Materia Medica
Selenium
The Element Selenium
Selenium is a constant constituent of bones and teeth. Marked effects on the genito-urinary organs, and often indicated in elderly men, especially for prostatitis and sexual atony. Great debility: worse, heat. Easy ex- haustion, mental and physical, in old age. Debility after exhausting diseases.
Mind
Lascivious thoughts, with impotency. Men- tal labor fatigues. Extrrme sadness. Abject despair, uncomproinising melancholy.
Head
Hair falls vut. Pain over left eye; worse, walking in sun, strong odors and tea. Scalp feels tense. Headache from tea drinking. 671
Throat
Incipient tubercular laryngitis. Hawkmg and raising transparent lumps of mucus every morn- ing. Hoarseness.C Cough in morning, with expectora- tion of bloody mucus. Hoarseness of singers. Much clear, starch mucus. [Stann.]
Stomach
Desire for brandy and other strong drink. Sweetish taste. Hiccough and eructations after smok- ing. After eating, pulsation all over, especially
Abdomen
Chronic liver affections; liver painful, enlarged, ith' fine rash over liver region. Stool con- stipated, hard and accumulated in rectum.
Urinary
Sensation in the tip of urethra as if a biting drop were forcing its way out. Involuntary dribbling.
Male
Dribbling of semen during sleep. Dribbling of prostatic Auid. Irritability after coitus. Loss of sexual power, with lascivious fancies. Increases desire, decreases ability. Semen thin, odorless. Sexual neu- rasthenia. On attempting coition, penis relaxes. Hydrocele.
Extremities
Paralytic pains in small of back in the morning. Tearing pain in hands, at night.
Skin
Dry, scaly eruption in palms, with itching. Itching about the ankles and folds of skin, between fingers. Hair falls out from brows, beard, and geni- tals. Itching about finger-joints and between fingers; in palms. Vesicular eruption between fingers. [Rhus; Anac.] Seborrhoea oleosa; comedones with an oily surface of the skin; alopecia. Acne.
Sleep
Sleep prevented by pulsation in all vessels, worse abdomen. Sleepless until midnight, awakens early and always same hour.
Modalities
Worse, after sleep, in hot weather, from Cinchona, draught of air, coition.
Relationships
Incompatible: China; Wine. Compare: Agnus; Calad.; Sulphur; Tellur.; Phosph. acid. Antidotes: Igu.: Puls.
Dose
Sixth to thirtieth potency. Colloidal Selen- ium injection for inoperable cancer.