SELENIUM METALLICUM

(SELENIUM)

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.