INTRODUCTION
SELEN. – See “Archiv,” XII., 3.
COMPARE WITH
Agnus-c., Ambr., Bryonia, Carb-a., Graphites, Ignatia, Lachesis, Mercurius, Nitr-ac., Pulsatilla, Rhus-t., Ruta.
ANTIDOTE
Ignatia, Pulsatilla – China aggravates the pains.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS
Stiffness and cramp in all the limbs. Pains in all the limbs, as from a cold.
CHARACTERISTIC PECULIARITIES All his pains are worse after sleep.
SKIN
Biting in the skin, particularly in the palms of the hands. Itching in the margin of the alae of the nose, and of the inner side of the wrist. Small pimples below the ear. Itching pimples on the back of the hands. Sore and painful hang-nails.
SLEEP
Drowsy in the morning. Starting of the whole body, in the evening, on going to sleep. Sleep disturbed with a number of dreams, which he is unable to recollect. He wakes in the morning and afternoon with great dryness of the mouth, fauces, and pharynx.
FEVER
Ill-humored, drowsy, and indolent. Drowsy, with yawning, languor, disposition to vomit.
MORAL SYMPTOMS
Complete inability to perform any kind of labor. paroxysms of vertigo, with fainting. Attacks of sickness, with pale, disturbed face, followed by vomiting of ingesta, then of insipid, and lastly sourish water.
HEAD
Dullness of the head, particularly in the evening. Pressure in the forehead, with vertigo on rising or moving. Great heaviness in the occiput, with undulating sensation in the brain. Painfulness of the scalp.
EYES
Pains deep in the orbits. Stinging, twitching, pressure in the eye-balls, during the headache. Increased short-sightedness.
NOSE
Itching in the nose. Sudden, short-lasting, fluent coryza. Stoppage of the nose, with dryness of the throat, oppression of breathing, and fever.
FACE
Twitching of the facial muscles.
MOUTH
Burning sensation on the tip of the tongue. Pains in the region of the root of the tongue. Hawking up of mucus, which is mixed with blood. Violent disagreeable feeling of dryness in the throat.
APPETITE AND GASTRIC SYMPTOMS
Increased appetite, hunger. Cardialgia. Pressure as if cardialgia would set in.
ABDOMEN
Red itching rash in the region of the liver.
STOOL
Papescent stool, with tenesmus.
URINE
Red, sandy, coarse-grained sediment. Brick-dust sediment.
GENITAL ORGANS
Itching of scrotum. Erections, with much itching in the urethra. Diminution of the sexual desire. Impotence, with sexual desire.
LARYNX AND TRACHEA.
Huskiness of the voice. Slight cough in the morning. Cough deep out of the chest. Feeling of fullness in the chest and region of the heart. Oppressed breathing, with stoppage of the nose, dryness of the throat, thirst, cough, sleeplessness, and constant alternation of heart and cold.
BACK
Stiffness of the nape of the neck and cervical muscles. Painful glands on the left side of the neck.
ARMS AND LEGS
Lacerating in the hands, with cracking in the wrist-joint at night. Emaciation of the hands. Cramp in the soles.
