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