SELENIUM uses [Sel uses]
Note: Wherever it is found, "<" denotes aggravation (worse by), ">" denotes amelioration (better by), "<->" denotes alternation (alternates with) and A/F is an abbreviation of, "Ailments from"
Weakness, collapse due to sexual excesses or long
febrile illnesses
Sexual dysfunction
Weakness from heat (Chronic fatigue syndrome, Multiple sclerosis)
COMMON NAME
Selenium
SOURCE
| - | Prepared by trituration with sugar of milk. This was proved and introduced by Hering |
| - | Selenium was discovered in 1818 by Berzelius and was named after the moon because it is found associated with Tellurium (“Tellus” - the earth), and with Sulphur |
A/F
| - | Alcohol |
| - | Sugar |
| - | Salt |
| - | Lemonade |
| - | Debauchery |
| - | Tea |
| - | Walking |
| - | Exertion |
| - | Masturbation |
| - | Loss of fluids |
| - | Debilitating diseases |
MODALITIES
| < | Sun |
| < | Summer |
| < | Hot days |
| < | Tea |
| < | Sexual excess |
| < | Loss of sleep |
| < | Night watching |
| < | Touch |
| < | After sleep |
| < | Singing |
| < | Draft of air, even if warm |
| < | After stools |
| < | Coiton |
| < | Wine |
| < | From cinchona |
| < | Loss of fluids |
| < | Fever |
| < | Heat |
| < | Mental exertion |
| > | After sunset |
| > | Inhaling cool air |
| > | Drinking cold water |
| > | Uncovering, even in cool room |
MIND
| - | Cannot take mental exertion |
| - | Forgetfulness when awake, with DISTINCT RECOLLECTION DURING HALF SLEEP.
Forgetfulness in business, recollects in dreams whatever he has forgotten |
| - | Great loquacity, fond of conversing especially in evening |
| - | When excited, stammers, uses syllables of words in wrong connection, |
GUIDING INDICATIONS
| - | Adapted to light complexioned blondes;
great emaciation of face, hands, of single parts |
| - | General debility, weakness involving all parts of the body |
| - | Easily fatigued from any labour, physical or mental, loss of sleep and hot
weather |
| - | Hotter the body, weaker he is. Strength rises as the Sun sinks |
| - | Debility due to debilitating diseases, sexual excess |
| - | Any exertion, mental or physical causes fatigue and wants to sleep from sheer
exhaustion, but < by sleep |
| - | Relaxation - dribbling or urine, escape of seminal fluids especially during
stool, slow and weak erection |
| - | Emaciation in single parts |
| - | HAIR FALLS off, on head, eyebrows, from WHOLE BODY; don't want hair touched |
| - | Sweat - yellow, leaves salty deposit, stiffens the linen or makes the hair
stiff and wiry, < genitals |
| - | Head - Pain over left eye |
| - | Hair painful to touch |
| - | A/F mental labour, walking in sun, strong odours tea, every afternoon |
| - | Alopecia |
| - | Vertigo < on lifting head, rising from seat, rising himself in bed,
moving about < an hour after breakfast and dinner |
| - | Throat |
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- |
Aphonia after long use of voice, as soon as he begins to sing, talk or read, obliged to clear the throat frequently of a transparent, starchy mucus |
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- |
Tubercular laryngitis |
| - | Stomach - Hungry at night (Cina. Psor.) |
| - | Longing for spirituous liquors, especially brandy, an almost irresistible
maniacal desire |
| - | Thirstless |
| - | Aversion to salt |
| - | Rectum – Constipation: Stools large, hard, impacted, so that it requires
mechanical aid (Aloe, Calc, Sanic, Sep, Sil.) after serious illness,
especially enteric fever |
| - | Male genitalia - Impotence with desire |
| - | Lewd thoughts, but physically IMPOTENT (sudden impotence - Chlor) |
| - | Relaxation of genitals |
| - | Erections slow, insufficient, too rapid emission with long continued thrill |
| - | Weak, ill humoured after coitus |
| - | Discharge of semen drop by drop during sleep |
| - | Priapism, glands drawn up (Berb, Canth - drawn down) |
| - | Involuntary DRIBBLING OF SEMEN and prostatic fluid oozes while sitting at
STOOL, during sleep |
| - | Semen thin and scentless |
| - | Prostatic hypertrophy |
| - | Back - Weakness of back associated with coition or seminal discharge |
| - | Sleep - Catnaps throughout night |
KEYNOTES
NUCLEUS OF REMEDY
| - | Ill effects of debauchery |
| - | Easily debility which increases due to heat. Weakness, debility and relaxation especially seen in the sexual sphere |
CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS
CLINICAL
| - | Alopecia, Chronic fatigue syndrome, Impotence,
Laryngitis, Prostatic hypertrophy |
| - | Overstrain of students, forgetting what they read |
REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS
Follows Well: Calad, Merc, Nat-c, Ph-ac, Staph, Sulph
Inimical: Chin
Compare: Aloe, Arg-m, Arum-t, Berb, Calc, Camph, Caust, Cina, Cinch,
Cob, Cop, Cycl, Dig, Ferr, Graph, Ign, Lach, Lith-c, Lyc, Nat-c, Nat-m,
Nat-Seli, Pic-ac, Psor, Sanic, Sep, Sol, Stann, Sulph, Tell, Thuj
Antidoted By: Ign, Puls
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