COMMON NAME:
SELENIUM.
Symptoms
Great aversion to air draughts, and from the same easily catching cold (also tearing in the limbs.).
Pruritus of the hands, with violent itching in the palms (Anacardium, Causticum, Sulphur).
Great emaciation, especially of hands, face and thighs (Abrotanum, SArsenicum, Silicea(.
WEAKNESS FOLLOWING PROLONGED FEVER. (K.).
Easy fatigue from any exertion or labour (Arsenicum, Calcarea, Kali-P.,) (D.).
Easily debilitated by the heat of the sun (Lachesis, Natrum carbonicum, Natrum muriaticum) (B.).
Nervous exhaustion caused by seminal loss (Conium, Gelsemium, Kali-P., Pic-Ac., Sepia) (D.).
Giddiness with nausea with vomiting and faintness, worse when moving (Bryonia).
Hungry at night (Cina, Phosphorus, Psorinum) (A.).
After sleep, especially on warm days when he is most inclined to it, an AGGRAVATION of the symptoms.
A little mental or physical exertion makes him sleepy (B.).
Irresistible desire for stimulants; wants to get drunk, but feels worse after it (N.).
PULSATION IN THE ABDOMEN AFTER EATING (Cahin.) (K.).
Irresistible longing for spirituous liquors (Arsenicum, Asarum europaeum, Caps., Crotalus horridus, Lachesis, Nux vomica, Sulphur) (N.).
DESIRE FOR ALCOHOLIC DRINKS, BEFORE MENSES (K.).
Bad effects forms drinking too much tea (Pulsatilla); all complaints are aggravated by it (N.).
Coryza ending in diarrhoea (Sanguinaria) (B.).
CONSTIPATION (Anacardium, Bryonia, Calcarea, Graphites, Hydrastis, Ignatia, Kali-M., Lycopodium, Mag-M., Natrum muriaticum, Opium, Phosphorus, SEp., Sulphur, Thuja, Veratrum).
VERY LARGE STOOL (Bryonia, Natrum muriaticum, Sulphur) (B.).
Constipation after serious illness, especially enteric fever (A.).
Stool is of such immense size that it cannot be discharged without mechanical aid (Sanicula); it must be picked away with the fingers (N.).
Involuntary dribbling of urine while walking, or after urinating or stool (Urine dribbles while sitting-Sarsaparilla) (N.).
Hard stools, with blood at end (Natrum muriaticum) (C.).
Sediment in the urine of red sand (Arnica, Arsenicum, Around., Berberis, Causticum, Digitalis, Lobelia, Lycopodium, Merc-C., Ocim., Pareir., Phosphorus, Plan., Senec., Sepia, tarent).
Nocturnal pollutions (Calcarea, Dioscorea, Gelsemium, Kali-P., Lycopodium, Nux vomica, Acid phosphoricum.) (G.).
Spermatorrhoea (Agn., Calcarea, Gelsemium, Graphites, Kali-P., Lycopodium, Mercurius, Natrum muriaticum, Phosphorus, Acid phosphoricum., Sepia, Sulphur) (G.).
IMPOTENCE WITH VOLUPTUOUSNESS (Ignatia, Lycopodium, Phosphorus, Sulphur).
Secondary gonorrhoea (Agn., Calcarea, Digitalis, Graphites, Hepar, Kali-S., Lycopodium, Mercurius, Nat-S., Pulsatilla, Sepia, Thuja).
ESCAPE OF SEMINAL FLUIDS, PARTICULARLY WHEN STRAINING AT STOOL (Anacardium, Carbo vegetabilis, Causticum, Conium, Gelsemium, Natrum muriaticum, Petroleum, Acid phosphoricum., Sepia, Silicea, Sulphur) (G.).
The system is so relaxed that the semen dribbles away (Gelsemium) (D.).
Watery semen (Natrum muriaticum, Sulphur) (B.).
ERECTIONS ARE SLOW AND WEAK, EMISSIONS OF SEMEN TOO RAPID IN COITION AND HE IS CROSS AND WEAK AFTERWARDS (N.).
SEXUAL DESIRE STRONG, BUT HE IS PHYSICALLY IMPOTENT (Conium, Phosphorus) (N.).
Has seminal emission two r three times a weak (Nux vomica, Phosphorus, Acid phosphoricum., Sulphur), and gets up with weak, lame back after them (N.).
Prostatic fluid oozes while sitting, during sleep, when walking, or at stool (N.).
Headache: Of drunkards; after debauchery; after lemonade or wine; every afternoon (A.).
Hair falls off from the head, eye-brows, whiskers, or genitals (A.).
After typhoid great weakness of the spine; fears paralysis (Kali- P.) (A.).
Weak, easily exhausted; from either mental or physical labour; after typhoid, typhus, or debauchery (A.).
IRRESISTIBLE DESIRE TO LIE DOWN AND SLEEP; STRENGTH SUDDENLY LEAVES HIM; ESPECIALLY IN HOT WEATHER (A.).
Vertigo, as if intoxicated (Agaricus, Gelsemium, Nux vomica Stramonium) (C.).
Extreme sadness (Aurum, Ignatia, Natrum muriaticum, Pulsatilla, Sepia, Stann.) (Br.).
Abject despair (Arsenicum, Aurum, Psorinum).
Hiccough while smoking (Ambr., Arg-M., Caladium, Ignatia, Lachesis, Pulsatilla, Sepia, Staphysagria, Sulph-Ac., Veratrum) (Br.).
Forgetful, especially in business; but when lying half asleep, e everything recurs to him (C.).
Liver painful and enlarged (Chelidonium, China, Hepar, Nux vomica, Sepia) (Br.).
Greasy, shining skin of face (Bar-C., Bryonia, China, Magnesia carb., Mercurius, Natrum muriaticum, Plb., Psorinum, Rhus toxicodendron, Tuberculinum) (C.).
STITCHES OVER THE LEFT EYE (Lac-F., Kali-I., Ptelea trifoliata, Sepia).
Headaches due to excessive use of tea (China, Lachesis, Sepia, Thuja Veratrum; tea ameliorates headache – Cimic., Ferr-P., Kali bichromicum) (D.).
Headache over the left eye, worse from the heat of the sum (heat of stove aggravates-Arnica) (D.).
Falling off to hair (Lycopodium, Natrum muriaticum, Sulphur) (B.).
Aphonia after long use of voice (Phosphorus) (A.).
Voice hoarse, as soon as he sings (Agaricus, Argentum nitricum, Arum-T., Causticum, Stann.) (B.).
Tubercular laryngitis (Calcarea, PHos.) (A.).
Hawk up clear mucus (Arg-M., Natrum muriaticum, Stann.) (B.).
Hoarseness, must often clear the throat of mucus, especially at the beginning of singing (N.).
Sweats profuse, yellow; leaves a salty deposit; stiffness the linen, or makes the hair stiff (B.).
Throbbing in vessels of the whole body (Gloninum, Natrum muriaticum, Sepia) (C.).
AGGRAVATION:
After stool; while or after taking; from walking in the open air; from waking lemonade; while drinking tea; from taking wine; during hot days; in the sun; from sexual excesses; from loss of sleep; from draughts; after sleep; every afternoon; and from singing.
AMELIORATION :
After sunset; from inhaling cool air; and from taking cold water in the mouth.
RELATIONSHIP:
China aggravates the symptoms greatly-makes them insupportable.
ANTIDOTES: Ignatia and Pulsatilla
Follows well after: Caladium, Natrum muriaticum, Acid phosphoricum. and Staphysagria in sexual weakness.
Itch checked by mercurials or sulphur often requires Selenium
Comparative Materia Medica (Philadelphia, 1854)
Text-Book of Materia Medica (1866)