Selenium

Selenium. The Element.

Keynotes

Adapted to light complexion; blondes; great emaciation of face, hands, legs and feet, of single parts.

Very forgetful in business, but during sleep dreams of what he had forgotten.

Headache: of drunkards; after debauchery; after lemonade, tea, wine; every afternoon. Hair falls off, on head, eyebrows, whiskers, genitals. Coryza ending in diarrhoea. Hungry: at night (Cina, Psor.) ; longing for spirituous liquors, an almost irresistible maniacal desire.

Constipation : stool large, hard, impacted so that it requires mechanical aid (Aloe, Col., 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 thrill; 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

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Compare: Phos. in genito-urinary and respiratory symptoms ; Arg. m. and Stan, in laryngitis of singers or speakers ; Alum, hard stool, inactive rectum.

t'ollows 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 the mouth.