ORIGANUM MAJORANA

Origanum majorana is a valuable and important homoeopathic medicine prepared from the fresh plant Origanum marjorana (Sweet Marjoram) of the Labiatæ family. It is best known for its profound action on the female reproductive system, nervous system, and mental sphere, making it especially suited for cases of nymphomania, erotomania, hysteria, and sexual hyperexcitability. This medicine is particularly indicated in women experiencing intense sexual cravings, emotional instability, and despair linked to genital irritation and leucorrhœa. It also addresses emotional extremes, from deep sadness and moroseness to episodes of elation and restlessness. Origanum is equally useful in both sexes for managing seminal emissions, sleep disturbances, and general nervous exhaustion.

Common Name
English: Knotted Marjoram

SBL’s Origanum majorana can be helpful in the following conditions:

Female Reproductive System and Sexual Excitation
• Strongly indicated in nymphomania, particularly with self-abuse tendencies.
• Addresses erotomania in young women with moroseness, despair, and suicidal thoughts.
• Aids in sexual irritation with leucorrhœa and itching of the genital region.
• Origanum marjorana is useful in flatulence of the uterus, sterility, and frequent irritation of the pudenda.
• Recurrent nipple swelling and itching, often with pain in the breast.

Mental and Emotional Changes
• Marked changes in disposition, from sadness and despair to restlessness and joyfulness.
• Induces lascivious thoughts, mental distraction, and urge for open-air activity.
• May present with hysteria from intense genital irritation.
• Feelings of being despised or lost; near-idiocy from self-abuse. Marked irritability with anxiety and full of ideas.

Male Sexual Health
• Helpful in nocturnal seminal emissions with mental agitation.
• Calms excessive irritation of the genital organs.

Disturbed Sleep and Vivid Dreams
• Frequent waking in fright, often accompanied by trembling.
• Dreams vivid and anxious, often lascivious or mentally stimulating.

Headache and Vertigo
• Aids in vertigo on lying down at night.
• Heat in the head with involuntary turning of the head from side to side.
• Headache, particularly in the temples.

Loss of Appetite and Abdomen Pain
• Loss of appetite with excessive thirst at night.
• Violent abdominal pain disturbing sleep.
• Hiccough and uterine flatulence in women.

Urinary Trouble
• Frequent urge to urinate, waking multiple times at night.

Back and Extremities Pain
• Helps with pains under the scapulæ, in hands, legs, and toes.
• Cramping in soles, legs, fingers, and shoulders.
• Recurrent rheumatic pain, especially in the right foot.

Skin Eruptions
• Origanum marjorana addresses pale red spots on legs, thighs, and abdomen.
• Painful red pimples on the outer parts of both legs.

General Weakness and Fever
• Marked physical prostration with uneasiness and restlessness.
• Fever with heat in the head, causing involuntary head movements.