LINUM CATHARTICUM

Homeopathic Materia Medica & Symptoms

Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

  • Dulness and depression
  • Irritable
  • Confusion of head after sleep
  • Malaise as from cold
  • Congestion and vertigo on throwing head back
  • Headache better in open air
  • Headache better after eating
  • Severe frontal headache obliging to lie down after dinner
  • Dull headache as of weight on brow
  • Headache worse holding head back
  • Headache worse after reading
  • Singing in left ear in evening
  • Sneezing at night
  • Mucus from nose occasionally rose colour
  • Fluent coryza
  • Nose stopped
  • Clear profuse mucus from one nostril then the other
  • Tongue deeply furred
  • Tongue foul
  • Mouth dry without thirst
  • Taste insipid
  • Taste foul
  • Taste bilious
  • Much hawking of yellow mucus
  • Hawking of mucus sometimes tinged with blood
  • Rawness in throat when out in open air after breakfast
  • Eructations tasting of bile
  • Rising of food in evening
  • Repletion
  • Rumbling and slight uneasiness in abdomen
  • Colicky pains
  • Occasional griping and distension
  • Abdomen worse after food
  • Tormina and tenesmus
  • Abdomen tender on pressure
  • Pressing in rectum as if swollen at night
  • 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
  • Uneasiness in abdomen followed by loose bright yellow mucous stool with urging
  • 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 in evening
  • Bowels continued costive several days then relaxed with pressive force of rectum
  • Alternately costive and relaxed
  • Costive stool with much pressure
  • No stool for several days
  • Itching at orifice of urethra
  • Frequent desire to urinate
  • Urine straw-coloured
  • Urine strong-smelling
  • Feeble erections
  • Diminished desire
  • Menses delayed
  • Menses missed
  • Voice hoarse
  • Cough dry hard
  • Cough tickling teasing with frothy mucous sputa
  • Cough worse in or returning from open air
  • Expectoration with much difficulty of frothy yellow mucus
  • Great pain in chest worse by any movement
  • Chest pain worse on deep inspiration
  • Chest much stuffed sore
  • Pulse full and quickened
  • Slight shooting down muscles of arms in evening
  • Slight shooting pains in left and right shoulder-joints
  • Languor towards night
  • Languor on waking
  • Sleepy after dinner
  • Sleep profound
  • Insomnia
  • Dreams lascivious
  • Dreams of travelling
  • Dreams of cholera
  • Cold feeling in streets as from a blast of cold air
  • Much heat of body
  • Moderate sweat
  • Sweats freely

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