COLCHICUM AUTUMNALE

Homeopathic Materia Medica & Symptoms

Boericke's Materia Medica

  • Muscular tissues affected
  • Periosteum affected
  • Synovial membranes of joints affected
  • Gouty paroxysms
  • Parts are red, hot, swollen
  • Tearing pains
  • Worse in the evening and at night and from touch
  • Stubbing the toes hurts exceedingly
  • Great prostration
  • Internal coldness
  • Tendency to collapse
  • Effects of night watching and hard study
  • Shocks as from electricity through one half of body
  • Bad effects from suppressed sweat
  • Dreams of mice
  • Headache chiefly frontal and temporal, but also occipital and in nape of neck
  • Worse afternoon and evening
  • Pupils unequal
  • Left pupil contracted
  • Variations in visual acuity
  • Lachrymation worse in open air
  • Violent tearing pain in eyes
  • Dim vision after reading
  • Spots before eyes
  • Itching in ears
  • Sharp, shooting pains below right tragus
  • Pain in facial muscles, moving about
  • Tingling and edematous swelling
  • Cheeks red, hot, sweaty
  • Very irritable with the pains
  • Pain behind angle of right lower jaw
  • Dry mouth
  • Tongue burns
  • Gums and teeth pain
  • Thirst
  • Pain in stomach and flatulence
  • The smell of food causes nausea even to fainting, especially fish
  • Profuse salivary secretion
  • Vomiting of mucus, bile and food
  • Worse any motion
  • Great coldness in stomach
  • Craving for various things, but is averse to then when smelling them, seized them with nausea
  • Gouty gastralgia
  • Burning or icy coldness in stomach and abdomen
  • Thirst for effervescent, alcoholic beverages
  • Pain in transverse colon
  • Distention of abdomen, with gas, inability to stretch out legs
  • Borborygmi
  • Pain over liver
  • Cecum and ascending colon much distended
  • Fullness and continuous rumbling
  • Ascites
  • Painful, scanty, transparent, jelly-like mucus
  • Pain, as if anus were torn open, with prolapse
  • Autumnal dysentery
  • Stools contain while shreddy particles in large quantities
  • Ineffectual pressing
  • Feels feces in rectum, but cannot expel them
  • Pruritus of genitals
  • Cold feeling in thigh after period
  • Sensation of swelling in vulva and clitoris
  • Dark, scanty or suppressed urine
  • Bloody, brown, black, inky urine
  • Urine contains clots of putrid decomposed blood, albumin, sugar
  • Anxiety in region of heart
  • Impulse not felt
  • Pericarditis, with severe pain, oppression and dyspnea, pulse threadlike
  • Sound of heart become weaker, pulse of low tension
  • Sharp pain down left arm
  • Tearing in limbs during warm weather, stinging during cold
  • Pins and needles in hands and wrists, fingertips numb
  • Pain in front of thigh
  • Right plantar reflex abolished
  • Limbs, lame, weak, tingling
  • Pain worse in evening and warm weather
  • Joints stiff and feverish
  • Shifting rheumatism
  • Pains worse at night
  • Inflammation of great toe, gout in heel, cannot bear to have it touched or moved
  • Tingling in the finger nails
  • Knees strike together, can hardly walk
  • Edematous swelling and coldness of legs and feet
  • Aching in lumbar and lumbo-sacral region
  • Dull pain across loins
  • Backache, better, rest and pressure
  • Blotchy papular rash on face
  • Pink spots on back, chest and abdomen
  • Urticaria

Allen's Keynotes

  • adapted to the rheumatic, gouty diathesis; persons of robust vigorous constitution; diseases of old people
  • external impressions, light, noise, strong odors, contact, bad manners, make him almost beside himself; his sufferings seem intolerable
  • ailments: from grief or misdeeds of others
  • pains are drawing, tearing, pressing; light or superficial during warm weather; affect the bones and deeper tissues, when air is cold; pains go from left to right
  • smell painfully acute; nausea and faintness from the odor of cooking food, especially fish, eggs or fat meat; bad effects from night watching
  • aversion to food; loathing even the sight of still more the smell of it
  • the abdomen is immensely distended with gas, feeling as if it would burst
  • burning, or icy coldness in stomach and abdomen
  • autumnal dysentery, discharges from bowels contain white shreddy particles in large quantities; white mucus; \"scrapings of intestines\"
  • urine: dark, scanty or suppressed; in drops, with white sediment; bloody, brown, black, inky; contains clots of putrid decomposed blood, albumin, sugar
  • affected parts very sensitive to contact and motion
  • arthiritic pains in joints; patient scremas with pain on touching a joint or stubbing a toe
  • worse from mental emotion or exhaustion; effects of hard study; odor of cooking food
  • if the patient lies perfectly still, the disposition to vomit is less urgent; every motion renew it

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