Selenium Metallicum
By C.M. Boger — A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica
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.
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. .................... 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: Nat-m. Sul.