Materia Medica, Therapeutics And Pharmacology By Blackwood, Alexander Leslie