Linum catharticum. Purging-flax. *N.O. Linaceae. Tincture of whole plant.
Clinical
Amenorrhea. Bronchitis. Cough. Diarrhoea. Haemorrhoids. Laryngitis. Rheumatism.
Characteristics
The proving of *L. Cath. (by Stokes and Gaston) 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, trouble-some cough and difficult expectoration of frothy, yellow mucus. The cough was worse walking in open air. Headache better in open air, and better by eating.
Relations
*Antidoted by: Sul. (headache).*Compare: Lin. usitatiss.
Mind
Dullness and depression. Irritable.
Head
After sleep, confusion of head, malaise as from cold. Congestion and vertigo on throwing head back. Headache: better open air, better after eating. Severe frontal headache, obliging to lie down after dinner ( better by Sul. O ). Dull headache, as of weight on brow, worse holding head back and after reading.
Ears
Singing in left 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, worse after food. Tormina and tenesmus. Abdomen tender on pressure.
Stool
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 feces. Stools free, urging compelling to obey instantly, rectum, seemed to have little grasp of the feces, 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, feces 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-colored, 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, worse in, or returning from, open air. Expectoration, with much difficulty, of frothy, and some yellow, mucus.
Chest
Great pain in chest, worse 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 left and right 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.
