Linum Catharticum
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General
Linum Catharticum.
Linum catharticum. Purging-flax. N. O. Linaceae. Tincture of whole plant.
Clinical
Amenorrhoea. Bronchitis. Cough. Diarrhoea. Haemorrhoids. Laryngitis. Rheumatism.
Characteristics
The proving of L. cath. (by Stokes and Galston) 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.
Relations
Antidoted by: Sul. (headache). Compare: Lin. usitatiss.
Mind
Dulness and depression.—Irritable.
Head
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. Ø)
Dull headache, as of weight on brow, < holding head back and after reading.
Ears
Singing in l. ear for some hours in evening.
Nose
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
Tongue: deeply furred; foul
Mouth dry without thirst
Taste: insipid; foul; bilious.
Throat
Much hawking of yellow mucus, sometimes tinged with blood.—Rawness in throat when out in open air after breakfast.
Stomach
Eructations tasting of bile
Rising of food, evening
Repletion.
Abdomen
Rumbling and slight uneasiness
Colicky pains
Occasional griping and distension, < after food
Tormina and tenesmus
Abdomen tender on pressure.
Stool And Anus
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
Itching at orifice of urethra
Frequent desire to urinate
Urine straw-coloured, strong-smelling.
Male Sexual Organs
Feeble erections; diminished desire.
Female Sexual Organs
Menses: delayed; missed.
Respiratory Organs
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
Great pain in chest, < by any movement, on deep inspiration.—Chest: much stuffed sore.
Heart
Pulse full and quickened.
Upper Limbs
Slight shooting down muscles of arms in evening.—Slight shooting pains in l. and r. shoulder-joints.
Generalities
Languor towards night; on waking.
Sleep
Sleepy after dinner
Sleep profound
Insomnia
Dreams: lascivious; of travelling; of cholera.
Fever
A cold feeling in streets as from a blast of cold air
Much heat of body and moderate sweat
Sweats freely.