Linum Catharticum

The proving of L. cath. (by Stokes and Galston) shows that it deserves its

name. Colic and diarrhcea 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.

After sleep, confusion of head; malaise as from cold.—Congestion and vertigo on

throwing head back.—Headache: > open air; > after eating. —Severe frontal headache, obliging to

lie down after dinner (> by Sul. @).—Dull headache, as of weight on brow, < holding head back

and after reading.

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.

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

Much hawking of yellow mucus, sometimes tinged with blood.—Rawness in throat

when out in open air after breakfast.

Rumbling and slight uneasiness.—Colicky pains.—Occasional griping and

distension, < after food.—Tormina and tenesmus.—Abdomen tender on pressure.

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 feeces.—Stools free; urging compelling to obey instantly;

rectum seemed to have little grasp of the feeces, 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; feeces 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.

Itching at orifice of urethra.—Frequent desire to urinate —Urine straw-

coloured, strong-smelling.

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.

Great pain in chest, < by any movement, on deep inspiration —Chest: much stuffed

sore.

Slight shooting down muscles of arms in evening.—Slight shooting pains in

1. and r. shoulder-joints.

24. Generalities—Languor towards night; on waking.

• ▸Sleepy after dinner.
• ▸—Sleep profound.
• ▸—Insomnia.
• ▸—Dreams: lascivious; of travelling;

of cholera.

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

moderate sweat.—Sweats freely.