Origanum Majorana

The "Wild Marjoram" of this country is Origanum vulgare, grows on

limestone or chalky soil, and yields an oil called Oil of Thyme. Orig. marjorana, the "Sweet

Marjoram" (which is used for seasoning in cookery), was proved by Dr. Cessoles on himself and

two young women; and the symptoms of the proving showed a distinct relation to the sexual

organs, which clinical experience has verified and expanded. All kinds of sexual excitement, in

females especially, have been remedied by Orig. The sexual symptoms were developed chiefly

in the female provers, and were these: Sadness followed by joyfulness and thoughts of marriage.

Lascivious dreams. Increased desire for coitus. Swelling and itching of nipples and pains in

breasts. The additional symptoms in the Schema are cured symptoms collected by Hering. I have

frequently verified the power of Orig. in morbid sexual excitement in both sexes. Other curious

symptoms were: "Impulse to run." "Heat of head; as the heat increased the head was

involuntarily turned from side to side." Symptoms were < evening on lying down (vertigo); and

< at night (excessive thirst).

Impossible to remain tranquil.—Disposition much changed (after four or five days):

she became earnest, fearful, silent, sad, discontented, despairing, and weary of life; (after ten or

twelve days) irritable, restless, with great anxiety and full of ideas, with need of active exercise,

of running in open air (from one to five drops of tincture).—Sadness the whole day, followed by

lively mood and excessive joyfulness, with thoughts of marriage, distraction of mind, and desire

for active exercise, impelling her to run (in another young woman from 30th).—Lascivious ideas

with sexual irritation.

Great physical prostration—Uneasiness.—Pains in legs and side became so

violent that Camph. was taken after five days Hysteria from excessive irritation of genitals.

Vertigo on lying down in evening.—Headache in temples.—Heat of head; as heat

increased, head was involuntarily turned from side to side.

Frequent desire to micturate, waking him from sleep as many as four

times in one night.

Frotomania; powerful lascivious impulses; leucorrhoea; hysteria. Lascivious ideas and dreams.

Increased desire for coitus.—Erotomania with inclination to suicide

in a young girl; great sexual irritation; deep moroseness, believes herself lost or despised.—Great

sexual excitement driving her to onanism; scarcely a day passes without indulgence; whenever

she meets a man whose appearance is pleasing she is driven to commit self-abuse.—Nearly

idiotic from masturbation.—Sexual irritation with leucorrhoea and irritation of pudenda, in an

unmarried woman of forty.—Leucorrheea, sterility, flatulence of uterus."

Rheumatic pains in r. foot frequently recurring and disappearing.—Pains in

the toes.

Pale red spots on legs, thighs, and abdomen.—Painful red pimples on outer portion of

both legs.

Frequent waking from sleep in fright; with trembling.—Dreams: vivid, anxious;

lascivious; exciting.

Heat of head; as the heat increased the head was involuntarily turned from side to

side.

• ▸Breasts, affections of.
• ▸Erotomania.
• ▸Hysteria.
• ▸Leucorrhcea.
• ▸Nipples, irritation of.

Nymphomania. Seminal emissions. Sexual irritation.

Compare: In masturbation in girls, Grat. In masturbation; desire to run; heat to head

and movements of head; affections of breasts, Bufo. In impulse to run, lod. Compare also:

• ▸Canth.
• ▸, Can.
• ▸ind.
• ▸, Collin.
• ▸, Hedeoma, Helon.
• ▸, Plat.
• ▸, Val.

Compare: Ferula glauca (in violent sexual excitement in women; icy coldness in occiput); Plat; Valer; Canth; Hyos.

Third potency.