Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica
Selenium sel.
Region
Nerves: GENITO-URINARY ORGANS. Supra-orbital (L). LARYNX. Liver.
Worse
Debilitating causes: Hot days. Sexual excesses. Loss of sleep. Singing. Drafts. After sleep. Tea. Lemonade.
Better
After sunset. Inhaling cool air.
General
Easily debilitated; by heat of sun; a little mental or physical exertion makes him sleepy. Senility. Emaciation; of single parts, face, hands, etc. Cramp, then stiffness. Bitings.
Particulars
Loquacity. Sadness. Frets when awake and dreams of it as he falls asleep. Nervous headaches. Scalp feels gathered together. Falling hair, < eyebrows; don't want hair touched. Ache over l. eye; < tea. Coryza, ending in diarrhœa. Thirstless. Craves stimulants, tea, etc. Sharp stitches in or rash over liver. Abdominal pulsation; hinders sleep. Very large stools. Coarse sand in urine. Lascivious, but impotent. Urine and semen dribble. Easy loss of semen; at stool, etc. Watery semen. Chronic gleet. VOICE HOARSE, as soon as he sings; affected by every cold; rattles. Nodes in vocal cords. Hawks up clear mucus. Sudden sciatic pains (l), leave soreness behind. Oily skin; itches in folds or about ankles. Skin remains moist after scratching. Burning spots. Acne. Imagines drafts of air. Sweat, profuse, yellow; leaves a salty deposit, stiffens the linen or makes the hair stiff and wiry; < genitals.
Related
Related: Nat-m. Sul.