Selenium Metallicum

► Great dulness, with complete insensibility and indifference to his surroundings. ► Very forgetful, especially in business ; during slumber, however, he remembers all that he had forgotten. ► A kind of stammering ; he uses the syllables of words in wrong connections ; therefore pronounces some words incorrectly. ► Difficult comprehension. ► Total unfitness for any kind of work. ► Great talkativeness when excited. ► Mental labor fatigues him much.

► Vertigo : on lifting head or rising up ; on moving about, with nausea, vomiting, faintness ; worse after breakfast and dinner.

► Headache from lemonade, tea or wine ; every afternoon. ► Violent stinging over left eye, when walking in the sun, or from strong odors ; with increased secretion of urine, and melancholy.

► Hair falls off when combing ; also of eyebrows, whiskers and genitals ; tingling-itching on scalp in evening, oozing after scratching ; tension and sensation of contraction of scalp.

► Itching vesicles on edges of eyelids and on eye-brows. ► Spasmodic twitching of left eyeball.

► Ear stopped. ► More ear-wax, hardening in his deaf ear.

► Itching in nose and on borders of wings. ► Inclination to bore fingers into nose. ► Yellow, thick, jell-like mucus in nose. ► Discharge of dark blood from nose. ► Phlegm in choanae. ► Coryza, ending in diarrhoea. ► Complete obstruction of the nose, chronic.

► Greasy, shining skin of face. ► Twitching of muscles of face. ► Comedones. ► Great emaciation of face and hands.

► Picks teeth until they bleed ; toothache. ► Teeth covered with mucus.

► Wants of appetite in morning, with white-coated tongue. ► Aversion to food much salted. ► Great longing for ardent spirits. ► Hungry during the night.

► After eating ; violent beating all over body, worse in abdomen ; must lie down. ► Salt food aggravates. ► After eating : 2. ► From lemonade, tea, wine : 3.

► Searching pain in region of liver, worse in taking a long breath, with sensitiveness to external pressure ; followed by a red, itching rash in region of liver. ► Stitches in spleen when walking.

► Stool : hard and so impacted that it requires mechanical aid ; mucus or blood passes with last portion ; contains threads of fecal matter like hair. ► Papescent stool, with tenesmus and feeling in anus as after a hard stool.

► Dark, scanty ; red in the evening. ► Sediment coarse red, sandy. ► Involuntary urination when walking ; drips after stool or micturition.

► Erection slow, insufficient ; semen emitted too rapidly and with long continued thrill ; weak, ill-humored after an embrace, weakness in loins. ► Semen thin, without normal odor. ► Lewd thoughts, but physically impotent. ► Prostatic juice oozes while sitting, during sleep when walking, and at stool. ► Itching on the scrotum.

► Catamenia copious and dark.

► During pregnancy throbbing in abdomen.

► Voice husky when beginning to sing, or from talking long ; hawks transparent lumps every morning, sometimes bloody.

► Frequent deep breathing with moaning.

► In morning, straining in chest, with expectoration of mucus and blood.

► Neck stiff on turning head. ► Pain as from lameness in small of back, in morning.

► Tearing in hands at night, with cracking in wrists. ► Emaciation of hands. ► Itching in palms ; vesicles on and between fingers. ► Dry scaly eruptions, itching palms ; syphilitic eruptions.

► Cracking of the knee-joint on bending it. ► Flat ulcers on the lower legs. ► Emaciation on the legs. ► Itching around the ankle, in the evening ; blisters on toes. ► Cramps in calves and soles. ► Legs feel weak, with fear of paralysis after typhus.

► Irresistible desire to lie down and sleep ; strength suddenly leaves him.

► Sleepless before 12 P.M. : light sleep, least noise awakens him. ► Starts on falling asleep. ► Dreams of quarrels and cruelties. ► Hungry in the night. ► Awakens early and always at same hour. ► Worse after a siesta on hot days. ► Pains worse after sleep.

► Every draft (even if warm) causes pain in limbs, head, etc. ► Sun : 3. Hot weather : 37.

► Chill alternating with heat. ► External heat, burning in skin and only in single spots. ► Sweat : profuse on chest, arm-pits and genitals ; from least exertion ; as soon as he sleeps ; stains yellow, or white and stiffens the linen.

► Same hour : 37.

► Right : 18, 42. Left : 3, 18.

► Great emaciation, specially of face, thighs and hands.

► Pressure : 18. Scratching : 4, 46.

► Red rash in region of liver. ► Frequent tingling on small spots of the skin, with great irritation to scratch ; spots remain humid. ► Itch checked by mercury or sulphur. ► Flat ulcers.

► Blondes.

► Antidotes to Selen. : Ignat., Pulsat. ► Incompatible : Cinchon., wine.