Selenium-The element
General
Adapted to light complexion; blondes; great emaciation of face, hands, legs, 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 requires mechanical aid [Aloe, Cal., Sanic., Sep., Sil.]; after serious illness, especially 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
Compare: Phos. in genito-urinary and respiratory symptoms; arg m. and Stan. in laryngitis of singers or speakers; Alum. hard stool, inactive rectum. Follows well: after, Calad., Nat., Staph., Phos. ac., in sexual weakness. Itch checked by mercurials or sulphur often requires Selenium.
Aggravation
Draft of air; in the sun; from lemonade, tea or wine.
Amelioration
Taking cold water or cold air into the mouth.