Linaria

vulgaris. Toad-flax. N. O. Scrophulariaceæ. Tincture of fresh plant.

Clinical

Diarrhœa / Enuresis / Fainting / Hæmorrhoids / Ophthalmia / Tongue, roughness of; prickling on

Characteristics

Linaria has been proved by Müller, Raidl, and others. It produced confusion in the head; thirst, with rough tongue; constriction of the throat; nausea, vomiting, and diarrhœa; 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." Carleton (H. P., xii. 526) has seen it produce,: "fainting feeling three 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 Scrophulariæ. Caust., Eu. purp., Equiset. (enuresis).

1. Mind

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

2. Head

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

8. Mouth

Dryness of tongue, morning on waking, with thirst for water before rising, water tasted badly, seemed rough, glided unpleasantly over tongue, papillæ 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.

9. Throat

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

11. Stomach

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 (10 a.m. to 12). Vomiting of thin, mucous substances followed by disappearance of all gastric symptoms. Very acute pressure in stomach < by touch.

12. Abdomen

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.

13. Stool and Anus

Burning in anus. Diarrhœa; stools thin; ten watery, bileless stools with much flatus. Very dark-coloured fæces.

14. Urinary Organs

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

16. Female Sexual Organs

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

17. Respiratory Organs

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

18. Chest

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

24. Generalities

General prostration.

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

25. Skin

Itching in throat, chest, and upper back.

26. Sleep

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 night sleepless with confused dreams towards morning.

27. Fever

Coldness. Alternations of chills and heat.