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Selenium Metallicum

30CSelenium
Selenium Metal · "The Sexual Exhaustion Hair Loss Remedy"
sel.MineralUncommonPsoric
🎯 Acts primarily on the genito-urinary system, specifically addressing sexual weakness and physical exhaustion in elderly men.
📖 Boericke writes:
(SELENIUM)
Selenium is a constant constituent of bones and teeth.
Marked effects on the genito-urinary organs, and often indicated in elderly men, especially for and sexual atony. Great ; worse, heat. Easy exhaustion, mental and physical, in old age. after exhausting diseases.
👤 Constitution
•Typically elderly men who suffer from chronic fatigue, sexual weakness, and a tendency toward premature aging or hair loss.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Extreme sadness.
mind
Pain over left eye; worse walking in sun, strong odors and tea.
head
.
throat
Chronic liver ; liver painful, enlarged, with fine rash over liver region.
abdomen
Increases desire, decreases ability.
male
.
male
Dry, scaly eruption in palms, with itching, Itching about the ankles and folds of skin, between fingers.
skin
oleosa; comedones with an oily surface of the skin; .
skin
Sleep prevented by pulsation in all vessels, worse abdomen.
sleep
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠MIND
Useful for states of deep depression and mental exhaustion.
Lascivious thoughts, with impotency.
Mental fatigues.
Extreme sadness.
Abject despair, uncompromising .
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

Sixth to thirtieth
Centesimal
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🚫 Antidotes
Ignatia Amara →Pulsatilla Pratensis →
🔄 Compare With
Agnus Castus →Sulphur →Phosphorus →Tellurium Metallicum →Phosphoricum Acidum →Caladium Seguinum →
⚠️ Inimical
China Officinalis →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

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Selenium Metallicum is listed in 150 rubrics across 17 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 51 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Male Sexual System25Nervous System17Skin15Abdomen14Modalities12Urinary System12Respiratory System10Head9Stomach8Generalities6Locomotor System6Mind5Fever4Face3Throat2Eyes1Taste1

See all 150 rubrics for Selenium Metallicum →