Linum Catharticum

Linum catharticum. Purging - flax. N. O. Linaceae. Tincture of whole plant. GUhImL— Amenorrhoea. Bronchitis. Cough. Diarrhoea. Hsemorrhoids. Laryngitis. Rheumatism.

Characteristics

The proving of L. cath. (by Stokes and Alston) shows that it deserves its name. Colic and diarrhoea of loose, bright yellow stools, and also of slender, feculent stools were most marked. The sexual functions were depressed ; in men absence of desire ; in women menses were omitted or delayed. There was much nasal and respiratory catarrh, stuffed-up. condition of nose and chest, troublesome cough and difficult expectoration of frothy, yellow mucus. The cough was < walking in open air. Headache > in open air, and > by eating. BdtttloiUk — Antidoted by: Sul. (headache). Compare: Lin. usitatiss.

Mind p. 287

Dulness and depression. — Irritable.

Head p. 287

After sleep, confusion of head ; malaise as from cold.— Con* gestion and vertigo on throwing head back. — Headache : > open air ; > after eating. — Severe frontal headache, obliging to lie down after dinner (> by Sul. f). — Dull headache, as of weight on brow, < holding head back and after reading.

Ears p. 287

Singing in I. ear for some hours in evening.

Nose p. 287

Sneezing ; at night.— Mucus from nose, occasionally rose colour. — Fluent coryza. — Nose stopped, and running a clear, profuse mucus from first one nostril for several days, then the other. .

Mouth p. 287

Tongue : deeply furred ; foul.— Mouth dry without thirst. — Taste : insipid ; foul ; bilious.

Throat p. 287

Much hawking of yellow mucus, sometimes tinged with blood. — Rawness in throat when out in open air after breakfast.

Stomach p. 287

Eructations tasting of bile. — Rising of food, evening.— Repletion. ifl. Abdomen. — Rumbling and slight uneasiness. — Colicky pains. — Occasional griping and distension, < after food.— Tormina and tenesmus. — Abdomen tender on pressure.

Stool and Anus p. 287

At night pressing in rectum as if swollen. — Smarting at anus after stool. — Smarting stinging in anus as if piles were coming, in evening. — Tenesmus. — Several motions of small, slender-formed faeces. — Stools free ; urging compelling to obey instantly ; rectum seemed to have little grasp of the faeces, which pass as if pushed out from the colon.— Uneasiness in abdomen, followed by a very loose, bright yellow, mucous stool, with some urging, forenoon. — Full, soft, formed stool. — Feculent stool of slender coils, sinking to bottom of utensil. — Difficult stool with pressing down in rectum ; faeces covered with epithelial-like shreds resembling worms ; gelatinous mucus in form of rolls; evening. — Bowels continued costive several days, then relaxed with pressive force of rectum, then alternately costive and relaxed. — Costive stool with much pressure. — No stool for several days.

Urinary Organs p. 287

Itching at orifice of urethra.— Frequent desire to urinate. — Urine straw-coloured, strong-smelling.

Male Sexual Organs p. 287

Feeble erections ; diminished desire.

Female Sexual Organs p. 287

Menses : delayed ; missed.

Respiratory Organs p. 287

Voice hoarse. — Cough : dry, hard ; tickling teasing with frothy mucous sputa; < in, or returning from, open air. — Expectoration, with much difficulty, of frothy, and some yellow, mucus.

Chest p. 288

Great pain in chest, < by any movementi on deep inspiration. — Chest : much stuffed ; sore.

Heart p. 288

Pulse full and quickened.

Upper Limbs p. 288

Slight shooting down muscles of arms in evening. — Slight shooting pains in l. and r. shoulder-joints.

Generalities p. 288

Languor towards night ; on waking.

Sleep p. 288

Sleepy after dinner. — Sleep profound. — Insomnia, — Dreams : lascivious ; of travelling ; of cholera.

Fever p. 288

A cold feeling in streets as from a blast of cold air. — Much heat of body and moderate sweat — Sweats freely.