Sexual Instinct Morbid conditions of



Opium [Op]

Erections during sleep and impotence after waking; nightly emissions, with amorous dreams.

Origanum [Orig]

Considerable sexual excitement, causing obscure nervous disorders in women, especially in masturbators; lascivious dreams at night.

Oxalic-acid [Ox-ac]

On lying down erections without any cause, and afterwards testicles and cords pain and feel confused; erections with dulness in occiput.

Petroleum [Petr]

Sexual desire decreased in morning; WOMEN AVERSE TO EMBRACE; in both sexes soreness and moisture on genitals, with violent itching.

Phosphoric-acid [Ph-ac]

Erections, without sexual desire; during coition sudden relaxation of penis (Nux v.) preventing emission; weakness after coition or pollution; frequent and debilitating emissions from weakness of the parts, with onanism and very little sexual excitement, causing hypochondriasis; onanism when the patient is distressed by the culpability of his indulgence; formication of scrotum; milky urine; chronic effects of masturbation (China, acute).

Phosphorus [Phos]

Irritable weakness of male sexual organs, the result of excesses in venery and by masturbation; no seminal discharge during embrace or too rapid; seminal emission, caused by momentary exuberance of strength and nervous excitement, followed by backache, sensation as if back would break, with burning spots in back, (>) by rubbing; impotence from the frequent erections and emissions, especially in PATIENTS WITH FORCED CELIBACY; nearly irresistible desire for coitus, leading to lascivious exposure of his genitals (Hyosc.). Nymphomania, ESPECIALLY IN WINDOWS, with excessive voluptuousness, and late, profuse menses; stitches upward, from the vagina into pelvis; sterility.

Picric-acid [Pic-ac]

Violent, strong, and long-lasting erections, with fear it would rupture the penis, followed by profuse seminal emissions; great sexual desire; violent erections all night, preventing sleep; great weakness and heaviness of lower limbs; impotence; penis relaxed and shrunken; coldness of genitals.

Platina [Plat]

SATYRIASIS; sexual desire excessive, with violent erections, especially at night. NYMPHOMANIA, worse in the lying-in state; tingling or titillation from the genitals up into the abdomen; painful sensitiveness and continual pressure in the region of the mons veneris and genital organs; pruritus vulvae; voluptuous tingling, with anxiety and palpitation of heart; sexual excitement, while below puberty, which keeps up the habit of MASTURBATION IN YOUNG BOYS WHO HAVE BEEN SEDUCED INTO IT; embrace with little pleasure and very brief; constant erections at night without seminal emissions, or often without amorous dreams.

Psorinum [Psor]

Impotence, want of emissions during coitus; parts flabby, torpid; averse to an embrace; drawing in testicles and cords.

Pulsatilla [Puls]

Desire too strong, almost priapism; long-lasting morning erections; emissions after onanism; sexual excess, resulting in headache, backache, heaviness of limbs.

Rhus-tox [Rhus-t]

Spinal irritation, the result of onanism; sexual excesses; pain in the back, of a tearing or contusive nature, worse during rest; sexual desire increased; nightly pollutions frequent.

Sabadilla [Sabad]

Pollutions followed by loss of power in extremities; lascivious dreams and emissions, with relaxed penis; afterwards painful erections and extreme lassitude. NYMPHOMANIA FROM ASCARIDES.

Sarsaparilla [Sars]

Painful seminal emissions at night; painful emissions, excited even in daytime without sexual feeling; LASCIVIOUS DREAMS with erections wake him up, with headache, prostration and vertigo; inclination to coitus, with restless sleep and frequent emissions; spermatic cords swollen; sexual excitement makes them ache and sensitive; bloody pollutions (Ledum); offensive odor about genitals.

Selenium [Sel]

Seminal weakness, with erethism and nervous exhaustion; voluntary or involuntary seminal emissions are followed by irritability, mental confusion, headache; almost paralytic weakness of spine, involuntary escape of prostatic fluid, dribbling of semen during sleep and after stool and urination, (<) during the relaxation; impotence, lewd thoughts, but physically unable; erections slow, insufficient.

Sepia [Sep]

Increase of sexual desire simultaneously with loss of sexual power from venereal gluttony; during embrace insufficient erection and but little thrill, after it great weakness; nightly emissions with dreams; weak and watery pollutions; emissions after onanism, followed by burning in forepart of urethra, languid and drowsy; coitus weakness, even if rarely indulged in.

Silicea [Sil]

Increased desire in both sexes, with spinal affection; frequent, violent, painful erections before rising in the morning; after an embrace sensation on right side of head as if paralyzed, with soreness of limbs; squeezing pain in testicles; nymphomania with plethora; NAUSEA DURING AN EMBRACE; pressing-down feeling in vagina, which is tender to touch; itching at the pudenda.

Staphisagria [Staph]

Cases of long-standing masturbation, with hypochondriasis; great taciturnity, irritability and constant uneasiness as to the state of one’s health, anxious imagination and fears; great deficiency of vital heat and tendency to take cold; loss of memory, giddiness and sleepiness; deep-sunken, red and lustreless eyes; hair falls out; teeth carious, brittle, with gnawing toothache; dry cough, worse after eating; indigestion with great flatulence, stools dry and lumpy; urine deep-red or yellow, with brick-dust sediment; constant loss of prostatic fluid and impairment of sexual desire; pains relaxed, with dull and contusive pains in testicles; voluptuous itching of scrotum; atrophy of testicles; emaciation; brain-fag; excessive sleepiness.

Stramonium [Stram]

Onanism causing epilepsy; exalted sexual passion; lasciviousness; nymphomania, loud talking, signs obscene songs; has smell of semen; whining sobbing after menses.

Sulphur [Sulph]

Involuntary emission of semen; took quick discharge of semen during coition; waning of sexual desire from overindulgence, with weakness of back and threatening paralysis; coldness of penis; testicles relaxed, hanging down; offensive sweat around genitals; faintness and flushes of heat; cold feet and heat on top of head; frequent involuntary emission of semen at night, exhausting him the next morning; seminal flow thin, watery, nearly inodorous, having lost all its peculiar properties; backache and weakness of limbs; low spirits, hypochondriasis. Sore feeling in vagina during embrace, sterility, with too early and too profuse catamenia.

Tarentula [Tarent]

Sexual excitement; seminal emissions; lasciviousness, reaching almost to insanity; onanism, followed by prostatic ailments, hypochondriasis and unhappy mood; continual seminal emissions on account of onanism, followed by imbecility, stupid laughter and progressive washing.

Thuja [Thuj]

Extraordinary excitation or depression in the genital system; irresistible inclination to onanism (Bufo), even during sleep; nocturnal emissions, which wake him; discharge of prostatic fluid in threads, early in morning, after waking; sweetish-smelling sweat on scrotum; palpitations; paretic debility of extremities; coition prevented by extreme sensitiveness of vagina.

Ustilago [Ust]

Sexual dreams at night, without emission; painful loss of all sexual desire, with relaxation of scrotum, which is covered with cold perspiration; painful testicles; seminal emissions and irresistible desire to masturbate; erotic fancies; great prostration of strength; dull pain in lumbar region, with great despondency and irritability of mind.

Viola-tric [Viol-t]

Nocturnal emissions, accompanied by vivid dreams, not very exhausting, but causing weariness of mind; loss of seminal fluid at stool and in urine; trembling; feels dull, sleepless, poor appetite.

Zincum-oxide [Zinc-o]

Spermatorrhoea in hypochondriac patients, who annoy their physicians by their fear; their nervous system is shaken, they are restless, sleepy and miserable; pale face, sunken blue, rings around eyes; emission during coition is too rapid or difficult and almost impossible; atrophy of testicles. Pruritus vulvae causes masturbation and irresistible sexual desire at night; boring pain in left ovarian region, better from pressure, but ENTIRELY RELIEVED DURING MENSTRUAL FLOW.

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.