SELENIUM

Homeopathic Materia Medica & Symptoms

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

Allen's Keynotes

  • adapted to light complexion; blondes; great emaciation of face, hands, legs and feet, or single parts
  • very forgetful in business, but during sleep dreams of what he has forgotten
  • headache: of drunkards; after debauchery; after lemonade, tea, wine; every afternoon
  • hair falls off, on head, eyebrows, whiskers, genitals
  • coryza ending in diarrhoea
  • hungry: at night; longing for spiritous liquors, an almost irresistible maniacal desire
  • constipation: stool large, hard, impacted so that it requires mechanical aid; after serious illness, especially enteric fevers
  • urine: red, dark, scanty; coarse, red, sandy, sediment; involuntary dribbling while walking
  • impotence, with desire; lewd thoughts, but physically impotent
  • erections slow, insufficient, too rapid emission with long-continued thrill; weak, ill-humored after coitus, often involuntary dribbling of semen and prostatic fluid which oozes while sitting, at stool, during sleep; gleet
  • priapism, glans drawn up
  • aphonia: after long use of voice; husky when beginning to sing; obliged to clear the throat frequently of a transparent starchy mucus; tubercular laryngitis
  • weak, easily exhausted; from either mental or physical labor; after typhoid, typhus, debauchery
  • irresistible desire to lie down and sleep; strength suddenly leaves him; especially in hot weather
  • very great aversion to a draft of air either warm, cold or damp
  • after typhoid, great weakness of spine, fears paralysis
  • emaciation of affected parts
  • better taking cold water or cold air into mouth

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