Colchicum
Meadow Saffron
Abdomen
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Thirst for effervescent, alcoholic beverages. Pain in transverse colon.
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Distention of abdomen, inability to stretch out legs. Borborygmi. Pain over
Ears
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sharp, shooting pains below rifeht tragus.
Extremities
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Sharp pain down left arm. Tearing in limbs during warm weather, stinging during cold. 262
Eyes
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Dim vision after reading. Spots before
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fiars. — Itching in
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Pupils unequal; left pupil contracted. Va riations in visual acuity. Lachrymation worse in open air ; violent tearing pain in
Face
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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
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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
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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
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Headache chiefly frontal and temporal, hjit also occipital and in nape of neck, worse afternoon and evening.
Heart
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Anxiety in region of
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Impulse not felt. Pericarditis, with severe pain, oppression and dyspnoea, pulse threadlike. Sounds of heart become weaker, pulse of low tension.
Liver
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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
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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
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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
This monograph is an original summary faithful to the classical tradition. It condenses material from these public-domain sources:
- James Tyler Kent, Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica (1905)Primary remedy pictures; characteristic mental and general symptoms. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- William Boericke, Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica and Repertory (1927)Reproduced here in full — the complete classical repertory-style monographs. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- Constantine Hering, The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica (1879–1891)Confirmed symptom aggregates behind the section organization. · Public domain
- Timothy Field Allen, Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica (1874–1879)Provings background referenced by the verification tradition. · Public domain
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Reminder: this information is published for qualified practitioners. Patients must not self-medicate — homeopathic prescribing depends on the complete individual symptom picture, which only a doctor can evaluate. Please visit a homeopathy doctor.