Generalities
The chief action of Tin is centered upon the NERVOUS SYSTEM, causing EXTREME WEAKNESS which is esp. felt in CHEST; 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. Cramps, Hysteria. Emaciation. Repeated short attacks. Ill effects of emotions, fright; masturbation; dentition; using voice. Girdle sensation with yawning. Child wants to be carried across shoulders. Trembling more from slow motion or exercise. Paralysis; from worms, after spasms, emotions, onanism. Hemiplegia; part constantly moist.
Worse
Using voice. Cold. 10 A.M. Lying on right side. After gentle motion. MOTION. Warm drinks. During stool. Going downstairs. Ascending. Touch.
Better
Hard pressure over an edge. Coughing, expectoration. Rapid motion. Lying across something hard. Bending double.
Mind
Very sensitive as to what others say about her. ANXIOUS, nervous, sad worse before menses. Miserable and discouraged. Can 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
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.
Eyes
Sunken, dull. Ptosis; returns every week.
Ears
Cracking, shrieking noise in ear when blowing the nose. Ulceration of ear-ring hole.
Nose
Oversensitive to smell.
Face
Pale. Prosopalgia. Malar neuralgia; at menses.
Mouth
Tickling at the root of the tongue. Taste sour, sweet, bitter, to all food except water.
Throat
Efforts to detach adhesive mucus causes nausea. Cutting pain when swallowing. Nausea in. Dry. Smarting.
Stomach
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.
Abdomen
Burning in liver. Diaphragmatic neuralgia; hysterical. Cutting, pinching colic; with hunger and diarrhoea, which exhausts, better hard pressure. Passes worms. Spasmodic pain in abdomen; hysterical. Colic in children better by carrying them on shoulder. Constipation; stools, dry, hard, knotty, insufficient, and green. Monday constipation, i.e. occurring after working days.
Urinary
Insensibility of the bladder; only the sense of fulness indicates the necessity to urinate. Atony of bladder.
Male
Sexual excitement. Voluptuous feeling in genitals ending in emission; which exhausts.
Female
Increased sexual desire; easy orgasm. Scratching of distant parts (of arms) produce an intolerable sensation of pleasure in genital organs producing orgasm. Bearing 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. Child refuses mother’s milk. Uterine symptoms with a weak, drawn sensation in the chest. Pain in vagina upward and back to spine.
Respiratory
Voice; deep hollow, hoarse, better hawking mucus. Much mucus in trachea. Cough; 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. Chest 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. Catarrhal phthisis. Bronchiectasis. Retching with coughing. Cannot walk, cannot do anything without coughing.
Extremities
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. Contraction of fingers; retraction of thumbs. Cramps 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.
Sleep
Moaning, weeping and plaintive lamentations during sleep. Sleeps with one leg drawn up, the other stretched out.
Fever
Chill 10 A.M.; with numb fingertips. Burning palms and soles. Hectic. Debilitating, musty sweat at 4 A.M.
Related
Calc; Kali-c; Lach; Nat-m; Phos; Sulph.
Complementary
Pulsatilla
He was convinced about Homoeopathy while going through Sir William Osler's writings on 'History of Medicine' so switched over to an entirely Homoeopathic Practice in 1932. He also started working on Homoeopathic literature along with his Practice.
He has contributed immensely to homoeopathic literature. He was an ardent follower of Dr Boger. His Repertory is based on Boger's ''A Synoptic key to Materia Medica'.