Sexual Instinct Morbid conditions of



Conium [Con]

PREMATURE SENILITY; ATROPHY OF TESTICLES, bad effects from suppressed sexual desire or from excessive indulgence; painful seminal emission instead of the normal pleasurable thrill; sexual desire without erection or with an insufficient one; pollutions, with subsequent excitement of the sexual desire, even when merely dallying with women; discharge of prostatic juice during every motion, without lascivious thoughts.

Cypripedium [Cypr]

Spermatorrhoea, with great nervous prostration and dejection of spirits.

Digitalis [Dig]

Spermatorrhoea; irritation of sexual organs, with painful erections, night and day; pollutions, always accompanied with lewd dreams and subsequent pains in penis; nightly emissions during sleep, even without dreams, with great weakness of genitals; violent beating of heart at the least movement; despondency and fear of the future.

Dioscorea [Dios]

Nocturnal emissions, with erections and amorous dreams when asleep, or without erections, sensations or dreams, but with great weakness of knees; depression of spirits; pain in lumbar and inguinal region, extending to testicles; desire to be alone.

Eryngium-aquat [Ery-a]

EXCESSIVE EROTIC PRIAPISM; nightly emission, with erections; semen passes by day with the urine; lassitude and depression; decrease of virile power; dull, dragging pain in lumbar region; gleet.

Fluoric-acid [Fl-ac]

Increased sexual desire in old men, with violent erections at night; oily, pungent-smelling seat from the genitals.

Gelsemium [Gels]

SPERMATORRHOEA FROM RELAXATION AND DEBILITY; involuntary emission of semen without any erection; seminal weakness from irritability of the seminal vesicles; emission of semen during stool; genitals cold, relaxed; dragging pain in testicles; nocturnal emissions and lewd dreams, followed next day by great languor and irritability of mind; excitable sexual desire; depression of spirits; heavy dragging gait; pale face, sunken eyes.

Graphites [Graph]

Uncontrollable sexual desire, violent erections; impotence, with dislike to coition; want of proper sensation during coition; seminal emissions with flaccid penis; almost involuntary emission of semen without erections during an embrace; pollutions almost every night, from debility of the organs; weakness and pain in sacrum; constipation; eruptions on penis. In females, great aversion to coitus, vagina cold, oedema of the pudenda; leucorrhoea in gushes day and night. SEXUAL DEBILITY FORM SEXUAL ABUSE.

Hamamelis [Ham]

Amorous dreams, with emissions, followed by lassitude; gloomy, depressing mood, and dull pain in lumbar region; great prostration of animal passions, with severe neuralgic pain in testicle, suddenly changing to bowels and stomach, causing nausea and faintness; profuse cold sweat at the scrotum at night. (Caladium, Caps., Ustilago, have coldness of scrotum, but no sweat.).

Helonias [Helon]

Sexual desire and power increased, erections strong and frequent; impotence in women, loss of sexual desire and power, with sterility; profound melancholy, deep, undefined depression, with sensation of soreness and weight in uterus; aphthae on labia and pudenda.

Hepar [Hep]

Sexual desire increased, erections feeble; discharge of

prostatic fluid during micturition and defaecation, and independently of either.

Hyoscyamus [Hyos]

IN BOTH SEXES SEXUAL DESIRE EXCESSIVE, LASCIVIOUS; EXPOSES PUDENDA; excited sexual desire without excitement of the fancy; masturbation with smutty talk.

Ignatia [Ign]

Sexual desire weak; contraction of penis, it becomes quite small; erection during stool; itching on penis and around genitals.

Iodum [Iod]

Complete loss of sexual power, testicles atrophied; atrophy of ovaries and mammae, with sterility; offensive sweating of genitals.

Iris-vers [Iris]

Spermatorrhoea, with pale face, sunken eyes; depression of spirits; heavy, dragging gait and excitable sexual desire; nocturnal emissions, with amorous dreams; confusion of mind, with great mental depression.

Kali-bichrom [Kali-bi]

Absence of sexual desire; constrictive pain at the root of penis.

Kali-brom [Kali-br]

Nocturnal emissions, with amorous dreams and erections; excessive sexual desire, with constant erections at night; diminution or total absence of sexual desire, with impotence; profound melancholy; loss of memory; great nervous prostration (Anacardium); epilepsy (Bufo) from onanism.

Kali-carb [Kali-c]

Excessive sexual desire, with burning sensation, or desire deficient; after coition weakness, especially of eyes; copious painful pollutions, with subsequent painful erections; dragging in testicle and penis.

Kali-iod [Kali-i]

Sexual desire diminished; testes atrophied; atrophy of mammae.

Lachesis [Lach]

ONANISM, WITH EPILEPSY; nocturnal emission, with a thrill of delight; excessive sexual desire, with constant erection at night; emissions, with profuse night-sweats; emissions, with cheerful disposition and feeling of ease on waking, succeeded by an increased mental concentration; semen has a pungent smell. Nymphomania with tickling and jerking extending from thighs to genital organs; sad on awaking; labia swollen, with much mucous discharge: urine and ovarian pains (>) by free flow of blood.

Ledum [Led]

Increased sexual desire; nightly emissions bloody.

Lilium-tigr [Lil-t]

Lascivious dreams and emissions, followed by irritability, difficulty of fixing one’s mind, selecting wrong words; desire increased in both sexes, even to obscenity; voluptuous itching in vagina, with feeling of fulness of parts; stinging in left ovarian region.

Lycopodium [Lyc]

MENTAL, NERVOUS AND BODILY WEAKNESS; impotence; penis small, cold and relaxed; erections feeble; FALLS ASLEEP DURING AN EMBRACE; excessive and exhausting pollutions; desponding, grieving, extremely sensitive; weakness of memory; pale, wretched complexion; weak digestion; THE OLD MAN’S BALM; strong desire, but cannot get up an erection.

Magnesia-carb [Mag-c]

Sexual desire diminished; discharge of prostatic fluid when passing flatus.

Magnesia-mur [Mag-m]

Frequent erections early in the morning, with burning in penis; after an embrace, burning pain in back; itching on genitals and scrotum, extending to anus.

Manganum-acet [Mang]

Sensation of weakness in genitals, with burning and drawing in spermatic cords, extending to the glands; itching in interior of scrotum, not relieved by pinching and rubbing; all senses less acute; face pale, sunken; weakness and trembling.

Matico [Mati]

Discharge of prostatic juice, with slight erections and some sexual irritation.

Mercurius [Merc]

Lascivious excitement, with painful nightly erections; pollution, sperm mixed with blood, sweat on genitals; chilliness, sallow face, constipation.

Mercurius-biniod [Merc-i-r]

Sexual desire, particularly on going to sleep; nocturnal emissions; cord and right testicle sensitive.

Mercurius-cor [Merc-c]

Violent erections during sleep; fine, painful stinging in left testicle.

Mezereum [Mez]

Violent erections and increased sexual desire; fine, pricking stitches in penis and at the summit of glans.

Moschus [Mosch]

Violent sexual desire, with scanty and thick urine, like yeast; nausea and vomiting after an embrace; violent titillation in the genitals.

Murex [Murx]

Excitement of sexual organs, desire so violent as to fatigue the reason; venereal desire renewed by slightest touch.

Naja-tripudians [Naja]

Gloomy headache, with spinal pans and palpitations from disorders of the sexual functions.

Natrum-carb [Nat-c]

Discharge of mucus from vagina after an embrace, causing sterility; it appears to facilitate conception and expels moles from uterus; motion as from foetus in womb; passive congestion.

Natrum-mur [Nat-m]

Deficient nutrition and dirty, flaccid, torpid skin; genital organs smell badly and strongly; feeling of weakness in sexual

organs; sexual instinct dormant, with retarded emission during an embrace; frequent nocturnal emissions in spite of frequent embraces; after sexual excesses physical weakness, even paralysis; scrotum relaxed flabby, emission of prostatic fluid without erection when thinking of sexual things; coldness in joints and weakness. Women averse to coitus, which is painful from dryness of vagina; sterility, with too early and too profuse menstruation, or too late and scanty; chlorosis and anaemia in young girls.

Natrum-phos [Nat-p]

Seminal emissions night after night, at first with lascivious dreams, but later without any sensation whatever, followed by weakness of back and trembling of knees, which felt as if would give way.

Nitric-acid [Nit-ac]

Sexual desire too strong, or no desire, with want of erection; painful spasmodic erections at night. In women, after coitus, mucous lining of genitals itches voluptuously.

Nuphar-lutea [Nuph]

COMPLETE ABSENCE OF SEXUAL DESIRE, even voluptuous thoughts do not cause erections; involuntary seminal losses during sleep, at stool, and when urinating; spermatorrhoea atonica, from weakness of sexual organs.

Nux-moschata [Nux-m]

Inclined to coitus, but genitals remain relaxed; seminal emissions; sterility.

Nux-vomica [Nux-v]

Bad EFFECTS FROM EARLY MASTURBATION; headache, backache, difficulty in walking; frequent involuntary emissions at night, especially towards morning; bad effects from sexual excesses and abuse of liquors; easily excited desire, but during an embrace the penis becomes relaxed; increase of smegma.

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.