SELENIUM METALLICUM
Source indications
Boericke's Materia Medica
- Prostatitis
- Sexual atony
- Great debility
- Worse heat
- Easy exhaustion, mental and physical, in old age
- Debility after exhausting diseases
- Lascivious thoughts
- Impotency
- Mental labor fatigues
- Extreme sadness
- Abject despair
- Uncompromising melancholy
- Hair falls out
- Pain over left eye
- Worse walking in sun
- Worse strong odors
- Worse tea
- Scalp feels tense
- Headache from tea drinking
- 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
- Desire for brandy and other strong drink
- Sweetish taste
- Hiccough and eructations after smoking
- After eating, pulsation all over, especially abdomen
- Chronic liver affections
- Liver painful
- Liver enlarged
- Fine rash over liver region
- Stool constipated
- Stool hard and accumulated in rectum
- Sensation in the tip of urethra as if a biting drop were forcing its way out
- Involuntary dribbling
- 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
- 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
- Itching in palms
- Vesicular eruption between fingers
- Seborrha oleosa
- Comedones with an oily surface of the skin
- Alopecia
- Acne
- Paralytic pains in small of back in the morning
- Tearing pain in hands, at night
- Sleep prevented by pulsation in all vessels, worse abdomen
- Sleepless until midnight
- Awakens early and always same hour
