Linaria

Linaria vulgaris. Toad-flax. N. O. Scrophulariaceae. Tincture of fresh plant. CUakaL — Diarrhœa. Enuresis. Fainting. Haemorrhoids. Ophthalmia. Tongue, roughness of ; prickling on.

Characteristics

Iffuinii has been proved by Muller, Rapidl, and others. It produced confusion in the head ; thirst, with rough tone ; constriction of the throat ; nausea, vomiting, and diarrhoea ; profuse urination ; oppression of the breathing and stitches in the chest. Farrington commends it for cardiac fainting: 'faints dead away without apparent cause " ; and also in enuresis : '' enuresis with frequent painful urging to urinate causing patient to rise at night." Caneton (H. P., xii. 526) has seen it produce : " fainting feeling uiree or four times a day ; fainted away completely once." Coldness was a prominent feature, and the symptoms were much < by walking in open air ; > by taking tea with milk. In domestic practice Linar. has long been used as a lotion for inflamed eyes, and as an application for painful piles. It is said to be purgative and diuretic.

Relations

Antidoted by : Tea in milk. Compare : Digit, (fainting), and other Scrophularia. Caust., Eu. purp., Equiset. (enuresis).

Mind

Peevish mind. — Indifference. — Stupid feeling of indifference, ill-humour, with dull pain in forehead, with heat after the sleep, lasting till midnight

Head

Confusion of the head with irresistible sleepiness. — Pressure in forehead.

Mouth p. 286

Dryness of tongue, morning on waking, with thirst for water before rising, water tasted badly, seemed rough, glided unpleasantly over tongue, papillae elevated. — Burning prickling on tongue, extending down into throat, smoking := tickling irritation to cough, could scarcely continue to smoke.— Saliva increased, frequent spitting. — Taste of blood in mouth.

Throat p. 286

Sensation of constriction in throat ; as if a ball lodged in it which should be swallowed.

Stomach p. 286

Appetite : diminished; lost. — Thirst. — Eructations: frequent, preceding and following usual stool ; of odourless air, afterwards also of water ; sweetish ; bitter. — General sick feeling with sleepiness and sleep for two hours (lo a.m to 12). — Vomiting of thin, mucous substances followed by disappearance of all gastric symptoms. — Very acute pressure in stomach < by touch.

Abdomen p. 286

Griping about umbilicus, increasing in intensity from time to time. — Rumbling, and in the course of two hours five watery stools with very little pigment. — Griping, half an hour afterwards a watery stool.

Stool and Anus p. 286

Burning in anus.— Diarrhoea ; stools thin ; ten watery, bileless stools with much flatus. — Very dark-coloured faeces.

Urinary Organs p. 286

Great desire ; frequent inclination ; quantity increased and frothy. — Urine very high-coloured, like dark beer, passed more frequently.— (Enuresis.)

Female Sexual Organs p. 286

Menses a few days early.— Menses which had just ceased returned the same day she took a new dose.

Respiratory Organs p. 286

Violent paroxysm of cough, obliged to stand quite still to cough it out and regain breath.

Chest p. 286

Oppression, making respiration difficult and causing cough. — Transient stitches here and there, deep in chest and abdomen.

Generalities p. 286

General prostration. — Symptoms > for short time after drinking tea with milk ; severely and persistently < on walking in open air.

Skin p. 286

Itching in throat, chest, and upper back.

Sleep p. 286

Frequent yawning and stretching with feeling of weakness and prostration. — Irresistible sleepiness. — Sleep forepart of night, quiet and refreshing as if he had slept all night ; rest of nit sleepless with confused dreams towards morning.

Fever p. 286

Coldness.— Alternations of chills and heat.