Selenium metallicum
as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931
Selenium
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Keynotes
Easily debilitated; by heat of sun; a little mental or physical exertion makes him sleepy. Senility. Emaciation; of single parts, face, hands, etc. Cramp, then stiffness. Bitings. .................... Loquacity. Sadness. Frets when awake and dreams of it as he falls asleep. Nervous headaches. Scalp feels gathered together. Falling hair, < eyebrows; don't want hair touched. Ache over l. eye; < tea. Coryza, ending in diarrhœa. Thirstless. Craves stimulants, tea, etc. Sharp stitches in or rash over liver. Abdominal pulsation; hinders sleep. Very large stools. Coarse sand in urine. Lascivious, but impotent. Urine and semen dribble. Easy loss of semen; at stool, etc. Watery semen. Chronic gleet. VOICE HOARSE, as soon as he sings; affected by every cold; rattles. Nodes in vocal cords. Hawks up clear mucus. Sudden sciatic pains (l), leave soreness behind. Oily skin; itches in folds or about ankles. Skin remains moist after scratching. Burning spots. Acne. Imagines drafts of air. Sweat, profuse, yellow; leaves a salty deposit, stiffens the linen or makes the hair stiff and wiry; < genitals.
Worse
Debilitating causes: Hot days. Sexual excesses. Loss of sleep. Singing. Drafts. After sleep. Tea. Lemonade.
Better
After sunset. Inhaling cool air.
Region
Nerves: GENITO-URINARY ORGANS. Supra-orbital (L). LARYNX. Liver.
Relationships
Related: Nat-m. Sul.
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 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.
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Create a free accountCite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Selenium metallicum — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/selenium-metallicum. Author died 1935: public domain in India. The catalogue records 1931; a 1931 edition is public domain in the US from 1 Jan 2027 at the latest — the edition this transcription follows is not stated in the file. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.