Homeopathy Remedy Colchicum


Colchicum homeopathy drug symptoms from Handbook of Materia Medica and Homeopathic Therapeutics by T.F. Allen, of the homeopathic remedy Colchicum…


      A tincture is prepared from the fresh bulbs of Colchicum autumnale, L.

General Action

      It produces violent inflammation of the gastro-intestinal canal, with profound depression of the heart and of the temperature. it produces also acute inflammation of the kidneys. It is specially interesting to note that it produces symptoms of the acute manifestations of gout, quite apart from any direct modifications of the excretion of urea or uric acid. Its relief of acute gout seems to be purely a homoeopathic action.

Allies. Verat-alb., Merc-cor., Arnica., Rhus-t., China.

Generalities

      Solid constituents of defibrinated blood diminished, also the absolute amount of blood corpuscles and of plasma. Appearance of being in the advanced stage of typhoid fever. Stretching. Trembling. Convulsions; of l. side and muscles of face; involving neck and face, jaws clenched, froth from mouth, eyes distorted; limbs spasmodically flexed, fingers and toes flexed, eyes convulsively rotated, l. hand, which kept hold of penis, trembled, C. became more frequent extended to muscles of neck, jaws clenched, frothing at the mouth; r. arm could not be extended, the l. could not be flexed, feet were drawn upward, soles formed a half circle and toes were spasmodically drawn inward. Tearing jerks, (<) l. side; suddenly through one half of body.

Stitches above eyes, in shoulders elbows and wrists. Tearings here and there. Cutting or pinching in spots, now in r. anterior and lower part of chest, now deep in hepatic region, now in region of spleen. Pinching and crawling in some toes, in ball of r. foot, in fingers, ears and in spots of skin of face, in evening, as after freezing or change of weather. Drawing, jerking and tearing in incisors, facial muscles and other muscles here and there. Tearing tension here and there, for example, below pit of stomach, in ribs of left side, below axilla, in r. popliteal space. “Aching all over.” Sufferings seem intolerable; in evening. Anguish and agitation. Symptoms similar to rheumatic fever; rheumatic pain in whole body in evening, (<) in back, upper arms and shoulders. Tremulous sensation in whole body as from fasting, in afternoon, (<) after dinner. Sensitiveness to slightest touch (Arnica, China, Belladonna, etc.).

Confused sensations. Malaise, with formication. Much affected by work, (<) reading or writing. Discomfort; pricking. Restlessness (Rhus-t.); in morning, constantly turning head from l. to r.; could not lie on l. side. Disinclination to work. No inclination to leave the bed. Exhaustion (China, Rhus-t., Veratrum, etc.). Weakness; all day, (>) in evening; in morning; in morning on waking; in morning on rising; in evening; on ascending steps; after stool, with indolence, sleepiness, prostration of limbs; when sitting quietly, (>) moving (Rhus-t.). especially in open air, returning on sitting down, with nausea in throat and confusion in head; with restlessness (Rhus-t.).; with paralyzed feeling, (<) in arms; sudden W. Faintness; after a copious stool. Muscles seem paralyzed, (<) limbs; paralysis of r. side, with only slight sensation, the toes on slightest touch drawn towards sole. Aggravation from mental exertion; from coffee; of all pains at beginning of night and at daybreak. Amelioration from rubbing; A for a short time after every attack of vomiting; after stools, except pains in pelvic organs, which become worse.

Clinical There are always extreme prostration and tendency to collapse, with internal coldness (Veratrum).

Mind

      Delirium; at night; in evening. Muttering and raving at times. Beside himself at external impressions, for example, a bright light, strong odors, contact, rudeness of others. Complained there was something in the bed, generally a piece of soap. Carphologia. Excitement, with disinclination to mental activity. Exhilaration. Sadness with weariness, painfulness and sensitiveness of whole body, so that he could scarcely refrain from weeping. Apprehension. Anxiety; causing sighing. Irritability. Indifference. Great flow of thoughts at night disturbing sleep. Absent -minded. Inability to write connectedly; to think connectedly; to fix thoughts, with tension of forehead. Weakness. Consciousness of logical connection destroyed, and perception impaired by slightest interruption. Memory weak; so that he forgets the word he was about to speak. Unconsciousness.

Head

      Falls backward. Moved from side to side. Sticking in brain. Tearing, (<) in forehead. Pinching here and there. Burrowing, (<) on r. side and vertex. Aching; in evening; night; on entering room after walking in open air., sleep; feeling in morning after rising as if the previous pain would return, (<) shaking head, after washing pain in outer posterior part, (<) towards evening; deep, extending across through head, between ears and posteriorly. Feeling as if tightly bound. Confusion; in morning; in morning, like vertigo. Emptiness. Seems thick. Congestion. Perceptible pulsation. Vertigo; on rising; even to falling, when sitting after walking; with stupefaction of head; with confusion in middle of forehead; on looking fixedly at an object objects appear to whirl and change color, they generally appear yellow and sometimes with iridescent borders.

Forehead.-Sticking above r. eye; in brain beneath coronal suture; deeply piercing, above l. brow, with occasional feeling as if drawn upward. Pinching above eyes. Boring, (<) over r. eye. Neuralgic pain in r. eminence, (>) pressure and cold, with dull pain in r. occipital protuberance. Aching; r. then l; above eyes; above r. eye; near coronal suture; and in eye; in a spot on r, side in morning on waking; on washing; above l. eye after eating, (>) open air, (<) in the room; in bone over l. eye on every motion, (<) afternoon and by noise, in the same place next day, (<) motion of head, next day in r. side of occiput, (<) bending head backward or raising eyes, next day pain at 6 P.M. above l. eye extending over l. side of head, (>) supper, next day in l. side of occiput extending to l. eye and into face; above brows and extending into dorsum of nose; in middle, with hyperaesthesia of cranial nerves; extending towards occiput towards evening, becoming a drawing pain. Oppressive pain above eyes in afternoon. Pressure as if everything would be pressed outward. Tearing tension in a spot on l., as if an abscess would form. Constriction above eyes. Confusion; (<) walking in the wind, (>) in the room.

Sticking in r. temple, (<) evening. Tearing in r. temple; jerking T. in temples. Painful drawing in l. temple. Pain in r. temple in evening, (>) when quiet in bed. Boring in skull of vertex, moving along sagittal suture. Pain in vertex. Oppression of vertex.

Tearing in l. half of head, extending to vertex; crawling boring T. in a spot on r. upper part of head, then in l. side; drawing T. in l. half of head, mostly beginning in l. eyeball and extending towards occiput. Pain in r. parietal eminence; in a spot on upper r. side of head. Drawing in upper part of l. side extending into nose.

Tearing in a spot on r. side of occiput; in spot on l. side of O. Pain in occiput; in r.; then in upper part of sinciput, (>) warmth and rest in bed; deep in cerebellum from slightest literary occupation. Confusion in head posteriorly and superiorly. Heaviness in O., (<) motion or bending forward. Hair falls out. Tearings in scalp. Feeling as if scalp were drawn forward to top of skull. Crawling in forehead.

Clinical Intense neuralgic headaches, with frequent ineffectual efforts to sneeze, the pains are usually throbbing and shooting, (<) walking in morning.

Eyes

      Red and watery, pupils dilated. Conjunctiva inflamed and congested. Sunken. Surrounded by dark rings. Dim. Staring. Distorted. Rolling convulsively. Tearing in and around r. Pain; in r. Biting in r., (<) external canthus, with lachrymation and feeling as if lids were agglutinated. Heaviness as if he had not slept enough, with injected vessels. Dryness Lachrymation in open air. Pupils contracted; l.; dilated; uneasy. Drawing digging deep in balls. Pain in l. ball. Compression in r. ball. Ulceration of Meibomian glands of l. lower lid, with swelling of lid and irritability of nerves generally. Lids in constant motion. Twitching of r. upper lid. Redness and burning of margins of lids, as in blepharitis. Drawing (similar to twitching) in lower lid, towards inner canthus. Pressure in brows. Vision very acute. Flickering before eyes. Blackness before eyes on attempting to stand. Hallucinations, fatiguing.

Clinical Kerato-iritis, with pus in anterior chamber of eye. Occasional attacks of rheumatic inflammation of iris (see Clematis); ulceration of cornea and opacities of cornea. (The symptoms of destructive inflammation within the eyeball observed but once, in a boy, have been omitted.)

Ears

      Sticking; in l.; twinging S. in l. Tearing in r. meatus; behind r., in region of articulation of jaw, with pain on touch. Pinching. Digging in r. Pain, then sticking deep in them; P. behind r. as if a gland were swollen. Waving sensation in r. Stopped feeling in r., S. feeling if he takes a few steps, with roaring in them. Itching deep in them, with dryness, boring does not reach the itching painful spot. Roaring in r. Tinnitus aurium. Distressing noises. Noises cause disagreeable sensations, with starting. Hearing acute; difficult.

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.