RUBRIC: IMPOTENCY

 

RUBRIC:  impotency

[Male; erections; wanting, impotency]

 

MEANING:

 

1.     the condition or quality of being impotent; weakness.

2.     unable to engage in sexual intercourse because of inability to have and maintain an erection.

3.     chronic inability to attain or sustain an erection for the performance of a sexual act.

4.     sterility, especially in the male.

5.     Obsolete. lack of self-restraint.

6.     Erectile dysfunction (ED), also known as impotence, is the inability to get and maintain an erection. Erectile dysfunction is a very common condition, particularly in older men.

 

CROSS REFERENCE:

 

Male; coition; aversion to, sexual aversion; impotence, with

Male; erections; fruitless

Male; erections; incomplete

Male; excitability of genitals; lost

Male; flaccidity; penis

Male; sexual, libido; wanting

Male; weakness, tired feeling

 

REMEDIES IN COMPLETE DYNAMICS:

 

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REMEDIES IN DETAILS:

 

AGNUS CASTUS:  IMPOTENCY and PREMATURE OLD AGE, from abuse of sexual power.  History of repeated gonorrhoea.   Self-contempt from sexual abuse.  Nervous debility in unmarried persons. Spermatorrhoea; with impotence. Spermatorrhoea in old sinners.

 

Impotence, after frequent attacks of gonorrhoea; impotence from syphilis. In old men, who having spent their youth and early manhood in the practice of excessive venery, are just as excitable in their sexual passion at sixty as at eighteen or twenty, and yet they are physically impotent, Agn. is a good remedy. Impotence, & morning erections only.  Penis so relaxed that voluptuous fancies excite no erection. Feeble erections without sexual desire. Emission at night after an embrace, semen discharged in a stream without ejaculation, scanty and has but little smell. Gleet without sexual desire or erections.  

 

Antimonium crudum: Impotence. Atrophy of penis and testicles. Nightly pollutions & or without voluptuous dreams. Itching of penis; of tip of glans.

 

Argentum nitricum: Impotence; erection, but it fails when coition is attempted.   Coition painful - urethra as if put on stretch or sensitive at orifice.   Chancre like ulcers, on the prepuce. Testes drawn up high. Impotence;  agg. thinking of it.

 

Arnica montana: Ill effects of fright, financial loss, anger, repentance; excessive use of any organ, vaginitis in females and impotence in males from excessive sexual indulgence. Impotence from excess or abuse.  Phimosis, from friction.

 

 

 

Avena sativa:  Spermatorrhoea; impotency; after too much indulgence. 

 

Baryta carbonica: Genitals feel numb. Diminished desire and premature impotence. Enlarged prostate. Testicles indurated. Genitals flabby. Premature emissions. Falling asleep during coition. Emission in an old man, followed by feeling of dryness in whole body. Insufficient discharge of semen. Erections only in morning before rising.

 

Bufo rana: Involuntary emissions; impotence, ejaculation too quick, spasms during coition. Disposition to handle organs [Hyos.; Zinc.]. Effects of onanism. Semen is discharged too quickly, without pleasurable sensation, sometimes & cramps or painful heaviness in limbs. 

 

Caladium seguinum: Flaccid, sweaty genitals. Impotence. Impotency, after gonorrhoea; with mental depression.  Organs seem larger, as if puffed.  Glans like a rag.  Prepuce retracted, after coition.  Genitals cold.

 

Erections when half asleep; cease when fully awake. Impotency; relaxation of penis during sexual excitement. No emission and no orgasm during coition. Desire suddenly ceases during coition; didn't know if there was an emission or not.

 

Calcarea carbonica: Increased sexual desire, with retarded erections.  Frequent emissions. Burning, with seminal emission.  Coition; followed by profound weakness, vertigo, irritability, lameness of back and knees, headache and sweat.  Itching and burning in genitals.  Impotence, from sexual abuse or indulgence.  Seminal discharge premature.

 

Calcarea sulphurica: Spermatorrhoea & impotence. Chronic syphilis.

 

Cannabis sativa: IMPOTENCE FROM SEXUAL ABUSE.  Penis swollen, without marked erections. Dark redness of glans and prepuce. Coldness of genitals & warmth of rest of body. 

 

China officinalis: Impotence, or morbid sexual desire, with lascivious fancies.  Frequent emissions followed by great weakness. Swelling of testes and spermatic cord - after gonorrhoea. Impotence from overindulgence.

 

Cobaltum metallicum: Emissions without erection. Impotence; or partial erections. Frequent nocturnal emissions, & lewd dreams, headache and backache. Impotence. 

 

Coca: Sensation as if penis were absent.  Diabetes, with impotency.

 

Conium maculatum: Desire increased; power decreased. Sexual nervousness, & feeble erection. Bad effects of suppressed sexual desire; or from excessive indulgence. Testicles hard and enlarged. Erections imperfect and of too short duration. Seminal discharge, provoked by mere presence of a woman or contact;  while frolicking with a woman . Impotence. Excessive emissions; esp. of young people. Emissions on slightest sexual provocation. Weakness after coition.

 

Eupatorium purpureum: Impotency and sterility. Impotence, from exhaustion or abuse of generative functions. 

 

Fluoricum acidum: Sudden loss of sexual power; impotence. Pollutions without erection. Penis curved in the shape of an S, and swollen at least four inches in circumference, the prepuce oedematous to such a degree as to hide the orifice of the urethra.

 

Graphites:   Sexual debility, with increased desire.  Averse to coition.   Ejaculation; too early or failing during coition.  Want of sexual enjoyment.  Impotence from excessive indulence or masturbation. Impotence, & dislike to coition.

 

Helonias dioica: Impotence; complete or partial.

 

Ignatia amara: Penis; contracted, becomes small.  Complete loss of sexual desire.  Sexual desire weak, or sexual desire & impotence. 

 

Kalium bromatum:  Debility and impotence. Desire lessened, even impotence. Impotence; with melancholy epilepsy, nervous prostration.

 

Kreosotum: Burning in genitals during coition, from coming into contact with acrid vaginal discharge; penis swells next day. Sexual desire too weak; impotence during coition. 

 

Lycopodium clavatum: Sexual exhaustion; impotence; erections feeble; falls asleep during coition. Exhausting pollutions.  Enlarged prostate.   Premature seminal emission.

 

No erectile power; impotence;  penis small, cold, relaxed;  falls asleep during coition. Premature emission [Agn.; Calad.; Sel.].  Impotence; loss of sexual desire, esp. after gonorrhoea or cystitis. Desire diminished. Itching on inner surface of prepuce; of scrotum. Discharge of prostatic fluid without an erection.

 

Medorrhinum: Heaviness of prostate; painful and enlarged, with frequent and painful urination.  Impotency. Prostration after seminal emission.

 

Moschus:  Impotence from diabetes ( COCA).  Nausea and vomiting after coition.   Emissions, without erections. Erection, with desire to urinate.

 

Muriaticum acidum: Impotence;  penis relaxed; desire weak. Margin of prepuce sore.

 

Natrium muriaticum:  Impotence & retarded emission.  Emission of prostatic fluid without erection when thinking of sexual things. Erections in morning, without sexual excitement. Pus-like smegma on glans. Itching and crawling sensation at corona glandis. Genital organs smell strongly and badly.

 

Nuphar luteum: Spermatorrhoea. Complete absence of sexual desire; parts relaxed; penis retracted. Impotence, & involuntary emissions during stool, when urinating;  during sleep. Voluptuous thoughts don't cause erections.

 

Onosmodium virginianum: Loss of sexual desire. Psychical impotence.  Speedy emission, deficient erections.

 

Opium: Erections during sleep, & impotence when awake. Emissions without erections, followed by debility and great relaxation of parts. 

 

Phosphoricum acidum: Sexual power deficient; testicles tender and swollen. Parts [ suddenly] relax during coition [Nux-v.]. Weakness of sexual organs, & onanism and little sexual desire. Impotence, esp. when sensibility of parts is excessive and semen is discharged shortly after an erection, or before an erection.

 

Phosphorus: Lack of power. Impotence after excessive excitement and onanism. Hydrocele after gonorrhoeal orchitis, & sexual weakness; also, after seminal losses. Erections absent & inward sexual desire. Impotence from or preceded by overexcitement of sexual organs, as in young men who, trying to restrain their natural passion, have this local erethism by reason of celibacy or sexual excesses. Erection ineffectual during coition. Premature ejaculation. Gleet: discharge very scanty; small drops of watery fluid at orifice of urethra in morning, at times gluing it together, but leaving scarcely any stain on clothing; no pain or any difficulty in urination. 

 

Picricum acidum:  Impotency, with tendency to boils and carbuncles. PENIS SO DISTENDED THAT IT FEELS AS THOUGH IT WOULD BURST. Impotence or weakness & irritability; penis relaxed and shrunken; coldness of genitals.

 

Psorinum: Aversion to coition; impotence; want of emission during coition. Absence of erections; parts flabby, torpid. Inflamed ulcer on glans, & swelling and heaviness of testicles.

 

 

Sabal serrulata:  Genitals cold.  Enlarged or congested prostate; senile.  Wasting of testes and loss of sexual power.  Painful, erection or emission of semen, during coition.  Sexual neurotics. Impotency.  Semen thick, causes hot feeling along the cord.

 

Secale cornutum: Weakness of memory after exhausting coition; impotence. 

 

Selenium metallicum: Lascivious thoughts, with impotency.

 

Sepia officinalis: Organs cold. Complaints from coition. Impotence.  Nocturnal pollutions. Watery semen. Insufficient erection and but little thrill, during coition; after it great weakness [esp. weakness in knees]. Nightly emissions & sexual dreams. After emission burning in forepart of urethra. Prepuce ulcerates and itches continually; cracks on foreskin. Burning, itching, humid or scurfy herpes preputialis; chappy herpes, & circular desquamation of skin.

 

Staphisagria: Impotence; & irritability of bladder and urethra, brought on by sexual excess. Voluptuous itching of scrotum; atrophy of testes; due to onanism or sexual excesses. Chronic prostatitis in old men, pain from anus extending to urethra, coming on after walking or riding.

 

Stramonium: Impotence; from onanism, often but temporary. 

 

Sulphur: Testes hang low.  Seminal emission, with burning in urethra.  Penis cold.   Sexual power weak; impotence.  Exhaustion in the morning after seminal emission.  Discharge of prostatic fluid after urination and stool.  Seminal emission on touching a woman.  Semen; odourless; watery.  Prepuce stiff, hard like leather, with copious foetid smegma ; causes itches.

 

Tabacum: Nocturnal emissions.  Impotency.  Hyperaesthesia and neuralgia of penis. Genital organs flabby; no erections or sexual desire.

 

Thuja occidentalis: Suppressed gonorrhoea;  = articular rheumatism; prostatitis; sycosis; impotence. Impotence after suppressed gonorrhoea. Sexual desire increased or decreased. Nightly painful erections = sleeplessness. Nocturnal emissions followed by heaviness and ill-humour. Renewed gonorrhoea after coition. Itching on inner surface of prepuce. Moisture on glans. Glans very sensitive. Eczema on genitals. Red excrescence on inner surface of prepuce like figwarts. Left testicle drawn up. 

 

Tribulus terrestris: It meets the auto-traumatism of masturbation, correcting the emissions and spermatorrhoea. Partial impotence caused by overindulgence of advancing age, or when accompanied by urinary symptoms, incontinence, painful micturition, etc. 

 

Turnera aphrodisiaca; damiana: Said to be of use in sexual neurasthenia; impotence. Sexual debility from nervous prostration. Incontinence of old people. Chronic prostatic discharge.

 

Uranium nitricum: Complete impotence & nocturnal emissions. Organs cold, relaxed, sweaty. 

 

Yohimbinum: Strong and lasting erections. Neurasthenic impotence.

 

 

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