COLCHICUM

Homeopathic Materia Medica & Symptoms

Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

  • Appendicitis
  • Asthma
  • Cataract
  • Cholera
  • Colic
  • Cough
  • Cramp
  • Debility
  • Diabetes
  • Diarrha
  • Dropsy
  • Dysentery
  • Eye affections
  • Feet painful
  • Gout
  • Heart affections
  • Ileus
  • Intermittent fever
  • Intestinal catarrh
  • Lumbago
  • Myalgia
  • Nephritis rheumatic and gouty
  • Pericarditis
  • Proctalgia
  • Prostatitis
  • Rectum prolapse of
  • Rheumatism
  • Stiff-neck
  • Tongue sensibility lost
  • Typhlitis
  • Typhoid fever
  • Extreme relaxation of the muscular system
  • Head falls forward on the chest
  • Head falls back when raised from pillow
  • Arms fall helpless by the side
  • Stitching jerking drawing pains in muscles periosteum and joints
  • Extreme disinclination to move
  • Worse from motion
  • Mind befogged
  • Absence of apprehension
  • No fear of death
  • Results of getting wet and Letting chilled
  • Changes to damp weather
  • Autumn dysentery
  • Spring rheumatism
  • Gouty constitution
  • Leuco-phlegmatic and melancholic temperament
  • Venous constitutions
  • Uric acid diathesis
  • Sediment pale yellow and rather like fine flour than sand
  • Urine black as ink
  • Urine loaded with albumen and casts
  • Irritability and aversion to touch
  • Pain in small joints
  • Pain in great toes
  • Stomach acutely disordered
  • Nausea and vomiting
  • Nausea at thought sight or smell of food especially of cooking
  • Sensation of icy coldness in stomach
  • Burning in stomach
  • Coldness in abdomen stomach extremities
  • Profuse cold sweat
  • Marked chills with or without periodicity
  • Burning in cavities especially abdomen
  • Jelly-like mucus stool
  • Membranous shreds in stool
  • Violent tenesmus
  • Protrusion of rectum
  • Relief after evacuation as in dysentery
  • Spasmodic pain of the sphincter ani comes on after stool in typhus fever
  • Rice-water stool
  • Hippocratic face
  • Cramps
  • Prostration
  • All functions mental and bodily are slow
  • Nutrition and digestion are at a stand
  • Great prostration
  • Debility from loss of sleep
  • Prostration of typhoid fever and typhoid states
  • Convulsions
  • Restlessness
  • Very acute and unendurable pains
  • Exceedingly painful dysentery and rheumatism
  • Very sensitive and irritable
  • Cannot endure strong smells
  • Gouty diabetes
  • Uric acid reappearing as the sugar disappears
  • Heart affected as other muscles
  • Oppression and anxiety better by walking
  • Heart-beating
  • Stitches about heart and loss of consciousness
  • Heart affected on disappearance of symptoms from extremities
  • Rheumatism appears on disappearance of uric acid from urine
  • His left pupil was contracted so as to be almost imperceptible while the right was dilated to the full extent in typhoid
  • Powerlessness of the affected parts
  • Edematous swelling of the parts
  • Rheumatism of the hands which were swollen
  • Joints stiff and powerless
  • Pain as if bruised
  • Unable to brush her own hair not so much from the pain as from the extreme weakness and powerlessness of the parts affected
  • Tingling in finger-nails
  • Collapse
  • Pallid
  • Surface was cold and clammy
  • Almost pulseless
  • Vomiting black bile
  • Looseness of the bowels
  • Stool being black like the vomit
  • Compelled to lie absolutely still
  • Least attempt to raise the head exciting nausea
  • Worse from motion
  • Cannot lie on left side
  • Worse from any exertion mental or bodily
  • Bending forward better oppression and colic
  • Worse night and evening
  • Warmth generally better
  • Warm food worse toothache
  • Damp warm weather profuse watery stools
  • Warm stove or warm room chilliness
  • Worse from cold or damp
  • From getting wet
  • From bathing
  • Living in damp dwellings
  • Change to damp weather
  • From change of weather
  • Also complaints from getting overheated
  • Pains in gout go from left to right
  • Headaches right to left
  • Complaints of old people asthmatic people
  • Great dejection
  • Ill-humour
  • Peevish
  • Dissatisfied with everything
  • The sufferings appear insupportable
  • The least external impression drives him to distraction
  • Weakness of memory
  • Great desire for rest and disinclination to every mental exertion
  • Absence of mind
  • Forgetfulness and distraction
  • Giddiness when sitting down after walking
  • Pulsations in the head
  • The headache is relieved after supper from warmth and lying quiet in bed
  • Pressure on the occiput during intellectual exertion
  • Cramp-like pains in the head especially above the eyes
  • Semilateral tearing in the head
  • Tingling in the forehead and upon the head
  • Pupils much dilated only slightly sensitive to light or immovable or slightly dilated
  • Left pupil contracted while right is dilated in typhoid
  • Pains in the eyes like a digging pulling deep in the eyeball
  • Swelling of the lower lids
  • Watering of the eyes in the open air
  • Iritis keratitis macula
  • Suppuration of the Meibomian glands ulceration left lower lid
  • Burning and redness of the edges of the eyelids
  • Visible traction in the lower lids
  • Otalgia with tearing shootings after measles
  • Tingling in the ears as if they had been frozen
  • Sensation of obstruction in the ears
  • Purulent discharge from the ears with drawing pains
  • Dryness of the ears
  • Aching pain in the bones of the nose
  • Tingling in the nose
  • Pains as from excoriation in the septum narium aggravated by touch
  • Bleeding of the nose in the evenings
  • Excessive sensibility of smell
  • Obstinate coryza with snuffling of a great quantity of viscid mucus proceeding from the nose
  • Features disfigured
  • Aspect sickly sad suffering
  • Face spotted with yellow
  • Very great paleness of the face
  • Cheeks red and hot afternoon
  • Edematous swelling of the face
  • Sensation of separation in the bones of the face
  • Sensation in the masseters as if they were distended with difficulty in opening the mouth
  • Drawings and successive pullings in the muscles and bones of the face
  • Semi-lateral tearing in the face extending to the ear and the head
  • Tingling in the skin of the face as if it had been frozen
  • Lips cracked
  • Tearing in the lower lip
  • Cramp-like pain in the maxillary joint
  • Odontalgia with tearing pains
  • Sensibility of the teeth when they touch on closing the jaws
  • Acute pains in the gums
  • Heat in the mouth
  • Tearing in the palate
  • Abundant serous salivation with dryness of the throat
  • Heaviness stiffness and insensibility of the tongue
  • Tongue coated white
  • Smarting and sensation of dryness of the tongue and throat
  • Sore-throat as if from swelling of the orifice of the esophagus
  • Tingling in the palate
  • Constriction of the gullet
  • Inflammation and redness of the palate of the fauces
  • Inflammations tearings and shootings in the palate and in the throat
  • Accumulation of greenish mucus in the throat and in the mouth
  • Appetite suddenly ceasing merely from the sight or smell of food with loathing when merely looking at it and still more from smelling it
  • The smell of broth nauseates and that of fish eggs or fat meat almost makes him faint
  • Insipidity of food
  • Great thirst especially for coffee
  • Taste bitter
  • Violent thirst
  • Frequent eructations
  • Constant hiccough
  • Nausea increased so as to occasion loss of consciousness by the smell of fresh eggs or fat meat
  • Nausea during a meal
  • Nausea after swallowing the saliva
  • Nausea in an erect position when moving at table with inclination to vomit with constant flow of saliva
  • Vomiting of food or of bile or mucus of the ingesta with trembling violent gagging colic succeeded by bitterness in the mouth and throat
  • Every motion excites or renews the vomiting
  • Stomach very sensitive to the touch
  • Sensation of excoriation and tingling in the stomach
  • Sensation of cold or of burning in the stomach with heavy pain
  • Shooting in the pit of the stomach
  • Sensation of gnawing hunger in the stomach
  • Inflation and fulness of the abdomen
  • Pressure towards the outside in the upper part of the abdomen
  • Colic with tearing pains
  • Pain as of excoriation in left side of abdomen on its being touched
  • Dropsical swelling of the abdomen with a fold over the pubic region
  • Pain as of burning and pressure in the abdomen in the region of the bladder and in the internal genital parts
  • Pulsation in the abdomen
  • Constipation
  • Evacuations slow difficult scanty with urging even of the soft stool with pain in the small of the back
  • Involuntary evacuation of feces
  • Watery discharges going off without sensation
  • Diarrhea consisting of mucus like rice-water
  • Dysenteric diarrhea of white transparent gelatinous mucus
  • Ineffectual pressing to stool he feels the feces in the rectum but cannot expel them
  • Discharge of much mucus from the rectum
  • Extremely painful stools
  • Sanguineous evacuations mixed as it were with false membranes
  • Prolapsus recti
  • Tingling itching burning and tearing in the anus
  • During stool sensation as if the sphincter ani were torn to pieces
  • Cramps in the sphincter ani
  • Urgent want to make water with increased discharge of clear urine
  • Scanty discharge of urine of a deep colour with tenesmus and a burning sensation
  • Painful and scanty emission of urine of a bright red colour
  • Brownish or blackish urine
  • Whitish deposit in the urine
  • Burning sensation and pressure in the urinary organs and the bladder with diminished secretion
  • Pullings tearings and incisive pains in the urethra
  • Frequent micturition
  • Tingling in the trachea
  • Tickling in the pharynx which excites a small dry cough
  • Frequent short and dry cough
  • Nocturnal cough with involuntary emission of urine
  • Hoarseness in the morning with roughness of the throat
  • Difficulty of respiration and oppression at the chest with anxiety relieved by bending forward
  • Tensive pressive and periodical oppression of the chest frequent pressure in small spots in the chest
  • Shootings in the chest sometimes on breathing
  • Tearings in the chest with obtuse lancinations
  • Pain as of excoriation in the chest on being touched and during movement
  • Tingling in the chest
  • Violent palpitation of the heart
  • Pressure and oppression in the region of the heart as if an attack of apoplexy threatened better by walking
  • Hydrothorax
  • Shooting tension between the shoulder-blades
  • Tearings in the back
  • Pain as from excoriation in the loins during movement
  • Drawing in the small of the back worse during motion
  • Soreness in the small of the back when touching it
  • Stitches in the right shoulder
  • Painful lameness in the arms which makes it impossible to hold the lightest thing
  • Trembling of the right hand preventing writing
  • Tearings in the arms the hands and the fingers
  • Paralytic pain in the arms
  • Trembling of the hands
  • Heat of the palms of the hands
  • Cramp-like contraction of the fingers
  • Tingling in the fingers as if they had been frozen
  • Tingling in the finger-nails
  • Torpor in the extremity of the fingers
  • Tearings in the legs the feet and the toes
  • Paralytic pullings in the thighs
  • Hot edematous swelling of the legs with acute pains during movement
  • Tingling of the toes as if they had been frozen
  • Rheumatic and arthritic tearing in the limbs and other parts of the body especially in warm weather
  • Tingling in many parts of the body as if frost-bitten when the weather changes
  • Tearing twitches like electric shocks through one side of the body with sensation of lameness
  • Starting shootings in the muscles and in the periosteum of the limbs especially in cold weather
  • Frequent starting of the body
  • Shooting in the joints
  • Paralytic weakness of the muscles
  • Pains accompanied by paralytic weakness and real paralysis
  • Great weakness with sensation of lameness through all the limbs
  • Dropsical swellings
  • The sufferings are singularly aggravated by intellectual fatigue by touch by too brilliant a light and by the smell of pork
  • Aggravation of the symptoms from the commencement of the night till morning
  • General sinking and consequent painful sensibility of the whole body so that the patient cannot move without groaning
  • Nervous fatigue and weakness from nocturnal labour
  • Itching as from nettles
  • Tingling in different parts as after being frozen
  • Edematous swelling and anasarca
  • Suppressed perspiration
  • Drowsiness in the day with unfitness for exertion
  • Irresistible sleepiness drowsiness
  • Sleeplessness from nervous excitability
  • Sleeplessness without entire unconsciousness
  • Sleeplessness because he cannot lie on the left side on which he is accustomed to sleep
  • Frequent waking with fright
  • Nocturnal heat with violent thirst

Kent's Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

  • Acute rheumatism
  • uric acid diathesis
  • rheumatic complaints with swelling
  • rheumatic complaints without swelling
  • gouty state
  • scanty urine
  • deficient solids in urine
  • aggravated by cold, damp weather
  • aggravated by cold rains in the Fall
  • aggravated by debilitation
  • aggravated by extreme heat of summer
  • summer rheumatism
  • decreased urine flow
  • decreased solids in urine
  • rheumatism moving from one joint to another
  • rheumatism moving from one side to another
  • rheumatism moving from below upwards
  • rheumatism moving from above downwards
  • dropsical condition
  • swelling of hands and feet
  • pitting on pressure
  • dropsy of abdominal cavity
  • dropsy of pericardium
  • dropsy of pleura
  • dropsy of serous sacs
  • inflammatory swellings
  • rheumatic swellings
  • dropsical swellings
  • pale urine
  • copious urine
  • scanty urine
  • muscular rheumatism
  • rheumatism of white fibrous tissues of the joints
  • cardiac troubles
  • valvular defects
  • aggravated from motion
  • dreads to move
  • aversion to motion
  • aggravation from becoming cold
  • aggravation in cold, damp weather
  • chilly patient
  • sensitive to cold
  • pains ameliorated by heat
  • pains ameliorated by wrapping up
  • pains ameliorated by being warm
  • great prostration
  • weakness of limbs
  • great exhaustion
  • nervous exhaustion
  • pallid
  • waxy
  • urine black like ink with albumen
  • irritability of tissues
  • soreness
  • sensitiveness to touch
  • sensitiveness to motion
  • bruised feeling of joints
  • bruised feeling of whole body
  • painful sensation as of electric vibrations
  • dyspnoea from exertion
  • must lie down
  • sinking of strength
  • lassitude
  • anxiety
  • muscles twitch
  • electric shocks pass through the body
  • paralytic weakness
  • jaw hangs down
  • muscles flabby
  • muscles relaxed
  • slides down in bed
  • sweating
  • cold sweat
  • suppression of sweat
  • paralytic condition of limbs
  • suppression of urine
  • retention of urine
  • nervous trembling
  • dropsy after acute disease
  • dropsy after scarlet fever
  • nausea
  • gagging
  • retching at the bare mention of food
  • thought of food brings on nausea and vomiting
  • smell of food brings on nausea and vomiting
  • delirium
  • depression of mind
  • great sensitiveness to pain
  • confusion of mind
  • disorders of comprehension
  • cannot understand what he reads
  • headaches of rheumatic character
  • sore skull
  • sore pericranium
  • sensitive scalp
  • pressure in head
  • constriction in head
  • pressing headaches
  • bursting headaches
  • heat in head
  • tearing in scalp
  • headaches aggravated by motion
  • eye symptoms of rheumatic character
  • iritis
  • ulcers of lids
  • styes
  • much lachrymation in the open air
  • tears excoriate
  • tears cause redness of lids
  • takes cold easily
  • sneezing
  • stuffing up of nostrils
  • nose-bleed in rheumatic constitutions
  • nose-bleed in gouty constitutions
  • sensitive to odors
  • smells things others do not
  • nauseated by odors
  • strong odors make him quite beside himself
  • cannot take milk
  • cannot take raw eggs
  • cannot take soup

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