Linum Usitatissimum

• ▸Hale quotes T.
• ▸O.
• ▸Summers (Nashville J.
• ▸of Med.
• ▸and Surg.
• ▸) as saying that Li.

ben. had great effect in diminishing uric acid deposits and increasing the free hippuric acid of the

urine. "It acts upon the urine before it leaves the blood." Bearing in mind the powerful action

which each of its elements possesses over the urinary functions, homceopaths can understand this

action, and future experience will probably extend it.

Lithium Bromatum.

• ▸Bromide of Lithium.
• ▸Li.
• ▸br.
• ▸Trituration.
• ▸Tincture.

Depressed; sad; apprehensive.—Apprehension < riding in carriage; a kind of anxiety in

the heart of impending misfortune with home sickness.—Irritable-—Great desire to write—-Weak

memory.

Sudden weakness; dizzy; restless; jerkings through whole body.—Peculiar

feeling of comfort after micturition.

Vertigo: while walking, compelling to stop; whirling; with heaviness of head and

sleepiness; after eating obliged to sleep.—Sudden headache, with drawing in nape.—Drawing-

sticking r. side of vertex.

Redness of white of eye, slight pressure in ball, lachrymation.—Flickering before eyes

like a bright flaming star, preventing distinct vision, < when reading in recumbent position.

Dryness of throat in evening, obliged to drink, which did not >; afterwards > by

holding sugar in mouth.—Sore throat so she could scarcely speak or swallow.

Increased appetite.—Eructations: as soon as she goes into the bath; tastes of the

gas of the spring.—Retching and vomiting of mucus, morning.—Vomiting of sour water, with

paroxysmal colic.—Stomach feels as if disordered by sour grapes; sour vomiting with much

mucus, chilliness, loss of appetite—Pressive cramp in stomach < lying on back, after dinner; >

lying on side.

• ▸Sticking pains in liver.
• ▸—Prickling in 1.
• ▸hypochondrium.
• ▸—Distension.
• ▸—Loud

rumbling and emission of much offensive flatus.—Feels "shrunk together," as if abdomen

constricted to one-third.—Griping as before stool Periodic pressive pain in hypogastrium.

Protrusion of rectum after lying down.—Piles with burning, sticking pains

during the hard stools; lost much blood daily for fourteen days.—Very violent itching in anus,

obliging rubbing.—Four pasty stools.—Stools continued to be followed by mucus and often

blood, sometimes thin, sometimes clotted, for a long time.—Stool in morning like sheep-dung,

with some blood.—Very yellow stools as in little children.—Stools bloody (in patient with

heemoptysis, which disappeared after occurrence of the bloody stools).—Constipation, stool hard,

difficult.

Slight mucous discharge from orifice.—Burning cutting while

urinating. —Great urging (immediately on rising), unless call instantly obeyed urine passed

involuntarily.—Frequent urination at night; must make great exertion before urine is pressed out;

urine smells of violets.—Two or three ounces of small calculi passed in eight days.—Increased

secretion; urine clear watery.

Increased mucous discharge from vagina; two days later some

bloody streaks in the mucus.—Leucorrheea: with itching in rectum; acrid, with soreness on

margins of labia majora, < from walking, painful on rubbing.—Menses three days early and more

profuse.

Smegma preputii increased, thin.—Emissions two nights in

succession (in one who had never had them before).

Tickling in larynx woke him from afternoon nap and lasted till he

raised some mucus.—Trachea feels raw and dry.—Hoarseness, roughness in throat, while trachea

feels as if covered with glutinous, dry substances, afternoon, > riding in carriage —Dry cough,

morning, with tickling in throat, < talking.—Violent catarrhal cough with easy expectoration of

enormous quantity of watery, glassy, tenacious mucus.—Hzmoptysis; blood thin, bright red,

occurring nearly every morning after rising (after drinking the water and inhaling the gases the

previous evening).

Violent anxiety in chest (in the back).—Fulness in chest immediately after taking the

water and breathing the gases.—Heaviness and pressure on chest while walking.—Fine suddenly

piercing, transient Stitches in both sides of chest about a handsbreadth externally and above the

nipples.—Stitches in the mamma.

Violent palpitation every evening (in a healthy woman), obliged to stop drinking the

water.—Increased rapidity of pulse.

Bruised sensation between shoulders.—Pain in loins, with pressure and tension,

waking him several times in night, < lying I. side.—Pain in small of back with griping in

abdomen.

Paralytic pain in whole r. arm.—Great distension of veins in backs of hands

after inhaling the gas.—Trembling of hands (< r.) while sitting, with anxious palpitation and

orgasm of blood in chest.

Suddenly, transient pain shooting from knee to ankles.—Acute, paralytic-like

pain in front of upper end of tibia, when putting foot forward in walking.—Weariness of feet after

a short walk.—Burning pains in corns.

Jaundice.—Fine, red, or pale red, discrete eruption size of linseed, smooth, itching

violently, while in bath, and in evening in bed; larger pemphigus-like vesicles developed later on

continuing the baths.—Eruptions on arms, hands, and face like bee-stings with swellings an inch

and a half in diameter, like nettle-rash; itched so violently could scarcely Sleep.

Much yawning while inhaling the gas.—Sleepy: falls asleep at unusual time; after

dinner.—Unremembered, anxious dreams with frequent waking.—Many dreams of dead people

and coffins.

Chilliness.—Shivering with thirst—Flushes of heat with flickering before

eyes.—Orgasm of blood, flushes of heat with anxiety; obliged to loosen everything about throat

and wrists —Glowing heat of face—Sweats easily.—Profuse sweat in morning, obliged to change

his shirt.

Lithium Benzoicum.

Benzoate of Lithium. LiC7HsO>.

• ▸Apoplexy.
• ▸Epilepsy.
• ▸Speech, thick.
• ▸Vertigo.

Characteristics—Weir Mitchell, quoted by Hale, is the authority for this medicament. He gave

thirty grains to a gentleman (who had had one previous attack of apoplexy and was hemiplegic)

for these symptoms: Numbness, vertigo, headache, and thickness of speech. The one dose

removed them in half an hour. Mitchell gave it in epilepsy when other bromides were not borne.

Hale mentions that it removed these symptoms in a case: After any prolonged mental exertion,

flushed face, insomnia, and intense pain between the shoulders.

• ▸Compare: Calc.
• ▸sul.
• ▸, Nat.
• ▸sul.
• ▸, Mag.
• ▸mur.
• ▸Restlessness, Rhus, Zn.
• ▸, Caust.
• ▸> By

• ▸micturition, Eug.
• ▸j.
• ▸, Lith.
• ▸c.
• ▸< After coitus, K.
• ▸ca.

Compare: Linum Catharticum-Purging flax --(Similar respiratory symptoms, but also colic and diarrhoea).

Lower potencies.