Selenium metallicum
as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927
Selenium
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Mind
Lascivious thoughts, with impotency. Mental labor fatigues. Extreme sadness. Abject despair, uncompromising melancholy.
General
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 exhaustion, mental and physical, in old age. Debility after exhausting diseases.
Modalities
Worse, after sleep, in hot weather, from Cinchona, draught of air, coition.
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 expectoration of bloody mucus. Hoarseness of singers. Much clear, starchy mucus (Stann).
Stomach
Desire for brandy and other strong drink. Sweetish taste. Hiccough and eructations 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. 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 genitals.
Itching about finger-joints and between fingers; in palms. Vesicular eruption between fingers (Rhus; Anac). Seborrhœa 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.
Relationships
Incompatible: China; Wine. Compare: Agnus; Calad; Sulphur; Tellur; Phosph acid. Antidotes: Ign; Puls.
Dose
Sixth to thirtieth potency. Colloidal Selenium injection for inoperable cancer. Pain, sleeplessness, ulceration and discharge are markedly diminished.
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 Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- 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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Create a free accountCite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Selenium metallicum — Mind. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/selenium-metallicum. Published 1927: public domain in the US (since 2023) and in India (author died 1929). Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.