Colchicinum

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Colchicinum homeopathy medicine – drug proving symptoms from Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica by TF Allen, published in 1874. It has contributions from R Hughes, C Hering, C Dunham, and A Lippe….

Introduction

Alkaloid from Colchicum autumnale; Formula, C17 H19 NO5.

Preparation: Triturations.

Eye.

Pupils widely dilated.

Face.

Tearing Pains in the face.

Mouth.

Increased secretion of saliva.

Stomach.

Eructation.

Eructations, nausea, and great desire to vomit.

Nausea and Vomiting.

Slight nausea, and an uncomfortable sensation, which distracted the attention of the prover from the lecture to which he was listening. On rising from bed, at night, nausea suddenly increased, and was followed by vomiting of undigested food, and afterwards of a bitter greenish fluid; the vomiting was repeated early in the morning. Vomiting of greenish substances, frequently repeated. Vomiting of blood for nine or ten days.

Stomach.

Pains in epigastric region (after four hours).

Excessive sensitiveness of epigastric region.

Abdomen.

Distension and sensitiveness in the abdomen. Frequent rumbling in the bowels.

Rectum and Anus.

Urging to stool, causing him to leave his bed, followed by copious pasty evacuation, with excessive tenesmus; this was repeated three times within a short period.

Stool.

Two stools on the second day, one on the third day, three on the fourth day, all accompanied by tenesmus, and consisting of a thin fluid with numerous flakes, looking like the cooked white of an egg, in pieces from two to four lines long. Stools thin, yellowish green, and slimy, accompanied by pain (second day).

Liquid stools.

Urinary Organs.

Urine turbid, depositing a copious white sediment.

Heart and Pulse.

Pulse 96. Pulse during the first two hours gradually sank about eleven beats.

Superior Extremities.

Convulsive jerkings of right hand.

General Symptoms.

Very great exhaustion on the second day after taking Colchicine, increased to a feverish excitement, lasting for two days, so that he was obliged to keep his bed on the second day.

Sleep and Dreams.

Slight somnolency and collapse. Awakened from sleep soon after midnight by uneasy dreams.

Fever.

The fever appeared as a chill about noon on the first day, followed by violent heat, lasting several hours, with increased thirst, very rapid pulse, confusion of the head, uneasiness and sleeplessness.

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TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.