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====== SELENIUM METALLICUM ======
<span tc1>{{anchor:s1}}Selenium. {{anchor:s2}}(Selenium Metallicum.)</span>

<span grade2>{{anchor:s3}}Selenium. {{anchor:s4}}The Element.</span>

{{anchor:s5}}The trituration is prepared from the reddish-brown, somewhat translucent metal which resembles sulphur in its chemical relations.

{{anchor:s6}}Introduced and proved by Hering, Archiv fr Hom., vol. 12, p. 192; proving by Schreter, N. Archiv fr Hom., vol. 3, p. 184; Berridge, N. Am. Jour. of Hom., 1873, p. 501.

====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ======

{{anchor:s8}}- <span grade2>Headache</span>, Ballard, M. I., vol. 6, p. 182; <span grade2>Spermatorrhea</span>, Greenleaf, A. H. O., vol. 10, p. 258; <span grade2>Prostatitis and atony of sexual organs</span>, Altschul, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 586; <span grade2>Gleet</span>, Nash, Hom. Phys., vol. 7, p. 289.

====== MIND. [1] ======

{{anchor:s10}}Great dullness, with complete insensibility and indifference to his surroundings.\\ {{anchor:s11}}Very forgetful, especially in business; during slumber, however, he remembers all he had forgotten.\\ {{anchor:s12}}A kind of stammering; he uses syllables of words in wrong connections, therefore pronounces some words incorrectly.\\ {{anchor:s13}}Difficult comprehension.\\ {{anchor:s14}}Total unfitness for any kind of work.\\ {{anchor:s15}}Great talkativeness when excited, especially in evening.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s16}}Mental labor fatigues him.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s17}}Lascivious thoughts with impotency.</span>\\ {{anchor:s18}}Dread of society.

====== SENSORIUM. [2] ======

{{anchor:s20}}Vertigo: on lifting head or rising up; on moving about, with nausea, vomiting, faintness; agg. after breakfast and dinner.

====== INNER HEAD. [3] ======

{{anchor:s22}}Violent stinging over left eye, when walking in sun or from strong odors; with increased secretion of urine, and melancholy.\\ {{anchor:s23}}Headache every afternoon, especially after drinking wine, tea or lemonade.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s24}}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.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s25}}Headache of drunkards; headache after debauchery.</span>

====== OUTER HEAD. [4] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s27}}Hair comes out when combing; also from eyebrows, whiskers and genitals.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s28}}Tingling itching on scalp in evening, oozing after scratching.</span>\\ {{anchor:s29}}Tension and sensation of contraction of scalp.

====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ======

{{anchor:s31}}Itching vesicles on edges of eyelids and on eyebrows.\\ {{anchor:s32}}Spasmodic twitching of left eyeball.

====== HEARING AND EARS. [6] ======

{{anchor:s34}}Ear stopped; hardening of earwax in his deaf ear.

====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ======

{{anchor:s36}}Itching in nose and on edges of nostrils.\\ {{anchor:s37}}Inclination to bore fingers into nose.\\ {{anchor:s38}}Yellow, thick, jellylike mucus in nose.\\ {{anchor:s39}}Discharge of dark blood from nose.\\ {{anchor:s40}}Phlegm in choanae.\\ {{anchor:s41}}Coryza, ending in diarrhea.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s42}}Complete obstruction of nose, chronic.</span>

====== UPPER FACE. [8] ======

{{anchor:s44}}Twitching of muscles of face.\\ {{anchor:s45}}Great emaciation of face and hands.\\ {{anchor:s46}}Oiliness of skin on face; greasy and shining.

====== TEETH AND GUMS. [10] ======

{{anchor:s48}}Picks teeth until they bleed; toothache.\\ {{anchor:s49}}Teeth covered with mucus.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s50}}Toothache from drinking tea.</span>

====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ======

{{anchor:s52}}A kind of stammering speech, made mistakes in talking, uttered syllables wrongly, and could not articulate some words.

====== APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] ======

{{anchor:s55}}Want of appetite in morning, white-coated tongue.\\ {{anchor:s56}}Aversion to food much salted.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s57}}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.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s58}}~</span> <span grade3>Chronic alcoholism.</span>\\ {{anchor:s59}}Hungry during night.

====== EATING AND DRINKING. [15] ======

{{anchor:s61}}After eating: violent beating all over body, agg. in abdomen; must lie down.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s62}}Bad effects: from sugar; from salt food; from drinking tea; from lemonade.</span>

====== HYPOCHONDRIA. [18] ======

{{anchor:s64}}Searching pain in region of liver, agg. in taking a long breath, with sensitiveness to external pressure; followed by a red, itching rash in region of liver.\\ {{anchor:s65}}Stitches in spleen when walking.\\ {{anchor:s66}}Enlargement of liver with loss of appetite, particularly in morning; white coating on tongue; sharp stitching pains in hepatic region, agg. from motion and pressure; sensitiveness of liver; peculiar fine rash over hepatic region.

====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ======

{{anchor:s68}}Pulsation in whole body, especially in abdomen after eating.

====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s70}}Stool: hard and so impacted that it requires mechanical aid; mucus or blood passes with last portion; contains threads of fecal matter like hair.</span>\\ {{anchor:s71}}Papescent stool, with tenesmus and feeling in anus as after a hard stool.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s72}}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.</span>

====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ======

{{anchor:s74}}Sensation in tip of urethra as if a biting drop were forcing its way out.\\ {{anchor:s75}}Twinging pain along urethra from behind forward, with a sensation as if drops were passing out.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s76}}Involuntary dribbling of urine while walking, also after urinating, especially after stool.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s77}}Urine: dark, scanty; red, in evening; sediment coarse, red, sandy.</span>

====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s79}}Erections slow, insufficient; semen emitted too rapidly and with long-continued thrill; weak, ill-humored after an embrace, weakness in loins.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s80}}Semen thin, without normal odor.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s81}}Lewd thoughts, but physically impotent.</span>\\ {{anchor:s82}}No erection in evening, notwithstanding he was excited; erection in morning without sexual desire.\\ {{anchor:s83}}Diminution of sexual desire.\\ {{anchor:s84}}Impotence with sexual desire.\\ {{anchor:s85}}Lascivious dreams, with seminal emissions, which awaken him, followed by lameness and weakness in small of back.\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s86}}Impotence.</span>\\ {{anchor:s87}}Involuntary dribbling of semen or prostatic fluid during sleep.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s88}}Seminal emissions about twice a week, lascivious dreams, is always awakened by it; always rises with weakness and lameness in small of back.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s89}}~</span> <span grade2>Spermatorrhea.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s90}}Prostatic juice oozes while sitting, during sleep, when walking and at stool.</span>\\ {{anchor:s91}}A drop of watery, sticky substance passes from urethra just before stool and soon afterward.\\ {{anchor:s92}}While sitting a drop of prostatic fluid passes from orifice of urethra with a peculiar, disagreeable sensation.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s93}}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, agg. 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, agg. 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.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s94}}~</span> <span grade2>Prostatitis and atony of sexual organs.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s95}}Prostatitis caused by an immense hard stool.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s96}}Discharge of slimy mucus from ten to fifteen drops or a tablespoonful looking like milk.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s97}}~</span> <span grade2>Prostatic gleet.</span>\\ {{anchor:s98}}Itching on scrotum.\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s99}}Gonorrhea (secondary); gleet.</span>

====== FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] ======

{{anchor:s101}}Menses copious and dark.

====== PREGNANCY. PARTURITION. LACTATION. [24] ======

{{anchor:s105}}During pregnancy throbbing in abdomen.

====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s108}}Voice husky when beginning to sing, or from talking long; hawks transparent lumps every morning, sometimes bloody.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s109}}Hoarseness after long use of voice; frequent necessity to clear the throat on account of accumulation of clear starchy mucus.</span>\\ {{anchor:s110}}Increased hoarseness while singing, especially at the beginning.\\ {{anchor:s111}}Is frequently obliged to clear his throat, alternating with hoarseness.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s112}}Tubercular laryngitis; raising of small lumps of blood and mucus; tendency to hoarseness; cervical glands swollen, hard but not sore.</span>

====== RESPIRATION. [26] ======

{{anchor:s114}}Frequent deep breathing with moaning.\\ {{anchor:s115}}Dyspnea from accumulation of mucus in windpipe.

====== COUGH. [27] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s117}}Cough in morning though slight and weak affects whole chest, and lumps of mucus with blood are expectorated.</span>

====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s119}}Pains in right side and under last ribs especially on inspiration, extending to kidneys, which are sensitive to external pressure.</span>

====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ======

{{anchor:s121}}Throbbing in vessels throughout whole body, pulsation especially felt in abdomen.

====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ======

{{anchor:s123}}Neck stiff on turning head.\\ {{anchor:s124}}Pain as from lameness in small of back, in morning.

====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ======

{{anchor:s126}}Tearing in hands at night, with cracking in wrists.\\ {{anchor:s127}}Emaciation of hands.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s128}}Itching in palms; vesicles on and between fingers.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s129}}Dry, scaly eruption on palms of hands with itching, having a syphilitic base.</span>\\ {{anchor:s130}}Painful hangnails.

====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ======

{{anchor:s132}}Cracking of knee joint on bending it.\\ {{anchor:s133}}Flat ulcers on lower legs.\\ {{anchor:s134}}Emaciation of legs.\\ {{anchor:s135}}Itching around ankle, in evening; blisters on toes.\\ {{anchor:s136}}Cramps in calves and soles.\\ {{anchor:s137}}Legs feel weak, with fear of paralysis, after typhus.\\ {{anchor:s138}}Itching about ankles.

====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ======

{{anchor:s142}}Must lie down: after eating.\\ {{anchor:s143}}Lifting head: vertigo.\\ {{anchor:s144}}Turning head: stiff neck.\\ {{anchor:s145}}Bending knee joint: cracking in it.\\ {{anchor:s146}}Sitting: prostatic juice oozes.\\ {{anchor:s147}}Rising up: vertigo.\\ {{anchor:s148}}Any exertion: easy fatigue; sweat.\\ {{anchor:s149}}Motion: vertigo; pains in hepatic region agg.\\ {{anchor:s150}}Walking: stitches in spleen; involuntary dribbling of urine; prostatic juice oozes.

====== NERVES. [36] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s152}}Weakness and general debility; easy fatigue from any exertion or labor; especially in hot weather.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s153}}Irresistible desire to lie down and sleep; strength suddenly leaves him.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s154}}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.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s155}}Great nervous debility after typhus, particularly when sensations of patient spread from above downward.</span>\\ {{anchor:s156}}After typhoid fever great debility of spine, fears he will be paralyzed.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s157}}Very great aversion to a draft of air either warm, cold or damp.</span>

====== SLEEP. [37] ======

{{anchor:s159}}Sleepless before 12 P. M.; light sleep, least noise awakens him; starts on falling asleep; sleeps in cat naps.\\ {{anchor:s160}}Dreams of quarrels and cruelties.\\ {{anchor:s161}}Hungry in night.\\ {{anchor:s162}}Awakes early and always at same hour.\\ {{anchor:s163}}Worse after a siesta on hot days; agg. after sleep.

====== TIME. [38] ======

{{anchor:s165}}Morning: want of appetite in morning; erection without sexual desire; cough; pain in small of back.\\ {{anchor:s166}}Evening: great talkativeness; tingling itching on scalp; urine red; itching around ankle.\\ {{anchor:s167}}Night: tearing in hands; hungry.\\ {{anchor:s168}}At 12 P. M.: sleepless.

====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ======

{{anchor:s170}}Hot weather: weakness and general debility.\\ {{anchor:s171}}Draft of air either warm, cold or damp: great aversion.

====== FEVER. [40] ======

{{anchor:s173}}Chill alternating with heat.\\ {{anchor:s174}}External heat, burning in skin in single spots.\\ {{anchor:s175}}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. [41] ======

{{anchor:s177}}Alternation: of chill and heat.\\ {{anchor:s178}}Every morning: hawks transparent lumps.\\ {{anchor:s179}}Every afternoon: headache; pain over left eye.\\ {{anchor:s180}}About twice a week: seminal emissions.

====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ======

{{anchor:s182}}Right: pain in region of kidney; pain in side under last ribs.\\ {{anchor:s183}}Left: stinging over eye; twitching of eyeball; pain over eye.\\ {{anchor:s184}}From above downward: sensations spread.

====== SENSATIONS. [43] ======

{{anchor:s186}}As if biting drop were forcing its way out of urethra.\\ {{anchor:s187}}Pain: in region of right kidney; in right side under last ribs; in small of back.\\ {{anchor:s188}}Violent pain: in head.\\ {{anchor:s189}}Tearing pains: in thighs; in hands.\\ {{anchor:s190}}Twinging pain: along urethra.\\ {{anchor:s191}}Searching pain: in region of liver.\\ {{anchor:s192}}Sharp stitching pains: in hepatic region.\\ {{anchor:s193}}Stitches: in spleen.\\ {{anchor:s194}}Violent stinging: over left eye.\\ {{anchor:s195}}Burning: in skin.\\ {{anchor:s196}}Dull pain: in perineum.\\ {{anchor:s197}}Cramps in calves and soles.\\ {{anchor:s198}}Violent beating: all over body.\\ {{anchor:s199}}Throbbing: in abdomen; in vessels throughout whole body.\\ {{anchor:s200}}Sensation of contraction: of scalp.\\ {{anchor:s201}}Tension: of scalp.\\ {{anchor:s202}}Weakness: of loins; in small of back.\\ {{anchor:s203}}Tingling itching: on scalp.\\ {{anchor:s204}}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. [44] ======

{{anchor:s206}}Great emaciation, especially of face, thighs and hands.\\ {{anchor:s207}}Emaciation and withering of affected parts.\\ {{anchor:s208}}The hair falls out.

====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ======

{{anchor:s212}}Pressure: region of liver sensitive to; kidneys sensitive.\\ {{anchor:s213}}Scratching: oozing on scalp.

====== SKIN. [46] ======

{{anchor:s215}}Red rash on region of liver.\\ {{anchor:s216}}Frequent tingling in small spots of skin, with great irritation to scratch; spots remain humid.\\ {{anchor:s217}}Itch checked by mercury or sulphur.\\ {{anchor:s218}}Flat ulcers.\\ {{anchor:s219}}Itching in folds of skin between fingers and about joints, particularly ankle joint.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s220}}Hair falls off, on head, eyebrows, whiskers and other parts of body.</span>

====== RELATIONS. [48] ======

{{anchor:s222}}Incompatible: <span grade2>Cinchon.</span>, wine.\\ {{anchor:s223}}Compare: <span grade2>Phosphor.</span>, genito-urinary and respiratory symptoms; <span grade2>Stannum</span> and <span grade2>Argent. met.</span>, cough, transparent, starchy, mucous expectoration; <span grade2>Alumina</span>, hard stool.\\ {{anchor:s224}}Antidotes: <span grade2>Ign., Pulsat.</span>

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====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ======
^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 09, 1890 |
^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r123|Selenium metallicum]] |
^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r123|Selenium metallicum]] |
^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. |
^ Year: | 1890 |
^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}
Legatum Homeopathicum

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