Colchicum

Meadow Saffron

Abdomen

William Boericke 1922

Thirst for effervescent, alcoholic beverages. Pain in transverse colon.

William Boericke 1922

Distention of abdomen, inability to stretch out legs. Borborygmi. Pain over

Ears

William Boericke 1922

sharp, shooting pains below rifeht tragus.

Extremities

William Boericke 1922

Sharp pain down left arm. Tearing in limbs during warm weather, stinging during cold. 262

Eyes

William Boericke 1922

Dim vision after reading. Spots before

William Boericke 1922

fiars. — Itching in

William Boericke 1922

Pupils unequal; left pupil contracted. Va riations in visual acuity. Lachrymation worse in open air ; violent tearing pain in

Face

William Boericke 1922

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

Female

William Boericke 1922

Pruritus 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.

Guiding symptoms

William Boericke 1922

Affects markedly the muscular tissues, periosteum, and synovial membranes of joints. Has specific power of relieving the gouty p aroxysms. 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 ni ^ht^ watc hing and hard study. Shocks as from electricity through one half of body.

Head

William Boericke 1922

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

Heart

William Boericke 1922

Anxiety in region of

William Boericke 1922

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

Liver

William Boericke 1922

Cajcum and ascending colon much distended. Fullness and continuous rumbling. Stool. — Painful, scanty, transparent, jelly-like mucus; pain, as if anus were torn open, with prolapse. Autumnal dysentery; stools contain zvhitc shreddy particles in large quantities. Ineffectual pressing ; feels faeces in rectum, but cannot expel them.

Stomach

William Boericke 1922

Craving for various things, but is averse to them when smelling them, seized then with nausea. Gouty gastralgia. Abdomen immensely distended with gas. Burning or icy coldness in stomach and

William Boericke 1922

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

References

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