Selenium metallicum
as H.C. Allen recorded it in Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 1899
Selenium
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Keynotes
Selenium
Selenium. The Element.
Adapted to light complexion; blondes; great emaciation of face, hands, legs and feet, of single parts.
Very forgetful in business, but during sleep dreams of what he had 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 (Cina, Psor.) ; longing for spirituous liquors, an almost irresistible maniacal desire.
Constipation : stool large, hard, impacted so that it requires mechanical aid (Aloe, Cal., Sanic., Sep., Sil.) ; 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 (sudden impotence, Chlor.).
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 (Calad.).
Priapism, glans drawn up (Berb. — drawn down, Canth. ) .
Aphonia: after long use of voice; husky when beginning to sing; obliged to clear the throat frequently of a transparent starchy mucus (Arg. m., Stan.) ; 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 respiratory symptoms ; Arg. m. and Stan, in laryngitis of singers or speakers ; Alum, hard stool, inactive rectum.
t'ollows well: after, Calad., Nat., Staph., Phos. ac., in sexual weakness.
Itch checked by Mercurials or Sulphur often requires Selenium.
Aggravation. — Draught of air; in the sun; from lemonade, tea or wine.
Amelioration.^ — Taking cold water or cold air into the mouth.
What the other books say about Selenium metallicum
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Selenium metallicum in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Selenium metallicum in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
- Selenium metallicum in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
- Selenium metallicum in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Cite this page. H.C. Allen. Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica. 3rd edition (1910). Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. Selenium metallicum — Keynotes, pp. 258–259. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/selenium-metallicum. Published 1910: public domain in the US (before 1931) and in India (author died 1909). Replaces B. Jain's 2005 "rearranged and classified" edition (© the publisher), per the owner's decision of 13 Sep 2026. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.