SELENIUM
Source indications
Kent's Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica
- Marked mental and physical weakness following prolonged fevers
- Weakness after sexual excesses
- Weakness from secret vice
- Weakness from exposure to the heat of the sun in summer
- Great fatigue from which he seems unable to recuperate from rest
- Slight exertion brings great fatigue and weakness especially in hot weather
- Sudden weakness in hot weather
- Great weakness in the back almost paralytic after typhoid fever or other temporary diseases
- Extremely sensitive to a draft of air, cool warm or damp
- Marked general emaciation
- Special emaciation of face, thighs and hands
- The diseased limb withers
- The hair falls out all over the body, head, eyebrows, whiskers and genitals
- All his nervous symptoms are aggravated after coition
- Pulsation in all the limbs and in the abdomen after eating
- Extreme sadness
- Complaints worse from wine, tea and lemonade
- Irresistible desire for alcoholic stimulants
- Symptoms worse after sleep especially on a hot day
- Irritable after emissions
- Indifferent to his surroundings
- Mind is dull and in confusion
- Very forgetful during his waking hours
- In sleep he dreams what he has forgotten
- Makes mistakes in syllables and mispronounced words
- Stammering speech
- Often fails to understand what he hears or reads
- Unfit for business
- Excitable and talkative in the evening
- Mental exertion is exhaustive
- Dreads company
- Mind dwells on lascivious thoughts
- Sometimes impotent
- All the mental symptoms are worse after coition
- Vertigo on rising from bed or seat
- Vertigo on moving about
- Vertigo with nausea
- Vertigo with vomiting and faintness
- Vertigo worse after breakfast and dinner
- Headaches from strong odors
- Headaches after wine, tea, lemonade and alcoholic stimulants
- Violent stinging over left eye when walking in the heat of the sun
- Increased flow of urine in headaches
- Headaches in old drunkards
- The hair falls out from the whole head, leaving the scalp smooth and hairless
- Hair falls from the eyebrows and face, giving a strange appearance
- Checks the falling of the hair in syphilitics
- Cured eczema, tingling and itching of the scalp
- Scalp feels as though tightly drawn over the bones of the skull
- Itching vesicles on the edges of the eyelids
- Spasmodic twitching of left eyeball
- The ear is stopped
- Ear wax becomes hard
- Hardness of hearing
- Dark clotted blood from nose
- Nose full of thick, yellow, jelly-like mucus
- Itching of nose
- Bores into his nose with the fingers
- Chronic obstruction of nose
- Coryza followed by watery diarrhoea
- The face is sickly, looking greasy and shiny
- Great emaciation of the face
- Twitching of the muscles of the face
- Toothache from drinking tea
- Aversion to food much salted
- White tongue
- Does not relish his breakfast
- Irresistible longing for strong drink
- After eating pulsation all over the body, especially in the abdomen
- Symptoms are worse from sugar, salt food, tea and lemonade
- Soreness in liver from pressure and inspiration
- Rash over the right hypochondrium
- Searching pain in right hypochondrium, worse on deep breathing
- The liver is enlarged
- Stitching pains in liver from motion and pressure
- Constipation with inactivity of the rectum
- Most difficult stool, even impaction
- Stool large, hard and very dry, requires mechanical aid
- Soft pasty stool
- Watery diarrhoea
- Involuntary urination while walking
- Involuntary urination after urination
- Involuntary urination after stool
- Twinge of pain outward along the urethra with a sensation as though drops were pouring out
- Sensation as if biting drop was forcing itself out
- The urine is dark, scanty, red in evening
- Sediment coarse, red and sandy
- Inflammation of the prostate gland
- Useful remedy in chronic gonorrhoea
- Extreme weakness of the male genitalia
- Though the desire is strong there are no erections, or the act of coition is unsatisfactory and incomplete
- Frequent emissions and constant flow of prostatic fluid
- Erections in the morning without sexual desire, but on attempting coition the penis becomes relived
- Itching and formication of genitalia
- Menses copious and dark
- Pulsating in the abdomen during pregnancy, worse after eating
- The weakness and failure of the voice is in keeping with the general weakness
- Hoarseness on beginning to use the voice
- Hoarseness from weakness after over-use of the voice for a long time
- Much clear, starchy mucus scraped from the larynx
- Must frequently clear the larynx
- Very useful remedy in tubercular laryngitis
- Glands of neck large and hard
- Dry, hacking cough in the morning
- Weak feeling in the chest
- Expectoration of lumps of bloody mucus
- Difficult breathing from any exertion and from mucus in the chest and air passages
- Pain in right side of chest under lowest ribs extending to kidneys which are tender to pressure
- Weak back and spine as if he would be paralyzed after typhoid fever, and other lingering diseases
- Stiffening neck on turning head
- Lameness in back in the morning
- Cured syphilitic psoriasis of the palms
- Itching palms
- Hands withered
- Tearing pains in hands at night
- Emaciation of the legs
- Great weakness of lower limbs
- Itching of the ankle in the evening
- Blisters on the toes
- Flat ulcers on the legs and about the ankles
- Cramps in calves and soles
- Sleepless until midnight
- Sleeps in short naps
- Awakens early and always at same hour
- Symptoms worse after sleep
- Chill alternates with heat
- Burning heat in spots
- Sweat, profuse on chest, armpits and genitals staining yellow
- Sweat from least exertion
- Moist itching spots here and there on the skin
- Tingling after eruptions have been treated locally
- Flat ulcers
- Itching about finger joints and between fingers