Selenium - Mental (inc. personality) symptoms
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Below are the main rubriks (i.e strongest indications or symptoms) of Selenium in traditional homeopathic usage, not approved by the FDA.
MIND
Mind
MIND - Lascivious thoughts with impotency. Mental labor fatigues. Total unfitness for any kind of work. Extreme sadness. Depression in the morning, aggravated in the evening. Despair, melancholy. Dread of society. Forgetful in business. Talkative, when excited, stammers, pronounces some words incorrectly. Stutters. Difficult comprehension. Difficulty in concentrating is easily irritated by noise, people and conversation.
Great forgetfulness when awake with distinct recollection during half sleep. Fails to understand what he hears or reads. Reveries of a religious and melancholy character. Lack of enthusiasm and of interest indifference. Everything vexes him and he is easily antagonized. Very forgetful in his work, but dreams in his sleep of what he has forgotten. Erotic thoughts with impotence. Becomes drunk easily.
Aversions, dislikes
open air
company
of intimate friends
certain persons
Dazed
Desires, wants
craving for alcohol; before period
sex, lustful
Symptoms follow intense emotions; anger
Excitement
Mental exertion
Fantasies; of exaltation; repulsive, when alone
Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition
indifference, apathy, etc.
irritability
after sexual intercourse
after emission
remorse
excessively religious (see anxiety, despair, fear)
fanaticism
sensitive, oversensitive; to certain persons
suspicious
unhappy; sadness, mental depression; during chill
unhappy; sadness, mental depression; while perspiring
weeping, crying, tearful mood (lamenting); during the chill
Intellectual faculties
impaired thinking; difficulty concentrating
impaired thinking; confusion; after sexual intercourse
impaired thinking; confusion; emission
impaired thinking; dull, sluggish
impaired thinking; imbecility
impaired thinking; mistakes; speaking
wrong syllables
impaired thinking; weakness of mind
after emission
Insanity; mania, madness; from drinking (delirium tremors)
Insecure, uncertain, scared
fear; in a crowd
fear; of occupation
fear; of people
fear; work; of dread
frightened easily; starting, startled; evening; on falling asleep
frightened easily; starting, startled; on falling asleep
Memory
forgetful
forgetful; forgotten memories come back during sleep
weakness of memory
for business
for mental labour (compare daze)
Perception; senses; dull
Preoccupied
fanaticism
theorising
Mental symptoms from sexual excesses
Talking, conversation
in sleep
talkative
evening
while perspiring
Unconsciousness
after waking
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