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Colchicum autumnale

Meadow saffron

16 health issues Boericke 1927

Main symptoms

  • 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.
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  • Tearing pains; worse, in the evening and at night and from touch; stubbing the toes hurts exceedingly.
  • There is always great extreme weakness, 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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What makes it better or worse

Worse

Sundown to sunriseMotionLoss of sleepSmell of food in eveningMental exertion

Better

Stooping

Symptoms by body part

Head

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

Eyes

Pupils unequal; left pupil contracted. Variations in visual acuity. Watering eyes worse in open air; violent tearing pain in eyes. Dim vision after reading. Spots before eyes.

Ears

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

Face

Pain in facial muscles, moving about. Tingling and oedematous swelling; cheeks red, hot, sweaty. Very irritable with the pains. Pain behind angle of right lower jaw.

Stomach

Dry mouth, tongue burns, gums and teeth pain. Thirst; pain in stomach and gas. 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.

Abdomen

Distention of abdomen, with gas, inability to stretch out legs. Rumbling in the belly. Pain over liver. Caecum and ascending colon much distended. Fullness and continuous rumbling. Ascites.

Stool

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 faeces in rectum, but cannot expel them.

Female

Itching of genitals. Cold feeling in thigh after period. Sensation of swelling in vulva and clitoris.

Urine

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

Heart

Anxiety in region of heart. Impulse not felt. Pericarditis, with severe pain, oppression and dyspnoea, pulse threadlike. Sound of heart become weaker, pulse of low tension.

Extremities

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 joint and muscle pain; 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.

Back

Aching in lumbar and lumbo-sacral region. Dull pain across loins. Backache, better, rest and pressure.

Skin

Blotchy papular rash on face. Pink spots on back, chest and abdomen. Hives.

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