RUBRIC :
NYMPHOMANIA
Nymphomania:
Sexual expression is a natural part of a
well-rounded life. But if you have an overwhelming need for sex and are so
intensely preoccupied with this need that it interferes with your job and your relationships,
you may have a problem called compulsive sexual behavior. It is sometimes
called hyper-sexuality, nymphomania or
erotomania. [Current research indicates that compulsive sexual behavior is most
common among men also and called Satyriasis].
Dictionary
Meaning:
1. Abnormally
excessive and uncontrollable sexual
desire in woman.
1.
2. A neurotic
condition in women in which the symptoms are a compulsion to have a sexual
intercourse with as many men as possible and an inability to have lasting
relationships with them.
3. A disorder in
which a women exhibits excessive or obsessive desire for sexual stimulation or
gratification.
4. The behaviour
of a woman who likes to have sex very often, especially with a lot of different
people, which was considered in the past to be an illness.
Explanation: There is an increased desire for
sexual intercourse in a female. This may be seen during certain period of time;
eg. before, during or after menses, before, during or after delivery etc.
Cross Reference:
Adulterous
Ailments
from sexual excesses
Amorous
Company
aversion to, solitude fond of, masturbation, to practise
Delirium,
erotic
Fancies,
lascivious
Fancies,
lascivious; tormenting
Female; sexual libido; desire; insatiable
Genitalia
female, desire, increased
Genitalia
female, masturbation, disposition to
Genitalia
female, desire, violent, masturbation driving her to
Hysteria,
lascivious
Ideas
lascivious
Insanity, madness,
erotic, sexual
Insanity, madness,
lascivious
Lascivious,
lustfulness
Lewdness ,
obscene
Libertinism
Masturbation, sadness, masturbation, from
Naked,
wants to be
Satyriasis (In men)
Shameless,
expose the person
Thoughts,
intrude sexual
Thoughts,
sexual
Thoughts,
tormenting, sexual
Women, mental, emotional, complaints, in
Remedies; Complete Dynamics: (95)
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ANT-C APIS ars asaf ASTER AUR aur-m-n BAR-C BAR-M
BELL CALAD calc CALC-P CAMPH camph-br CANN-I CANN-S CANTH carb-v cedr CHIN
chlol chlor coca cocc COFF con CROC cyna DIG DULC ephe-v FERUL
FL-AC gins graph GRAT herin HYOS ign iod KALI-BR
kali-c kali-p lac-cpr LACH LIL-T LYC manc MERC mosch MURX
nat-c nat-m NUX-V oci op ORIG orig-v ozon ph-ac PHOS
pic-ac PLAT plb posit psil-c PULS RAPH rob SABAD SABIN
salx-n sec sil stann STAPH STRAM stry sul-ac sulph
sumb TARENT thuj valer VERAT ZINC zinc-pic
Remedies in
details:
AGARICUS (AGAR): Itching and irritation of the parts with strong desire
for an embrace.
ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM (ANT-C): Nymphomania; during suppressed menses.
APIS MELLIFICA (APIS): Insanity, esp. nymphomania and apathy depending on
or sore throat, indigestion or bladder
affections.
ASTERIAS
RUBENS (ASTER):
Insatiable craving which is not satisfied ever after coition. Twitching
in womb. Pushing out sensation. Great excitement in morning.
CALADIUM (CALAD): Masturbation
and its results in men; pruritus vulvae in females, which may sometimes be due
to threadworms finding their way into the vagina, inducing masturbation and
even nymphomania. Nynphomania from worms crawling into vagina
and causing irritation.
CALCAREA CARBONICUM (CALC): With mental excitement but not physical.
CONIUM (CON): Induration and enlargement of ovaries
and womb, prolapse of uterus with induration and ulceration of the cervix, with
profuse leucorrhoea. All due to suppressed sexual desire.
GRATIOLA (GRAT): It is specific
for nymphomania and masturbation in females. In the morning after a lascivious
dream.
HYOSCYAMUS (HYOS): Has a great sexual craving. Imprudently
exposes herself. She indulges in obscene talks. Nymphomania during menses and
from suppressed menses.
KALI BROMOTUM
(KALI-BR): Its
power over the sexual sphere is very great; the patient is sensual, with
lascivious fancies; satyriasis and nymphomania. Nymphomania; puerperal. Sterility from
excessive sexual indulgence. Flooding in young women, & sexual desire.
Menorrhagia, from strong sexual desire.
KALI PHOSPHORICUM (KALI-P): Sexual excitement
in virgin girls who have premature development. The desire for sex becomes
intense after each menstrual period.
LACHESIS (LACH): Nymphomania
during climacteric period.
LILIUM TIGIRIUM (LIL-T): Insatiable desire in women with overian
complaints. There is voluptuous itchin in the vagina with a feeling of
fullness. Increased desire ;must keep busy to suppress it.
MOSCHUS (MOSCH): Increase sexual desire
without any apparent cause. Nymphomania; from suppressed menses;
during metrorrhagia.
MUREX: Violent
excitement in sexual organs, and excessive desire for embrace. Least contact of
parts causes violent sexual excitement.
ORIGANUM MAJORANA
(ORIG): This remedy is indicated in women when the excessive craving drives
here to masturbation. Irresistable emotion and impulse. Great sexual irritation
and excitement. Great sexual excitement driving her to onanism;
scarcely a day passes without indulgence. Impulse to run. Children who
masturbate at the early age (5-6) years. And in young girs too.
PHOSPHORUS (PHOS): Nymphomania in
widows. The excessive desire is due to forced celibacy ( Unmarried life)
PLATINA
(PLAT):
Nymphomania (Unbearable desire ) in young girls with premature development
of the sexual organs and instinct. This instinct is worst in lying – in – women
(during confinement), during metrorrhagia , during suppressed menses.
SABADILLA (SABAD): Nymphomania from ascarides
STRAMONIUM (STRAM): From suppressed menses and before menses. Nymphomania;
lewd talking; sings obscene songs. Excessive menses, preceded by sexual
excitement. Loquacity and singing during menses. Hands constantly kept on
genitals. Nymphomania; has a lascivious smell of semen [during
menses].
TARENTULA HISPANIA
(TARENT): Pruritus vulvae; nymphomania; agg.
coition; parts dry and hot.
VERATRUM
ALBUM (VERAT): Nymphomania; embraces everybody, even objects; & violence and destructiveness; after
disappointed love; shameless. Nymphomania before menses. Menorrhagia & nausea,
vomiting, diarrhoea. Suppression of milk. Nymphomania: from unsatisfied passion
or mental causes; puerperal; from disappointed love; during confinement.
ZINCUM METALLICUM (ZINC): Nymphomania
during pregnancy. Nymphomania
of lying-in women; from suppressed
lochia.
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