Selenium sel.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

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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.

Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica

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Keynote

Adapted to light complexion; blondes; great emaciation of face, hands, legs and feet, or single parts. Very forgetful in business, but during sleep dreams of what he has forgotten. Headache: of drunkards; after debauchery; after lemonade, tea, wile; every afternoon. Hair falls off, on head, eyebrows, whiskers, genitals. Coryza ending in diarrhoea. Hungry: at night (Cina, Psor.); longing for spiritous liquors, an almost irresistible maniacal desire. Constipation: stool large, hard, impacted so that it requires mechanical aid (Aloe, Cal., Sanic., Sep., Sil.); after serious illness, especially enteric fevers. Urine: red, dark, scanty; coarse, red, sandy, sediment; involuntary dribbling while walking. Impotence, with desire; lewd thoughts, but physically impotent (sudden impotence, Chlor.). Erections slow, insufficient, too rapid emission with long-continued threill; weak, ill-humored after coitus, often involuntary dribbling of semen and prostatic fluid which oozes while sitting, at stool, during sleep; gleet (Calad.). Priapism, glans drawn up (Berb., - drawn down, Canth.). Aphonia: after long use of voice; husky when beginning to sing; obliged to clear the throat frequently of a transparent starchy mucus (Arg. m., Stan.); tubercular laryngitis. Weak, easily exhausted; from either mental or physical labor; after typhoid, typhus, debauchery. Irresistible desire to lie down and sleep; strength suddenly leaves him; especially in hot weather. Very great aversion to a draft of air either warm, cold or damp. After typhoid, great weakness of spine, fears paralysis. Emaciation of affected parts.

Relations

Compare: Phos. in genito-urinary and respiratory symptoms; Arg. m. and Stan. in laryngitis of singers or speakers; Alum. hard stool, inactive rectum. Follows well: after, Calad, Nat., Staph., Phos. ac., in sexual weakness. Itch checked by Mercurials or Sulphur often requires Selenium.

Aggravation

Draught of air; in the sun; from lemonade, tea or wine.

Amelioration

Taking cold water or cold air into mouth.

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General

Escape of seminal fluids, particularly when straining at stool, which condition may be accompanied with headache, sleeplessness, weakness and troubles in general; complaints after stool; impotence of the male; spermatorrhœa; weakness of the sexual powers; nocturnal pollutions. Deep respiration. Itch, where the pustule comes between the fingers; foul exanthema. Perspires too easily; on single parts; on forepart of the body.

Worse

While drinking tea; after stool; while, or after talking; can't bear to have the hair touched; walking in the open air.

Remedies following

Calc. carb., Mercur., Nux vom., Sepia.

Antidotes

Ignat., Pulsat.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

The Element Selenium (SELENIUM)

General

Selenium is a constant constituent of bones and teeth.

Marked effects on the genito-urinary organs, and often indicated in elderly men, especially for prostatitis and sexual atony. Great debility; worse, heat. Easy exhaustion, mental and physical, in old age. Debility after exhausting diseases.

Mind

Lascivious thoughts, with impotency. Mental labor fatigues. Extreme sadness. Abject despair, uncompromising melancholy.

Head

Hair falls out. Pain over left eye; worse walking in sun, strong odors and tea. Scalp feels tense. Headache from tea drinking.

Throat

Incipient tubercular laryngitis. Hawking and raising transparent lumps of mucus every morning. Hoarseness. Cough in morning, with expectoration of bloody mucus. Hoarseness of singers. Much clear, starchy mucus (Stann).

Stomach

Desire for brandy and other strong drink. Sweetish taste. Hiccough and eructations after smoking. After eating, pulsation all over, especially abdomen.

Abdomen

Chronic liver affections; liver painful, enlarged, with fine rash over liver region. Stool constipated, hard and accumulated in rectum.

Urinary

Sensation in the tip of urethra as if a biting drop were forcing its way out. Involuntary dribbling.

Male

Dribbling of semen during sleep. Dribbling of prostatic fluid. Irritability after coitus. Loss of sexual power, with lascivious fancies. Increases desire, decreases ability. Semen thin, odorless. Sexual neurasthenia. On attempting coition, penis relaxes. Hydrocele.

Skin

Dry, scaly eruption in palms, with itching, Itching about the ankles and folds of skin, between fingers. Hair falls out from brows, beard, and genitals. Itching about finger-joints and between fingers; in palms. Vesicular eruption between fingers (Rhus; Anac). Seborrhœa oleosa; comedones with an oily surface of the skin; alopecia. Acne.

Extremities

Paralytic pains in small of back in the morning. Tearing pain in hands, at night.

Sleep

Sleep prevented by pulsation in all vessels, worse abdomen. Sleepless until midnight, awakens early and always same hour.

Modalities

Worse, after sleep, in hot weather, from Cinchona, draught of air, coition.

Relationship

Incompatible: China; Wine.

Compare: Agnus; Calad; Sulphur; Tellur; Phosph acid.

Antidotes: Ign; Puls.

Dose

Sixth to thirtieth potency. Colloidal Selenium injection for inoperable cancer. Pain, sleeplessness, ulceration and discharge are markedly diminished.

Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics

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Leaders

Here is another metal that, like Stannum, has for its most characteristic condition, excessive weakness. But the weakness of Selenium does not, like Stannum, seem to centre in any particular locality. It is more general. He is so weak that he is easily exhausted from any kind of labor, either mental or physical. This debility follows any exhaustive disease like typhoid fever, or may come from seminal emissions. The weakness of Selenium shows itself as much in the male sexual organs, as it does generally. Erections are slow and weak, emissions of semen too rapid in coition and he is cross and weak afterwards. Sexual desire strong, but he is physically impotent. Has seminal emissions two or three times a week, and gets up with weak, lame back after them. Prostatic fluid oozes while sitting, during sleep, when walking, or at stool. I this weakness has been of long standing, he begins to emaciate, especially in the face, hands and thighs (Acetic acid.) This is a picture of the Selenium prostration. Aside from or connected with it are a few other characteristic symptoms such as constipation, the stool being of such immense size that it cannot be discharged without mechanical aid. (Sanicula). It must be picked away with the fingers. Involuntary dribbling of urine while walking, or after urinating or stool (Sarsaparilla dribbles while sitting).

Bad effects from drinking too much tea; all complaints are aggravated by it. Irresistible longing for spirituous liquors. Hoarseness, must often clear the throat of mucus especially at the beginning of singing. Irresistible desire for stimulants, wants to get drunk but feels worse after it. Very forgetful in business, but during sleep dreams of what he had forgotten. I have never used this metal below the 200th potency.

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Mind and Disposition

Talkativeness and fond of conversing. Mental labor fatigues him much. Great forgetfulness when awake, with distinct recollection during half sleep.

Head

Vertigo, when rising from a seat, on raising himself in bed, on moving about. Paroxysms of vertigo, most violent an hour after breakfast and dinner. Headache from lemonade, tea and wine. Violent stinging pain over the left eye, caused by walking in the sun and from strong smells ; with increased secretion of urine, and melancholy. Headache every afternoon. The hair falls off when combing the head, even of the eyebrows, whiskers and on the genitals, with tingling-itching on the scalp in the evening, oozing after scratching, and with tension and sensation of contraction of the scalp (with emaciation of the face and hands).

Eyes

Itching vesicles on the edges of the eyelids and on the eye-brows. Spasmodic twitching of the left eyeball.

Ears

Increased secretion of wax, which is hardened in the ear in which he is deaf.

Nose

Itching in the nose and on the borders of the wings. Inclination to bore with fingers in the nose. Yellow, thick, jelly-like mucus in the nose.

Face

Greasy, shining skin of the face. Twitching of the muscles of the face. Great emaciation of the face.

Mouth and Throat

Toothache, with inclination to pick till they bleed. Teeth covered with mucus.

Stomach and Abdomen

Want of appetite in the morning, with white-coated tongue. Aversion to food much salted. Great longing for spirituous liquors (brandy). After eating, pulsations through the body, especially in the abdomen. Pain in the liver, especially in taking a long breath, with sensitiveness to external pressure. Red, itching rash in the region of the liver. Stitches in the spleen when walking.

Stool and Anus

Constipation ; hard feces, with discharge of mucus or blood on when passing the last portion of it ; stool so hard and impact that it has to be removed by mechanical aid. Papescent stools, with tenesmus.

Urinary Organs

Dark, scanty urine. Red urine in the evening. Red, sandy, coarse-grained sediment. Involuntary dripping of urine when walking. Dripping of urine after micturition and after stool.

Sexual Organs

Slow and insufficient erections, with too rapid emission of semen and long continued voluptuous thrill. Discharge of prostatic fluid during sleep and stool. Impotence, with lasciviousness. Gonorrhœa (secondary).

Respiratory Organs

Hoarseness, when beginning to sing, or from singing ; talking long or reading ; hoarse and husky. Frequent deep breathing, with moaning. Hawking up of mucus in globules, with blood. Cough in the morning, straining the chest, with expectoration of mucus and blood.

Back and Neck

Pain as from lameness in the small of the back, in the morning. Stiffness of the neck on turning the head.

Extremities

Upper. Tearing in the hands at night, with cracking in the wrists. Itching vesicles on and between the fingers. Emaciation of the hands. Lower. Cracking of the knee-joint on bending it (at night). Flat ulcers on the lower legs. Emaciation of the legs. Itching of the feet around the ankle, and especially in the evening. Cramps in the calves, and soles of the feet.

Generalities

Great emaciation, especially in the face and on the thighs and hands. Great aversion to a draught of air.

Sleep

Light sleep at night, the least noise wakens him. Goes to sleep late in the evening. Awakens early and always at the same hour. Dreams of quarrels and unnatural cruelties.

Fever

Pulse very little accelerated. Chilliness, alternating with heat. External heat, with burning in the skin, and only in single spots. Very profuse perspiration, especially on the chest, arm-pits and genitals. Perspiration from the least exertion. Perspiration as soon as he sleeps, day or night. The sweat makes yellow or white, stiff blotches in the linen.

Skin

Red rash (region of the liver). Frequent tingling on small spots of the skin, with great irritation to scratch. The spots which one scratches remain humid very long.

Conditions

China causes violent complaints, and much aggravates those already present. Cannot endure any draft of air. Aggravation after sleep, especially on hot days, from lemonade, wine and tea ; from very salt food ; in the suit, from draft of air.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

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General

Selenium. An Element. Se. (A. W. 79.5). Trituration.

Clinical

Alcoholism. Ankle, itching eruption about. Comedo . Constipation. Debility. Enuresis. Hair, falling out. Headache. Hoarseness. Impotence . Laryngitis, scrofulous; tubercular. Liver, affections of; rash over region of. Priapism. Prostatitis. Prostatorrhœa. Psoriasis palmaris. Reveries. Scabies. Scalp, eczema of. Skin, unhealthy. Spermatorrhœa . Stammering. Sun, effects of. Syphilis.

Characteristics

Selenium was discovered in 1818 by Berzelius, and was named by him after the moon (σελήνη) because it is found associated with Tellurium (Tellus, the earth). It is also found associated with Sulphur . All three belong to the same group of elements. "When precipitated it appears as a red powder, which-melts when heated, and on cooling forms a brittle mass, nearly black, but transmitting red light when in thin plates. When heated in air it takes fire, burns with a blue flame, giving a gaseous Oxide of Selenium , which has a most penetrating and characteristic odour of putrid horse-radish. Sel . undergoes a remarkable change in electrical resistance under the action of light: hence the use of Selenium cells" ( Cent. Dict .). Sel . was introduced and proved by Hering. A leading feature of it is the weakness it causes, a weakness involving all parts of the body; easy fatigue from any labour, night-watching, mental exertion, and especially from hot weather. The hotter his body the weaker he is: strength rises as the sun sinks. This debility causes sluggishness: wants to sleep from sheer exhaustion, and is < after. Cannot bear any nervous drain, hence < after coitus or seminal emissions. Impotence. Debility after fevers. When the patient begins to walk after typhoid and feels great weakness in the spine and fears paralysis Sel . is indicated. Irritability, headaches, and other troubles following or < by seminal emissions. The headaches are accompanied by profound melancholy, and may be caused by indulgence in alcoholics or in tea, by hot weather, by over-study, and they are < by strong odours, as of musk, roses, &c. The headaches may be periodical, and are frequently located above the left eye. Many chronic liver affections are met with Sel ., the guiding symptoms in such cases being: Enlargement of liver with loss of appetite in the morning; sharp stitching pain < on any movement or pressure, sensitiveness of liver; and, especially, "fine rash over liver region." There is constipation from atony, with impacted fæces: and dribbling of semen after stool, and also after micturition. Sufferings after seminal emissions ─ mental confusion, headache, almost paralytic weakness of spine, involuntary escape of prostatic fluid. I have cured with Sel . many cases of hoarseness, the special indications being ─ hoarseness of singers, appearing as soon as they begin to sing; or after long use of the voice; with frequent necessity to clear the throat from accumulation of clear, starchy mucus. Scrofulous and incipient tubercular laryngitis have been cured with Sel . The parallelism with Sulph . is seen all through the pathogenesis of Sel ., and perhaps more especially in the skin. Sel . causes itching in folds of skin, as between fingers and about joints, especially the ankle-joint. The itching may occur in small spots, and be accompanied by tingling (showing involvement of the nervous system). The scalp is affected with an eczematous eruption which oozes thin fluid after scratching. Hair falls off scalp and all parts of body. I have frequently relieved "psoriasis palmaris" with Sel ., which shows that it has a relation to syphilis. Among the Peculiar Symptoms of Sel . are: Very forgetful in business, but during sleep dreams of what he had forgotten. Coryza ending in diarrhœa. Hungry at night; longing for spirituous liquors, an almost irresistible maniacal desire. Sensation as if a biting drop were forcing its way out of the urethra. Irresistible desire to lie down and sleep; strength leaves him suddenly, especially in hot weather. Very great aversion to a draught of air, either warm, cold, or damp. Aversion to salted food. Pulsation in whole body, especially in abdomen after eating [which I have verified]. Great emaciation of face, hands, legs, feet, affected parts, and single parts. Sel . is Suited to blondes and persons of light complexion. The symptoms are < by touch and pressure. < By motion. > By rest. < After sleep. < By mental exertion. < After seminal losses. < From draught of air, even if warm. < In open air. < From tea; sugar; salt; lemonade; wine. < In hot weather. < By sun, and with the sun's increase ( < towards noon, > as sun declines). > Taking cold air or cold water into mouth. < Every afternoon (headaches).

Relations

Antidoted by: Ign., Puls. (Mur. ac. in a case of mine). Incompatible: Chi., Wine. Compatible after: Calad., Nat. c., Staph., Pho. ac. (in sexual weakness) Itch checked by Merc. or Sul. often requires Sel. Compare: Hunger at night, Cin., Pso., Ign., Lyc. Impacted stool, Alo., Calc., Sanic., Sep., Sel. Impotence (Chlor. sudden). Priapism, glans drawn up, Berb.; (glans drawn down, Canth.). Aphonia of singers, Caust., Arg. m., Stan., Ar. t., Graph. Prostatitis and urethritis, Lith. c., Dig., Cyc., Caust., Lyc., Cop. Hot weather fatigue, Lach., Camph., Nat. c., Nat. m. Bad effects of mental exertion and loss of sleep, Sul. Impotence, Sul. (Sul. has more coldness and shrivelling of the organs; Sel. more total relaxation, so that semen escapes involuntarily and dribbles). Exhaustion consequent on protracted diseases, Sul. (Sul. has flushes of heat on least motion; and gone feeling in forenoon). Periodical headaches, Sul. (Sel. every afternoon, < from tea; Sul. once a week, < from coffee). Headaches of drunkards or debauchees, Sul. (Sul. < from all forms of alcohol; Sel. headaches are sometimes > from brandy; also its gastric symptoms). "Cat-naps," Sul. (Sel. wakes precisely at same hour, before rising time, at which all symptoms < ; Sul. has not the periodic hour for waking, and does not fall asleep again). Itching in folds of skin, Sul. (Sel. has also "tingling in spots"). Chronic enlargement of liver, Sul. Loss of appetite in morning, Sul. (Sul. has increase of thirst; Sel. has not. Sel. has white tongue; Sul. has not). Emaciation, Nat. m., Chi. Debility from loss of fluids, Chi. Twitching of face, Tell. Bores fingers in nose, Cin., Ar. t. Throbbing after meals, Nat. c. < From tea, Thuj., Fer. Pain in back with emissions, Cob. Fatigue, Pic. ac. Sun effects, Sol. Larynx, Nat. sel.

Causation

Alcohol. Tea. Sugar. Salt. Lemonade. Debauchery. Walking. Exertion. Masturbation. Loss of fluids.

Mind

Reveries of a religious and melancholy character. ─ Great loquacity; fond of conversing; esp. in evening. ─ Excessive forgetfulness, esp. in matters of business. ─ Great forgetfulness when awake, with distinct recollection during half sleep. ─ A kind of stammering; he uses syllables of words in wrong connections, therefore pronounces some words incorrectly. ─ Difficult comprehension. ─ Absolute incapacity to execute any business whatever. ─ Mental labour fatigues him. ─ Dread of society.

Head

The head becomes affected by intellectual labour. ─ Vertigo: on lifting head, rising from a seat; raising himself in bed; moving about; with nausea, vomiting, faintness; < (an hour) after breakfast and dinner. ─ Headache every afternoon. ─ Headache after drinking lemonade, wine, or tea. ─ Violent attacks of lancinating pains in head above (l.) eye, with desire to lie down, sensibility in exterior of head, copious emission of urine, anorexia, and melancholy, excited by walking (in the sun) and by strong smells. ─ Headache of drunkards; headache after debauchery. ─ Falling off of the hair when combing it; also of eyebrows, whiskers, and genitals, with tingling-itching on scalp in evening, oozing after scratching, and with tension and sensation of contraction of scalp, with emaciation of face and hands. ─ Pain in scalp, as if hair were pulled out.

Eyes

Pains deep in orbits. ─ Spasmodic twitching of l. eyeball. ─ Itching vesicles on eyebrows and margins of lids. ─ Falling off of eyebrows.

Ears

Ear stopped. ─ Hardening of wax in (l.) deaf ear.

Nose

Itching in nose, in nostrils, and on margins of alæ nasi. ─ Tendency to bore fingers into nose. ─ Complete obstruction of nose (chronic). ─ Coryza ending in diarrhœa. ─ Fluent coryza in evening. ─ Yellow, thick, gelatinous mucus in nose.

Face

Greasy, shining skin of face. ─ Twitching in muscles of face. ─ Great emaciation of face and hands. ─ Upper lip cracked. ─ Comedones.

Teeth

Toothache which compels use of toothpick till the blood comes. ─ Boring in molars. ─ Teeth covered with mucus. ─ Toothache from tea. ─ The teeth become free of mucus, hard, and smooth, and crack when rubbed. ─ Toothache with feeling of coldness, > taking cold water and cold air into mouth.

Mouth

Pain under root of tongue. ─ Tongue loaded with a thick white coating in morning. ─ Stammering speech; articulates with great difficulty.

Throat

Dryness in throat. ─ Hawking of lumps of transparent mucus every morning.

Appetite

Sweetish, disagreeable taste after smoking. ─ Anorexia in morning (with white-coated tongue). ─ Hunger at night. ─ Dislike to salt things. ─ Frequent desire for brandy. ─ Bad effects from: sugar; salt food; tea; lemonade.

Stomach

Hiccough and risings after smoking before eating. ─ Inclination to vomit. ─ Feels very sick after sleep. ─ Cramp in stomach. ─ Pressure in stomach as if cramp would occur.

Abdomen

Throbbing of the arteries in the whole body, esp. in abdomen after a meal. ─ Pain in the liver, esp. on taking an inspiration, extending to the renal region, with sensibility to external pressure. ─ Red itching, miliary eruption in the hepatic region. ─ Pains in r. side, around under last ribs, esp. on inspiration, extending to region of kidneys. ─ Violent shootings in spleen when walking.

Stool and Anus

Constipation. ─ Hard evacuations, followed by a discharge of mucus or of blood when passing the last portion of it; stool so hard and impacted that it has to be removed by mechanical aid. ─ Stools exceedingly difficult and threaten to tear anus from their immense size; hours spent in effort; stool can be seen through distended anus as an immense, dark, hard ball; sufferings great, patient becomes wonderfully agitated. ─ Somewhat liquid fæces, with tenesmus. ─ Filaments, like hairs, in fæces.

Urinary Organs

Urine: scanty and red in evening; red sediment, like coarse sand. ─ Involuntary dribbling of urine when walking. ─ Dribbling of urine after micturition and after stool. ─ Sensation in tip of urethra, as if a biting drop were forcing its way out.

Male Sexual Organs

Tickling and itching in genitals, esp. in scrotum. ─ Impotence; with lascivious ideas. ─ Pollutions, with flaccidity of penis. ─ Discharge of semen, drop by drop, during sleep. ─ Lascivious dreams with emissions which waken him, followed by lameness and weakness in small of back. ─ Flow of prostatic fluid during evacuation and at other times. ─ Thin and scentless semen. ─ During coition, feeble erection, too prompt emission, and long-continued voluptuous thrill. ─ Priapism, glans drawn up. ─ Gonorrhœa (secondary); gleet. ─ Debility (weakness in loins) and peevishness after coition.

Female Sexual Organs

Menses copious and dark. ─ Menses delayed about eight days.

Respiratory Organs

Hoarseness on beginning to sing (or from singing; talking or long reading; voice hoarse and husky). ─ Hawking up of mucus and of small clots of blood. ─ Cough in morning, which fatigues whole chest, with expectoration of blood and small globules of mucus. ─ Difficulty of breathing when walking in open air. ─ Frequent efforts to breathe deeply, like sighing. ─ Respiration obstructed at night, when lying down, by pains in chest, side, and loins.

Neck and Back

Cramp in neck. ─ Pain through l. side of neck and down back of l. leg. ─ Pain in glands l. side of neck. ─ Rigidity of muscles of neck and nape, which hinders head being turned. ─ Hard swelling on back. ─ Paralytic pain in small of back, > lying on abdomen. ─ Sensation of paralysis in loins. ─ Pain as from lameness in small of back in morning.

Limbs

Pains in all the limbs, as if caused by a chill.

Upper Limbs

Miliaria in forearm. ─ Tearing in hands at night, with cracking in wrists. ─ Itching at wrist, in palms; itching vesicles on and between fingers. ─ Dry, scaly eruption on palms, with itching, having syphilitic base. ─ Painful hang-nails. ─ Scabious pimples on hand. ─ Emaciation of hands.

Lower Limbs

Itching pimples on buttocks and thighs, near the scrotum. ─ Emaciation of legs. ─ Cramps in calves and soles. ─ Legs feel weak, with fear of paralysis after typhus. ─ The knees crack when they are bent (at night). ─ Flat ulcers on (lower) legs. ─ Itching in feet, esp. round ankles, in evening. ─ Blisters on toes.

Generalities

[Escape of seminal fluids, particularly when straining at stool, which condition may be accompanied with headache, sleeplessness, weakness, and troubles in general; complaints after stool impotence of the male; spermatorrhœa; weakness of the sexual powers nocturnal pollutions. ─ Deep respiration. ─ Itch where the pustule comes between the fingers; foul exanthema. ─ Perspires too easily; on single parts; on forepart of body. ─ < While drinking tea; after stool; while, or after talking; can't bear to have the hair touched; walking in the open air. ─ H. N. G.]. ─ < After sleep, esp. on hot days, from lemonade, wine; from very salt food; in the sun. ─ Excessive emaciation, esp. of face, hands, and legs (thighs). ─ Cinchona produces extraordinary sufferings, and < those which are already in existence to an insupportable degree. ─ Throbbing in vessels of whole body, esp. felt in abdomen. ─ Strong inclination to lie down and to sleep, esp. during heat of day. ─ Symptoms < after sleep. ─ Inability to bear a draught of air. ─ Every draught of air, even warm, = pain in limbs, head, &c.

Skin

Frequent tingling in circumscribed parts of skin, with great provocation to scratch. ─ Miliary eruption. ─ Red rash on region of liver. ─ Prolonged oozing from parts which have been scratched. ─ Flat ulcers. ─ Itching in folds of skin, between fingers and about joints, esp. ankle joint. ─ Hair falls off head, whiskers, and other parts.

Sleep

Disposition to sleep early in evening, with imperfect sleep and frequent waking during night. ─ Retarded sleep in evening. ─ Jerks in body when going to sleep. ─ Light sleep at night, and waking with least noise. ─ Waking early in morning, and always at same hour. ─ Sleepless before midnight. ─ Symptoms < after a siesta; on hot days. ─ Dreams of quarrels and unnatural cruelty.

Fever

Pulse very little accelerated. ─ Burning heat, extending over considerable portions of the skin (chest, abdomen, loins, and ribs). ─ Constant alternation of heat and cold. ─ Perspiration from least exertion. ─ Perspiration as soon as he sleeps, day or night. ─ Tendency to profuse perspiration when walking, or during an afternoon sleep. ─ Perspiration (on chest, genitals, and under axillæ) which leaves yellow or white spots on linen and stiffens it. ─ External heat, with burning in skin, and only in single spots.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

General

Selenium. The Element.
The trituration is prepared from the reddish-brown, somewhat translucent metal which resembles sulphur in its chemical relations.
Introduced and proved by Hering, Archiv für Hom., vol. 12, p. 192 ; proving by Schreter, N. Archiv für Hom., vol. 3, p. 184 ; Berridge, N. Am. Jour. of Hom., 1873, p. 501.
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Headache , Ballard, M. I., vol. 6, p. 182 ; Spermatorrhœa , Greenleaf, A. H. O., vol. 10, p. 258 ; Prostatitis and atony of sexual organs , Altschul, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 586 ; Gleet , Nash, Hom. Phys., vol. 7, p. 289.

Mind

Great dulness, with complete insensibility and indifference to his surroundings.
Very forgetful, especially in business ; during slumber, however, he remembers all he had forgotten.
A kind of stammering ; he uses syllables of words in wrong connections, therefore pronounces some words incorrectly.
Difficult comprehension.
Total unfitness for any kind of work.
Great talkativeness when excited, especially in evening.
Mental labor fatigues him.
Lascivious thoughts with impotency.
Dread of society.

Sensorium

Vertigo : on lifting head or rising up ; on moving about, with nausea, vomiting, faintness ; < after breakfast and dinner.

Inner head

Violent stinging over left eye, when walking in sun or from strong odors ; with increased secretion of urine, and melancholy.
Headache every afternoon, especially after drinking wine, tea or lemonade.
Violent headache commenced in forehead and gradually involved whole head ; heavily coated tongue ; nausea ; frequent vomiting of bilious-looking matter ; her usual cup of tea was followed by an aggravation of all the symptoms.
Headache of drunkards ; headache after debauchery.

Outer head

Hair comes out when combing ; also from eyebrows, whiskers and genitals.
Tingling itching on scalp in evening, oozing after scratching.
Tension and sensation of contraction of scalp.

Sight and eyes

Itching vesicles on edges of eyelids and on eyebrows.
Spasmodic twitching of left eyeball.

Hearing and ears

Ear stopped ; hardening of earwax in his deaf ear.

Smell and nose

Itching in nose and on edges of nostrils.
Inclination to bore fingers into nose.
Yellow, thick, jellylike mucus in nose.
Discharge of dark blood from nose.
Phlegm in choanæ.
Coryza, ending in diarrhœa.
Complete obstruction of nose, chronic.

Upper face

Twitching of muscles of face.
Great emaciation of face and hands.
Oiliness of skin on face ; greasy and shining.

Teeth and gums

Picks teeth until they bleed ; toothache.
Teeth covered with mucus.
Toothache from drinking tea.

Taste, speech, tongue

A kind of stammering speech, made mistakes in talking, uttered syllables wrongly, and could not articulate some words.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Want of appetite in morning, white-coated tongue.
Aversion to food much salted.
Great longing for ardent spirits ; an almost maniacal irresistible desire, has to get completely drunk and feels distressed afterward ; wants to go to an insane asylum. θ Chronic alcoholism.
Hungry during night.

Eating and drinking

After eating : violent beating all over body, < in abdomen ; must lie down.
Bad effects : from sugar ; from salt food ; from drinking tea ; from lemonade.

Hypochondria

Searching pain in region of liver, < in taking a long breath, with sensitiveness to external pressure ; followed by a red, itching rash in region of liver.
Stitches in spleen when walking.
Enlargement of liver with loss of appetite, particularly in morning ; white coating on tongue ; sharp stitching pains in hepatic region, < from motion and pressure ; sensitiveness of liver ; peculiar fine rash over hepatic region.

Abdomen and loins

Pulsation in whole body, especially in abdomen after eating.

Stools and rectum

Stool : hard and so impacted that it requires mechanical aid ; mucus or blood passes with last portion ; contains threads of fecal matter like hair.
Papescent stool, with tenesmus and feeling in anus as after a hard stool.
Stools exceedingly difficult and threaten to tear anus, from their immense size ; hours may be spent in an effort at evacuation, stool can be seen through the distended anus as an immense hard, dark-colored ball ; the sufferings are great and patient becomes wonderfully agitated.

Urinary organs

Sensation in tip of urethra as if a biting drop were forcing its way out.
Twinging pain along urethra from behind forward, with a sensation as if drops were passing out.
Involuntary dribbling of urine while walking, also after urinating, especially after stool.
Urine : dark, scanty ; red, in evening ; sediment coarse, red, sandy.

Male sexual organs

Erections slow, insufficient ; semen emitted too rapidly and with long-continued thrill ; weak, ill-humored after an embrace, weakness in loins.
Semen thin, without normal odor.
Lewd thoughts, but physically impotent.
No erection in evening, notwithstanding he was excited ; erection in morning without sexual desire.
Diminution of sexual desire.
Impotence with sexual desire.
Lascivious dreams, with seminal emissions, which awaken him, followed by lameness and weakness in small of back.
Impotence.
Involuntary dribbling of semen or prostatic fluid during sleep.
Seminal emissions about twice a week, lascivious dreams, is always awakened by it ; always rises with weakness and lameness in small of back. θ Spermatorrhœa.
Prostatic juice oozes while sitting, during sleep, when walking and at stool.
A drop of watery, sticky substance passes from urethra just before stool and soon afterward.
While sitting a drop of prostatic fluid passes from orifice of urethra with a peculiar, disagreeable sensation.
Frequent itching in small spots on skin and development of small vesicles on hands and feet ; sleep disturbed by confused and lascivious dreams ; glowing sensation of skin in various parts of body ; severe stitching pain over left eye, returning every afternoon ; belching before eating, particularly after smoking ; after eating desire to lie down with inability to fall asleep ; pain in region of right kidney, < from inspiration ; dribbling of urine after stool ; while at stool must wait a long while to urinate ; discharge of prostatic fluid before and after stool ; profuse sweat about abdomen and pubes ; dull pain in perineum, < urinating, evacuating bowels and during ejaculation of semen ; swelling of prostata, feels hard and causes narrowing of urethra ; seminal emissions during sleep ; weak erections although sexual desire may be great ; premature ejaculation of semen ; cough on awaking ; expectoration of small lumps of mucus and blood ; tearing pains in posterior part of thighs. θ Prostatitis and atony of sexual organs.
Prostatitis caused by an immense hard stool.
Discharge of slimy mucus from ten to fifteen drops or a tablespoonful looking like milk. θ Prostatic gleet.
Itching on scrotum.
Gonorrhœa (secondary) ; gleet.

Female sexual organs

Catamenia copious and dark.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

During pregnancy throbbing in abdomen.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Voice husky when beginning to sing, or from talking long ; hawks transparent lumps every morning, sometimes bloody.
Hoarseness after long use of voice ; frequent necessity to clear the throat on account of accumulation of clear starchy mucus.
Increased hoarseness while singing, especially at the beginning.
Is frequently obliged to clear his throat, alternating with hoarseness.
Tubercular laryngitis ; raising of small lumps of blood and mucus ; tendency to hoarseness ; cervical glands swollen, hard but not sore.

Respiration

Frequent deep breathing with moaning.
Dyspnœa from accumulation of mucus in windpipe.

Cough

Cough in morning though slight and weak affects whole chest, and lumps of mucus with blood are expectorated.

Inner chest and lungs

Pains in right side and under last ribs especially on inspiration, extending to kidneys, which are sensitive to external pressure.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Throbbing in vessels throughout whole body, pulsation especially felt in abdomen.

Neck and back

Neck stiff on turning head.
Pain as from lameness in small of back, in morning.

Upper limbs

Tearing in hands at night, with cracking in wrists.
Emaciation of hands.
Itching in palms ; vesicles on and between fingers.
Dry, scaly eruption on palms of hands with itching, having a syphilitic base.
Painful hangnails.

Lower limbs

Cracking of knee joint on bending it.
Flat ulcers on lower legs.
Emaciation of legs.
Itching around ankle, in evening ; blisters on toes.
Cramps in calves and soles.
Legs feel weak, with fear of paralysis, after typhus.
Itching about ankles.

Rest. position. motion

Must lie down : after eating.
Lifting head : vertigo.
Turning head : stiff neck.
Bending knee joint : cracking in it.
Sitting : prostatic juice oozes.
Rising up : vertigo.
Any exertion : easy fatigue ; sweat.
Motion : vertigo ; pains in hepatic region <.
Walking : stitches in spleen ; involuntary dribbling of urine ; prostatic juice oozes.

Nerves

Weakness and general debility ; easy fatigue from any exertion or labor ; especially in hot weather.
Irresistible desire to lie down and sleep ; strength suddenly leaves him.
Easy exhaustion ; inability to perform any kind of labor, either mental or physical ; sexual desire with debility and relaxation of organs ; loss of prostatic juice.
Great nervous debility after typhus, particularly when sensations of patient spread from above downward.
After typhoid fever great debility of spine, fears he will be paralyzed.
Very great aversion to a draft of air either warm, cold or damp.

Sleep

Sleepless before 12 P. M. ; light sleep, least noise awakens him ; starts on falling asleep ; sleeps in cat naps.
Dreams of quarrels and cruelties.
Hungry in night.
Awakes early and always at same hour.
Worse after a siesta on hot days ; < after sleep.

Time

Morning : want of appetite in morning ; erection without sexual desire ; cough ; pain in small of back.
Evening : great talkativeness ; tingling itching on scalp ; urine red ; itching around ankle.
Night : tearing in hands ; hungry.
At 12 P. M. : sleepless.

Temperature and weather

Hot weather : weakness and general debility.
Draft of air either warm, cold or damp : great aversion.

Fever

Chill alternating with heat.
External heat, burning in skin in single spots.
Sweat : profuse on chest, armpits and genitals ; from least exertion ; as soon as he sleeps ; stains yellow, or white and stiffens linen ; staining brownish-yellow.

Attacks, periodicity

Alternation : of chill and heat.
Every morning : hawks transparent lumps.
Every afternoon : headache ; pain over left eye.
About twice a week : seminal emissions.

Locality and direction

Right : pain in region of kidney ; pain in side under last ribs.
Left : stinging over eye ; twitching of eyeball ; pain over eye.
From above downward : sensations spread.

Sensations

As if biting drop were forcing its way out of urethra.
Pain : in region of right kidney ; in right side under last ribs ; in small of back.
Violent pain : in head.
Tearing pains : in thighs ; in hands.
Twinging pain : along urethra.
Searching pain : in region of liver.
Sharp stitching pains : in hepatic region.
Stitches : in spleen.
Violent stinging : over left eye.
Burning : in skin.
Dull pain : in perineum.
Cramps in calves and soles.
Violent beating : all over body.
Throbbing : in abdomen ; in vessels throughout whole body.
Sensation of contraction : of scalp.
Tension : of scalp.
Weakness : of loins ; in small of back.
Tingling itching : on scalp.
Itching : of vesicles on edges of eyelids and eyebrows ; in nose and edges of nostrils ; in small spots on skin ; on scrotum ; in palms ; around ankle ; in folds of skin between fingers and about joints.

Tissues

Great emaciation, especially of face, thighs and hands.
Emaciation and withering of affected parts.
The hair falls out.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Pressure : region of liver sensitive to ; kidneys sensitive.
Scratching : oozing on scalp.

Skin

Red rash on region of liver.
Frequent tingling in small spots of skin, with great irritation to scratch ; spots remain humid.
Itch checked by mercury or sulphur.
Flat ulcers.
Itching in folds of skin between fingers and about joints, particularly ankle joint.
Hair falls off, on head, eyebrows, whiskers and other parts of body.

Relations

Incompatible : Cinchon ., wine.
Compare : Phosphor ., genito-urinary and respiratory symptoms ; Stannum and Argent. met ., cough, transparent, starchy, mucous expectoration ; Alumina , hard stool.
Antidotes : Ign., Pulsat .

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

James Tyler Kent · Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Séror HTML text (Kent d. 1916; public domain)

Lecture

Marked mental and physical weakness following prolonged fevers, after sexual excesses, from secret vice, from exposure to the heat of the sun in summer.

Generalities

Great fatigue from which he seems unable to recuperate from rest.

Slight exertion brings great fatigue and weakness and especially in hot weather. Sudden weakness in hot weather. Great weakness in the back, almost paralytic after typhoid fever or other temporary diseases. Extremely sensitive to a draft of air, cool, warm or damp. Marked general emaciation, also special emaciation of face, thighs and hands.

The diseased limb withers. The hair falls out all over the body, head, eyebrows, whiskers and genitals. All his nervous symptoms are aggravated after coition. Pulsation in all the limbs and in the abdomen after eating.

Mind

Extreme sadness.

Some complaints are worse from wine, tea and lemonade. It is of great value in drunkards. Irresistible desire for alcoholic stimulants. Symptoms worse after sleep, especially on a hot day. Irritable after emissions. He is indifferent to his surroundings and his mind is dull and in confusion.

He is very forgetful during his waking hours, but in sleep he dreams what he has forgotten. Makes mistakes in syllables and. mispronounces words. Stammering speech. Often fails to understand what he hears or reads. He has become unfit for his business. He is excitable and talkative in the evening. Mental exertion is exhaustive and he dreads company. His mind dwells on lascivious thoughts, yet he is sometimes impotent. All the mental symptoms are worse after coition.

Vertigo on rising from bed or seat, on moving about, with nausea, vomiting and faintness, worse after breakfast and dinner.

Head

Headaches from strong odors, after wine, tea, lemonade and alcoholic stimulants, violent stinging over left eye when walking in the heat of the sun. Increased flow of urine in headaches. Headaches in old drunkards.

The hair falls out from the whole head, leaving the scalp smooth and hairless; also the hair falls from the eyebrows and face, giving a strange appearance. In syphilitics it often checks the falling of the hair. It has cured eczema, tingling and itching of the scalp. The scalp feels as though tightly drawn over the bones of the skull.

Face

Itching vesicles on the edges of the eyelids and spasmodic twitching of left eyeball.

The ear is stopped and ear wax becomes hard, from which he has hardness of hearing.

Dark clotted blood from nose. Nose full of thick, yellow, jelly-like mucus. Itching of nose and he bores into his nose with the fingers. Chronic obstruction of nose. Coryza followed by watery diarrhea.

The face is sickly, looking greasy and shiny. Great emaciation of the face. Twitching of the muscles of the face.

Toothache from drinking tea.

Aversion to food much salted. White tongue and he does not relish his breakfast.

Irresistible longing for strong drink.

After eating pulsation all over the body, especially in the abdomen. Symptoms are worse from sugar, salt food, tea and lemonade.

Soreness in liver from pressure and inspiration, with rash over the right hypochondrium. Searching pain in right hypochondrium, worse on deep breathing. The liver is enlarged. Stitching pains in liver from motion and pressure.

Constipation with inactivity of the rectum.

Most difficult stool, even impaction. Stool large, hard and very dry, requires mechanical aid. Softy pasty stool. Watery diarrhoea.

Involuntary urination while walking, after urination and after stool. Twinge of pain outward along the urethra with a sensation as though drops were pouring out. Sensation as if biting drop was forcing itself out.

The urine is dark, scanty, red in evening. Sediment coarse, red and sandy. It has caused inflammation of the prostate gland. III chronic gonorrhea it is a very useful remedy.

Men

Extreme weakness of the male genitalia.

Though the desire is strong there are no erections, or the act of coition is unsatisfactory and incomplete. Frequent emissions and constant flow of prostatic fluid. Erections in the morning without sexual desire, but on attempting coition the penis becomes relaxed. Itching and formication of genitalia.

Women

Menses copious and dark. Pulsating in the abdomen during pregnancy, worse after eating.

Voice

The weakness and failure of the voice is in keeping with the general weakness.

Hoarseness on beginning to use the voice. Hoarseness from weakness after over-use of the voice for a long time. Much clear, starchy mucus scraped from the larynx. Must frequently clear the larynx. It is a very useful remedy in tubercular laryngitis, glands of neck large and hard.

Cough

Dry, hacking cough in the morning, weak feeling in the chest.

Expectoration of lumps of bloody mucus. Difficult breathing from any exertion and from mucus in the chest and air passages. Pain in right side of chest under lowest ribs extending to kidneys which are tender to pressure.

Back

Weak back and spine as if he would be paralyzed after typhoid fever, and other lingering diseases. Stiffening neck on turning head; lameness in back in the morning.

It has cured syphilitic psoriasis of the palms. Itching palms. Hands withered. Tearing pains in hands at night.

Emaciation of the legs. Great weakness of lower limbs. Itching of the ankle in the evening, blisters on the toes. Flat ulcers on the legs and about the ankles. Cramps in calves and soles.

He is sleepless until midnight. Sleeps in short naps. Awakens early and always at same hour. Symptoms worse after sleep.

Chill alternates with heat. Burning heat in spots. Sweat, profuse on chest, armpits and genitals staining yellow. Sweat from least exertion.

Moist itching spots here and there on the skin and tingling after eruptions have been treated locally. Flat ulcers. Itching about finger joints and between fingers.

It is said to be incompatible with China. It is much like Sulphur in general action, and Phos. acid in its action upon the nervous system and genitals.

The chest symptoms and expectoration are like Argentum met., Stannum. Its constipation is much like Alumen and Alumina . It should be carefully compared with these remedies.