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Selenium metallicum

The element selenium

12 health issues Boericke 1927

Main symptoms

  • 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.
  • Easy exhaustion, mental and physical, in old age.
  • Debility after exhausting diseases.

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Mind & mood

  • Lascivious thoughts, with impotency.
  • Mental labor fatigues.
  • Extreme sadness.
  • Abject despair, uncompromising melancholy.

What makes it better or worse

Worse

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Symptoms by body part

Head

Hair falls out. Pain over left eye; worse walking in sun, strong odors and tea. Scalp feels tense. Headache from tea drinking.

Throat

Incipient tubercular laryngitis. Hawking and raising transparent lumps of mucus every morning. Hoarseness. Cough in morning, with phlegm coughed up of bloody mucus. Hoarseness of singers. Much clear, starchy mucus.

Stomach

Desire for brandy and other strong drink. Sweetish taste. Hiccough and belching after smoking. After eating, pulsation all over, especially abdomen.

Abdomen

Chronic liver affections; liver painful, enlarged, with fine rash over liver region. Stool constipated, 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 fluid. Irritability after coitus. Loss of sexual power, with lascivious fancies. Increases desire, decreases ability. Semen thin, odorless. Sexual neurasthenia. On attempting coition, penis relaxes.

Skin

Dry, scaly rash in palms, with itching, Itching about the ankles and folds of skin, between fingers. Hair falls out from brows, beard, and genitals. Itching about finger-joints and between fingers; in palms. Vesicular rash between fingers. Seborrhoea oleosa; comedones with an oily surface of the skin; alopecia. Acne.

Extremities

Paralytic pains in small of back in the morning. Tearing pain in hands, at night.

Sleep

Sleep prevented by pulsation in all vessels, worse abdomen. Sleepless until midnight, awakens early and always same hour.

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