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Colchicum Autumnale

Meadow Saffron, Colchicum, Colchicine, Colchicinum, Colchicum automnale, Colch.
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HPUS indication of Colchicum Autumnale: Bloating
Common symptoms: Bloating, Dry mouth, Headache, Nausea.
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Below are the main rubriks (i.e strongest indications or symptoms) of Colchicum Autumnale in traditional homeopathic usage, not approved by the FDA.

  GENERAL

General

Affects markedly the muscular tissues, periosteum, and synovial membranes of joints. Has specific power of relieving the gouty paroxysms. It seems to be more beneficial in chronic affections of these parts. The parts are red, hot, swollen. Tearing pains; worse, in the evening and at night and from touch; stubbing the toes hurts exceedingly. There is always great prostration, internal Coldness, and 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.

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  MODALITIES ETC

Worse

WORSE, sundown to sunrise; motion, loss of sleep, smell of food in evening, mental exertion.

Better

BETTER, stooping.

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  RELATIONSHIPS

Compare

Compare: Colchicine (intestinal catarrh with shreddy membranes; convulsive jerkings of right hand; rheumatic fever, gout, endo and pericarditis, pleurisy, arthritis, deformans in early stages; Intense pain of rheumatism 3x trit.). Also, Carboneum Oxygenisatum Carbo; Arnica Arnica; Lilium Tigrinum Lilium; Arsen.; Veratrum Album Verat.

Antidotes

Antidotes: Thuja Thuja; Camphora Camph.; Cocculus Indicus Coccul.; Nux Vomica Nux; Pulsatilla Puls.

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  MIND

Mind

Memory

forgetful

weakness of memory

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  HEAD

Cerebral haemorrhage

Headache

Headache chiefly frontal and temporal, but also occipital and in nape of neck, worse afternoon and evening.

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  EYES

Eyes

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.

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  EARS

Ear

Itching in ears; sharp, shooting pains below right tragus.

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  FACE

Face

Pain in facial muscles, moving about

Tingling and oedematous swelling; cheeks red, hot, sweaty

Very irritable with the pains (Chamomilla Cham.) Pain behind angle of right lower jaw.

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  NOSE

Nose

Smell

acute, over sensitive; sensitive to the odour of broth

acute, over sensitive; sensitive to the odour of cooking food

acute, over sensitive; sensitive to the odour of eggs

acute, over sensitive; sensitive to the odour of food

acute, over sensitive; sensitive to strong odours

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  CHEST

Chest

Heart; Anxiety in region of heart

Impulse not felt

Pericarditis, with severe pain, oppression and dyspnoea, pulse threadlike

Sound of heart becomes weaker, pulse of low tension.

Heart

fluid build up around heart

palpitations

Lungs; fluid build up in chest cavity (pulmonary oedema)

Oppressed feeling

Pain

stitching, sudden, sharp

tearing

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  SKIN

Skin

Blotchy papular rash on face

Pink spots on back, chest and abdomen

Urticaria.

Dry

inability to perspire (see inactivity)

Itching; crawling

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  BACK AND NECK

Back

Aching in lumbar and lumbo-sacral region

Dull pain across loins

Backache, better, rest and pressure.

Pain; on movement

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  ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Stomach; Dry mouth, tongue burns, gums and teeth pain

Profuse salivary secretion

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

Caecum and ascending colon much distended

Fullness and continuous rumbling

Ascites.

Bloated; trapped wind

Inflammation

Tension

Kidneys

inflammation; with bloody, ink-like, thick urine

pain

Stomach

distended (swollen from inner pressure); after eating

fullness; after eating

without thirst

Eating

The Smell of food causes nausea even to fainting, especially fish

Vomiting of mucus, bile and food; worse, any motion; Great coldness in stomach

Stomach

appetite; lacking, no appetite; at smell of food

aversion to certain foods or drinks; all food; smell of

loathing of food (see nausea)

nausea; from odours; any food

nausea; on looking at food

nausea; thought of food

Flatus

THIRST; pain in stomach and flatulence

Flatulence; obstructed

Nausea

craving for various things, but is averse to them when smelling them, seized then with nausea

Stomach

nausea; from odours

nausea; from odours; eggs

nausea; from odours; fish

nausea; from odours; soup

nausea; thought of soup

Vomiting

retching; after vomiting

vomiting; violent

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  RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Rectum

Diarrhoea; in autumn

Dysentery

Pain

during stool

urge to stool, or urinate, but producing nothing; during dysentery

Stool

Painful, scanty, transparent, jelly-like mucus; pain, as if anus were torn open, with prolapse

Autumnal dysentery; stools contain White shreddy particles in large quantities

Ineffectual pressing; feels faeces in rectum, but cannot expel them.

Bloody

Membranous

Mucous, slimy

bloody

jelly-like

transparent

Like scrapings of intestines

Thin, liquid

Watery

White; shreds particles

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  GENITALS ETC

Urine

Dark, scanty or suppressed; bloody, brown, black, inky; contains clots of putrid decomposed blood, albumin, sugar.

Colour

black

black; like ink

dark

Scanty

Urine heavier than usual

Female

Sensation of swelling in vulva and clitoris.

Genitals

Female; Pruritis of genitals

Menses

Cold feeling in thigh after period

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  EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

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

Oedematous swelling and coldness of legs and feet.

Coldness

Movements and positions

lameness

lameness; lower limbs

from suppressed perspiration

Pain

on movement

rheumatic

acute

in warm weather

wet weather

joints

in damp, cold weather

joints; gouty

joints; movement

joints; paralytic

joints; rheumatic

upper limbs

movement

paralytic

rheumatic

shoulder; rheumatic

forearm

paralytic

hand; rheumatic

fingers; rheumatic

hip

rheumatic

tearing; paralytic

Paralysis; upper limbs; sensation of paralysis

Swollen

joints

hand

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  FEVER AND CHILL

Fever and chill

Autumn

Chilliness (see also whole body; temperature)

Shaking, shivering, rigors

Night

Autumn

Continued fever

abdominal

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  GENERALITIES

Perspiration

Odour; sour

From suppressed complaints

Generalities

Evening

Night

Eating and food

sight of all food

smell of all food

Faintness, fainting; from odours; of cooking food

Fluid build up

external

internal

Formication (like insects crawling around); external parts

internally

Movement

movement of affected part

Pain

paralytic

tearing; externally

Symptoms from suppression of perspiration

Pulse; imperceptible

Sitting

Temperature (felt and effects of temperature); cold, wet weather

Touch

Walking

Weakness (see lethargic, weariness)

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