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RED AND BLUE ONLY – Selenium. (Selenium Metallicum.) – THE GUIDING SYMPTOMS OF OUR MATERIA MEDICA By CONSTANTINE HERING, M.D.

Main * Sel.

[1] Mind.
[2] Sensorium.
[3]
Inner head.
[4]
Outer head.
[5] Sight and eyes.
[6] Hearing and ears.
[7]
Smell and nose.
[8] Upper face.
[9] Lower face.
[10]
Teeth and gums.
[11] Taste, speech, tongue.
[12] Inner mouth.
[13] Palate and throat.

[14]
Appetite, thirst. Desires..
[15]
Eating and drinking.
[16] Hiccough, belching, nausea..

[17] Scrobiculum and stomach.
[18] Hypochondria.
[19] Abdomen and loins.
[20]
Stools and rectum.
[21]
Urinary organs.
[22]
Male sexual organs.
[23] Female sexual organs.
[24] Pregnancy. Parturition..
[25] Voice and larynx. Trachea..
[26] Respiration.
[27]
Cough.
[28]
Inner chest and lungs.
[29] Heart, pulse and circulation.
[30] Outer chest.
[31] Neck and back.
[32]
Upper limbs.

[33] Lower limbs.
[34] Limbs in general.
[35] Rest. Position. Motion.
[36]
Nerves.
[37] Sleep.
[38] Time.
[39] Temperature and weather.
[40] Fever.
[41] Attacks, periodicity.
[42] Locality and direction.
[43] Sensations.
[44] Tissues.
[45] Touch. Injuries..
[46]
Skin.
[47] Stage of life, constitution.
[48] Relations.

Sel. * Full text * Red and blue only * Red only

MIND. [1] [Sel.]

Mental labor fatigues him.
Lascivious thoughts with impotency.
   

INNER HEAD. [3] [Sel.]

Violent headache commenced in forehead and gradually involved whole head ; heavily coated tongue ; nausea ; frequent vomiting of bilious-looking matter ; her usual cup of tea was followed by an aggravation of all the symptoms.
Headache of drunkards ; headache after debauchery.
   

OUTER HEAD. [4] [Sel.]

Hair comes out when combing ; also from eyebrows, whiskers and genitals.
Tingling itching on scalp in evening, oozing after scratching.
   

SMELL AND NOSE. [7] [Sel.]

Complete obstruction of nose, chronic.
   

TEETH AND GUMS. [10] [Sel.]

Toothache from drinking tea.
   

APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] [Sel.]

Great longing for ardent spirits ; an almost maniacal irresistible desire, has to get completely drunk and feels distressed afterward ; wants to go to an insane asylum. θ Chronic alcoholism.
   

EATING AND DRINKING. [15] [Sel.]

Bad effects : from sugar ; from salt food ; from drinking tea ; from lemonade.
   

STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] [Sel.]

Stool : hard and so impacted that it requires mechanical aid ; mucus or blood passes with last portion ; contains threads of fecal matter like hair.
Stools exceedingly difficult and threaten to tear anus, from their immense size ; hours may be spent in an effort at evacuation, stool can be seen through the distended anus as an immense hard, dark-colored ball ; the sufferings are great and patient becomes wonderfully agitated.
   

URINARY ORGANS. [21] [Sel.]

Involuntary dribbling of urine while walking, also after urinating, especially after stool.
Urine : dark, scanty ; red, in evening ; sediment coarse, red, sandy.
   

MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] [Sel.]

Erections slow, insufficient ; semen emitted too rapidly and with long-continued thrill ; weak, ill-humored after an embrace, weakness in loins.
Semen thin, without normal odor.
Lewd thoughts, but physically impotent.
Impotence.
Seminal emissions about twice a week, lascivious dreams, is always awakened by it ; always rises with weakness and lameness in small of back. θ Spermatorrhœa.
Prostatic juice oozes while sitting, during sleep, when walking and at stool.
Frequent itching in small spots on skin and development of small vesicles on hands and feet ; sleep disturbed by confused and lascivious dreams ; glowing sensation of skin in various parts of body ; severe stitching pain over left eye, returning every afternoon ; belching before eating, particularly after smoking ; after eating desire to lie down with inability to fall asleep ; pain in region of right kidney, < from inspiration ; dribbling of urine after stool ; while at stool must wait a long while to urinate ; discharge of prostatic fluid before and after stool ; profuse sweat about abdomen and pubes ; dull pain in perineum, < urinating, evacuating bowels and during ejaculation of semen ; swelling of prostata, feels hard and causes narrowing of urethra ; seminal emissions during sleep ; weak erections although sexual desire may be great ; premature ejaculation of semen ; cough on awaking ; expectoration of small lumps of mucus and blood ; tearing pains in posterior part of thighs. θ Prostatitis and atony of sexual organs.
Prostatitis caused by an immense hard stool.
Discharge of slimy mucus from ten to fifteen drops or a tablespoonful looking like milk. θ Prostatic gleet.
Gonorrhœa (secondary) ; gleet.
   

VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] [Sel.]

Voice husky when beginning to sing, or from talking long ; hawks transparent lumps every morning, sometimes bloody.
Hoarseness after long use of voice ; frequent necessity to clear the throat on account of accumulation of clear starchy mucus.
Tubercular laryngitis ; raising of small lumps of blood and mucus ; tendency to hoarseness ; cervical glands swollen, hard but not sore.
   

COUGH. [27] [Sel.]

Cough in morning though slight and weak affects whole chest, and lumps of mucus with blood are expectorated.
   

INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] [Sel.]

Pains in right side and under last ribs especially on inspiration, extending to kidneys, which are sensitive to external pressure.
   

UPPER LIMBS. [32] [Sel.]

Itching in palms ; vesicles on and between fingers.
Dry, scaly eruption on palms of hands with itching, having a syphilitic base.
   

NERVES. [36] [Sel.]

Weakness and general debility ; easy fatigue from any exertion or labor ; especially in hot weather.
Irresistible desire to lie down and sleep ; strength suddenly leaves him.
Easy exhaustion ; inability to perform any kind of labor, either mental or physical ; sexual desire with debility and relaxation of organs ; loss of prostatic juice.
Great nervous debility after typhus, particularly when sensations of patient spread from above downward.
Very great aversion to a draft of air either warm, cold or damp.
   

SKIN. [46] [Sel.]

Hair falls off, on head, eyebrows, whiskers and other parts of body.

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