Stannum Metallicum: Best Homeopathic Medicine for Chronic Bronchitis, TB & Weakness

• Common Name: Tin
• Type: Deep-acting constitutional remedy
• Source: Trituration of metallic tin
• Acts on: Nerves, mucous membranes, respiratory organs, muscles

Sphere of Action

• Nervous system – especially motor weakness and paralysis
• Respiratory system – lungs and bronchi
• Digestive tract – particularly chronic catarrh
• Female reproductive organs – prolapse, leucorrhoea
• Muscular system – profound weakness

Mind

• Great mental and physical exhaustion
• Anxiety and sadness
• Despair of recovery
• Oversensitive to music, which causes weeping

Constitution

• Suitable for nervous, sensitive, debilitated people
• Especially women suffering from prolapse, chronic leucorrhoea, or respiratory weakness
• Weak children with chronic bronchitis or asthma

Respiratory System

• Cough: Very weak, deep, hollow, or loose-sounding, with copious greenish expectoration
• Patient is so weak they can hardly raise mucus
• Cough worse from talking, singing, or laughing
• Chest feels empty, hollow, or sinking
• Bronchitis, tuberculosis, whooping cough, lung abscess
• Expectoration tastes sweet or salty

General Weakness

• Extreme prostration – even speaking or slight movement causes fatigue
• Weakness increases gradually until forced to lie down
• Limbs feel weak and heavy, especially arms
• Cannot hold anything due to weakness of forearms

Female Genital System

• Prolapse of uterus with dragging down sensation
• Leucorrhoea: profuse, yellow, debilitating
• Uterine complaints often associated with chest and limb weakness

Gastrointestinal

• Empty, sinking feeling in the stomach, not relieved by eating
• Flatulence, colic, and constipation with muscular debility
• Sensation of a load in the abdomen

Modalities

Worse From	Better From
Talking, singing, lying on right side	Applying pressure
Using voice, motion	Expectoration
Slight exertion	Open air (sometimes)

Miasmatic Background

• Primarily Psoric, with Tubercular diathesis

Keynotes

• Great weakness of the chest and limbs, especially the arms
• Cough with profuse, green, sweet-tasting expectoration
• Empty, sinking feeling in the chest and abdomen
• Voice lost from weakness, especially in singers and speakers
• Marked muscular debility, with trembling and fatigue from slight effort

Relationship

Compare With	Complementary / Follows Well
Arsenicum, Phosphorus, Pulsatilla, Silicea	Kali carb, Calcarea carb
Lachesis, Lycopodium	Sepia (in female complaints)

Potency & Dosage

• Often used in 6C to 30C for physical weakness and respiratory complaints
• In deep-seated constitutional cases, 200C or higher may be employed

One-Line Summary

"Stannum is especially indicated in deep exhaustion with a weak, loose cough and green expectoration, with a sinking empty feeling in the chest and abdomen."