Linaria Vulgaris Homeopathic Remedy

Linaria Vulgaris Homeopathic Remedy

Linaria vulgaris. Toad-flax. N. O. Scrophulariaceae. Tincture of fresh plant.

Clinical.Diarrhoea. Enuresis. Fainting. Haemorrhoids. 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 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 (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 Scrophulariae. Caust., Eu. purp., Equiset. (enuresis).

SYMPTOMS.

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.
3. Mouth.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.
4. Throat.Sensation of constriction in throat; as if a ball lodged in it which should be swallowed.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. Stool and Anus.Burning in anus.-Diarrhoea; stools thin; ten watery, bileless stools with much flatus.-Very dark-coloured faeces.
8. Urinary Organs.Great desire; frequent inclination; quantity increased and frothy.-Urine very high-coloured, like dark beer, passed more frequently.-(Enuresis.)
9. Female Sexual Organs.Menses a few days early.-Menses which had just ceased returned the same day she took a new dose.
10. Respiratory Organs.Violent paroxysm of cough, obliged to stand quite still to cough it out and regain breath.
11. Chest.Oppression, making respiration difficult and causing cough.-Transient stitches here and there, deep in chest and abdomen.
12. Generalities.General prostration.-Symptoms > for short time after drinking tea with milk; severely and persistently < on walking in open air.
13. Skin.Itching in throat, chest, and upper back.
14. 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.
15. Fever.Coldness.-Alternations of chills and heat.