Colchicum Autumnale

► Perception entirely lost, unconscious. ► Memory weakened. ► Can read, but cannot understand even a short sentence. ► Intellect beclouded, though he gives correct answers. ► Confusion of the head. ► Indisposition for exertion of any kind. ► Mood usually cheerful ; or sad ; rarely irritable. ► External impressions such as bright light, strong odors, contact, misdeeds of others make him quite beside himself. ► Surly, ill-humored, not satisfied with anything. ► Pains worse by mental exertion or by emotions.

► Vertigo : while sitting, after walking ; on rising.

► Boring headache, especially over the eyes. ► Pressure in the head ; especially in the occiput, also deep in cerebellum, excited by mental exertion. ► Pressive heaviness deep in the cerebellum, especially on moving or stooping. ► Painful rending in left side of head, from eyeball to occiput. ► Creeping sensation in the forehead.

► Tearing in the scalp, at small spots, particularly on the occiput. ► When raised the head falls back, mouth opens wide. ► Difficulty in moving the head. ► Porrigo favosa, oozing acrid ichor.

► Violent, sharp tearing pain in and around eyeball. ► Drawing-digging pain deep in the orbit, like in sclerotitis. ► Inflammation of the eyes, dimsightedness, watering of the eyes, white spot on the cornea. ► Soft cataract. ► Pupils much dilated, only slightly sensitive to light, or immovable and slightly dilated. ► Eyes : half open ; sunken, staring. ► Pressure and biting in the canthi, with moderate lachrymation.

► Hearing generally acute. ► Roaring in the ears ; they feel stopped up. ► Earache with stitches in the ears. ► Tingling of the ears, as after being frosted. ► Discharge from ears, with tearing in them. θ After measles.

► Smell morbidly acute ; the odor of meat broth causes nausea, and that of fresh eggs nearly fainting. ► Sore pain in the septum. ► Nosebleed. ► Sneezing, also with crawling sensation in the nose. ► Long-lasting coryza ; discharge thin, tenacious. ► Nostrils dry and black.

► Doleful, sad expression ; sunken ; risus sardonicus, cadaverous looking ; pale ; yellow spotted ; cheeks red and hot ; covered with sweat. ► Oedematous swelling of the face. ► Pain and swelling from a decayed tooth ; tongue furred. ► Tearing and tensive pains in the facial muscles, moving from one location to another. ► Drawing in the bones of face or nose, sensation as if they were being rent as under. ► Tingling in the skin of the face, as after being frosted.

► Cracked lips. ► Thick, brownish coating on lips, teeth and tongue.

► Grinding of teeth. ► Teeth very sensitive when pressing them together. ► Teeth feel too long. ► Toothache worse from cold ; after warm things. ► Tearing in the jaws and gums.

► Tastelessness of food. ► Loss of speech. θ During typhus. ► Tongue : bright red ; heavy, stiff and numb ; projected with difficulty.

► Profuse flow of slow of saliva, with dryness of the throat. ► Inflammation of mucous membrane of mouth and throat. ► Heat in the mouth, with thirst.

► Tickling in the throat, as if coryza were setting in, inducing cough and clearing the throat. ► Much greenish, thin mucus in throat, comes sometimes involuntarily into the mouth. ► Inflammation and redness of the palate and fauces. ► Tonsils inflamed and swollen ; here and there spots covered with pus, swallowing difficult.

► Great thirst, but no appetite. ► Aversion to food ; loathing the sight and still more the smell of it.

► Nausea, eructations and copious vomiting of mucus and bile. ► Frequent copious eructations of tasteless gas. ► Nausea, with great restlessness, and on assuming the upright posture, a qualmishness in stomach and inclination to vomit. ► Violent retching, followed by copious and forcible vomiting of food and then of bile ; better if lies perfectly still.

► Epigastrium extremely sensitive to touch or pressure. ► Stomach icy-cold, with colic. ► Colic : aggravated by eating ; after flatulent food ; with great distention of belly ; better when bending double.

► Pain in right hypochondrium, as from incarcerated flatus. ► Anxious feeling in the praecordia.

► Flatulent distention of the abdomen, with less frequent and less copious stools. ► Pressing, tearing, cutting or stitching pains in abdomen. ► Tympanitis. ► Colic : aggravated by eating ; after flatulent food ; with great distention of belly ; until diarrhoea sets in ; better from bending double.

► Very offensive flatus in the evening. ► Stools : frequent, abundant, watery, with flocculi ; yellowish and bloody ; scanty, with tenesmus, salivation and copious secretion of urine ; copious, frequent, watery, or bilious, often without pain, sometimes with cutting colic ; scanty, difficult, of bloody mucus and shreds, with pain in anus and violent tenesmus constant, ineffectual effort to pass feces ; green, watery, very offensive mucus ; pass insensibly, involuntarily. ► Spasm of the sphincter during or independent of discharge, with a shuddering over the back. ► Stools frequent, somewhat bloody, and very fetid ; dysentery.

► Pain in the region of the kidneys. ► More urging and more discharge of urine. ► Urine : copious, watery and frequent ; dark and turbid, with tenesmus of bladder and burning in urethra ; of sour smell and acid reaction ; dark, scanty, discharged in drops, whitish sediment ; bloody, almost like ink, containing albumen. ► Urine scanty, looking like bits of decomposed blood, with offensive smell. ► Urethra hurts while the urine passes, as if raw.

► Tearing in glans and left spermatic cord.

► Menses too early.

► Feverish restlessness, in the last months of pregnancy. ► Nipples dark, brownish-red, protruding ; unbearable pain on the slight touch by child ; breast full, skin hot, pulse strong (lying-in, fourth day).

► Voices hoarse, or deeper than usual.

► Accelerated and audible ; slow ; irregular ; asthmatic. ► Oppression of the chest.

► Slight cough, with coryza. ► Frequent, short, dry cough, from tickling in the larynx. ► Night cough, with involuntary spurting out of urine.

► Dull stitches in posterior part of the thorax, during expiration. ► Violent cutting pain in the chest, interrupting breathing. ► Stinging in the region of the heart, with oppression. ► Spitting blood, after injuries.

► Violent palpitation, with anxiety. ► Heart disease, following acute rheumatism. ► Hydropericardium. ► Pulse : accelerated and hard, or full and slow ; slow and feeble ; quick and thready.

► Stinging and tearing in the muscles of chest.

► Stitching and tension between the scapulae. ► Rheumatic pains in neck and back. ► Drawing, tension and stitches occurring, or much aggravated, on motion. ► Sudden tearing and shooting in the loins. ► Spot on the sacrum feels sore, as if ulcerated ; very sensitive to touch.

► Rheumatic pains : on the clavicle, shoulders, arms, back and neck, preventing motion of the head ; in elbow-joint, forearm, wrist, and ligaments of finger-joints. ► Laming pain in the arms, which makes it impossible to hold the lightest thing. ► Oedematous swelling of the hands.

► Flying pains in the hips. ► Tearing : in the thighs ; knee-joints, with swellings ; in patella ; in tibiae, calves, ankles, toes, tendo-achillis. ► With the pains, weariness, heaviness, and inability to move. ► Knees strike together, can hardly walk. ► Oedematous swelling and coldness of legs and feet. ► Tingling in the toes, like after being frosted.

► Numbness of the hands and feet, with pricking, as if asleep. ► Pains in the shoulder and hip-joints ; and in all the bones, with difficulty of moving the head and the tongue. ► Tearing pains in the muscles and joints.

► Great weakness, as after exertion. ► Sudden sinking of strength ; extreme prostration. ► Paralytic feeling with the pains. ► Paralysis after sudden suppression of sweat, particularly foot-sweat, by getting wet.

► Comatose state. ► Great sleepiness during the day, falls asleep while reading. ► At night, sleep disturbed or driven away by pains. ► Wakened from sleep by frightful dreams. ► Starting, jerking in sleep. ► Lying on the back.

► Chill and shivering, running through all the limbs ; even in the warm room. ► Frequent shivering, running down the back. ► Chilliness even near the warm stove, intermingled with short flushes of heat. ► External dry heat the whole night, with violent, unquenchable thirst. ► Body hot and limbs cold. θ In typhus. ► Sweat wanting. θ In intermittents. ► Copious sour sweat, suddenly coming and going. θ In rheumatism.

► Autumn dysentery.

► Shuddering and creeping, in isolated parts, such as is felt on getting cold from change of weather. ► Tearing tensive pains over small parts, at a time ; quickly changing location.

► Acts markedly on the periosteum ; synovial membranes of joints, especially small joints ; that part of nervous system which presides over function of voluntary motion. ► Stands in close relation to the fibrous tissues ; redness, swelling, heat, etc., not tending to suppuration, but easily and quickly changing location ; redness paling as disease shifts. ► Painful flexion of the joints. ► Emaciation. ► Oedema. ► Anasarca. ► Dropsy of cavities and internal organs, especially hydropericardium ; hydrothorax ; ascites ; hydrometra.

► Skin dry sweat suppressed, or profuse sweating. ► Stitches in the skin. ► Tingling here and there, as after being frosted.

► Gout in persons of vigorous constitution. ► Often indicated with old people.

► Antidotes to Colchic. : For the affection of the heart, feels as if dying : Spigel. Copious draughts of rice water, prevent its action on the bowels. In poisonings give Amm. caust., a few drops in sugar water. ► General antidotes to Colchic. : Bell., Camphor., Coccul., Nux vom., Pulsat. ► Colchic. follows well where Nux vom. or Lycop. has relieved.