Selenium Metallicum

• ▸Kallenbach (H.
• ▸R.
• ▸, x.
• ▸473) gives some experience with Semp.
• ▸t.
• ▸In Hufeland's

Journal, says Kallenbach, "the fresh juice is recommended in chronic aphthee in grown persons

in causal relation to hemorrhoids, as well as in scirrhous indurations of the tongue." In many

countries Semp. has a popular reputation for indurations and sores on the tongue. Reichel, of

Staben, considers it curative in spasms of the uterus and in menstrual disturbances of all kinds, as

well as in cases of too exalted vascular activity in the sexual sphere; also in aural troubles

consequent on hardened ear-wax and in inflammatory exudations of the ear. Kallenbach was

• ▸consulted—(/) By Mrs.
• ▸S.
• ▸, 44, childless, of sickly looks, for an affection of the tongue.
• ▸For the

previous six months menses had appeared only every eight to ten weeks, and were accompanied

with pains darting from small of back to uterus and vulva. During the six months she had

stitching pain on right rim of tongue about 3/4 inch from the point, at which place, after a few

weeks, a swelling formed, the size of a small bean, which bled at times, and at night caused a

burning sensation as of a small coal, disturbing sleep. Sour food = pain. The swelling is not hard

on the surface, but contains two hard nodules, of size of lentils, one of which is denuded and

bleeds on touch. Three enlarged veins cross the swelling and enter the tongue muscle behind it.

• ▸After over a month of treatment with Aur.
• ▸, Ars.
• ▸, Carb.
• ▸v.
• ▸, in vain, Kallenbach moistened the

swelling with the fresh juice of Semp. thrice a day. Within three days it was smaller and folds

appeared, the enlarged veins were contracted, formed thin, tense vessels crossing the swelling

and seemingly tying it. During the next three days the patient applied the juice too energetically,

and Kallenbach found the surroundings in inflammatory irritation and very sensitive. The

application was stopped, and Semp. 2x given internally. After a week's use the swelling had

shrivelled to one-third, and ten days later the menses, which had ceased altogether, reappeared,

and continued very profusely for five days. The swelling shrivelled to the size of a small pea, was

firmer, harder, devoid of sensation, and gave no further trouble. The menses continued regular.

(2) Mrs. X., 27, mother of a six months' old healthy boy, formerly frequently afflicted with

swelling of the glands, very sensitive to homceopathic remedies, complained of a pain under her

tongue of ten days' duration, interfering with eating and speaking. There was a bluish red

elevation on under side of tongue of size of split bean, hard, and along both sides there were

enlarged veins. On one side a denuded spot exuded a whitish albuminous matter which could

easily be wiped off: Semp. 6, one powder every forty-eight hours. On the second day the

swelling was less sensitive, and in a week much smaller. Then the menses reappeared (first time

since confinement), and in three weeks the whole swelling was gone, leaving only in its place a

• ▸somewhat engorged vein.
• ▸Kallenbach, treated with applications of 1x a General v.
• ▸B.
• ▸who had

nodules on left rim of his tongue with swollen veins, the nodules disappeared, and the

sensitiveness was removed, and the patient was so well that he refused to stay for the completion

• ▸of the cure, and failed to report.
• ▸My own experience with Semp.
• ▸was in domestic practice.
• ▸For

some childish affection of the eyes in my own case, rags moistened with "Houseleek and cream"

(about equal parts of the juice and fresh cream) were applied, and my recollection of it is that the

application was exceedingly pleasant.

• ▸Alcohol.
• ▸Tea.
• ▸Sugar.
• ▸Salt.
• ▸Lemonade.
• ▸Debauchery.
• ▸Walking.
• ▸Exertion.

Masturbation. Loss of fluids.

• ▸Lascivious thoughts, with impotency.
• ▸Mental labor fatigues.
• ▸Extreme sadness.
• ▸Abject despair, uncompromising melancholy.

Reveries of a religious and melancholy character.—Great loquacity; fond of

• ▸conversing; esp.
• ▸in evening.
• ▸—Excessive forgetfulness, esp.
• ▸in matters of business —Great

forgetfulness when awake, with distinct recollection during half sleep.—A kind of stammering;

he uses syllables of words in wrong connections, therefore pronounces some words

incorrectly.—Difficult comprehension.—Absolute incapacity to execute any business

whatever.—Mental labour fatigues him.—Dread of society.

[Escape of seminal fluids, particularly when straining at stool, which

condition may be accompanied with headache, sleeplessness, weakness, and troubles in general;

complaints after stool impotence of the male; spermatorrhoea; weakness of the sexual powers

nocturnal pollutions.—Deep respiration.—Itch where the pustule comes between the fingers; foul

exanthema.—Perspires too easily; on single parts; on forepart of body.—< While drinking tea;

after stool; while, or after talking; can't bear to have the hair touched; walking in the open

• ▸air.
• ▸—H.
• ▸N.
• ▸G.
• ▸].
• ▸—~< After sleep, esp.
• ▸on hot days, from lemonade, wine; from very salt food; in the

• ▸sun.
• ▸—Excessive emaciation, esp.
• ▸of face, hands, and legs (thighs).
• ▸—Cinchona produces

extraordinary sufferings, and < those which are already in existence to an insupportable

• ▸degree.
• ▸—Throbbing in vessels of whole body, esp.
• ▸felt in abdomen.
• ▸—Strong inclination to lie

• ▸down and to sleep, esp.
• ▸during heat of day.
• ▸—Symptoms < after sleep.
• ▸—Inability to bear a draught

of air——Every draught of air, even warm, = pain in limbs, head, &c.

• ▸Hair falls out.
• ▸Pain over left eye; worse walking in sun, strong odors and tea.
• ▸Scalp feels tense.
• ▸Headache from tea drinking.

The head becomes affected by intellectual labour.—Vertigo: on lifting head, rising

from a seat; raising himself in bed; moving about; with nausea, vomiting, faintness; < (an hour)

after breakfast and dinner.—Headache every afternoon.—Headache after drinking lemonade,

wine, or tea—Violent attacks of lancinating pains in head above (1.) eye, with desire to lie down,

sensibility in exterior of head, copious emission of urine, anorexia, and melancholy, excited by

walking (in the sun) and by strong smells —Headache of drunkards; headache after

debauchery.—Falling off of the hair when combing it; also of eyebrows, whiskers, and genitals,

with tingling-itching on scalp in evening, oozing after scratching, and with tension and sensation

of contraction of scalp, with emaciation of face and hands.—Pain in scalp, as if hair were pulled

out.

• ▸Pains deep in orbits.
• ▸—Spasmodic twitching of 1.
• ▸eyeball.
• ▸—Itching vesicles on eyebrows

and margins of lids.—Falling off of eyebrows.

Itching in nose, in nostrils, and on margins of alz nasi.—Tendency to bore fingers into

• ▸nose.
• ▸—Complete obstruction of nose (chronic).
• ▸—Coryza ending in diarrhcea.
• ▸—Fluent coryza in

evening.—Yellow, thick, gelatinous mucus in nose.

Greasy, shining skin of face-—Twitching in muscles of face.—Great emaciation of face

and hands.—Upper lip cracked—Comedones.

Pain under root of tongue.—Tongue loaded with a thick white coating in

morning.—Stammering speech; articulates with great difficulty.

Toothache which compels use of toothpick till the blood comes.—Boring in

molars.—Teeth covered with mucus.—Toothache from tea—The teeth become free of mucus,

hard, and smooth, and crack when rubbed.—Toothache with feeling of coldness, > taking cold

water and cold air into mouth.

• ▸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).

• ▸Desire for brandy and other strong drink.
• ▸Sweetish taste.
• ▸Hiccough and eructations after smoking.
• ▸After eating, pulsation all over, especially abdomen.

Sweetish, disagreeable taste after smoking.—Anorexia in morning (with white-

• ▸coated tongue).
• ▸—Hunger at night.
• ▸—Dislike to salt things.
• ▸—Frequent desire for brandy.
• ▸—Bad

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

Hiccough and risings after smoking before eating. —Inclination to vomit.—Feels

very sick after sleep.—Cramp in stomach.—Pressure in stomach as if cramp would occur.

Chronic liver affections; liver painful, enlarged, with fine rash over liver region. Stool constipated, hard and accumulated in rectum.

Throbbing of the arteries in the whole body, esp. in abdomen after a meal —Pain

in the liver, esp. on taking an inspiration, extending to the renal region, with sensibility to

• ▸external pressure.
• ▸—Red itching, miliary eruption in the hepatic region.
• ▸—Pains in r.
• ▸side, around

under last ribs, esp. on inspiration, extending to region of kidneys.—Violent shootings in spleen

when walking.

Constipation.—Hard evacuations, followed by a discharge of mucus or of

blood when passing the last portion of it; stool so hard and impacted that it has to be removed by

mechanical aid.—Stools exceedingly difficult and threaten to tear anus from their immense size;

hours spent in effort; stool can be seen through distended anus as an immense, dark, hard ball;

sufferings great, patient becomes wonderfully agitated Somewhat liquid feeces, with

tenesmus.—Filaments, like hairs, in faeces.

Urine: scanty and red in evening; red sediment, like coarse

sand.—Involuntary dribbling of urine when walking.—Dribbling of urine after micturition and

after stool—Sensation in tip of urethra, as if a biting drop were forcing its way out.

Sensation in the tip of urethra as if a biting drop were forcing its way out. Involuntary dribbling.

• ▸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.

Tickling and itching in genitals, esp. in scrotum.—Impotence; with

lascivious ideas.—Pollutions, with flaccidity of penis Discharge of semen, drop by drop, during

sleep.—Lascivious dreams with emissions which waken him, followed by lameness and

weakness in small of back.—Flow of prostatic fluid during evacuation and at other times.—Thin

and scentless semen.—During coition, feeble erection, too prompt emission, and long-continued

voluptuous thrill.—Priapism, glans drawn up.—Gonorrheea (secondary); gleet—Debility

(weakness in loins) and peevishness after coition.

Hoarseness on beginning to sing (or from singing; talking or long

reading; voice hoarse and husky).—Hawking up of mucus and of small clots of blood.—Cough in

morning, which fatigues whole chest, with expectoration of blood and small globules of

mucus.—Difficulty of breathing when walking in open air.—Frequent efforts to breathe deeply,

like sighing.—Respiration obstructed at night, when lying down, by pains in chest, side, and

loins.

Cramp in neck.—Pain through I. side of neck and down back of 1.

• ▸leg.
• ▸—Pain in glands |.
• ▸side of neck.
• ▸—Rigidity of muscles of neck and nape, which hinders head

being turned.—Hard swelling on back.—Paralytic pain in small of back, > lying on

abdomen.—Sensation of paralysis in loins.—Pain as from lameness in small of back in morning.

Miliaria in forearm.—Tearing in hands at night, with cracking in

wrists.—Itching at wrist, in palms; itching vesicles on and between fingers.—Dry, scaly eruption

on palms, with itching, having syphilitic base.—Painful hang-nails.—Scabious pimples on

hand.—Emaciation of hands.

Itching pimples on buttocks and thighs, near the scrotum.—Emaciation of

legs —Cramps in calves and soles.—Legs feel weak, with fear of paralysis after typhus.—The

knees crack when they are bent (at night).—Flat ulcers on (lower) legs.—Itching in feet, esp.

round ankles, in evening.—Blisters on toes.

Paralytic pains in small of back in the morning. Tearing pain in hands, at night.

• ▸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).
• ▸Seborrhoea oleosa; comedones with an oily surface of the skin; alopecia.
• ▸Acne.

Frequent tingling in circumscribed parts of skin, with great provocation to

scratch.—Miliary eruption.—Red rash on region of liver—Prolonged oozing from parts which

have been scratched.—Flat ulcers.—Itching in folds of skin, between fingers and about joints, esp.

ankle joint.—Hair falls off head, whiskers, and other parts.

Sleep prevented by pulsation in all vessels, worse abdomen. Sleepless until midnight, awakens early and always same hour.

Disposition to sleep early in evening, with imperfect sleep and frequent waking

during night—Retarded sleep in evening.—Jerks in body when going to sleep.—Light sleep at

night, and waking with least noise.—Waking early in morning, and always at same

hour.—Sleepless before midnight—Symptoms < after a siesta; on hot days.—Dreams of quarrels

and unnatural cruelty.

Pulse very little accelerated.—Burning heat, extending over considerable portions of

the skin (chest, abdomen, loins, and ribs).—Constant alternation of heat and cold.—Perspiration

from least exertion.—Perspiration as soon as he sleeps, day or night.—Tendency to profuse

perspiration when walking, or during an afternoon sleep.—Perspiration (on chest, genitals, and

under axillze) which leaves yellow or white spots on linen and stiffens it—External heat, with

burning in skin, and only in single spots.

Sempervivum Tectorum.

• ▸Sempervivum tectorum.
• ▸Houseleek.
• ▸N.
• ▸O.
• ▸Crassulacez.
• ▸Tincture of fresh leaves.

• ▸Antidoted by: Ign.
• ▸, Puls.
• ▸(Mur.
• ▸ac.
• ▸in a case of mine).
• ▸Incompatible: Chi.
• ▸, Wine.

• ▸Compatible after: Calad.
• ▸, Nat.
• ▸c.
• ▸, Staph.
• ▸, Pho.
• ▸ac.
• ▸(in sexual weakness) Itch checked by Merc.
• ▸or

• ▸Sul.
• ▸often requires Sel.
• ▸Compare: Hunger at night, Cin.
• ▸, Pso.
• ▸, Ign.
• ▸, Lyc.
• ▸Impacted stool, Alo.
• ▸,

• ▸Calc.
• ▸, Sanic.
• ▸, Sep.
• ▸, Sel.
• ▸Impotence (Chlor.
• ▸sudden).
• ▸Priapism, glans drawn up, Berb.
• ▸; (glans

• ▸drawn down, Canth.
• ▸).
• ▸Aphonia of singers, Caust.
• ▸, Arg.
• ▸m.
• ▸, Stan.
• ▸, Ar.
• ▸t.
• ▸, Graph.
• ▸Prostatitis and

• ▸urethritis, Lith.
• ▸c.
• ▸, Dig.
• ▸, Cyc.
• ▸, Caust.
• ▸, Lyc.
• ▸, Cop.
• ▸Hot weather fatigue, Lach.
• ▸, Camph.
• ▸, Nat.
• ▸c.
• ▸,

• ▸Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸Bad effects of mental exertion and loss of sleep, Sul.
• ▸Impotence, Sul.
• ▸(Sul.
• ▸has more

coldness and shrivelling of the organs; Sel. more total relaxation, so that semen escapes

• ▸involuntarily and dribbles).
• ▸Exhaustion consequent on protracted diseases, Sul.
• ▸(Sul.
• ▸has flushes

• ▸of heat on least motion; and gone feeling in forenoon).
• ▸Periodical headaches, Sul.
• ▸(Sel.
• ▸every

afternoon, < from tea; Sul. once a week, < from coffee). Headaches of drunkards or debauchees,

• ▸Sul.
• ▸(Sul.
• ▸< from all forms of alcohol; Sel.
• ▸headaches are sometimes > from brandy; also its

• ▸gastric symptoms).
• ▸"Cat-naps," Sul.
• ▸(Sel.
• ▸wakes precisely at same hour, before rising time, at

which all symptoms <; Sul. has not the periodic hour for waking, and does not fall asleep again).

• ▸Itching in folds of skin, Sul.
• ▸(Sel.
• ▸has also "tingling in spots").
• ▸Chronic enlargement of liver, Sul.

• ▸Loss of appetite in morning, Sul.
• ▸(Sul.
• ▸has increase of thirst; Sel.
• ▸has not.
• ▸Sel.
• ▸has white tongue;

• ▸Sul.
• ▸has not).
• ▸Emaciation, Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸, Chi.
• ▸Debility from loss of fluids, Chi.
• ▸Twitching of face, Tell.

• ▸Bores fingers in nose, Cin.
• ▸, Ar.
• ▸t.
• ▸Throbbing after meals, Nat.
• ▸c.
• ▸< From tea, Thuj.
• ▸, Fer.
• ▸Pain in

• ▸back with emissions, Cob.
• ▸Fatigue, Pic.
• ▸ac.
• ▸Sun effects, Sol.
• ▸Larynx, Nat.
• ▸sel.

Incompatible: China; Wine.

Compare: Agnus; Calad; Sulphur; Tellur; Phosph acid.

Antidotes: Ign; Puls.

Sixth to thirtieth potency. Colloidal Selenium injection for inoperable cancer. Pain, sleeplessness, ulceration and discharge are markedly diminished.

continually, with great prostration, small thread-like pulse ; in old

people or drunkards ; of young women ; from debility/’

Those poisoned by ergot become victims of opacity of the lens as

in senile debility ; cataract of old persons.

The withered scrawny person with tendency to ulcerations, unhealthy skin and aggravation from heat, is striking in both acute and

chronic states.

Chronic diarrhoea exhaustive, watery discharges, cholera. It is related to Camphor. Scrawny people take cholera, skin cold and blue ;

better from cold. Violent and continued thirst.

Diarrhoea and haemorrhages are likely to come together ; diarrhoea

of bloody water or dark liquid blood.

Large doses produce such contractures of the uterus that its contents

arc expelled and an exhausting haemorrhage follows ; expulsion of large

clots and in the early stages mixed with some red blood, but the most

striking feature is liquid, black discharge.

“Asiatic cholera with collapse, sunken, distorted face, particularly

the mouth, crawling sensation as of ants.”

Paretic condition : paralysis of lower extremities ; of one side ; of

one arm or one leg ; paralysis of the upper extremities with tingling,

numbness, and prickling. Numbness and burning down the whole

length of the spine ; general emaciation or only of diseased part.

Eruptions, abscesses, boils carbuncles ; green pus discharged ; a

green, purplish appearance ; boils small with green contents, mature

and heal slowly.

Establishes sterility ; so weak is the uterus that it can never hold thd

foetus, hence the value in sterility and repeated abortions.

Dwindling of the mammae. Absence of milk after confinement.

“Thin, scrawny children with shrivelled skin, spasmodic twitchings,

sudden cries, feverishness.”

• ▸Purpura haemorrhagica.
• ▸Paralysis of the extremities.
• ▸Spinal irritation.
• ▸Cachectic females with rough skin, pustules tending to gangrene.

Marked mental and physical weakness following prolonged fevers,

after sexual excesses, from secret vice, from exposure to the heat of

the sun in summer. Great fatigue from which he seems unable to

recuperate from rest. Slight exertion brings great fatigue and weakness and especially in hot weather. Sudden weakness in hot weather.

Great weakness in the back, almost paralytic after typhoid fever or

other temporary diseases. Extremely sensitive to a draft of air, cool,

warm or damp. Marked general emaciation, also special emaciation of

face, thighs and hands. The diseased limb withers. The hair falls

out all over the body, head, eyebrows, whiskers and genitals. All his

nervous symptoms are aggravated after coition. Pulsation in all the

• ▸limbs and in the abdomen after eating.
• ▸Extreme sadness.
• ▸Some complaints are worse from wine, tea and lemonade.
• ▸It is of great value in

drunkards. Irresistible desire for alcoholic stimulants. Symptoms

worse after sleep, especially on a hot day. Irritable after emissions.

He Ts indifferent to his surroundings and his mind is dull and in confusion. He is very forgetful during his waking hours, but in sleep

he dreams what he has forgotten. Makes mistakes in syllables and

• ▸mispronounces words.
• ▸Stammering speech.
• ▸Often fails to understand what he hears or reads.
• ▸He has become unfit for his business.

He is excitable and talkative in the evening. Mental exertion is exhaustive and he dreads company. His mind dwells on lascivious

thoughts, yet he is sometimes impotent. All the mental symptoms are

worse after coition.

Vertigo on rising from bed or seat, on moving about, with nausea,

vomiting and faintness, worse after breakfast and dinner.

Headaches from strong odors, after wine, tea, lemonade and alcoholic stimulants, violent stinging over left eye when walking in the heat

of the sun. Increased flow of urine in headaches. Headaches in old

drunkards.

The hair falls out from the whole head, leaving the scalp smooth and

hairless ; also the hair falls from the!, eyebrows and face, giving a

strange appearance. In syphilitics it often checks the falling of the

hair. It has cured eczema, tingling and itching of the scalp. The

scalp feels as though tightly drawn over the bones of the skull.

Itching vesicles on the edges of the eyelids and spasmodic twitching

of left eyeball.

The ear is stopped and ear wax becomes hard, from which he has

hardness of hearing.

Dark clotted blood from nose. Nose full of thick, yellow, jelly-like

mucus. Itching of nose and he bores into his nose with the fingers.

Chronic obstruction of nose. Coryza followed by watery diarrhoea.

The face is sickly, looking greasy and shiny. Great emaciation of

the face. Twitching of the muscles of the face.

Toothache from drinking tea.

Aversion to food much salted. White tongue and he docs not relish

his breakfast. Irresistible longing for strong drink. After eating

pulsation all over the body, especially in the abdomen. Symptoms are

worse from sugar, salt food, tea and lemonade.

Soreness in liver from pressure and inspiration, with rash over the

right hypochondrium. Searching pain in right hypochondrium, worse

on deep breathing. The liver is enhrged. Stitching pains in liver

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from motion and pressure.

Constipation with inactivity of the rectum. Most difficult stool, even

impaction. Stool large, hard and very dry, requires mechanical aid.

Softy pasty stool. Watery diarrhoea.

Involuntary urination while walking, after urination and after stool.

Twinge of pain outward along the urethra with a sensation as though

• ▸drops were pouring out.
• ▸Sensation as if biting drop was forcing itself out.
• ▸The urine is dark, scanty, red in evening.
• ▸Sediment coarse,

red and sandy. It has caused inflammation of the prostate gland. In,

chronic gonorrhoea it is a very useful remedy.

Extreme weakness of the male genitalia. Though the desire is

strong there are no erections, or the act of coition is unsatisfactory and

incomplete. Frequent emissions and constant flow of prostatic fluid.

Erections in the morning without sexual desire, but on attempting coition the penis becomes relaxed. Itching and formication of genitalia.

Menses copious and dark. Pulsating in the abdomen during pregnancy, worse after eating.

The weakness and failure of the voice is in keeping with the general

weakness. Hoarseness on beginning to use the voice. Hoarseness

from weakness after over-use of the voice for a long time. Much

clear, starchy mucus scraped from tlie larynx. Must frequently clear

the larynx. It is a very useful remedy in tubercular laryngitis, glands

of neck large and hard.

Dry, hacking cough in the morning, weak feeling in the chest. Expectoration of lumps of bloody mucus. Difficult breathing from any

excition and from mucus in the chest and air passages. Pain in right

side of chest under lowest ribs extending to kidneys which are tender

to pressure.

Weak back and spine as if he would be paralyzed after typhoid fever,

and other lingering diseases. Stiffening neck on turning head ; lameness in back in the morning.

It has cured syphilitic psoriasis of the palms. Itching palms.

Hands withered. Tearing pains in hands at night.

Emaciation of the legs. Great weakness of lower limbs. Itching

of the ankle in the evening, blisters on the toes. Flat ulcers on the

legs and about the ankles. Cramps in calves and soles.

He is sleepless until midnight. Sleeps in short naps. Awakens

early and always at same hour. Symptoms worse after sleep.

Chill alternates with heat. Burning heat in spots. Sweat, profuse

on chest, armpits and genitals staining yellow. Sweat from least exertion.

Moist itching spots here and there on the skin and tingling after

eruptions have been treated locally. Flat ulcers. Itching about finger

joints and between .fingers.