Colchicum autumnale
colc-autMeadow Saffron 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 elect
Colchicum autumnale — Materia Medica
Colchicum autumnale — keynotes · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
impressions, strong odors, etc. Tearing, digging, drawing pains. Many joints are attacked. Rapid sinking. Moist collapse. Creepings. Small, rapidly shifting areas of severe pain, but little swelling. Subacute states, that finally attack the heart. Cardio-arthritic affections. Dropsy. .................... Depressed. Irritable and sensitive; every little hurt pains terribly. Sensitive to odors and impressions. Unequal pupils. Acrid tears. Dark nostrils. ACUTE SMELL; odors nauseate, even to fainting, etc. Pinched, sunken face. Mouth hangs open. Flow of saliva, with a sense of dryness. Glossitis. Thirsty, but LOATHES THE SMELL, or sight of food; > lying quietly. NAUSEA. Retching. Burning or icy coldness in stomach. Meteorism. Diarrhœa, then gouty effects. Choleraic or shreddy, gelatinous, mucus stools, then tenesmus or spasm of anus. Mucous colitis; after dysentery. Tenesmus. Urine sedimentitious; black. Nephritis. Chest seems squeezed by a band. Cutting or stinging at heart. Weak heart. Cold limbs. Heat on rump. Sweat, cold on face; sour at night.
Colchicum autumnale — mind · H.C. Allen
Ailments: From grief or misdeeds of others (Staph.). External impressions, light, noise, strong odors, contact, bad manners, make him almost beside himself (Nux-v.); his sufferings seem intolerable.
Colchicum autumnale — general · James Tyler Kent
It is rather singular that traditional medicine used Colchicum so much for gout. In all the old books it was recommended for this malady. The provings corroborate the fact that Colchicum fits into many conditions of gout. Rheumatism: Acute rheumatism and uric acid diathesis; rheumatic complaints in general, with swelling and without swelling. But traditional medicine does not tell us what kind of gout to give it in or what kind of rheumatism. It was really the medicine of experience. "if it is gout, try Colchicum." The question of what was to be done with the patient when the remedy failed never came up. It was "Give the prescription and keep at it," and drugs were administered until the patient, steadily growing worse, passed from one doctor's hands, to another's. It is true that Colchicum fits into the gouty state. Spells of cold, wet weather will slack up the flow of urine, make it scanty, or decrease the quantity of solids in the urine. This takes place in the provings of Colchicum and has been verified many times. It is well known that such a condition will bring about or intensify the gouty state. If the solids in the twine are deficient, if they are not carried off in the urine, something must happen, and the gouty state comes on. Colchicum is aggravated by cold, damp weather; by the cold rains in the Fall. It is aggravated by anything that will debilitate. It is aggravated in the extreme heat of summer; it has a summer rheumatism; the heat will slack up the flow of urine or the quantity of solids in the urine. A striking feature running through the remedy is its tendency to move from one joint to another, from one side to another, from below upwards, or from above downwards.
Colchicum autumnale — black letter · Margaret Lucy Tyler
Memory weakened, ideas not so clear as usual : forgetfulness, absence of mind. External impressions, bright light, strong odours, contact, misdeeds of others, make him quite beside himself. Strong odours make him quite beside himself. Aversion to food ; loathing the sight, and still more the smell of it. No thirst. Smell of cooking nauseates to faintness. Nausea, eructations and copious vomiting of mucus and bile. Violent retching, followed by copious and forcible vomiting of food and then of bile. Violent burning in epigastrium. Very painful urging to stool. Only a little faces passed, then followed transparent, gelatinous, and very membranous mucus, with some relief of the pain in the abdomen. Extremely painful stools. Discharge from bowels like gelatine. Watery, jelly-like mucus passes from anus with violent spasm in sphincter. Bloody stools with scrapings from intestines and protrusion of anus. Autumn dysentery, with discharges of white mucus and violent tenesmus ; bloody stools, mingled with a slimy substance. Bloody discharge from bowels with deathly nausea from smelling cooking. Tenesmus in rectum. Discharge from bowels containing a large quantity of small white shreddy particles. Pain in region of k id n ey s. Urine like ink. Stinging and tearing in muscles of chest : pleurodynia. 3o8 Oppression of chest, dyspnoea, a tensive feeling in chest, sometimes high, sometimes low down. Oppression of chest wiih violent palpitation. Hydrothorax with oedema of hands and feet. Pulse thread-like, imperceptible. Effusion into pericardium after inflammatory affections of heart. A paralytic pain in the a r m s , so violent he cannot hold the lightest thing firmly. Lameness after suddenly checked sweat, particularly or.
Colchicum autumnale — peculiar · Margaret Lucy Tyler
Can read, but cannot understand even a short sentence : cannot understand the words : vision is heightened, but intellectual faculties dulled. His sufferings seem intolerable : external impressions, light noise, strong smells, contact, etc., disturb his temper. Smell morbidly acute ; Odour of meat broth causes nausea and that of fresh eggs nearly fainting : excessive sensitiveness of smell to cooking. Tongue : bright red : heavy, stiff and numb : cold : moved and projected with difficulty. Enormous appetite—for different things : but as soon as he sees them, or still more smells them, he shudders from nausea, and is unable to eat anything. Obliged to bend himself up and lie quite still the whole day without the slightest movement, else he was seized with the most violent vomiting. Epigastrium pierced by a knife. Stomach deranged after eating too many eggs. Colic, worse by eating ; after flatulent food, great distension ; better when bending double. Distension of gas under short ribs. In inflammatory irritation of abdominal viscera, by metastasis from gout. Profuse watery stools, in hot damp weather, or in the autumn. Long-lasting, agonizing pain in rectum and anus, after stool, causing screams and crying. Haemorrhage from anus in autumnal cold damp weather. Child falls asleep on the vessel as soon as the tenesmus ceases. Nephritis : bloody, ink-like, albuminous urine. Urging to urinate ; discharge of hot, highly coloured urine ; burning and tenesmus. Night cough with involuntary spurting out of urine. Stinging pain, or knife pains region of heart. Serous effusion in chest, in rheumatic or gouty persons. Hydropericaudium. Heart disease, following gout or acute rheumatism. Violent writhing in region of loins and urinary passages. Knees strike together ; can hardly walk. Feet feel heavy : difficult to lift feet or go upstairs. Cramps feet, especially soles.
Colchicum autumnale — introduction · Margaret Lucy Tyler
In the scheme of things remedies seem to be placed where and when they are wanted. Dulcamara climbs the hedges in the time of hot days and cold nights. Arnica grows in the Andes, and mountainous regions, where it eases and helps to remedy the effects of great fatigue, and falls, and bruises,—Fall-kraut, “ Fall- h erb ” , as the Germans call it. The snake remedies come in especially for snake bites, and for the violent and rapid diseases of tropical climates. And not for nothing does Colchicum autumnale flower in the autumn, for it is a grand remedy for the diarrhoea and dysentery of autumn, as well as for the acute rheumatism of that season. Hering (Guiding Symptoms) tells us that it was proved by Hahnemann and many others, but his proving is not to be found either in Materia Medica Pura, or in the Chronic Diseases. . . . It would doubtless be found in Stapf Archiv. : but it has probably never been done into English, since Allen (Encyclopedia) quotes none of its symptoms from Hahnemann. * * * Old School has greatly used—and abused—this drug : and this is what Hale White (Materia Medica), teaches students and the medical profession in regard to Colchicum. He heads his small chapter : ' The sole value of this drug is that it is a specific for gout.” He speaks of its action (which we know to be its curative action, given in small doses, and when symptoms in patient and drug agree). . . . Loss of appetite : purging : nausea : colic. Great abdominal pain. Vomiting. Profuse diarrhoea with passage of blood. Great prostration, the skin cold and bedewed with sweat. Respiration slow. Death due to collapse. (These, as we shall see, are exactly its homoeopathic uses.) In regard to its therapeutics, he says, ” Colchicum is hardly ever used except for gout. . . .
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