Linaria Vulgaris

Linaria has been proved by Miiller, Raidl, and others. It produced confusion

in the head; thirst, with rough tongue; 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.
• ▸" Carleton (7.
• ▸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.

Peevish mind.—Indifference.—Stupid feeling of indifference, ill-humour, with dull

pain in forehead, with heat after the sleep, lasting till midnight.

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.

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

swallowed.

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.

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.

Burning in anus.—Diarrhcea; stools thin; ten watery, bileless stools with

much flatus.—Very dark-coloured feces.

Great desire; frequent inclination; quantity increased and frothy.—Urine

very high-coloured, like dark beer, passed more frequently.—(Enuresis.)

Menses a few days early.—Menses which had just ceased returned

the same day she took a new dose.

Violent paroxysm of cough, obliged to stand quite still to cough it out

and regain breath.

Oppression, making respiration difficult and causing cough.—Transient stitches here

and there, deep in chest and abdomen.

24. Generalities—General prostration.—Symptoms > for short time after drinking tea with milk;

severely and persistently < on walking in open air.

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.

• ▸Diarrhcea.
• ▸Enuresis.
• ▸Fainting.
• ▸Hemorrhoids.
• ▸Ophthalmia.
• ▸Tongue, roughness of;

prickling on.

Antidoted by: tea in milk. Compare: Digit. (fainting), and other Scrophulariz.

• ▸Caust.
• ▸, Eu.
• ▸purp.
• ▸, Equiset.
• ▸(enuresis).

Third potency.