Debility



Selenium [Sel]

Great nervous debility and exhaustion from severe acute diseases, particularly when the sensations of the patient spread from above downward; inability to perform any kind of mental or physical labor; sexual desire, though from sexual excesses he suffers with debility and relaxation of the parts; loss of prostatic juice,; (<) in hot weather, which exhausts him mentally and bodily; sleepy from exhaustion, (>) after sleep; paretic weakness of spine from seminal losses.

Senna [Senn]

Simple exhaustion, sweat, backache and weakness from excessive nitrogenous waste with excessive deposits of urates in the urine (Kali carb).

Staphisagria [Staph]

Patient worries about his ailments brought about by sexual excesses or by persistently dwelling on sexual objects, has asthma during or after an embrace; want of memory.

Veratrum-alb [Verat]

Cardiac and general muscular debility; intermitting heart, debility with blue hands and cold feet; constipation from paralytic state of rectum; sudden sinking of strength from debilitating (choleraic) losses, with anguish and cold sweat on forehead when he rises.

Zincum [Zinc]

Brain exhaustion and brain-fag; lameness and deadness of hands, which look bluish; coldness of feet at night; numbness of feet from suppressed foot-sweat, by getting wet, (<) from wine; feels best during flow of menses.

Samuel Lilienthal
Dr. Samuel Lilienthal (1815-1891) was from Germany, and became a pioneer homeopath in America. He received his Doctor of Medicine Degree from the University of Munich in 1838. After he moved to the United States, he was hired as Professor of Clinical Medicine at New York College for Women, and also as Professor of Mental and Nervous Diseases at the New York Homeopathic College.
Dr. Samuel Lilienthal was the author of many great books including “Homeopathic Therapeutics”. For many years, with the support of Dr. Constantine Hering, he was the editor of the North American Journal of Homeopathy. Dr. Lilienthal passed away on February 2nd 1891 in San Francisco.