# Linum Usitatissimum

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
Linu-u. is marked by intense irritation. The decoction is of service in inflammation of the 
urinary passages, cystitis, strangury, etc. Diseases of the intestinal tract. Trismus and paralysis of the tongue. 
Asthma, hay fever and urticaria.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Perfectly conscious, but only able to express herself by signs.
- Perfectly conscious, but only able to express herself by signs.

### Head
- Heavy frontal headache.
- Violent 
pain in cheeks and temples.
- Rigid and prominent temporal muscles, jerk rapidly.
- Head shakes spasmodically 
in measured time.
- Heavy frontal headache.
- Violent 
pain in cheeks and temples.
- Rigid and prominent temporal muscles, jerk rapidly.
- Head shakes spasmodically 
in measured time.

### Eyes
- Unpleasant heat, burning, dryness.
- Intense conjunctivitis.
- Chemosis.
- Swelling of lids, completely closes 
eye in one hour, edema persisted three days.

### Face
- Face red and slightly moist.
- Violent, dull pain in cheeks and temples.
- Jaws immovably clenched.

### Mouth
- Tip of the tongue turned upwards and backwards so as to touch the velum palati.
- Tongue drawn down 
into her throat.
- Complete paralysis of tongue.
- Could not articulate a syllable.
- Nose - Irritation rapidly extended through lachrymal duct to nose.
- Heat, burning  dryness with indescribably 
scraping.
- Itching sensation, nearly driving him wild.
- Nasal passage completely closed, compelled to breathe 
through mouth.

### Throat
- Irritation continued from eyes and nose down into throat.
- Throat filled with large white blisters.
- COMMENTS - Clarke quoted the case of a woman in which the application of a linseed poultice to an ulcer 
over the right shin-bone produced an attack of asthma which nearly proved fatal.
- It was not the first time this 
had happened to her and she protested, but in vain, against the doctor's order.
- If a linseed poultice even come 
near her she felt constriction of the chest.
- The doctor who ordered the poultice and reported the case, was speedily summoned to witness the worst 
attack of asthma he had ever seen.
- The pati ent was livid and struggling for breath.
- When the poultice was 
removed the symptoms gradually subsided.
- A crop of herpes appeared where the poultice had been and an 
eruption of urticaria over back, chest and arms.
- Dr.
- A.
- G.
- Towner related his own experi ences, noting that when he lived in New York state he could handle 
 
 
linseed in all forms freely, but after moving to Illinois, it 
affected him powerfully.
- Once he rubbed his eye while preparing a poultice; intense conjunctivitis came on at once, chemosis, and  in 
an hour the eye was closed and did not come right again for three days.
- The irritation passed along the 
lachrymal duct and the same burning and irritation took place in the nose, nearly driving him wild.
- The swelling closed the nostrils and he had to b reathe through his mouth.
- The irritation still spread, affecting 
the throat, which was covered with large white blisters and a desperate attack of bronchial asthma supervened, 
slightly relieved by large doses of Ip.
- In two hours, the skin became affected w ith an attack of “hives” (urticaria).
- “I was one complete blotch from 
the crown of my head to the end of my toes, a complete bodily eruption, smart, sting, burn.” He had five of 
these attacks.
- The steam of a poultice would cause coryza, the dust would occasion a complete attack.
- One was caused by 
inadvertently eating a lozenge containing linseed.
- An entirely different set of symptoms was recorded by Allen in which a girl, 19, drank a cupful of milk into which 
she had poured by mistake some spoonfuls of linseed oil.
- Immediately she felt a fullness in her stom ach and 
precordial uneasiness.
- She vomited profusely and had copious stools.
- She went to bed, where she was seized 
with spasms.
- Head shook spasmodically in measured time, the eyes and prominent tempo ral muscles jerked rapidly.
- Jaws 
clenched.
- Tongue paralyzed and drawn down into throat.
- All the time the brain was quite clear.
- A clyster of Asaf, gave temporary relief, but the symptoms recurred for a time with renewed violence.
- On the 
third day she was quite recovered, but her health was not good for some time.

### Chest
- Bronchial asthma.
- Livid, struggles for breath.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Great weight in stomach.
- Fullnessin stomach and precordial uneasiness, followed by convulsions.
- Severe colic.
- Vomiting with copious stools.

### Extremities
- Upper limbs shaken by spasms, but pliable and uncontracted.

### Skin
- Herpes.
- Urticaria.
- One complete blotch from crown to toes, smarting, stinging, burning.