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Stannum metallicum (Stann.)

Stannum metallicum (Stann.) appears in 561 rubrics. Of these, 21 are single-remedy rubrics in which only this remedy is listed, and 18 are small rubrics with at most two other remedies. The emphasis is on anxiety, fear, the children rubrics, voice and speech, plus sadness, restlessness, and oversensitiveness. The picture emerges of a weak, easily exhausted person who is driven by anxiety and restlessness, begins much and does not finish, and whose speech and voice suffer from the weakness.

Anxiety and fear

Anxiety is the largest of the main rubrics with specific entries. It attaches to the body: one single-remedy rubric records anxiety with difficult breathing, where the clothing must be loosened. Another names continued anxiety during pregnancy, and fear appears in the same connection once more as a single-remedy rubric of its own. Especially striking is the relation to menstruation. Tormenting anxiety is listed before the menses, it ameliorates at the beginning of the flow, and a small rubric describes that the anxiety abates when the flow sets in. Similarly, insanity is laid down before the menses, also in erotic form. Beside this stand anxiety about jumping out of bed, and a fear of complaints from worms that is assigned to this remedy alone.

Praying, lamenting, and pleading in sleep

A notable number of single-remedy rubrics concern behavior in sleep. Listed are praying in sleep, begging and beseeching in sleep, talking in sleep in the form "imploring, timid", and plaintive, whining lamenting in sleep. The rubric on praying itself also knows only this remedy in the forms bashful and timid. The picture is that of a pleading, quiet person of little assertiveness, whose helplessness expresses itself unhindered in sleep. Fitting this is the small rubric naming lamenting at night in sleep.

Weakness, voice, and speech

The weakness runs through several areas. Speech is difficult from weakness, namely from weakness of the chest and from weakness of the inner throat, both single-remedy rubrics. The voice counts with 17 rubrics among the most frequent main rubrics; as a single-remedy rubric stands the voice beginning when singing: "Voice – singing – begins, when he/she starts to sing". One rubric links music with sleepiness. Eating also appears as an action done from weakness, and the weakness reaches the darkest rubric: "Suicidal disposition – weakness, from" is assigned to this remedy alone. The weakness here is evidently not merely a bodily state but a basis of experience.

Working without finishing

Working is covered in three small rubrics and one single-remedy rubric. The single-remedy rubric reads "Working – begins many things without finishing"; a small rubric describes ineffective work. Fitting this is the delusion that a rush of thoughts prevents finishing the work. The thoughts stand in the way of the deed, the energy does not suffice for completion. Added is that the person does not know what to do with herself. This too is a single-remedy rubric on restlessness, showing that the restlessness remains without direction. Keeping still in the open air may ameliorate.

Delusions and confusion

The delusions are weakly marked but peculiar. Objects appear too far away, and it is always afternoon, in two rubrics: as a delusion and as a mistake, taking the afternoon for the time. Added are muttering absurdities, a lack of concern, and a deliberate malice, listed as small rubrics. The mood remains changeable, to which belongs a nervous weeping: one wants to weep all day, which however aggravates.

Children and worms

With 34 rubrics, children head the main rubrics. Specific is difficult dentition with worm complaints, and excitement with worm complaints is also listed. Together with the fear of complaints from worms, this makes up a small connection of its own between worms and mental state.

Summary

In the repertory, Stann. shows a person whose strength does not suffice. The anxiety is bound to body, pregnancy, and menses, speech and voice fail from weakness, work remains unfinished, and in sleep pleading, imploring, and lamenting express themselves, which stay quieter by day. The picture is less that of a pronounced personality than of an exhausted, pleading, and restless condition whose core lies in the experience of weakness.

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