Linaria vulgaris
Plant · Plantaginaceae
Linaria Vulgaris suits patients with marked nervous coldness, irresistible drowsiness, and sudden cardiac faintness. Enuresis with frequent painful urging is a key indication. The pneumogastric sphere gives rise to eructations, nausea, jaundice, and hepato-splenic enlargement.
Key symptoms
- Cardiac fainting; faints dead away without apparent cause
- Enuresis with frequent painful urging to urinate causing patient to rise at night
- Irresistible drowsiness and sleepiness
- Rough, dry tongue with constriction of the throat
- Nausea, vomiting, and diarrhoea
- Oppression of breathing with stitches in chest
- Jaundice with splenic and hepatic hypertrophy
- Coldness as a prominent feature throughout
Worse (aggravation)
- Walking in open air (symptoms much worse)
Better (amelioration)
- Taking tea with milk
Toad-flax-Snap Dragon (LINARIA)
Acts prominently within the domain of the pneumogastrics. Eructations, nausea, salivation, pressure on stomach. Jaundice, splenic and hepatic hypertrophy. Enteric symptoms and great drowsiness very marked. Cardiac fainting. Enuresis. Rectal symptoms. Tongue rough, dry; throat constricted. Coldness. Confusion in head. Irresistible sleepiness. Symptoms worse walking in open air.
Dose
Third potency.
Linaria vulgaris. Toad-flax. N. O. Scrophulariaceæ. Tincture of fresh plant.
Clinical
Diarrhœa. Enuresis. Fainting. Hæmorrhoids. 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 diarrhœa; 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.
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