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Materia Medica by AllenSELENIUM(sel)SELENIUM THE ELEMENTAdapted to light complexion; blondes; great emaciation of face, hands, legs and feet, or single parts. Very forgetful in business, but during sleep dreams of what he had forgotten. Headache: of drunkards; after debauchery; after lemonade, tea, wine; every afternoon. Hair falls off, on head, eyebrows, whiskers, genitals. Coryza ending in diarrhoea. Hungry: at night (Cina, Psor.) ; LONGING FOR SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS, an almost irresistible maniacal desire. Constipation: stool LARGE, hard, impacted SO THAT IT REQUIRES MECHANICAL AID (Aloe, Cal., Sanic, Sep., Sil.) ; after serious illness, epecially enteric fevers. Urine: red, dark, scanty; coarse, red, sandy, sediment, involuntary dribbling while walking. Impotence, with desire; lewd thoughts, but physically impotent (sudden impotence, Chlor.). Erections slow, insufficient, too rapid emission with long-continued thrill; weak, ill-humored after coitus, often involuntary dribbling of semen and prostatic fluid which oozes while sitting, at stool, during sleep; gleet (Calad.). Priapism GLANDS DRAWN UP (Berb. — drawn down. Canth.). Aphonia: AFTER LONG USE OF VOICE; husky when beginning to sing; obliged to clear the throat frequently of a transparent starchy mucus (Arg. m., Stan.); tubercular laryngitis. Weak, easily exhausted; from either mental or physical labor; after typhoid, typhus, debauchery. Irresistible desire to lie down and sleep; strength suddenly leaves him; especially in hot weather. Very great aversion to draft of air either warm, cold, or damp. After typhoid great weakness of spine, fears paralysis. Emaciation of affected parts.
Relations Follows well: after, Calad., Nat., Staph., Phos. ac, in sexual weakness. Itch checked by mercurials or sulphur often requires Selenium.
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