# Selenium Metallicum

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Hot
- **Aggravation Time:** Night

## Keynote Indications
Source: Derived from the element  Selenium, a non-metal in the chalcogen group, prepared for. homeopathic  use  through  trituration  and  serial  dilution  to  enhance  therapeutic  action  while. eliminating material toxicity, in accordance with homeopathic pharmacopeia standards. Traditional Context: Historically employed in homeopathy for  genitourinary, dermatological,. neurological, and psychological disorders , particularly those involving sexual dysfunction, hair. loss, and mental fatigue. It is noted for symptoms such as profound exhaustion, scalp eruptions, and. aggravation from heat, often worsened by warmth, sun exposure, or exertion, and ameliorated by. cool air, rest, or evening. Modern Context : Indicated for  genitourinary conditions  (e.g., erectile dysfunction, prostatitis),. dermatological conditions  (e.g., seborrheic dermatitis, alopecia),  neurological conditions  (e.g.,. peripheral  neuropathy,  chronic  fatigue  syndrome),  and  psychological  conditions (e.g.,  major. depressive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder). It suits patients with acute or chronic symptoms. characterized  by  sexual  weakness,  hair  loss,  mental  exhaustion,  burning  pains,  or  heat. sensitivity, typically exacerbated by warmth, sun exposure, exertion, or stress, and often seen in. individuals with debilitated, sensitive constitutions. The remedy is particularly relevant for those. with genitourinary or dermatological conditions, often presenting with symptoms like premature. ejaculation or scalp scaling, commonly observed in patients with erectile dysfunction, seborrheic. dermatitis, or chronic fatigue syndrome triggered by warmth, overexertion, or emotional stress.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Worse from: Warmth  (weather,  rooms,  drinks),  sun  exposure,  exertion,  night,  stress,. mental effort, sweating, touch, rich foods, alcohol, hormonal changes, solitude.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Dullness of mind.
- Difficult comprehension, concentration.
- Mental labor fatigues.
- Total unfitness for any 
kind of work.
- Forgetful in work, but dreams of what he has forgotten.
- Great forgetfulness when awake with distinct recollection during half sleep.
- Fails to understand what he hears 
or reads.
- Lack of enthusias m and of interest, indifference.
- Apathy.
- Talkative, when excited, stam mers, 
pronounces some words incorrectly.
- Stutters.
- Extreme sadness.
- Depression in the morn ing, aggravated in the evening.
- Despair, mel ancholy.
- Aversion to 
company of intimate friends.
- Dread of society.
- Reveries of a religious and melancholy character.
- Easily irritated by noise, people and con versation.
- Easily antagonized.
- Irritability after sex.
- Confusion after 
emissions.
- Dipsomania before menses.
- Erotic thoughts with impotence.
- Lasc ivious thoughts.
- Becomes 
drunk easily.
- Dullness of mind.
- Difficult comprehension, concentration.
- Mental labor fatigues.
- Total unfitness for any 
kind of work.
- Forgetful in work, but dreams of what he has forgotten.
- Great forgetfulness when awake with distinct recollection during half sleep.
- Fails to understand what he hears 
or reads.
- Lack of enthusias m and of interest, indifference.
- Apathy.
- Talkative, when excited, stam mers, 
pronounces some words incorrectly.
- Stutters.
- Extreme sadness.
- Depression in the morn ing, aggravated in the evening.
- Despair, mel ancholy.
- Aversion to 
company of intimate friends.
- Dread of society.
- Reveries of a religious and melancholy character.
- Easily irritated by noise, people and con versation.
- Easily antagonized.
- Irritability after sex.
- Confusion after 
emissions.
- Dipsomania before menses.
- Erotic thoughts with impotence.
- Lasc ivious thoughts.
- Becomes 
drunk easily.

### Vertigo
- Vertigo on lifting head, rising from a seat, raising himself in bed, moving about with nausea, vomiting.
- Faintness, worse for an hour after breakfast and dinner.
- COMMENTS - The Sei.
- proving was con ducted by Hering.
- In London, Raeside repeated a complete proving 
on sixteen provers and six controls in 1959-60, using the 6c, 12c, and 30c potencies.
- A leading feature of Sei.
- is the weak ness it causes, a weakness involving all parts of the body, easy fatigue 
from any labor, night watching, mental exertion and especially from hot weather.
- The hotter his body the 
weaker he is; strength rises as the sun sinks.
- Irresistible desire to lie down and sleep, strength leaves him suddenly, especially in hot weather.
- Sluggishness, 
wants to sleep from sheer exhaustion and is worse after.
- Cannot bear any nervous drain, hence worse after 
sex or seminal emissions.
- Impotence.
- Debility after fevers, infectious diseases.
- Great emaciation of face, hands, legs, feet, affected parts and single parts.
- Pulsation in whole body, especially 
in abdomen after eating.
- Very great aversion to a draft of air, 
either warm, cold or damp.
- Irritability, headaches and other troubles following or worse by seminal emissions.
- Headaches are 
accompanied by profound melancholy and may be caused by indulgence in alcoholics or in tea, by hot weather, 
by over-study, and they are worse by strong odors.
- Headaches may be periodical and are frequently located 
above the left eye.
- Chronic liver disorders.
- Sensitiveness of liver.
- Enlargement of liver with loss of appetite.
- In the morning, sharp 
stitching pain worse on any movement or pressure.
- “Fine rash over liver region.” 
Coryza ending in diarrhea.
- Hungry at night, longing for spirituous liquors, an almost irresistible maniacal desire.
- Aversion to salted food.
- Sensation as if a biting drop were forcing its way out of the urethra.
- Constipation from weakness with impacted feces.
- Dribbling of semen after stool and after urination.
- Sufferings 
after seminal emissions mental confusion, headache, almost paralytic weakness of spine, invol untary escape 
of prostatic fluid.
- Itching in folds of skin, as between fingers and about joints, especially the ankle-joint (Sulph.).
- The itching may 
occur in small spots and be accompanied by tingling (showing involvement of the nervous system).
- Clarke frequently relieved “psoriasis palmaris” with Sei., which shows that it has a relation to syphilis.
- The 
scalp is affected with an eczematous eruption which oozes thin fluid after scratching.
- Hair falls off scalp and 
all parts of body.
- Clarke cured with Sei.
- many cases of hoarseness, the special indications being hoarseness of singer s, 
appearing as soon as they begin to sing or after long use of the voice with frequent necessity to clear the throat 
from accumulation of clear, starchy mucus.
- Scrofulous and incipient tubercular laryngitis have been cured with 
Sei.

### Head
- Pain over left eye, worse walking in sun, strong odors and tea.
- Nervous headaches.
- Headache 
from intellectual labor.
- Headache every afternoon.
- Headache after drinking lemonade, wine or tea.
- Headache of alcoholics, headache after debauchery.
- Pain in the scalp as if hair were pulled out.
- Scalp feels 
 
 
tense.
- Does not want hair touched.
- Hair falls out from eyebrows, whiskers and genitals.
- Pain over left eye, worse walking in sun, strong odors and tea.
- Nervous headaches.
- Headache 
from intellectual labor.
- Headache every afternoon.
- Headache after drinking lemonade, wine or tea.
- Headache of alcoholics, headache after debauchery.
- Pain in the scalp as if hair were pulled out.
- Scalp feels 
 
 
tense.
- Does not want hair touched.
- Hair falls out from eyebrows, whiskers and genitals.

### Eyes
- Blurred vision, with difficult accommodation.
- Myopia.
- Pains deep in orbits.
- Discharge of a thick, yellow 
secretion, especially in the morning.
- Heavy, painful, burning, blood -shot with red marks on the eyelids.
- Spasmodic twitching of left eyeball.
- Itching vesicles on eyebrows and margins of lids.
- Styes.
- Blepharitis.
- Dacy- 
rocystitis.
- Falling off of eyebrows.

### Ears
- Deafness from hardened wax.
- Ear stopped.

### Face
- Great emaciation of face and hands.
- Twitching in muscles of face.
- Greasy, shining skin of face.
- Upper 
lip cracked.
- Comedones.

### Mouth
- Sweetish taste.
- Bitter taste in the mouth.
- Extreme dryness of the mouth.
- Tongue loaded with a thick 
white coating in morning.
- Burning at the tip of the tongue.
- Pain under root o f tongue.
- Pain in the left molars, 
which spreads to all the teeth.
- Bleeding gums and ulcerations in the mouth.
- Stammering speech, articulates 
with great difficulty.
- Neck - Glands of neck large and hard.
- Cramp in neck.
- Rigidity of muscles of neck and nape, which hinders 
head being turned.
- Nose - Sinusitis.
- Atrophic rhinitis.
- Coryza, ending in diarrhea.
- Fluent coryza in evening.
- Yellow, thick, 
gelatinous mucus in nose.
- Full of thick glairy mucous.
- Complete chronic obstruction of nose.
- Nasal itching with 
the need to scratch the inside of the nose.
- Inclination to bore fingers in the nose.
- Sense of smell diminished at 
times.
- Smells a repulsive odor like garlic.

### Throat
- Chronic laryngitis.
- Voice hoarse and husky, as soon as he begins to sing, talk or read, affected by 
even cold.
- Voice rattles.
- Nodes on vocal cords.
- Incipient tubercular laryngitis.
- Throat dry, painful on waking, 
especially on the left side with extreme thirst.
- Cough in the morning, e xpectoration of a bloody mucus.
- Much 
clear, starchy mucus (Stann.).
- Laryngeal cough.
- Hawking and raising transparent lumps of mucus every 
morning.

### Chest
- Constrictive or stinging pain behind the sternum and in the upper left thoracic region .
- Pains in right 
side, around under last ribs, especially on inspiration, extending to region of kidneys.
- Constitutions - Suited to blondes and persons of light complexion.
- Pulse very accelerated.
- Arterial pulsation, especially in the abdominal aorta, preventing him from 
sleeping.
- Pain in the heart region.
- Rhythmic anomalies.
- Syphilitic aortitis.
- Kidneys - Frequent urination with urgent need to urinate.
- Sensation in the tip of urethra, as if a biting drop 
were forcing its way out.
- Red, itching irritation at the tip of the penis.
- Urine dark red, thick, scanty, gritty with 
deposits.
- Dribbling of urine  after urination and after stool.
- Involuntary dribbling, when walking.
- Urination 
predominantly at night.
- Nocturnal bedwetting.
- Weak feeling in the chest.
- Frequent efforts to breathe deeply like sighing.
- Difficulty breathing when 
walking in open air.
- Respiration obstructed at night, when lying down, by pains.
- Dry hacking cough, worse in 
the morning.
- Hawking up of mucus and of small clots of blood.
- Hawks up clear mucus in the morning.
- Frequent 
necessity to clear the throat in singers.
- Tubercular laryngitis.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- After eating, pulsation all over, especially abdomen.
- Pressure in stomach as if cramp would occur.
- Cramp in stomach.
- Belching.
- Hiccough and belchings after smflking.
- Inclination to vomit.
- Feels very sick after 
 
 
sleep.
- Nausea, vertigo, thirsty for cold water, general weakness one hour after eating.
- Teeth - Teeth covered with mucus.
- Toothache from tea.
- Toothache with feeling of coldness, better taking cold 
water and cold air into mouth.
- Toothache which compels use of toothpick until the blood comes.
- Boring in 
molars.
- The teeth become free of mucus, hard and smooth and crack when rubbed.
- Temperature - Chilliness, followed by hot flushes.
- Constant alternation of heat and cold.
- Sweating from the 
armpits and genital region.
- Burning heat, extending over the skin.
- Perspiration from least exertion.
- Perspiration 
as soon as he sleeps, day or night.
- Tendency to profuse perspirat ion when walking or during an afternoon 
sleep.
- Perspiration on chest, genitals and under axilla, which leaves yellow or white spots on linen and stiffens 
it.
- External heat with burning in skin and only in single spots.
- Sensation of abdominal distention on the left side, ameliorated by pressure, ag gravated by going 
to stool or by coughing.
- Left abdominal hyperesthesia, spreading towards the left kidney area.
- Violent shoot -
ings in spleen when walking.
- Pulsation all over the body especially in abdomen after eating which hinders 
sleep.
- Thirstless.
- Anorexia in morning with white-coated tongue.
- Hunger at night.
- Craves stimulants, brandy, 
tea etc.
- Desire for alcoholic drinks.
- Aversion to salty food.
- Worse from tea, sugar, salt, lemonade, wine.
- Sweetish, disagreeable taste after smoking.

### Urinary & Genital
- Irritability after sex.
- Loss of sexual power-with lascivious fancies.
- Lascivious but impotent.
- Increases 
desire, decreases ability.
- Sexual weakness.
- On attempting sex, penis relaxes.
- Easy loss of semen during 
sex with feeble erection, but long continued voluptuous thrill during stools.
- Semen watery, odorless.
- Drib bling 
of semen during sleep.
- Prostatitis, prostatic adenoma.
- Oozing of prostatic fluid during sleep, while sitting, 
walking and at stool.
- Hydrocele.
- Chronic gleet.
- Bedwetting, chronic urethritis.
- Papillomas on the penis.
- Rare menses.
- Menses early, scanty, p ainful.
- Menses painful on the first day.
- Awakened by pain of 
menses.
- Menses copious and dark.
- Menses delayed about eight days.
- Throbbing in abdomen during 
pregnancy, worse eating.

### Extremities
- Pains in all the limbs, as if caused by a chill.
- Legs feel weak, with fear of paralysis after typhus.
- Sudden 
left sciatic pain leaves soreness behind.
- Itching pimples on buttocks and thighs, near the scrotum.
- The knees 
crack when they are bent.
- Cramps in calves and soles.
- Flat ulcers on lower legs.
- Itching in feet, especially 
around ankles in evening.
- Blisters on toes.
- Emaciat ion of hands, of legs.
- Dry, scaly eruption on palms with 
itching, having syphilitic base.
- Psoriasis of palms.
- Painful hang -nails.
- Scabies-like pimples on hand.
- Tearing 
in hands at night with cracking in wrists.
- Itching at wrist in palms, itching vesicles o n and between fingers.
- Miliaria in forearm.
- Liver - Chronic liver affections.
- Pain in the liver, especially on taking an inspira tion, extending to the kidney 
region with sensibility to external pressure.
- Enlarged with fine rash over liver region.

### Neck & Back
- The back becomes almost paralytic after a temporary illness.
- Paralytic pain in small of back, better 
lying on abdomen.
- Sensation of para lysis in loins.
- Pain as from lameness in small of back in morn ing.
- Hard 
swelling on back.
- Severe pain in the coccyx, aggravated when sitting, ameliorated by walking.
- Pain through 
left side of neck and down back of left leg.
- Bones - Osteoporosis during men opause.
- Inflammation of the bones and cartilages in the young adult, 
attacking the knee, then the elbow and the hip.
- Bones fragile.
- Breasts - More or less acute pain, prickling or dull aching in the left or right breast.
- Causations - Bad effects from exces s of tobacco or tea.
- Ill effects of debauchery, alcohol, sugar, salt, 
lemonade, loss of vital fluids, masturbation, sexual excess, over-study.
- Walking, exertion.

### Skin
- Seborrhea, comedones with an oily surface of the skin.
- Oily.
- Frequent tingling in circumscribed parts 
of skin with great provocation to scratch.
- Red rash on region of liver.
- Miliary eruption.
- Vesicular eruption 
between fingers (Rhus - t., Anae.).
- Dry, scaly eruption in palms with itching.
- Itching about the ankles and 
folds of skin, between fingers.
- Acne.
- Prolonged oozing from parts which have been scratched.
- Flat ulcers.
- Loss of hair from the head, armpits, pubic region and eyebrows.
- Hair falls off head, whiskers and other parts.
- Alopecia.

### Sleep
- Sleep prevented by pulsation in all vessels,  worse abdomen.
- Sleepless until midnight, awakens 
early and always same hour.
- Insomnia, following alcoholism, infectious diseases, heart diseases.
- Disposition 
to sleep early in evening with imperfect sleep and frequent waking during night.
- Jerks in body when going to 
sleep.
- Erotic dreams.
- Dreams of fire, murders, robbers, quarrels and unnatural cruelty.
- Waking early in morning 
and always at same hour.