Sinking, empty, all gone sensation in stomach (CHEL., PHOS., SEP.,)
Sad, despondent, feels like crying all the time, but crying makes her wore; faint and weak, especially when going downstairs; can go up well enough.
Colic better by hard pressure, or by laying abdomen across knee or on shoulder (COLO.); lumbrici; passes worms.
Leucorrhoea; great debility; weakness seems to proceed from chest.
Prolapsus, worse during stool, so weak she drops into a chair instead of sitting down. While dressing in the morn., has to sit down several times to rest.
Great weakness in chest, can hardly talk, with general debility, which centers in chest.
Loose cough; with heavy green, sweet expectoration.
Pains gradually increase to a great extent, and as gradually subside.
Another metallic remedy. The leading characteristic is GREAT WEAKNESS IN THE CHEST (ARGENTUM MET.); so weak cannot talk. No remedy has this symptom so strongly as tin. It is present, not only in the laryngeal and lung troubles for which STANN., is such a great remedy, but in GREAT DEBILITY. SO WEAK SHE DROPS INTO A CHAIR, worse going downstairs (BORAX., CALC., up stairs). It is found in connection with uterine displacements and leucorrhoeas of thin, debilitated subjects and has made brilliant cures in such cases. Of course in the lung, bronchial and laryngeal affections, this symptom is very prominent. In these troubles there is generally very profuse expectoration with the cough, and the matter raised tastes VERY SWEET, or it may be exceptionally salty. For the salty expectoration I would sooner think of KALI-IOD., OR SEPIA., In all three of these remedies the expectoration with the cough, and the expectoration may be thick, heavy and green or yellow in color. Both STANN., and KALI-IOD., have profuse night sweats, but the STANN., has greater sense of weakness in the chest (cannot talk)than any of the others. Another very characteristic symptom of STANN., is that the PAINS GRADUALLY INCREASE TO A GREAT OF INTENSITY and THEN AS GRADUALLY DECREASE.(see PLATINUM). This pain is of course neuralgic, may be located anywhere in the tract of a nerve, but has been often verified in prosopalgia, gastralgia and abdominal colic.
These pains are better by pressure, like COL., and BRY., so if COL., fails, which is generally first thought of in abdominal colic better by pressure, STANN., may relieve, and especially if the attacks have been of long standing or the patient seems to have a chronic tendency thereto. If in children, the patient is better by carrying it over the point of the shoulder, the shoulder pressing to the abdomen. The STANN., patient is generally very sad and despondent, feels like crying all the time. (NAT-M., PULS., SEPIA.,) I have often verified the above symptoms and have seen equally good effects from the 12th, 30th, 200th and 500th pot.
