SELENIUM.
An element.
Preparation
, Triturations.
Authorities.
1,
Dr. C. Hering, Archiv f. Hom., 12, 3, 192 (also MS. corrections and
additions form Dr. Hering to the editor of this work); 2,
Schreter, N. Archiv f. Hom., 3, 3, 184, first proving with 2 drops of
4th dil., evening first day; 2a,
same, proving with a drop of 3d dil.; 3,
Berridge, N. Am. J. of Hom., 1873, p. 501, took 3 globules of 1600th
(Jenichen); 4, same, a man took
200th (Lehrmann), night and morning, for a week.
MIND.
►
Great loquacity when excited, especially in the evening, [1].
► Very talkative, light-hearted,
excited, [1]. ►
Fretful, peevish, sleepy, lazy, with frequent vomiting and stretching
(second day), [2a]. ►
Dread of people and of his occupation, but overcoming this he is able to
continue his work, [1]. ►
Lascivious thoughts with impotency, [1].
► After mental work, which keeps him
up late in the night, he is so unusually exhausted, that for several
days he can think of only what is absolutely necessary, and can return
to work only after some time, [1].
► Completely unfit for every work;
although he constantly begins, he is obliged soon again to leave off, [1].
► Very forgetful, especially about
business, but when lying half asleep everything recurs to him, [1].
HEAD.
►
Vertigo. ► Vertigo, for
the first three days (in the morning)? (t.), [1].
[10.] ►
Vertigo, as if intoxicated, he staggered and was obliged to steady
himself, with attacks of faintness, perfectly pale, distorted face, and
anxious sweat, so that his shirt could be wrung out; while riding in a
carriage, immediately after breakfast, he was obliged to turn back to
the house, where he vomited, and was so weak that he had to go to bed
(thirteenth day), [2a]. ►
Vertigo, in the evening, [1]. ►
Vertigo, on standing up (t), [1]. ►
Vertigo, so that he dreaded falling, in the evening while riding in a
carriage (twelve day), [2a]. ►
General Head. ► Great
dulness of the head, especially in the evening (third day), [2].
► He is always attacked with headache
after drinking lemonade, also after wine, sometimes after tea; but not
after water, chocolate, coffee, or brandy, [1].
► Headache, pain in the temples
(Hong.), [1]. ►
Headache, after tamarind water, [1].
► Headache, every afternoon, [1].
► Head felt as if filled up with an
expansive substance, [4]. [20.]
► Transient stitches in the head
internally, [1]. ►
Transient stitches deep within the head, [1].
► Forehead and Temples. ►
Dull stitches in the forehead, temples, and eyes, after going from the
cold air into a warm room, both in the forenoon and evening (second
day), [2]. ►
Headache in the temples (fourth day), (t.), [1].
► Occiput. ►
Great heaviness in the occiput, at times waving in the brain, fluttering
in both ears, twitching and pressure in both eyeballs (fifteenth day), [2a].
► Pressure in the occiput and
vertigo, on standing up (t.), [1].
► Drawing in the occiput, with
ringing in and stoppage of the ears (twenty-seventh day), [2a].
► External Head. ►
Falling of the hair on combing, [1].
► Swelling of the glabella, as if
pimples would form, [1].
EYE.
►
Causes inflammation of the eyes (H. S. Kestner), [1].
[30.] ►
The hair falls from the brows, [1].
► Frequent spasmodic twitching in the
left eyeball (fourth day), [2a]. ►
Pains deep in the orbits, [1]. ►
Small round blisters, with itching and pressure, as from a grain of sand
on the inner margin of the lid, [1].
► Twitching of the eyelids, with
indistinct vision (fourth day), [2a].
► Burning and itching on the margins
of the right eyelids, was obliged to rub them (second day), [2].
► Lachrymation, with dull pressure in
the left eye (fourth day), [2a]. ►
Myopia increased, [1]. ►
Vision obscured (Hong.), [1].
EAR.
►
The earwax is increased in the left deaf ear, it is harder, and in the
other ear softer than usual, [1]. [40.]
► Ears stopped, as if a membrane were
stretched in front of them, moderately relieved by shaking the head and
boring the finger into the ear (fourth day), [2a].
► For three days (third and fifth
day) after lying on the ear it seemed to the stopped up, causing
deafness of that ear; removed by inserting the finger; on the fifth day,
removed from it a good deal of wax, and there is a spot just inside meatus
externus, which is sore to touch, [1].
► Throbbing in the right ear
(fifteenth day), [2a]. ►
Sound of a distant rumbling in the left ear causing a “wu,
wu,” with a sensation as if the ears were stopped, in the evening
in bed (eleventh day), [2a].
NOSE.
►
Fluent coryza, every evening, [1].
► Coryza (Hong.), [1].
► Sudden fluent coryza, with profuse
discharge of mucus, that disappeared as suddenly as it came, [1].
► There frequently remains a
persistent coryza, with a distressing dry cough (Kerner), [1].
► Yellow, thick, lumpy nasal mucus, [1].
► Gelatinous nasal mucus, at times
containing small yellow masses, [1].
[50.] ►
A little plug of mucus escapes from a comedone near the nose (which had
never happened before), followed by some pus, after which had flamed, [1].
► She frequently bores the finger
into the nose involuntarily, [1]. ►
Pain in the septum of the nose, as if a pimple would develop, [1].
► *Itching in the nose, [1].
► It destroys the sense of smell for
several hours (H. S. Kestner), [1].
FACE.
►
Twitching of the facial muscles (t.), [1].
► Red cheeks on waking (Neidhard), [1].
► Cracking of the upper lip (Hong.), [1].
► Cracking of the lower lip (Hong.), [1].
► The middle of the inner portion of
the upper lip is cracked, [1]. [60.]
► Cracking in the lower jaw (the
latter days), (t.), [1].
MOUTH.
►
Teeth. ► The teeth become
free of mucus, smoother and harder, so that on rubbing them with the
finger they cracked, which was never the case before, with a thickly
coated white tongue, [1]. ►
Toothache in a hollow tooth, as if it were being drawn up, with a
feeling of coldness extending into the cheek, relieved by taking cold
water and cold air into the mouth, also by eating, drinking, and
smoking; in the evening in bed the pains increased, with beating and
throbbing extending up into the left eye, left temple, and jaws;
relieved after olfaction of Bryonia (seventh day), [2a].
► Boring pain in the hollow teeth
(later), (t.), [1]. ►
Toothache as if a tooth were decayed internally, obliged to pick it till
it bled, [1]. ►
Drawing-sticking pain in a left lower molar (after the disappearance of
the nausea), (fifteenth day), [2a].
► Tongue. ►
Tongue thickly coated white, in the morning, [1].
► The tongue seems covered with white
mucus, [1]. ►
Pains in the region of the root of the tongue, [1].
► Burning sensation on the tip of the
tongue, that woke him at night (first day), [2].
► General Mouth. [70.]
► Mouth full of tenacious mucus,
after the midday nap, [1]. ►
He woke from sleep, in the afternoon and night, with great dryness of
the mouth, fauces, and pharynx, and was obliged to drink much water,
followed by breaking out of sweat, [1].
► Saliva. ►
Salivation (Hong.), [1]. ►
Taste. ► While smoking he
notices a disagreeable sweet taste on the lips; observed both from
various kinds of segars and pipes, [1].
► Speech. ►
A kind of stammering speech, so that he made mistakes in talking,
uttered syllables wrong, and could not at all articulate many words, for
many days (after three days), [2].
THROAT.
►
*Much hawking and raising of transparent lumps of mucus, every morning, [1].
► When hawking there is frequently a
spot of blood in the mucus, [1]. ►
On hawking mucus appearances of blood, in the evening (third day), [2a].
► *Frequently obliged to clear his
throat, alternating with hoarseness, [1].
► Throat dry, especially towards
evening (second day), [2]. [80.]
► Very disagreeable sensation of
dryness in the throat (fourth day), [2].
► Tickling and scraping in the
throat, without inclination to cough, with only need of raising mucus
(first day), [2].
STOMACH.
►
Hunger in the middle of the night, when he happens to rise, [1].
► Increased hunger and desire for
food (second day), [2]. ►
Hunger immediately, in the morning (second day), [2].
► Frequent desire for brandy, [1].
► Desire for salt things (earlier
action); aversion to salt things (later action), [1].
► Little appetite, in the morning, [1].
► Much thirst, in the evening (first
day), [2]. ►
Even late in the evening a great desire to drink brandy (in one quite
unaccustomed to it), [1]. [90.]
► Hiccough and eructations caused by
smoking before eating, [1]. ►
Inclination to vomit (twenty-seventh day), [2a].
► Feels very sick after sleep, [1].
► Cramp in the stomach (Kerner), [1].
► Pressure in the stomach as if cramp
would occur (third day), [2].
ABDOMEN.
►
Violent splenetic stitches between the tip of the left ilium and the
umbilicus, in the abdomen, while walking, so that he could scarcely
move, [1]. ►
Pains in the right side around under the last ribs, especially on
inspiration, extending to the region of the kidneys, which
were sensitive to external pressure, [1].
► Rumbling in the abdomen, before
eating, [1]. ►
Cutting colic, disappearing after a single emission of flatus, in the
evening, repeated in the night (first day), [1].
RECTUM AND ANUS.
►
Tenesmus (Hong.), [1].
STOOL.
[100.]
► Pasty stool, followed by a
sensation in the anus like that after a hard stool (first day), [1].
► Frequent semifluid stools with
tenesmus (t.), [1]. ►
Threads like hairs in the stools (Jahr.), [1].
► Stool hard and accumulated in the
rectum to such an extent that it could scarcely be evacuated (after a
week), [1]. ►
Stool difficult, at the end slimy (after one week), [1].
► Stool harder than usual, at the end
of which some blood was passed (later action), [1].
► Omission of the usual morning stool
(second day); a natural stool (third day), [2].
► Constipation (Hong.), [1].
URINARY ORGANS.
►
Some fluid passes from the orifice of the urethra before urinating, [1].
► *A drop of watery sticky substance
passes from the urethra just before the stool and soon afterwards,
[1]. [110.]
► *Dribbling of prostatic fluid,
[1]. ►
*While sitting a drop of prostatic fluid passes from the orifice of the
urethra with a peculiar disagreeable sensation, [1].
► *Sensation in the tip of the urethra as
if a biting drop were forcing its way out, [1].
► Twinging pain along the urethra
from behind forward, with a sensation as if
drops were passing out, [1].
► Always obliged to urinate some time
after a stool, [1]. ►
Obliged to wait a long time when urinating, [1].
► *Involuntary dribbling of urine, while
walking (seventh day), [2a].
► *Dribbling of urine after urinating,
especially after a stool, [1]. ►
Frequent micturition, at night (first day), [2].
► Urine very abundant, about six
times the amount he drank, and frothy, [2].
[120.] ►
The urine has a strong odor of violets (after six minutes), [2a].
► Red urine (Hong.), [1].
► Red, sandy, coarse-grained sediment
in the urine (fourth day), (t.), [1].
► Urine red, in the evening, [1].
► Urine with brickdust sediment
(fifteenth day), [2a]. ►
A very small quantity of dark urine once, [1].
► Urine scanty and dark, [1].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
►
Male. ► Violent erection
though without voluptuous sensation, immediately on waking in the
morning (third day), [2]. ►
Renewed erections, with much itching in the urethra, [1].
► In the evening while by his wife no
erections, but the next morning on lying awake in bed erections, without
sexual desire or voluptuous sensation (third day), [3].
[130.] ►
Erections incomplete, [1]. ►
Weak erection during sexual excitement, [1].
► Something behind the left testicle,
thicker than natural and stony hard, [1].
► Jerking pains in the right
testicle, in the evening, [1]. ►
*Involuntary dribbling of semen during sleep, [1].
► Seminal discharge, with rheumatic
pains (Hong.), [1]. ►
Seminal emissions three times a week, [4].
► The semen, during coition and from
emission, as also that which dribbles away unnoticed, is very thin and wholly
without odor, [1]. ►
Coition desired only mentally, not physically; erection results very
slowly and incompletely; finally too speedy emission, though with very
long-continued pleasurable sensation, [1].
► Female. ►
Menses delayed about eight days (t.), [1].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
[140.]
► *Increased hoarseness while singing,
especially at the beginning, [1].
► *Cough in the morning, that,
though alight and weak, affects the whole chest, and
lumps of mucus with blood are expectorated, [1].
► Cough, from low down in the chest,
and expectoration of opaque mucus and blood, [1].
► Frequent deep breathing, as when
sighing, [1]. ►
Oppression of breath and stitches in the side, in the open air (fourth
day), (t.), [1].
CHEST.
►
Oppression of the chest, stoppage of the nose, dryness of the ness
(second day), (t.), [1]. ►
Sensation of fulness in the chest and about the heart, like an
oppression, [1]. ►
At night, when lying down, pains in the chest as if raw, in the left
side, and also here and there in the small of the back, oppressing the
breathing, [1]. ►
In the middle of the chest, pain on raising the arm and on external
pressure, [1]. ►
Violent stitches in the left side at night; the next day entirely well,
but again in the evening stiffness of the neck and stitches in the
sides, followed by quiet sleep; the next day stitches in the sides in
the morning and evening, also when walking in the open air, oppression
of breathing (t.), [1]. [150.]
► Blood in the breasts (Hong.), [1].
NECK AND BACK.
►
Cramp in the neck (Hong.), [1]. ►
Transient tearing through the left side of the neck and down the
posterior surface of the left leg, [1].
► (Drawing-sticking pressure in the
left side of the nape of the neck, extending into the left eye with
lachrymation, at intervals of half an hour), (second month), [2a].
► Pain in the glands in the left side
of the neck above the carotid, especially on pressure, with at times
tearing pains along the neck, [1].
► A hard swelling on the back
(Hong.), [1]. ►
The small of the back feels lame, in the morning, without pain, [1].
► Paralytic pain in the small of the
back, relieved by lying on the abdomen; bending backward aggravates the
pain, [1]. ►
Soreness in the tuberosities of the ischia in a lean person, [1].
EXTREMITIES.
►
Stiffness of the limbs, especially in the wrists, as if beaten, in the
morning, [1]. [160.]
► Stiffness and cramp in all the
limbs (Kerner), [1]. ►
Pains in all the limbs as after taking cold, [1].
► Pains in the joints (Hong.), [1].
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
►
Increased cracking of the wrists when stretched, [1].
► Tearing in the hands at night,
[1]. ►
Internal twitching in the left hand, and the side of the little finger, [1].
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.
►
Tearing extending down the posterior surface of the left thigh, through
only half of the left leg, [1]. ►
Cracking in the knee on moving it, while lying down, [1].
► Cramp in the calves, heels, the
knee, ankles, malleoli, in he flexor tendons of the great toe, in the
evening while lying down, [1]. ►
Pain in the calves and toes (Hong.), [1].
[170.] ►
Swelling of the ankles (Hong.), [1].
► Pains in the feet, with seminal
emissions (Hong.), [1]. ►
Cramp in the soles at night and towards morning on motion, while lying
down, [1]. ►
Violent stitches in the corns, [1].
GENERALITIES.
►
Remarkable, emaciation, especially of the face, hands, about the loins,
and on the calves, [1]. ►
Weakness, sleepiness, and yawning (twenty-seventh day), [2a].
► *He became very weak, [4].
► Irresistible desire to lie down and
sleep; followed by aggravation of all the symptoms, [1].
► As long as the heat of the day
lasted, he was obliged to lie down and remained half asleep; even his
imagination was quite relaxed, [1].
► Obliged to stop suddenly while
sitting and working and lie down, without feeling any other effects than
that it is quite impossible to do the slightest thing, [1].
[180.] ►
After eating exhausted, desire to lie down without being able to sleep,
on account of a throbbing in the vessels through the whole body; the
pulsation is especially felt in the abdomen, [1].
► Very weak and irritable after
coition, [1]. ►
A first coryza, then fever, on the next evening headache, which he never
had before; in the upper part of the middle of the forehead, extending
towards the vertex, a pressing pain continued all the next day; the hat
annoyed him, the painful part was warmer than natural; the hand felt
pleasant, it was the same in every position; in addition to the headache
there were bruised feelings and heaviness in all the limbs, so that he
could scarcely walk; during the headache he woke at night with cough
(Gosh.), (After repeated doses of the highest preparation.), [1].
► An attack; almost incessant
vertigo, everything whirled about, so that he was obliged to keep his
eyes closed most of the time, followed by nausea, with outbreak of
anxious sweat over the whole body, and afterwards vomiting of all food,
though he had relished the meal; after the vomiting of food there
followed vomiting of water and mucus without taste, and at last of sour
water; the paroxysms were most violent an hour after breakfast and
dinner, and were followed by excessive weakness, with great thirst for
cold water, which, however, was always vomited; taste flat and insipid,
though the tongue was not coated; stool large, soft, colored with bile;
stitches in the forepart of the chest, as from incarcerated flatus;
feeling of a board before the forehead; afterwards a feeling as if the
head were pressed against the pillow by a warm hand on the forehead;
with frequent hiccough and eructations, great stupefaction of the head,
inability to collect his thoughts, and frequent lying in a doze; he was
obliged to lie perfectly quiet, since on moving or rising up in bed the
vertigo increased; urine red, scanty; emission of flatus relieved the
symptoms. These attacks recurred every half to one hour for forty-eight
hours, except that at night he was quiet for a longer time; Ipecac.,
Coloc., Asarum, without effect; Arsenic seemed to relieve the nausea and
vomiting, but its action did not last; the most helpful were spirits of
Camphor and warm water, taken in spoonfuls alternately with black
coffee, when he was obliged to hawk up much mucus (fourteenth day), [2a].
► Jerking in the whole body, in the
evening on falling asleep, [1]. ►
Tearing in the left side of the trunk and head, stiffness in the nape of
the neck and in the cervical muscles, impeding turning of the head
(second day), (t.), [1]. ►
The slightest draft of air is intolerable; he takes cold easily
therefrom, and then has tearing in the limbs, [1].
► All his symptoms are worse after
sleep (to which he is very much inclined), especially on hot days, [1].
► Feels worse after the sleep, to
which he is very much inclined, [1].
SKIN.
►
Objective. ► The skin of
the face seems fatty, [1]. [190.]
► Small pimples behind the ear, [1].
► Red itching rash in the hepatic
region, [1]. ►
Small itching pimples on the back, [1].
► Rash on the forearms, [1].
► Itching pimples on the hands, [1].
► Itching and small pimples on the
nates, [1]. ►
A pimples on the left calf, which he is obliged to scratch till sore,
the spot remains moist for a long time, [1].
► A piece of skin separates from the
sides of several nails until it becomes sore and painful, [1].
► A lump in the skin to the inner
side of the right tendo Achillis without itching or pain, [1].
► Itching vesicles on the ulnar
margin of the left hand, [1]. [200.]
► Flat pustules without pain on the
left inner malleolus become ulcers, [1].
► Itching blisters on the eyebrow, [1].
► Blisters about the ankle, scratched
sore, remain moist for several days and afterwards are very sensitive, [1].
► Itching-smarting blisters between
the thigh and scrotum, [1]. ►
A blister has been rubbed off, in the morning on the middle knuckle of
the second left toe, [1]. ►
Ulcerations (Hong.), [1]. ►
Herpetic ulcers on the feet (Hong.), [1].
► Subjective. ►
Biting in all parts of the body, most on the palms (t.), [1].
► (Burning in the ulcers on the
feet), [1]. ►
Frequent crawling, as from dust, in small spots about the mouth, cheeks,
and chin, compelling violent scratching, after which it disappears, [1].
[210.] ►
Itching on the septum of the nose provokes rubbing, returning
frequently, [1]. ►
Itching on the scrotum, [1]. ►
Itching on the inner surface of the wrist, [1].
► Itching on the balls of the
fingers; after scratching, a white spot with red areola, [1].
► Violent itching in a very small
spot between the third and fourth fingers, [1].
► Itching about the ankles, [1].
► Violent itching between the tendo
Achillis and malleolus, [1]. ►
Itching of the soles, [1]. ►
Itching on the soles of the feet, in the evening, [1].
SLEEP.
►
Sleepiness early in the evening, followed by only partial sleep with
much waking; in the middle of the night he becomes quite awake; after
reading, sleepy again; only towards morning does he have sound sleep, [1].
[220.] ►
Sleepy early in the evening, contrary to habit he was obliged to lie
down, and immediately fell asleep (second day), [2].
► Sleeps as if dead, all the
forenoon, [1]. ►
Could scarcely rouse himself, in the morning (third day), [2].
► On waking from sleep he was at
first unconscious and afterwards indolent, but all the more wide awake
after washing, [1]. ►
Unable to fall asleep for a long time, in the evening, [1].
► Falls asleep late and wakes early, [1].
► Falls asleep late at night (third
day), [2]. ►
Awakened at night by every slight noise, [1].
► Wide awake, very early in the
morning (fourth day), [2]. ►
After 3 A.M., he remained awake and felt well, [1].
[230.] ►
In the afternoon he woke from a sound sleep full of dreams, precisely to
the minute at the time he had determined upon (fourteenth day), [1].
► Very early waking always at the
same hour however late he falls asleep, for several weeks, [1].
► Sleep full of dreams, with loud
calculations (second night), [2]. ►
Sleep with many unremembered dreams, [1].
► Dreams of journeys and of desire
for coition, with violent erections on waking (first day), [2a].
► Dreams of quarrels, of an unnatural
horrible cruelty, [1]. ►
Dreams of the occurrences of the day, [1].
► Historical dreams of distant
people, at night, [1].
FEVER.
►
Chill, at 7 P.M., very severe for ten to twenty minutes, followed by
violent fever, with headache and nausea; waking in sweat, at night, [1].
► Glowing heat in the skin, as if it
came from a stove, noticed externally, not internally, though he is hot
in different spots in the body, now in the side, now in the chest, or
abdomen, or loins, especially after eating, after the midday nap, even
when lying in the cool air, [1]. [240.]
► Easy perspiration while walking and
during the daily nap, [1]. ►
Sweat on going out, in the forenoon, [1].
► Sweat in the lower abdomen and in
the pubic region, while sitting, [1].
► Sweat on the chest and in the
axillæ, causing stiff white spots on the linen, [1].
CONDITIONS.
►
Aggravation. ► (Morning),
vertigo; tongue coated white; hawking and raising of transparent lumps
of mucus; lameness in small of back; stiffness of the limbs; on motion,
cramp in calves. ► (Afternoon),
Headache; while walking, stitches between left ilium and umbilicus. ►
(Evening), When excited, loquacity;
vertigo; fluent coryza; in bed, toothache; while lying down, cramp in
calves, heels ankles, malleoli and flexor tendons of great toe; on
falling asleep, jerking in whole body; itching of soles of feet. ►
(Night), Tearing in hands; cramp in
soles. ► (Bending
backward), Pain in small of back. ►
(After coition), Weak and irritable.
► (Before
eating), Rumbling in abdomen. ►
(Going from cold air into warm room),
Stitches in forehead, temples, and eyes. ►
(Inspiration), Pains in right side. ►
(Moving knee), While lying down,
cracking in part. ► (External
pressure), Pain in middle of chest. ►
(On raising arm), Pain in middle of
chest. ► (After
sleep), Symptoms. ► (On
standing up), Vertigo; pressure in occiput. ►
(On waking), Red cheeks; dryness of
mouth and fauces. ► Amelioration.
► (Eating),
Toothache. ► (Drinking),
Toothache. ► (Inserting
finger), Stoppage of ears. ►
(Lying on abdomen), Pain in small of
back. ► (Smoking),
Toothache. ► (Taking
cold water or cold into the mouth), Toothache.® 2000
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